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| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 6:17 am
May 5 1996 Europe - Martin Prochazka scores a tie breaker with 19 seconds left, leading the Czech Republic to a 4-2 win over Canada 4-2 for the world hockey championship. 1973 Louisville, Kentucky - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte and Secretariat win the Kentucky Derby in a record time of 1:59.4. 1970 New York City - Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman and the Guess Who rocket to the top of the US charts with their No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: American Woman; Winnipeg based band 1945 Germany - German commanders surrender in Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden. 1900 London England - Private Richard R. Thompson of Ottawa is awarded one of only seven Queen's Scarves, knitted by Queen Victoria, for his gallantry in the Boer War. 1950 Winnipeg Manitoba - Waves caused by 80 kph winds break through the dikes of Winnipeg, inundating the city, leaving one dead, and causing $100 million damage; one third of the population are forced to flee their homes. 1814 Oswego New York - Commodore James Yeo leads a fleet with 1,100 men from Kingston against 500 US defenders of Fort Ontario; captures valuable supplies; destroys the American naval base and firmly fixes British control of Lake Ontario until the close of the War of 1812. 1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 arrives in Nootka Sound on Spanish warship Princesa; proclaims Spanish sovereignty on west coast 1660 Quebec - Bishop François de Laval 1623-1688 threatens to excommunicate all residents of New France who sell liquor to the Indians. Born on this day: 1938 - Barbara Wagner figure skater, with pairs partner, Robert Paul won the Canadian, US and World Championships, all in a 16 day period in 1957; gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics, the first gold won by a non-European pair, with all 7 judges ranking them first.. 1843 - 1900 Dr. George Beers dentist, lacrosse promoter; first to write down the basic rules of the original Iroquois game of lacrosse.
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| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:23 pm
May 6 1993 Quebec City - Robert Bourassa's government passes Bill 86, permitting interior English signs if they are smaller than those outside. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mulroney says tough economic measures by his government will continue to make him unpopular with the public. 1950 New York City - The Third Man Theme by Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo peaks at #1 on the pop singles chart; stays there for 11 weeks. 1954 Washington DC - US House of Representatives approves joining Canada in construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. 1939 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Dunning establishes the Central Mortgage Bank, owned by the Government and run by the Bank of Canada; now CMHC; money to be loaned at 3% to banks, on condition they lower mortgage rates to 5%. 1910 London England - King Edward VII dies; accession of King George V. 1898 Vancouver BC - T. D. Evans commanding the Yukon Field Force, consisting of 203 volunteers from the Permanent Force, leaves Vancouver for Dawson to keep law and order in the gold fields. 1877 Wood Mountain Saskatchewan - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads 1,500 of his followers into Canada to ask protection from the Queen; after defeating General George Custer and the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 1859 NWT - Robert Hobson of the McClintock expedition finds a cairn with a paper signed by Fitzjames and Crozier, dated April 25, 1848, confirming their disaster; last log of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, sent to discover the North West passage. 1536 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves ship La Petite Hermine behind and sets sail from St. Croix for France; takes furs and pyrite ore he thinks is gold; accompanied by Chief Donnacona and 9 other Iroquois hostages, including 4 children. Born on this day: 1905 - 1983 Earl McCready wrestler, Canadian Amateur wrestling title in 1926. He repeated his feat in 1927, 1928 and 1930, and was the US intercollegiate champion in 1928-30, and the British Empire Games winner in 1930 as well. Turning pro, McCready took the British Empire pro title and defended it several times, but lost the world championship bout to Jim Londos in 1932. 1917 - John 'Black Jack' Stewart NHL defenseman
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| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:45 am
May 7 1992 Montreal Quebec - Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977; was a Parti Quebecois insider and Rene Levesque's Intergovernmental Affairs Minister. 1983 Louisville Kentucky - Sunny's Halo wins Kentucky Derby; Canadian-owned horse. 1969 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada bans all tobacco advertising on CBC/SRC radio and television networks. 1945 Rheims, France - VE Day celebrated as Germany signs the armistice ending World War II in Europe in a schoolhouse in Rheims; the Germans on the eastern front will surrender unconditionally to the Soviets the next day. In Halifax, exuberant crowds start a riot that will last for two days. 1908 Vancouver BC - Founding of the University of British Columbia as a branch of McGill University in Montreal; becomes independent in 1915. 1870 Toronto Ontario - Garnet Wolseley 1833-1913 leaves for Red River to enforce Canadian rule with the 60th Rifles and Ontario and Quebec militia units; they will travel via Prince Arthur's Landing and Lake of the Woods. 1865 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick rejects Confederation. 1849 Toronto Ontario - Fire destroys large section of Toronto. 1837 St-Ours Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau chosen leader of the Patriotes at a protest meeting of about 1,200 people; they adopt the Declaration of St. Ours, declaring smuggling a public duty. 1586 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sets sail on his second voyage to look for the North West Passage; with four ships: the Sunneshine, Mooneshine, Mermayd and North Starre. Born on this day: 1939 - Sidney Altman biochemist, 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for his work with RNA (ribonucleic acid), an enzyme involved in the transcription of DNA into protein. 1893 - 1985 Frank J. Selke hockey coach; joined Conn Smythe to build the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team and Maple Leaf Gardens. In 1946 he moved to Montreal and managed six Stanley Cup winning Canadien teams. The Selke trophy is given to the NHL's best defensive forward.
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| Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 8:18 am
May 8 1987 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils one-dollar coin to replace the paper dollar; made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on its rear side. 1984 Quebec Quebec - Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois. 1982 Zolder Belgium - Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve began his racing career on snowmobiles, and won the world championships in 1974. He entered his first car race in 1973 and by 1976 was dominating the Formula Atlantic series. He signed with McLaren and later joined Ferrari to drive Formula One. In 1978 he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal - a first by a Canadian driver. 1974 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau loses a non confidence vote on the budget, when the Conservatives and NDP combine to defeat the Liberal government by a vote of 137 to 123; says he will call an election for July. 1950 Manitoba - Ten thousand people evacuate the Red River valley south of Winnipeg; the flood ends May 25 after causing $25 million damage. 1945 Berlin Germany - Second World War ends in Europe with unconditional surrender of German land, sea and air forces to the Soviets. 1906 Kamloops BC - American desperado Bill Miner holds up a CPR train, but gets only $15 and is captured a few days later; Canada's first train robbery is the subject of a film 'The Grey Fox'. 1858 Chatham Ontario - American abolitionist John Brown 1800-1859 holds an anti-slavery convention at Chatham. 1813 Toronto Ontario - General Zebulon Pike departs from York to Fort Niagara after burning the Parliament Buildings, looting the town; occupied since Apr 27.; British retaliate a year later by burning the American capital, Washington. 1604 LaHave, Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives in Acadia with Champlain, Hébert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony. The first piece of land they encounter they call Cap de LaHeve, now called LaHave, where Champlain draws the first official map ever made in North America. Born on this day: 1818 - 1896 Samuel Leonard Tilley politician, a Father of Confederation, Tilley is credited with bringing New Brunswick into the union. 1885 - 1965 Thomas B. Costain historical novelist 1912 - 1957 George Woodcock anarchist, poet, critic, historian, travel writer, playwright, scriptwriter, biographer, editor. Woodcock is the author of George Orwell: The Crystal Spirit (1966). 1939 - Sidney Altman molecular biologist; won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their discovery of catalytic RNA. He is currently with the Biology Department at Yale University.
1957 - Jeff Wincott actor. Wincott starred as Detective Frank Giambone in the Night Heat (1985) TV series and has appeared in many action films.
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| Monday, May 09, 2005 - 11:48 am
May 9 1992 Plymouth Nova Scotia - Clifford Frame closes Curragh's Westray Mine after methane gas explosion kills 26 men underground; modern $140 million coal mine built in Premier Cameron's riding; bodies of 11 men recovered immediately; unsuccessful search for survivors continues for six days. 1991 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board gives TransCanada Pipelines the green light for a $2.6 billion line into the US; plus 15 export licenses for 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas 1987 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Minister Gil R�millard suggests five fundamental conditions for Quebec to sign the Constitution: 1. Recognition of Quebec as a distinct society; 2. Right of veto on any change to the Constitution; 3. One third of judges on the Supreme Court of Canada to be from Quebec; 4. Opting out guarantees for provinces refusing to participate in federal programs; 5. Complete control of immigration to Quebec territory. 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Thomas Berger 1933- recommends 10 year delay in Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, to allow time to settle native land claims; Berger Commission also suggests permanent ban on pipelines from Alaska across the northern Yukon because of social and environmental hazards. 1970 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young see their song Woodstock peak at #11 on the pop singles chart. 1937 London England - Canadian Coronation contingent the first Dominion troops to stand sentry duty at St. James and Buckingham palaces.. 1885 Batoche Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 attacks Gabriel Dumont at Batoche; battle rages for several days; until troops disobey Middleton, storm the trenches and slaughter the Metis defenders. 1793 Peace River Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 leaves Fort York at the forks of the Peace and Smoky rivers; heads west towards Pacific with party of nine, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean via the Bella Coola River, becoming the first European to cross North America using a route north of Mexico. 1790 Ontario - Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatamies, and Hurons cede two million acres in Ontario. 1677 Paris France - Louis XIV 1638-1715 sets up La Pr�vote de Qu�bec, a tribunal consisting of the Lieutenant-Governor and the King's Attorney. Born on this day: 1928 - Barbara Ann Scott figure skater. In 1940 she won the national junior title, and by 1944 she was ladies senior champion. In 1947 Scott won the World figure skating championships in Stockholm, and in 1948, she took the World, North American, Canadian, European and St. Moritz Olympic gold medals. 1909 - 1973 Don Messer musician, band leader. Messer started playing the fiddle at age 5. In 1929 he started his own radio show on CFBO Saint John. In 1939, he moved to Charlottetown where he and his group, Don Messer and the Islanders had a show on CFCY. Messer is best known across Canada for his Don Messer's Jubilee on CBC-TV (1959-69), where fellow performers included Marg Osburne and Charlie Chamberlain. 1783 - 1856 Alexander Ross fur trader, author, wrote Adventures on the Columbia River (1849), The Fur Hunters of the Far West (1855), and The Red River Settlement (1856). 1896 - 1972 Richard Day film designer. Day served as art director and production designer of hundreds of Hollywood movies from 1922-70. 1914 - 1999 Clarence Eugene Hank Snow country and western singer, guitarist, songwriter, was born on this day at Brooklyn Nova Scotia, near Liverpool, in 1914. A victim of child abuse, Snow was booted out of the house at age 12 by his stepfather. He worked as a fisherman, stevedore, packer and fish peddler, saving his money to buy a guitar. His first radio job was with CHNS Halifax in 1933 where he was billed as Clarence Snow and his Guitar. In 1936, he made his first recordings for Canadian RCA Victor in Montreal as Hank, The Yodeling Ranger, becoming Canada's #1 best-selling artist. Hank was also featured on the Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC) where he gained coast-to-coast exposure. In 1944, Hank made his first appearances in the US and made several tries to break into the US market. On January 7, 1950, he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry, and on March 28, recorded I'm Movin' On, which became a monster hit. In the career that followed, he placed over 85 singles on the Billboard best seller list and sold nearly 90 million records. 1958 - Graham Smith swimmer, coach, was born on this day at Edmonton in 1958. In the 1970s, Smith held 17 Canadian, 3 Commonwealth and 2 World records. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, he won a record six gold medals, and three weeks later, at the World championships in West Berlin, he took the gold in the 200m Individual Medley, shattering the world record by 3/4 of a second. He retired in 1982 to coach, with a career total of 56 gold, 23 silver and 8 bronze medals in international events.
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| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 7:03 am
May 10 1995 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court judge's ruling gives lesbian couples the right to legally adopt children. 1991 Vancouver BC - Inderjit Singh Reyat convicted of bombing death of two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo June 23, 1985, to protest Indian government's treatment of Sikhs; later sentenced to 10 years in jail; also linked to Air India disaster. 1976 Windsor Ontario - Windsor high schools open for first time since end of March after Ontario legislates teachers back to work. 1972 Sept-Iles Quebec - Workers riot, occupy a radio station, 35 people injured during riot to protest the jailing of three Quebec labor leaders. 1920 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to send its own minister to Washington, not the British ambassador, to represent the country. 1844 Montreal Quebec - Capital of Canada moves to Montreal from Kingston after years of petitions; until Nov. 14, 1849. 1812 Washington DC - US calls out militia forces to prepare for war against Canada. 1775 Ticonderoga New York - Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga from the British with his Green Mountain boys and the help of Benedict Arnold. 1758 Petersham England - George Vancouver dies; explorer and surveyor of the BC coast 1792-94, who gave his name to the city and island. 1534 Cape Bonavista Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada. Born on this day: 1958 - Gaetan Boucher speed skater; silver in the 1000m behind Eric Heiden at Lake Placid in 1980, then in 1984, at Sarajevo, Boucher won gold in the 1000 and 1500m, and bronze in the 500m, becoming Canada's most decorated Olympian. In 1984 and 1985, he defeated his arch rival Sergei Khlebnikov of the USSR at the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. 1929 - Antonine Maillet novelist, short-story writer, Her novels include Pointe-aux-Coques (1958); La Sagouine (1971) (The Slattern) sixteen monologues by the wife of an Acadian fisherman; Pélagie-la Charrette (1972) (Pélagie: the Return to a Homeland), the story of a group of Acadians who make their way back to their homeland after the expulsion to Louisiana in the 1750's (winner of the Prix Goncourt; Maillet the first non-native of France to win); Par derrière chez mon père (1972); Don l'Original (1972) (The Tale of Don l'Original, winner of the Governor General's Award); Gapi et Sullivan (1973); Marriagélas (1973) and Cent ans dans les bois (1981) a tale of 19th century New Brunswick.
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| Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:54 am
May 11 1984 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill creating the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS); civilian security agency to replace RCMP Security Service when dealing with espionage and terrorism; Bill given Royal Assent June 21. 1981 Toronto Ontario - Start of first Toronto Theatre Festival; 19 theatres stage 34 plays over 10 days. 1962 Nelson BC - RCMP arrest 9 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors; sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombing power station. 1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill names New Brunswick-born Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, as his Minister of Aircraft Production. 'The Beaver' is publisher of the Daily Express newspaper. 1885 Batoche, Saskatchewan - Metis under Louis Riel defeated by the militia at Batoche during the North West Rebellion. Riel later gives himself up and is charged with treason; executed at Regina Nov. 16th. 1880 London England - Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893 appointed first Canadian High Commissioner to London, replacing Sir John Rose as Canada's agent; serves until 1883; the new office gives Canada full representation in the UK. 1870 London England - Canada's agent in London. Sir John Rose, delivers a bank draft for £300,000 (the equivalent of $11 million) to the Hudson's Bay Company in full payment for the title to Rupert's Land. The land includes all territories drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay (most of today's Prairie provinces, northern Ontario, northwestern Quebec and portions of the Northwest Territories.) The HBC keeps blocks of land around its trading posts and 1/20 of the fertile belt (2.8 million hectares). 1833 Atlantic - Passenger ship Lady of the Lake sinks after striking an iceberg between Quebec and England; 215 people drown. 1717 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange. 1684 Paris France - La Rochelle merchant Bergier appointed by Louis XIV as his 'lieutenant in the government of the country and coasts of Acadia;' sends out two ships, the St. Louis and the Marianne, to chase off New England fishermen sold licences by Michel de la Vallière; arrives back at France in October. Born on this day: 1943 - Nancy Greene skier; in the 1967 season she won three straight races to win the World Cup; at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics she took the gold medal in giant slalom and the silver in slalom; in the 1968 season, she won 9 straight races to take the World Cup. 1926 - Norm Bagnell softball pitcher. Bagnell hurled 54 no-hitters, including 26 perfect games. His career batting average was .300.
1927 - Mort Sahl comedian, actor, a veteran of Broadway and the night club circuit; host, Mort Sahl's America; played in Don't Make Waves, Doctor You've Got to be Kidding. 1953 - Céline Lomez film actor. Lomez appeared in her first movie, l'Initiation, at 15: Twice Juno nominee for best actress; also singer, Where are they now (1996) Nuits d'enfer (1997).
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| Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 10:54 am
May 12 1997 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Parizeau publishes Pour un Québec souverain, stating that within days of a referendum victory, Quebec would have no choice but to declare the sovereignty of Quebec. 1989 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance. 1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario brings in Family Law Reform Bill; to establish equality of both partners in a marriage. 1965 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court upholds 1876 treaties with Saskatchewan Indian tribes requiring the Crown to give them free medical care. 1937 London England - King George VI's coronation heard throughout the Empire on the first worldwide radio broadcast. 1870 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Manitoba Act, incorporating most Metis demands, given Royal Assent; the old District of Assiniboia enters Confederation as Canada's fifth province, Manitoba [the name means 'The Great Spirit Speaks']. 1846 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Assembly petitions Queen Victoria for reciprocity - reciprocal free trade with the US . 1776 Ile à La Crosse Saskatchewan - Thomas Frobisher starts to build trading post at Ile à La Crosse on the Churchill (Misnipi) River. 1775 Crown Point New York - Seth Warner captures Crown Point from British. 1630 Cape Sable Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 fights off father Claude, at Fort Lomeron; also called Fort St. Louis; Claude had joined the English and enrolled his son Charles as a Nova Scotia baronet. Born on this day: 1873 - 1932 J. E. H. 'Jock' MacDonald painter, poet.
MacDonald's masterpiece The Tangled Garden (1916, National Gallery, Ottawa - in the picture) was heavily criticized at the time for its size. 1921 - Farley Mowat author, wrote about his experiences in WWII in The Regiment (1961) and And No Birds Sang (1979). His fiction includes Lost in the Barrens (1956 Governor General's Award), The Black Joke (1962), The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966) and The Snow Walker (1975). His non-fiction includes People of the Deer (1952) , The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957), The Desperate People (1959), Coppermine Journey (1958), Ordeal by Ice (1960), Owls in the Family (1961), Never Cry Wolf (1963 - filmed 1983), West Viking (1965), The Polar Passion (1967), Canada North (1967), This Rock Within the Sea (1968), Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970), A Whale for the Killing (1972), Tundra (1973), Canada North Now (1976), And No Birds Sang (1979), and Virunga (1987 - the Dian Fossey story, republished as Woman in the Mist).
1972 - Christian Campbell actor. Campbell is the big brother of Neve Campbell. He is the co-founder of the Los Angeles-based theatre company Blue Sphere Alliance. 1966 - Anne Ottenbrite swimmer. Ottenbrite won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad, making her the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold medal in swimming; also took silver in the 100m breaststroke and bronze as part of the 400m medley relay team. 1921 - James Houston author, filmmaker, civil servant. Houston served as a civil administrator in the Arctic in the late 1940s, taught the Inuit printmaking and founded the West Baffin Co-Operative to sell their art; wrote novels and legends for both adults and children, including Tikta'Liktak (1975 - Canadian Childrens Book of the Year) and the White Dawn (1971). 1895 - 1982 William Giauque chemist. At the University of California, Giauque discovered a way of producing temperatures near absolute zero, and won the Nobel Prize in 1949. 1804 - 1858 Robert Baldwin lawyer, statesman. Baldwin was joint leader with Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine of the first and second Liberal administrations in Canada, which established the principle of responsible, or cabinet, government in Canada. 1626 - c1705 Louis Hennepin Franciscan missionary. Hennepin was chaplain of Fort Frontenac when he met René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. With La Salle he explored the Great Lakes in 1679 as far as Illinois; wrote the first published description of the country.
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| Friday, May 13, 2005 - 11:34 am
May 13 1997 Montreal Quebec - Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche faints two hours into the French portion of the federal leaders' debate; Jean-François Lépine had just posed the first question on Canadian unity to Jean Chrétien: 'Since you declared victory with only 50.6% of the votes in the last referendum, will you recognize a Yes victory with the same proportions?' The debate is cancelled and the unity portion resumed May 18. 1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Baltej Dhillon, a Sikh, becomes the first RCMP officer to wear a turban since the force's creation in 1873. 1985 Los Angeles California - Selma Diamond dies at 64; born in Montreal Aug 5, 1920; actress, scriptwriter, played Too Close For Comfort's Mildred Rafkin, and Night Court's Selma Hacker (1984-85). 1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa borrows $262 million from West German, US, and Italian sources, to increase cash reserves. 1954 Washington DC - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signs bill approving the St. Lawrence Seaway agreement with Canada. 1940 The Hague Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her daughter Juliana flee to London as the Nazis occupy Holland; Princess Juliana will bring her children to Ottawa for safety. 1898 Ottawa Ontario - The Yukon Territory is organized, with Dawson City chosen as the capital. 1873 Westville Nova Scotia - Sixty men die in the Westville coal mine, in Canada's first major mine disaster. 1724 Paris France - Louis XV issues a royal edict ordering the building of stone walls to defend Montreal. 1604 Port Mouton Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 names 'Port-au-Mouton' for a sheep that jumps overboard. Born on this day: 1937 - Roch Carrier writer, Canada Council administrator; resident dramatist with the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. His novels and story collections include La Guerre, Yes Sir! (1968), Floralie, Ou Es-Tu? (Floralie, Where Are You?) (1969), Il est par là, le Soleil (Is it the Sun, Philibert?) (1970), Jardin des Délices (The Garden of Delights) (1975) , Il n y a pas de Pays sans Grand Père (No Country without Grandfathers) (1977), Les Enfants du Bonhomme dans la Lune (The Hockey Sweater and other stories) (1979) and La Dame qui avait des Chaînes aux Chevilles (Lady with Chains) (1981) 1912 - 1988 Gil Evans jazz pianist, composer, orchestrator
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| Saturday, May 14, 2005 - 1:43 pm
May 14 1970 Los Angeles, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young breaks up with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash after releasing the LP Ohio to commemorate the fatal Kent State University shootings; CSN will regroup several times without Young. 1969 Ottawa Ontario - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada. 1946 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians; Canadian citizenship to be distinct and primary over being a British subject; to take effect January 1, 1947. 1914 Calgary Alberta - Turner Valley oil discoveries lead to founding of Calgary Stock Exchange; now Alberta Stock Exchange; beginning of Alberta's oil industry. 1904 St. Louis, Missouri - US hosts its first Olympic games; no official Canadian team attends, but Canada will win four golds: Etienne Desmarteaux for weight throwing, George Lyon for golf, the Winnipeg Shamrocks for lacrosse and the Galt Ontario team for soccer. 1886 Ottawa Ontario - The North West Territories are given their first representation in Parliament with a Saskatchewan seat. 1874 Cambridge Massachusetts - Harvard beats McGill University 3-0 in the first game of American/Canadian football (a variation of rugby); admission is first charged for a college football game, and the football goal post is also used for the first time at both ends of the playing field. The Harvard soccer team had invited McGill's rugby team to play two games - one under Harvard rules, other under McGill's. Harvard was impressed, and passed the McGill rules to Yale; the first American game followed later that year, McGill thereby introducing football to the United States. 1847 Grosse Ile Quebec - First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Irish famine reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season. Over 5000 perish at sea, 5424 are buried on Grosse Ile and thousands die in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston 1633 Quebec Quebec - Olivier Le Jeune d1654 baptized into the Roman Catholic faith; a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, he is the first recorded black in Canada. 1501 Lisbon Portugal - Explorer Gaspar Corte Réal leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again. Born on this day: 1847 - 1917 Frederick William Borden statesman. As Laurier's Minister of Militia and Defense (1896-1911), Borden helped create the Royal Canadian Navy. 1887 - 1973 Percy Page teacher, coach. In 1914 Page formed the Edmonton Grads women's basketball team from the girls team of McDougall Commercial High School in Edmonton where he was a teacher. The Grads held the world senior women's title for 17 consecutive years. In its 25 years the team lost only 20 of 522 games and won Olympic gold in 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936. Page later served as Alberta's Lieutenant Governor 1929 - Gump (Lorne) Worsley Montreal Canadiens goaltender. Worsley was Western Hockey League MVP [1952] and Vezina Trophy winner [1964, 1966]. 1953 - Tom Cochran rock singer/guitarist, songwriter, of Red Ryder
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| Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 7:41 am
May 15 1991 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa puts forward legislation for a Referendum on Quebec sovereignty by October, 1992; will set up two committees to study the potential impact of sovereignty. 1981 New York City - SCTV Network 90 variety/comedy show debuts on NBC; sequel to Toronto's Second City Television. 1956 Orleans Ontario - Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns. 1938 New York City - Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra record Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride, the group's last side for Victor Records; moves the Royal Canadians over to Decca Records. 1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Trades and Labour Councils support metalworkers and building trades, call Winnipeg General Strike; up to 30,000 workers from 52 unions walk off the job, paralyzing the city for 41 days, until June 25. Fearing a Bolshevik-style revolution, the government sends many labour leaders to prison under war emergency sedition laws, which are not repealed until 1936. 1907 Toronto Ontario - Toronto plumbers go on four-month strike. 1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington accuses Hugh Allan of paying the Macdonald government $360,000 in return for the CPR contract. 1854 Beechey Island NWT - Edward Belcher, searching for the Franklin expedition, is forced to abandon his ships and cross the ice to Beechey Island, where he boards Inglefield's North Star, Phoenix and Talbot; with McClure and men from the Investigator. 1814 Port Dover Ontario - Party of 500 Americans cross Lake Erie from Erie, Pennsylvania and destroy the town of Port Dover; War of 1812. 1603 Le Havre France - Samuel de Champlain sails from France on his first voyage to Canada. Born on this day: 1914 - Walter 'Turk' Broda hockey goalie. Broda won the Vezina Trophy in 1941, 1948, 1951 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and was goaltender for five Stanley Cup wins.
1918 - Joseph Wiseman actor. Wiseman played James Bond's Dr. No and star villain, Masada.
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| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 10:40 am
May 16 1973 Zimbabwe - Zambian troops kill two Canadian women at Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) border; believed they were saboteurs. 1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who; will found Bachman-Turner Overdrive. 1967 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $1 million program to help Indians buy or build homes off reserves and closer to jobs. 1961 Ottawa Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy starts three-day visit to Ottawa. 1930 Port Radium NWT - Prospector Gilbert A. Labine starts building a uranium mine on Great Bear Lake; later will open a refinery at Port Hope, Ont. to produce the fuel for the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW II. 1871 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council lets British Columbia join the Dominion as Canada's sixth province. 1854 Canada - Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the US takes effect; US agrees to admit most Canadian products duty free; US fishermen can catch within the three-mile limit, land to cure their fish, and navigate the St. Lawrence River freely. 1775 St-Jean Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 captures Fort St. John from the British during the American invasion. 1762 Maugerville New Brunswick - Captain Peabody leads first permanent British settlers from Massachusetts to New Brunswick. 1619 Copenhagen Denmark - Jens Eriksen Munk 1519-1628 sets sail to find North West Passage; commissioned by the King of Denmark, he will make the first European discovery of the Missinipi or Churchill River, a gateway into northern Manitoba. Born on this day: 1849 - 1917 Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin statesman. Elgin was British viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.. 1969 - Yannick Bisson actor 1961 - Kevin McDonald comedian, actor.He met David Foley in an improv class and they began working as a team while employed as movie ushers. In 1984 they merged with another comedy team and formed The Kids in the Hall. The rest is comedy history.
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 6:43 am
May 17 1984 Toronto Ontario - Former CFRB journalist and broadcaster Gordon Sinclair 1900-1984 dies after a heart attack. 1975 Aylmer Ontario - Ten policewomen start training to be OPP constables at the Ontario Police College, ending 65 years of male-only service in the Ontario Provincial Police. 1971 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts ten-day trip to Soviet Union. 1963 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Army engineer Sergeant-Major Walter Leja is seriously injured when bomb he is trying to dismantle blows up in his hands; one of a series of six FLQ terrorist bombs that explode in Westmount mailboxes starting at 3 am (five more are disarmed, another 5 are carried away and blown up safely). Three days later, police arrest 20 members of the Front de liberation Quebecois; 21 year old Mario Bachand will be sentenced to four years in jail for planting bombs. 1949 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government grants full diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel, founded May 14, 1948. 1939 FIRST ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe's Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada; the first by a reigning British monarch; addresses citizens of Quebec in fluent French. The tour is designed to repair and enhance British-Canadian relations, as war clouds again gather in Europe. 1878 ttawa Ontario - Thomas Edison demonstrates his new invention, the phonograph, to Governor-General and Lady Dufferin. 1793 Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies. 1775 Philadelphia Pennsylvania- US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. 1642 Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 and Jeanne Mance arrive on Montreal Island with Mme de La Peltrie, Charlotte Barré and other colonists backed by La Société Notre-Dame; after a thanksgiving mass they start building a fort on the site of Place Royale; found a settlement they call Ville Marie de Montréal. Born on this day: 1898 - 1992 Alfred Joseph Casson painter. Casson was a member of the Group of Seven painters (1920-32), who helped forge a national identity through the visual arts with their Canadian landscapes. 1906 - 1969 Albert 'Frenchy' Belanger boxer. Belanger outpointed England's Ernie Jarvis in 12 rounds to win the World Flyweight Championship. The tough little boxer from Toronto, weighing 112 lbs, retired in 1930 after six years and 13 knockouts, 24 decisions, 7 draws and 17 losses in 61 pro bouts.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 5:22 am
May 18 1982 BOMBARDIER WINS BIG IN NY New York City - Bombardier Inc. wins $1 billion contract to build 825 subway cars for New York; largest-ever export contract for a Canadian manufacturer. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - The Guess Who's hit American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 for the third week in a row; Winnipeg-based group. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Paul-Joseph Chartier killed in Parliament Buildings washroom by a bomb he intended to throw into the House of Commons. 1963 Montreal Quebec - Quebec offers $50,000 reward for information leading to convictions for terrorist acts; Montreal police set up 200-man anti-terrorist unit. 1944 Rogers Dry Lake, California - Jacqueline Cochran pilots a North American F-86 Canadair over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier. 1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden's Union Government announces it will bring in compulsory conscription; offers a coalition to Opposition leader Wilfrid Laurier, but he refuses, saying French Canadians will never accept a pro-conscription coalition, but back Henri Bourassa. 1783 Saint John New Brunswick - First of 7,000 United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown at the mouth of the St. John River to found a settlement. Two years later, on this date, Parrtown is incorporated and renamed Saint John; first city incorporated in Canada. 1765 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal. Born on this day: 1949 - Bill Wallace bassist, singer, of The Guess Who
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 12:34 pm
May19 1996 Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau starts his second flight into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-77. 1987 New York City - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a Billboard #1 hit with Heat of the Night. 1984 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 1; end Islanders' four-year domination of the NHL and start a dynasty of their own. 1973 Baltimore Maryland - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins the 98th Preakness Stakes in 1:55 by 2 1/2 lengths over Sham; after taking the Kentucky Derby earlier, the pair take the second leg in horse racing's Triple Crown, and will go on to win the third jewel, the Belmont Stakes in New York. 1970 Canada - 5,000 delivery and inside postal workers attend study sessions and start rotating strikes; bring mail delivery to a standstill. 1958 Colorado Springs Colorado - United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) to coordinate continental defence. 1939 Ottawa Ontario - King George VI 1895-1952 addresses the Canadian Parliament; the first reigning monarch to do so. 1876 Victoria BC - British Columbia legislature passes Act to tax males $3 a year for schools. 1845 FRANKLIN SAILS TO HIS DOOM London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 departs for the Arctic on the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror to find the Northwest Passage; his vessels have steam engines and ice-breaking bows, and carry enough food for three years. The entire expedition will be lost. 1780 Canada - Complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England states at 2 pm; cause never explained. Born on this day: 1908 - 1982 Percy Williams track athlete. Williams grew up with a rheumatic heart, but was determined to battle his handicap. At age 19, just out of high school, he tied the world record in the 100 Yard Dash with a run of 9.6 seconds, and won the right to represent Canada at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, where he took gold medals in the 100m and 200m sprints, against the fastest field ever assembled. In 1929 he won 21 of 22 races during a 21 day span on the US indoor circuit, and in 1930, at the first British Empire [Commonwealth] Games held in Hamilton, Ontario, Williams took the 100 Yard Dash. 1871 - 1957 Reginald Aldworth Daly geologist. Daly developed the theory of magmatic stoping to explain many igneous rock formations; as molten magma rises through the Earth's crust, it can shatter, but does not melt, the surrounding rocks; being denser than the magma, the rocks sink, giving the magma room to rise. 1767 - 1816 George Prevost soldier, statesman. A soldier in the British Army, Prevost was appointed Governor in Chief of Upper and Lower Canada from 1811 to 1815. He was conciliatory toward the French-Canadians and helped maintain their loyalty during the War of 1812.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Friday, May 20, 2005 - 7:45 am
May 20 1990 Alma Quebec - Parti Quebecois National Council issues 46 page pamphlet outlining proposals on achieving Quebec independence; discusses army, passports, common currency with Canada. 1986 Nepal - Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon of Canmore, Alberta, reach the summit of Mount Everest; Wood the first North American woman to climb the world's highest peak. 1980 QUEBEC SAYS NO Quebec - Quebec votes No by 59.56% to René Lévesque's referendum to get a mandate to negotiate Quebec's sovereignty-association with the rest of Canada; the No forces were led by Claude Ryan; first live coverage of a Canadian referendum; Lévesque says to his supporters: 'If I understand you correctly, what you are telling me is, Next Time!' Trudeau promises 'renewed federalism' even if it means patriating the constitution over the Quebec government's objections. 1971 Montreal Quebec - Francis Simard sentenced to life imprisonment for the October 17, 1970 murder of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. 1948 Rome Italy - George 'Buzz' Beurling killed at age 26 when the Norseman plane he is piloting for the Israeli underground army Haganah blows up at Urbe airport. Canada's top World War II air ace with 31 1/2 kills, Beurling was born on the Miramachi, and brought up in Verdun Quebec; a high school dropout, he hung around airports until he learned to fly, failed to join the RCAF, but got into the RAF; shot down 27 German planes over Malta in a two week period, earning him the DFC, DSO, DFM and Bar. He was buried in Rome's English cemetery between the graves of Keats and Shelley, but two years later the grateful state of Israel exhumed his body, laid him in state in Haifa, and buried him at the base of Mount Carmel, near the cave of Elijah the Prophet. 1932 St. John's Newfoundland - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland; will became the first woman to make a solo plane flight across the Atlantic. 1862 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier sees his Militia Bill defeated; Macdonald Cartier government resigns. 1859 Nanaimo BC - George Barstow elected Mayor of Nanaimo with only one vote cast. 1803 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice William Osgoode declares slavery to be inconsistent with the laws of Canada. 1786 PEI - St. John Island separates from Nova Scotia; later named Prince Edward Island. Born on this day: 1940 - Otto Jelinek figure skater, entrepreneur, politician. Jelinek started skating pairs with his sister Marie in 1950. By 1955 they had won the Canadian Junior Pair title and came second at the senior level in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1960. In 1961 and 1962 they won the Canadian title and were silver medalists at the 1960 Worlds. Finally in 1962 they won gold in the Pairs at the World Figure Skating Championships. From 1963 to 1968 they skated with the Ice Capades. 1940 - Stan Mikita hockey player. Mikita played for the Chicago Blackhawks, and was Hart Memorial Trophy Winner as NHL MVP in 1967 and 1968. 1948 - Dave Thomas comedy writer, actor, TV host, producer. Thomas came to fame as a regular on the Second City TV Network 1952 - Warren Cann rock & roll drummer, songwriter, of Ultravox
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 6:24 am
May 21 1993 New York City - Former prime minister Joe Clark named a special UN envoy to find a peace settlement for Cyprus. 1986 Washington DC - Canadian negotiator Simon Riesman starts Canada-US free-trade talks with American counterparts. 1953 Sarnia Ontario - Tornado flattens downtown Sarnia, doing $4 million in damage and killing 5 people. 1920 MONTREAL STATION A RADIO FIRST Montreal Quebec - Radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. 1914 Vancouver BC - Ship Komagata Maru arrives in Vancouver with 396 Sikh immigrants aboard; not allowed to land under Canadian immigration laws; sails away on July 23. 1901 Victoria BC - John Claus Voss sails west in his Nootka Indian canoe, the Tilikum; reaches England Sept. 2, 1904, after taking three years, three months and 12 days to navigate the 65,000 km, via Australia and New Zealand; Tilikum on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria. 1871 Toronto Ontario - Alexander Muir's The Maple Leaf Forever sung in public for the first time. 1832 Quebec - Cholera brought by Irish immigrants will kill 6000 across Lower Canada this year. 1826 Winnipeg Manitoba - Red River reaches a level twice that of the disastrous 1950 flood. 1785 Quebec - First trial by jury in Canada under British common law. Born on this day: 1887 - 1971 James Gladstone [Akay-na-muka or Many Guns] statesman. A member of the Blood tribe, Gladstone was President of the Indian Association of Alberta and was appointed Canada's first native Indian senator on Feb. 1, 1958; he gave his maiden speech in Blackfoot. 1917 - 1993 Raymond Burr actor, TV host. Before acting on TV, Burr portrayed a series of villains in films, notably as the deported gangster in His Kind of Woman, a crooked club owner in Meet Danny Wilson, a stalker in A Cry in the Night, and the white-haired wife murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window; played TV's Perry Mason (1957-66 - won two Emmies) and Ironside's Robert Ironside (1967-75), also in Centennial, 79 Park Avenue, Unsolved Mysteries.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 9:52 am
May 22 1991 United Nations New York - UN Development Program 1991 report finds Canada second best place to live after Japan; praises education and health systems. 1987 Vancouver BC - 29-year-old Rick Hansen ends his heroic Man in Motion tour; raises at least $15 million for spinal cord research and the disabled; Hansen pumped his wheelchair 3,600 times an hour for 26 months, travelling 40,000 km through 34 countries. 1979 Canada - Joe Clark defeats Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in general election 136 seats to 114; with 26 NDP; 6 Social Credit; 76% turnout; Canada's youngest prime minister has only two members from Quebec, says he will govern as if he had a minority; defeated in November on a non-confidence vote, he will lose to Trudeau in the election of Feb. 16, 1980. 1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada suspends shipments of all nuclear equipment to India after that country detonated a nuclear device using Canadian materials on May 18. 1971 Vancouver BC - Norwegian cruise vessel Meteor catches fire in Strait of Georgia; 70 passengers saved, 32 crew members killed. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) introduces 50% Canadian content program rules for radio and TV; CanCon requirements effective Sept. 1971 for private sector. 1919 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill prohibiting Canadians from accepting foreign hereditary titles. 1838 Verdun Quebec - Col. Robert Sweeny kills Major Henry Warde in a duel on the Montreal race track; Warde had sent a love letter to Sweeny's wife; last fatal duel in Canada. 1893 MONTREAL CAPTURES FIRST STANLEY CUP Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAAs) beats the Ottawa Generals 2-1, in the first Stanley Cup Game, played for a silver bowl donated by Lord Stanley of Preston; his sons enjoyed playing the game on the Rideau Hall rink while he was serving as Governor General. 1867 London England - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act; decrees that the Dominion of Canada should come into being on July 1; BNA Act provides for Senate of 72 life members; 24 each for Ontario and Quebec; 12 each for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Born on this day: 1959 - Lisa Dalbello singer, actor, songwriter. Dalbello composed for Heart, Queensryche, and wrote the English lyrics for Nena. 1942 - Barbara Parkins actor. Parkins played Peyton Place's Betty Harrington Cord, and also acted in the Captains and the Kings, and Valley of the Dolls. 1940 - Jacques Michel André Sarrazin actor. Sarrazin has acted in over 40 films 1622 - 1698 Louis de Buade, Count Frontenac soldier, governor. Frontenac served as Governor of New France from 1672 to 1682, and from 1689 to 1698. Despite a mixed record of governance, he encouraged profitable explorations westward and beat back British and Iroquois attacks on New France.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Monday, May 23, 2005 - 6:32 am
May 23 1986 Washington DC - US imposes 35% tariff on imported Canadian cedar shakes and shingles. 1982 Vatican City - Pope John Paul beatifies Canadians Brother André Bessette and Mother Marie Rose; first steps toward sainthood. 1974 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick first province with a common law background to draft statutes in both official languages. 1962 Montreal Quebec - Engineers start drilling first stretch of tunnel for Montreal's new Metro subway system. 1933 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression. 1929 Edmonton Alberta - First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes. 1886 Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374, hauling the first transcontinental passenger train, steams into the new West Coast terminal at Vancouver harbour; Vancouver had been destroyed by fire in June 1885, and the railway would help the city grow and recover. 1885 POUNDMAKER ENDS REBELLION Fort Pitt Saskatchewan - Poundmaker surrenders with his Cree warriors and 150 Metis on hearing of Riel's defeat; will be sentenced to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary; end of North West Rebellion. 1873 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a bill creating the North-West Mounted Police; a military police like Royal Irish Constabulary, to patrol border and keep peace between Indians and traders; merged with the Dominion Police in 1920 to form the RCMP. 1633 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed Governor of New France. Born on this day: 1911 - 1984 Lou Brouillard boxer. In 1931 Brouillard beat Jack Thompson for the world pro welterweight title. He lost it the following year, but in 1933 he KO'd Ben Jeby in the 7th round to claim the NY Association middleweight world title. He retired in 1935 with a career total of 140 bouts, including 66 knockouts, 43 TKOs, 1 foul, 3 draws and 24 losses.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:28 am
May 24 1996 Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen's espionage spoof Spy Hard is released. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney announces Canada withdrawing Ambassador to Belgrade and expelling Yugoslavian diplomats; to force Serbs to agree to a cease-fire in Bosnia. 1990 Quebec Quebec - Konrad Sioui, a Huron from Ancienne-Lorette, is acquitted on a charge of violating Quebec provincial park laws against hunting and tree cutting; under the 1760 Hurons and British conquerors treaty. 1968 Quebec Quebec - FLQ terrorists bomb the US Consulate in Quebec City, damaging the building. 1936 Sarnia Ontario - Norman Red Ryan shot and killed by police in gun fight while trying to rob liquor store; notorious bank robber. 1918 WOMEN GET FEDERAL VOTE Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden passes Canada Elections Act; gives all Canadian women over 21, the right to vote in federal elections only. Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote, in 1916; the other provinces follow suit between 1918 and 1922, except Quebec, a hold out until 1940. 1902 Canada - Victoria Day first observed throughout Canada 16 months after Queen Victoria's death. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier had designated the public holiday to fall on May 24, the Queen's birthday; in 1952, the date was changed to the first Monday preceding May 25th. 1860 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Plate horse race run for the first time; the oldest continuously run stakes race in North America. 1833 Montreal Quebec - William Logie the first medical student to graduate in Canada, earning his degree from McGill University. 1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain anchors at the mouth of the Saguenay River with Gravé du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's Bonne Renomme; his first landing in Canada. Born on this day: 1938 - Tommy Chong actor, comedian, guitarist, director. Chong was a rhythm and blues guitar player who moved into films after forming Cheech & Chong, a dopey comedy/improvisation team with Cheech Marin; father of actress Rae Dawn Chong 1930 - Robert Bateman painter, studied painting and drawing with Gordon Payne and Carl Schaefer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he taught high-school geography and art in Toronto and Burlington, but after seeing an Andrew Wyeth exhibition in 1963, he started painting more realistic wildlife subjects. 1900 - 1954 Lionel Conacher multi-sport athlete. Conacher was a member of the Toronto Maple Leaf baseball team that won the 1926 Triple A championship, played in the International Lacrosse League with the Montreal Maroons, boxed four rounds with Jack Dempsey, and in 1921 was a member of the Grey Cup winning Toronto Argonauts. Conacher also spent eleven seasons in pro hockey with Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago (Stanley Cup 1933-34) and Montreal (Stanley Cup 1934-35), and was chosen Canada's Athlete of the Half Century in a 1950 Canadian Press poll. 1819 - 1901 Queen Victoria Victoria reigned longer than any other monarch in English history.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:50 am
May 25 1997 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien affirms that he would not recognize any referendum result of 50.1%, saying 'That's not reasonable.' 1990 Toronto Ontario - Retired restaurateur Imre Finta acquitted on all counts of confinement, kidnapping, robbery and manslaughter in the 1944 deportation of 8,617 Jews while in the Hungarian police; Canada's first war crimes trial under 1987 law. 1989 Toronto Ontario - Dr. Jamie Astaphan takes the stand at the Dubin Inquiry into drug use in amateur sport. Ben Johnson's personal physician admits he gave steroids to Johnson. 1987 FILION WINS HIS 10,000TH RACE Yonkers, NY - New Brunswick jockey Hervé Filion drives Commander Bond to victory in the third race at Yonkers Raceway, becoming the first harness racing driver to win 10,000 races. 1958 Toronto Ontario - Toronto gets Canada's first direct distance dialing (DDD) system. 1927 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government cuts trade ties with the new Soviet Union. 1858 Victoria BC - First shipload of gold miners from California arrives in British Columbia. Born on this day: 1963 - Mike Myers actor, comedian, comedy writer. Myers played Saturday Night Live, and was a regular 1989-1994, developing such characters as Wayne's World's Wayne Campbell, Sprockets' Dieter, Lothar of the Hill People's handsome man, Middle Aged Man, Da Skit's Pat Arnold. His movies include Wayne's World (1992), So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). 1932 - W(illiam) P(atrick) Kinsella writer, teacher. Kinsella was educated at the Universities of Victoria and Iowa, where he attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop. His novels include Shoeless Joe (1982, made into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986), and The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt (1988). 1900 - 1975 Alain Grandbois experimental poet. Grandbois used unconventional verse forms and abstract metaphors of voyage and death. 1879 - 1964 Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook financier, politician. Beaverbrook was educated at public school, then studied law at the University of New Brunswick. As a corporate lawyer in Montreal, he made a fortune by engineering the creation of Stelco, and the merger of three corporations into the Canada Cement Company. He went to England in 1910, and in 1911 was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Ashton-under-Lyne as a supporter of Bonar Law; he was knighted in 1911 and raised to the peerage in 1916, taking his title Beaverbrook from a small stream near his home in New Brunswick. In 1916, he acquired the London Daily Express newspaper and built its circulation to over 4 million copies. He founded the London Sunday Express in 1918 and bought the London Evening Standard five years later. During the first war he represented the Borden government as an observer on the Western Front, and in 1918 joined the British cabinet as minister of information; during World War II he again joined the British cabinet, as minister of aircraft production in 1940 and minister of supply in 1941, making him one of three persons (the others were Winston Churchill and John Simon) to sit in the British Cabinet during both World Wars I and II. In 1942 he was British Lend-Lease administrator in the United States, and served from 1943 to 1945 as Lord Privy Seal. He resigned from the Conservative party in 1949 and retired to Leatherhead; from 1947 to 1953 he served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, and donated his art collection to the city of Fredericton, where it served as the nucleus of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. When he died his son renounced the peerage, saying that there could only be one Lord Beaverbrook.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 10:35 am
May 26 1988 ANOTHER GRETZKY RECORD Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins 6-3, completing a four game sweep, to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years; MVP Wayne Gretzky has 31 assists, setting a playoff record. 1981 Toronto Ontario - Lawren Harris' South Shore, Baffin Island sells for $240,000, record for Canadian painting; Group of Seven member. 1969 Montreal Quebec - John Lennon and Yoko Ono start their second Bed-In for Peace in a room at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; during the event, they recorded the song, Give Peace a Chance. 1940 Dunkirk France - Start of the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk. 1896 Victoria BC - Bridge collapses in Victoria, killing 55 occupants of a streetcar. 1874 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion Elections Act bringing in the secret ballot; elections to be held simultaneously; abolishes property qualifications for MPs. 1887 London England - Canada given the power to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign countries. 1887 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Railway 4,700 km main line opens for public traffic, 18 months after the last spike at Craigellachie, BC. Trains have been running across Canada for a year, but passengers can now ride directly to Vancouver. 1848 Montreal Island NWT - Last members of Franklin expedition die on Montreal Island; evidence of cannibalism later found. 1826 Toronto Ontario - Former US citizens and naturalized residents of Upper Canada given the right to vote and stand for election to the Assembly. Born on this day: 1957 - Lucille Lessard archer. Lessard won her first Canadian championship in 1974 and successfully defended her title five times; in 1974 she won the gold medal at the World Field Archery Championships. 1949 - Dayle Haddon actress 1945 - Gerry Paterson rock & roll drummer, of The Guess Who 1942 - Levon Helm country rock singer, drummer, mandolinist, of The Band. Helm was recruited by Ronnie Hawkins in 1959 to join his band The Hawks in Toronto, where they had such hits as Mary Lou and Forty Days, then recruited the rest of The Band, adding guitarist Robbie Robertson, pianist Richard Manuel, organist Garth Hudson and bassist Rick Danko. 1939 - Teresa Stratas opera singer. Stratas has sung in most major world operas, and won a Tony and a Grammy. 1931 - 1992 Sven Delblanc novelist. Delblanc was a Swedish novelist of the 1960s and 1970s; he also wrote his memoirs, Agnar. 1923 - 1977 Harry Gordon Johnson economist. Johnson made substantial contributions to the fields of macroeconomics and international trade. 1919 - 1980 Jay Silverheels aka Silverheels Smith actor, boxer, was born Harold J. Smith, son of a Mohawk chief. Silverheels was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman and 'Indian' bit part actor in 1938. He started upon the road to fame in 1948, playing one of the fugitive Osceola Brothers in the John Huston/Humphrey Bogart film Key Largo. A year later, he worked in a movie called The Cowboy and the Indians with Clayton Moore, and was offered the role of Moore's faithful Indian sidekick, Tonto, in the Television Series The Lone Ranger. With his horse Scout, Jay played in most of the episodes, then in two big screen color movies, The Lone Ranger (1955) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). He was also in Broken Arrow (1950) as Geronimo, in Saskatchewan (1954), in the role of McDonald Lasheway in Smith! (1969) with fellow Canadians Dan George and Glenn Ford, and as The Chief in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973). In his later years he founded the Indian Actors Workshop. By the way, kemosabe (giimoozaabi) means scout in the Ottawa Ojibway dialect.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 10:51 am
Lumbele, I love that info re Tonto. I didn't even know he was Canadian but I loved that show when I was young!!
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 11:42 am
Oh good, someone is reading. I was beginning to wonder.LOL
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Wink
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10-06-2000
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 12:00 pm
Lumbele I probably should have chimed in much sooner cause I read this every day. I just don't have a ton of time to post. I love reading all the facts. And omg I loved Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. Saw them in a small club in Hamilton in the late sixties and they were awesome.
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