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| Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:55 am
July 25 1990 BOUCHARD FOUNDS BLOC QUEBECOIS Montreal Quebec - Lucien Bouchard announces formation of the Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party consisting of himself, five other ex-Conservative MPs and ex-Liberal Jean Lapierre; all of whom left their parties after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord; Bouchard is a former Environment Minister in the Mulroney Government and Canadian Ambassador to Paris. 1981 Ottawa Ontario - McDonald Royal Commission condemns illegal RCMP activities against Quebec separatists and other dissidents; recommends civilian agency to take over security work. 1975 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler sentenced to 18 months in jail; serves 10 months before a retrial ordered. 1974 Ottawa Ontario - Government increases the Canadian contingent of the UN peacekeeping force on Cyprus from 486 to 950; at request of United Nations. 1973 Quebec Quebec - Louis St-Laurent dies in Quebec at age 91; born Feb. 1, 1882, at Compton, Quebec; educated at St. Charles Seminary, Sherbrooke and Laval University; Professor of Law, Laval University 1914; President of the Canadian Bar Association 1930-1932; Counsel to Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations 1937-1940; MP Quebec East 1942-1958; Liberal Party Leader 1948-1958; Canada's 12th Prime Minister Nov. 15, 1948-June 21, 1957; Leader of the Opposition 1957-1958. 1944 Normandy France - The 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions around Caen are ordered by Montgomery to push the entrenched German army off the Verrières ridge, take the heat of the Americans at St-Lô, and clear the main road through Falaise to Paris. Operation Spring begins with six infantry divisions and three tank squadrons attacking separately along an 8 km front against entrenched 1st SS Division panzer positions well sited on commanding high ground. In the early hours, German snipers ambush the advancing Canadians from cellars, tunnels and mine shafts, while Guy Simonds' plan to guide the assault troops toward Tilly-la-Campagne by bouncing searchlights off the clouds to produce artificial moonlight fails when someone orders the lights dropped to ground level, silhouetting the men to German fire; only about 100 men and just four tanks of the 3rd Division's North Nova Scotia Highlanders, the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, and the 2nd Armoured Brigade's Fort Garry Horse make it back to their lines; later that morning the lead company of The Royal Regiment of Canada succumbs to the fire of 30 enemy tanks, and the Cameron Highlanders of Canada, the Calgary Highlanders, and the Le Régiment de Maisonneuve are mauled when they tried to secure May-sur-Orne and Verrières village. The 5th Brigade's Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada cross the Orne, but are virtually wiped out when they are trapped on Verrières Ridge in heavy rain; only 60 out of 325 men make it to the top, and only 15 of the Black Watch live to tell about it. Before nightfall, a German counterattack leaves 2 companies of Fusiliers Mont-Royal virtually wiped out, and nearly breaks the 2nd Division's Royal Hamilton Light Infantry under J.L. Rockingham, but they clear Verrières village and dig in with anti-tank defenses to withstand three days of assaults. Except for Aug. 19, 1942 at Dieppe, this is the bloodiest day of the war for Canada, with over 1,500 wounded, and 450 dead. In total, Canadian divisions in Normandy will suffer 18,444 casualties, with 5,021 killed. 1917 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Sir Thomas White introduces the Income Tax War Bill; proposal to levy the first national tax on personal income on Canadians; as a wartime measure only. 1814 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Gordon Drummond arrives with reinforcements for a retreating General Riall at Lundy's Lane, 2 km below the falls, and takes the battle to Jacob Brown's Americans at 6 pm; Americans stalemated in a bitter all night battle, one of the bloodiest in the War of 1812; British and Canadians have 878 casualties, 84 killed, out of 3000 men; General Riall taken prisoner; Americans withdraw the following day to Fort Erie with 853 casualties, including 171 killed. 1758 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - James Wolfe's troops silence Louisbourg's Island battery, and an exploding shell lands on the deck of the French warship Célèbre, setting off barrels of gunpowder; the fire jumps from ship to ship, destroying all but two of the French warships, the Prudent and Bienfaisant; at midnight, Amherst sends 25 boatloads of Marines into the harbour and takes the last two French ships. 1755 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence meets with Acadians and orders them to take oath of allegiance to British Crown; they refuse. Born on this day: 1957 - Steve Podborski downhill skier, born at Toronto. Podborski joined the Canadian Alpine team in 1973 and became a member of the Crazy Canucks with Jim Hunter and Ken Read. He won his first FIS World Cup race at Morzine, France in 1979, and took the Olympic Bronze at Lake Placid in 1980. In 1982 he won 3 World Cup races, including Kitzbuehl, which he skied at the record speed of 166 kph. The following year he also won three races and was the first Canadian and first non-European to take the World Cup overall title. 1939 - Catherine Callbeck PEI politician, businesswoman, born at Central Badeque. Callbeck succeeded Joe Ghiz as Premier of Prince Edward Island in 1993, but was defeated in 1997. 1932 - Scotty Stevenson country singer, songwriter, bornat Edmonton Alberta. 1930 - Maureen Forrester contralto, teacher, born at Montreal. Forrester has appeared with such conductors as Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan; she is noted for her performance in the Resurrection Symphony; also served as head of the Canada Council. 1905 - 1991 Grace MacInnis social activist, politician, NDP stalwart, born in Winnipeg, the daughter of CCF founder J. S. Woodsworth; died in Sechelt BC; MacInnis served as a BC MLA from 1941-45 and an MP from 1965-74. 1884 - 1934 Davidson Black doctor of anatomy and physical anthropologist, born in Toronto, Ontario; died in Beijing, China. Black graduated from the University of Toronto in anthropology and medicine in 1906, professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; returned to Toronto in 1917 to enlist in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, treating returned soldiers in Canadian hospitals. In 1918, moved to China to teach at the American-funded Peking Union Medical College (PUMC); in 1921, he became chair of the Anatomy Department; in 1927, first to identify a new and distinct form of early man, Sinanthropus pekinensis or Peking Man, on the basis of a single fossil tooth found in the Chou-k'ou-tien [Zhoukoudian] cave near Peking by Dr. Otto Zdansky. Black's later excavations yielded skulls, jaw and limb bones, showing Peking Man to be an extinct hominid of the species Homo erectus, from the Middle Pleistocene era (900,000 to 130,000 years ago). In 1930, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Great Britain. In 1987, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee recognized the Zhoukoudian cave as a World Heritage Site. 1870 - 1913 George Fox violinist, pianist, born at Galt, Ontario; died in Toronto. Fox was a child prodigy, who accompanied his father in 'Carnival of Venice' at age 4 in Walkerton, Ontario; at age 5, he performed as a pianist at the Berlin [Kitchener] Sangerfest, a festival of German music. 1799 - 1834 David Douglas botanist, plant collector, explorer, born at Scone, Scotland. Douglas collected in Canada on several trips in 1823 and 1833; the Douglas Fir is named after him.
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| Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 5:49 am
July 26 1996 Montreal Quebec - Howard Galganov's Political Action Committee says it will start a boycott campaign against businesses in the west island of Montreal who post signs in French and not in English as well. Louise Beaudoin, minister responsible for la Charte de la langue franaise, has noted at least 142 infractions in the Fairview, Cavendish and Rockland shopping centres. 1984 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada says that the obligation of parents from other provinces moving to Quebec to register their children in French schools is unconstitutional. 1983 Toronto Ontario - Cookie Gilchrist first player to refuse induction into the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame; former CFL star with the Argonauts. 1982 Lima Peru - Karen Baldwin of London, Ontario, chosen first Canadian Miss Universe; age 18. 1959 New York City - Ottawa pop singer Paul Anka's single 'Lonely Boy' hits #1 on the Billboard charts. 1923 Vancouver BC - Warren Harding visits Vancouver on way back from Alaska; first US President to visit Canada during his term of office. 1874 THAT RINGS A BELL Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell first describes his idea for the telephone to his father in Brantford. 1758 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Jeffery Amherst captures Louisbourg after siege of nearly 2 months; with Admiral Edward Boscawen and Brigadier James Wolfe. French commander Augustin Boschenry de Drucour surrenders with 3,500 soldiers and about 4,000 sailors and militia. Amherst promises the French regulars their lives, but will offer no terms to the Canadians or Indians; if captured they will be treated the same as the garrison at Fort William Henry. Drucour forced to accept these conditions, and the Canadians and Indians flee in their canoes. English send French troops to England as prisoners of war for five years, deport civilian population to France. 1673 Kingston Ontario - Fort Frontenac completed by the French. 1615 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Establishment of the first mission at Three Rivers. Born on this day: 1958 - Angela Hewitt concert pianist. 1951 - Richard Lionel 'Rick' Martin hockey player. Martin played for the NHL Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings. 1940 - Bobby Rousseau NHL hockey player. Rousseau played for the Ottawa Hull Canadiens and Rochester Americans, then the NHL Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars and New-York Rangers. 1934 - Austin Clarke writer, born in St. James, Barbados; moved to Toronto as a young man. Clarke is author of a collection of short stories, The Survivors of the Crossing (1964), and a Caribbean trilogy - The Meeting Point, Storm of Fortune (1973) and The Bigger Light (1975). 1931 - Lorne Anderson NHL hockey player. Anderson was the New York Rangers goalie against whom Bill Mosienko scored his record-setting three goals in 21 seconds. 1929 - Marc Lalonde bureaucrat and politician, born in Ile-Perrot Quebec; Lalonde was first an advisor to Davie Fulton in the Diefenbaker government, then to Prime Ministers Pearson and Trudeau. In 1972, he was elected to Parliament, and served as Health, Energy, Justice and Finance Minister under Trudeau and Turner. 1928 - Peter Lougheed politician, Alberta Premier, bornin Calgary. Lougheed, a grandson of former Premier Sir James Lougheed, rebuilt the Conservative party and in August 1971 brought down the Social Credit dynasty of E. C. Manning and Harry Strom. 1791 - 1863 John Beverley Robinson lawyer, Family Compact leader, born in Berthier Quebec; died in Toronto. Robinson was Attorney General of Upper Canada, and later Chief Justice; a stalwart of the Family Compact, he supported the Imperial connection against pernicious American influences..
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| Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 8:20 am
July 27 1996 BAILEY THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE; 3RD GOLD FOR MCBEAN & HEDDLE Atlanta Georgia - Canada's Donovan Bailey wins Olympic gold, running the 100 m sprint in 9.84, setting a new world record; competition held beneath flags at half-mast to honour the one person killed and 100 injured by a pipe bomb. At Lake Lanier, Canadian rowers Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle also win gold in the double sculls, becoming Canada's first and only three-time Olympic gold medalists. Both Silken Laumann and Derek Porter row to silver in their single sculls. Canada now has 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze medals in the games. 1995 Toronto Ontario - Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. buys 19 of 21 small newspapers in Ontario and Saskatchewan that Thomson Corp. put up for sale as part of a reorganization. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Kim Campbell unveils new firearms regulations; 60 military-type weapons banned; magazines limited to 5, 10 shot; Justice Minister; guns must be stored away from ammunition, and kept locked. 1991 New York City - Bryan Adams' single '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart and will stay there for seven weeks. 1984 New York City - Anne Murray's single 'Just Another Woman in Love' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart. 1921 Toronto Ontario - Frederick Banting first isolates insulin from the pancreatic duct of a dog; assisted by colleagues J. J. R. Macleod, Charles Best, and Bertram Collip at the University of Toronto; in January 1922, they administer insulin to 14 year old Leonard Thompson, and prove it an effective lifesaving treatment for diabetes in humans; in 1923, Banting and Macleod will be the first Canadians to win a Nobel Prize (they will share the award with Best and Collip); Banting does not patent the process, but assigns the rights to the University of Toronto, who will manufacture it through Connaught Laboratories. 1897 Toronto Ontario - Toronto has its greatest one-day rainfall, a torrent amounting to 98.6 mm. 1866 Heart's Content, Newfoundland - Cyrus W. Field and his Anglo-American Telegraph Company finally succeed, after two failures, in laying the first workable underwater telegraph cable 1,686 miles long across the Atlantic Ocean to Wales; had set up operations in Newfoundland, and the steamship Great Eastern successfully retrieved and mended the broken cable from earlier attempts. 1636 Quebec Quebec - Signature of the first marriage contract in New France; such notarized family agreements often predated Church weddings. 1606 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt arrives at Port-Royal on the Jonas with Louis Hébert; the expedition sows grain and other foods successfully; the first permanent French colony in Canada. Born on this day: 1942 - Edith Butler Acadian folksinger, songwriter, born at Paquetville, New Brunswick. Butler became known across Canada for her work on CBC TV's 'Singalong Jubilee' in the 1960's; she plays 24 different instruments, and her repertoire ranges from Acadian songs to rock & roll. 1941 - Pierre Leduc jazz pianist, composer, arranger, born at Montreal. 1940 - Harvie Andre politician, Clark and Mulroney Cabinet Minister, born at Calgary. Andre earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, and taught at the University of Calgary before being elected as an MP in 1972. He served as Minister of Supply and Services, Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence. 1928 - Tony Romandini guitarist, born at Montreal. 1857 - 1943 Augusta Stowe-Gullen MD,born at Mount Pleasant, Ontario, the daughter of suffragist Emily Stowe. Stowe-Gullen was the first woman to earn a medical degree in Canada; studied at the Toronto School of Medicine, graduated from Victoria College, Cobourg in 1883; taught and practiced medicine in Toronto; married to Dr. John Gullen, founder of Toronto Western Hospital. In 1903, she succeeded her mother Emily as President of the Dominion Womens' Enfranchisement Association, that sought the vote for women.. 1823 - 1903 Donald Farquharson teacher, businessman, politician, born at Mermaid PEI. Farquharson served as Liberal Premier of Prince Edward Island 1898-1902 before resigning to run as an MP.
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| Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 6:42 am
July 28 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian Brian Walton wins Olympic silver in the cycling points race; Curt Harnett earns the bronze medal in the men's sprint on the track near Stone Mountain; Canada's men's doubles team of John Child and Mark Heese take the bronze at the inaugural Olympic beach volleyball tournament. 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian rowers win medals at Lake Lanier: Dave Boyes, Jeff Lay, Gavin Hassett and Brian Peaker take Olympic silver in the men's four; Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Laryssa Biesenthal and Diane O'Grady come away with bronze in the women's four; Emma Robinson, Anna van der Kamp, Theresa Luke, Tosha Tsang, Alison Korn, Heather McDermid, Maria Maunder, Jessica Monroe and Lesley Thompson have a silver-medal performance in the women's eight with coxswain. 1973 Watkins Glen, New York - Canadian group The Band performs before 600,000 fans at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, along with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band; biggest rock festival since Woodstock four years earlier. 1954 Vietnam - Canada agrees to serve with India and Poland on special commission to supervise Indo-China armistice. 1945 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Section of Prospect Point overlooking the US Falls breaks off and slides into the Niagara River Gorge. 1930 Canada - Richard Bedford (R. B.) Bennett wins 17th Canadian general election 137 seats to 91 Liberals; 12 Progressive; United farmers 10, 5 other; defeats WLM King with 48.8% of popular vote; Agnes MacPhail the only woman elected. 1914 Ontario/Quebec - Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges close for three months; brokers fear financial panic due to war; in concert with New York; shut down till Spring of 1915. 1914 CANADA AUTOMATICALLY AT WAR London England - Britain declares war on Germany and Austro-Hungary after Austria declares war on Serbia, beginning the First World War; Britain's declaration automatically includes Canada, as part of the British Empire. 1858 Canada - John A. Macdonald & George-Etienne Cartier resign after defeat on motion that Ottawa should not be the capital of Canada; they resign the next day. 1812 Toronto Ontario - Isaac Brock asks sixth Parliament of Upper Canada to repeal Habeas Corpus and impose martial law; Legislature uncooperative; doesn't take threat of US invasion seriously. 1786 Montreal Quebec - John Molson proclaims that 'good ale is all I want;' says he wants to brew beer 'on the grand stage of the world.'. 1615 French River Ontario - Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron. Born on this day: 1971 - Annie Perreault speed skater . 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur figure skater, partner of Lloyd Eisler. 1958 - 1981 Terry Fox marathoner, born at Winnipeg in 1958. Terry lost a leg to bone cancer in 1977 and started his cross-Canada 'Marathon of Hope' in St. John's on April 12, 1980 to raise money to fight the disease. Before he had to end the marathon Sept 1 in Thunder Bay, when cancer was discovered in his lungs, he had run almost 5400 km, and raised over $1.7 million. He gave up his fight on June 28, 1981 in New Westminster, BC, but thousands of Canadians run every year in his memory. 1936 - Russ Jackson Ottawa Rough Riders Football star, born in Hamilton, Ontario. Jackson led the Riders to a Grey Cup in 1969, won the Schenley Award as outstanding CFL player three times, and was voted outstanding male athlete of the year twice. Jackson later coached the Argos, and served as an Ottawa High School Principal. 1936 - Jim Galloway jazz saxophonist and bandleader, born at Kilwinning, Scotland. 1909 - 1959 Malcolm Lowry born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England; dies in Ripe, Sussex. Lowry was a British Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who, inspired by alcoholic depression, started his masterpiece Under the Volcano in 1936, and published it in 1947. He lived for 15 years, from 1940-54, in a shack in Dollarton, BC, with his wife Marjorie. His October Ferry to Gabriola was published posthumously in 1970.
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July 29 1992 CANADIANS HOLD SARAJEVO AIRPORT FOR HUMANITARIAN FLIGHTS Sarajevo Bosnia - General Lewis Mackenzie's Canadian UN peacekeepers hand over Sarajevo Airport to French relief force; 800 return to base in Croatia. 1988 Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark says Canada will deny visas to all South African athletes, amateur and professional, wishing to compete in events in Canada; action consistent with the 1977 Gleneagles agreement which encouraged Commonwealth countries to combat apartheid in this way. 1981 La Prairie, Quebec - Alex Baumann sets his first world swimming record, in the 200 Metre Individual Medley (butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle). Three years later, Baumann will win two Gold Medals at the Los Angeles Olympics, scoring world records in both the 200 and 400 IM. 1971 Halifax Nova Scotia - Sydney Oland and the Oland family present Bluenose II to the province of Nova Scotia as a floating museum; replica of original. 1916 Matheson Ontario - Forest fire near Matheson kills 223 people. 1907 London England - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scout movement, with assistance from Canadian financier Lord Strathcona. 1873 Quebec Quebec - First party of 285 Icelandic settlers bound for Manitoba reach Canada. 1848 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Completion of first suspension bridge over the Niagara Gorge. 1812 London England - Word of the US declaration of war arrives in England 41 days after it is declared. 1793 Toronto Ontario - John Graves Simcoe sails into Toronto Bay by the western gap and decides that the site will be a good place for a fort and a settlement. Born on this day: 1953 - Geddy Lee rock & roll singer, bass guitarist, keyboard player, born in Toronto. Lee founded the Canadian rock group Rush in 1968 with guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer John Rutsey. Rutsey left after Rush's first album in 1974, and was replaced by Neil Peart. Million selling albums include 2112, Moving Pictures, All the World's a Stage and Signals; hit singles include Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, Necromancer, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning; sang on Bob and Doug McKenzie's Great White North song 'Take Off.' The band was awarded the Order of Canada. 1938 - Peter Jennings newscaster, journalist, born in Toronto. His father, Charles, was a CBC announcer and executive, and at age 9, Peter hosted a half-hour weekly children's show on the network. After dropping out of Trinity College School, he joined the CBC as host of a public-affairs program, then in 1962 co-anchored the CTV News. In 1964, he moved to New York and became a correspondent for ABC, then anchor of ABC Nightly News (1965-67). He returned to reporting in 1968, and served as head of the ABC News Middle East bureau in Beirut. In 1971 he covered the civil war in Bangladesh, in 1974 profiled Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat, was Washington correspondent for ABC's AM America (Jennings' Journal - 1974-75), then served as ABC's chief foreign correspondent in London, where he co-anchored the nightly newscast World News Tonight. In 1983, he was appointed sole ABC anchor when the show moved to New York City in 1983. In November 1990, he interviewed Saddam Hussein just before the Persian Gulf War broke out. And in 1993 he played Himself in his only film, The Last Party. 1925 - Ted Lindsay hockey player, coach, born in Renfrew, Ontario. Lindsay played with Detroit Red Wings from 1944 on (4 Stanley Cup titles), and was on a line with Sid Abel and Gordie Howe, winning the NHL scoring title in 1949-50; held NHL records for most goals and assists by a left winger and most minutes spent in penalty box. He was traded to Chicago when General manager Jack Adams heard of his role in starting the NHL Players Association. 1924 - Lloyd Bochner actor. Bochner has played on TV (Dynasty's Cecil Colby) and in almost 50 films, including Naked Gun 2 1/2, Morning Glory, One ManÕs Family, Hong Kong. Bochner is the father of Hart Bochner 1956-, who played Byron Henry in the TV miniseries War and Remembrance (1989). 1874 - 1942 James Shaver Woodsworth Methodist minister, social worker, politician, born at Etobicoke, Ontario, dies after a stroke on in Vancouver. Woodsworth moved to Brandon, Manitoba when he was 11, and his father was appointed Superintendent of Methodist Missions in the North West; ordained a Minister in 1896, spent two years circuit riding in the west, then studied at Victoria College in Toronto, and Oxford University; from 1904-13 worked at the All Peoples Mission in the Winnipeg slums, and wrote on the Social Gospel, which he tried to put into practice in the kind of democratic socialism espoused by the British Labour Party; left the church because of its attitudes toward war and social reform; arrested and charged with sedition in June 1919 for editorials written during the Winnipeg General Strike. In 1921 his Independent Labour Party supporters got him elected to the House of Commons for Winnipeg North Centre, where he bargained his vote with WLM King to get Old Age Pensions in 1927. In 1933, he and other radicals met in Regina and adopted a democratic socialist manifesto, calling themselves the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and electing Woodsworth as their leader. In the 1935 election they elected 7 CCF MPs, including fiery young Tommy Douglas. Woodsworth left the party in 1939 when he refused to vote for the declaration of war on Germany.
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| Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 7:26 am
July 30 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Alison Sydor wins the silver medal in the women's mountain bike event, a 9 km cross-country course at the Georgia International Horse Park; took six of the seven World Cup events this year. 1992 Barcelona Spain - Mark Tewksbury of Calgary wins the Gold Medal in the Men's 100-metre Backstroke; sets new Olympic record. 1992 Los Angeles California - Joe Schuster dies at age 78; creator of Superman comic book hero with writer Jerry Siegel; sold idea to DC comics in 1938; fired 1947 for asking for higher royalty. 1975 Dover England - Cindy Nicholas of Toronto, 17, sets women's record time for swimming the English Channel in nine hours, 46 minutes. 1962 DIEF OPENS TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY Rogers Pass, BC - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway to traffic, eliminating the final 160 km of dusty, gravel road from Golden to Revelstoke. Running almost 9000 km, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria BC, the Trans Canada is the longest national highway in the world; construction began in 1950. 1865 St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Quebec - Etienne-Paschal Taché dies; MD, militia colonel, Minister of Public Works of the Province of Canada 1848, co-premier 1856-57 with Allan MacNab and 1864-65 with John A. Macdonald; presided at the Quebec Conference. 1855 Niagara Falls Ontario - Jean-François Gravelet the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1793 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Governor John Graves Simcoe starts building a fort in vicinity of Fort York, and a blockhouse on Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island. 1578 Kodlunarn Island NWT - Martin Frobisher finds his missing ships Judith and Michael behind Anne Warwick (Kodlunarn) Island. Born on this day: 1949 - Alexina Louie composer and musician, was born in Vancouver, BC. Louie writes orchestral, chamber and electronic music, and is known for her O Magnum Mysterium, dedicated to the memory of Glenn Gould. 1941 - Paul Anka singer, songwriter, born at Ottawa. Anka started performing at age 12 as an impressionist. On a trip to New York in 1957 he sang some of his songs, including Diana, to producer Don Costa, who signed him with ABC-Paramount. That summer Diana sold over eight million copies. Anka followed it up with more hits, including You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Puppy Love, Put Your Head on My Shoulder and It's Time To Cry. He also wrote It Doesn't Matter Anymore for Buddy Holly in 1959 and the theme for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1962. In 1968 he translated the French song, Comme d'Habitude, and retitled it My Way - it was one of Frank Sinatra's biggest hits. In 1971, he acquired the rights to all of his old songs, and Tom Jones recorded Anka's song She's A Lady. In 1974, he recorded another million seller, a controversial duet with Odia Coates called (You're) Having My Baby, with United Artists. 1934 - André Prévost composer and teacher, born in Hawkesbury, Ontario. Prévost wrote Terre des Hommes, after the poem by Michèle Lalonde, for the official opening of Expo 67, and has collaborated with artists like Yehudi Menuhin, for whom he wrote Cantate pour cordes (1987); has taught at the Université de Montréal since 1964. 1922 - Jack McClelland publisher and impresario, born in Toronto, Ontario. McClelland captained a torpedo boat in the Canadian Navy in 1944, and after the war worked for the company his father founded, McClelland & Stewart. In 1961 he became President, and developed a spectacular Canadian list by publishing such authors as Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Peter C. Newman, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Laurence, Irving Layton and Mordecai Richler. He sold the company to property developer Avie Bennett in 1985. 1906 - 1989 Charles (C.P.) Stacey military historian, born in Toronto Ontario. Stacey was Canadian Army chief historian 1945-59 and taught at the University of Toronto 1959-76. Among his works are The Canadian Army 1939-45 (1948), A Very Double Life (1976), and his memoirs, A Date With History (1983). 1904 - 1989 Norris 'Buck' Crump CPR President, born in 1904 in Revelstoke, BC; died in Calgary. Crump promoted much of the conversion of the CPR stock to diesel, and took Canadian ownership from 15% in 1955 to 63% in 1972, when he formed CP investments to diversify into non-rail holdings like oil and gas. 1754 - 1824 Ward Chipman Loyalist lawyer, politician, and promoter of New Brunswick, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts; died at Fredericton. Chipman was a Harvard educated lawyer who took up the Loyalist cause and organized the movement to create the new province of New Brunswick in 1784. He was first Solicitor General, a Supreme Court justice, and drafted the Saint John city charter.
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| Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 8:19 am
July 31 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Annie Pelletier wins Olympic bronze for Canada in the three-metre diving event; Gia Sissaouri takes silver in 57-kg wrestling. 1992 Barcelona Spain - Guillaume Leblanc of Rimouski, Que., takes Olympic silver medal in the men's 20 km race walk. 1989 Halifax, Nova Scotia - CBC Newsworld makes its debut on cable; news and information channel goes on the air across Canada. 1987 EDMONTON TWISTER CLAIMS 27 LIVES Edmonton Alberta - Tornadoes touch down in Edmonton during the afternoon rush-hour, causing $150 million in damage; the main funnel cloud kills at least 36 and injures at least 250, mostly in an Edmonton East trailer park; over 400 left homeless. 1976 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Greg Joy jumps 2.23 metres, a fraction behind the 2.25 metres of Jacek Wszola, to take the silver medal in high jump at the final full day of competition in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Joy will go on to set the world indoor record in 1978. 1974 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa's government passes Bill 22 - the Official Languages Act (la loi sur les langues officielles) - requiring French to be used as the language of work in business and in the public service; anglophone students must also pass a linguistic aptitude test in order to attend english schools. 1913 Vancouver BC - Alys Bryant first woman in Canada to make solo air flight; from Vancouver racetrack. 1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Louis Riel makes eloquent address to the jury, saying he had been blessed by God with a mission to help the Indians, the Metis, and the whites of the North West; repudiates any suggestions of religious insanity, asks to be judged solely on the political elements of his case; jury will find him guilty. 1880 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council transfers all British possessions in North America to Canada as of September l; except Newfoundland, and including ownership of all Arctic Islands. 1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - First group of Russian Mennonites arrive from the US on the steamer International; Canada passed special orders-in-council which guaranteed them freedom of religion, exemption from military service, and the right to conduct their own schools. 1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie elected Secretary of the Committee of Vigilance of Upper Canada; they adopt a Declaration of Independence modeled after the American one; their secret flag is blue, with two silver stars, representing the two states of Upper and Lower Canada that would join the American union. 1741 Alaska - Vitus Jonassen Bering puts landing party ashore in North America for several hours, before returning to Kamchatka; beginning of Russian trade presence on the pacific coast. 1667 Nova Scotia - Treaty of Breda again restores Acadia to France; end of war between England and France; since Jan. 26, 1666. Born on this day: 1935 - Yvon Deschamps humorist, born at Montreal. 1929 - Don Garrard operatic bass, born in Vancouver. 1929 - Gilles Carle film director, born in Maniwaki, Quebec. Carle began his career studying advertising at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Montreal. He started a publishing company 'Les Editions de l'hexagone' with the poet Gaston Miron where he wrote book and movie reviews. In 1955, he started working in graphic arts at Radio-Canada, and in 1960 became a researcher at the National Film Board. He directed his first documentary film in 1961, and his first narrative in 1964 with a short called Solange dans nos campagnes. His first feature film, La vie heureuse de Léopold Z, was a comedy. When the NFB/ONF cut back his projects, Carle went on his own. Some of his more noteworthy films are Maria Chapdelaine (1983), Les Plouffe (1981), L'Ange et la femme (1977) , La Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975), Le Mort d'un bûcheron (1973) and La Vraie nature de Bernadette (1972) Carle's leading actresses Carole Laure and Chloé Sainte-Marie have also been his romantic partners. 1916 - William Landymore Royal Canadian Navy Admiral, born in Brantford, Ontario. Landymore served in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic theatres during World War II and commanded the destroyer Iroquois on active duty off Korea in 1951-53. In 1965 he was appointed head of Maritime Command, but resigned in 1966 over the issue of unification. 1618 - 1696? Médard Chouart des Groseilliers explorer, fur trader, was baptized on this day in 1618 in Charly-sur-Marne, France; dies in New France in about 1696. With his brother-in-law Pierre Radisson, Des Groseilliers opened Lakes Superior and Michigan to the fur trade; when the New France authorities seized a large shipment of his furs, persuaded Prince Rupert and a group of London merchants to invest in a fur expedition to Hudson Bay. In 1668 he sailed to the mouth of the Rupert River on the ketch Nonsuch, where he wintered and established a fur trade. His success led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company on May 2, 1670. He later rejoined the French and led expeditions against the English in the Bay before his retirement.
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August 1 1995 Ottawa Ontario- Sportscaster Brian Smith shot in the head by mentally ill person as he is leaving work at CJOH-TV; former NHL player dies the following day. 1985 Greenland - US icebreaker leaves Greenland for a voyage through the Northwest Passage and Canada's Arctic waters without Canadian permission. 1976 Montreal Quebec- 21st Olympic games at Montreal close after 16 days of events attended by 3.3 million spectators; Soviet Union takes 49 gold, 41 silver and 35 bronze to top the standings; East Germany pushes the US into third place; apparently fueled by steroid use, they win 40 gold, double their total in Munich. This harms Canada, which wins only 5 silver and 6 bronze medals, becoming the first host nation in the history of the modern Games not to win a gold. Canada's Silver: Greg Joy, high jump; John Wood, 500 metres, canoeing; Michel Vaillancourt, Grand Prix equestrian jumping; Cheryl Gibson, 400 metre individual medley, swimming; Stephen Pickell, Graham Smith, Clay Evans, Gary MacDonald, 4x100-metre medley relay. Canada's Bronze: Nancy Garapick (2), 100- and 200-metre backstroke; Becky Smith, 400-metre individual medley; Shannon Smith, 400-metre freestyle; Gail Amundrud, Barbara Clark, Becky Smith, Anne Jardin, 4x100-metre freestyle relay, swimming Wendy Hogg, Robin Corsiglia, Susan Sloan, Anne Jardin, 4x100-metre medley relay. 1959 VANIER NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL Ottawa Ontario- General Georges-Philias Vanier appointed Governor General; first French Canadian to hold the post; serves from September 15, 1959. 1837 Canada- Queen Victoria 1819-1901 proclaimed Queen in Canada. 1834 London England- Slavery outlawed in the British Empire, including British North America; estimated 770,280 slaves become free; 30 years before it was outlawed in the US, after the Union victory in the Civil War. 1714 London England- George Louis, Elector of Hanover, was named King George I of Great Britain upon the death of Queen Anne. 1639 Quebec Quebec- Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart arrives in Quebec to found a convent and hospital of Ursuline nuns (Sisters of the Hôtel-Dieu) in the Lower Town of Quebec; first hospital in North America north of Mexico; will also open a school for girls. 1615 Huronia Ontario - Samuel de Champlain arrives in Huronia with ten Indians and Etienne Brulé, to back Hurons against Iroquois; winters in Huronia; estimates population at 30,000. 1578 Kodlunarn Island NWT- Martin Frobisher starts mining on Anne Warwick Island and at other sites; 1200 tonnes of supposed gold ore will be loaded on board his ships. Born on this day: 1947 - Ronnie King bass guitarist, born at Rotterdam, Netherlands. King played with the 1970s rock band the Stampeders. 1942 - André Gagnon pianist, composer, born at St-Pacôme-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. Gagnon writes in both classical and pop forms; his album 'Neiges' (with its hit single 'Wow') won the 1976 Juno as Canada's best-selling album; Gagnon won a 1977 Juno as top instrumental artist. 1938 - Bruno Laplante opera baritone, born at Beauharnois, Quebec. 1922 - Arthur Hill actor, born in Melfort, Saskatchewan. Hill has starred as Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, and in many films and TV shows. 1916 - Anne Hébert novelist, poet, born in Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec. Hébert was influenced by her father, an author and Quebec civil servant, and her cousin, poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau. She moved to Paris in the 1950s. Her major novels are Kamouraska (1970), based on a 19th century murder, Les enfants du sabbat (1975) (Children of the Black Sabbath), Héloise (1980), about a Parisian vampire, and Les fous de Bassan (1982) (In the Shadow of the Wind), about a double rape and murder. Her poetry includes Les songes en equilibre (1942) and Le tombeau des rois (1953). 1905 - 1993 Helen Hogg-Priestly astronomer, professor, born Helen Sawyer in Lowell, Massachusetts; died in Toronto. Hogg received her PhD in Astronomy from Radliffe in 1931, and joined the staff of the University of Toronto in 1936. An expert in globular star clusters, she wrote a weekly column on Astronomy in the Toronto Star for three decades, and a book called The Stars Belong to Everyone (1976). 1899 - 1985 F. R. Frank Scott poet, constitutional lawyer, socialist, born in Quebec City; died in Montreal. Son of an Anglican minister, Scott graduated from Bishops University and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he was influenced by British socialism and joined the Student Christian Movement. On his return to Canada, he studied law at McGill University, joined the Law Faculty, and in 1932 was a founder, with Frank Underhill, Eugene Forsey and others, of the League for Social Reconstruction, a socialist study group. He helped write the Regina Manifesto of the CCF and in 1935, Social Planning for Canada. He also served as national Chair of the CCF and helped in the founding of the NDP. In his legal career, he fought Maurice Duplessis' Padlock Law before the Supreme Court, served as Dean of Law at McGill, and wrote Essays on the Constitution. He also translated the works of Anne Hébert, Saint-Denys Garneau and other French Canadian poets, and served on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
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August 2 1991 Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland - Viking replica 'Gaia' reaches Norse settlement site for 1,000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's landing; Vinland Revisited expedition left Norway May 17. 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act makes ship and cargo owners fully liable for pollution. 1970 anseau Quebec - Start of disastrous three-day Manseau Pop Festival, held on a farm 80 km southwest of Quebec City; only 10,000 fans turned out in the torrential rain; New Orleans rocker Dr. John shows up; Jimi Hendrix, Allman Brothers and Little Richard stay away because they are not paid in advance. 1963 Welland Ontario- Engineers make start on twinning of locks of Welland Canal; to be completed by 1968. 1932 Gimli Manitoba - Icelanders at Gimli host first annual Icelandic Festival (Islendingadagurinn) to celebrate their culture and honour their pioneers; settlement of New Iceland formed in 1875; became part of Manitoba in 1881. 1922 Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell dies at his Beinn Bhreagh home on Cape Breton Island; audiologist known as the inventor of the telephone (1876); to mark his death, all telephone service in Canada is halted for 80 seconds on Aug 4, starting at 6:25 pm 1909 Pembroke Ontario - First passenger flight in Canada made in the Silver Dart at Camp Petawawa in an evaluation by the Canadian Army; original plane built by the Aerial Experiment Association formed by Alexander Graham Bell; made first controlled powered flight in Canada Feb. 23, 1909 off the ice at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, by designer J.A.D. McCurdy; apparently the plane had poor control characteristics. 1812 Amherstburg Ontario- Shawnee Chief Tecumseh helps persuade Wyandots (Hurons) to switch allegiance to British. 1610 HUDSON ENTERS THE BAY NWT/Quebec - Dutch navigator Henry Hudson, in the employ of the English, enters the inland sea now known as Hudson Bay, but thinks he has found the Pacific Ocean. 1589 Paris France - King Henri IV starts reign on death of Henri III; to 1610, when he is assassinated. Born on this day: 1948 - Bob Rae politician, born in Ottawa. Rae was an NDP MP 1978-82 and became Leader of the Ontario NDP in 1982. In 1985 he held the balance of power in the Ontario Legislature, and supported the David Peterson Liberals, but lost badly in the 1987 election. In 1992, when Peterson called an election three years into his term, Rae won a three way race and got 74 seats with 37.6% of the popular vote. His Social Contract was an attempt to force restraint on Ontario public servants. He was defeated by the Mike Harris Tories in 1996. 1937 - Garth Hudson rock keyboardist, born in London, Ontario. Hudson was a member of The Band, originally The Hawks, run by rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins from about 1959 until 1963. The Hawks then split from Hawkins, moved to the US and in 1965 became the back-up band for Bob Dylan; in 1968 recorded their first album, 'Music From the Big Pink'; played their final concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco Nov. 1976, an event filmed by director Martin Scorsese, and released as The Last Waltz. 1914 - 1988 Félix Leclerc singer, playwright, born in La Tuque Quebec; died on the Ile d'Orleans. Leclerc started his career singing for Radio Canada in 1939; in 1948 helped start the VLM troup to present his plays throughout French Canada; best-known songs are Notre Sentier, Le P' Bonheur, Bozo and Le train du nord; awarded France's Grand Prix du disque in 1951 for 'Moi, mes souliers'; also won in 1958 and 1973. 1892 - 1978 Jack Warner movie producer, born in London, Ontario; died 1978 in Hollywood. The youngest of 12 children of Jewish immigrant pedlars from Poland, he and his brothers Harry (1881-1958), Albert (1884-1967) and Sam (1888-1927) ventured into film distribution in 1905, then production. In 1917 they set up the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, California, and in 1927 launched the sound era with The Jazz Singer. Jack, as production chief, ended up as the most powerful man in Hollywood. 1862 - 1947 Duncan Campbell Scott writer, civil servant, born in Ottawa; died in Ottawa. Scott wrote short stories and seven collectioins of poems. He is one of the Confederation Group of Poets that included Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Charles G. D. Roberts. He was Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs from 1913-32. 1886 - 1961 J. A. D. McCurdy flier, aviation pioneer, was born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia; died in Montreal. McCurdy joined Casey Baldwin and Alexander Graham Bell in founding the Aerial Experimental Association. He took over 200 short flights with Curtis and others in the US, and on Feb 23, 1909, made Canada's first controlled powered flight, and the first in the British Empire, on the Silver Dart from the ice of Baddeck Bay. During World War II, he was Canada's Assistant Director of Aircraft Production. 1780 - 1875 Marie-Anne Lagimodière née Gaboury pioneer, grandmother of Louis Riel, was born in Maskinongé Quebec; died in St-Boniface Manitoba. Lagimodière married fur trader Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière in 1806 and travelled to Red River and Fort Edmonton with him. In 1807 she gave birth to a daughter Reine, who was the first legitimate white child born in the West. Another daughter Julie, was the mother of Louis Riel. 1626 - 1685 Charles Le Moyne solider, seigneur, patriarch, was born in Dieppe France; died in Montreal. LeMoyne came to New France at age 15 to work for the Jesuits in Huronia. He became skilled in native dialects, and fought fiercely against the Iroquois during their attacks on Montreal, winning a patent of nobility in 1668. He was given the barony of Longueuil in 1672, and Châteauguay in 1673, and was made Governor of Montreal in 1683. His 12 sons all had prominent careers in New France and abroad.
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August 3 1989 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Wilbert Keon leads the team that implants the heart from an 18 month old donor into an 11 day old Ontario boy; Canada's first Infant heart transplant operation. 1978 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of week-long 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton; Canada wins total of 109 medals (45 gold, 31 silver, 33 bronze) in eleven sports; attended by over 1,500 athletes from 46 countries. 1952 Helsinki Finland - 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki; George Genereux won Canada's only gold medal, in shooting. 1942 North Atlantic - RCN Corvette 'Sackville' sinks U-boat in Atlantic; one of four RCN kills in five weeks. 1918 London England - Lt-Col William A. 'Billy' Bishop awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; Canadian flying ace recently downed 25 German planes in 12 days, bringing his total to 72. 1876 BELL MAKES WORLD'S FIRST PHONE CALL IN CANADA Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell holds the World's first definitive telephone tests, and makes the first intelligible telephone call from building to building, at Mount Pleasant, near Brantford; in a one-way transmission, he hears his uncle David Bell recite Hamlet's 'to be or not to be...' 1847 Toronto Ontario - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Toronto; three years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph; connection from there to Buffalo and US cities. 1751 Halifax Nova Scotia - Bartholemew Green founds first printing press in Canada; to print the Halifax Gazette 1610 Hudson Bay NWT - Henry Hudson enters Hudson Bay; sails along east coast possibly as far as James Bay; decides to winter on shore; ship frozen in by November. 1527 St. John's Newfoundland - Captain John Rut reports to King Henry VIII about conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador; the first recorded letter from the New World to the Old. Born on this day: 1956 - Ian Crichton rock musician. Rock & Roll guitarist, songwriter, of the group Saga. 1951 - Marcel Dionne NHL hockey Centre, born in Drummondville Quebec. Dionne began his junior career with St Catherines, and was the OHL's leading scorer two years in a row. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 1971. In 1976 he went to the .L. A. Kings as a free agent and had six 50+ goal seasons.. He retired in 1989 after two years with the New York Rangers. His career total, 731 goals and 1040 assists was only exceeded by Howe and Gretzky and he held the League record for most Hat Tricks scored. 1923 - Robert Campeau developer, promoter, born in Sudbury, Ontario. Campeau began his career as an Ottawa property developer in 1949, and built Campeau Corp into a Canadian powerhouse. In 1986 he moved into the US retail business taking over Allied Stores for $5 billion, but the following year, his acquisition of Federated Department Stores for $7 billion loaded him with unsustainable debt, and in Jan 1990 he was forced to declare bankruptcy. Campeau is living in Austria and is building projects in Berlin, Germany. 1890 - 1961 Lorne Pierce publisher, critic, Canadian nationalist, born in Delta, Ontario; died in Toronto. Ordained a Methodist Minister, Pierce was editor of the Ryerson Press from 1922-60, and during his almost 40 year tenure strongly supported Canadian literature. 1847 - 1934 John Campbell Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen 7th Governor General of Canada 1892-99, was bornin Edinburgh, Scotland; died at Tarland, Scotland. Aberdeen and his wife Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, were both social crusaders and Liberals and they clashed with the Conservative governments of the day. Their memoirs, We Twa (!925), contains material on their Canadian stay.
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August 4 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Closing of the 26th Olympic Summer games in Atlanta; Canada won 3 gold, 11 silver, 8 bronze medals. 1983 Toronto Ontario - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield charged by Toronto police with unncessary cruelty to an animal after he kills an Exhibition Stadium seagull with a thrown baseball; charges later dropped after Winfield convinces police the killing was accidental; the 'Fowl Ball' incident. 1978 Eastman Quebec - Forty one handicapped persons die when their bus plunges into a lake near Eastman. 1976 London England - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet dies at age 82; Toronto born barber's son became a millionaire owner of broadcasting stations and newspapers and North Sea oil holdings; he was elevated to the peerage in 1963. 1960 Ottawa Ontario - Commons approves John Diefenbaker's Canadian Bill of Rights, setting out Canadian rights and freedoms in written form; Royal Assent August 10. 1952 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary Library in Ottawa badly damaged by fire. 1944 Beauvais France - R.A.F. Squadron Leader Ian Bazalgette of Calgary, shot down over France in his Lancaster bomber during an incendiary raid on a German missile launch pad near Beauvais; with both starboard engines hit by anti-aircraft fire, he continued to guide his squadron to their target; after dropping his bombs, the fuel tank exploded, and he ordered his crew to bail out; stayed at the controls and guided the Lancaster away from the village of Senantes before it crashed, killing him and two comrades. Bazalgette was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously; a junior high school in Calgary is named in his honour. 1914 CANADA ENTERS WORLD WAR I Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially enters World War I when Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary; when Germany invades Belgium; US proclaims neutrality. Canada will vote to spend $50 million to raise an army. 1769 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island comes into being as the British Crown separates Ile St-Jean from Nova Scotia. The new colony, population 250, is given a governor, lieutenant-governor, executive and legislative councils, a Supreme Court and civil service, and plans are made for a legislative assembly. 1637 Ontario - Huron council blames smallpox epidemic on sorcery of 'black robes' (Jesuits). Born on this day: 1921 - 2000 Maurice "Rocket" Richard hockey player, born at Montreal, Quebec; died there July 2000; NHL right winger for Montreal Canadiens 1942-60, scored 544 regular season goals and 82 playoff goals, 18 of them winners. He was the first to score more than 50 goals in a season (1944-45), and first to score 500 career goals. He led the League in goals 5 times, was an 8-time NHL first team All-Star; MVP in 1947, and played on 8 Stanley Cup winners in Montreal. In March 1955, Richard struck Boston's Hal Laycoe with a stick and wrestled off a linesman who tried to intervene. When League President Clarence Campbell suspended Richard for the rest of the season, including the playoffs, Campbell was attacked in the Montreal Forum, and fans rioted through the streets of Montreal. [Quote: Frank Selke - "When Maurice is worked up, his eyes gleam like headlights, not a glow, but a piercing intensity. Goalies have said he's like a car coming at you at night. He is terrifying."] 1877 - 1917 Tom Thomson painter, born in Claremont, Ontario; drowned in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Provincial Park. Thomson was born on a farm near Leith, Ontario, the 6th of 10 children. He trained as a machinist, then a photoengraver, and in 1907 he joined the Grip firm in Toronto. In 1912 he began sketching in Algonquin Park, and he sold his canvas, Northern Lake, for $250. The following year he met his mentor A. Y. Jackson, and a patron Dr. James McCallum, and started painting with Varley and Lismer as well. In 1915 he sold his Northern River to the National Gallery of Canada for $500, and mounted an exhibition at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. He spent the summer of 1916 as a fire ranger in Algonquin Park, and returned the following April, but one day in July he left camp to sketch in Canoe Lake, and was found drowned. 1824 - 1882 Antoine Gérin-Lajoie writer, librarian, born in Yamachiche, Quebec; died in Ottawa. Gérin-Lajoie was a leader in the early literary movement of French Canada. As a student at Nicolet College in 1842, he wrote the song 'Un Canadien errant,' and in 1844 the First French Canadian tragedy, Le Jeune Latour. He was a founding member of the Institut Canadien, a journalist at the Montreal newspaper La Minerve, and Assistant Librarian of Parliament. From 1862-64 he published a two-part novel Jean Rivard le défricheur and Jean Rivard économiste, that promoted the colonization of Quebec wilderness lands.
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August 5 1960 EX-PM MEIGHEN DIES IN TORONTO Toronto Ontario - Senator Arthur Meighen dies in Toronto at the age of 86; Canada's 9th Prime Minister, 1920-21 and 1926. 1940 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Camilien Houde arrested by RCMP for sedition; because of his fascist sympathies he was sent to internment camp for the rest of World War II under the War Measures Act 1919 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King elected Leader of the Liberal Party on the third ballot, succeeding interim leader Daniel McKenzie; gets 476 votes, to W.S. Fielding's 438. 1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada joins the rest of the British Empire in the war on Germany; the day after the German invasion of Belgium. 1913 Victoria, BC - US barnstormer John Bryant killed when he crashes his Curtiss seaplane; Canada's first air fatality. 1858 Newfoundland - Frederick N. Gisbourne completes laying Cyrus W Field's first transatlantic telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland; started July 7; the service ends on September 1 because the current is too weak, and the line is relayed using a thicker and better shielded cable. 1689 Lachine Quebec - 1,500 Iroquois attack and burn the village of Lachine; massacre 24 inhabitants and kidnap 90; 42 of 90 never seen again. 1583 St. John's Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert enters Harbour and reads Charter claiming the lands 200 miles around St. John's for Elizabeth I; grants shore rights to 36 foreign vessels; the first English colony in North America. Born on this day: 1949 - Carole Laure actor, born Carole Champagne near Montreal. Laure studied to be a concert pianist but moved into theatre, making her professional debut in a Michel Tremblay play. She was leading lady in six Gilles Carle films, including Le Mort d'un bûcheron (1973), La Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975), L'Ange et la femme (1977), Fantastica (1980) and Maria Chapdelaine (1983). 1947 - Greg Leskin rock & roll singer/guitarist of The Guess Who. 1920 - 1985 Selma Diamond comedienne, scriptwriter, born in London, Ontario. Diamond played Mildred Rafkin in the TV sitcom Too Close For Comfort, and Selma Hacker in Night Court. 1918 - Betty Oliphant ballet teacher, born in London, England. Oliphant came to Canada in 1947 and opened a dance school. She became ballet mistress of the National Ballet of Canada in 1951 and founded the National Ballet School in Toronto in 1959, where she helped train Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn and others. 1875 - 1933 Arthur Currie Commander of the Canadian Corps during World War I, born in Strathroy, Ontario; died in Montreal. Currie was an unsuccessful real estate developer in Victoria BC, where he commanded the local militia. When the First War began, his artillery and leadership talents were so pronounced that he was rapidly promoted to General, becoming head of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade on Sept 29 1914, and the First Canadian Division Sept 13, 1915. He saw action at Passchendaele, and led the charge that drove the Germans from Vimy Ridge. In 1918 his Canadian Corps, backed by some Australian and British units, took 16,000 prisoners in two hours at Amiens; this victory marked the start of "Canada's Hundred Days," a string of almost continuous victories, during which the Canadians played the major role in breaking the German lines and driving them back along the Western Front, culminating in the First World War armistice of Nov. 11. German General Erich Ludendorff called Amiens the "black day of the German army." Currie ended his career as Chancellor of McGill University.
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August 6 1991 Toronto Ontario - Roland Michener dies at age 91; Governor General 1967-74; MLA, MP; Speaker of the Commons 5 years; Alberta native a Rhodes Scholar; set up Order of Canada 1990 United Nations New York - Canada agrees to join trade embargo against Iraq ordered by UN security Council. 1974 Cyprus - Canadian peacekeeper killed during Greek-Turkish fighting on Cyprus 1939 Montreal Quebec - Regular air mail service inaugurated to Britain 1932 Welland Ontario - opening of new Welland Ship Canal 1930 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King resigns as Prime Minister 1914 Ottawa Ontario - government bans export of food, coal, military and naval stores; except to Britain, Japan, France, Russia, and US allies 1866 VANCOUVER ISLAND JOINED TO MAINLAND London England - A British Imperial statute unites Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland; the Island had originally been granted to the Hudson's Bay Company and became a colony in 1850. 1858 Canada - George-Etienne Cartier & John A. Macdonald get all their ministers to resign and exchange portfolios for one day to get around a technicality; called the 'Double Shuffle' by the Opposition 1654 Lachine Quebec - Pierre-Esprit Radisson starts his first western trading journey with his brother-in-law Medart Chouart des Groseilliers; they winter at Green Bay, Wisconsin Born on this day: 1931 - Max Gros-Louis (Oné-Onti) Chief of the Huron nation at Lorette, was born in Loretteville, Quebec. After a career in the handicraft business, Gros-Louis was elected Chief in 1964. He helped establish the Canadian Indian Pavilion at Expo 67 and found the Indians of Quebec Association in 1966. 1923 - Paul Hellyer politician, businessman, born in Waterford, Ontario. Hellyer was first elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1949, and became Defense critic and then Minister in 1963, where he was responsible for the unificiation of the Canadian Armed Forces. He was defeated in the Liberal leadership race by Pierre Trudeau, and later resigned the Party, founding his own Action Canada movement in 1976. He joined the PCs and was back in Parliament for 2 years before being defeated. 1845 - 1914 John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Lord Lorne and later 9th Duke of Argyll Governor General of Canada 1878-1883, born in London, England; died on the Isle of Wight. Lorne was married to Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's 4th daughter. He served as a Liberal Member of the House of Commons 1868-78, when he was appointed Governor General at age 33. While in the viceregal post, he helped reconcile BC to Confederation and founded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, which became the National Gallery of Canada, in 1880, and the Royal Society of Canada in 1882. 1820 - 1914 Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal fur trader and financier, was born in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland; died in London. Smith joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1838 and spent much of his early career running the Labrador Department. Through his links to his cousin George Stephen of the Bank of Montreal, Smith took over the control and management of the HBC in 1871, and served as an MP in the 1870s - the Member for HBC. He reconciled the inhabitants of Red River to Union with Canada, and put his energies into ensuring the survival of both the HBC, and the new CPR, in which he was a major investor. He spent his final years as Canadian High Commissioner in London.
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August 7 1982 Montreal Quebec - Don Muir and Andre Daemen land at Dorval Airport after a record round-the-world propellor flight in a time of 6 days, 7 hours, 30 minutes; Muir, 26, is a bush pilot from Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Daemen, 22, is a Montreal flying instructor 1950 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet decides to recruit and create a special Canadian armed force of 5,000 men for service with United Nations in Korea. 1948 Canada - Louis Stephen St. Laurent chosen as party leader on first ballot by Liberal Party; 848 votes, to J.G. Gardiner (323), Chubby Power (56) 1930 BENNETT SWORN IN AS PRIME MINISTER Ottawa Ontario - Richard Bedford R. B. Bennett asked to form government on resignation of Mackenzie King; Canada's 9th Prime Minister, to Oct. 23, 1935; King PM since Aug. 7, 1930. 1929 Fort Erie Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King joins British PM Stanley Baldwin and Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and US Vice President Charles Dawes in dedicating the Peace Bridge to Buffalo, NY, one of the busiest border crossings between Canada and the US. 1865 Canada - Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau 1808-1894 joins Macdonald in Ministry, as co-Premier. 1858 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa officially becomes capital of the Province of Canada. 1858 Canada - Cartier & Macdonald let all ministers resume offices they held before July 29; procedure known as 'Double-Shuffle'; under the rules, a Minister changing his portfolio within a month of appointment can avoid election 1803 Orwell Bay PEI - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk sends first of 800 Highland settlers from Scotland to Orwell Bay; begins colonizing efforts in PEI. 1679 Cayuga Creek Ontario - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle launches his 46 ton trading vessel 'Le Griffon,' the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes; on Aug 27 La Salle left on the Griffon for Michilimackinac and Green Bay with trade goods, and La Salle returned east. On Sept 18 she left laden with furs for Niagara, but was never seen again. Born on this day: 1945 - Kerry Chater Rock & Roll performer, bass guitarist, of the group Gary Puckett & the Union Gap. 1928 - James Randi magician, illusionist, writer, was born in Toronto; called The Amazing Randi, he is a skeptic, and enjoys exposing frauds like Uri Geller. 1909 - 1981 Dorothy McKenzie Walton badminton and tennis player, was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan; died in Toronto. Walton won the Canadian womens badminton title in 1936 and held it for 4 years. She also won the All England and World championships in 1939, the only Canadian woman to rank at the top of the world. 1846 - 1888 Anna Swan giantess, entertainer, was born in Mill Brook, Nova Scotia; died of tubercolosis in Seville, Ohio. From 1862 on, Swan was a perfomer with P. T. Barnum's circus, earning $1000 a month and schooling. Barnum claimed she was 8'1"; in reality she was only 7'6". In 1871 she married Kentucky giant Martin Bates; their two children were abnormally large and died at birth.
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| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 3:20 pm
August 8 1991 Toronto Ontario - Ron Joyce sells Tim Horton's, Canada's No. 1 doughnut chain to Wendy's International Inc.; $300-million deal makes Tim Horton's co-founder the U.S. burger giant's largest single shareholder. 1944 North Atlantic - German U-boats sink Canadian Corvette HMCS 'Regina'. 1934 Wasaga Beach Ontario - J. R. Ayling and L. Reid leave from Wasaga Beach to London in first non-stop transatlantic flight from Canada to England; arrive August 9 1918 Amiens France - General Sir Arthur William Currie mounts four day assault on Amiens with the Canadian Corps, backed by Australians; marks the start of "Canada's Hundred Days," a string of almost continuous victories, during which the Canadian Corps played the major role in breaking the German lines and driving them back along the Western Front, culminating in the First World War armistice of Nov. 11. German General Erich Ludendorff called today the "black day of the German army." 1907 GREY FOX BREAKS OUT OF JAIL New Westminster BC - Bill Miner, the Gentleman Bandit, escapes from penitentiary and flees to the US, where he continues his bank robbing career until his death in a Georgia prison; he was jailed for 25 years for his part in a bungled CPR train robbery in Kamloops in 1906; the film, The Grey Fox, is based on his exploits. 1758 Port-la- Joie PEI - Andrew Rollo captures Prince Edward Island from the French, deports 3,500 inhabitants to France, builds Fort Amherst. 1641 Quebec Quebec - Jeanne Mance arrives in New France with with Mme de La Peltrie, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and settlers bound for Montreal in two ships; on behalf of La Société Notre-Dame; they spend the winter near Quebec City, and the following Spring go up river to found Ville Marie (Montreal), where Jeanne Mance also founds the Hôtel Dieu de Montréal. 1619 Ice Cove NWT - Rasmus Jensen ship's chaplain holds first Lutheran service in Canada with Jens Munk and crew; only Munk and two others survive the voyage 1585 Cape Mercy NWT - John Davis rounds peninsula he calls Cape of God's Mercy (Cape Mercy) then enters wide and deep bay; calls it Cumberland Sound; hopes it is the North West Passage. Born on this day: 1948 - Georges Erasmus Canadian Dene leader, was born in the Fort Rae, NWT. After working with the Company of Young Canadians in the 1960s, Erasmus became President of the Dene Nation from 1976-1983. He became national chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 1985, and in 1991, co-chaired the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affiars with René Dussault of the Quebec Superior Court. 1947 - Ken Dryden hockey player, lawyer, sports executive, born at Hamilton, Ontario . Selected by Boston Bruins in round 3 #14 overall in the 1964 Amateur Draft; NHL goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens 1970-79; led Montreal to 6 Stanley Cup titles; he was playoff MVP as rookie in 1971, and won or shared 5 Vezina Trophies; Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 8:06 am
August 9 1992 Barcelona Spain - Canada completes competition at XXV Olympiad; wins 6 golds, 5 silver, 7 bronze; better than 10 medal total at Korea. Here is the Medal tally: Silken Laumann wins bronze medal in rowing; in spite of injured leg. Angela Chalmers wins bronze medal in track and field Sylvie Frechette wins silver medal in synchronized swimming; misses gold due to a judge's error; initial appeal fails to overturn result. Nicholas Gill wins bronze medal in judo. Curt Harnett wins bronze medal in cycling. Chris Johnson wins bronze medal in boxing. Guillaume Leblanc wins silver medal in track and field. Mark Leduc wins silver medal in boxing. Ross MacDonald & Eric Jesperson win bronze medal in sailing. Marnie McBean & Kathleen Heddle win gold medal in rowing. Mark McKoy wins gold medal in 110-metre hurdles; Canada's first gold in track since 1928. Mark Tewksbury wins gold medal in 100 Metre Backstroke swimming. Jeff Thue wins silver medal in wrestling. Penny & Vicky Vilagos win silver medal in pairs synchronized swimming. Women's Eight win gold medal in rowing. Women's Four win gold medal in rowing. Mens Eight win gold medal in rowing. Mens 4 x 100 metre relay team win bronze medal in swimming. 1988 PETER PUCK TRADES GRETZKY Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky traded by Edmonton Oiler owner Peter Pocklington to Los Angeles Kings with two other players; Oilers get Jimmy Carson, top draft choice Martin Gelinas, 3 other first-round draft choices and a reputed $15-20 million. 1978 Edmonton Alberta - Canadian swimmer Graham Smith wins Canada's 26th gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, a record; a few hours later, he is a winner in the 400 Metre Medley, becoming the first athlete to win 6 golds at a single Games. 1974 Lebanon - Nine Canadians peacekeppers are killed when a Syrian anti-aircraft missile shoots down a UN transport plane en route to Damascus from Beirut; providing air transport and communications support to the UN Emergency Force 1945 Honshu Island Japan - Robert Hampton Gray 1917-1944 shot down and killed in a dive bombing raid at Onagawa Wan as he sinks Japanese destroyer; Royal Navy pilot Gray was the last Canadian known to have died In World War II; he was awarded a posthumous VC. In 1989, in Sakiyami Park, Japan, Gray became the first member of the Allied Forces honored by the Japanese with a memorial. 1941 Argentia Bay Newfoundland - Winston Spencer Churchill meets Franklin D. Roosevelt at sea off Newfoundland. 1930 Toronto Ontario - Canada's Percy Williams established a world record of 10:03 seconds for 100 metres. 1842 Washington DC - US Secretary of State Daniel Webster & Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton sign Treaty settling Maine/New Brunswick boundary dispute; also deals with extradition questions; Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixes the border from the headwaters of the Ste. Croix River to the Eastern Townships and from Lake Huron to the Lake of the Woods. 1757 Fort William Henry New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm leads 6,200 troops and 1,800 Indians in capture of Fort William Henry; takes 2,200 British prisoners; stops murder of prisoners by Native allies. Born on this day: 1942 - David Steinberg comedian, movie director, actor and author, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, son of a Romanian rabbi. While attending the University of Chacago, he got involved in the Second City review, and performed with them for two years. His first TV appearance was on the Smothers Brothers show, where he played a twisted rabbi. He also served as a guest host on the Tonight Show, before leaving the stage for production. 1934 - Graeme Gibson writer, was born in London, Ontario. Gibson has written three novels: Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971) and Perpetual Motion (1982). Married to Margaret Atwood, he was one of the founders of the Writers Union of Canada in 1974. 1845 - 1937 Alfred Bessette, Frère André faith healer, was born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville, Quebec; died in Montreal. Brother André was a lowly member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross when he started his faith healing in honour of St Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary. By 1904 he and his followers had built a small oratory on the northwest slope of Mount Royal, then from 1924-55 the basilica of the Oratoire St-Joseph was built in his honour and as a centre for the Catholic trade union movement..
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 7:46 am
August 10 1995 Montreal Quebec- Laval Cosmodome receives a lump of moon rock from NASA. 1966 Canada- Daylight meteor streaks across the sky from Utah to Canada; only known meteor to skip through the Earth's atmosphere and leave it again. 1960 Ottawa Ontario- John Diefenbaker's Canadian Bill of Rights becomes law; document applies only to federal law because provincial consent not obtained; recognizes rights of individuals to life, liberty, personal security and enjoyment of property; protects rights to equality before the law and freedoms of speech, religion, assembly and association and the press; not superseded by the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 1953 Canada- Louis Stephen St. Laurent wins 22nd federal general election 171 seats to 51 Progressive Conservatives; 23 CCF; 15 Social Credit; 5 others; defeats George Drew with 48.8% of popular vote; Lionel Bertrand elected by acclamation in Quebec. 1949 Toronto Ontario- Avro Canada C.102 Jetliner takes maiden flight; designed to meet a Trans-Canada Airlines requirement; first jet transport to fly in North America and second to fly in the world, 13 days after the flight of the De Havilland 106 Comet; government halts development in 1951 to force Avro to concentrate on the CF-100 jet fighter. 1910 Pembroke Ontario- J.A.D. McCurdy sends the first wireless message from an airplane in flight; during testing at Camp Petawawa. 1876 BELL CALLS LONG DISTANCE Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long-distance call from Brantford to the Bell homestead in Paris, Ontario; using a 13 km long line strung from Brantford. 1757 Fort William Henry New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm fails to prevent massacre of the departing English men, women and children by his Indian allies; only 400 of the 2,200 English make it half way to Fort Lydius (Fort Edward), where they are met by an escort of 500 men, sent out for their protection; during the siege some of the Indians contracted smallpox and brought this back to their villages that winter. The resulting epidemic during the winter of 1757-58 took most of the Great Lakes tribes out of the war. 1535 Baie Ste-Geneviève Quebec- Jacques Cartier enters a sheltered bay he names St. Lawrence, in honor of the saint's feast day; name given in early 1600s to Gulf of St. Lawrence & St Lawrence River. 1497 Bristol England- John Cabot receives a £10 reward from Henri VII for his discoveries in the New World.. Born on this day: 1900 - 83 Norma Shearer model, actress, born Edith Norma Shearer in Montreal, Quebec; died in Hollywood. Shearer began as a child model and movie bit player in New York. Her performance in The Stealers (1920) caught the eye of Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg, who signed her to a long-term contract with MGM in 1923. He married her in 1927, after which she had her pick of parts and directors. She is famous for her roles in The Divorcee (1930) for which she won an Oscar, and Idiot's Delight (1939), a comedy with Clark Gable. Her career faltered after Thalberg's death in 1936. 1890 - 1954 Angus L. Macdonald Premier of Nova Scotia, federal Cabinet Minister, born in Dunvegan, Nova Scotia; died in Halifax. Macdonald was elected head of the Nova Scotia Liberals in 1930, and won the election of 1933. He served as Minister of Defense for Naval Services in Ottawa from 1940-1945 at which time he resigned from the King Cabinet over Conscription, and resumed the Premiership of Nova Scotia, which he held until his death. 1865 - 1924 James Wilson Morrice modernist painter, born in Montreal, Quebec; died in Tunis, Tunisia. Morrice trained as a lawyer, but art dealer William Stewart and CPR President W.C. Van Horne suggested he make a career of painting. He studied abroad with Whistler and others, and achieved international success, but he continued to return to Canada to paint Quebec and environs. 1841 - 1924 Peter Martin (Oronhyatekha, or Burning Cloud) MD, born on the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford, Ontario; died in Savannah, Georgia. Martin paid for his early medical training in the US, but he received support from the Prince of Wales and others to go to Oxford, and then received his medical degree from the University of Toronto, the first native Canadian to earn a degree from a Canadian university. He practiced in Ontario, and in 1881 became Chief Ranger (head) of the Independent Order of Foresters, a fraternal association that provided its brothers with insurance. In 26 years, he helped the IOF grow to 250,000 members, with a fund of over $11 million.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 8:43 am
August 11 1997 Ottawa Ontario- Jean Chrétien writes to Lucien Bouchard cautioning him about the danger of the partitioning of Quebec territory that might come with independence; says, 'The only way to ensure that there will be no partitioning of Quebec - the only legal way to be absolutely sure - is to remain part of Canada.' 1996 Hungary- Jacques Villeneuve wins the Grand Prix of Hungary on the Formula One circuit. 1990 Oka Quebec- Canadian Forces soldiers arrive at Oka to support Quebec police in their standoff with Mohawk warriors at Kanasetake. 1978 Edmonton Alberta- Opening of 11th British Empire Games, newly renamed the Commonwealth Games; to Aug. 11; with track and field, badminton, boxing, cycling and gymnastics events; Canada will win 109 medals (45 gold, 31 silver, 33 bronze); games first held in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1930. 1976 Etobicoke Ontario- Close of Olympiad for the Physically Disabled; Canada places 5th; attended by over 1,500 athletes from 38 countries. 1957 Issoudun Quebec- Maritime Central Airlines DC-4 charter flight from England crashes, killing 79 veterans and their families. 1944 CANADIANS TAKE FLORENCE Florence Italy - Canadian tanks enter the outskirts of Florence with the British Eighth Army, forcing the Germans to evacuate the city. 1941 Ottawa Ontario- Government bans the use of silk; to conserve wartime supplies for parachutes. 1931 Ottawa Ontario - Tim Buck arrested under Section 98 of the Criminal Code - for belonging to an 'unlawful association'; a machinist trained in politics at the Lenin School in Moscow, Buck is one of eight Canadian Communist leaders given prison terms in Kingston Penitentiary that November. 1914 St. John's, Newfoundland- Thermometer hits 41.7 degrees Celsius, in Newfoundland's warmest day on record. 1854 London England- British Parliament passes Union Amendment Act allowing election of Legislative Council of Canada. 1771 England- Hudson Bay whalers return with three kills caught off Marble Island; first known Arctic whaling expeditions. 1649 Quebec Quebec- Laurent Berman first licensed practicing notary in New France. Born on this day: 1943 - Michael James Kale Rock & Roll bassist of The Guess Who. 1932 - 2003 Izzy Asper lawyer, politician, broadcasting mogul, was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba. A specialist in tax law, Asper served for a time as leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party. He founded CanWest Broadcasting and independent Winnipeg TV station CKND in the 1970s, and then took over Global Broadcasting in Ontario. 1907 - 1974 Andrew Allan CBC radio producer, writer, was born in Arbroath, Scotland in 1907; died in Toronto. Allan joined the CBC in Vancouver in 1942, and from 1944-56 produced over 400 radio dramas for the Stage series. He was also founding Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the Lake from 1963-65. 1878 - 1947 Eva Tanguay actress, comedienne, vaudevillian. 1718 - 1791 Sir Frederick Haldimand professional soldier, was born in Yverdon, Switzerland; died in Yverdon. A Swiss German serving in the British Army, Haldimand succeeded Guy Carleton as governor of Quebec from 1778 to 1786; he was responsible for settling Loyalists in Canada after the American Revolution.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 9:03 am
"the partitioning of Quebec" - I had no idea Chretien had talked about that. Does that mean that the First Nation lands (and the First Nation were very vocal that they did not want to go) would be partitioned off from Quebec or are they talking about more than that, I wonder??
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 10:05 am
If I recall correctly it was the First Nation lands that Chretien was talking about.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Friday, August 12, 2005 - 11:51 am
August 12 1992 CANADA SIGNS NAFTA DEAL Washington DC - Canadian Trade Minister Michael Wilson signs draft North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) deal with US and Mexico after 14 months of trilateral negotiations; creates the world's largest trading block; to start Jan. 1, 1994; to phase out trade and investment barriers over 10 years; many exemptions; it will take another year to iron out side issues. 1984 Los Angeles California - Close of XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles; record attendance of 5.5 million people despite Soviet-led boycott; Canada makes best Olympic showing ever, winning 44 medals - 10 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze - including a double gold in swimming by Alex Baumann - the 200 Metre Individual Medley and the 400 Metre Individual Medley. (Here he is on the podium) Other golds - Victor Davis in 200 Metre Breaststroke; Linda Thom in Match Pistols; Lori Fung in Rhythmic Gymnastics; Ann Ottenbrite in 200 Metre Breaststroke; Sylvie Bernier in Springboard Diving; and the Men's Eight Rowing team. 1981 Ottawa Ontario- Canadian air traffic controllers resume full operations after Ottawa sets up a fact-finding team to investigate problems involving US flights due to the firing of striking US controllers. 1928 Amsterdam Netherlands- Close of IX Olympiad in Amsterdam; Canada comes away with four gold medals: Percy Williams in the 100 m dash and 200 m dash; Ethel Catherwood in the high jump, and the women's 4x100 m relay team. 1914 London England- Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; Canada automatically involved. 1892 Toronto Ontario- First electric streetcars start operating in Toronto; converted from horse-drawn vehicles to the new Toronto Railway Company cars on the Church route; remainder of lines converted over the next two years. 1876 Newport Rhode Island- US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup. 1770 Dubawnt Lake NWT- Samuel Hearne reaches Dubawnt Lake, about 640 km from Coppermine; forced to turn back because of broken quadrant 1756 Oswego New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm sets up a battery on high ground 80 yards from British post of Fort Ontario and starts firing on it with cannon, some of which were Braddock's own cannon, seized after the Battle of the Wilderness. At 4 pm, Col. James Mercer decides the fort is no longer tenable, and orders his regiments - the 15th and 51st to evacuate across the river to old Ft. Oswego; the French then open fire with every gun, and the walls of Fort Oswego start to break apart under the cannonade. The defenders will hold out for two more days before being massacred by Montcalm's Indian allies. 1662 Quebec Quebec- François de Laval leaves for France to ask Louis XIV to abolish Company of New France for failing to support the Church. Born on this day: {1904 - 1986 Ken Watson curler, born at Minnedosa, Manitoba. Watson's first major win is the Manitoba Bonspeil in 1923, and he will take 32 more bonspeils, including, from 1942-27, six grand aggregates in a row; his career Macdonald Brier record is 25 and 2, and in 1949, he and his Strathcona Manitoba rink are the first to win the Tankard 3 times; author of the bestseller Ken Watson on Curling. 1896 - 1953 Mitchell Frederick Hepburn politician, Ontario Premier, born at St. Thomas, Ontario. A populist farmer MP, Mitch Hepburn wins the Ontario Liberal leadership in 1930; in 1934 easily defeats the inept Conservative Premier George Henry by drawing Progressive and labour and even mining support to his banner; sells off the government's fleet of limousines, and the Lt. Governor's palatial residence of Chorley Park, and brings in mandatory pasteurization of milk; opposes the unionization of the General Motors workforce, and when Prime Minister King refuses to send in the RCMP to break up a strike, sends in his own Ontario police volunteers - Hepburn's Hussars; passes an Ontario resolution criticizing King's handling of the War effort, and works with Maurice Duplessis, his counterpart in Quebec, to undermine federal-provincial relations; resigns as Premier in 1942 and is defeated in the 1945 election. 1889 - 1988 Arthur (A.R.M.) Lower historian, born at Barrie, Ontario; died in Kingston, Ontario. Lower taught history at United College, Winnipeg (1927-47), and Queen's University, Kingston (1947-59); best known for his works on staple commodities, The Trade in Square Timber (1932), Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada (1936) and The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest (1938), as well as his text book history of Canada, Colony to Nation (1946), written during WWII. 1818 - 1896 Alexander McLachlan poet, born at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland; dies in Orangeville, Ontario; called 'the Burns of Canada,' McLachlan wrote nostalgic dialect poetry dealing with the homesickness of Scottish immigrants.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Saturday, August 13, 2005 - 6:47 pm
August 13 1992 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench rules unconstitutional a section of the Manitoba Public Schools Act that made Christian prayer in schools mandatory. 1990 BLOC TAKES FIRST SEAT IN A BY-ELECTION Montreal Quebec - Gilles Duceppe wins Laurier-Ste-Marie riding for Bloc Quebecois by 16,818 to 4,802 for Liberal Denis Coderre; East End riding held by Liberal Jean-Claude Malepart, who died last November; Duceppe a labor negotiator; first MP elected for Bloc Quebecois group of independent MPs committed to Quebec sovereignty. 1971 Montreal Quebec- Crown suspends charges laid under War Measures Act against 32 Quebeckers; including labour leader Michel Chartrand and lawyer Robert Lemieux. 1958 Ottawa Ontario- Change to Indian Act says that a person who had taken half-breed lands or scrip, who was registered as an Indian on or before this cut-off date, as well as his/her descendants, would remain registered. 1955 Canso, Nova Scotia- Opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland. 1944 Falaise France- Canadian General Guy Simonds urges his commanders to show: "more thrust, bypass minor opposition, and advance on a wider front" in Operation Tractable to close the Falaise Gap. British General Bernard Montgomery says to Crerar that "Falaise is to be captured with least possible delay by First Cdn Army. This is not to interfere with our drive on Trun", but offers no reinforcements, so most of the German forces escape to fight again in Holland. 1941 Ottawa Ontario- National Defence establishes the Canadian Women's Army Corps, for women who wish to volunteer for official uniformed service; positions noncombatant and clerical at the start, but some technical trades will soon open up; by 1944 CWACs are filling clerical positions in 1st Canadian Army, 1st and 2nd Canadian Corps and the five combat divisional HQs in north-west Europe; over 21,000 women will serve as CWACs to 1946. 1863 Ottawa Ontario- Cartier's Militia Act includes all male inhabitants between ages of 18 and 60. 1863 Ottawa Ontario- John Sandfield Macdonald becomes Premier of the Province of Canada with A-A Dorion; until March 14, 1864. 1535 Gulf of St. Lawrence - Iroquois guides Domagaya and Taignoagny show Jacques Cartier 'the beginning of the great river of Hochelaga and the way to Kanata'; his second voyage, on the Grande Ermine, Petite Ermine and the Émérillon. Born on this day: 1949 - Robert Earle 'Bobby' Clarke NHL Centre, coach, born in Manitoba. Clarke led the Philadelphia Flyers to 2 consecutive Stanley Cups in 1974-75; he was a 3-time regular season MVP (1973,1975, 1976). 1942 - Réjean Ducharme writer, born in St-Félix-de-Valois, Québec. Ducharme is well known for his three novels, L'Avalée des avalés (1966), Le nez qui voque(1967), and L'Océantume (1968). He has also written screenplays and lyrics for Robert Charlebois. 1929 - Bob Blair industrialist, oilman, born in Trinidad. Blair's Alaska Highway pipeline proposal won out against proponents of a Mackenzie Valley line in 1977. In the 1970s he diversified his Alberta Gas Trunk Line into petrochemicals and gas stations under the umbrella of a larger diversified company, Nova, before retiring in 1992. 1823 - 1910 Goldwin Smith historian and journalist, was born in Reading, England; died in Toronto. Educated at Eton and Oxford, and appointed Regius Professor of History at Oxford, Smith was a disciple of Adam Smith and a supporter of Cobden and Bright and the low tariff British Liberals. After teaching at Cornell University in the US, he moved to Canada in 1871 to join his relations, and in 1875 married D'Arcy Boulton's widow and moved into the Grange (today part of the Art Gallery of Ontario), where he led a critique of Canadian nationalism and Canada's participation in such imperial ventures as the Boer War. In his book Canada and the Canadian Question (1891) he advocated closer ties with the US.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 5:43 am
August 14 1990 Oka, Quebec- Task force of 2,600 Canadian Army soldiers arrive to assist the Quebec police in dealing with Mohawk insurgents. 1980 Los Angeles, California- Dorothy Stratten murdered by husband Paul Snider; Vancouver born Dorothy Hoogstratten was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 1980. Her murder inspired several books and films, including Star 80. 1980 London Ontario- Tornado touches down south of London, tearing roofs from apartment buildings, downing power lines and uprooting trees. 1948 London England- Closing of the 14th Olympic games in London. Canadian athletes take home no golds, and only one silver medal (Canoeing - C-1 1,000 m: Douglas Bennett) and two bronze (Canoeing - C-1 10,000 m: Norman Lane; and Track and Field 4x100-m relay: Dianne Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy MacKay, Viola Myers). 1945 Canada- VJ Day celebrations break out as Emperor Hirohito calls upon Japan's war council to surrender unconditionally; total cost of World War to Canada: $11,344,437,766 and 42,000 dead. 1941 CHURCHILL AND FDR SIGN ATLANTIC CHARTER Argentia Bay Newfoundland - British PM Winston Spencer Churchill and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign eight-point Atlantic Charter of war and postwar aims on board a battleship off Newfoundland; stresses human rights to choose own government; freer trade; freedom from want. 1936 Berlin Germany- The US defeats Canada 19-8 in the final for the first Olympic basketball gold medal; game invented by James Naismith from Almonte, Ontario. 1934 London Ontario- Millionaire brewer John Labatt abducted at gunpoint by three men, who asked for a ransom of $150,000, which the kidnappers never received; released unharmed three days later; first recorded kidnapping for ransom in Canada. 1932 Los Angeles, California- Closing of the 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles. Canada takes home two gold medals (Boxing - 53.52 kg: Horace Gwynne; High Jump: Duncan McNaughton), 5 silver (100 m sprint: Hilda Strike; 800 m: Alex Wilson; 4x100-m relay: Mary Frizzell, Mildred Frizzell, Lilliam Palmer, Hilda Strike; Wrestling - 72-kg freestyle: Dan McDonald; Yachting Team 8 m: Earnest Cribb, Peter Gordon, George Gyles, Harry Jones, Ronald Maitland, Hubert Wallace); and 8 bronze (Rowing Eights: Don Boal, Earl Eastwood, Harry Fry, Joseph Harris, Cedric Liddell, George MacDonald, Stanley Stanyar, Albert Taylor, William Thoburn; Double sculls: Noel DeMille, Charles Pratt; 400 m sprint: Alex Wilson; 800 m: Philip Edwards; 1,500 m: Philip Edwards; High Jump: Eva Dawes; 4x400-m relay: Jim Ball, Philip Edwards, Ray Lewis, Alex Wilson; Yachting Team 6 m: Earnest Cribb, Peter Gordon, George Gyles, Harry Jones, Ronald Maitland, Hubert Wallace). 1877 Regina Saskatchewan- North-West Territorial Council passes ordinance 'For the Protection of the Buffalo' in an attempt to slow the destruction of the herds; unlawful to drive the buffalo into ravines or pits where they could be easily killed, or to hunt or kill buffalo for amusement, or solely to secure their tongues and pelts; closed season on female buffalo, extending from Nov 15 until Aug 14 each year; the herd numbering 60 million in 1800 was almost extinct by 1890. 1861 Montreal Quebec- St. Lawrence River floods, inundating 25% of Montreal. 1812 Amherstburg Ontario - Shawnee Chief Tecumseh brings 600 of his warriors to help Isaac Brock besiege General Hull at Detroit. Born on this day: 1962 - Horst Bulau ski jumper, was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Coached by his father at Camp Fortune, Bulau won his first event in Thunder Bay in 1975, and took the World Junior Championship - Canada's first World Nordic title - in 1979. Before retiring, he won 13 World Cup events, and was ranked in the top 3 for several years. 1938 - Gordon Thiessen Governor of the Bank of Canada, was born in South Porcupine, Ont.; raised in Saskatchewan, Thiessen joined the Bank in 1972, and succeeded John Crow in 1994. 1886 - 1950 Arthur Jeffrey Dempster physicist , was born in Toronto, Ontario; died in Stuart, Florida. Dempster built the first mass spectrometer, a device that separates and measures the quantities of different charged particles, such as atomic nuclei or fragments of molecules. 1860 - 1946 Ernest Thompson Seton author and naturalist, was born in South Shields, England; died in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Seton came to Lindsey, Ontario as a young boy, attended school in Toronto and graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1879. After further studies in London and Paris, he started specializing in painting and drawing animals in realistic settings. He homesteaded in Manitoba, then moved to the US in 1896, and two years later published his first book of illustrated animal stories, Wild Animals I have Known, which was an instant success. His Two Little Savages (1903) was inspired by his childhood love of playing Indian. In 1902, he founded the Woodcraft League, a naturalists club for children, and in 1910, he helped Daniel Bears and Lord Baden Powell in founding the Boy Scouts of America; his books on woodcraft formed the basis of the first Boy Scouts of America Official Manual. In 1915, after quarreling with the BSA about what he considered their militaristic stance, he was expelled from the organization. He spent the remainder of his life in studying nature, wrote extensively on Manitoba and sub-arctic wildlife, and set up the Seton Village for children's nature study in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Monday, August 15, 2005 - 8:00 am
August 15 1992 New York City- UN awards 226 Canadian peacekeepers with UN service medals; for work in Yugoslavia. 1974 Toronto Ontario- Official opening of the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo; one of the largest public zoos in the world. 1972 BALLARD CONVICTED OF FRAUD Toronto Ontario - Harold Ballard, President of Maple Leaf Gardens, convicted of 47 charges of fraud, tax evasion and theft of $205,000 from the Gardens to pay for personal expenses; sentenced to three years in Kingston Penitentiary on Oct. 20; will later pay back all funds to the publicly owned company. 1971 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Hurricane Beth drops 296 mm of rain on Halifax and washes out highways and bridges in Nova Scotia. 1947 Canada- Catholic Church abolishes meatless Tuesdays and Fridays. 1946 Ottawa Ontario- Cabinet Order in Council ends conscription for national service; also proclaims amnesty for all those who had gone AWOL from the armed services the previous New Years Day or who had not given themselves up or been arrested before this date. 1940 Canada- Canada now guarding 8,000 German prisoners of war in various camps across the country. 1909 Grosse-Ile, Quebec- Erection of a monument at Grosse-Ile quarantine station to commemorate those who died in cholera ships while immigrating to Canada in the 1840s. 1822 Quebec Quebec- Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000. 1633 Quebec Quebec- Samuel de Champlain writes a report to Cardinal Richelieu. Born on this day: 1925 - Oscar Peterson Jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, was born in Montreal, Quebec. Peterson started performing on local radio at age 15, and played with various dance bands before making his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 1949. Known for his dazzling solo technique, he has recorded over 90 albums, and has appeared on many others with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and others. He won Canada's Juno Award in 1987, and the Grammy in 1975, 1979, 1980 and 2 in 1991. 1919 - 1993 Jacques Dextrase soldier, was born in Montreal, Quebec; died in Ottawa. Dextrase started his military career as a private, and in World War II rose through the ranks to become Lt.-Col. of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal. In the Korean War he commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22e Régiment. After commanding at Camp Borden and Camp Valcartier, he was put in charge of Canadian peacekeeping in the Congo in 1963. He was Chief of Defence Staff from 1972-77, and after retiring was chairman of CN until 1982. 1904 - 1992 George Klein engineer, was born in Hamilton, Ontario; died in Ottawa. Klein worked at the National Research Council for 40 years, from 1929-69. He designed wind tunnels, aircraft skis, the Weasel army snowmobile, mortar aiming systems, a wheelchair for quadriplegics and a surgical staple gun. He headed the team building the Zero Energy Experimental Pile (ZEEP), Canada's first nuclear reactor, in 1944-45. In 1951 he invented the STEM flat rollout antenna that was used ten years later on Canada's first satellite, Alouette I, and is now standard equipment on spacecraft. Near the end of his career he developed the gear system for the Space Shuttle's Canadarm. 1832 - 1899 Lucius O'Brien civil engineer, painter, was born in Shanty Bay, Ontario; died in Toronto. O'Brien is known for his landscapes, particularly Sunrise on the Saguenay in the National Gallery. He edited Picturesque Canada (1882) and was founding President of the Royal Canadian Academy 1880-90. 1803 - 1877 Sir James Douglas fur trader and statesman, 'the father of British Columbia,' was born in Demerara, British Guiana (Guyana) to a Scotish merchant and a 'free coloured woman'; died in Victoria, BC. Douglas joined the North West Company in Montreal as an apprentice in 1819, just before the merger with the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1826 he went to Fort St James in the New Caledonia district with Chief factor William Connolly, and in 1828 married his part-Indian daughter Amelia. In 1830, after scrapping with the local Carrier tribe, he was sent to Fort Vancouver to serve under John McLoughlin. Five years later George Simpson appointed him Chief Trader, then Chief Factor, and in 1843 ordered him to establish a Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island. When the 49th Parallel became the US boundary in 1846, he set up Fort Langley on the lower Fraser. After serving under new British governor Richard Blanchard, Douglas succeeded him, and set up an Assembly in 1856. Two years later, when the BC gold rush started, the British set up the new colony of British Columbia, and made him Governor on condition he sever his HBC ties. He set in motion the building of the Cariboo Road, then retired in 1863.
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