Permanent year factsheet

Canada in 1989

Historical records for Canada in 1989, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

3Records
3Events
2Named people
1Places
2Categories

Historical records

October

2 October 1989FreedomNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Releases Freedom, restoring his commercial and critical momentum at the end of the 1980s.

December

6 December 1989Montreal MassacreBrian Mulroney

Montreal · Government / Government of Canada

Faces national mourning after the massacre at Ecole Polytechnique.

Other Events

1989Rockin in the Free WorldNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Releases Rockin in the Free World, one of his best-known political rock songs.

Names involved

Brian MulroneyNeil Young

Places involved

Montreal

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.