Permanent year factsheet

Canada in 1995

Historical records for Canada in 1995, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

4Records
4Events
3Named people
3Places
3Categories

Historical records

June

27 June 1995Mirror BallNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Releases Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam, linking his work to the grunge generation.

October

30 October 1995Quebec ReferendumJean Chretien

Montreal · Government / Government of Canada

Campaigns for federal unity in Quebec second sovereignty referendum.

30 October 1995Rule of QuebecJean Chretien

Quebec · Government / Government of Canada

Quebec votes to remain part of Canada, but provincial separatists lose only by a narrow margin (50.6 percent to 49.4) and vow to continue their efforts

November

4 November 1995RADARSAT-1John MacDonald

Vandenberg · Science / Astronomy

Canada launches RADARSAT-1 for radar Earth observation.

Names involved

Jean ChretienJohn MacDonaldNeil Young

Places involved

MontrealQuebecVandenberg

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varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.