Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon wins the silver medal in Ice Dancing at the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo. May 13 – Cage is awarded the first TNA Heavyweight Championship when Total Nonstop Action severs ties with National Wrestling Alliance May 27 – The Vancouver Giants wins their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Medicine Hat Tigers 3 to 1. The tournament was played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver June 6 – The Anaheim Ducks win their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Senators 4 games to 1. Edmonton's Scott Niedermayer was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy November 23 – The Manitoba Bisons win their third Vanier Cup by defeating the Saint Mary's Huskies by a score of 28 to 14 in the 43rd Vanier Cup played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto November 25 – The Saskatchewan Roughriders win their third (and first since 1989) Grey Cup by defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23 to 19 in the 95th Grey Cup played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Chatham, Ontario's Andy Fantuz is named the game's Most Valuable Canadian Births January 21 – Kennedi Clements, child actress Deaths January to March January 3 – Earl Reibel, ice hockey player (born 1930) January 6 – Charmion King, actress (born 1925) January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (born 1922) January 15 James Hillier, scientist and inventor, jointly designed and built first electron microscope (born 1915) Percy Saltzman, meteorologist and television personality, first English-speaking weatherman in Canadian television history (born 1915) January 18 – Julie Winnefred Bertrand, supercentenarian, oldest living Canadian and oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death (born 1891) January 19 – Denny Doherty, singer and songwriter (born 1940) January 20 Cyril Lloyd Francis, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (born 1920) Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (born 1922) January 26 – Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (born 1929) February 14 – Ryan Larkin, animator, artist and sculptor (born 1943) February 17 – Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter (born 1942) February 19 – Celia Franca, ballet dancer and founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (born 1921) February 27 – Myron Wolf Child, youth activist, public speaker and politician (born 1983) March 2 – Doris Anderson, author, journalist and women's rights activist (born 1925) March 10 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (born