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Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Stealing Legal's Today in History thread idea for the Canadian edition, courtesy of Ottawa Researchers. (Are you reading, Trivia Nuts?)

April 21

1948
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sets record 20 years, 10 months and 10 days of service as a Commonwealth prime minister.

1918
Bertangles France - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1881-1918 shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Captain Roy Brown 1893-1944 of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps (In the picture, Brown is in the rear trailing the Baron). It is likely that Australian ground fire downed the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen's plane is on display at Toronto's Royal Military Institute.

1906
Washington DC - Britain and US sign convention fixing the Canada-Alaska boundary at the 141st meridian.

1806
St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury marries Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière; the first white woman to live in Western Canada, Gaboury is Louis Riel's grandmother.

Born on this day:

1964 - Alex 'Sasha' Baumann, swimmer, coach, was born on this day at Prague, Czech Republic

1926 - Queen Elizabeth II

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol i am reading it :-)

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So am I, Lumbele. I am known in my work group as the person who will seek and find the answer to any question that's asked and some that aren't.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
that is so funny native - i have always had that same label - if i dont know the answer to a question (whether asked in real life or just somewhere like jeopardy) i find that answer within 24 hours - its a sick habit isnt it :-) but a fun one...


Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Isn't the internet a wonderful invention? No more wracking the brain trying to remember and asking someone or trying to find the book that has the answer.

How many of ya'll knew that yawning is a method of communication? Didn't think so!

Sorry, Lumbele, we got offtrack, but I have two for you:

1785 - Trial by jury began in Canada
1821 - The Bank of Upper Canada was incorporated


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No need to be sorry. Love the interaction, and it's great to see people in this thread, esp. since mine tend to die prematurely.

I had noticed those, Native, just didn't want to overload.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1921 OTTAWA WINS STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.



Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I read it too, Lumbele :-):-):-)

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, April 22, 2005 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooooooh, glad to see more history/info nuts here.LOL

April 22

1983
Toronto Ontario - Samuel Grange 1920- heads Ontario Royal Commission of inquiry into deaths of 28 babies at Hospital for Sick Children; nurse Susan Nelles wrongly charged.

1965
Montreal Quebec - The Rolling Stones start their first North American tour in Montreal.

1963
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 sworn in as Canada's 14th Prime Minister; succeeds John Diefenbaker, PM since June 21, 1957; Pearson PM to April 20, 1968.

1945
CANADIANS FEED STARVING DUTCH
Netherlands - Canadian Army halts front operations in western Holland due to the need to feed the starving Dutch people, their fields flooded and their barns looted by the retreating Germans.

1915
Ypres Belgium - Germans release poisonous chlorine (mustard) gas across the fields of Flanders towards French Algerian troops at Ypres; opens up 6.5 km gap; Canadian 13th Battalion stands firm under heavy shelling; many Canadians gassed.

1885
Battleford Saskatchewan - NWMP Inspector Francis Jeffrey Dickens 1844-1886 reaches Battleford after abandoning Fort Pitt when white settlers decide to surrender to Big Bear during the North West Rebellion; he is the third son of novelist Charles Dickens.

1635
London England - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 given new grants of land in Canada by Charles I; proprietor of Nova Scotia.

Born on this day:

1964 - Chris Makepeace
actor; Makepeace has appeared in Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs and Oasis.

1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart
soap actress; Stewart played Kayla Brady in Days of Our Lives in the 1980s.

1905 - Robert Guy Choquette
poet, novelist, scriptwriter

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 7:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 23

1997
Toronto Ontario - Ted England, head trader at Peters & Co. Ltd., purchases 100 shares of Bell Canada, the last trade ever made on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, as the TSE closes its floor after 145 years and moves to computer trading.

1989
St. John's Newfoundland - Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland sets up a five-member panel to inquire into the sexual abuse of children during the 1970's at the Mount Cashel Orphanage.

1981
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves the final draft of Canada's proposed new constitution.

1974
Sudbury Ontario - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel; air pollution index 102; first industrial closure in Ontario for this reason.

1906
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country.

1887
Toronto Ontario - Founding of McMaster University in Toronto as a union of Woodstock College and the Toronto Baptist College; moved from Hamilton, the college will again move back to Hamilton and the Bloor St. building becomes the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto.

1851
Quebec Quebec - Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp.

1830
PEI - Catholic Emancipation Act gives Catholics in Prince Edward Island the right to vote.

1827
Halifax Nova Scotia - Digging starts on the Shubenacadie Canal, to connect Halifax with the Bay of Fundy.

Born on this day:

1897 - 1972 Lester B. Pearson
diplomat, politician

1943 - Tony Esposito
NHL goaltender

Jan
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<<1974 Sudbury Ontario - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel; air pollution index 102; first industrial closure in Ontario for this reason. >>

That would be my hometown. And I notice that Pollution watch still has Falconbridge Smelter as number 4 of the Top 10 Ontario Respiratory Polluters ...and what is even worse, the Inco Smelter here in town is number 1 on the list!!!

Karen
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09-07-2004

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lum, this is great! Thanks!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glad you are enjoying this, too Karen.
Sorry I missed yesterday. Here it is:

April 24


1993
Ames Iowa - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Travis Tritt, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam, Bruce Hornsby and Ringo Starr at Farm Aid Six concert.

1985
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada ruling allows Sunday shopping in most provinces.

1971
Ottawa Ontario -David Lewis 1909-1981 chosen party leader on 4th ballot by New Democratic Party, replacing Tommy Douglas; gets 1046 votes, to James Laxer's 612.

1952
Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter.

1952
Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the Gruen Guild Playhouse in an episode titled, The Tiger; later stars in Perry Mason and Ironside series.

1951
Kapyong Korea - Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; 10 dead, 23 wounded.

1942
Toronto Ontario - Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 dies at 68; published 22 works of fiction, 450 poems and 500 short stories, including Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon.

1928
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the words 'qualified persons' in Section 24 of BNA Act do not apply to women, that 'by the Common Law of England, women were under a legal incapacity to hold public office.' Five prominent Alberta women will appeal the decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at Westminster.

1895
Boston Massachusetts - Joshua Slocum, from Briar Island, NS, leaves Boston to begin his solo around-the-world voyage on an 11 metre oystercatcher called Spray; first sails to Yarmouth to refit; will return from his epic circumnavigation July 3, 1898.

1885
Fish Creek Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 engages the Metis troops of Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 at Fish Creek; battle a stalemate; Middleton badly mauled and his advance to Batoche slowed; loses 11 killed and 48 wounded.

1866
Victoria BC - Victoria connected to British Columbia mainland via cable and telegraph.

1629
Savoy France - France and England sign Treaty of Susa; all territory captured after signing to be returned; Kirke's capture of Quebec later that year is therefore nullified

1615
Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur for New France.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 25


1907 - 1995
Berwick-Upon-Tweed England - Alexander Knox, actor, scriptwriter dies of bone cancer.

1979
Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal strikes down an 1890 law prohibiting the use of French in the provincial legislature, courts and schools.

1972
Toronto Ontario - Paula the cat, a ten month old tabby, survives a fall from the 26th floor of an apartment building.

1959
Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway opens for traffic as the first ship enters the locks south of Montreal; 650 km. waterway between Montreal and Lake Erie. To commemorate the event, Canada and the US both issued a similar stamp. Some of the Canadian issue got inverted, resulting in this collector's dream s

1950
Ottawa Ontario - BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and PEI sign an agreement with Ottawa to build the Trans-Canada Highway.

1945
San Francisco California - Canada one of 50 nations attending founding conference of United Nations, opening in San Francisco; to June 26; approves United Nations Charter.

1940
Quebec City - Quebec women allowed to vote and run for office in provincial elections, 22 years after women were granted the federal vote. In 1927, Idola St-Jean founded l'Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Québec. The following year, Thérèse Casgrain founded La Ligue des droits de la femme. Both these groups lobbied Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout, who finally succeeded in getting the clergy to drop their opposition.

1900
Israel's Port South Africa - Canadians engage Boers in Battle of Israel's Port.

1890
Blackfoot Crossing Alberta - Indian leader Crowfoot dies on the Blackfoot reserve; head Chief during signing of Treaty Seven.

1862
Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier's Militia Bill for a more efficient military leads to the Macdonald-Cartier government's defeat.

1849
Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, providing payment for people who lost property in the rebellions of 1837-1838. Angry Tory mobs are furious the Queen's representative would sign a bill rewarding treason. They throw garbage and dead rats at members of the Assembly, and pelt an official reading the Riot Act with onions.
That night, the mobs set fire to the Legislature, destroying parliamentary and government records; the official portrait of Queen Victoria is rescued from the flames by a young engineer named Sandford Fleming. Lord Elgin barely escapes to the viceregal residence at Monklands; he was not permitted to call out troops to quell riots because they were British, and could not interfere in a Canadian civil matter. As a result of this lack of public security in Montreal, the government decides to move to Toronto; so begins the period of wandering government, when Kingston and Quebec City will also share the duties of being the capital of the Canadas.


Born on this day:

1923 - Melissa Hayden
ballerina

1913 - Russ Conway
film and TV actor

1873-1949 Félix d'Hérelle
microbiologist

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 26

1989
Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson forced to read contents of his Budget at an evening news conference, after Global TV reporter Doug Small broadcasts the leaked contents.

1983
Toronto Ontario - First flight of Skyship 500 at Toronto Airport; can carry 10 people; uses non-flammable helium; first Canadian-built airship.

1959
Montreal Quebec - Fidel Castro Cuban Premier visits Montreal.

1954
Geneva Switzerland - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 leads Canadian delegation at conference to settle the Korean question.

1935
Montreal Quebec- Frank Boucher of the New York Rangers given permanent possession of the Lady Byng Trophy for the most sportsmanlike player in the NHL; he had won it for 7 of its 11 year history. NHL will purchases a new trophy to be awarded the following year.

1918
Halifax Nova Scotia - Women in Nova Scotia granted the right to vote.

1871
Winnipeg Manitoba - Eight Ontario land agents reach Fort Garry; beginning of influx of speculators and settlers that leads to the Red River Insurrection.

1860
Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada from six independent militia units; later the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, oldest regiment in the Canadian Armed Forces.

1778
Nootka BC - Captain Cook sets sail to the north west from Nootka Sound, tracing the coast of British Columbia and Alaska.

1625
Dieppe France - Jesuit priest Jean de Brébeuf sails for Quebec with two priests and two lay brothers; founder of Huron Mission.


Born on this day:

1922 - 1993 Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé
journalist, politician, diplomat, appointed the first woman Governor General of Canada (1984-90)

1898-1972 John Grierson
filmmaker, founding head of the National Film Board of Canada

1932 - Michael Smith
biochemist, molecular biologist; Smith and American Kary Mullis win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering site-directed mutagenesis



Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 27


1992
Montreal Quebec - Lina Haddad, age 27, gives birth to Quebec's first quintuplets - three boys and two girls.

1990
Montreal Quebec - Quebec women celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the vote for women in the province.

1977
Quebec Quebec - Parti Quebecois government proposes the Charter of the French Language as Bill One in the National Assembly; to make French thee working language in Quebec and limit the use of English.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson officially opens l'Exposition universelle de Montréal - Expo '67; Canada's first world's fair

1942
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 released from 1940 election pledge with a 63.7% victory in the conscription plebiscite, giving him a mandate to impose overseas conscription 'if necessary'; Quebec votes 72% against; other provinces vote 80% in favour.

1928
PEI - Prince Edward Island changes to driving on the right hand side of the road.

1896
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 resigns; calls his opponents in the Cabinet 'a nest of traitors'; ex-Head of the Orange Lodge, he is not able to deal with religious factions in the Conservative Party; succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper.

1846
Toronto Ontario - John A. Macdonald from Kingston gives his maiden speech in the Assembly.

1831
Quebec Quebec - Steamship Royal William launched at Quebec City; first Canadian vessel to cross the Atlantic entirely under steam power.

1813
Toronto Ontario - Invasion force of 1,700 US troops under Zebulon Pike and Henry Dearborn assaults the town of York; Sheaffe and 600 defenders withdraw to Kingston; Americans torch Upper Canada's parliament buildings, and depart May 8 after burning and looting the town. Britain retaliates a year later by raiding Washington, and setting fire to the White House.

1644
Montreal Quebec - Wheat planted in Canada for the first time.


Born on this day:

1953 - Bruce Robertson
swimmer, won the silver medal in 1972 and bronze in the 4x100 Relay; gold medal in the 100m Butterfly at the World Championships in 1973, Canada's first swimming gold medal in Olympic or World competition in 50 years.

1939 - Jerry Mercer
rock & roll musician, played in the group April Wine

Ingrid Rogers
soap actress, played the original Taylor Barnes Roxbury-Cannon in All My Children from 1992-95.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 28

1996
Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg Jets play their final game as a team, and are eliminated from the playoffs, losing to the Detroit Red Wings 4-1; the s-called 'Winnipeg Whiteouts' play as the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996-97 season.

1972
Tuktoyaktuk NWT - Ottawa starts building 1,690 km long highway from Alberta border to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.

1964
Ottawa Ontario - Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov expelled from Canada for spying; Ottawa correspondent for Soviet newspaper Izvestia.

1945
Netherlands - Truce arranged between Canadian and German forces in Holland.

1919
Geneva Switzerland - Canada joins 41 other countries as they unanimously accept the Covenant of the League of Nations.

1760
Quebec Quebec - Last meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France.

1760
Ste-Foy Quebec - François, Duc de Lévis, with 5,000 soldiers and Indians, defeats James Murray's 3,900 British troops at the Battle of Ste-Foy; Murray, leader of the British after Wolfe's death, wisely retreats behind the walls of Quebec to wait for reinforcements by ship.

1631
London England - Luke Foxe 1586-c1635 sails from London on the Charles to find the Northwest Passage; skirts the western shore of Hudson Bay; finds relics of Button's expedition.

1610
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Quebec.


Born on this day:

1908 - 1987 Ethel Catherwood
track athlete, 1928 Olympics Gold Medalist in high jump

1963 - Lloyd Eisler
skater; with partner Isabelle Brasseur 5 World Championship pairs medalists (including Gold in 1993 and Silver in 1994), 2-time Olympic Bronze medalists (1992 Albertville, 1994 Lillehammer), and 5-time Canadian Champions



Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Birthday, Eisler!! I used to love to watch them skate :-):-)

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Me, too, Jan. That girl's got more guts than brains, playing Herbie's lasso.
I remember him skating with Lorrie Bayer, and there was another one he skated with later, can't remember her name. Isabelle had another partner before, too, as juniors, I think.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 29

1973
New Brunswick - Saint John River flooding causes up to $25 million damage in New Brunswick.

1971
Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 outlines his James Bay project; Hydro Quebec to build $6 billion hydroelectric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in western hemisphere.

1964
Toronto Ontario - Ontario government brings in $1 an hour provincial minimum wage; starting June 29.

1948
United Nations New York-Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 proposes 'collective-security league;' helps lead to formation of NATO.

1945
Netherlands - Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.

1914
Toronto Ontario - Supreme Court of Ontario bans employment of unqualified teachers.

1903
Crowsnest Pass Alberta - A 90 million ton wedge of limestone slides off Turtle Mountain onto the coal mining village of Frank at 4:10 am, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; the slab is 1,300 ft high, 4,000 ft wide, 500 ft thick. Seventeen men in the mine dig themselves out a day later. The town will be permanently evacuated

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's brother, incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada on this day as Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm; the Bell stock is soon listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, whose members quickly take to the new fangled device. The invention was developed over the past decade at the Bell homestead in Brantford, and the first business phones installed in Hamilton.

1817
Washington DC - Richard Rush for the US and Charles Bagot for Britain sign the Rush-Bagot Agreement limiting the number of warships the two countries can maintain on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - 2 ships each under 100 tons on upper Great Lakes, 1 each on Lake Champlain. On this day in 1818, US President Monroe proclaims US naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

1776
Montreal Quebec - Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 arrives in Montreal with Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase; sent by the Continental Congress to convert Canadians to freedom.

1627
Paris France - Cardinal Armand de Richelieu 1585-1642 founds the Company of New France, or One Hundred Associates, with 100,000 crowns capital; 'to be proprietors of Canada; to govern in peace and war.' The company, a group of merchants and aristocrats, is given the monopoly of the fur trade; in return they have to settle 300 colonists a year up to 1643.


Born on this day:

1938 - Peter Jennings
journalist, newscaster. Jennings, son of a CBC executive, is the nightly host on ABC News.


Lumbele
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Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 7:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
April 30

1987
Old Chelsea Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- and 10 premiers agree on constitutional draft called the Meech Lake Accord, to enable Quebec to join the constitutional fold by meeting its five conditions, including recognizing Quebec as a distinct society; needs to be ratified by Parliament and all provincial legislatures by June 23rd, 1990 to become law.

1974
Edmonton Alberta - Ralph Steinhauer 1905- appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta by PM Trudeau; former chief of the Saddle Lake Indian band the first aboriginal Canadian named to a viceregal position.

1950
Edmonton Alberta - Construction starts on $95 million Interprovincial Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to the Lakehead.

1941
Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian passenger ship Nerissa off Ireland; 73 Canadian Army personnel lost.

1932
Fredericton NB - RCMP absorbs provincial police force of New Brunswick due to near bankruptcy of the province.

1903
Toronto Ontario - Emily Howard Stowe 1831-1903 dies; first Canadian woman admitted to practice medicine in Canada (1880)

1892
Church Point Nova Scotia - St. Anne's College at Church Point gets university charter

1658
Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 opens Ville Marie's first school for French and Indian children, in a stone stable measuring 36' by 18' borrowed from the Company of Montreal.

1789
Saint John, New Brunswick - Parrtown and Carleton became Saint John, the first incorporated city in Canada.

1630
Scotland - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 grants barony in Nova Scotia, from Yarmouth to Lunenburg, to Claude and Charles de La Tour.


Born on this day:

1623 - 1708 François de Laval
priest, bishop. Laval was sent to New France by the Jesuits in 1659, founded the Quebec Seminary in 1663, and was appointed first Bishop of Quebec.

1770 - 1857 David Thompson
explorer, geographer, and fur trader; first European to explore the Columbia River from source to mouth.

DM
1901 - David Manners
actor

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 1

1975
Ottawa Ontario - Canada to control own air space for the first time since NORAD agreement signed in 1958.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules compulsory breath tests do not constitute a breach of the Canadian Bill of Rights.

1965
Montreal Quebec - Radicals bomb US Consulate in Montreal.

1921
Quebec Quebec - The Quebec government takes control of the sale of liquor in the province; with near universal prohibition of alcoholic beverages in North America, Quebec is the only 'wet' jurisdiction on the continent for a time.

1912
Ottawa Ontario - Canada issues first five-dollar bank note.

1888
Ottawa Ontario - Frederick Arthur, Baron Stanley of Preston starts his term as Governor-General of Canada; serves from June 11, 1888 to September 6, 1893; will later donate hockey's Stanley Cup.

1885
Ottawa Ontario - Electric lighting used for the first time to illuminate city streets in Ottawa.

1775
Quebec - The Quebec Act comes into force, creating a Governor and Council, and allowing the continued exercise of the French language and Roman Catholic religion. In Montreal, English vandals blacken the bust of King George III and place a 'potato' rosary around its neck. On the bust they write: 'Behold, the Pope of Canada, or the English idiot.'

1688
Quebec Quebec - In Lower Town, the cornerstone is laid for the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires; two years later, the church is named to celebrate Count Frontenac's 1690 victory over the English fleet led by Phips; it is Canada's oldest full-sized church.

1660
Hawkesbury, Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Huron allies, intending to ambush the Iroquois, instead meets a war party of 300 Onondagas, and has to retreat into an abandoned Algonkian fort by the Long Sault Rapids on the Ottawa River; some French panic and fire on the Iroquois, leading to the desertion of Huron chief Annaotaha. When a powder cask blows up, the Iroquois attack.


Born on this day:

1916 - Glenn Ford
actor

1831 - 1903 Emily Howard Stowe
doctor; first Canadian woman admitted to practice medicine in Canada (1880)

1850 - 1942 Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
explorer, born in Buckingham Palace, the third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert; Governor General of Canada



Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, May 02, 2005 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Month Day

1991
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court strikes down 190 year old law that let the Crown jail people found not guilty by reason of insanity, or commit them to a mental institution indefinitely.

1988
Ottawa Ontario - National Arts Centre sells 16,408 seats for the British musical CATS, the largest single-day sale of tickets for a musical in Canada.

1986
Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Wilbert Keon performs Canada's first artificial heart transplant at the Ottawa Civic Hospital; fits patient Noella Leclair, 42, with a Jarvik 7- 70 until a human heart is found several days later.

1986
Vancouver BC - Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo '86; Vancouver Exposition runs until October 13th.

1970
Amsterdam Netherlands - International Olympic Committee awards the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal; first time for a Canadian city.

1964
Louisville Kentucky - Windfield Farms owner Edward Plunkett (E. P.) Taylor 1901-1989 sees jockey Bill Hartack ride his stallion Northern Dancer to victory in the Kentucky Derby; first Canadian-bred horse to win; the same pair will go on to take the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.

1838
Quebec Quebec - James Cuthbert 1769-1849 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada, a 22 member body set up by Governor Colborne.

1610
London England - John Guy (c1584- c1629), the Sheriff and later Lord Mayor of Bristol, is charged by the Company of Adventurers & Planters of London & Bristol (Newfoundland Company) to colonize the island; King James I had given the Company the grant of Newfoundland at the urging of Francis Bacon.

1497
Bristol England - John and Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born navigators, set sail to follow Columbus' route to what he thought was Asia; Cabot's expedition reaches land June 24th, likely at Cape Breton, then sails east along the south coast of Newfoundland.

1670
London England - Charles II grants a Royal charter to his cousin Price Rupert and a group of investors called The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay: today's Hudson's Bay Company. Two French explorers and traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers, proposed the fur-trading company to the group, and mounted a successful season of trade a year earlier. The charter gives the company the exclusive monopoly of commerce in lands flowing into Hudson Bay, and charges them to find a route to the South Seas.


Born on this day:

1797 - 1864 Abraham Gesner
inventor; invented kerosene oil, and build a refinery in New York in 1854. Kerosene would soon light the world, replacing the more expensive whale oil.

1815 - 1889 William Buell Richards
politician, lawyer, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1875-79)

1779 - 1839 John Galt
author, land agent; agent of the claimants of Upper Canada for losses incurred during the War of 1812, and founder of the Canada Company and the town of Guleph; father of politician Alexander Tilloch Galt.



Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 3

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rules that Angelique Lyn Lavallee of Winnipeg was acting in self defence when she shot her husband to death after years of beatings; women can use battered wife syndrome as defence against murder charge.

1987
Europe - Sweden defeats Canada 9-0 to win World Hockey Championship; first in 25 years.

1979
Dawson City Yukon - Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area.

1963
Hay River NWT - Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding.

1959
Vatican City - Beatification of Mother Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the Sisters of Charity; first Canadian to be beatified; canonized by Pope John Paul Dec. 9, 1990.

1945
Wismar Germany - First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.

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Ypres Belgium - Lt.-Col. John McCrae 1872-1918 composes his poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 20 minutes, while overlooking the grave of a fellow officer at Ypres; first published in Dec. 1915 in Punch magazine, his elegy is the most famous English poem written during World War I; MD from Guelph Ontario.

1887
Nanaimo BC - Coal mine explosion at Nanaimo kills 150.

1867
Victoria BC - Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

1536
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 discovers threat of Iroquois rebellion; captures chief Donnacona as hostage during a religious ceremony; promises to bring him back from France in ten moons.


Born on this day:

1892 - 1970 Jacob Viner
an economist and economic historian who developed important theories of cost and production, and international economics.

1926 - Matt Baldwin
curler, representing Alberta, won the Canadian Brier in 1954, 1957 and 1958.




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07-12-2002

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May 4

1992
NWT - Residents of the Northwest Territories vote to partition the territories into two sections Canada's new Inuit territory - an area over 5 times the size of Alberta - will be called Nunavut.

1973
Toronto Ontario - Anglican Church of Canada decides to allow women to become ordained ministers.

1971
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up 37 bilingual districts; government services now available in both official languages.

1971
St-Jean Vianney Quebec - Mud slide buries part of St. Jean Vianney, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.

1958
New York City - Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

1910
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.

1836
London England - Hudson's Bay Company acquires the Red River Colony from the sixth Earl of Selkirk for £15,000.

1836
Montreal Quebec - Delivery of Canada's first railway locomotive, the Iron Kitten.

1783
Nova Scotia - First United Empire Loyalists settle in the Maritimes.

1493
Rome Italy - Pope Alexandre VI, by his Bull Inter caetera, divides up the New World between Spain and Portugal and forbids further exploration; France respects the ban, but England sends off John Cabot to stake claims in defiance of the order.


Born on this day:

1890 - 1945 Franklin Carmichael
painter

1903 - 1991 Charles (Sandy) Somerville
golfer, won his first Canadian amateur championship in1926 and repeated the feat in 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935 and 1937; the American Amateur title in 1932 and the Canadian senior title four times between 1960 and 1966.

1928 - Maynard Ferguson
musician: trumpet, trombone, other horns; bandleader, played with such greats as Tommy Dorsey and Stan Kenton before starting his own band in 1956. He had a hit single with "Gonna Fly Now", the theme song from the film "Rocky".

1948 - Bill O'Donnell
harness racing driver; became the first driver to win over $4 million in total earnings.

1954 - Sylvia Burka
speed skater and cyclist, set over 40 Canadian records, 5-time national speed skating champion; world junior champion in 1973, world senior champion in 1976 and sprint champion in1977. In cycling, she won 3 gold medals at the Western Canada Games, and in 1970 took the Coors International Bike Classic.