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Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As long as people are reading and enjoying them I will continue to post.
It's a nice history lesson for me, too, since I didn't get here til 1976. There are usually more "facts" than I post, but I figure reading 10 is probably enough per day. Some days it is very hard though to crop the amount.
As a news hound and history buff it is kind of funny to read the year something occured, and I find myself thinking "Good Heavens, was that really that long ago?" or "I remember that as such a big deal at the time." 10, 20 years later some things just don't rate that highly any more, but it is still interesting to remember and learn about the happenings before my time.LOL

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 27

1993
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes legislation bringing Canada into the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

1977
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau agrees to separation with wife Margaret; retains custody of three children.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau promises in an election speech to introduce a bill to make French an official language in federal courts and departments.

1968
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos are awarded a National League baseball franchise 30 years ago today, after several years of promotion from Montreal city councilor Gerry Snyder and a near loss of the team when Blue Bonnets owner Jean-Louis Levesque withdrew, but distillery magnate Charles Bronfman agreed to back the team, with fellow investors Paul and Charlemagne Beaudry, Lorne Webster, Hugh Hallward and Sydney Maislin. The Expos are major league baseball's first expansion outside the US, and it causes an outcry in the US Congress; under first manager Gene Mauch, the Expos will play their first home game at Jarry Park on April 14, 1969; the San Diego Padres will be the other new NL team to play.

1967
Egypt - Egypt demands immediate withdrawal of Canadian peace-keeping troops; Canadians airlifted out within 48 hours.

1873
Prince Edward Island - PEI votes for union with Canada; the province is bankrupt due to railway speculation.

1818
London England - British government declares Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be free ports.

1813 US INVADERS TAKE FORT GEORGE
Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent retreats to Burlington Heights from Niagara with the rest of his 1,400 British and Canadian militia after two days of bombardment with fire shells, and losing Fort George to American General Henry Dearborn, Winfield Scott and Isaac Chauncey and their force of 7,000 men; War of 1812.


Born on this day:

1961 - 1990 Ike Hildebrand
lacrosse and hockey player. At age 17, Hildebrand won the Mike Kelly Award as the MVP in Mann Cup Canadian Championship lacrosse play; he twice won the league scoring championship on the west coast and twice again in the east; he scored seven goals in one 1955 Mann Cup game against Victoria. He had a brief hockey career with the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks, then served as playing coach of the Senior A Belleville McFarlands from 1958-60; in 1959 they won the World Championships.

1961 - 1990 Northern Dancer
race horse, was born on this day at E.P. Taylor's Windfield Farms Ontario in. Northern Dancer was the first Canadian horse to win the Kentucky Derby, and he took the 1964 race in a record 2 minutes flat - a record that held until Secretariat in 1973 and was not surpassed until 1985; he went on to capture the 1964 Preakness Stakes but came up third in the Belmont Stakes, failing to win the Triple Crown. However, he easily won the Queen's Plate, and retired to stud that November; his line of champions includes Nijinski II, first to win UK Triple Crown in 35 years.

1945 - Bruce Cockburn
singer, songwriter, guitar master. Cockburn studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston in the 60's, then returned to Ottawa and performed with the Esquires, Heavenly Blue and The Children (with Bill Hawkins, Sneezy Waters, Neville Wells, Sandy Crawley, Richard Patterson and David Wiffen), performing at Le Hibou coffee house; in 1967 he went solo at the Mariposa Folk Festival, and in 1970 penned the music score for Don Shebib's Goin' Down The Road.

1887 - 1978 Frank Edward Woolley
cricketer. Woolley's graceful left-handed batting gave him an aggregate of 58,969 runs and 145 centuries (100 runs in a single innings); he also had over 2,000 wickets, and 1,018 catches, a world record; he also scored 2,000 runs and took 100 wickets in three successive seasons.

1879 - 1962 Lucile Watson
actor, born at Quebec


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 28

1988
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian aerosol industry says it will ban ozone-depleting CFCs (chloro-fluorocarbons) from spray cans.

1985 PETERSON TAKES DOWN BIG BLUE MACHINE
Ontario - David Peterson wins minority in Ontario election; signs pact with NDP leader Bob Rae to bring down Frank Miller's Tories after 42 year rule.

1965
Prestwick Scotland - Thomas Scheer, 42, of Langley, BC, and three other Canadians make first unescorted transatlantic helicopter flight; 6,400 km 15 day journey from Stratford, Connecticut in 26-seat, amphibian Sikorsky; longest single hop was 640 km, from Greenland to Reykjavik Iceland.

1962
Winnipeg Manitoba - Ottawa and Manitoba sign agreement for construction of $63.2 million Greater Winnipeg Floodway; later nicknamed Duff's Ditch after Premier Duff Roblin.

1927
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves Old Age Pension Plan for those over 70 with demonstrable need; means test; Ottawa's first major venture into public welfare; will first get approval from the provinces.

1813
Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent ends his retreat to Burlington Heights after losing Fort George; Americans now control Niagara Peninsula.

1754
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville killed with nine other Canadians during defeat by Major George Washington and Tanaghrisson at the Battle of the Great Meadows; outbreak of French-Indian War.

1778
Nootka Sound BC - James Cook anchors ship Resolution in Resolution Cove, Nootka Sound; begins to chart the coast of British Columbia along with Captain George Vancouver.

1664
Paris France - French West India Company gets royal grant of all French colonies in North America; monopoly of trade in exchange for a royalty to the King.


Born on this day:

1934 Annette, Emilie (d1954), Yvonne (d2001), Cecile and Marie (d1970) Dionne
quintuplets, were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne at Corbeil, Ontario, near North Bay.
The Dionnes were the first surviving quints in history; each weighed less than two pounds and together they weighed only 10 lbs in total a week after birth.
Allan Roy Dafoe, the doctor who delivered the babies, also became a celebrity, when he arranged to make them wards of the Ontario government, under his supervision, in a virtual theme park called Quintland, across from the parents' home. Over 3 million people - up to 6,000 a day - came to watch them play behind a one-way screen, and they endorsed hundreds of products ranging from Quaker Oats to corn syrup, before they were returned to their parents in 1943 after a long custody battle.
Their family reunion was bitter and the surviving sisters have claimed they were sexually abused by their father. They also started a suit against the Ontario government for a portion of their trust fund, but settled for $3 million. Three films were made about the Quints: The Country Doctor (1936) , Reunion (1936) and Five of a Kind (1938).

1918 - 1990 Johnny Wayne
comedian, born at Toronto in 1918; dies at Toronto. Wayne was half of the comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster.


Jan
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08-01-2000

Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, I can't believe it has been 20 years since Peterson and Rae brought down the Ontario Tories, the only party I had ever known in my lifetime till that point!!!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 29

1989
Ottawa Ontario - Global TV reporter Doug Small and five others charged by RCMP with releasing confidential budget details; budget leaked on April 26.

1987 REFORM PARTY FOUNDING CONVENTION
Vancouver BC - Founding of the Reform Party of Canada, with Preston Manning as leader; Deborah Grey will become the party's first MP when she wins the 1989 Beaver River Alberta by-election; The Party will take 52 seats in 1993 election, decimating the Tories, and 60 seats in 1997, taking away Official Opposition status from the Bloc Quebecois.

1985
Victoria BC - Amputee Steve Fonyo, 19, completes a cross-Canada marathon started 14 months earlier in Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial left leg into the Pacific at Mile Zero of the Trans-Canada Highway; officially completing his Journey for Lives run; inspired by Terry Fox, Fonyo raises almost $9 million in donations for cancer research.

1979
Santa Monica California - Silent film star and movie producer Mary Pickford dies of a stroke at 86; America's Sweetheart was born in Toronto Apr 8, 1893; started in the theater at age 6 as 'Baby Gladys Smith' (her real name), and she toured into the US with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted the family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, acting in the long running 'The Warrens of Virginia'. She started in films in 1909 with D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company, and in 1920 was a co-founder of United Artists with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin.

1973
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes 138-114 in favor of extending a partial ban hanging for five more years; capital punishment only for murderers of policemen and prison guards.

1970
Winnipeg Manitoba - Hudson's Bay Company moves its head office from London, England to Winnipeg.

1970
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves increase in the federal minimum wage from $1.25 an hour to $1.65. Provinces set their own minimum wages, with a high of $1.55 in Alberta and a low of 90¢ for Nova Scotia women..

1950
Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen sails RCMP patrol ship St. Roch to Halifax after passing through the Panama Canal from Vancouver; first ship to circumnavigate the North American continent.

1914
Rimouski Quebec - Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad at 1:55 am in Gulf or St. Lawrence; three minutes later water reaches the dynamos, dousing power and light, and the ship sinks in 11 minutes when Storstad backs out of the hole in the hull; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved; $1 million in silver bars later recovered by divers. Canada's worst and the Atlantic's third largest maritime disaster after the Titanic and Lusitania.

1733
Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart, Intendant of New France, upholds the right of Canadians to have Indians as slaves and to sell them.


Born on this day:

1927 - Roy Bonisteel
broadcaster, TV host. Bonisteel hosted CBC-TV's Man Alive series until 1997, when his duties were taken over by R. H. Thompson.

1894 -1989 Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel
actress, comedienne, was born Constance Sylvia Gladys Munston. Lillie specialized in sophisticated comedy roles in British and American revues, billed as the funniest woman in the world; she appeared in the stage productions of Auntie Mame, and Noel Coward's High Spirits (1964), and in the movies Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), with Julie Andrews. She was married to Sir Robert Peel from 1920 until his death in 1934; their son was killed during military service with the navy; she won a Tony in 1953 for An Evening With Beatrice Lillie, and in 1973 published her Autobiography, Every Other Inch A Lady.


Jan
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08-01-2000

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<<1733
Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart, Intendant of New France, upholds the right of Canadians to have Indians as slaves and to sell them.
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ACK!!!! I thought we never had slavery in Canada. ACK!! this is awful

well I guess we weren't Canada then but just the same...:-(:-(

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele, I meant to tell you a dozen times, thank-you for this thread, I really enjoy it.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, thanks everyone. I wasn't fishing - honest! Just wanted to be sure I wasn't wasting TVCH space.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 30

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional reform talks break up with distinct society clause for Quebec, native self-government agreed on; also more provincial powers in immigration, job training and culture.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Mikhail Gorbachev visits Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Mulroney; discuss unified Germany in NATO, USSR security concerns and Moscow's sanctions against Lithuania.

1986
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian country performer Joe Brown dies; founder of the Family Brown.

1985 OILERS REPEAT CUP WIN
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers win second consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to one.

1975
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament raises number of Senate seats from 102 to 104; adds 1 new seat each for Yukon and NWT.

1965
Toronto Ontario - Rioting breaks out around Allan Gardens after 5,000 people protest against neo-Nazi rally.

1961
Buffalo Gap Saskatchewan - Torrential storm drops 25 centimetres of rain in one hour; one of Canada's most intense rainstorms on record.

1864
BC - Chilcotin Indians massacre group of road builders.

1858
London England - British Parliament revokes charter of Hudson's Bay Company to the mainland of British Columbia.

1832
Ottawa Ontario - Rideau Canal officially opened to traffic, with 47 locks linking the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at Kingston; first proposed as a military route between the two cities; 50 dams built to control water levels along the route.


Born on this day:

1941? - Don Ferguson
comedian. Ferguson graduated in English from Loyola College, then worked in radio and as an audio-visual producer and photographer.
In 1970 he was hired to photograph Montreal's improv comedy revue The Jest Society, founded by John Morgan and Martin Bronstein, along with Gay Claitman, Roger Abbott and Patrick Conlon (now host of CBC Newsworld's On The Line). When the troupe moved to Toronto in 1971, and Conlon decided to stay in Montreal, they invited Ferguson to join them (he knew all the lines) as well as the bubbly vivacious Luba Goy and Mountie impersonator Dave Broadfoot. They made their CBC Radio debut on Dec. 9, 1973 as The Royal Canadian Air Farce. A one hour special on CBC TV in October, 1980 was an instant hit, and the CBC put on the show right behind Hockey Night in Canada, and commissioned a 10 week series, which aired February to April, 1981, plus additional specials in 1982 and 1983.
After battles with CBC brass, they retreated back to the stage, but returned New Years Eve 1992, with a satirical special "1992 - Year of the Farce". On October 8, 1993 they went weekly. Ferguson's most famous Air Farce characters are Lucien Bouchard, Preston Manning, the Chicken Cannon's Col. Stacy, Mike Harris, Bill Clinton, and former prime ministers Mulroney, Trudeau and Clark.


Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele, I pop in a couple of times a week to catch up. I enjoy the info and there are plenty wow I didn't know that moments. Thanks.

Wapland
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08-01-2000

Monday, May 30, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OH CANADIAN Thank you.

Fondly
Wappy

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 5:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
May 31

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Assembly of First Nations Chief George Erasmus says First Nations pleased with Supreme Court ruling requiring governments to bargain on native rights and land claims, and not ignore treaty obligations.

1988
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes one bill giving all federal employees the right to a smoke-free workplace, and another banning virtually all tobacco advertising, effective Jan 1, 1989.

1985
Ontario - Tornadoes hit central Ontario communities of Barrie, Grand Valley, Orangeville, and Tottenham, killing 12, injuring hundreds and damaging or destroying at least 1,000 buildings.

1976
Quebec - Ottawa averts national strike by 2,200 controllers over use of French in Quebec air traffic control.

1968
Montreal Quebec - Pierre Grondin heads 27 member surgical team at the Montreal Heart Institute in performing Canada's first heart transplant, and the world's 18th, on Albert Murphy, a 58-year-old retired butcher; died 46 hours after start of operation.

1902
Vereeniging South Africa - Treaty of Vereeniging ends Boer War; cost Canada almost $3 million; 7,368 Canadians served with British forces.

1866
Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill leads about 800 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo to threaten Canadian garrisons, occupy Fort Erie, capture the Buffalo & Lake Huron Railroad and cut telegraph lines. The Fenians were dedicated to freeing Ireland from the English, by force if necessary

1794
Ontario - Upper Canada passes Alien Act, to guard against anti-British sentiment.

1578 STREETS OF LONDON PAVED WITH GOLD
Harwich England - Martin Frobisher sails with fleet of 15 ships to build a settlement at Frobisher Bay and mine the 'gold' ore found a year earlier; will discover Hudson Strait; the 2,000 tons of 'gold' ore he mines will prove to be worthless pyrites, and used to pave the streets of London.


Born on this day:

1971 - Monika Schnarre
fashion model. The 6' 2" Schnarre won the Ford Supermodel of the World contest in 1986 at age 14. She has appeared in several movies and TV series, including The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), as Ivana Richards Vanderweld; she has also written a biography: Monika: Between Me and You

1962 - Corey Hart
singer, keyboardist, songwriter. Hart's best known hit is Sunglasses at Night.

1929 - 1970 Terry Sawchuck
NHL goaltender. Sawchuck joined the Detroit Red Wings at age 20, and won the Calder Trophy as the Rookie of the Year; he also took the Vezina Trophy as best goalie three times in his first five years, and in 1965 as a Toronto Maple Leaf, when he played a key role in the Leafs 1967 Stanley Cup win.

1847 - 1924 William James Pirrie, Lord Pirrie of Belfast
ship builder. Pirrie controlled the largest ship-yard in the world and built the liner Titanic.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 1

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney names non-politicians to Privy Council; Maurice Richard, Conrad Black and Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Polanyi; break with tradition to honour Canada's 125th birthday.

1981
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports that Canada's population has reached 24,343,181.
1979
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports that Canada's population has reached 23,671,500.
1961
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada releases census details, shows population has reached 18,238,247.
1951
Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics issues census results; shows Canadian population has reached 14,009,429; also shows that 70% of the population of Quebec now urban.
1911
Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics announces Canada's population has reached 7,206,000.

1966
Toronto Ontario - CFTO-TV transmits Canada's first colour TV.

1958
Ottawa Ontario - CBC-TV starts Canada-wide television broadcasts.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Government brings in sugar rationing due to shortages during the Second World War.

1941
Ottawa Ontario - Unemployment Insurance Act goes into effect.

1938
New York City -Man of Steel Hits 60 - Toronto-born cartoonist Joe Shuster teams up with Jerry Siegel to create Superman, making his first appearance in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1; the cost is 10 cents (collectors will pay almost $100,000 today).

1927 ONTARIO GOES INTO THE BOOZE BUSINESS
Ontario - Government liquor stores in Ontario start selling liquor to adults with $2 permits, as prohibition ends; the province has been dry since 1921.

1867
London England - British North America Act takes effect; Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck appointed first Governor-General of Dominion of Canada; from July 1, 1867 to Nov. 13, 1868.

1860
Ottawa Ontario - Prince of Wales lays the cornerstone of the Province of Canada's Parliament Buildings.


Born on this day:

1974 - Alanis Nadine Morrisette
rock singer. Morrisette's Grammy winning album, Jagged Little Pill, sold over 13 million copies in 1996-97, making her the best selling female artist in the world.

1961 - Paul Coffey
NHL defenseman. Coffey joined the Edmonton Oilers in 1980, and won the Norris Trophy as top NHL's top defenseman three times (1985, 1986, 1995); he was a member of team Canada at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, and played on four Stanley Cup teams (1984, 1985, 1987, 1991-Penguins). Coffey holds the NHL career records for most goals by a defenseman-381; most assists by a defenseman-1,063; and most points by a defenseman-1,444; also the NHL single-season record for most goals by a defenseman-48 (1985-86); also shares NHL single-game records for most points by a defenseman-8 (2 goals, 6 assists); and most assists by a defenseman-6 (March 14, 1986); holds NHL record for most consecutive games scoring points by a defenseman-28 (1985-86); holds NHL single-season playoff records for most goals by a defenseman-12; assists by a defenseman-25; and points by a defenseman-37 (1985); holds NHL single-game playoff record for most points by a defenseman-6 (May 14, 1985). From 1987 on, he played for the Penguins (1987-92), the Kings (1992-93), the Red Wings (1993-96), the Whalers (1996) and the Flyers (1996-98). He also starred for Team Canada on the victorious 1984, 1987 and 1991 Canada Cup teams.

1904 - 1957 Norman Perry
football player. Perry spent eight years with the Sarnia Imperials winning senior ORFU titles seven times and the Grey Cup in 1934 as team captain, 1934 MVP. Perry later managed the ORFU and then served as CRU President.

1861 - 1918 William Wilfred Campbell
poet. Campbell is best known for his Lake Lyrics and Other Poems (1889), which celebrates the scenery of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.

1637 - 1675 Jacques Marquette
explorer. A Jesuit missionary, Marquette travelled down the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, June 03, 2005 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 3

1995
New York City -Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a #1 pop chart hit with his Have You Ever Loved A Woman?

1989
Toronto Ontario - Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto's $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Mint to replace silver in coins with a nickel alloy, beginning in August.

1959
Washington DC - US President Eisenhower bounces a message off the moon to Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

1955
Vancouver BC - CP Airlines starts first Vancouver-Amsterdam service over North Pole.

1948
Newfoundland - First Newfoundland referendum returns 69,000 votes for self-government, 64,000 for union with Canada; 22,000 for no change (colonial status).

1889
Saint John New Brunswick - First Canadian Pacific train beyond Montreal arrives in the ice-free port of Saint John, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.

1876
London England - Montreal team introduces the sport of lacrosse to Britain.

1799
PEI Canada - Island of St. John officially proclaimed as Prince Edward Island.

1668
Gravesend England - Medart Chouart des Groseilliers sets sail on the ketch Nonsuch on a trade voyage to Hudson Bay, after convincing a group of London merchants to back him; the trading voyage will be a success, leading to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670.


Born on this day:

1954 - Dan Hill
singer. Hill's megahit was Sometimes When We Touch.

1924 - 1991 Colleen Dewhurst
actor, dies two days prior to winning the fourth Emmy of her career, for her guest appearance as Murphy Brown's mother.
Dewhurst first won acclaim on Broadway as James Agee's mother in Tad Mosel's adaptation of Agee's A Death in the Family and All the Way Home [Tony Award 1960] as well as plays such as The Crucible, A Moon for the Misbegotten [Tony Award 1974]; Desire Under the Elms, Long DayÕs Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra and Ah, Wilderness.
One of her few film roles was Annie's WASP mother in Annie Hall [1977].
On TV, she has played in Between Two Women [Emmy Award 1986], Those She Left Behind [Emmy Award 1989], Murphy Brown: Murphy's mother in Bon and Murphy and Ted and Avery [Emmy Award 1991], The Blue & the Gray [1982, as Maggie Geyser], Anne of Green Gables , as Marilla Cuthbert, and Anne of Avonlea [1987].
Dewhurst was president of Actor's Equity from 1985 to 1991. She was twice married to, and divorced from, actor George C. Scott, and is the mother of actor Campbell Scott.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 6:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 4

1990
Moncton New Brunswick - Daniel Maston charged with spiking a lunch room cooler with radioactive heavy water; exposing 8 co-workers to high radiation when they drank the water.

1988
Saskatchewan/ Manitoba - Start of week-long, record-breaking heatwave on the Prairies.

1983
Cincinnati Ohio USA - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers one of 19 Canadians killed as Air Canada DC-9, flying from Texas to Toronto, catches fire and has an emergency landing; 23 of 46 passengers and crew die of smoke and flames due to a fire caused by smoking in a washroom.

1980
Hartford Connecticut - Gordie Howe announced his retirement as a player at age 52.

1979
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark takes office as Canada's 16th Prime Minister one day before his 40th birthday; succeeds Pierre Trudeau, PM since April 20, 1968. Canada's youngest PM, and the first native westerner to serve as Prime Minister, Clark includes in his cabinet the first black minister (Lincoln Alexander) and the youngest ever cabinet minister (Perrin Beatty, 29).

1976 CANADA TAKES CHARGE OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF
Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977; Canada to set numbers of fish harvested and quotas for foreign fleets.

1940
Dunkirk France - Dunkirk evacuation completed; 340,000 Allied troops get safely to Britain; Canadians recross Channel with only six men missing.

1812
Washington DC - Congress votes for war against Britain; the War of 1812 begins June 18, when President James Madison officially proclaims the U.S. to be at war.

1760
Nova Scotia - Twenty-two ships carrying New England planters arrive in Nova Scotia to take land forcibly vacated by the Acadians.

1534
PEI - Prince Edward Island sighted by Jacques Cartier.


Born on this day:

1943 - Sandra Post
golfer. In 1968, her rookie year, Post became the first active Canadian pro in the LPGA, and beat Kathy Whitworth in a playoff to win the LGPA championship. In 1979, her best season, she took three tournaments including the Dinah Shore and finished second on the LPGA money list, winning the Lou Marsh trophy as Canadian Athlete of the Year; in her sixteen year career, from 1968-83, she won eight official LPGA events, including three majors.

1887 - 1949 Tom Longboat
marathon runner. Longboat set a course record winning the 1907 Boston Marathon, running the last mile in 4 minutes and 46 seconds. As a professional distance runner, he beat Italian marathon champion Dorando Pietri at Madison Square Garden in 1908; he retired in 1912 and served Canada in World War I as a despatch runner in France.


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 6:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 5

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization says cod stocks at lowest level ever; suggests cutting catch to 50,000 tonnes; half caught already.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible; to head off silver speculators and hoarding.

1944
Normandy France - D-DAY-1; Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, part of British 6th Airborne Division's 3rd brigade make advance overnight landing before D-Day; "C" company lands in the most easterly drop-zone near Varville, blows up a bridge across the Divette River, destroying a German strong-point and then moves back four miles to the village of le Mesnil.

1940
Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet declares 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal under wartime emergency legislation; jails leaders.

1897
Quebec Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier sails to England to attend Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; he will return knighted as Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

1895 DAVIN PROPOSES VOTE FOR WOMEN
Ottawa Ontario - Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote; it is soundly defeated.

1884
Montana - Gabriel Dumont, accompanied by with Michel Dumas, Moise Ouelette, and James Isbister, visits Louis Riel in Montana, where he is teaching; after several days of discussion, he agrees to return to help the Metis protect their rights.

1854
Washington DC - James Bruce, Lord Elgin signs Reciprocity Treaty with US negotiator William Marcy; opens U.S. to natural produce only in return for freedom of operation on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; begins Oct 15; leads to great prosperity in the Canadas, until it is canceled by the Americans in March 1866.

1813
Stoney Creek Ontario - John Harvey makes surprise attack with 700 British regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments and some Canadian militia against 2,000 strong American force under Brigadiers William Winder and John Chandler at Stoney Creek; Americans withdraw toward Forty Mile Creek after midnight; War of 1812.

1673
Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac requires coureurs de bois to give notice if they leave settlement to trade for more than two days; royal decree to control independent traders makes them divert trade south.


Born on this day:

1939 - Charles Joseph 'Joe' Clark
politician, consultant. Clark attends the University of Alberta and Dalhousie University; he serves as an executive assistant to Tory leader Robert Stanfield, wins the PC leadership, and in June 1979 wins a minority victory over Pierre Trudeau, becoming Canada's 16th Prime Minister, the youngest to hold the office (until March 1980).

1894 - 1976 Roy Herbert Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet
publisher. Thomson began his media career with a radio station in North Bay; he diversified into newspapers (he owned The Times of London and Edinburgh's The Scotsman), cable TV, travel, North Sea oil and retail (The Hudson's Bay Company).


Lumbele
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Monday, June 06, 2005 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
June 6

1993
New York City - Canadian production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman awarded seven Tonys; Brent Carver named best actor in a musical.

1990
St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland House of Assembly rescinds approval of the Meech Lake Accord; government of Clyde Wells essentially kills the Accord, which needed unanimous provincial assent.

1973
Alert Bay BC - Raising of the world's tallest totem pole, at 173 feet.

1973
Eastport Maine - Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.

1973
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes resolution for bilingual federal public service by 1978.

1957
Toronto Ontario - CBC TV program Front Page Challenge first broadcast.

1944 D-DAY
Normandy France - Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture Bernières-sur-Mer by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take Bény by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through Bény to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.

1891
Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald dies at Earnscliffe at 10:15 on a Saturday night; the bells of Ottawa toll 76 times for Canada's first Prime Minister; he will be buried in Kingston, Ontario, where he came as a boy from Scotland.

1891
Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott takes office on Macdonald's death; a Senator; Prime Minister to Nov. 24, 1892; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister, and first native-born PM.

1891
Cornwall Ontario - Cornwall hit by a tornado that destroys 500 homes.

1861
Niagara Falls Ontario - Maid of the Mist the first vessel to navigate the Niagara River's whirlpool rapids.


Born on this day:

1965 - Cam Neely
hockey player. Neely played for the Vancouver Canucks (1983-86) and Boston Bruins (1986-96); in 726 games, he scored 395 goals and had 694 points.

1622 - 1689 Claude-Jean Allouez
Jesuit missionary, explorer. Allouez traveled through Minnesota and Wisconsin in the 1660s, and has been called the founder of Catholicism in the American West.


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1991
Ottawa Ontario - Benoit Bouchard announces $435,000 aid program for Oka to help rebuild battered economy after 78 day standoff with the Mohawks.

1989
Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years.

1956
Niagara Falls Ontario - Two-thirds of an Ontario Hydro power generating station collapses into the Niagara River gorge, about a kilometre below the Falls.

1950
New York City - Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and his orchestra have a #1 hit with their recording of The Third Man Theme.

1944 PANZER SS SHOOT CANADIAN POWS IN COLD BLOOD
Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.

1904
Ottawa Ontario - Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl Dundonald dismissed as Commander-in-Chief of military forces in Canada for criticizing the Minister of Militia; end of practice of Imperial officers commanding the forces in Canada.

1866
Frelighsburg Quebec - Fenian leader Spier leads 1,800 raiders across the border; they loot around Pigeon Hill; plunder St-Armand and Frelighsburg, then retreat when the Canadian militia cavalry arrive and attack them; US troops later seize their supplies at St. Alban's, and they retreat south.

1862
Washington DC - United States and Britain sign a mutual treaty to suppress the slave trade..

1832
Quebec Quebec - Irish Immigrants arrive aboard the sailing ship Carrick from Dublin; a government inspector lets the vessel leave the quarantine station, but some of the Irish have Asian cholera, which soon spreads in Quebec and Montreal; the resulting epidemic kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.


Born on this day:

1954 - Lui Passaglia
football player. Passaglia was a place kicker for the CFL B.C. Lions.

1946 - Jenny Jones
talk show hostess, comedienne, singer, was born Janina Stronski.

1929 - John Napier Turner
lawyer and politician. Turner migrated to Canada in 1932 with his mother and was brought up in Ottawa and Vancouver; BA UBC 1949; Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, B.A. Jurisprudence, 1951, B.C.L. 1952, M.A. 1957; University of Paris 1952-1953; 1962-1968 Liberal MP St-Laurent-St-Georges, Quebec; 1968-1976 Liberal MP Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario; 1976-1984 practiced law in Toronto; 1984-1993 Liberal MP Vancouver Quadra, British Columbia; served in several ministries; 1965-1967 Minister Without Portfolio; 1967 Registrar General; 1967-1968 Consumer and Corporate Affairs; 1968 Solicitor General; 1968-1972 Justice; 1972-1975 Finance; in June 1984 succeeded Pierre Elliott Trudeau as head of the Liberal Party and 17th Prime Minister of Canada; defeated in the September general election by the Progressive-Conservatives under Brian Mulroney; Leader of the Opposition 1984-1990.

1491 - 1557 Jacques Cartier
explorer, was born at St-Malo France between June 7 and December 23.


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1992
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency chooses 4 new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montreal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dafydd Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.

1968
London England - James Earl Ray suspected assassin of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. arrested four days after the murder traveling with two forged Canadian passports.

1900
Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.

1944 D-DAY+2 - MORE MURDERS OF CANADIAN POWS
Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape.

1881
Montreal Quebec - Montreal fire destroys 642 houses.

1824
Quebec Quebec - Noah Cushing receives a patent for a washing and fulling machine; first patent issued in Canada.

1685
Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles uses card money to pay soldiers during a coin shortage; the playing cards are used whole, or cut into halves and quarters; redeemed in 1718, but in common use until the inflations of the 1750s.


Born on this day:

1937 - Cathy Townsend
bowler. Townsend was the first Canadian woman to win the Bowling World Cup, beating national women's champions from 27 countries in a four day 34 game event in Manila, The Philippines.

1921 - 1993 Alexis Smith
actress, was born Gladys Smith. Smith was a leading lady of the 1940 and 1950s, playing opposite Hollywood leading men such as Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim (1942) and San Antonio (1945), Cary Grant in Night and Day (1946), and Clark Gable in Any Number Can Play (1949). She won a Tony for her performance as a cynical aging former showgirl in the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies (1971), and played J. R. Ewing's enemy Lady Jessica Montford on the TV show Dallas from 1984 to 1990. Smith was married to actor Craig Stevens


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June 9

1990
Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney reaches compromise with 10 provincial Premiers over the Meech Lake Accord; series of agreement and add-ons.

1989
Cold Lake Alberta - Jane Foster and Deanna Brasseur pass course to become Canada's first two female fighter pilots available for combat roles; possibly the world's first.

1984
Halifax Nova Scotia - Fleet of tall ships arrives at Halifax; celebrating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Quebec; will visit several Canadian cities before arriving at Quebec.

1977 JOEY RESIGNS
St. John's Newfoundland -Joey Smallwood resigns from the House of Assembly; Newfoundland Premier 1949-72; brought the province into Confederation in 1949.

1973
Belmont New York - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory in the 105th Belmont Stakes in a world record time for a 1 1/2 mile course (2:24) and a record for the largest margin of victory in the Belmont (31 lengths); also takes horse racing's Triple Crown, the first winner in 25 years.

1947
Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control and rationing of dairy products.

1944
Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.

1846
St. John's Newfoundland - Fire destroys the wharves and most of the houses in St. John's, leaving thousands of people homeless.

1793
Toronto Ontario - Assembly passes law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Upper Canada.

1537
Rome Italy - Pope Paul III declares in his encyclical Veros homines that 'Indians are human beings, with the qualities and faults of human beings.'


Born on this day:

1965 - Gloria Reuben
actor, inspired by her mother and her oldest brother, a Broadway actor, she began learning piano as a child and studied later music technique and theory, ballet and jazz at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. After modeling and appearing in TV ads, she moved to Los Angeles and guest starred in numerous TV series. In 1994 she co-starred next to Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop, and the following year with Johnny Depp in Nick of Time. Since 1995 she has played Physicians Assistant Jeanie Boulet in the TV drama ER.

1961 - Michael J. Fox
actor, director; dropped out of 12th Grade at age 15 to play in the regional CBC series Leo and Me. At age 18 he moved to Los Angeles and was cast as Willy-Joe Hall in several episodes of Alex Haley's CBS series Palmerstown U.S.A.; worked on the Walt Disney feature, Midnight Madness; guest-starred in Trapper John, M.D., Lou Grant, Family and Night Court; on Sept. 22, 1982 started the role of Alex P. Keaton on NBC's Family Ties (until May 17, 1989; won three Emmy Awards); played Mike Flaherty in Spin City (1996-2000); also in films such as Back to the Future (1985, with two sequels), Teen Wolf, Secret of My Success, Doc Hollywood, Greedy, The American President and Mars Attacks; married to Tracy Pollan.

1900 - 1963 Walter Windeyer
yachtsman. In 1959 Windeyer and his crew Ken Bradfield and Sicotte Hamilton sailed their yacht Tip to victory in the final of five races for the Gold Cup world championship, against 41 of Europe's finest helmsmen; Canada the first country to break European dominance of the races since they began in 1937.

1886 - 1963 T. P. 'Tommy' Gorman
hockey player, coach, manager, writer. Gorman was a member of Canada's Olympic lacrosse team that won the gold medal in London in 1908; he was one of the founders of the NHL in 1917, and managed several Stanley Cup winners with Ottawa, Chicago and Montreal. Gorman was sports editor of the Ottawa Citizen for many years.

1882 - 1968 Angus Walters
schooner captain. Walters took the helm of the newly launched Bluenose fishing schooner in 1921. That year they beat Capt. Marty Welch and the Elsie in the International Fisherman's Trophy Race, and never lost a race, sailing her until 1938; in 1933 Walters took Bluenose up the St. Lawrence and as far as Chicago to represent Canada at the Century of Progress exhibition.

1882 - 1949 Ricca Allen
actor. Allen started playing in silent films in 1914.

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June 10

1992
New York City - International Court of Arbitration gives France control zone of 24 nautical miles around St-Pierre-Miquelon; plus 10.5 mile corridor from sea; only 18% of what France wanted.

1979
WT Canada - Energy, Mines, and Resources dismantles Project Lorex, or the Lomonsov Ridge Experiment; scientific station set up on the Arctic ice to study a submarine ocean range had drifted 240 km across the North Pole since April; Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made scuba dives from the project.

1957
Canada - John George Diefenbaker wins a minority in the 23rd Canadian federal election with 40.9% of popular vote; takes 112 seats to 105 for Louis St. Laurent's Liberals; 25 CCF; 19 Social Credit; 4 others; PM to 1963; first Conservative victory in 27 years.

1947
Ottawa Ontario - US President Harry S. Truman starts two-day visit to Ottawa; first president to pay a state visit to Canada.

1940
Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares war on Italy; the same day, Italy declares war on France and Britain; World War II.

1937 BORDEN DEAD AT 83
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden dies at age 83; Canada's 8th Prime Minister; June 26 1854, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; called to Nova Scotia Bar in 1878; Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; 1901-1920 Conservative Party Leader; 1911-1917 Prime Minister; 1917-1920 led Union Government (coalition of pro-conscription Liberals and Conservatives).

1925
Toronto Ontario - United Church of Canada holds first service under its new name; merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.

1857
Kingston Ontario - Canadian Assembly passes bill bringing in the American decimal (dollar) system of currency; goes into effect midnight, Dec. 31.

1791
London England - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act, providing for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, each with a separate legislature.

1611
Annapolis Nova Scotia - Pierre Biard writes first recorded letter sent to France from the new world; Jesuit missionary at Port Royal.


Born on this day:

1965 - Linda Evangelista
supermodel

1942 - Preston Manning
lawyer, consultant, politician, son of former Alberta Premier Ernest C. Manning; BA in economics from the University of Alberta; founding Leader of the Reform Party in 1987; in 1992, published The New Canada; elected to the House of Commons for Calgary South-West in 1993.

1912 - 1980 Jean Lesage
politician. Lesage was Premier of Quebec during the Quiet Revolution period of reform in the early 1960s.

1915 - Saul Bellow
novelist. Bellow was brought up in a Russian Jewish household and fluent in Yiddish, which influenced his energetic English style; won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. His novels include Dangling Man (1944), The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975 - won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, The Dean's December (1982), To Jerusalem and Back (1976), More Die of Heartbreak (1987), A Theft (1989), The Bellarosa Connection (1989).


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June11

1983
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney chosen as party leader on 4th ballot by Progressive Conservatives, replacing interim leader Erik Neilsen; by 1,584 votes to Joe Clark's 1,324 on the 4th ballot; first PC leader from Quebec since Confederation.

1978
Temiskaming Ontario - High waves swamp canoeing expedition from St. John's school in Claremont, Ontario; 12 students and a teacher drowned in Lake Temiskaming on the Ontario-Quebec border.

1966
San Diego California - Torontonian David Bailey first Canadian to break four-minute mile (3:59.1).

1944 CANADIAN ADVANCE HALTED IN NORMANDY
Le-Mesnil-Patry France - D-Day +5; 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) and Queens Own try to outflank Carpiquet by moving from Norrey-en-Bessin through Le-Mesnil-Patry towards Cheux, but they meet heavy mortar, machine-gun and 88mm anti-tank gun fire from the 12th Panzer SS, slowing the Sherman tanks; only 2 that enter the town survive; 59 men are killed, 21 wounded; the Queen's Own also loses 55 killed and 44 wounded; in the 6 days of June 6-11, 1017 Canadians are killed in action and 1814 more are wounded.

1940
Ottawa Ontario - Princess Juliana of the Netherlands arrives in Canada to seek refuge during the Second World War; will settle in Ottawa.

1931
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to proclaim Remembrance Day, November 11, as a general holiday.

1847
King William Island NWT - Rear Admiral John Franklin dies in his ice-bound ship; command goes to Francis Crozier; James Fitzjames second-in-Command; 14 others already dead; remainder sick from eating tainted canned rations.

1782
Halifax Nova Scotia - William Black preaches his first sermon in Canada, as first Canadian Methodist minister.

1638
Trois-Rivières Quebec - Jesuit Relations describe first recorded earthquake in Canada; tremors for six months, from Gaspé to Montreal, but no casualties reported.

1534
Brest Harbour Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier and his crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America; Brest Harbour used by cod fishermen for wood and water; notes poverty of Labrador- not even 'a cartful of earth... this is the land that God gave to Cain'.


Born on this day:

1925 - Johnny Esaw
broadcaster. Esaw is most remembered for his work with CTV on the 1972 Canada/Russia hockey series, for promoting figure skating and as host broadcaster for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

1901 - 1978 A.H. (Cap) Fear
athlete. Fear played outside wing for the Toronto Argonauts from 1920, and helped them win three league titles and a Grey Cup; from 1928-1932 played for the Hamilton Tigers, helping them take two league titles and two Grey Cups; also rowed with the Argonaut rowing club, stroking the lightweight eights and fours to Canadian Henley victories on the same day .


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<<notes poverty of Labrador- not even 'a cartful of earth... this is the land that God gave to Cain'.>>

Poor Labrador. I have never been there. Is it really like that??

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From what I understand, Jan, Labrador is quite rugged. Rock, rocks and more rocks. But that very ruggedness in itself can be very beautiful, just not farming country.
Hope someone who's been there will pop in and enlighten us.



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June12

1983
Hollywood California - Norma Shearer dies at age 80; movie actress, model, born Edith Shearer at Montreal Aug. 10, 1902. Shearer's major role was in The Divorcee; she was the wife of studio executive Irving Thalberg.

1979
Toronto Ontario - Bobby Orr, Harry Howell and Henri Richard named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

1950
Ottawa Ontario - Canada and the U.S. sign two agreements to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.

1947 ON KING! ON YOU HUSKIES!!
New York City -First broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon; about a Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King; continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1944
France - D-DAY +6; Canadian 3rd Division is withdrawn from battle for three weeks, until July 4, after mauling in Normandy.

1901
Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal passes by-law making indoor toilets compulsory.

1846
Montreal Quebec - Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.

1811
London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk completes purchase of 300-thousand square km of Red River land from the Hudson's Bay Company; at a price of 10 shillings a year rent on the land; five times bigger than his native Scotland.

1793
Portage Lake BC - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Continental Divide at Portage Lake; his party first Europeans to cross Divide north of Spanish territories.

1758
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.


Born on this day:

1959 - Scott Thompson
comedian, actor. Thompson was raised in Brampton, Ontario; he attended York University drama school until requested to leave in his third year for 'disruptive behaviour'. He then tried improv and stand-up comedy, and in 1985 became one of The Kids in the Hall after seeing them in action.

1953 - Debbie Muir
synchronized swimmer, coach. As Head Coach of Canada's national synchronized swimming team from 1981 to 1991, Muir was the driving force behind Canada's global domination in this grueling sport, coaching such champions as Helen Vanderburg, Carolyn Waldo, Michelle Cameron and Sylvie Fréchette.

1921 - James Houston
artist. Houston studied art in Toronto, served in World War II, then did further studies in Paris. From 1949-62 he served as a government administrator in the West Baffin region, and helped several Inuit families start printmaking and soapstone and ivory carving to market in the south through the West Baffin Cooperative. He is the author of many children's books and adult novels exploring the Inuit experience.