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| Monday, July 04, 2005 - 8:18 am
July 4 1989 New Brunswick - Federal PC cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt injured while motorcycling; later charged with impaired driving and dropped from the cabinet. 1985 New York City - Bryan Adams has a #1 hit with 'Heaven'. 1974 Newfoundland - At least 250 large icebergs are counted along the eastern shores off Newfoundland. 1945 Berlin Germany - Canadian troops enter Berlin as part of British garrison force; to share occupation duties. 1939 Fort Ross, NWT - Overnight temperature at Fort Ross drops to -12.2 C; one of the lowest July temperatures ever recorded in Canada. 1905 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes bill establishing Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces. 1898 Sable Island, NS - French ship La Bourgogne collides with British ship the Cromartyshire; 560 persons drown. 1886 FIRST THROUGH TRAIN TO BC Port Moody BC - Crowd of 1500 British Columbians cheer as the Pacific Express, the CPR's first scheduled transcontinental passenger train from Montreal, rolls into Port Moody, the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, after a five and a half day journey of 4650 km; with 170 passengers in two immigrant sleeping coaches, two first-class coaches and two first-class sleeping coaches (named Yokohama and Honolulu); also attached are one dining car (Holyrood), two baggage cars, and a mail car with 16 bags of English and Canadian mail; arrival 16 years after Cartier's Order-in-Council authorized building of the road as part of the terms of union with BC. 1696 Montreal Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac embarks from Montreal in a canoe flotilla with 2,150 men to travel up the St. Lawrence to Fort Frontenac and mount a new attack on the Iroquois. 1609 Quebec/NY - Samuel de Champlain discovers what was later named Lake Champlain in his honour; on Quebec and New York border. Born on this day: 1951 - Bev Boys diver. Boys started competing in 1966, and won 34 Canadian championships in springboard and platform competitions until her retirement in 1977; beat Olympic champion Marlena Duchkova at invitational meet in Winnipeg 1969; won US and British national championships; gold in springboard and platform 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh; gold in 10m tower event 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, NZ; member of 3 Canadian Olympic teams, with her best finish a 4th in 1968. 1892 - 1980 Kenneth Forbes painter, born at Toronto, Ontario. Forbes enlisted in 1914 with the 10th Royal Fusiliers, and served in France before transferring to the Canadian Army as an artist attached to the Canadian War Memorials section; paintings include the portraits of Prime Ministers R. B. Bennett and John Diefenbaker in the Parliament Buildings, and The Yellow Scarf (Art Gallery of Ontario); he retired from the Forces in 1959. 1885 - 1957 Louis B. Mayer film producer, was born Ezemiel Mayer at Vilme, Russia; grows up in New Brunswick; moves to Massachusetts in about 1900 and goes into the movie theatre business; dies in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1816 - 1899 Hiram Walker distiller, born at East Douglas Massachusetts; dies in Detroit; Walker came to Canada in 1853 and in 1859 built the Windsor Distillery and Flouring Mill; founder of Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. and the town of Walkerville (now part of Windsor); his Canadian Club whisky, introduced in 1884, became Canada's major export spirit in 1910.
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| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 5:30 am
July 5 1997 George, Washington - Halifax singer Sarah McLachlan premieres Lilith Fair, her all-female pop festival tour, at the George Amphitheatre; with Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole and Jewel. 1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Gregory Evans says in report to Nova Scotia government that Donald Marshall is due $1.5 million; for spending 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. 1970 Toronto Ontario - Air Canada DC-8 crashes during a landing attempt 10 km west of Malton (Pearson International Airport) en route from Montreal to Los Angeles; all 109 aboard killed. 1967 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Roland Michener invested by Queen Elizabeth with the first ribbon and pendant star of the Order of Canada; founding of the Order of Canada. 1950 Esquimalt BC - Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux leave Esquimalt for Pearl Harbor escorted by cruiser Ontario; to come under UN control during Korean War. 1942 Port Hope Ontario - Ian Fleming the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies; later member of MI5, creator of James Bond novels. 1937 WHEW WHAT A SCORCHER Yellow Grass Saskatchewan - Temperature at Yellow Grass reaches 45C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada; 110F+. 1930 Niagara Falls Ontario - Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives. 1717 Quebec Quebec - New France authorities withdraw card money from circulation; had lost half its face value; originally used to pay the army. 1610 Bristol England - Bristol merchant John Guy sails with brother Phillip and 38 other colonists from Bristol to Newfoundland; appointed governor of first English colony in Newfoundland with instructions to fortify the settlement at Cupids (then known as Cuper's Cove) in Conception Bay, experiment with farming, cut spars and planks, make salt, potash and glass, collect samples of ore and fish and trade in cured fish and train oil. Born on this day: 1944 - Robbie Robertson rock singer, bass guitarist, actor, composer, producer, born at Toronto to a Jewish father and a Mohawk woman from the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford. Robertson joined the Band, first known as Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks in 1958; moved to the US in 1965, where they performed at Woodstock in 1969, and toured with Bob Dylan until 1974; last concert in 1976 filmed as The Last Waltz; his Band hits include Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Shape IÕm In, River Hymn, Life is a Carnival; produced a solo album in 1988. 1918 - 1999 René Lecavalier broadcaster, born at Montreal. Lecavalier worked with Radio Canada and was the voice of the Montreal Canadiens for many years; also covered Olympic and international events; the French version of Foster Hewitt or Danny Gallivan.
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| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 8:54 am
July 6 1993 St. Catharines Ontario - Justice Francis Kovacs sentences Karla Homolka to two concurrent 12-year prison terms for manslaughter in the sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Burst pipe at National Archives damages 100 atlases dating between 1490 and 1600, 2,000 books; and a collection of 150 year old manuscripts. 1989 Ottawa Ontario - Government sells remaining 53% interest in Air Canada, completing privatization of the airline. 1924 New York City - Winnipeg-born inventor and radio pioneer William Stevenson sends first photo across Atlantic by radio, to England. 1918 Edmonton Alberta - Katherine Stinson's plane forced down by engine trouble in the first official airmail flight in Western Canada. 1896 CABINET EXTENDS BORDERS OF QUEBEC TO THE ARCTIC Ottawa Ontario - Order-in-Council enlarges boundaries of Quebec to Hudson Bay; adds 306,765 km2 to the province. 1892 St. John's Newfoundland - Three day fire destroys most of St. John's. 1850 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys over 1,000 buildings in Montreal. 1669 Montreal Quebec - Sulpician priests François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 and René de Bréhant de Galinée 1645-1678 leave Montreal with La Salle to convert Potawatomi Indians of Mississippi; will discover and explore the Ohio River. Born on this day: 1957 - Ron Duguay hockey player. Duguay played NY Rangers and Detroit Red Wings. 1952 - George Athans Jr. water skier. Athans competed in his first world championship at age 13; Canadian senior champion 1965-74; world champion 1971, 1973; turned down invitation to join national alpine ski team 1969; father George Sr. Canadian diving champion (only father-son combination in Canadian Amateur Athletic Hall of Fame). 1948 - Douglas Bradford 'Brad' Park hockey player. Park played defense for the NY Rangers and Boston Bruins. 1930 - George Edward 'The Chief' Armstrong hockey player. Armstrong played centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs and was their Captain. 1927 - Dolores Claman musician, composer, born at Vancouver. Claman composed several movie scores and musicals, plus 40 award-winning jingles with her husband Richard Morris; won an Oscar for the film A Place to Stand, made for the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67; wrote theme for Hockey Night in Canada.
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| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 8:57 am
July 7 1996 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Dr. Bob Thirsk lands with his Shuttle STS-78 mission crewmates at Kennedy Space Center at 8:37.30 a.m. EDT, after Columbia completed 272 revolutions of the earth, and a record 16 day 21 hours 48 min 30 sec flight. 1981 PEI - Prince Edward Island police get power to take citizens from homes without warrant and hold for drug treatment; wide powers in two new Acts. 1980 Montreal Quebec - Ex Canadian lightweight boxing champion Cleveland Denny dies 17 days after being knocked out by champion Gaetan Hart. 1976 Brussels Belgium - Canada signs agreement with the European Economic Community for mutual cooperation. 1969 TRUDEAU PASSES OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACT Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes Trudeau's Official Languages Act, declares French and English to be the official languages of Canada; makes French equal to English in federal institutions; eases francophone access to the federal public service. 1954 Winnipeg Manitoba - Rainbow Stage opens in Winnipeg's Kildonan Park to present operettas and musicals using local performers; first full-length musical is Brigadoon, in the fall of 1955; Canada's longest running outdoor theatre. 1858 Newfoundland - Frederick N. Gisbourne starts laying underwater telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland. 1787 Nootka BC - Frances Barkley arrives in British Columbia; wife of Charles Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle; the 17 year old is the first European woman in BC. 1620 Tadoussac Quebec - Helene Boullé de Champlain arrives in New France; Champlain's wife enchants the Indian children, who admire her clothes and ask her to sing. 1534 New Brunswick - Jacques Cartier trades furs with Micmac; first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence Born on this day: 1969 - Cree Summer actress, cartoon voice; the daughter of actor Don Francks. Summer has played as Freddie Brooks in A Different World's, and has cartoon work for the Care Bears, California Raisins, Inspection Gadget's Penny, Tiny Toons' Elmyra. 1946 - Jim Day equestrian, born at Toronto. Day first rode with the Canadian International Team in 1964; took the individual championship at Harrisburg Pennsylvania 1964; tied the long standing record jump of seven feet one inch at the National Horse Show in New York 1966; gold medal in the individual competition at the Pan American Games 1967; Olympic gold medal with fellow Canadian team show jumpers Jim Elder and Tom Gayford in Mexico City 1968; member of the World Prix des Nations team 1970; won the North American three day event title 1973. 1905 - 1984 Clarence Campbell National Hockey League President for 31 years, from 1946 to 1977, born at Fleming Saskatchewan; dies in Montreal. Campbell was a Rhodes Scholar who captained the hockey team while at Oxford; refereed at the 1928 Olympic lacrosse final and officiated in the NHL for 155 scheduled games and 12 play off matches before joining the Canadian Army; in 1944 became a major and led the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. In March 1955, his suspension of Maurice Richard in the playoffs led to a riot in Montreal. Campbell was responsible for bringing in the All-Star game in 1947, the NHL Pension Fund in 1948 and establishing the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960.
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| Friday, July 08, 2005 - 8:16 am
July 8 1994 Cape Canaveral Florida - NASA launches Columbia on Shuttle Mission STS-65; carries the International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2), which includes a number of Canadian experiments in space medicine and physiology. 1991 St. John's Newfoundland - Joseph Burke gets 25 months in prison for abusing boys under care at Mount Cashel Orphanage in 1970s; former Christian Brother. 1991 Toronto Ontario - Gallup poll reports that 69% of Canadians want Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to resign; 80% in Ontario, 54% in Quebec. 1974 TRUDEAU WINS MAJORITY Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins majority 141 of 264 seats in federal election; to 95 Conservative; 16 NDP; 11 Social Credit; 1 other; Andy Hogan the first Roman Catholic priest elected to the Commons. 1965 Gustafsen Lake BC - Bomb explodes on Canadian Pacific airliner; crashes into Gustafsen Lake, killing 52. 1943 Nassau Bahamas - Canadian gold millionaire Harry Oakes found burned and beaten to death in his villa; murder remains unsolved. 1917 Algonquin Park Ontario - Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson drowns in Canoe Lake in his beloved Algonquin Park; a friend and associate of the Group of Seven landscape painters, his death has never been explained. 1896 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper resigns office as Canada's 6th Prime Minister, since May 1; succeeded by Wilfrid Laurier; will serve as Leader of the Opposition to 1901. 1852 Montreal Quebec - Fire in east end of Montreal leaves over 10,000 homeless. 1758 Ticonderoga New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm holds Fort Carillon; drives off 6,000 British regulars and 9,000 American militia under James Abercromby. Born on this day: 1948 - Raffi Cavoukian folk performer, children's entertainer, born at Cairo, Egypt. Raffi is best known for his Baby Beluga album. 1819 - 1907 Francis Leopold McClintock British naval officer and explorer, born at Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland; died in London, England. From 1857 to 1859, McClintock traveled the Arctic, finally discovering the fate of Sir John Franklin and his 1845 expedition, and verifying John Rae's findings.
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| Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 9:04 am
July 9 1995 South Pacific - French commandos board the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II in the South Pacific; the ship is protesting continued French nuclear testing. 1991 Montreal Quebec - International Human Rights Federation releases report citing human rights violations in the Oka crisis of 1990; Amnesty International report also cites mistreatment of natives by Quebec Police. 1974 New York City - Springhill, Nova Scotia's Anne Murray has a #1 Billboard hit with 'He Thinks I Still Care.' 1947 London England - Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a member of the Greek royal family. 1960 ROGER GETS THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE Niagara Falls Ontario - Roger Woodward survives 162 foot plunge over the Horseshoe Falls because he is wearing a lifejacket; his first word when rescued is 'gosh'; the 7-year-old is the first person to go over the Falls by accident and live. 1923 Calgary Alberta - Guy Weadick holds first Chuckwagon Race at the Stampede, persuading 6 local ranchers to risk their wagons and horses in what will be billed as 'the half mile of hell'. 1886 Ottawa Ontario - Crown grants general amnesty to those involved in Northwest Rebellion of 1885; except for murderers. 1874 Pembina Manitoba - First North West Mounted Police (NWMP) force of 318 men heads west from Fort Dufferin to the American whisky post called Fort Whoop Up at the junction of the Oldman and St. Mary rivers near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta; abandoned with the arrived of the police, Fort Whoop-Up will serve as an outpost for the force; forerunners of RCMP. 1827 Guelph Ontario - Group of 150 destitute and homeless settlers arrived in Ontario via New York; after emigrating from England to Venezuela where they found the climate, soil and political conditions inhospitable. 1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake - Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passes Act Against Slavery, banning the further import of slaves into Upper Canada, and limiting the contract of those remaining; Act declares that slaves' children should be free at age 25; all slaves entering the province from this date were henceforth automatically free. Quebec Quebec - Importation of slaves into Lower Canada prohibited; bill to abolish slavery failed until 1804. Born on this day: 1927 - Leonard 'Red' Kelly hockey player, coach. Kelly played for the Detroit Red Wings (Norris Trophy 1954, Lady Byng Trophy 1951, 1953, 1954, 1961) and was on 4 Stanley Cup winning teams; also for the Toronto Maple Leafs (4 Stanley Cup winners); coached the LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins: Adams Trophy (1969-70). 1905 - 1984 Clarence Campbell National Hockey League President for 31 years, from 1946 to 1977, was born at Fleming Saskatchewan; dies in Montreal. A Rhodes Scholar who captained the hockey team while at Oxford, Campbell refereed at the 1928 Olympic lacrosse final and officiated in the NHL for 155 scheduled games and 12 play off matches before joining the Canadian Army; in 1944 became a major and led the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. In March 1955, his suspension of Maurice Richard in the playoffs led to a riot in Montreal. Campbell was responsible for bringing in the All-Star game in 1947, the NHL Pension Fund in 1948 and establishing the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960. 1845 - 1914 Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound Minto, 4th Earl of Minto statesman, born at London England; dies at Minto, Roxburgh, Scotland. Minto served the Empire as 8th Governor-General of Canada (1898-1904) and viceroy of India (1905-10).
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| Sunday, July 10, 2005 - 5:40 pm
July 10 1985 Auckland, New Zealand - French agents sink 160-foot protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, owned by Vancouver-based Greenpeace environmental group, with an underwater bomb, killing one crew member; France's defence minister will resign four months later, after it is reported he knew of the plot; two French secret service agents later plead guilty to manslaughter; Greenpeace protesting French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. 1972 New York City - Leonid Brezhnev, Leader of the USSR, when asked by Time Magazine how many ballistic missiles were aimed at Toronto, replies: 'None; I have nothing against the Indians'. 1958 Washington DC - John Diefenbaker and Dwight D. Eisenhower sign agreement to have Canada and the United States set up Joint Committee to guide North American defenses in the event of enemy attack. 1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada formally ends state of war with Germany. 1920 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden retires as head of Unionist Government due to ill-health; Canada's 8th Prime Minister, since Oct. 12, 1917; replaced by Arthur Meighen, Canada's 9th Prime Minister to Dec. 29, 1921; then 1926. 1943 CANADIANS INVADE SICILY Pachino Italy - In Operation Husky, Canadian 1st Infantry Division and 1st Tank Brigade invade Sicily with British 8th Army, U.S. and French troops; after training for 3 1/2 years in Britain; Sicily taken Aug. 17 with 2,434 Canadian casualties. 1755 Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil appointed Governor of New France; receives annual salary of 372 pounds; last French Governor, to Sept 8, 1760. 1789 Near Inuvik, NWT - Alexander Mackenzie reaches flats and marshes of the Mackenzie Delta, struggles to within a short distance of Arctic Ocean before turning back. 1631 London England - King Charles I orders William Alexander to give Port Royal back to French and destroy fort built by son. 1559 Paris France - King François II 1544-1560 starts reign; to 1560; on death of Henri II. Born on this day: 1957 - Derry Grehan rock & roll guitarist, songwriter, of Honeymoon Suite. 1953 - Rik 'The Rocket' Emmett rock & roll singer/guitarist, songwriter, of Triumph, of Honeymoon Suite. 1952 - Kim Mitchell rock & roll singer and guitarist. 1948 - Glenn 'Chico' Resch NHL goaltender, NY Islanders. 1946 - Roger Abbott comedian, of The Royal Canadian Air Farce, born in England. 1931 - Alice Munro short story writer, born at Wingham, Ontario. Munro is the author of Lives of Girls and Women, and Dance of the Happy Shades. 1926 - Elwy Yost TV commentator, of TV Ontario. 1915 - 2005 Saul Bellow 1976 Nobel Prize winning novelist, born at Montreal, died in Brookline, Mass; author of Mr. Samler's Planet. 1914 - 1992 Joseph 'Joe' Schuster cartoonist,born at Toronto; moved to Cleveland, Ohio at age 9, where he would later meet Jerome Siegel, his future creative partner and co-creator of Superman, which first appeared in the June 1938 edition of Action Comics.
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| Monday, July 11, 2005 - 10:35 am
July 11 1990 QPP CONSTABLE KILLED AT OKA Oka (Kanesetake) Quebec - Corporal Marcel Lemay, a 31 year old constable, killed during gun battle as 100 members of La Sûreté du Québec attack Mohawk barricades, put up in March to block expansion of a golf course on land they claim was never signed away. Mohawks at Chateauguay (Kahnawake) set up sympathy blockade at Mercier bridge leading into Montreal, causing massive traffic jams for thousands of south shore commuters. 1989 Dover England - Canadian marathoner Vicki Keith, from Kingston, Ontario, becomes the first person to swim the English Channel using the butterfly stroke; . 1984 Canada - Canadian dollar sinks to US 74.86¢, an all-time low to that date. 1980 L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland - UNESCO unveils plaque at L'Anse aux Meadows, declaring Viking ruins First World Heritage Site; first Europeans known to visit North America landed there c950. 1911 Cobalt Ontario - Huge forest fire breaks out in Porcupine district near Timmins, fanned by high winds into a 40 km long front, the fire takes 200 lives; over 3,000 left homeless; burns up 2200 sq. km, destroying the mining communities of South Porcupine, Cochrane and Goldlands. 1896 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as Canada's 7th Prime Minister, succeeding Charles Tupper; Canada's first French-speaking Prime Minister; to Oct. 6, 1911; MP Drummond-Arthabaska 1874-1877, Quebec East 1877-1919; Liberal Party Leader 1887-1919; Leader of the Opposition 1887-1896, 1911-1919. 1873 Cypress Hills, Alberta - American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West. 1776 Portsmouth England - Captain James Cook sets sail on his third and last voyage with the HMS. Resolution and HMS Discovery, to seek a North-West Passage round the north coast of America from the Pacific; makes first for Tasmania, then New Zealand and Tahiti, then turns north, arriving along the Oregon Coast by March 1778; on March 29, 1778, they reach Nootka Sound (named King George's Sound by Cook) and drop anchor; they stay for a month, repairing the ships and trading with the local Nootka people, then go north on April 26, 1778; they fail to find a passage; nine months later Cook is killed on a Hawaiian beach. 1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Fire almost completely destroys newly-established community of Halifax. 1576 Greenland - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland but cannot land because of ice and fog; storm causes the Michael to turn back. Born on this day: 1957 - Alan McCartney musician, of the Montreal pop trio Men Without Hats. 1949 - Liona Boyd classical guitarist, born at London England. Boyd came to Canada at age 6, and became a Canadian citizen in 1975; came to prominence in 1976 when she toured North America with Gordon Lightfoot; to bring classical guitar to a wider audience, she has performed with Tracy Chapman, Georges Zamphir, Roger Whitaker, Eric Clapton and Chet Atkins, and as a soloist and with symphony orchestras. 1927 - Brett Somers actor, born in New Brunswick. Somers is best known for her role as Blanche Madison in The Odd Couple; also played in Perry Mason (1973) and as a panelist in The Match Game; she is actor Jack Klugman's ex-wife.
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| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 7:16 am
July 12 1981 British Columbia - 48,000 BC woodworkers go on strike, shut down forest industry; 60,000 workers off the job by July 20. 1978 Rome Italy - Alfred Bessette 1845-1937 declared venerable by Pope Paul VI; lay brother at the Oratoire St-Joseph in Montreal known as Frère André. 1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules federal Indian Act inoperative because it discriminates against Native people. 1915 Ottawa Ontario - Army orders harvest furloughs to Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers still in training camps in Canada. 1876 Niagara Falls Ontario - Signorina Maria Spelterina walks across Niagara Falls backward on a tightrope, with peach baskets on her feet; 23 year old takes 11 minutes to cross; the following week, she walks across blindfolded, then with her wrists and ankles manacled. 1849 Saint John New Brunswick - Riot between Orangeman and Catholics in Saint John kills twelve. 1843 London England - British Parliament passes the Canada Corn Act, that lets Canadian wheat into the UK with minimal duty; creates a boom all along the St Lawrence. 1836 St-Jean Quebec - Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence, starts service between Laprairie and St-Jean on the Richelieu. 1812 AMERICANS INVADE CANADA Windsor Ontario - US Brigadier General William Hull crosses the Detroit River with 2,500 troops and occupies the town of Sandwich; first American invasion in the War of 1812; worried about a new alliance between the British and the Indians led by Tecumseh, Hull will soon retreat to Detroit, and surrenders to the British a month later. 1759 Lévis Quebec - James Wolfe orders cannon to start firing on Quebec from heights of Lévis; that night Jean-Daniel Dumas leads 1,600 soldiers, mostly students, in a disastrous night attack on the English; the young men panic and fire on each other. Born on this day: 1930 - Gordon Pinsent actor, director, writer, born at Grand Falls, Newfoundland. After training in Winnipeg and at Stratford, Pinsent won the title role in the CBC TV series Quentin Durgens MP (1966-69). He wrote and starred in The Rowdy Man, directed and starred in John and the Missus, and has made numerous television appearances, from Hogan's Heroes to The Beachcombers and Due South. 1855 - 1908 Edward 'Ned' Hanlan world champion rower, born at Toronto. Hanlan won the Centennial Cup meet in Philadelphia 1876; first won the Canadian championship in 1877; took the American championship 1879 on the Allegheny River; beat the English champion by eleven lengths May 1879; beat world professional champion Edward Trickett of Australia by three lengths on the Thames Nov. 15, 1880 ($500,000 bet on the race); defended world title 6 times before losing in 1884 to Australian William Beach; from 1876 to 1886 Hanlan lost only six of 300 races. 1849 - 1919 Sir William Osler physician, author, professor of medicine, born at Bond Head, Ontario; raised in Dundas, trained in medicine at the University of Toronto and McGill; MD McGill 1872; postgraduate training in England and Europe; taught medicine and pathology at McGill; first professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 1889; assisted in creation of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York; held Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford 1905; dies in Oxford. Osler practiced and taught in Canada, the US and Great Britain; his textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) was considered authoritative for over 30 years; combined physiological and psychological treatment of patients and emphasized patient's state of mind in achieving a cure; called the father of psychosomatic medicine; brother of Toronto banker Sir Edmund Boyd Osler and lawyer Britton Bath Osler. Osler is known as 'The Father of Clinical Medicine', and has been called 'the most influential physician in history'.
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| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 8:09 am
July 13 1991 Britain - Bryan Adams' 'Everything I Do, I Do It For You' (theme song of the Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood) hits #1 on the UK pop singles chart; stays there for record-breaking 16 weeks. 1991 Yellowknife NWT - Gwich'in Indians of Mackenzie Delta settle land claim, getting 15,000 sq. km of land and $75 million; first regional settlement with northern native groups. 1983 Quebec Quebec - Gabrielle Roy dies at age 74; born at St. Boniface, Manitoba Mar. 22, 1909; novelist and writer and three-time winner of the Governor General's award for fiction; novels include Bonheur d'occasion (1945 - translated as The Tin Flute); La Petite Poule d'eau (1950 - Where Nests the Water Hen), Alexandre Chenevert (1954), La Montagne secrète (1961), La Rivière sans repos (1970), (Cet été qui chantait (1972), Un Jardin au bout du monde (1975), De quoi t'ennuies-tu, Eveline? 1982); reminiscences include Rue Deschambault (1955), La Route d'Altamont (1966 - The Road to Altamount), Ces enfants de ma vie (1977). 1982 FIRST ALL-STAR BASEBALL IN CANADA Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos host first All-Star Game played outside the US; the National League defeats the American League 4-1, winning for the 11th consecutive year. 1953 Stratford Ontario - Alec Guinness stars in Shakespeare's Richard the Third, to open the first season of the Stratford Festival, held in a tent. 1949 St. John's Newfoundland - Opening session of the first provincial Legislature of Newfoundland after Confederation with Canada. 1942 Rimouski Quebec - German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec outcry for protection forces secret Commons session. 1941 Ottawa Ontario - Canada approves the Anglo-Soviet treaty that follows the German invasion of USSR. 1755 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - British General Edward Braddock dies of his wounds after he and his force of British troops and colonial militia were caught in a French and Indian ambush on the way to attack Fort Duquesne; his aide George Washington assumes command of the retreating army. 1661 Wisconsin - René Ménard leaves to visit Hurons at Blackwater River, Wisconsin; lost while trying to escape Iroquois. Born on this day: 1974 - Deborah Cox rhythm and blues singer, born at Toronto. Cox had a Top 20 US hit in 1995 with Who Do U Love. 1953 - Mila Mulroney wife of the former Prime Minister of Canada, born Mila Pivnicki in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia. 1949 - David Wilcox rock guitarist and singer, born at Montreal. 1948 - Don Sweet football player, born at Vancouver. Sweet was a record holding CFL/ NFL place kicker with the Montreal Alouettes and Green Bay Packers. 1940 - Donald Lautrec Quebec pop singer, born at Jonquière.
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| Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 7:41 am
July 14 1991 Goose Bay Newfoundland - Marcel Masse confirms shut-down of Goose Bay, Labrador, military base in 1995; if European nations no longer need it for test flights. 1990 Oliver BC - World's largest cherry pie baked in Oliver; weighs 37,740 pounds and 10 ounces with 36,800 pounds of cherry filling a 20' diameter pan. 1976 COMMONS ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons abolishes the death penalty by a free vote of 132-124. 1955 New York City - Winnipeg pop singer Giselle Mackenzie has a #1 Billboard hit with 'Hard to Get'. 1915 London England - Robert Laird Borden attends British Cabinet meeting; first Canadian Prime Minister to be invited and first Prime Minister from the Dominions to attend. 1896 Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Jerry Potts dies of tuberculosis; Métis scout and interpreter who helped NWMP secure loyalty of native people in Alberta and Saskatchewan; born 1840 to Blood mother and white fur trader father; hired as guide and translator for first contingent of North West Mounted Police; arranged first meeting between Assistant Commissioner James Macleod and Blackfoot leaders in fall of 1874; helped bring about signing of Treaty Seven in 1877, assisted in convincing Blackfoot to remain neutral during North West Rebellion of 1885. 1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez seizes another British ship, the Princess Royal; the Nootka Crisis brings Britain and Spain to the brink of war. 1775 Point Grenville BC - Bruno Hecata claims Vancouver Island for Spain. 1645 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny makes peace treaty with Mohawk chief Kiotsaton; known as Montmagny's Peace. 1643 Boston Massachusetts - Charles La Tour leaves Boston on the Clement with reinforcements to break d'Aulnay's blockade of his fort on the St John River; will chase d'Aulnay back to his stronghold at Port Royal; the Clement had been sent by the Huguenot merchants of La Rochelle to assist La Tour in his battle against d'Aulnay. Born on this day: 1938 - Moshe Safdie architect, born at Haifa, Palestine (now Israel). Safdie is the designer of Habitat '67 at the site of Expo 67 in Montreal; a prefabricated concrete housing complex with three clusters of apartment units stacked up like irregular blocks; also of the National Gallery of Canada (1988), in Ottawa, and the Musee de la Civilization (1988), in Quebec City. 1935 - Don Arnold rower. Arnold stroked the UBC 4-oared coxless crew to a gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics; coxed the 8 man crew to a gold and the 4 man crew to a silver at the 1958 Commonwealth Games; also a member of the 1960 Olympic silver medal 9 man crew. 1933 - 1996 Robert Bourassa lawyer, politician, born at Montreal. Bourassa was Premier of Quebec 1970-76, 1985-89. 1914 - 1992 Joe Shuster comic strip cartoonist, born at Toronto. Shuster was Superman co-creator with Jerry Siegel. 1912 - 1991 Northrop Frye educator, literary critic, born at Sherbrooke, Quebec; died in Toronto. Frye was Principal of Victoria College at the University of Toronto; he wrote Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947); Anatomy of Criticism (1957); The Well-Tempered Critic (1963); The Return of Eden (1965); Fools of Time (1967); The Modern Century; The Great Code and many other works..
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| Friday, July 15, 2005 - 6:47 am
July 15 1990 Oka Quebec - John Caccia emerges after 3 days of meetings with Mohawk leaders on Kanesetake reserve with tentative agreement; Mohawks want complete police withdrawal and amnesty. 1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves US cruise missile testing in northern Canada for early in 1984. 1950 Quebec Quebec - 60 tonne liner `Franconia' runs aground in St. Lawrence after leaving Quebec City for Liverpool; off Ile d'Orleans. 1909 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier's Manitoba Act comes into effect; creates new bilingual province in West; recognizes Metis land claims by setting aside 566,000 hectares; gives English and French languages equal status; guarantees Protestant and Roman Catholic educational rights; Manitoba enters the Dominion as our fifth province; The North West Territories (Rupert's Land) officially transferred to Canada; Canada takes over all land between Ontario and British Columbia. 1895 Montreal Quebec - failure of La Banque du Peuple; creditors get only 25¢ on the dollar. 1811 Cape Disappointment Oregon - David Thompson reaches Pacific Ocean at Cape Disappointment, mouth of Columbia River. 1774 Queen Charlotte BC - Juan Jose Perez Hernandez sights Queen Charlotte Islands; contacts Haidas; names northwestern point of islands Santa Margarita; first BC place named by Europeans. 1701 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Joubert born at Quebec; lives for 113 years 1691 The Pas Manitoba - Henry Kelsey travels up Saskatchewan and Carrot River to Prairies; first European to record the buffalo and grizzly bear. 1578 Hudson Strait NWT - Martin Frobisher reassembles English fleet after bad storm; one ship crushed by ice, two missing, one deserts; crew survive. Born on this day: 1961 - Lolita Davidovich film actor, born at London, Ontario. Davidovich played Blaze in Blaze Starr (1989). 1956 - Kathy Kreiner skier. Kreiner won Olympic gold in Giant Slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics. 1940 - Denis Heroux film producer. Heroux produced Quest For Fire and Les Plouffes. 1918 - Bertram Neville (Bertie) Brockhouse physicist, born at Lethbridge, Alberta; studied at the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto; 1962-84 Professor of Physics, McMaster University; 1994 shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with US physicist Clifford G. Shull for the development of neutron-scattering techniques.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Friday, July 15, 2005 - 8:09 am
1950 Quebec Quebec - 60 tonne liner `Franconia' runs aground in St. Lawrence after leaving Quebec City for Liverpool; off Ile d'Orleans. LOL, I took the Franconia to Europe in 1966!! Although I was relatively young at the time, I doubt I would have gotten on the ship had I known this!!!  
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 8:35 am
July 16 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says inflation at annual rate of 1.1% in June; lowest in 30 years, since Diefenbaker was PM in 1962. 1988 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers superstar hockey player Wayne Gretzky marries Hollywood starlet Janet Jones (Police Academy 5). 1981 BURGESS SHALE NAMED WORLD HERITAGE SITE Yoho British Columbia - UNESCO names Yoho National Park's Burgess Shale deposit Canada's 5th World Heritage Site; there are about 140 species of soft-bodied marine invertebrates in the 530-million-year-old deposit in the Rockies, 75 km west of Banff. 1970 Winnipeg: Manitoba - Manitoba legislature approves bill allowing the use of French as a language of instruction in public schools; end of 54 year old language fight. 1958 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Theatre Centre stages first production; Canada's first regional theatre. 1945 White Sands New Mexico - US scientists explode first atomic bomb using Canadian U-235 refined in Port Hope, Ontario. 1880 Toronto Ontario - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada; practicing since 1867, when she graduated from the New York Medical College (no Canadian medical college would then accept a female student). 1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - John Graves Simcoe issues a royal proclamation dividing Upper Canada into districts and counties, and setting the allotment of representatives. 1783 Montreal Quebec - British Crown announces land grants to American loyalists; heads of families get 100 acres, members of families 50 acres each, single men 50 acres, non-commissioned officers 200 acres. 1665 Quebec Quebec - Twelve horses brought to Quebec for use by Canadian farmers; first since time of Governor de Montmagny. Born on this day: 1903 - 1971 Carmen Lombardo singer, saxophonist, composer, arranger, born at London, Ontario. Lombardo was of course a member of brother Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians. 1872 - 1928 Roald Amundsen explorer, born at Borge, Norway, near Oslo. Amundsen was the first to make a ship voyage through Canada's Northwest Passage (on the Fram, 1903-05), the first to reach the South Pole (Dec. 14, 1911), and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He died on about June 18, 1928 in the Arctic Ocean.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Monday, July 18, 2005 - 9:20 am
July 17 1995 Calgary Alberta - Christine Silverberg appointed chief of the Calgary Police Service; 45 year old the first female police chief of a major Canadian city. 1976 QUEEN OPENS MONTREAL OLYMPIC GAMES Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Montreal Summer Olympic Games in the afternoon, before Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and an enthusiastic crowd of 73,000 at Olympic Stadium; the Games of the XXI Olympiad are Canada's first Olympics and will cost $1.5 bilion, much for massive anti-terrorist security. A total of 6,085 competitors from 92 nations compete over 16 days; the Stade olympique is unfinished, and 21 countries, mostly African, boycott the games; Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is the sensation of the games with two perfect 10 scores. Canada will win five silver and six bronze medals, becoming the first host country not to win a gold medal. 1972 Montreal Quebec - Bomb placed under a ramp at the Montreal Forum explodes, blowing up an equipment truck and destroying 30 speakers belonging to the Rolling Stones; Montreal radio stations receive over 50 calls claiming responsibility but the bomber is never found; the concert goes on as scheduled. 1944 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Navy escorts war's largest convoy of 167 ships into Atlantic; meets no U-Boat opposition; RCN now controls all Battle of the Atlantic escort forces. 1897 Seattle Washington - Klondike gold rush starts when the Excelsior and Portland arrive from Skagway with the first group of gold-laden Yukon prospectors. 1886 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Lone outlaw holds up Prince Albert mail coach; first stagecoach robbery in Saskatchewan. 1840 Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Cunard arrives at Halifax with his daughter on his first steamship, the paddle steamer Britannia, 12 days after leaving Liverpool, England; ship then goes on to Boston on the 19th, completing the new Liverpool-Halifax-Boston mail route in 14 days and 8 hours; first scheduled transatlantic mail service by steamship, and a blow to the age of sailing ships. Cunard was born and raised in Halifax, builds a shipping, banking, lumber and coal empire; shareholder in the wooden paddle wheeler Royal William which crosses the Atlantic in 1833, mainly under steam power; wins the Admiralty contract to provide a fixed schedule mail service to Halifax and Boston in 1839, and starts the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; launches Britannia May 1840; will move the Cunard HQ from Halifax to Liverpool in 1861. The Cunard Line will thrive until the era of transatlantic passenger jets. 1771 Coppermine, NWT - Samuel Hearne and his Chipewyan guide, Matonabbee, reach the partially frozen Arctic Ocean after descending the Coppermine River to its mouth; first European to reach the Arctic overland. 1673 Kingston Ontario - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac holds peace conference with Iroquois at Cataraqui; makes treaty the following year. 1673 Quebec - Second census of New France shows a population of 6,705. Born on this day: 1956 - Bryan Trottier hockey player. Trottier played centre for New York Islanders, and helped lead them to 4 straight Stanley Cups 1980-1983; NHL Rookie of Year in 1976; League scoring champion (134 points) and regular season MVP in 1979; playoff MVP 1980; added fifth and sixth Cups with Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991 and 1992. 1942 - Gale Garnett singer/actress, born at Auckland, New Zealand, moved to Toronto in the 1960s. Garnett played a journalist in Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993). 1934 - Donald Sutherland movie actor, born at Saint John, New Brunswick; educated at the University of Toronto (engineering, drama); LAMDA, London; RADA, London. Sutherland has starred in such films as Castle of the Living Dead (1964), Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970, as surgeon Hawkeye Pierce), Klute (1971, opposite Jane Fonda), Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (1971), Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Casanova, Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989) and Backdraft. He was married to Tommy Douglas' daughter Shirley (they divorced in 1970), and is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland. 1912 - Art Linkletter TV talk show host, radio actor, variety show host and author (Kids say the Darndest Things), was born Arthur Gordon Kelly on this day at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1912. Linketter is known for his Art Linkletter Show (1963), Hollywood Talent Scouts (1965) and People Are Funny (1954).
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Monday, July 18, 2005 - 9:22 am
July 18 1976 NADIA A PERFECT TEN Montreal Quebec - Romania's 14-year-old star gymnast Nadia Comaneci, performing on the uneven parallel bars, scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history. Nadia will go on to collect seven perfect scores, three gold medals, a silver and a bronze; she will also win two gold and two silver medals in the 1980 Olympic games. 1976 Montreal Quebec - Olympic events start in Montreal; Taiwan refused entry; 19 nations absent to protest New Zealand's rugby tour of South Africa. 1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - Naval ammunition barge catches fire in Bedford Basin; the magazine explodes for 24 hours causing evacuation of half the city's population; $4 million damage but no loss of life. 1916 Waterton Lake Alberta - John George 'Kootenai' Brown dies at his home on Waterton Lake; born in County Clare, Ireland, during the potato famine; served in India with the British Army, sold his commission in 1861, and prospected for gold in the Cariboo; worked as a Pony Express rider in the Dakota and Montana territories; married Metis woman Olive Lyonnais in 1869, and joined her people in the buffalo hunt, then ran a small trading post on the shores of Waterton Lake (which he called Kootenay Lake after the original inhabitants) and guided hunters and visitors. Brown lobbied for the establishment of Kootenay National Forest in 1895, and served as fishery officer and forest ranger. In 1911, the government created Waterton Lakes National Park. 1913 Vancouver BC - Sikh immigration from India causes race riots in Vancouver. 1905 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act creating the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan out of the North West Territory. 1818 Red River Manitoba - Grasshoppers plague Red River, hiding the sun and devouring everything green; staple potato crop of settlers and livestock completely destroyed in just a few minutes. 1817 Red River Manitoba - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk makes first treaty with local Ojibway and Swampy Cree people on behalf of King George III. 1814 Ancaster Ontario - Eight traitors captured during the War of 1812 are hanged at Ancaster, Upper Canada; two days later, their headless bodies are put on public display to discourage disloyalty to the British Crown. 1739 Quebec - Census shows population of New France to be 42,701. Born on this day: 1933 - R Murray Schafer composer, music educator, born at Sarnia, Ontario. Schafer is best known for his work, Patria; father of acoustic ecology, the study of the damaging effects of environmental noise on humans. 1926 - 1987 Margaret Laurence author, was born Jean Margaret Wemys in Neepawa, Manitoba; dies Jan. 5, 1987 at Lakefield, Ontario. Laurence was educated at United College, Winnipeg, worked as a reporter and book reviewer for the Winnipeg Citizen; traveled with her engineer husband to Somaliland, Ghana, Greece, Crete, Palestine, India, Egypt, and Spain. Noted for her Manawaka novels - The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966 - Governor General's Award, filmed as Rachel, Rachel (1968)) and The Diviners (1974 - Governor General's Award, and filmed) 1911 - 2003 Hume Cronyn (Blake) actor, screenwriter, theatre director, born at London, Ontario; educated at Ridley College and McGill University, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. Cronyn played in 48 films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Lifeboat (1944), The Cross of Lorraine (1943), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Brute Force (1947), People Will Talk (1951), The Moon and Sixpence (1959), Sunrise at Campobello (1960), Cleopatra (1963), Hamlet (1964), The World According to Garp (1982), Cocoon (1985), Batteries Not Included (1987); collaborated on the screenplays for Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and Under Capricorn (1949); married to Jessica Tandy from 1942 until her death Sept. 11, 1994; performed with her on Broadway in The Fourposter, A Delicate Balance, The Gin Game, and Foxfire; they were known as the 'first couple of the American theatre' and in 1994 won the first Tony Award for lifetime theatrical achievement; father of actress Tandy Cronyn. 1906 - 1992 Samuel Ichiye 'S. I.' Hayakawa scholar university president, and US Senator from California (1977-83), born at Vancouver, BC; died in Greenbrae, California. Hayakawa was known for his popular writings on semantics and for his career as President of San Francisco State University in the 1960s. 1891 - 1957 Gene Lockhart actor, born at London, Ontario; died in Santa Monica, California. Lockhart starred in over 113 Hollywood movies, including Carousel (1956), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), Madame Bovary (1949), Joan of Arc (1948), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), The Desert Song (1944), Madame Curie (1943), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), A Christmas Carol (1938 - Bob Cratchit); married to Kathleen Lockhart; they played opposite their daughter, actress June Lockhart in 'A Christmas Carol' (1938).
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 5:43 am
July 19 1994 Toronto Ontario - Rolling Stones play a surprise date at the RPM club to preview of their Voodoo Lounge tour; had been rehearsing at a private school and an empty hangar at Pearson Airport. 1981 Toronto Ontario - Hailstones the size of tennis balls fall near Toronto, causing millions of dollars worth of damage. 1980 Moscow Russia - Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afghanistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3. 1976 Hollywood California - NBC airs last episode of The Rich Little Show, TV variety program hosted by Ottawa-born comic. 1965 Ottawa Ontario - Yukon and Northwest Territories represented for the first time at a federal-provincial conference. 1937 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada issues Canada's first bilingual currency. 1918 Canada - Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada. 1812 Sacketts Harbor, NY - British launch unsuccessful attack on Sacketts Harbor during the War of 1812. 1654 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Marguerite Sedilot marries Jean Aubuchon at the age of 11 years, 5 months; youngest bride in Canadian history. 1577 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher enters Frobisher Bay; explores islands and shores for gold; trades with Inuit; names Mount Warwick, no trace of kidnapped sailors lost the previous year. Born on this day: 1960 - Atom Egoyan film director, was born Atom Yeghoyan at Cairo Egypt. Egoyan's parents, Armenian refugees, moved to Canada when he was 3 years old; he grew up in Victoria BC and attended Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where he started film making. 1771 - 1853 Thomas Talbot military officer, colonizer, born at Malahide, Ireland; died in London Ontario. After serving as private secretary to Governor John Graves Simcoe, Colonel Talbot acquired portions of 29 townships in southwestern Ontario along the north shore of Lake Erie, and brought out settlers from the British Isles, founding the Talbot Settlement, and its capital, St. Thomas.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 8:32 am
July 20 1996 Boilleau Quebec - Earth dam owned by Stone Consolidated ruptures its banks after torrential rains fill Lac Ha! Ha! to overflowing; wall of water moves down the river at 32 kmh, wiping out every thing in its path, from Boilleau to La Baie, and destroying over 150 homes and cottages; up to 260 mm of rain falls around the Réserve faunique des Laurentides over a 28 hour span. 1985 Calgary Alberta - Alberta Court of Queen's Bench fines former school teacher James Keegstra $5,000 for willfully promoting hatred against Jews; taught Eckville students that the Holocaust didn't happen and that a Jewish conspiracy controls world affairs; Alberta Court of Appeal overturns verdict in 1988; Supreme Court of Canada will agree there should be a new trial in 1990; second jury convicts Keegstra in 1992. 1978 Toronto Ontario - A. J. Casson Retrospective art exhibition opens at Art Gallery of Ontario; last living member of the Group of Seven. 1945 Canada - Ottawa sends out first Family Allowance payments to Canadian families; critics call it a waste of money, say it will encourage poor families to have more children. 1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Trial of Louis Riel for treason begins at Regina, the capital of the North-West Territories; Riel wishes to plead not guilty, but his lawyers enter an insanity plea over his objections. 1871 BC ENTERS CONFEDERATION Ottawa Ontario - British Columbia Act comes into effect, making BC the sixth province to enter Confederation; George-Etienne Cartier promises rail link start within two years, completion within ten years; Canadian government takes over telegraph lines in the province, including the Collins Overland Stage Line. 1697 Ryswick Netherlands - Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the League of Augsbourg; France and Spain recognize William III as King of England; all territorial conquests returned, including the Hudson's Bay Company posts seized by Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville between 1686 and 1697. 1629 Quebec Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke force Champlain to surrender his fur fort at Quebec; backed by London fur traders, the Kirke brothers occupy New France until 1632; Champlain sent to England as a prisoner. 1585 Greenland - John Davis sights east coast of Greenland; calls it 'Land of Desolation'; rounds Cape Farewell; sails up western coast; names the old Norse Settlement 'Gilbert Sound'. 1534 Baie de Chaleur Quebec/New Brunswick - Jacques Cartier enters the bay which he names Baie de Chaleur; thinks it is a passage to the Far East. Born on this day: 1811 - 1863 James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, 12th Earl of Kincardine statesman, born at London, England; died in Dharmsala, India. Elgin was Governor General of British North America from 1847 to 1854; he helped bring about Responsible (Cabinet) Government in the Canadas, ensuring that the elected government controlled appointments and the public purse.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 6:45 am
July 21 1996 Chicoutimi Quebec - End of 72 hours of torrential rain in Chicoutimi Region; flooding and landslides kill 10, estimated $365 million in damage. 1996 Atlanta Georgia - Hamilton cyclist Clara Hughes wins Canada's first medal at the Summer Olympics, taking the bronze in the women's road race in a time of 2:36.44; Jeannie Longo of France wins gold, Italian Imelda Chiappa silver, just holding off Hughes; first ever medal for Canada in Olympic women's cycling, which made its debut in 1984. Hughes, 23, born and raised in Winnipeg. 1986 Halifax Nova Scotia - Premier John Buchanan hosts banquet with over 500 people to honour 72-year-old country singer Hank Snow, who was born in Liverpool, but moved to Nashville in the mid-1940's; proclaims Hank Snow Week in Nova Scotia. 1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada decides to end all cease-fire monitoring activities in Vietnam. 1935 Washington DC - US government apologizes to Canada; pays $50,000 to compensate for sinking of the rum runner I'm Alone in 1929. 1928 Thelon River, NWT - Four surveyors discover the bodies of English trapper Jack Hornby, his young cousin Edgar Christian, and their friend Adlard in a cabin on the Thelon River; inside the stove is Christian's diary detailing how they slowly starved to death over the winter and spring; Hornby died April 16, after weeks of suffering, Adlard died May 4, and Christian continued his diary until his final entry June 1, noting he is too weak to walk and cannot fetch wood for the stove. He then crawls into his bunk and dies. 1899 Queenston Ontario - Opening of new suspension bridge over Niagara River to Lewiston, New York. 1896 CANADA'S FIRST FILM SHOWING Ottawa Ontario - John C. Green shows the first display of Thomas Edison's Vitascope at the Ottawa Electric Railway Company's West End Park near the intersection of Holland Avenue and Carling Avenue in Ottawa; Canada's first motion picture showing. 1836 La Prairie Quebec - Governor Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford rides on the first train of the Champlain & St. Lawrence with 300 other guests, pulled by the locomotive Dorchester over wooden rails; the 23 km portage road running from La Prairie opposite Montreal to St-Jean on the Richelieu is Canada's first public railway line; became part of the Montreal and Champlain Railroad in 1857; leased to the Grand Trunk in 1864; now part of the CN system. 1797 Montreal Quebec - American spy David McLane publicly hanged, beheaded and disembowelled; first execution of its kind in Canada. 1730 Quebec Quebec - Canada's population estimated at 33,682 French inhabitants. Born on this day: 1948 - Art Hindle TV actor, born in Halifax Nova Scotia. Hindle played Jeff Faraday in Dallas, and also in Berrengers. 1938 - Anton Kuerti pianist, composer, born in Vienna, Austria. Kuerti settled in Canada in 1965, and has performed with all major symphony orchestras in the country; the CBC broadcast his 32 Beethoven Sonatas over 19 programs in 1976; the recording from the series won the first Juno awarded for a classical recording. 1926 - Norman Jewison film director, producer, born in Toronto; Jewison got his BA at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and after moving to London, where he wrote scripts and acted for the BBC, he returned to Toronto and directed TV shows for the CBC (1952-1958), then musicals and variety in New York. He has directed many feature films, including The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming (1966), In the Heat of the Night (1967 - won 5 Academy awards), Fiddler On The Roof (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Moonstruck (1987) and others In 1986 he established the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in Toronto. 1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus chemist, born in Montreal. Marcus won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the theory of electron-transfer reactions in such chemical systems as cell metabolism, corrosion and photosynthesis. 1911 - 1980 (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan media theorist, educator, author, born at Edmonton; died in Toronto. McLuhan was educated at the University of Manitoba and Cambridge University, then served as Professor of English at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto from 1946. He set up U of T's Centre for Culture and Technology in 1963. His writings include: The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Understanding Media (1964), The Medium is the Massage (1967), War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) and Culture is Our Business (1970). He also appeared as himself in the Woody Allen movie, Annie Hall.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Friday, July 22, 2005 - 5:04 am
July 22 1981 Quebec - Quebec licensed taverns required to post notice saying that women are allowed to enter; end of an old tradition; taverns licensed before 1979 not affected and can still bar women. 1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal grants citizenship to Dutch immigrants Ernest and Cornelia Bergsma; previously denied because they were atheists. 1953 Ottawa Ontario - National Defense issues final Korean War casualty list, showing 1,500 Canadian soldiers killed or wounded in the UN mandated conflict. 1950 Old Chelsea, Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King dies at his Kingsmere estate at age 75; born at Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario; educated at the universities of Toronto and Harvard; Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour and editor of the Labour Gazette 1900-1908; Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation 1914-1918; Liberal Party Leader 1919-1948; Leader of the Opposition 1919-1921, 1926, 1930-1935; Prime Minister Dec. 29, 1921-June 28, 1926; Sept. 25, 1926-Aug. 7, 1930; Oct. 23, 1935-Nov. 15, 1948. 1948 NEWFOUNDLAND VOTES TO JOIN CANADA Newfoundland - Second Newfoundland referendum in less than two months gives narrow 7,000 majority for union with Canada. 1915 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Sir Sandford Fleming dies at 88; born at Kirkaldy, Scotland; railway engineer, devised a way to divide the world into time zones. 1847 London England - British Act gives Canada power over own taxation; Canada can now raise own duties for revenue. 1793 Dean Inlet, BC - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean down the Bella Coola River into Dean Channel; mixes some vermilion in melted grease and inscribes and paints on a large rock: 'Alex Mackenzie from Canada by land 22d July 1793.'; first to cross the Great Divide and North America north of Mexico; his party set out in May, and traveled much of the way on foot; when they reached the Bella Coola River, they traded goods for canoes and paddled to the sea; hostile natives made them beat a hasty retreat upriver; back in Montreal, the North West Company can see no practical use for Mackenzie's route, but he will be knighted for his exploit. 1629 Quebec Quebec - David, Louis and Thomas Kirke raise the English flag over Quebec and take possession of Fort St-Louis and Champlain's Habitation; a year earlier, the Kirke brothers demanded the surrender of the fort, but Champlain drove them off; French will leave Quebec on Sept. 14; some habitants stay behind; four years later, the colony will revert to France. 1629 Quebec Quebec - Olivier le Noir the first black man to arrive at Quebec, with the Kirkes. Born on this day: 1957 - Dave Stieb baseball player. Stieb is a major league pitcher, and sometime member of the Toronto Blue Jays. 1950 - Belinda J. Montgomery singer, TV actress. Montgomery has played in Miami Vice, the Man From Atlantis, and as Doogie Howser MD's mother Katherine Howser. 1950 - Blair Thornton rock & roll guitarist, singer. Thornton replaced Tim Bachman in 1974 as a member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. 1941 - Ron Turcotte jockey, born at Drummond, New Brunswick, one of 11 children of a lumberjack. In 1959 an unemployed Turcotte moved to Toronto where he worked as a hot-walker at E.P. Taylor's Windfields Farms; in 1962 he got his first win; in 1972 he rode Riva Ridge to victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, and in 1973 rode Secretariat to the first Triple Crown in 25 years; on July 13, 1978, he broke his back falling from his horse at Belmont Park. 1940 - Alex Trebek TV game show host, born at Sudbury, Ontario. Trebek started with CBC's Reach for the Top; went on to High Rollers (1974), the Wizard of Odds (1974), the $128,000 Question, Classic Concentration (1986), To Tell the Truth and Jeopardy! (1984-); narrator: Heart of Courage; has played Himself in many TV shows and in the movies Short Cuts (1993), White Men Can't Jump (1992) and Dying Young (1991); owns a vineyard in Creston, California. 1898 - 1987 Mervyn 'Red' Dutton hockey player, manager. Dutton served as the second National Hockey League President, from 1943 to 1946. 1884 - 1967 Albert Warner film producer, Warner Brothers co-founder, born in London, Ontario, the youngest of 12 children of Jewish immigrants from Poland. When Albert was young, the family settled in Youngstown, Ohio, then Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where, in 1903, they opened a nickelodeon theatre; in 1905 he and three other Warner brothers, Jack (1892-1978), Sam (1888-1927) and Harry (1881-1958) started a film distribution business, but were soon forced to sell out to the Patents Company. They started producing shorts in 1912, and established a studio at Burbank called Warner Bros., where Albert served as Treasurer. In 1927 they launched the sound era with Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer. In 1956, Albert Warner sold his shares in the company to brother Jack, the studio boss. 1880 - 1967 George 'Moony' Gibson baseball player 1903-1918, manager,born in London Ontario. Gibson joined the Pittsburgh Pirates 1905, World Series team 1909; later managed Pirates and Chicago Cubs; first baseball player elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
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| Friday, July 22, 2005 - 7:21 am
<<1981 Quebec - Quebec licensed taverns required to post notice saying that women are allowed to enter; end of an old tradition; taverns licensed before 1979 not affected and can still bar women. >> I absolutely remember the days in Ontario when taverns/pubs had two sides - one for couples and one for men only!!
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Lumbele
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| Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 9:24 am
July 23 1991 Toronto Ontario - Susan Nelles awarded $30,000 after being found wrongly accused of murdering 4 babies at Hospital for Sick Children; also $10,000 to family endowment fund. 1987 Porcupine Hills, Alberta - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of York; first excavated in 1938, designated a provincial historic site in 1979 and a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981; named for young Peigan boy who was crushed by the buffalo because he wanted to watch the animals as they plunged over the cliff. 1983 JET RUNS OUT OF GAS IN MID AIR Gimli Manitoba - Air Canada 767 runs out of fuel in midair and makes emergency glide landing at Gimli airstrip; due to metric confusion and fuel meter problems. 1974 Ottawa Ontario - Former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker sworn in as an MP for a record 12th consecutive time; Dief will make it 13 in a row in 1979, but dies before the opening of Parliament. 1956 - John Jearmey the first male swimmer to conquer Lake Ontario. 1943 Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Air Lines inaugurates transatlantic service. 1914 Vancouver BC - Canadian government forces Japanese freighter Komagata Maru to leave Vancouver Harbour with its cargo of 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs, after a Board of Enquiry rules that they can not land; ship departs for Hong Kong, as thousands on the Vancouver docks cheer. 1900 Ottawa Ontario - Government bans immigration of criminals or 'paupers' to Canada. 1840 London England - British Parliament passes the Act of Union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada; to take effect Feb. 10, 1841, providing for the union of the two provinces under a single government; also assumption of £1.2 million Upper Canada debt, establishment of a civil list, banning of the French language in the Assembly and in all government departments, and dissolution of French educational and civil law institutions. The Union will soon become unworkable, and the province ungovernable. 1632 Dieppe France - Ship bearing 300 colonists bound for New France leaves the port of Dieppe. Born on this day: 1878 - 1946 James Anderson educator and Premier of Saskatchewan, born at Fairbank Ontario. After the defeat of the James G. Gardiner Ministry in 1939, Anderson formed a Co-operative government of Conservatives and Progressives that held power through the Depression and Dust Bowl until 1934. 1885 - 1955 Izaak Walton Killam financier, born at Yarmouth Nova Scotia. A friend of Sir Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, head of Royal Securities and investor in power and paper companies, Killam was said to be the richest Canadian of his day. 1823 - 1894 Alexandre-Antonin Taché missionary and first Roman Catholic Bishop of St-Boniface, Manitoba, born at Trois-Rivières Quebec. Influential with Louis Riel and the Native tribes and Metis, Taché was instrumental in defusing the Red River Rebellion of 1870.
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07-12-2002
| Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 9:25 am
July 24 1995 New York City - Regina filling station attendant Dick Assman (pronounced OSS-man) appears to great hilarity on CBS's Late Show With David Letterman, introducing a dumb ad segment; Assman works at the Petro-Canada at the corner of Victoria and Fleet. 1988 St. John's Newfoundland - Emma Houlston lands single engine plane; youngest person to fly across Canada; nine year old from Medicine Hat, Alberta; took off from Victoria July 10; her father the navigator and official pilot-in-command. 1984 LEADERS SPAR IN FIRST FRENCH TV DEBATE Montreal Quebec - Party leaders John Turner, Brian Mulroney & Ed Broadbent meet in a French-language television debate; first time in Canadian history. 1967 Montreal Ontario - General Charles de Gaulle shouts the separatist slogan 'Vive le Quebec libre' from the balcony of Montreal's City Hall; French President touches off a diplomatic row as PM Pearson protests the remarks; two days later, de Gaulle abruptly cancels his official visit to Ottawa and returns to France. 1943 Hamburg Germany - Bomber Command launches week-long Operation Gomorrah on German port of Hamburg; using new device called 'Window' to counter Nazi radar; concentrated heavy bombing by the RAF and RCAF leaves 20,000 dead. 1788 Kingston Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester divides Upper Canada into four judicial districts: Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau, and Hesse; judge and sheriff appointed for each. 1759 Youngstown, New York: - Lieutenant Colonel Massey arrives outside French Fort Niagara with extra troops; the incoming French reinforcements will be stopped by a volley of musket fire, and attacked by Johnson's Indian allies; Pierre Pouchot will surrender the French garrison the following day. 1759 Quebec Quebec - Over 15,000 cannon balls have hit Quebec from the English forces across the St. Lawrence at Lévis. 1629 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain leaves Quebec for England, a prisoner of the Kirke brothers; next day, the Kirkes capture Emery de Caen's supply ship. 1534 Penouille Point Quebec - Jacques Cartier lands at rocky Penouille Point on the Gaspé coast; erects 10 metre high cross, bearing fleur-de-lys and motto 'Vive le Roy de France'; takes possession of the mainland of Canada in the name of François I; Donnacona, the Iroquois chief at Stadacona (Quebec) will later protest against Cartier's declaration. Born on this day: 1982 - Anna Paquin film actor, born at Winnipeg. Anna has played in Fly Away Home (1996), Jane Eyre (1996 - the young Jane Eyre), and The Piano (1993 - the girl Flora - for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress); Anna now lives with her mother in New Zealand. 1948 - Kim Berly rock and roll drummer, born at Dawson Creek, BC. Berly played with the '70s Canadian rock band the Stampeders. 1944 - 1984 Jackson Beardy Cree artist, born at Island Lake, Manitoba; died after years of battling illness. Beardy was a member of the Native Group of Seven with Norval Morrisseau and others. 1939 - Claire Lawrence rock musician, record producer, born at Elk Point, Alberta. Lawrence attended UBC in 1964; co-founded the rock band The Classics (became the Collectors in 1966, Chilliwack in 1970); in 1972 started producing records for Valdy, Susan Jacks and others; in 1976, formed the Hometown Band to accompany Valdy on tours (won Juno for best new group in 1977). 1936 - Jean-Claude Parrot militant leader of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), bornin Montreal. 1917 - Robert Farnon conductor, composer and arranger of light music and film scores, born at Toronto. Farnon was with the Percy Faith Orchestra and the Happy Gang on CBC Radio from 1937-43; moved to England during the Second World War; started recording for Decca in the late 1940's and became the arranger for Vera Lynn; composed over a dozen film scores, including Bob Hope's film The Road to Hong Kong (1962). 1914 - Edwin 'Honest Ed' Mirvish retailer, impresario, born at Colonial Beach, Virginia. Mirvish came to Toronto in 1923, where he established his famous Honest Ed's discount store. In 1962 he bought and refurbished the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and in 1982, London's Old Vic (with his son David). 1899 - 1981 Dan George (Teswahno) actor, Chief of the Salish Band in Burrard Inlet, British Columbia 1951-63, was born Geswanouth Slahoot in North Vancouver; died in Vancouver. George started his acting career playing Old Antoine on CBC's Cariboo Country (1961), and in George Ryga's Ecstacy of Rita Joe (1967). He won an Academy Award nomination for his role as Old Lodge Poles, opposite Dustin Hoffman, in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970); he also played Old Sioux in the TV miniseries Centennial (1978), and he played a comic role opposite Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), and in Harry and Tonto (1974). He has written several books including My Heart Soars (1974), My Spirit Soars (1982), and You Call Me Chief: Impressions of the Life of Chief Dan George (1981).
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 9:26 am
Yes, Jan, I remember those days as well. And dh recalls that a customer wasn't allowed to carry his drink from one table to the next either, the waiter had to do it.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 9:44 am
Yes I remember that very well, Lumbele!! geez, I can't believe it was 22 yrs ago that the excellent pilot was able to glide his fuel depleted commercial jet to a landing with no passenger injuries!! Time does fly! (no pun intended 
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