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Lumbele
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 14

1988
Montreal Quebec - Pianist Angela Cheng of Edmonton the first Canadian to win the top prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.

1951
Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Minister of Trade and Commerce C.D. Howe makes his famous comment: 'What's a million?'

1949
Yukon - Yukon temperature hits 36.1 degrees Celsius; warmest day on record.

1944
Normandy France - All units of the exhausted 3rd Canadian Infantry Division put on reserve after taking le Mesnil-Patry; Germans concentrated 7.5 of their 8 armoured divisions, and half of their 12 other divisions against Canadians and British; Canadians spend second half of June in reserve before resuming attack on Capriquet airfield.

1937
Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl first hosts CBC radio show The Happy Gang, with Kay Stokes, Bob Farnon and Blaine Mather; will run for 22 years until 1959; Pearl dies in 1986.

1935
Regina Saskatchewan - 'On to Ottawa' trek reaches Regina from Vancouver; now numbering 2,000; leaders continue on to Ottawa to protest government economic policies during the Depression.

1919
St. John's Newfoundland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight; their 3,100 km flight ends 16 hours later with a nose-down landing in a Clifden, County Galway, Ireland peat bog; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.

1892
Ontario/Quebec - Tornado rages down the Ottawa Valley between Renfrew and Montreal, killing 12 persons.

1887
Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific steamer Abyssinia the first passenger ship from the Orient to dock at Vancouver; from Yokohama, Japan.

1617 FIRST FRENCH FAMILY IN CANADA
Tadoussac Quebec - Marie Rollet arrives in Canada with husband Louis Hébert and three children; first French family in Canada; Hébert Canada's first doctor and herbalist.


Born on this day:

1901 - 1990 Clarence (Hap) Day
hockey referee, coach. Day played for the University of Toronto, Toronto St. Patricks, Toronto Maple Leafs [Stanley Cup: 1931-32] and NY Americans. After working as an NHL referee, he was hired by Conn Smythe to take over the Toronto Maple Leafs; coaching them to five Stanley Cups, including three in a row (1947, 1948 and 1949), and then managing the team until his retirement.

1895 - 1968 Jack Adams
hockey player, coach, manager. Adams started his pro hockey career with the Toronto Arenas, winning the Stanley Cup in 1918; in 1927 he again won the Cup, this time with the Ottawa Senators. Adams then moved to coaching and managing the Detroit Red Wings, developing a superb farm system, drafting Gordie Howe, and winning 12 regular season championships and 7 Stanley Cups in a 35 year career with the Wings. After leaving them in 1962, Adams became President of the Central Pro League.

1879 - 1942 Lou Scholes
rower. In 1901 Scholes won the intermediate singles at the U.S. Nationals in Philadelphia; in 1904 he was the first Canadian to take the Diamond Sculls event at Royal Henley, beating the British favorite F.S. Kelly in the third heat and then A.H. Cloutte.

1875 - 1987 Herman Smith 'Jackrabbit' Johannsen
ski pioneer. Johannsen moved to Canada after World War I and settled in Piedmont Quebec; started building ski trails across the Laurentians in 1932, including the Lachute to Ottawa marathon. Because of his energy and style, the local first nations people gave him the nickname Jackrabbit. In 1979 at age 104 he became involved with the Jackrabbit Ski League, a national cross-country ski program started in his honour.


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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 15

1995 WEBER & MLAKHOV FIRST TO POLE ALONE
NWT - Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov reach Ward Hunt Island, Canada's northernmost point of land, becoming the first to ski to the North Pole and back without support teams or outside help; started 1500 km trek Feb. 13; proved that Robert Peary could not have reached the Pole.

1985
New York City - Bryan Adams has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Heaven.

1974
New York City - Gordon Lightfoot has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.

1962
Wallops Island Virginia - Canada launches first space vehicle, 11.3 kg non-orbiting instrument package.

1944
Regina Saskatchewan - Baptist Minister T.C. Tommy Douglas (maternal grandfather of Kiefer Sutherland) takes 47 of 55 seats, to the liberals 5, to win the Saskatchewan election for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; forms Canada's first socialist (CCF) government; Douglas resigned his Commons seat to run; he will be Premier for the next 17 years, resigning to become first head of the New Democratic Party.

1902
Canada - Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time.

1873
Cypress Hills Saskatchewan - Renegade American whisky/fur traders massacre Assiniboine Indians in their camp; leads to formation of the North-West Mounted Police.

1846
Washington DC - U.S. President James Polk signs the Oregon Treaty (Treaty of Washington), declaring the 49th parallel and the Strait of Juan de Fuca the boundary between Oregon and British America; Queen Victoria signs the Treaty two days later. The treaty was a compromise - the British claimed Oregon and the Americans claimed all of the west coast up to the southern limit of the Russian territory of Alaska - 54/40 - the slogan 'Fifty-four forty or fight' was a Democratic Party slogan in the 1844 election.

1776
Montreal Quebec - American General Benedict Arnold orders Montreal burnt as the Army of the Continental Congress retreats south; citizens put the fire out.

1616
Tadoussac Quebec - Récollet friar Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children at Tadoussac; later Trois-Rivières.


Born on this day:

1930 - Marcel Pronovost
hockey player. Pronovost won 4 Stanley Cup rings while playing with the NHL Detroit Red Wings, and one, in 1967, with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

1809 - 1866 François-Xavier Garneau
lawyer, civil servant, poet, historian. The son of a poor labourer, Garneau studied to be a notary and clerked with Alexander Campbell for five years. From 1831-33, he served in London England as clerk to Denis-Benjamin Viger, sent by the Lower Canada Assembly to lobby for French Canadian rights. Inspired by Lord Durham's comment that the French Canadians were 'a people without a history and without a literature,' Garneau published his groundbreaking three-volume Histoire du Canada from 1843 to 1848, with a supplement in 1852 bringing the story up to 1841.

1789 - 1883 Josiah Henson
was born a slave in Charles County, Maryland; dies at Dresden, Ontario. Henson escaped to Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and labourer's school, the British American Institute, for fugitive American slaves at Dawn, Ontario. Henson was the model for the leading character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.


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June16

1993
Cyprus - Canada closes UN peacekeeping mission on Cyprus after 29 years of service by 35,000 soldiers; control of Canadian sector handed to British and Australian troops the previous day.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner chosen as Liberal Party leader on second ballot, with 1862 votes, to Jean Chretien's 1368, Don Johnston's 192; defeats six others; replaces Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, but will lose ensuing election to Brian Mulroney.

1981
Washington DC - President Reagan awards Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-80; first foreign citizen given the honour.

1972
Churchill Falls Newfoundland - Prime Minister Trudeau pushes a button to start Churchill Falls, Labrador, on the Hamilton River, the largest single-site hydro-electric power project in the western world.

1967
Monterey California - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his band Buffalo Springfield join Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane and Hugh Masekela at the Monterey Pop Festival; 50,000 people attend free rock fest.

1914
Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer Quebec - First dive to the sunken Empress of Ireland to test diving equipment; as a Commission of Inquiry convenes in Quebec under Lord Mersey; on June 22, diving operations start to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck; on Aug. 20, the Purser's safe is raised.

1894
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Bulletin reports presence of oil in what is now Alberta.

1659
Paris France - King Louis XIV grants aid to emigrants to New France.

1587
Upernavik Greenland - John Davis reaches Gilbert Sound; sails north along Greenland's west coast to Upernavik; calls it Sanderson's Hope, after his merchant backer, William Sanderson.


Born on this day:

1952 - Gino Vannelli
singer, songwriter. In the early 70s, Vannelli and his brothers Joe and Ross started a band called Gino Vannelli and Good Friends. After being rejected by a string of labels, Vannelli was finally discovered by A&M co-founder, Herb Alpert. In 1975, he became the first white artist to appear on the US TV show Soul Train. Later that year, he received the Juno Award as the most promising Canadian male singer - the first of five consecutive Junos, including awards for Canada's Top Male Vocalist, Producer, and Engineer of the Year. In 1978 he had a platinum album with Brother to Brother, featuring the #1 pop song, I Just Wanna Stop, and a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance. In 1981 he released his album Nightwalker, with its popular single Living Inside Myself (a fourth Grammy nomination). In the mid 1980s, he released the platinum album Black Cars, and then Big Dreamers Never Sleep, recorded at his Blue Moon Studios.

1874 - 1960 Arthur Meighen
lawyer, politician. Meighen was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1903, and was elected MP for Portage la Prairie 1908-1921, 1925-1926; Conservative Party leader 1920-1926, 1941-1942; Leader of the Opposition 1921-1926; ninth Prime Minister of Canada (July 10, 1920 - Dec. 29, 1921; June 29, 1926 - Sept. 25, 1926); youngest PM until Joe Clark; Senator 1932-1942.


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June 17

1982
Quebec - Quebec doctors start 5-day strike to press for 38.5% increase in fees.

1975
France - French court orders France to compensate Canadian environmental activist David McTaggart; his ship Greenpeace III was rammed and boarded by a French naval vessel in the South Pacific in June 1973 as McTaggart was protesting French nuclear testing.

1958
Vancouver BC - Collapse of half-completed Second Narrows Bridge across Burrard Inlet; with weight of 30 ton train; 19 workmen killed, 20 injured, $23 million damage.

1946
Windsor Ontario - Tornado hits Windsor, killing 16 and injuring hundreds.

1903
NWT - Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 starts Arctic voyage on his ship Gjoa; first east to west navigation of the Northwest Passage.

1871
New York City - Anna Swan of Nova Scotia, at 2.27 metres (7'5") marries Martin Buren of Kentucky, at 2.19 metres (7'2"); world's tallest married couple work for Barnum Circus.

1779
Castine Maine - Francis McLean builds fort at Castine, Maine, with 650 men, to serve as a Halifax outpost, provide refuge for loyalists and to block any attacks from New England.

1776
Quebec - End of the American invasion of Quebec as the last troops of the Army of the Continental Congress start leaving the province.


Born on this day:

1916 - 2004 Ted Atkinson
jockey. Atkinson was nicknamed The Slasher.

1881 - 1955 Tommy Burns
pugilist, was born Noah Brusso. Burns started boxing at age 19; on Feb. 23, 1906, he captured the World Heavyweight boxing title, winning a 20-round decision over titleholder Marvin Hart in Los Angeles; held it until Dec. 26, 1908, when he lost in 14 rounds to Jack Johnson, the first black to hold the heavyweight crown, in Sydney, Australia. Burns successfully defended the title 11 times and retired in 1920 as the only Canadian to ever hold the world crown; his one minute 28 second KO victory over Jem Roche in 1908 was recorded as the shortest title bout to date.


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Saturday, June 18, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 18

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret brings in legislation to make environmental-impact studies mandatory for federal projects or joint projects.

1980
New York City - Ottawa comic Dan Ackroyd premieres his movie The Blues Brothers, co-starring John Belushi.

1962
Canada - John George Diefenbaker wins minority in 25th federal general election 116 seats to 100; 30 Social Credit; 19 CCF; defeats Lester Pearson with 37.3% of popular vote.

1959
Torbay Newfoundland - Queen Elizabeth II arrives with Prince Philip to start 45 day Canadian tour; earlier that day, CBC Montreal broadcast the first live telecast from England to Canada, showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving London.

1940
Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces compulsory military training for home defence.

1915
Banks Island NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson sights new uncharted land, and claims it for Canada.

1816
Ontario - Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.

1812 US GOES TO WAR AGAINST CANADA
Washington DC - US President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain due to seizure of American vessels in Napoleonic Wars, and British support of native resistance to US westward expansion; beginning of War of 1812; to Dec. 24, 1814; only major war, other than Indian wars, fought on Canadian soil.

1784
London England - King George III partitions Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick.

1603
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain leaves Quebec with Grave du Pont to go on an exploring trip up the 'River of Canada' - the St. Lawrence; finds that the Algonkians have taken over from the Iroquois as the dominant tribe since the arrival of Jacques Cartier 80 years earlier.


Born on this day:

1966 - Kurt Browning
figure skater; won the Canadian Junior title in 1985; first Canadian to win four World Figure Skating championships (1989, 1990, 1991 and 1993); in 1988, at the Budapest Worlds, he landed the first quadruple toe loop ever in competition; in 1993, he skated as Rick from the movie Casablanca; turned pro after a fifth place finish at the 1994 Olympics at Lillehammer.

1947 - Linda Thorson
actor. Thorson played Tara King in The Avengers, Julia Medina in the soap opera, One Life to Live, and Hillary Stonehill in the TV series Marblehead Manor.

1916 - 1985 Pat Fletcher
golfer. Fletcher turned pro in 1936 at age 20; to enter the Alberta Open he sold shares in himself to caddies; in 1954 he became the first Canadian in 4 years to win the Canadian Open; in 1955 he became pro at the Royal Montreal GC, staying there for 20 years


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June 19

1992
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta francophones win right to control own school boards and set curriculum; after 10 year battle; 1990 Supreme Court ruling 'where numbers warrant'.

1991
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian sprinter Brian Morison banned from competition for two years by Athletics Canada for steroid use.

1983
Vancouver BC - opening of BC Place, 60,000 seat domed stadium; cost $126 million to build.

1978
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans import and sale of cut-rate US editions of Canadian books; dumped products competing with higher priced Canadian editions.

1973 HOWE TO PLAY WITH HIS SONS IN WHA
Houston Texas - Retired Detroit Red Wings star Gordie Howe jumps to the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association to join his sons, Mark and Marty; gets a $1 million, four year contract; Houston will win the WHA title and Gordie his seventh MVP title.

1973
Moscow Russia - National Ballet of Canada stars Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn win first prize for duet ensemble at International Ballet Competition, attracting 75 contestants from 23 countries; perform the Bluebird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty; Kain also wins women's silver medal.

1940
London England - Britain organizes to evacuate children to Canada.

1918
France - Canadian air ace Billy Bishop shoots down five German planes in his last dogfight, bringing his total enemy kills to 72.

1914
Crows Nest Pass Alberta - Hillcrest coal mine explosion and fire kills 188 miners.

1793
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act prohibiting importation of slaves into the colony; first such law in British empire.


Born on this day:

1902 - 1977 Gaetano 'Guy' Lombardo
band leader; born at London, Ontario; died in Houston. 1923 went to Cleveland in with a group of London-area musicians, including his brothers Carmen (1903-1971) and Lebert (1903-1993) on trumpet; by the following year, the band was being billed as the Royal Canadians; 1929-62 his New Year's Eve radio and TV broadcasts from the Roosevelt Grill in New York were a traditional part of holiday celebrations; during his 42 year career playing 'the sweetest music this side of heaven', Lombardo and His Royal Canadians composed over 300 songs and sold more than 300 million recordings, including three million sellers, Humoresque (1946), Easter Parade (1947) and the Third Man Theme (1950). With brother Carmen on lead saxophone and Lebert on Trumpet, Lombardo's theme song was Auld Lang Syne, played for his annual New Year's Eve broadcasts.

1841 - 1921 George Arthur French
soldier. French organized the North West Mounted Rifles (later the North West Mounted Police, then Royal North West Mounted Police, now Royal Canadian Mounted Police)..


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June 20

1996
Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk blasts off on board Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-78, the longest to date at 15 days, 12 hours. The mission carries the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS).

1991
Ottawa Ontario - Mohamed Al-Mashat inquiry into his fast track immigration agrees on flawed and controversial processing of case; Iraqi diplomat and defector from Saddam Hussein.

1991
Quebec Quebec - Premier Robert Bourassa pushes through Bill 150 in closing session requiring a referendum on sovereignty by October 1992; recommended by Bélanger-Campeau Commission; also decreases payments to municipalities; puts wage freeze on public sector; also announces Aug. 12 Montmorency by-election; vacated by ex-revenue minister Yves Séguin; Séguin quit to protest combining the PST with the GST.

1985
Montreal Quebec - Premier René Lévesque announces he will resign as leader of the Parti Quebecois; Pierre-Marc Johnson will succeed him Sept. 29 after a leadership convention; PQ down in the polls and constitutional hopes pinned on Mulroney in Ottawa.

1959
Escuminac New Brunswick - Severe storm in Northumberland Strait sinks 22 boats, drowns 35 fishermen.

1946
Ottawa Ontario - Fred Rose sentenced to six years in prison for spying for the Soviet Union; charged after Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, defected and implicated Rose, Canada's only Communist Party (Labour-Progressive) MP.

1942 JAPAN ATTACKS CANADA
Estevan Point BC - Japanese submarine shells isolated Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, with little damage; only time Canadian land territory under fire in World War II, there were submarine attacks inside Canada's territorial waters, notably the sinking by a German U-Boat of HMCS Charlottetown Sept. 11, 1942, one km from Rinouski.

1877
Hamilton Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton.

1877
Saint John New Brunswick - Fire rages through Saint John, wiping out the entire business district and burning down 1,612 houses (over two-thirds of the housing stock), leaving 15,000 homeless; kills over 100 people, causes $27 million worth of damage.

1837
Windsor England - Queen Victoria ascends the British throne at age 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV; will reign for 63 years until her death in 1901.


Born on this day:

1945 - Anne Murray
singer. Murray has sold over 24 million records; her major hits include Love Song [Grammy 1974], You Needed Me [Grammy 1978], Could I Have This Dance [Grammy 1980], A Little Good News [Grammy 1983]; as well as Snowbird, You Won't See Me, He Thinks I Still Care, Shadows In the Moonlight, Danny's Song, You Won"t See Me, and What Would It Take; has won numerous Juno and American Music Awards.

1914 - Gordon Juckes
hockey director. In 1953, Juckes became President of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association, in 1959 President of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and was CAHA Secretary Manager from 1960 until he retired in 1978. He held a life membership in the International Ice Hockey Federation and served on the Boards of Hockey Canada and the Canadian Olympic Association.

1894 - 1980 Frank McGill
sportsman, soldier. McGill played hockey and football at McGill University; as Captain of the McGill Amateur Athletic Association team quarterbacked them to victory in the Big Four; McGill also won national championships in swimming and water polo, and was offered an NHL contract by Boston, NY and Pittsburgh, but joined the RCAF and rose to become Air Vice Marshall.

1771 - 1820 Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
philanthropist, entrepreneur. In 1812, Selkirk founded the Red River Settlement, and in collaboration with the Hudson's Bay Company, brought Scottish settlers via Churchill, Manitoba to the rich farmlands of the Red River valley.


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June 21

1988
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes public the expulsion of eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill establishing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS to replace RCMP in dealing with foreign espionage, terrorism and subversion.

1977
Saint John New Brunswick - Flash fire kills 21 prisoners, injures 7 more, as well as 6 police officers and a fireman, in police lockup at City Hall; starts in detention area in a padded maximum security cell; surviving prisoner, John Kenney later convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in jail.

1957
Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker sworn in as Canada's first Conservative Prime Minister in 22 years; until April 22, 1963; Leader of the Opposition 1956-1957, and 1963-1967.

1952
Provo Utah - Canadian aviation pioneer Wilfrid 'Wop' May dies while on holiday in the US; joined the 202nd City of Edmonton Battalion in 1916; transferred to Royal Flying Corps; was being chased back to base in March, 1918, by German ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down by ground fire. In 1921, after a year with Imperial Oil, he went into the air freight business; in Jan.1929, flew a two-seater Avro Avian aircraft with an open cockpit in 40-below cold to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to northern communities hit by epidemic.

1919
Winnipeg Manitoba - City police and 90 RCMP surround City Hall square as the Mayor of Winnipeg reads the Riot Act from the steps to disperse hundreds of unemployed war veterans illegally parading to support the Winnipeg General Strike; Police ordered to fire a volley into the crowd to disperse them, then charge when they do not disperse; two strikers killed, 30 injured; so-called Bloody Saturday leads Mayor to call in the army; end of strike 4 days later.

1887
Windsor England - Queen Victoria celebrates her golden jubilee marking 50 years on the throne.

1844
Saint-Boniface Manitoba - Four Sisters of Charity, Sisters Valade, Lagrave, Lafrance and Coutlée arrive at Red River, after 59 days of canoeing and portaging through wilderness from Lake Superior. Invited by Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher, the Grey Nuns are part of the first religious community to settle in the Canadian West; they start teaching in makeshift schools until their convent, the Provincial House, is completed in 1847. They also provide medical care for the settlers, and vaccinate over 3,000 people when smallpox breaks out in 1870; in 1871, they open the four-bed Saint-Boniface General Hospital; the first in the West.

1813
Queenston Ontario - US Col. Charles Boerstler, moving to make a surprise attack on Lt. James Fitzgibbon's British outpost at Beaver Dams, halts at Queenston for the night; billets soldiers at the farm of Loyalist James Secord and his wife Laura Secord. The Secords overhear the American plans, so Laura steals away to warn the British; makes her way west through swamps, then climbs the heights at Twelve-Mile Creek to St. Davids; after passing three American sentries, she is captured by Iroquois, who lead her to Fitzgibbon after a 30 km trek.

1749 FOUNDING OF HALIFAX
Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis arrives to found a settlement at Chebucto with two regiments and 2,576 settlers from England, Ireland and Germany; brings building supplies, a fire engine, hospital equipment and a midwife; with the help of New England builders, he starts laying out the town; later renamed in honour of Secretary of War George Dunk, the Earl of Halifax.

1734
Montreal Quebec - Marie-Joseph Angélique hanged for setting fire to her master's house; she was a black female slave protesting her condition.


Born on this day:

1940 - Joe Flaherty
comic writer, actor. Flaherty is known for his work as Second City TV Network's Guy Caballero, Count Floyd and Sammy Maudlin; also played in such films as Happy Gilmore, A Pig's Tale, Who's Harry Crumb, Back to the Future Part 2, Speed Zone, Stripes, Used Cars, Tunnelvision; also starred in the Maniac Mansion TV show.

1911 - 1982 Frank Shaughnessy
sportsman, administrator. Shaughnessy was a member of the Canadian Olympic Hockey team in 1936; he managed the Canadian national ski team for ten years 1945-55, was Chef de Mission for the Canadian Winter Olympic teams from 1956-1972, and was VP of the Canadian Olympic Association for several years.

1887 - 1956 Norman L. Bowen
petrologist, mineral chemist. Bowen is known for his syntheses of silicate systems relating to the origin of igneous rocks.

1826 - 1902 Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
diplomat, statesman. Lord Dufferin served the Empire as Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India.


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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YAY!! for Laura Secord. I thought it was a quirky irony when a US company bought out Laura Secord's (but I think they have since sold it to a European company???)

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June 22

1990
Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa tells the National Assembly, 'Le Canada anglais doit comprendre de façon très claire que, quoi qu'on dise et qui qu'on fasse, le Québec est, aujourd'hui et pour toujours, une société distincte, libre et capable d'assumer son destin et son développement.'

1983
Space - Remote manipulator Canadarm, built by Spar Aerospace in Toronto, used by NASA shuttle crew during flight STS-7 to release and retrieve the SPAS-01 satellite. The 15.2m arm is capable of accurately maneuvering payloads of 30,000 kg in the weightlessness of space. Its weight on Earth is 410 kg.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty with a six-vote majority; last execution in Canada in 1962; motion to reinstate death penalty defeated on June 30th, 1987, after eight-day debate.

1931
Newfoundland - Ruth Nicholas crash lands her plane while attempting to become the first female to fly across the Atlantic alone.

1923
Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba adopts government control of sale of liquor, instead of prohibition.

1918
Canada - Government holds second compulsory National Registration of men and women over age 16; except for cloistered nuns, persons in active service, prison or an asylum.

1864 BROWN JOINS GREAT COALITION
Ottawa Ontario - George Brown forms the Great Coalition Ministry with Cartier and Macdonald to work toward Confederation, joining Oliver Mowat and William McDougall in cabinet; Taché holds nominal post of Prime Minister.

1825
London England - Parliament passes the Canada Trades and Tenures Act, abolishing feudal and seigniorial rights in British North America.

1774
London England - Parliament passes the Quebec Act; guarantees Catholic religious freedom; Coûtume de Paris for civil code, English law for criminal offenses; government by appointed council; trial by jury; also extends boundaries of Province of Quebec into Ohio Valley; to go into effect May 1, 1775.

1611
Hudson Bay NWT - Twelve mutineers force Henry Hudson, son John, and seven of his weaker crew into a boat and cast them adrift on Hudson Bay; after winter of hardship, Discovery's crew were convinced he intended to continue his search for a north west passage and not return to England, and that he had hidden a large supply of food in his quarters. Nine mutineers make it back to England; four are tried for murder, but acquitted.


Born on this day:

1962 - Nicholas Lea
actor, was born Nicholas Schroeder at New Westminster, BC. Lea has played in Jake and the Kid, Taking the Falls and John Woo's Once a Thief.

1952 - Graham Greene
actor, was born at the Six Nations Oneida Reserve, Ontario. Greene graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974. He has played in over 30 movies, as well as TV's The Red Greene Show (playing Edgar Montrose) and Dudley the Dragon (playing a crab apple tree). He played opposite Pierce Brosnan in Grey Owl.

1949 - Gary Moffet
rock & roll guitarist, of April Wine.

1757 - 1798 George Vancouver
navigator, naval surveyor, was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, England; dies in Richmond, Surrey. Royal Navy Captain Vancouver surveyed the Pacific coast of North America, from northern California to present-day BC, verifying that no continuous channel existed between the Pacific Ocean and Hudson Bay.


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June 23

1985
Atlantic - Bomb planted on Air India Boeing 747 jet out of Montreal explodes over the ocean south of the coast of Ireland; 329 dead; planted by Sikh terrorist later captured in London; greatest loss of Canadian lives in commercial flying history.

1974 DIEF THE CHIEF AGAIN
Ottawa Ontario - Former PC Prime Minister John Diefenbaker sworn in as an MP for the 12th consecutive time; a record in Canadian politics.

1944
Normandy France - Canadian army goes into action for the first time, as a separate unit, not under Montgomery's British command.

1940
Vancouver BC - Sgt. Henry A. Larsen leaves on the RCMP schooner St. Roch bound for Halifax via the Northwest Passage; ship will take southerly route through Arctic islands, and after two winters trapped in the ice, will reach Halifax Oct. 11, 1942; first ship to make the voyage from west to east, and in both directions, and to circumnavigate North America; St. Roch declared national historic site in 1962; berthed at Vancouver Maritime Museum.

1935
Prince Edward Island - PEI Liberals win all 30 seats in provincial legislature; first Commonwealth assembly elected without any sitting opposition; New Brunswick Liberals under Frank McKenna will repeat feat in 1987.

1925
Yukon - Seven mountaineers first climb Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak, in the St. Elias Range on the Yukon- Alaska border.

1896
Canada - Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberals win the 8th federal general election, beating Charles Tupper 123 seats to 88; with 45.1% of popular vote vs. Tupper's 46.1%; runs on reciprocity; 49 of his 118 MPs from Quebec; PM until 1911.

1887
Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald government passes Act creating Banff National Park; first Canada's national parks system.

1812
London England - Great Britain, not aware of US President James Madison's declaration of war, suspends one of the major causes of the war, the blockade orders that had hampered U.S. shipping by stopping them from entering French ports. Henry Clay and the War Hawks in Congress used the orders as an excuse to go to war to conquer Canada.

1713
Nova Scotia - French residents of Acadia given one year to plead allegiance to Britain or leave the country.


Born on this day:

1914 - Jim Worrall
track athlete, sport administrator. Worrall was a Canadian team flag bearer in the 1936 Olympics where he finished fourth in the quarter mile hurdles; President of the Canadian Olympic Association from 1961-1967; appointed as Canada's representative to the IOC in 1967; instrumental in bringing the 1976 Montreal Games and the 1988 Calgary Winter Games to Canada.

1903 - 1992 Paul Martin Sr.
politician, diplomat, born at Ottawa; dies at Windsor, Ontario. Father of the current Prime Minister, Martin served in the cabinets of four Liberal Prime Ministers: King, Saint Laurent, Pearson, and Trudeau. As Minister of National Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957, he was instrumental in writing much of Canada's social legislation.

1894 - 1972 King Edward VIII
born at Richmond, Surrey, England; dies at Paris France. Prince of Wales from 1911 to 1936, and Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from Jan. 20 to Dec. 10, 1936, when he abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Duke of Windsor was the only British sovereign ever voluntarily to resign the crown.

1885 - 1979 Fred (Cyclone) Taylor
hockey player, born at Tara, Ontario; dies at Vancouver. Taylor played for the Ottawa Senators (1908-09 - Stanley Cup 1909), the Renfrew Millionaires (1909-11) and the Vancouver Millionaires (1912-21 - Stanley Cup 1915), scoring 194 goals in 186 games; was NHL scoring leader five times; elected first living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame at the charter meeting in 1947.


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As Minister of National Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957, [Paul Martin Senior] was instrumental in writing much of Canada's social legislation.

I did not know that!

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Yeah, Jan. Paul Jr. always did strive to step into Daddy's shoes.

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June 24

1990
Montreal Quebec - Crowd of 200,000 march in first St-Jean-Baptiste Day parade since 1969, when there was serious rioting; chant 'Le Quebec aux Quebecois.'

1957
Toronto Ontario - Fred Davis hosts Front Page Challenge as it debuts on CBC as a 13-week summer replacement program; will become North America's longest-running game-interview TV show.

1918
Montreal Quebec - Royal Flying Corps Captain Brian Peck inaugurates first airmail service in Canada, piloting a biplane loaded with mail sacks to Toronto.

1916
Hollywood California - Toronto-born Mary Pickford the first film star to get a million dollar deal, and produce her own movies; Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures signs her for $250,000 per film with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 a week against half of the profits, including bonuses and the right of approval of all creative aspects of her films. Pickford got $275 a week as early as 1911, and $500 a week in 1913 when producer B.P. Schulberg dubbed her 'America's Sweetheart'.

1904
London England - King Edward VII confers the right to use the prefix 'Royal' on the North-West Mounted Police, in recognition of 30 years of loyal service.

1880
Quebec Quebec - Calixa Lavallée first performs his O Canada at a St-Jean Baptiste Day banquet attended by the Governor General, the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise; the lyrics, by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, are at the time only in French.

1834 ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE SOCIETY SINGS CARTIER'S O CANADA
Montreal Quebec - Ludger Duvernay hosts founding banquet as President of the of St-Jean-Baptiste Society; the maple leaf is chosen as the emblem of the association, and 'Nos institutions, notre langue nos droits' the motto. At the close of the evening, the gathering rise to sing a patriotic song, 'O Canada, mon pays, mes amours,' composed for the occasion by a 20 year old lawyer, former rebel and Secretary of the Society, George-Etienne Cartier.

1813
Niagara Ontario - Force of 440 British Iroquois attack and harass Col. Charles Boerstler and 570 Americans as they move through wooded country to attack the British outpost at Beaver Dam; Lt. James Fitzgibbon was already warned of their approach by the Iroquois and Laura Secord 1775-1868; to escape being massacred, Boerstler surrenders with 462 men to Fitzgibbon and his 50 British regulars; Americans forced back across Niagara River in this Iroquois victory in defence of Canada.

1610
Annapolis Nova Scotia - Micmac chief Membertou and 20 family members baptized by Jessé La Fleche at Port Royal; first Roman Catholic missionary in Canada; first Christian converts in New France.

1497
Newfoundland - Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) arrives either at Newfoundland or Cape Breton on the Matthew with his sons after a 35 day voyage; calls region St. John's Isle (origin of city name); his second voyage; claims the region for England; first discovery since Vikings.


Born on this day:

1958 - Jean Charest
politician, born at Sherbrooke Quebec. Charest studied law degree at the University of Sherbrooke and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1981; first elected in 1984, appointed Minister of State for Youth in June 1986, the youngest person ever to serve in Cabinet; 1988 Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport; 1989 Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons; 1990 Chairman of the Special House of Commons Committee to study a proposed companion resolution to the Meech Lake Accord; 1991, Environment Minister.
In June 1993, Charest finished second to Kim Campbell at the PC Leadership Convention; Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Science, Minister responsible for the Federal Office of Regional Development (Quebec); Dec. 14, 1993, interim Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; April 29, 1995, elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party by 96% of the delegates attending the 1995 National Meeting in Hull. In 1998, called to lead the Liberal Party of Quebec on the resignation of Daniel Johnson.

1899 - 1856 Dan George (Teswahno)
actor, born at the Burrard Reserve #3 ; dies in Vancouver. George was Chief of the Squamish Band in Burrard Inlet BC from 1951-63. He acted in CBC's Cariboo Country in 1961, and George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1967), and played in over 10 films and TV series, including Centennial (1978), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Harry and Tonto (1974), The Beachcombers (1971), Little Big Man (1970) and Smith! (1969), where he played opposite Glen Ford.

1777 - 1856 John Ross
naval officer, explorer, born at Balsarroch, Wigtownshire, Scotland ; dies in London, England. Ross located the north magnetic pole on his second Arctic expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.


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June 25

1993
Ottawa Ontario - Vancouver Centre MP Kim Campbell sworn in as Canada's 19th Prime Minister, with 24 member cabinet by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn; Canada's first woman PM; names Jean Charest, her chief rival in the PC leadership vote June 13, as Deputy Prime Minister.

1982
Ontario - Igor Gouzenko dies; former cipher clerk working in the USSR Embassy in Ottawa, defected on Sept. 5, 1945 revealing details of Soviet espionage ring; lived rest of life under protective cover.

1968
Hamilton Ontario - Lincoln Alexander first black Canadian elected to House of Commons; PC Party member.

1968
Canada -Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins 28th federal general election 155 seats to 72; 22 NDP; 14 Creditiste; 1 other; defeats Robert Stanfield with 45.5% of popular vote.

1963
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta starts voluntary medical care program.

1950
South Korea - Beginning of Korean War as 240 tanks from Communist North Korea cross the 38th parallel, ignore UN Security Council call for a cease-fire; conflict ends July 27th, 1953.

1919
Winnipeg Manitoba - Trades and Labour Council calls off Winnipeg General Strike; started May 15; many union ringleaders convicted of seditious conspiracy and given prison terms.

1898 SALLY ANN REACHES THE KLONDIKE
Dawson City Yukon - Salvation Army group finishes 882 km trek over the Chilkoot Pass from Skagway Alaska to organize a mission for the Klondike gold miners; provides food, shelter, and medical services until 1912.


Born on this day:

1941 - Denys Arcand
director, screenwriter, born at Deschambault Quebec. Arcand was brought up in a strict Catholic home and spent nine years at the Jesuit Collège Ste-Marie, before studying history at the University of Montreal; produced his first film, the short Seul ou Avec d'Autres (1962), while at university; after graduation, went to work for the National Film Board of Canada; between 1964 and 1965 made a trilogy of short historical documentaries about the early explorers and settlers of North America.
His feature films include On Est au Coton (1969 - documentary about abuses in the textile industry); Quebec: Duplessis et Après (1972); Rejeanne Padovani (1973); Gina (1975 - about a stripper and a film crew working on a documentary about the textile industry); The Decline of the American Empire (1986 - Quebec intellectuals discuss sexuality, success and aging; won nine Genies, the Fipresci prize at Cannes and an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film); Jesus of Montreal (1989 - inspired by an actor portraying Jesus in a play for tourists, while doing beer commercials and porno films by day); and his first English language film Love & Human Remains (1995).

1923 - Celia Franca
ballet dancer, teacher, administrator, born Celia Franks at London England. Franca came to Canada in 1951 as founding Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, a post she held into 1974.

1917 - 1984 Joseph O'Brien
harness racing driver. O'Brien first drove a sulky at age 13; started his first public stable in 1936; in 1942 at Dufferin Park he set the world record of 1:10 1/2 seconds over 5/8 of a mile with Dudley Patch; from 1943 to 1948 was the winningest driver in the Maritimes; in 1965 drove his 2000th life time victory with Tim Gold at the Santa Anita racetrack in California.


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June 26

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Kim Campbell introduces gun control legislation banning automatic assault weapons; 5 year jail term to anyone convicted of converting a weapon to auto fire.

1990
Toronto Ontario - Justice Charles Dubin releases 638 page report on drug use in sport; calls situation a 'moral crisis'; recommends cutting funding to Canadian athletes exposed as users of banned drugs; Ben Johnson to be reinstated by Athletics Canada.

1976
Toronto Ontario - Opening of CN tower, the world's tallest self-supporting structure at 1,821 feet.

1970
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament lowers voting age in federal elections from 21 to 18; revises Canada Elections Act.

1959 QUEEN OPENS SEAWAY TO TRAFFIC
Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II officially opens 318 km long St. Lawrence Seaway with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1947
Mickleham England - Richard Bedford Bennett dies; Prime Minister of Canada 1930-1935; born in Hopewell Hill, NB; read law at Dalhousie University; moved to Calgary in 1893 where he went into practice with Sir James Lougheed; elected Conservative MLA in 1898, defeated in 1905; won election in 1911 as Conservative MP Calgary East, but did not stand for re-election; returned to Ottawa in 1926, elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1927; won 1930 election over Liberals under Mackenzie King; created Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (later CBC) 1932, Bank of Canada and Canadian Wheat Board 1935; defeated Oct. 1935; Leader of Opposition to 1938, when he retired to England, saying 'I'm going home.'

1857
Cap Rouge Quebec - Steamer Montreal catches fire and sinks in 15 minutes in the St. Lawrence; left Quebec City at 5 pm a day earlier; 253 lives lost, mostly Scottish immigrants on their way to the west.

1833
Baffin Island NWT - Captain John Ross and 19 of his crew rescued from Baffin Island; ice-bound for three years, the party survived by relying on local Inuit for food.

1759
Quebec Quebec - General James Wolfe anchors off the Ile d'Orléans, 5 km below Quebec, with 8,500 men under Brigadiers General Robert Monckton, James Murray and George Townsend. Admiral Charles Saunders commands the largest British naval force ever to cross the Atlantic, a flotilla of 49 men-of-war (one-quarter of the entire Royal Navy) plus 200 transports, storage vessels, and provision ships; chief navigator is Captain James Cook. A troop of forty rangers, under command of Lt. Meech, secures the island by nightfall.

1784
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton separated from Nova Scotia.


Born on this day:

1854 - 1937 Robert Laird Borden
politician, Canada's 8th Prime Minister, born at Grand Pré Nova Scotia. Borden attends Acacia Villa Academy in Horton, and teaches there from 1868-1872, and in Matawan, New Jersey from 1872-1874; then Dalhousie University Law School; called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1878; MP Halifax 1896-1904, 1908-1917; Carleton Ontario 1905-1908; King's County, NS 1917-1920; Conservative Party leader 1901-1920; Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; Conservative Prime Minister 1911-1917; Union Government Prime Minister 1917-1920; insisted on separate Canadian membership in the League of Nations 1919; dies at Ottawa.


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June 27

1995 MOUNTIES HIRE DISNEY
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mounted Police grants an exclusive marketing license to its likeness and image to the Walt Disney Company, who will pay the force royalties and control copyright infringement.

1992
Toronto Ontario - Striking printers force Toronto Star to stop the presses for the first time in 99 years; 56 pages of features printed earlier distributed free.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau named 1984 winner of Albert Einstein Peace Prize for his global campaign to ease East-West tensions.

1975
L'Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland - Pierre Elliott Trudeau opens National Historic Park at L'Anse aux Meadows at tip of Great Northern Peninsula; evidence of Viking landing in North America found in 1961.

1974
New York City - Orillia born folk singer Gordon Lightfoot has a # 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.

1972
Winnipeg Manitoba - Bobby Hull signs 10-year contract for $2,500,000 to coach and play for the Winnipeg Jets of the fledgling World Hockey Association, giving the WHA instant credibility; hockey's first millionaire, Hull plays out his career with Swedish stars Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.

1949
Canada - Louis St. Laurent leads Liberal Party to victory in 21st federal general election; captures 190 of 262 seats, 65 more seats than held previously.

1897
Montreal Quebec - The Lumière Brothers from Paris hold the first cinema projection in Montreal at the Palace Theatre, on Boulevard St-Laurent.

1854
Washington DC - New Brunswick chemist Abraham Gesner awarded patent for distilling kerosene from petroleum; completely replaces whale oil in lamps in a few years.

1726
France - Jacques d'Espiet de Pensens sets sail to take possession of Ile St-Jean (Prince Edward Island) for France.


Born on this day:

1931 - Charles Bronfman
industrialist, born at Montreal. Bronfman is the former head of Seagrams and the Montreal Expos baseball club.

1870 - 1947 Frank Rattray Lillie
zoologist, embryologist, born at Toronto; dies in Chicago. Lillie is known for his discoveries on egg (ovum) fertilization and the role of hormones in determining the sex of offspring.

1862 - 1857 May Irwin
comedienne, music-hall performer, Ragtime pioneer, born at Whitby Ontario; dies in New York City. Irwin popularized such songs as After the Ball and A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.


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The Mounties and Micky GASP!!!

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June 28

1990
Hull Quebec - Hull Mayor tells a visiting Queen Elizabeth she is not welcome so soon after the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord.

1988
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes law banning tobacco advertising.

1982
Ottawa Ontario - Communications Minister Francis Fox gets passage of Freedom of Information Act; allowing greater public access to government documents; new Information Commissioner will hear complaints from individuals denied access and decide if data should be made public.

1981 TERRY FOX LOSES BATTLE
Vancouver BC - Terry Fox dies at age 22; one-legged runner of Marathon of Hope loses battle to lung cancer in a Vancouver hospital; started marathon in St. John's, Newfoundland; stopped near Thunder Bay; raised $25 million to fight cancer; Flags across Canada lowered to half mast in his honour.

1930
Brockville Ontario - Lightning strikes drill boat John B. King in the St. Lawrence River, setting off dynamite and killing 31 crew members.

1919
Versailles France - Canadian delegation signs the Treaty of Versailles, drawing up conditions of peace for the defeated powers in World War I exactly five years after it began; Canada insisted on separate representation at the signing.

1926
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King resigns after eight months of minority government to avoid an adverse vote on a customs scandal; Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy refuses to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, will ask Arthur Meighen to form government; the King-Byng crisis.

1886
Montreal Quebec - The Pacific Express, the Canadian Pacific Railway's first through passenger train to the Pacific coast, leaves Montreal for Port Moody, BC; will take almost 6 days to make trip.

1845
Quebec Quebec - Another Quebec fire destroys the suburb of St. John and 1,300 houses.

1838
London England - Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey, beginning a reign that will last 64 years.


Born on this day:

1937 - 1989 George Knudson
golfer. Knudson turned pro at age 21; he took 5 CPGA titles and 12 PGA victories between 1961 and 1972, won the 1966 International Trophy at the World Cup, and in 1969 tied for second place at the US Masters.

1933 - Victor Emery
bobsledder. Emery was captain of the 1964 Canadian 4 man bobsled that won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck Austria, a first for Canada; also teamed with Peter Kirby to place 4th in the 2 man event; in 1965 at the World championships the four man team of Emery, Michael Young, Jerry Presley and Peter Kirby win the gold medal by a margin of 2 seconds.


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June 29

1974
Toronto Ontario - Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from Soviet Union while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet; helped by Globe & Mail dance critic John Fraser; granted permission to stay.

1965
Quebec Quebec - Quebec Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion issues report showing official bribery to free suspected drug smuggler; causes resignation of federal Justice Minister Guy Favreau (1917-1967)

1937
Valcourt Quebec - Joseph-Armand Bombardier patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor, a seven-passenger tracked machine costing $7,500; the inventor produced his first Snowmobile in 1923, when he couldn't make it to the nearest hospital during a blizzard, and lost an infant son.

1930 FIRST CANADIAN SAINTS
Rome Italy - Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and 7 other Jesuits martyred in the 1600s; the first North American saints.

1927
Camp Borden Ontario - Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller first tested on an Avro 504 trainer; Rothesay, NB, aeronautical engineer creates one of Canada's great global inventions.

1922
Vimy France - France formally transfers ownership of 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge to Canada; German bastion along Vimy Ridge won by all four divisions of the Canadian Corps on Easter 1917; Parks Canada now operates Vimy memorial park and monument dedicated by Edward VIII in 1936. This land is not strictly speaking part of Canada, but France granted "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". Unlike an embassy, it is subject to the laws of France.

1871
London England - Canada granted the right to create new provinces.

1864
Beloeil Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway train runs through an open switch near St-Hilaire, killing ninety-nine people; Canada's worst railway disaster.

1849
Montreal Quebec - Montreal newspapers support annexation to the US as a possible remedy for commercial depression.

1767
London England - Parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Act; colonists to pay extra import duties for salaries of colonial governors and judges.


Born on this day:

1911 - 1995 Katherine DeMille
actor, was born Katherine Lester at Vancouver ; dies in Hollywood. DeMille was orphaned at age 9, and was adopted by Director Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared in almost 30 films, and was married to actor Anthony Quinn.


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June 30

1992 CANADIAN CONVOY TO SARAJEVO
Croatia - Canadian peacekeepers start trek to Sarajevo, Bosnia; 800 troops in armored vehicle convoy move to keep airport open as part of international relief effort to bring in food and medicine.

1989
Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada stops issuing one-dollar bills, and starts replacing them with the dollar coins that come to be known as loonies.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner sworn in as Canada's 17th Prime Minister, replacing Pierre Elliott Trudeau; PM until Sept 17.

1983
Canada - Simpson-Sears retailing chain fined $1 million for misleading advertising; largest such fine in Canadian history.

1981
Canada - Canadian postal workers start 42-day strike.

1972
Revelstoke BC - A record 963.2 inches of snowfall falls in one season on Mt. Copeland; since July 1 of the previous year.

1945
Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Star-Phoenix publishes classified ad reading: FOR SALE. one homemade coffin. Never used. Reason for selling: Improved health; fit 6' 2''.

1912
Regina Saskatchewan - Tornado roars through the downtown core of Regina in five minute rampage at 4:50 pm, killing 28, and damaging or destroying three churches, the new Carnegie Library, commercial buildings and homes; 2,500 left homeless. Mayor Peter McAra cancels Dominion Day celebrations.

1858
Victoria BC - First Chinese colonists reach Victoria.

1848
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Schools closed for a year because city council refuses to raise funding from £500 to £2,000 per annum.


Born on this day:

1948 - Murray McLauchlan
folk, country singer, born at Paisley Scotland. McLauchlan came to Canada at age 5; started singing in coffee houses in Toronto's Yorkville district at 17; had first gold record with Farmer's Song 1973 (Juno Award for best folk single, best country single and composer of the year); also won Juno in 1976, 1977 and 1979 for best male country singer.


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July 1

CD Happy Canada Day!



1980
Ottawa Ontario - Calixa Lavallée's 'O Canada' officially proclaimed the national anthem of Canada; written in 1880 for St-Jean-Baptiste celebration; original words by A-B Routhier; English by Stanley Weir (1908).

1970
Winnipeg Manitoba - Pierre Trudeau tells Canada Day heckler concerned about unsold grain, 'Relax, Mister. You can't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders every day. This is a fun day.'

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Unveiling of bronze statue of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950, by Raoul Hunter, on Parliament Hill.

1962
Saskatchewan - Ninety percent of doctors of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons close their offices for 23 days, providing only hospital-based emergency services; delays start of Tommy Douglas' CCF government Medicare compulsory medical care insurance plan; reach compromise July 23 after amendments to Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act.

1960
Canada - Treaty and registered aboriginal Canadians given the right to vote.

1958
Canada - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland.

1927
Ottawa Ontario - Governments of Canada and Britain first communicate directly, bypassing the Governor-General.

1923
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes legislation which virtually suspends all Chinese immigration to Canada; day known to Chinese community as Humiliation Day. In 1885, Chinese immigrants were required to pay an entry fee, or head tax of $50 for entry into Canada; by 1900, as immigration continued, the amount was raised to $100 and then to $500.

1909
Melville Island NWT - Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, captain of the government steamship Arctic, places a metal plaque at Parry Rock claiming Canadian sovereignty over the entire Arctic Archipelago; US and Norwegian whalers and mining companies were trying to convince their governments to pursue territorial claims. 'I took possession of Baffin Island for Canada in the presence of several Eskimo,' said Bernier, 'and after firing nineteen shots I instructed an Eskimo to fire the twentieth, telling him that he was now a Canadian.'

1885
Washington DC - US terminates reciprocity and fishery clauses worked out at Treaty of Washington March 8, 1871; Americans allowed to fish under treaty terms until end of season.

1927 MESSAGE OF THE CARILLON
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicates the Peace Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over telephone and telegraph lines; celebrating the Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary) of Confederation.

1881
St Stephen New Brunswick - World's first international telephone call made to Calais, Maine.

1873
PEI - Prince Edward Island enters Confederation as the seventh Canadian province on same terms as BC.

1871
Victoria BC - British Columbia enters Confederation as the sixth Canadian province; keeps provincial government, debt takeover, undertaking to build Pacific railroad.

1867
Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald sworn in as Canada's first Prime Minister; to November 5, 1873; the new Dominion starts life with just 30 civil servants.

1867
Canada - Proclamation of the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada out of Upper Canada (now Ontario, with its capital at Toronto), Lower Canada (now Quebec, with its capital at Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Canada not yet allowed to deal directly with other states or control immigration; Canadian armed forces still commanded by British officers.

1865
Quebec Quebec - Quebec City becomes the capital of Canada East.

1860
London England - Britain transfers control of Indian affairs to Canada.

1858
Montreal Quebec - First Canadian coins minted, in denominations of one cent, five cents, 10 cents and 20 cent pieces; no regular issue of bills until 1870.

1629
Baleine Nova Scotia - James Stuart, Lord Ochiltree lands with 60 colonists at Baleine, Cape Breton; granted barony by William Alexander.


Born on this day:

1967 - Pamela Anderson Lee
actor. Lee has played Home Improvement's Lisa the Tool Time Girl, Baywatch's C.J. Parker, and in the movie Barb Wire; Playboy Playmate of the Month February 1990.

1961 - Michelle Wright
country singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer

1952 - {Dan Aykroyd
actor, comedian, harmonica player, blues singer, director, writer, Hard Rock Cafe owner. Aykroyd started his professional career with Second City, then moved to Saturday Night Live (1975-79) as the Weekend Update anchor, Jimmy Carter, Tom Snyder, Beldar Conehead and Elwood, one of the Blues Brothers with John Belushi; has acted in films such as Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Detroit, 1941, My Stepmother is an Alien, Dragnet.

1942 - Geneviève Bujold
film actor. Bujold has played in films like La Guerre est Finie, King of Hearts, Choose Me, Anne of the Thousand Days, Coma.


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July 2

1992
Ottawa Ontario - John Crosbie orders $700 m northern cod fishery shut down for two years to conserve stocks; Fisheries Minister puts 19,000 fishermen and plant workers out of work.

1992
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Symphony Orchestra members take pay cut to prevent bankruptcy; from minimum $57,000 to $48,300.

1974
Ottawa Ontario - Bora Laskin sworn in as administrator of Canada during the illness of Governor General Jules Léger.

1941
Canada - RCAF authorized to enlist women; followed by army, navy.

1940
Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedos liner Arandora Star en route to Canada; survivors rescued by destroyer St. Laurent.

1926
Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen defeated by one vote on non-confidence motion; calls election for Sept 14; PM since June 29.

1808
Musqueam BC - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster; thinks he has traveled down the Columbia River.

1885 BIG BEAR SURRENDERS TO END REBELLION
Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan - Big Bear surrenders to General Strange after his men run out of food and ammunition; end of North West Rebellion; sentenced with Poundmaker to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary.

1613
Annapolis Nova Scotia - Samuel Argall burns and destroys St-Sauveur, then Port Royal settlement; first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia.

1578
Hudson Strait NWT - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island; driven south by storm into what he calls 'Mistaken Strait'; likely Hudson Strait.


Born on this day:

1931 - Robert Ito
actor, ballet dancer. Ito played Sam Fujiyama in Quincy MD, and in Our Town.

1821 - 1915 Charles Tupper
Father of Confederation, born at Amherst Nova Scotia, son of Rev. Charles Tupper and Miriam Low; dies in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
Tupper attends Horton Academy and takes medical degree at Edinburgh University in 1843; Premier of Nova Scotia 1864-67; MP for Cumberland 1867-1884, 1887-1888; Minister of Railways and Canals (1879-84); High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 1884-1887, 1888-1896; Canada's 6th Prime Minister May 1 - July 8, 1896; Conservative Party Leader 1896-1901; also first president of the Canadian Medical Association 1867-1870.


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<<'I took possession of Baffin Island for Canada in the presence of several Eskimo,' said Bernier, 'and after firing nineteen shots I instructed an Eskimo to fire the twentieth, telling him that he was now a Canadian.' >>

LOL!!!!

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July 3

1992
Montreal Quebec - Jury acquits 34 Mohawks for their part in the 77 day armed standoff at Oka in 1990.

1968
Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park legalizes Sunday horse racing in Ontario; responsibility given to the municipalities.

1964
Montreal Quebec - Four FLQ terrorists given 8-year sentences for stealing weapons from two Quebec armouries; FLQ splinter group.

1944
Goose Bay Newfoundland - Temperature hits 37.8 C; Labrador's hottest day on record.

1940
Windsor England - King George VI declines to send his two princesses to Canada for protection in wartime.

1909
Cobalt Ontario - Forest fire in Porcupine District leaves one-third of Cobalt's 6,000 residents homeless.

1901
Calgary Alberta - W.F. (Billy) Cochrane drives first automobile in Calgary; a steam-powered Locomobile, steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.

1898 NOVA SCOTIAN FIRST TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD ALONE
Newport Rhode Island - Joshua Slocum, from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe.

1778
Wyoming Pennsylvania - John Butler leads Butler's Rangers and native allies in savage raid on Wyoming; can't prevent massacre of 360 men, women & children.

1608
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain starts building his Habitation at the foot of Cape Diamond on the site of Place Royale; a fortified trading post with trenches, cellars and a palisade; July 3 may also be Champlain's birthdate in 1567.


Born on this day:

1870 - 1947 Richard Bedford Bennett
lawyer, politician,born at Hopewell Hill New Brunswick, the son of Henry Bennett & Henrietta Stiles; dies at Mickleham, Surrey, England.
Bennett attends New Brunswick Provincial Normal School, Fredericton 1886 and Dalhousie University Law School LL.B. 1893; moved to Alberta in 1898;
MLA NWT 1898-1905, and Alberta 1909-1911; President, Calgary Power Company 1910-1920; MP Calgary 1911-1917, Calgary West 1925-1939; Conservative Party Leader 1927-1938;
Canada's 9th Prime Minister Aug. 7, 1930 to Oct. 23, 1935; Minister of Justice and Attorney General 1921, Minister Without Portfolio 1926; Finance and Receiver General 1926, 1930-1932, Secretary of State for External Affairs and President of the Privy Council 1930-1935; created the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (forerunner of the CBC) 1932, the Bank of Canada 1935, and the Canadian Wheat Board 1935; Leader of the Opposition 1935-1938; Member of the House of Lords 1941-1947 as Viscount Bennett (of Mickleham and of Calgary and Hopewell); the only Prime Minister not buried in Canada.