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October 30

1997
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that nothing in Canadian law permits the courts to force a woman to take drug treatment to save the fetus she is carrying; after Winnipeg Social Services tried to detain a woman in a detox centre; lawyer Martha Jackman states that the law cannot be changed without infringing on the womens' rights.

1995 QUEBEC SAYS NO AGAIN
Quebec Quebec - Premier Jacques Parizeau narrowly loses Quebec Referendum on sovereignty, even with the aid of Lucien Bouchard. In a televised address, he denounces money and the "ethnic vote" as reasons for his defeat. The tally: Non 2,361,521 (50.6%), Oui 2,308,028 (49.4%); 93.2% of eligible voters go to the polls; about 60% of francophones vote Yes, about 90% of anglophones and allophones vote No.

1991
Ellesmere Island, NWT - Canadian Forces Hercules C-130 crashes on Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic while on a routine supply mission; 5 of the 13 passengers die from injuries or hypothermia before rescuers can reach them over 33 hours later.

1972
Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins federal election 109 seats to 107 for the PCs under Robert Stanfield; 31 NDP; 15 Social Credit; 2 Independent; gets 45.5% of popular vote. Among the new Members are Jeanne Sauvé (Montreal), later Speaker and Governor General; Trevor Morgan (St. Catharines), Canada's first blind MP; and, Sean O'Sullivan, age 20 (Hamilton-Wentworth), Canada's youngest Member of Parliament ever; he resigned in 1977 to become a Priest.

1920
Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto medical researcher Frederick Banting scribbles the research note that leads to his team's discovery of insulin: 'Tie pancreas ducts of dogs. Wait six or eight weeks. Remove and extract.'

1918
Europe - Cease fire in World War I; armistice follows on November 11.

1915
Bexley Heath, England - Charles Tupper dies at Bexley Heath, Kent; born Amherst, Nova Scotia; MD University of Edinburgh 1843; President, Canadian Medical Association 1867-1870; Premier of Nova Scotia 1864-1867; Participant at Charlottetown 1864, Quebec 1864, and London 1866 conferences; Father of Confederation 1867; High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 1884-1887, 1888-1896; Leader of the Opposition 1896-1901; Canada's 6th Prime Minister, May 1 to July 8, 1896.

1893
Montreal Quebec - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott dies at age 72; Dean of Law, McGill 1855-1880; Mayor of Montreal 1887-1888; Senator and Leader of the Government in the Senate 1887-1893; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister 1891-92; first to lead the country from the Senate.

1759
Montreal Quebec - First Spanish trading ship arrives at Montreal.

1688
Montreal Quebec - First lottery held at Montreal.


Born on this day:

1968 - Laurent Daigneault
speed skater

1943 - Joanna Shimkus
actor, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She began her film career in France, then played in Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971). She gave up her film career for a family when she married actor Sydney Poitier.

1911 - 2001 Jim Coleman
reporter. Coleman started his sports writing career with the Winnipeg Tribune; later worked for Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Bulletin, Canadian Press, Globe and Mail, Southam Press; Canada's first sports journalist with a nationally syndicated column; also worked as publicist at Stampede Park in Calgary and the Ontario Jockey Club's Woodbine Race Track; wrote Hoofprints on my Heart in 1974.

1905 - John C. Miles
marathon runner, was born on this day in 1905. Miles won the 1926 Boston Marathon at age 18, shaving nearly five minutes off the course record; record not allowed after course found to be 176 yards short of the official distance; failed to finish in 1927, but took the 1929 race in another record time -2: 33: 08.

1891 - 1973 Ada MacKenzie
golfer. MacKenzie won five national ladies open titles, dominating women's golf in the 1920s and 1930s ; twice reached semi finals of the US Amateur competitions; 1924 founder of the Toronto Ladies Golf Club; competed internationally for both Canada and Scotland, and won her last seniors ladies title in 1969 at age 78.

1820 - 1899 Sir John William Dawson
geologist, was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia; died in Montreal. Dawson studied at Edinburgh university, and became Principal and Professor of Geology at McGill from 1855 to 1893, and built that university into a world-class institution. He founded the royal Society of Canada and made many brilliant contributions to paleobotany (the study of fossil plants) and greatly extended our knowledge of Canadian geology.

1799 - 1885 Ignace Bourget
future Bishop of Montreal

1786 - 1871 Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
novelist, was born at Quebec City; died in Quebec. De Gaspé wrote Les Anciens canadiens, the first important French-Canadian novel.


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October 31

1995
Canada - Canada's dollar and stock exchanges soar while interest rates fall after the No side narrowly wins the Quebec referendum.

1982
Vatican City - Pope John Paul II canonizes Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700, founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal as Canada's first woman Saint; cites her heroism and concern for family life; arrived in Quebec 1653 and opened her first school for girls in a Montreal stable in 1658.

1965
Montreal Quebec - Canadian National introduces Rapido passenger service to Toronto; extended to Quebec in 1966.

1919
Fredericton, New Brunswick - Werner Horn sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to blow up St. Croix River bridge in 1915; organized by German spy ring in US.

1918
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta government prohibits all public meetings of seven persons or more, as influenza (Spanish Flu) epidemic sweeps the province; churches, schools and theatres close.

1908 CANUCKS WIN LAST GOLD MEDAL IN LACROSSE
London England - The 4th modern Olympiad ends in London. Canada's first true national Olympic team of 84 athletes attended. Canada's Gold Medals were in Lacrosse (a game that has not been recognized since), the 200 Metre Race (Robert Kerr) and Shooting (Walter Ewing).

1874
Quebec Quebec - First group of Mennonites from Russia arrive in Quebec on the way to settle in Manitoba.

1873
Niagara Falls, Ontario - Opening of new International Bridge over Niagara River.

1809
Montreal Quebec - John Molson sends steamboat 'Accomodation' on maiden voyage; first steamboat in Canada makes seven day round trip to Quebec and back.

1610
James Bay, Quebec - Henry Hudson on the Discovery orders Prickett and Staffe ashore to find a suitable place for winter at the south-east corner of James Bay; the following day the crew haul the ship aground and start building winter quarters.


Born on this day:

1973 - Fiona Smith
hockey player. Smith played defense for the gold medal winning Canadian women's team at the 1998 Olympics at Nagano, Japan.

1950 - 1994 newurl{http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsabc/candy.html,John Franklin Candy }
comedian, TV/movie actor, comedy writer, director, was born at Toronto, Ontario; dies of a heart attack at age 43 in Durango, Mexico. Candy began his career at CBC Toronto appearing in such children's shows as Coming Up Rosie.
In 1972 he moved to Chicago and joined the Second City comedy troupe. Shortly afterwards, he helped set up the Toronto branch of Second City, and then the SCTV Network show, where he performed from 1977-83 as TV personality Johnny La Rue, ghoulish Dr. Tongue and polka clarinetist Yosh Shmenge.
He then went to Hollywood, starring such films as Spaceballs (1987); Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987); Uncle Buck (1989) and Home Alone (1990).
In 1991, he joined Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall in purchasing the Toronto Argonauts football team. Candy died while filming the western Wagons East.

1933 - Phil Goyette
hockey player. Goyette played for the Cincinnati Mohawks, Montreal Royals, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres.

1928 - newurl{http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsdef/foster.html,Dianne Foster }
actor, was born at Edmonton, Alberta.

1917 - William H. McNeill
historian, was born at Vancouver, BC. McNeill's most famous work is The Rise of the West, which documented the span of human history in terms of western civilization.

1887 - 1971 Édouard 'Newsy' Lalonde
hockey and lacrosse player, was born at Cornwall, Ontario; dies in Montreal. Lalonde got his nickname as a reporter for the Cornwall Freeholder; started playing lacrosse in 1904 at age 16; started his hockey career with Cornwall and turned pro with Sault Ste Marie; joined the original Montreal Canadiens in 1910; 1910-11 with the Renfrew Millionaires; 1913 back to the Canadiens; won the League scoring title four times, scoring 124 goals in 98 games; on two Stanley Cup winning teams; spent his summers touring the country with various lacrosse clubs until 1928; Vancouver team paid him $6500 per season; later coached the New York Americans, Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators; voted as Canada's Lacrosse Player of the Half Century in the 1950 Canadian Press poll.




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November 1

1992
Montreal Quebec - McGill University named best in Canada by Maclean's Magazine.

1987
Montreal Quebec- René Lévesque 1922-1987 dies in Montreal; leader of the separatist Parti Québ&eacutecois and former Premier of Quebec (1976-1985); started in journalism as war correspondent with US forces during World War II; joined Radio-Canada in 1946 as radio and TV reporter; hosted popular show, Point de Mire; 1960 won seat in Quebec National Assembly as Liberal; held several portfolios in Lesage government; 1967 left Liberal party and united several separatist groups to form Parti Quebecois; 1976 led PQ to power; 1980 lost referendum on sovereignty; 1985 gave up leadership of PQ.

1971
Toronto Ontario - Douglas Creighton starts publishing daily tabloid 'The Toronto Sun' with other unemployed Telegram staffers; first issue has 48 pages

1958
Springhill Nova Scotia - Coal mine rescue workers bring 7 more men out; in all, 74 miners die underground in the Number Two Cumberland mine, the deepest coal workings in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6 from the 3,960 metre depth.

1952
Montreal Quebec - Foster Hewitt calls the play-by play on CBLT-TV, Toronto as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 in an NHL game; this is Canada's' first English-language hockey telecast.

1939 TCA STARTS CROSS-CANADA FLIGHTS
Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights between Montreal and Vancouver.

1924
Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League awards a hockey franchise to the Boston Bruins; the NHL's first US team.

1813
Sackets Harbor, New York - American invasion of Lower Canada begins, as James Wilkinson sets out with 8,000 men from Sackets Harbor to attack Canada down the St. Lawrence; Wade Hampton gathers 4,200 at Lake Champlain to attack Montreal from the south.

1787
Windsor Nova Scotia - Charles Inglis directs opening of academy at Windsor; beginning of the University of King's College; by Loyalists refugees who split from what is now Columbia University in New York; eventually moved to Halifax; now part of Dalhousie University.

1610
James Bay, Quebec - Henry Hudson realizes it is too late to leave for England; orders Prickett and Staffe and his crew to haul the Discovery aground at the bottom of James Bay near the mouth of the Nottaway River and prepare winter quarters; they are not able to leave until June 18, 1611.


Born on this day:

1972 - Glen Murray
hockey right winger, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Murray was selected by the Boston Bruins in the first round (18th pick overall) of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft; traded with Bryan Smolinski to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Kevin Stevens and Shawn McEachern Aug. 2, 1995; currently plays for the Los Angeles Kings.

1971 - Rob Waldrop
football player. Waldrop is a CFL defensive tackle for the Toronto Argonauts.

1971 - Keith Whitecotton
golfer, was born at Camrose, Alberta. Whitecotton was Alberta Junior champion in 1989 and 1990.

1969 - Tie Domi
hockey right winger, was born at Windsor, Ontario. Domi was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round (27th pick overall) of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Winnipeg Jets back to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Mike Eastwood and Brad Isbister on April 7, 1995; the Leaf's enforcer in the 1997-98 Season, coming in second in the NHL in penalty minutes.

1962 - Kelly Kelland
baseball player, was born at London, Ontario. Kelland played first base on the Canadian softball team that competed in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

1942 - Ralph Klein
Premier of Alberta, was born at Calgary. After 10 years as a broadcaster, Klein started his political career as Mayor of Calgary, and was instrumental in bringing the Winter Olympics to that city in 1988. In 1989 he was elected to the Alberta Legislature, and in 1992 succeeded Don Getty as Leader of the Conservatives and provincial Premier.

1932 - Al Arbour
hockey player, coach. Arbour coached the New York Islanders to 4 straight Stanley Cup titles (1980-83); retired after 1993-94 season; second on all-time career list with 902 wins (779 regular season and 123 post-season).

1924 - Jean-Luc Pépin
academic, politician, was born at Drummondville, Quebec. Pépin was educated at the universities of Ottawa and Paris; 1963 elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal; in Cabinet between 1965 and 1972, when he was defeated; 1975 chairman of the Anti-Inflation Board; 1977 co-chairman, with John Robarts, of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; 1980-83 minister of transport and External Affairs.

1923 - Gordon Dickson
science fiction author. Dickson is known for Genetic General and other works.

1905 - 1960 Paul-Émile Borduas
painter, social critic, was born at St-Hilaire, Quebec; dies at Paris, France. Borduas was encouraged by Ozias Leduc to study at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal (1923-27) and in Paris (1928-30) at the Ateliers d'art sacré; 1937 started teaching at the École du Meuble in Montreal; 1947 leader of the Mouvement Automatiste; 1948 helped draw up Refus Global manifesto demanding freedom of expression and denouncing the suffocating nature of Quebec society; forced to move to New York 1953-55, then Paris 1955-60.

1867 - 1941 Newton Wesley Rowell
politician and jurist, was born at Arva, Ontario; died in Toronto. A strong Methodist and Prohibitionist, Rowell was elected an Ontario MLA in 1911, and became leader of the Liberal Opposition in the Ontario Legislature. Borden invited him to join the Union Government in 1917 as President of the Privy Council. He took a prominent role in the first Assembly of the League of Nations, and represented the women's side in the 1931 Persons Case. From 1936-37 he served as Chief Justice of Ontario, then was called on to co-chair Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Rowell-Sirois Commission). He resigned in 1938 due to ill health.

1847 - 1930 Emma Albani
opera singer, soprano, was born Marie-Louise-Cécile-Emma Lajeunesse at Chambly Quebec; died in London England. Taught by her music teacher parents, Emma Albani gave her first concert in Montreal in 1856. She then studied in Paris and Milan, and gave her first opera performance in Messina Italy in 1869, as Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera. She made her debut at Covent Garden in London as Amina in La Sonnambula in 1872, made many tours of Canada from 1883 to 1906, sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1891-1892 seasons, and finally retired in 1896 - the first Canadian to star in the international world of opera.


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November 2

1995
Mississippi USA - Jury hits Loewen Group Inc. with extraordinary US$500 million in damages in nuisance civil dispute; Burnaby, B.C., funeral services giant depicted as The Ugly Canadian.

1992
St-Isidore, Quebec - Nanny goat in St-Isidore has six kids, makes it into the Guinness Book of Records.

1971 HERZBERG WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Stockholm, Sweden - National Research Council scientist Gerhard Herzberg wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in molecular spectroscopy.

1970
Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec offer rewards of $75,000 for information leading to arrest of FLQ kidnappers.

1959
New York City - Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante the first NHL goalie to wear a mask on a permanent basis; after getting hit by shot from Rangers' Andy Bathgate.

1957
Whitehorse Yukon Quebec - Martha Black 1866-1957 dies at age 91; born Martha Louise Munger at Chicago, Illinois Feb. 24, 1866; Black (then Martha Purdy, pregnant with her third child and abandoned by her husband) crossed the Chilkoot Pass in 1898; settled in Dawson with her brother and mined several claims; 1904 married lawyer George Black, later member of the Yukon Council, Commissioner of the Yukon Territory (1912-1918) and Conservative MP for the Yukon; to England during World War I; awarded OBE for aid to Yukon servicemen; elected fellow of Royal Geographical Society for work on Yukon flora; 1935 ran for Parliament at age 70 when husband too ill to run, becoming the second woman to sit in the House of Commons; served for five years until George recovered.

1947
Ottawa Ontario - Government drops price controls on sugar and molasses, ending over five years of wartime food rationing; items rationed included butter, meat, tea, coffee, preserves, nylon and gasoline.

1889
Winnipeg Manitoba - Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hayter Reed announces policy of 'peasant farming' for Indian reserves in Manitoba and the North West Territories; with individual land holdings small enough for one person to farm without mechanized equipment; communal reserve farming forbidden; disastrous policy abandoned and Reed fired in 1896.

1775
St-Jean, Quebec - American invaders capture Fort St. John on the Richelieu River.

1671
Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon opens the King's Brewery, Quebec City's first brewery.


Born on this day:

1973 - Jason Smith
NHL defenseman, was born at Calgary, Alberta. Smith plays for the New Jersey Devils.

1972 - Marie-Josée Gibeau
kayaker, was born at Lachine Quebec. Gibeau was on the Canadian team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

1967 - Derek Porter
rower, was born at Belfast, Ireland. Porter rowed for the Canadian Olympic team, picking up Gold in Barcelona in 1992 and Silver in Atlanta in 1996.

1961 - k. d. lang
country singer, was born Katherine Dawn Lang at Edmonton, grew up in Consort, Alberta, population 700; has three older siblings, two sisters and a brother; does not smoke cigarettes and has been a vegetarian since Jan. 14, 1981.

1960 - Paul Martini
figure skater; 1978 won World Junior Pairs gold medal with partner Barbara Underhill; 1979 took first of five consecutive Canadian Pairs championships; 1984 won World Championships in Ottawa one month after disappointing finish in the Sarajevo Olympics; 1984 turned professional with the Ice Capades .

1953 - Gerry Roufs
solo yachtsman

1938 - Dorothy Lidstone
archer; Lidstone won the World Archery Championship Aug. 16 1969, breaking the 1963 world record by over 100 points, first Canadian to take the title; led Canadian women's team to a best-ever second place finish.

1929 - Richard Taylor
physicist, was born at Medicine Hat, Alberta. Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with American colleagues Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall. They proved the existence of quarks, tiny particles that help constitute the basic building blocks of matter.

1924 - 1988 Father David Bauer
hockey left winger, coach, manager, was born at Kitchener, Ontario, brother of the Bruins' Bobby Bauer; died at Goderich, Ontario; Bauer was part of the Oshawa team that won the 1943 Memorial Cup, but chose to become a Basilian priest instead of a big leaguer; coached Junior A for St. Michael's College, taking them to victory in the 1961 Memorial Cup; 1964 founded a national team for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, composed of university players based at one school, for international play; 1968 won Bronze Medal at the Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France; 1970 Canada withdrew from international competition due to professionalism of European amateurs.

1921 - Bill Mosienko
NHL right winger; Mosienko scored 3 goals in 21 seconds in 1952.

1917 - Ann Rutherford
TV/film actress, panelist; Rutherford performed in Leave It to the Girls.

1916 - Barney Hartman
shooter, was born at Swan River, Manitoba. Hartman held nearly 30 world titles for shooting, in everything from 12 gauge shotguns to 410 gauge rifles; Captain of the National Skeet Shooting Association 10 times; 1968 shot 1049 out of 1050 targets for an average of .9991, a record that stood until 1971; once shot string of 2002 clay targets without missing; 1961-63 took one silver and 4 bronze medals in world championships; ranked as world's top professional shooter 9 years out of 12.


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November 3

1991
Fredericton , New Brunswick - Allan Legere convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in the beating deaths of three women and a Catholic priest during a reign of terror in the Miramachi region after his 1989 jail break; will file a hand-written appeal few days later.

1957
Deep River, Ontario - National Research Unit reactor starts operation at Chalk River; one of world's most advanced nuclear reactors.

1952
Chester, New York - Baker Clarence Birdseye markets his first frozen peas; learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit.

1943
Halifax, Nova Scotia - US freighter 'Volunteer', carrying explosives, catches fire in Halifax harbour; courage of navy men saves city from disaster.

1930
Windsor Ontario - Opening of the auto tunnel to Detroit, the world's first vehicular tunnel from one country to another.

1904
Canada - Wilfrid Laurier wins landslide in Tenth Canadian federal election; re-elected with a majority of 64 seats; 138 seats to 75 for the Conservatives; Henri Bourassa one of the new MPs elected for the Liberals.

1873
Selkirk Manitoba - First 150 North West Mounted Police (NWMP) recruits sworn in at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba after arduous overland journey from the east; training begins for their march westward in 1874; recruited by the militia from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

1873
Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald defends himself against the Pacific Scandal charges in a 5 hour speech to parliament; he resigns two days later.

1655
England - England and France sign Treaty of Westminster; Acadia restored to French.

1634
Quebec Quebec - Father Lalemant baptizes Matchonon, a 25 year old Huron.


Born on this day:

1971 -
Colbie Bell
wrestler, was born on this day at Edmonton, Alberta. Bell competed for Canada in 100 kg Greco Roman at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

1969 - Jim McKenzie
hockey left winger, was born at Gull Lake, Saskatchewan. McKenzie was selected by the Hartford Whalers in the fourth round (73rd pick overall) of the 1989 Entry Draft; selected by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1995 NHL Waiver Draft; now playing for Anaheim Mighty Ducks.

1968 - Debbie Rochon
actor, was born at Vancouver, BC. Rochon started her acting career playing Romeo & Juliet.

1968 - Paul Quantrill
baseball pitcher, was born at London, Ontario. Quantrill hurls for the Toronto Blue Jays.

1967 - Rob Cowie
hockey defenceman, was born at Toronto. Cowie last played for the LA Kings.

1961 - Lee Montgomery
actor.

1927 - 1977 William Kurelek
artist, was born on his family's homestead near Whitford, Alberta, the eldest of seven children; died in Toronto. Kurelek's family lost their farm in the Depression and moved to Stonewall, Manitoba; after leaving school he worked in lumber camps to raise money to attend art school; in the 1970s, he started to write text to accompany his paintings, and books like A Prairie Boy's Winter have become Canadian classics for children. Kurelek also painted religious art, which helped him cope with his frequent depressions.

1908 - 1990 Bronislau 'Bronko' Nagurski
football running back, defensive tackle, was born at Rainy River, Ontario; grew up there and in International Falls across the border. Nagurski joined the Chicago Bears after legendary college career at Minnesota (1927-29); played with Bears 1930-1937, 1943; known for his toughness; gained 4,031 yards in 9 seasons; All-NFL, 1932, 1933, 1934; in the 1932 NFL championship game against the Portsmouth Spartans, Nagurski won the game for the Bears with a disputed pass to Red Grange. As a result the NFL changed its rules on passing; his two TD passes clinched Bears' 1933 title win; again helped 1943 Bears to NFL crown after 6-year stint professional wrestling, scoring a touchdown against the Washington Redskins; retired to wrestling until 1960; 3-time world heavyweight champion, defeating Dean Detton (1937), Lou Thesz (1939), and Ray Steele (1941); voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1963.

1894 - 1930 Billy Barker
fighter pilot, was born at Dauphin Manitoba; died in a plane crash at Rockcliffe Air Base. Barker shot down 53 enemy planes, making him Canada's Number 1 World War I flying ace, and won the Victoria Cross for a single handed attack against a squadron of 60 German planes.

1879 - 1962 Vilhjalmur Stefansson
explorer, ethnologist, was born at Arnes, Manitoba of Icelandic descent; died in Hanover, New Hampshire. Stefansson spent many years exploring the Canadian Arctic from 1906, and adapted himself to Inuit ways of surviving. While commanding the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18, he discovered Borden, Brock, Lougheed and Meighen Islands, but his heavy handed management left him with many official enemies, and he spent the remainder of his career at Dartmouth University in the US.


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November 4

1993
Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien sworn in as Canada's 20th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall; among his new Cabinet are six women, Sheila Copps, Sheila Finestone, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Diane Marleau, Christine Stewart and Anne McLellan.

1992
Montreal: Quebec - Trois-Rivières goaltender Manon Rhéaume the first woman to sign a professional hockey contract.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offers apology to Canadians of Italian origin forced to live in internment camps during World War II; earlier apology to Japanese Canadians.

1985
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Red Cross starts testing donated blood for HIV, the syndrome linked to the AIDS virus; some tainted blood already in the system, so thousands of Canadians will contract HIV and Hepatitis.

1982
Toronto Ontario - Ontario Supreme Court orders extradition of Canadian citizen Albert Helmut Rauca to West Germany; charged in connection with murder of over 11,000 Lithuanian Jews in World War II; first extradition of a Canadian accused of war crimes.

1966
Montreal Quebec - Start of direct air service to Moscow by TCA and Aeroflot.

1956
United Nations New York - Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson proposes a UN police force for Suez, to separate Egypt from the invading French, British, and Israelis. The United Nations implements his international emergency force scheme, and it becomes the model for all later UN peacekeeping actions.

1920 CANADA BOASTS WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL RADIO
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Marconi's radio station XWA licensed as CFCF Montreal; broadcasts first commercial radio show; station started in December 1919; reputedly the oldest in the world.

1879
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that only the Queen or Governor-General can appoint Queen's Counsels.

1837
Quebec Quebec - Government issues proclamation banning military drill in Quebec and Montreal.


Born on this day:

1975 - Eric Fichaud
NHL goaltender, was born at Anjou, Quebec. Fichaud was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (16th pick overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft; traded to the New York Islanders for Benoit Hogue, third-round draft pick (Ryan Pepperall) and fifth-round pick in 1996 Draft on April 6, 1995; acquired from N.Y. Islanders for Mike Watt, June 18, 1998; now with Nashville Predators.

1970 - Corey Schwab
NHL goaltender, was born at North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Schwab selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 10th round (200th pick overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft; now with Tampa Bay Lightning.

1969 - Tommy Henry
CFL defensive back. Henry plays for the Edmonton Eskimos.

1957 - Richard Sévigny
NHL goaltender

1930 - 1993 Kate Reid
actor, was born at London England; died of cancer at Stratford, Ontario. Reid came to Canada as an infant, and grew up in Toronto. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and started her acting career in summer straw hat theatre, going on to play at Toronto's Crest Theatre and the Stratford Festival, where her memorable roles included Lady Macbeth and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.
She then played Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway, and won an Emmy nomination for her 1963 TV performance as Queen Victoria in Disraeli. She played in Arthur Miller's The Price (1968) and Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, both written with her in mind. Since then she has appeared in stage plays, TV roles and movies, ranging from Jalna and Nelly McClung to Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan and Dallas.

1927 - 1990 newurl{http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsabc/breen.html,Bobby Breen }
actor

1924 - Howie Meeker
NHL hockey player, MP, commentator, was born at Kitchener, Ontario. Meeker played Junior B in Stratford, and was recruited by Hap Day for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but had to go overseas with the Canadian Armed Forces for three years; in the 1946-47 season, he took the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL rookie of the year, scoring five goals in one game; 1953 back injury ended his career; served as Conservative MP in the early 1950s; started 30-year career in broadcasting for Hockey Night in Canada on CBC and later with TSN.

1861 - 1942 Raoul Dandurand
politician. Dandurand was a Senator for 44 years, l month, 17 days, from Jan. 22 , 1898 to Mar. 11, 1941.

1837 - 1918 James Douglas
mining engineer, industrialist, philanthropist, was born at Quebec City; dies in New York City. Douglas developed mines in the US Southwest.

1825 - 1898 Frederick Dobson Middleton
soldier, was born at Belfast, Northern Ireland; dies in London, England. Middleton was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 1842 given first commission, serves in Australia, New Zealand, India, Burma, Gibralter, and Malta; staff officer in India during 1857-1858 Mutiny; recommended twice for Victoria Cross; in Canada 1868-1870, where he marries his second wife, Eugénie Doucet of Montreal; 1870s executive officer at Sandhurst; 1884 general officer in command of Canada's militia; 1885 outbreak of Northwest Rebellion; divides forces in three, and cautiously moves against Métis stronghold of Batoche; April 24, mauled by Gabriel Dumont at Fish Creek; May 12 overruns Batoche; May 15 captures Riel; returns east in June after surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) and recovery of whites held by Indians; knighted by Queen Victoria; 1890 resigns Militia post after Commons committee criticizes him for misappropriation of furs from Métis Charles Bremner during the resistance; returns to England and is appointed keeper of the crown jewels.

1821 - 1915 Thomas Coltrin Keefer
civil engineer, land developer, was born at Thorold, Ontario in 1821; died in Ottawa. Like his father Samuel, one of the promoters of the Welland Canal, Keefer grew up on engineering projects, and as a youth helped build the Erie Canal in New York State. In the early 1850s, he started the survey of the Grand Trunk Railroad, and planned the Victoria Bridge in Montreal. In the 1860s, he settled in Ottawa, where he built the city waterworks (1874) and managed the Rockcliffe estate and Rideau Falls milling operations of his father in law Thomas Mackay. He sold the Mackay mansion, Rideau Hall, to the government in 1872, and built a new estate, the Manor House, today the residence of the Papal Nuncio. His major work, The Philosophy of Railroads (1849) was an international success, and he was the founding President of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1887.


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1995
Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien's wife Aline stops a knife wielding intruder outside their bedroom at 24 Sussex Dr.; she locks the door and calls security; points up lax RCMP security.

1981
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau signs constitutional accord for the patriation of the constitution with nine premiers, after late night 'Kitchen Cabinet Meeting' involving Justice Minister Jean Chrétien, Ontario Attorney-General Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan Justice Minister Roy Romanow; René Lévesque abstains because the Constitution Act does not guarantee Quebec's French-only language policy.

1977
Houston Texas - Guy Lombardo dies at age 75; bandleader, born June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. Lombardo, his brother Carmen and his band the Royal Canadians were known for playing 'the sweetest music this side of heaven'; his Auld Lang Syne is a New year's Eve staple; sold over 100 million records; started speedboat racing in 1946, winning the International Gold Cup, a sweepstakes race for unlimited hydroplanes in his Tempo boats; US national champion 1946-49;1948 set a speed record of 119.7 mph; won Canadian titles in 1955 and 1956.

1976
New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's single, 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald' hits #1 on the Billboard pop charts

1917
Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet bans use of grain to manufacture liquor for the rest of the war.

1962
United Nations New York - UN Political Committee approves Canadian formula for halting above-ground nuclear bomb tests.

1944
Dinteloord Netherlands - Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord.

1824
Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie first publishes 'The Colonial Advocate' in York; radical politics wins him popular support in Upper Canada.

1814
Fort Erie Ontario - British drive Americans from Fort Erie after two months of skirmishing; Americans blow up fortifications before they leave.

1803
Toronto Ontario - Founding of weekly public market at York.


Born on this day:

1973 - Alexei Yashin
NHL centre, was born at Sverdlovsk, Russia. The 6'3" 225 lbs. Yashin was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the first round (second pick overall) of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. In 1997-98, he led the Sens in goals, points and shots for the second consecutive season, and is now team Captain; has appeared in 209 consecutive games; in 1998 gave a donation of $1 million to the National Arts Centre.

1959 - Bryan Adams
rock superstar, was born at Kingston, Ontario. With his trademark raspy voice, Adams was hired as the lead singer of a band called Sweeney Todd in 1976. He recorded several songs for them before leaving the band in 1977.
His first solo album, Bryan Adams (1980), was followed by You Want It, You Got It (1981), then Cuts Like A Knife (1983), which brought him a world following. His fourth album, Reckless (1984), gave him his first Grammy nomination, and sold 4 million copies. It was the best-selling Canadian album to date. After Into The Fire (1987), his 1991 single (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, from the movie Robin Hood, sold more than three million copies in the US, becoming the second best selling single, second only to We Are The World. It won the Grammy for best song written specifically for a motion picture or television. That year Adams refused to attend Canada's Juno Awards because of CRTC air time regulations - the song did not have enough Canadian content. According to his manager, Bruce Allen, the Junos "turned their back on the biggest hit to come out of Canada."
After Waking Up the Neighbours (1991), he released a greatest hits album, So Far So Good (1993), which spawned another #1 hit, Please Forgive Me. In 1995, he followed with Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? from the movie Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold, his fourth #1 hit; 18 Til I Die followed in 1996. Adams is a vegetarian.

1854 - 1920 Alphonse Desjardins
journalist, founder of the Caisse populaire, born at Lévis, Quebec; dies in Lévis. After studying European co-op models, Desjardins founded the first Caisse populaire, or people's bank, in Lévis Dec. 06, 1900, as a way of improving the financial lot of the Quebec worker, and slow the exodus to the US; with support from the Roman Catholic Church, he expanded the concept through Quebec and Canada, founding 205 branches before he was forced to retire due to ill health in 1916; in 1913, the institutions were renamed 'les Caisses populaires Desjardins'. Today's Caisse is an economic powerhouse in Quebec.

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1998
Ottawa Ontario - Romeo Leblanc awards 1998 Governor-General's Performing Arts Awards at Rideau Hall. Winners are the CBC comedy team Royal Canadian Air Farce, singer Bruce Cockburn, tenor Jon Vickers, film producer Rock Demers, a co-founder of the Montreal Film Festival, Arnold Spohr, a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Paul Buissonneau, an actor, stage director and founder of La Compagnie de Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal.

1991
Burgan Kuwait - Canadian team puts out last of 751 oil well fires started by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's troops at close of Gulf War.

1984
Regina Saskatchewan - Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Colin Thatcher found guilty of murdering his ex-wife Joanne; sentenced to life in prison; angry that he had to pay her $820,000 in a divorce settlement, he tried to hire a killer, but when that failed, smuggled a gun into Canada and shot her.

1970
Montreal Quebec - FLQ member Bernard Lortie arrested for the kidnapping of Quebec labour Minister Pierre Laporte.

1969
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $50 million program to promote language training across Canada.

1968
Toronto Ontario - Toronto surgeons perform first plastic cornea implant in a human eye.

1958
Springhill Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Humane Association awards Gold Medal to the citizens of Springhill for bravery in life-saving, after disaster of Oct. 23rd that kills 75 miners; 99 survive, trapped for two weeks in the deepest mine in North America.

1917
Passchendaele Belgium - General Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps finally take the town of Passchendaele, in the third battle of Ypres; Canadians and Anzac troops suffer 240,000 casualties in four months to gain 8 km of muddy territory; offensive began July 31, and the Canadians took over from the battered Australians.

1879 CANADA'S FIRST OFFICIAL THANKSGIVING DAY
Ottawa Ontario - The Canadian Thanksgiving Day is officially observed for the first time on this day. The holiday is moved to the week of Armistice Day after World War I, then fixed as the second Monday in October in 1957.

1769
Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne sets out from Fort Prince of Wales to explore the interior barrens west of Hudson Bay; he is away for five weeks on this, his first trip.


Born on this day:

1975 - Mike Maurer
CFL fullback. Maurer played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

1970 - Patrick Burke
CFL cornerback. Burke played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

1963 - Jean-Marc Chouinard
fencer, was born at Montreal. Chouinard was on the Canadian Fencing team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

1955 - Ken Read
downhiller, Crazy Canuck, was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father was studying medicine, in 1955; raised in Calgary. Read started competing in ski races at age 8; 1974 joined the national alpine team; 1975 won World Cup season opener in Val d'Isère, France, to become the first Canadian male to win a World Cup event; won 5 consecutive Canadian national championships 1975-1980; won 6 World Cup downhills including back to back victories at Kitzbühel and Wengen in 1980; 1983 CBC Sports commentator; 1987 author, White Circus; VP of the Canadian Olympic Association, 1992 chef de mission at the Barcelona Olympics.

1955 - Fred Penner
children's performer, was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. After graduating from the University of Winnipeg, Penner worked in child care and used music to entertain his children; 1972 started singing professionally and opened a children's dance theatre company in Winnipeg with wife Odette Heyn; 1979 recorded hit single ,The Cat Came Back; album sold 150 000 copies in North America; 1984 started Fred Penner's Place on CBC-TV; 1987 created his own record label, Oak Street Music, with artists such as Liona Boyd and Connie Kaldor.

1944 - Bill Henderson
rock vocalist, guitarist, was born at Vancouver. Henderson played with the group Chilliwack.

1934 - Barton Myers
architect, was born at Norfolk, Virginia. Myers immigrated to Canada in 1968 to teach at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto; principal of Diamond and Myers; 1975 founded Barton Myers Associates with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles; projects include Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Housing Union Building (HUB) at University of Alberta; Sherbourne Lanes housing in Toronto; Seagram Museum in Waterloo; Art Gallery of Ontario additions.

1933 - Garnet Richardson
curler. Richardson played second on brother Ernie's team with cousins Arnold and Wes as well as Mel Perry; they took five Saskatchewan men's championships, four MacDonald Briers and four Scotch Cups.

1935 - Garry Kennedy
artist, teacher, administrator, was born at St Catharines, Ontario. Kennedy served as first President of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax 1967-90, transforming a conservative school into an innovative powerhouse of talent.

1930 - Douglas Anakin
bobsledder, teacher. Anakin joined Victor Emery's Canadian four man bobsled team as the number two man at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Victor and John Emery, Peter Kirby and Anakin took the Gold medal in a time of 4:14:46; Canada's first gold medal in the sport.

1926 - Fernand Ouellet
historian, was born at Lac Bouchette, Quebec. Ouellet got his doctorate from Laval, and has taught at Laval, Carleton, Ottawa and York universities. His major works are l'Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760-1850, and Le Bas-Canada, 1791-1840.

1911 - 1981 Stephen Bosustow
animator, cartoon producer, film producer. Bosustow founded United Productions of America.

1906 - 1966 James D. Norris
NHL Player, hockey executive. Norris was owner of the Detroit Red Wings (1933-43, 1946-66), Defensive Player of the Year Award named in his honour.

1871 - 1933 Henry Thornton
railway manager, was born on this day at Logansport, Indiana, in 1871; died in New York City March 14, 1933. Thornton started his career with the Pennsylvania Railroad; 1914 general manager of the Great Eastern Railway in England;.director general of railways behind the battle lines in France during World War I; 1922-32 President of Canadian National Railways.

1867 - 1923 Joseph Whiteside 'Klondike Joe' Boyle
mining developer, soldier of fortune, was born at Toronto; died in London, England. Boyle went to sea as a young man, then started a freight business in New York; 1897 managed Australian boxer Frank Slavin, touring Toronto, San Francisco, Victoria and Juneau, Alaska, then joined the Yukon gold rush.
He and Slavin were among the first to cross the White Pass, opened the trail to Lakes Bennett and Tutshi, and filed a claim of 13.3 km along the Klondike River; 1900 lobbied in Ottawa for dredging concession; built profitable sawmill, docks and wharves; 1904 founded Canadian Klondike Mining Company; 1905 led the Klondike Wanderers hockey team east to play for the Stanley Cup; 1910 had massive dredging equipment in operation; 1911 built first hydroelectric plant in Yukon; 1916 raised machine-gun unit for service in World War I; sent to Russia to organize the railway system; 1917 appointed chairman of the All-Russian Food Board after Bolshevik takeover; returned national archive and paper currency to Romania after end of war; succeeded in getting a peace treaty signed between Russia and Romania; intelligence agent for British and French; worked to rehabilitate shattered Romanian oil industry; friend and possibly lover of Queen Marie; 1921 left Romania for London where he retired.

1812 - 1889 Louis-Victor Sicotte
lawyer, politician, judge, was born at Boucherville, Quebec; died in St-Hyacinthe. Sicotte was a strong Patriote and a co-founder of the St-Jean Baptiste Society, but in 1837-38 opposed rebellion because it would set back progress; 1851 elected to the Assembly for St-Hyacinthe; 1854 Speaker of the Assembly; 1857-59 Commissioner of Crown Lands; 1859 Leader of the Opposition from Canada East; May, 1862, co-Premier with John Sandfield Macdonald; May 08, 1863, defeated in Assembly; 1863-87 Judge of the Superior Court for St-Hyacinthe.

1861 - 1939 James A. Naismith
physical education director, was born in the Ottawa Valley at Almonte, Ontario; died in Lawrence, Kansas. Naismith studied at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal, where he starred in football and lacrosse; 1887-90 taught physical education at McGill, then 1890-95 at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts.
In Dec. 1891, at Springfield College, Naismith devised thirteen rules for the game of basketball as an indoor activity for his students during the harsh winter months, in between football and baseball. The game was an immediate success and in 1936 was accepted as an Olympic sport. In 1895, appointed director of physical education at the YMCA in Denver; 1898 MD Colorado University; 1898-1937 professor, physician and director of physical education at the University of Kansas. In 1959, he was voted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, officially called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in Springfield. In 1978 he was also inducted into Canada's own Basketball Hall of Fame in Almonte, Ontario.

1796 - 1878 George Back
Royal Navy officer, explorer, artist, was born at Stockport, England; died in London, England. Back learned watercolour while a prisoner of war in France from 1809 to 1814; made first Arctic voyage in 1818, sketching, mapping and writing; 1819 accompanied John Franklin to the Coppermine River; 1824-25 with Franklin overland to Great Bear Lake and the Arctic coast; 1834 mounted search mission for John Ross, found and travelled the Back (Thlew-ee-choh) River; 1836 encountered severe ice conditions; 1839 awarded knighthood and medal of the Royal Geographical Society.

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1994
Charlebois Quebec - Tornado roars through Charlebois region, killing an estimated 1 million trees.

1991
Ottawa Ontario - Kim Campbell passes gun control law 189-14; bans import of military assault guns; age of ownership from 16 to 18; also waiting period; storage regulations; smaller clips.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that offshore mineral rights on the west coast belong to Ottawa and not BC.

1907
Ottawa Ontario - Test tokens struck for first issue of Canadian coins at the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint.

1900
Canada - Wilfrid Laurier wins general election 133 seats to 80; with a majority of the popular vote.

1886
Calgary Alberta - Fire starts at 6 am behind a feed store on Atlantic Avenue in Calgary (today's 9th Avenue); quickly spreads out of control, burning four hotels, three warehouses and four stores; town council later recommends building civic and religious buildings out of sandstone instead of wood.

1885
Craigellachie BC - Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona drives in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, in the Eagle Pass. CPR President W. C. Van Horne makes a fifteen-word speech: 'All I can say is that the work has been well done in every way'. Smith's first spike bent and was replaced; it was rescued and is now in the Glenbow-Alberta Institute in Calgary. The following day, the CPR special transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody at Pacific Tidewater, 4,800 km away from Montreal.

1873 MACKENZIE CANADA'S SECOND PRIME MINISTER
Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie succeeds John A. Macdonald as Canada's 2nd Prime Minister; Macdonald PM since July 1, 1867; Mackenzie in power to Oct. 8, 1878.

1810
Quebec Quebec - Antoine Romaine put in a pillory for running a bawdy house.

1760
Cleveland Ohio - Robert Rogers camps on Lake Erie to meet Pontiac, who agrees to submit to British rule.


Born on this day:

1969 - Tanya Dubnicoff
cyclist, was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dubnicoff got a 6th place at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and competed in Atlanta in 1996.

1963 - Michael Heidt
hockey defenseman, was born at Calgary, Alberta. Heidt has played with Team Germany.

1951 - Kevin Scott MacMichael
rock performer, songwriter, guitarist. MacMichael played with the group Cutting Crew.

1943 - Joni Mitchell
singer songwriter, painter, was born Roberta Joan Anderson at Fort McLeod, Alberta. Mitchell moved to Saskatoon at age 10, studied art, started folk singing, then moved to Toronto in 1965. She met musician Chuck Mitchell, who took her to Detroit, where they were married, but soon divorced.
In 1967 she moved to New York, signed with David Geffen, and released her first album, Song to a Seagull (1968), produced by David Crosby on the Reprise label. Her career took off in 1968 when Judy Collins recorded her song Both Sides Now. After she moved to Laurel Canyon, near Los Angeles, she wrote The Circle Game (recorded by Tom Rush) and her monster hippy anthem Woodstock (recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). Mitchell's prime folk/rock albums include Blue (1971), For the Roses (1972) and Court and Spark (1974). She is a painter as well as a musician, and much of her later work, such as Hejira (1976) and Mingus (1979) has expanded her style into jazz.

1941 - David Blackwood
painter, printmaker, was born at Wesleyville, Newfoundland. Blackwood graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1963; specializes in prints and etching about fishing and whaling in Bonavista Bay.

1936 - Audrey McLaughlin
social worker, politician, was born Audrey Brown at Dutton, Ontario. McLaughlin got her BA by correspondence from University of Western Ontario, while running mink farm with husband; 1964-67 taught in Ghana; 1967 enrolled in Social Work program at University of Toronto, got MSW, then worked for Metro Toronto Children's Aid Society; 1975 Executive Director of Canadian Mental Health Association; 1979 Supervisor of Social Services in Whitehorse, Yukon; 1987 won Yukon seat in by-election; first New Democrat MP elected in the Yukon; 1988 reelected, NDP caucus chair; 1989 chosen NDP leader at Winnipeg convention of Dec. 02; 1992 published her autobiography, A Woman's Place; 1993 saw NDP support drop to less than 8% of the vote, and only 9 members elected, none in Ontario; 1996 replaced as leader by Alexa McDonough.

1933 - Guy Robert
writer, art critic, publisher, was born at Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. Robert studied at the Universities of Montreal and Paris; 1964 founded the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art; 1967 ran the exhibition of modern sculpture at Expo 67; has published books on artists Pellan, Lemieux, Riopelle and Borduas, as well as poetry and criticism.

1904 - 1992 Charles Roy Slemon
air marshal, was born at Winnipeg; died at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Slemon was one of the first group RCAF pilot officers trained after 1924; flew aerial photography operations in the North; 1938-41 commander of western air command; 1942-44 senior air staff officer of No 6 (Canadian) Bomber Group; 1945 deputy air officer commander in chief of the RCAF overseas; 1953-57 chief of the air staff; 1957-64 deputy commander in chief of NORAD.

1898 - 1984 Johnny Bob Smallboy [Apitchitchiw]
First Nations leader, was born at the Peigan Reserve, near Fort Macleod, Alberta; died at Smallboy Camp near Nordegg, Alberta. Smallboy was a traditional a hunter and trapper; 1959-69 served as chief of the Ermineskin Band; set up Smallboy Camp on the Kootenay Plains as a retreat for people from troubled reserves.

1860 - 1892 Paul Peel
painter, was born at London, Ontario; died in Paris, France. Peel studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia with Thomas Eakins, the Royal Academy Schools in London, and l'École des beaux-arts in Paris; best known works are The Tired Model (1889), A Venetian Bather (1889), After the Bath (1890), Repose (c1890). Little Marie (1892).

1840 - 1898 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
lawyer, businessman, politician, was born at St-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec; dies in Montreal. Chapleau was admitted to the bar in 1861; proprietor of newspapers Le Colonisateur 1862-63 and La Presse in 1889; director of Laurentides Railway and the Pontiac and Pacific Railway; 1867 first elected to Quebec legislature; 1873-74 Attorney General; 1876-78 Provincial Secretary; Conservative Premier of Quebec 1879-82; 1882 elected MP for Terrebonne; served as Secretary of State; 1892 Minister of Customs; 1892-98 Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

1834 - 1915 Ernest Gagnon
organist, folklorist, was born at Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec; dies in Quebec City. Gagnon was organist at St-Jean-Baptiste Church 1853-64 and the Quebec Basilica 1864-76; he collected French Canadian folk music, which he published 1865-67 as Chansons populaires du Canada.

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1989
Ottawa Ontario - Conference of first ministers fails to resolve opposition to Meech Lake raised by Manitoba and Newfoundland, where former Trudeau adviser Clyde Wells has led the Liberals back to power, threatens to rescind his province's ratification unless the accord is altered to protect Newfoundland's ability to get transfer payments.

1982
New York City - Yves Langlois returns to Quebec from exile; former FLQ leader.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger resigns post to work as missionary with lepers in Africa.

1965 NIAGARA BLOWS A FUSE
Niagara Falls Ontario - At 5:16 pm at Ontario Hydro Queenston, a relay switch fails, causing a power outage in western New York State which reaches New York City by 5:27 pm, plunging the city into darkness at the height of rush hour. A series of major electric power blackouts lasts for up to 13 1/2 hours in over 200,000 sq km of Ontario, Quebec and the Northeastern US. It is the largest power failure in North American history, and over 30 million people in Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire lose power for most of the night.

1942
New Carlisle, Quebec - German secret agent Werner Janowski dropped ashore at Gaspé town of New Carlisle by submarine U-518; arrested a day later by RCMP; becomes double agent.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Canada cuts all diplomatic ties with Nazi puppet state of Vichy France.

1937
Montreal Quebec - Quebec Police undertake first action to uphold Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis' Padlock Law (Act Respecting Communistic Propaganda) against subversive organizations, locking the doors of the Communist newspaper 'Clarté'. Statute let attorney general close any building used for propagating 'communism or bolshevism'; Act will be declared unconstitutional, as an invasion of the federal field of criminal law, by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1957.

1860
Brantford Ontario - John A. Macdonald starts speaking tour in western Ontario; a first in Canadian politics.

1789
Quebec - Order-in-Council gives every son of a loyalist 200 acres, every daughter 200 acres when married; descendants of loyalists can put letters U.E. (United Empire) after names

1775
Levis Quebec - Benedict Arnold arrives at Point-Lévis across from Quebec; leading American invasion army.


Born on this day:

1965 - Todd Gill
NHL defenseman, was born at Brockville, Ontario. Gill was selected as an underage junior by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round (25th pick overall) of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft; acquired by St. Louis Blues from San Jose Sharks for Joe Murphy, March 24, 1998. Tied for third on team in power-play goals.

1964 - Leah Pells
distance runner, was born at Vancouver, BC. At the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, she placed 4th in the 1500m, her personal best at 4:03.56; she has also run 8:53.05 in the 3000m.

1953 - Gaétan Hart
boxer, trainer. Hart was Canadian lightweight champion; 1980 Cleveland Denny died in Montreal 16 days after being knocked out by Hart; 1992 featured in an NFB film, the Steak; runs a Montreal boxing club.

1937 - 1927 Clyde Kirby Wells
lawyer, politician, was born at Buchans Junction, Newfoundland. Wells Attended Memorial University and Dalhousie Law School and went into practice at Corner Brook in 1964; 1966 elected to the House of Assembly; served in the Cabinet of Joseph Smallwood; 1968 resigned from Cabinet on a point of principle; 1971 returned to private practice; 1977 Newfoundland representative on a Canadian Bar Association committee on the constitution; 1981 successfully argued the government's case in the Newfoundland Supreme Court against Ottawa's claim it could unilaterally patriate the constitution; 1987 chosen as leader of provincial Liberal Party; 1989 elected Premier April 20 on retirement of Brian Peckford, ending 17 years of Conservative rule; says province will rescind Meech lake unless pact changed; 1990 calls off vote in the Newfoundland House of Assembly on the Meech Lake Accord, which needed unanimous provincial assent; angry at Lowell Murray's ultimatum, which he calls the 'final manipulation'; says he fears Meech Lake will cut Ottawa's ability to aid Newfoundland economically; 1993 wins provincial election after harsh budget; 1996 replaced as Premier by Brian Tobin.

1929 - Marc Favreau
actor, author, was born at Montreal. Favreau apprenticed at the Théatre du nouveau monde in 1950; 1955-57 studied in Paris; worked in Radio Canada TV programs such as Jeunesse dorée, Le Survenant, Les Enquêtes Jobidon and Les Forges du Saint-Maurice, plus children's programs such as Le Courrier du roy, Le Boîte à surprise and Sol et Gobelet, where he developed the clown role.

1926 - Mary Louise Morrison
soprano, was born at Winnipeg. Morrison studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto; appeared on the CBC and with the Canadian Opera Company; member of the Lyric Arts Trio.

1898 - 1995 Emmett Hall
lawyer, judge, was born at St-Colomban, Quebec. Hall moved to Saskatoon with his family in 1910; 1919 graduated in law from the University of Saskatchewan, a classmate of John Diefenbaker; 1957 Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan; 1961 Chief Justice of Saskatchewan; 1961 elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1962; 1964 reported on national health scheme for Canada; 1968 reported on Ontario primary and secondary school programs; 1973 reported on railway arbitration; 1973 retired from the Supreme Court of Canada; 1974 reported on provincial court structure in Saskatchewan; 1977 reported on grain handling and transportation in western Canada.

1869 - 1934 Marie Dressler
actor famous as Tugboat Annie, was born Leila Marie Koerber at Cobourg, Ontario. Daughter of the organist of St. Peter's Church and his wife, a music teacher, joined a light opera company at age 14. By the time she was 23 she had made it to Broadway, changed her name to Dressler, and by her thirties was a vaudeville headliner. Her work was noticed by Charlie Chaplin, who adapted one of her stage vehicles into his silent comedy film Tillies's Punctured Romance (1914), and co-starred with her.
Dressler preferred to act in vaudeville and musical comedy, but in 1927 MGM screenwriter Frances Marion lured her to Hollywood to play in film comedies with Polly Moran. Dressler's popularity grew after the advent of the talkies, and she played in several serious character roles for MGM, including Marthy, the waterfront hag, in Greta Garbo's Anna Christie (1930). Dressler won the best actress Academy Award for her performance in Min and Bill (1930), opposite Wallace Beery. Despite her homely appearance, Dressler was the number one box-office star in the early Thirties; her Tugboat Annie (1932), and Dinner at Eight (1933) were major successes. She wrote two autobiographies: The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), and My Own Story (1934). Her restored birthplace in Cobourg is a popular tourist attraction.

1864 - 1960 James A. Murray
businessman, politician, was born at Moncton, New Brunswick; dies at Sussex, New Brunswick. Murray was MLA for Kings County 1908-20; served as Minister of Agriculture, then Premier in 1917; defeated at the polls three weeks later.

1856 - 1927 John Stephen Willison
journalist, historian, political advisor, was born at Hills Green, Ontario; died in Toronto. Willison edited the Liberal Globe from 1890 to 1902, the Conservative News 1903-17; and his own Willison's Monthly 1925-27; Canadian correspondent of The Times 1909-27; adviser of prime ministers Laurier and Borden; member of the Round Table Movement to promote the British Empire; wrote biography of Laurier (1903) and Reminiscences (1919).

1818 - 1889 George Paxton Young
philosopher, teacher, administrator, was born at Berwick upon Tweed, England; died in Toronto. Young attended Edinburgh University; 1850 ordained as a Presbyterian minister, appointed minister of Knox Church, Hamilton, Ontario; 1853-64 professor of philosophy at Knox College, Toronto; 1864-68 resigned from the ministry, because of philosophical commitment; served as inspector of grammar schools for Ontario, helping lay the foundations of Ontario high school education; 1868 returned to Knox College; 1871 professor of logic, metaphysics and ethics at University College, University of Toronto.

1717 - 1761 Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye
fur trader, explorer, soldier, was born at Ile aux Vaches, Quebec, the youngest of four sons of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye; died in a shipwreck off Cape Breton. La Vérendrye joined his father's trading company in the West in 1735; 1736 helped rebuild Fort Maurepas; 1738 helped build Fort La Reine, went with his father to Mandan country on the Missouri River near present day Bismarck, North Dakota; 1739 explored Lake Winnipeg, possibly as far as The Pas; 1742 led first European exploration across Missouri onto Great Plains with brother François and 2 other Frenchmen; 15 month journey took them to the Big Horn Mountains in present-day Wyoming, then back along the Cheyenne and Bad rivers; 1743 commanded fur trade posts at Chequamegon, Kaministiquia and Michipicotin; 1748 served in campaign against the Mohawks; 1759 served on Lake Champlain during Seven Years War.

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1983
Toronto Ontario - Amway Canada and US parent Amway Corporation fined $25 million for defrauding government of over $28 million in import duties; largest fine in Canadian history.

1979 TANKER CARS DERAIL FORCING 240,000 TO EVACUATE
Mississauga Ontario - Canadian Pacific freight #54 suffers a hot axle box and derails en route from Windsor to Agincourt; 19 of 24 CP Rail tanker cars contain dangerous propane, soda and chlorine, and after an explosion and fire the following day, they start leaking chlorine gas; Mississauga's mayor orders an official evacuation of the city; 240,000 residents leave, some for six days. The Grange Commission report on the accident is published Dec. 1980.

1975
Near Whitefish Bay, Ontario - Great Lakes ship Edmund Fitzgerald, a 222 m long iron ore carrier, breaks in two and sinks west of Sault Ste. Marie, after battling 7.5 m waves and record 125 km/h winds during a November gale on Lake Superior; 29 crew members drown; disaster commemorated in 1976 hit song by Gord Lightfoot.

1963
Detroit Michigan - Red Wings' Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545.

1940
Goose Bay Newfoundland - Canada and Britain start Trans-Atlantic Ferry Service to move planes, men and supplies; to Britain from Goose Bay and Gander.

1932
Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt calls the play by play as the Maple Leafs play to a 1-1 tie against Boston; his first hockey night in Canada broadcast.

1931
Fort Macleod, Alberta - Henrietta Edwards dies; women's rights activist; born Henrietta Louise Muir at Montreal Dec. 18, 1849. Edwards founded the Working Girls' Association in Montreal in 1875, to provide vocational training; edited a journal, Women's Work in Canada; 1893 helped Lady Aberdeen found the National Council of Women; also the Victorian Order of Nurses; 1920 was one of Alberta's Famous Five in the Persons Case; 1921 wrote The Legal Status of Women in Alberta.

1852
Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan founds Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (Allan Line) with brother Andrew; gets weekly postal contract from government.

1824
Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal Medical Institute; Canada's first medical school.

1727
Paris France - France orders all foreign commerce excluded from New France and other French colonies.


Born on this day:

1973 - Cale Hulse
NHL defenseman, was born at Edmonton, Alberta; selected by the New Jersey Devils in the third round (66th pick overall) of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the New Jersey Devils with Tommy Albelin and Jocelyn Lemieux to the Calgary Flames for Phil Housley and Dan Keczmer on Feb. 26, 1996; second on team in penalty minutes.

1969 - Ed Ward
NHL left winger, was born at Edmonton, Alberta; selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the seventh round (108th pick overall) of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Quebec Nordiques to the Calgary Flames for François Groleau on March 24, 1995.

1954 - Kevin Spraggett
chess grandmaster, was born at Montreal. Spraggett took second place at the 1973 Canadian Open; 1983 won New York Open and 2 Commonwealth titles; 1985 first Canadian to qualify for candidates cycle at world championship at Toluca Interzonal, Mexico; 1986 top board in the Chess Olympiad at Dubai; 1988 defeated Soviet Andrei Sokolov in Saint John; first Canadian to advance to quarterfinals of World Chess festival.

1922 - Constance Beresford-Howe
novelist, was born at Montreal. Beresford-Howe was educated at McGill, and taught English there (1949-1971) and at Ryerson in Toronto. She has written eight novels, including The Book of Eve (1973).

1845 - 1894 John Sparrow David Thompson
lawyer, politician, Canada's 4th Prime Minister, born to John Thompson and Charlotte Pottinger at Halifax Nova Scotia; died in Windsor, England, Dec. 12, 1894. Thompson was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1865; 1871 elected alderman for Halifax, a position he held for 6 years; on his marriage, he converted to Catholicism; 1877 elected to the Nova Scotia Assembly for Antigonish; 1878-82 served as Attorney General and briefly as Premier on the retirement of Simon Holmes; 1882 his government was defeated at the polls and he was appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court; 1885 Sept. John A. Macdonald asked him to run federally, he was elected MP for Antigonish, and was sworn in as Minister of Justice; 1891 June on Macdonald's death, he was passed over for the leadership because of his religion, but on Abbott's retirement he became Prime Minister on Nov 24, 1892 at age 48. Thompson died of a heart attack at Windsor Castle shortly after being admitted to the Imperial Privy Council.

1693 - 1756 Roland-Michel Barrin, Marquis de La Galissonnière
seaman, commandant general of New France, was born at Rochefort, France; died at Montereau, France. La Galissonnière visited New France from 19 Sept 1747 to 21 Oct 1749, and advocated building a line of garrisoned forts down the Ohio Valley to hold the English colonies along the coast; 1755-57 wrote report on France's colonies, examining the potential riches of Canada.

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1982
Cape Canaveral, Florida - US space shuttle Columbia blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Canada's Anik C comsat into orbit; the first commercial flight of the Shuttle.

1980
Toronto Ontario - A. Y. Jackson's painting Algoma Lake sells for $210,000, a new record for a Canadian work of art; Group of Seven member.

1950
London Ontario - Hank Snow's single 'I'm Moving On' hits #1 on the country music charts; born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and a star on CBC, Snow moved to Nashville five years earlier to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.


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1918 LEST WE FORGET
Compiègne France - French Field Marshal Foch and the members of the German Armistice Commission sign a formal surrender to end World War I at 5 am in Marshal Foch's railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, to take effect at 11 am, as Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian troops chase the last Germans out of Mons, Belgium. Over 750,000 Canadians served in the four years of the Great War; 424,589 went overseas; 60,661 were killed. In all, over 10 million people died in the war, including 6 million civilians. In 1931, November 11 was renamed Remembrance Day and declared a legal holiday.



1916
Ottawa Ontario - Sam Hughes asked to resign as Minister of Militia and Defense because he alienated Catholics and French Canada; an Irish Protestant Orangeman; Albert Kemp 1858-1929 succeeds Sam Hughes.

1871
Quebec Quebec - Royal Canadian Rifles depart Quebec for Britain; last British troops in Canada, except for small naval garrison at Halifax; some RCRs stay to train Canadian militia.

1837
Quebec Quebec - Authorities start arresting Patriotes; Louis-Joseph Papineau goes into hiding, escapes from Montreal on the 13th; prelude to outbreak of rebellion.

1813
Morrisburg Ontario - British Col. Joseph Morrison and Royal Navy Captain William Mulcaster defeat an American invasion force of over 7,000 led by General James Wilkinson at the Battle of Crysler's Farm. Wilkinson's flotilla left Sackett's Harbor in late October and landed on the Canadian side of the Long Sault rapids. With only 800 British regulars of the 49th and 89th Regiments, plus some Canadian militia and Indians, Morrison moves to attack 1,800 Americans of the 25th Infantry Regiment under Brown at Crysler's Farm 30 km west of Cornwall; at the same time, Captain William Mulcaster's gunboats fire shrapnel and grapeshot on General John Park Boyd's flotilla of 4,000 American troops trying to descend the rapids toward Montreal, which helps Morrison land his troops at Crysler's Farm. In the first skirmish, the Americans take 400 casualties to the British 200.
Wilkinson could have pressed on against Morrison, but when he gets a message that General Wade Hampton and his army of 4,200 were defeated at Châteauguay Oct. 26, he calls off the invasion, since Hampton was supposed to meet him downstream for the attack on Montreal. Hampton later resigned when Wilkinson blamed him for the failure of the campaign; Wilkinson was then relieved of his command.

1775
Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester evacuates Montreal for Quebec as the American invaders land at Île St-Paul, then the following day at Pointe St-Charles, capturing the city on the 13th.


Born on this day:

1962 - Lloyd Langlois
freestyle skier, member of the Quebec Air Force, was born at Magog, Quebec. A two-time Olympic medalist, with 57 World Cup medals, including 20 golds, Langlois was the first aerialist to complete the 1/2 rudy full and the quad-twisting triple somersault in international competition; 1985 Canadian champion, winner of the World Cup overall aerials; 1986 World Champion; 1988 bronze medal at Calgary Olympics; 1989 World Champion; 1989-90 retired to recover from a back injury, then to devote time to non-skiing activities and his music; 1992 bronze medal at Lillehammer Olympics; 1993 Canadian champion, winner of the World Cup overall aerials; 1994-95 Canadian champion; retired due to injuries at age 36.

1957 - Gina Smith
equestrian, was born at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Smith joined the Saskatoon Pony Club in 1968; 1974 team member for Saskatchewan at the National Pony club rally in Montreal; 1979 National Dressage champion at the Medium level; 1982 received a scholarship to train in Germany with Johann Hinneman for seven weeks; 1988 member of the Canadian Dressage team that won a bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics.

1951 - Gilbert Perreault
NHL centre. Perreault was first draft choice of the Buffalo Sabres, and was selected first overall in the 1970 NHL draft; 1971 won the Calder trophy as the NHL's rookie-of-the-year; 1973 won the Lady Byng Trophy; 1975 led the Sabres to the Stanley Cup finals, but defeated in six games by the Flyers; 1976 and 1977 member of the NHL Second All-Star team; centre of 'French Connection' line with Rick Martin and René Robert; has career total of 512 goals and 814 assists, for 1326 points in 1,191 games, in his 17 seasons with the Sabres.

1937 - Stephen Lewis
politician, journalist, diplomat, was born at Ottawa, the son of CCF politician David Lewis. After teaching in Africa in the early 1960s, Lewis served as an organizer for the NDP, won the Scarborough West seat in the Ontario Legislature in 1963, and was elected leader in 1970. In 1972, he split with the left wing Waffle movement of his party, but three years later led the NDP to official opposition status. He resigned in 1977 after an electoral loss, to work as a broadcaster, lecturer and labour arbitrator, and in 1984 External Affairs Minister Joe Clark appointed him Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations.

1935 - Kathleen Shannon
film director, producer, was born at Vancouver. Shannon joined the National Film Board in 1956, and helped produce over 115 films; 1970 she participated in Challenge for Change production program; 1971 directed 'I Don't Think It's Meant for Us'; 1974-75 directed 'Working Mothers', a series of 11 films about women's work; 1974 executive producer of Studio D, the NFB production unit set up to examine the role of women in society; 1983 produced documentary Dream of a Free Country: A Message from Nicaraguan Women.

1907 - 1999 Alice Girard
nurse, first woman dean of the University of Montreal, was born at Montreal. Girard was the first Canadian to serve as President of the International Council of Nurses.

1879 - 1968 Violet Clara McNaughton
farmer, journalist, feminist, was born Violet Jackson at Borden, England; died at Saskatoon. McNaughton and her husband joined the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association in 1912; 1913 organized women's section, President from 1914 to 1917; 1915 helped found the Saskatchewan Equal Franchise League, which got the vote for women a year later; 1919 president of Interprovincial Council of Farm Women; 1921 helped formulate Progressive Party platform; 1925-50 edited the Mainly for Women page in The Western Producer.

1823 - 1903 Matthew Henry Cochrane
cattle breeder, businessman, was born at Compton, Quebec; died at Compton Aug. 12, 1903. Cochrane learned the leather and shoe business in Boston as a young man, then built a factory in Montreal in 1864; built up pedigreed Shorthorn cattle herd in the 1870s; 1881 brought a large herd from Montana to his grazing lease, the Cochrane Ranch, west of Calgary.

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1992
Iqaluit NWT - 69% of 9,648 eligible Inuit vote Yes to land settlement and creation of Nunavut Territory; Inuit to get clear title to land, hunting and fishing rights.

1991
Toronto Ontario - June Rowlands elected Mayor of Toronto, defeating Jack Layton; first woman mayor of city.

1981
Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA space shuttle Columbia STS-2 blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Canada's $100 million robot arm, made by Spar Aerospace in Toronto; the Canadarm will perform flawlessly; Columbia the first spaceship to be relaunched.

1971
Regina Saskatchewan - Paul Joseph Cini hijacks Air Canada plane over the prairies, but soon subdued and arrested; brandishing 54 sticks of dynamite and a shotgun.

1951
Toronto Ontario - National Ballet of Canada gives first performance in Toronto.

1940
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government bans import of comic books.

1939
China - Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune dies of blood poisoning (septicemia) while operating a battlefield hospital in North China for Communist troops under Mao Tse Tung; becomes hero of the Revolution.

1880
Stellarton Nova Scotia - Mine explosion in Foord Pit at Stellarton kills 50 coal miners.

1838
Prescott Ontario - Republican Colonel Nils von Schoultz leads 200 Canadian exiles and US sympathizers in an attack against Prescott; fights the four-day Battle of the Windmill against British regulars and the local Canadian militia. Von Schoultz, a Finn, runs his schooner Charlotte aground below Prescott, and takes up position in a 6-storey stone windmill and several stone houses nearby; Canadians send a small vessel, the Experiment, to cut Schoultz off from the US, while 700 militia start arriving from the surrounding counties and a force of 70 British marines comes downriver by steamer from Kingston; the militia drive the Hunters from the houses into the windmill the following day; on the 14th Col Henry Dundas arrives with 4 companies of the 83rd Regiment, 2 eighteen-pounders and a howitzer; the rebels surrender on the 16th.

1775 YANKEES CAPTURE MONTREAL
Montreal Quebec - American Revolutionary General Richard Montgomery lands at Point St. Charles and marches into Montreal a day after Guy Carleton evacuates the town. All Canada except Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City is now under the occupation of the Army of the Continental Congress, and the French habitants are being urged to join the Revolution.


Born on this day:

1975 - Chris Wells
NHL centre, was born at Calgary. Wells was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round (24th pick overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft; currently plays for the Florida Panthers.

1938 - John Metcalf
writer, was born at Carlisle, England. Metcalf came to Canada in 1961 to teach school in Montréal; works include: 1970 short story collection The Lady Who Sold Furniture; 1972 novel Going Down Slow; 1975 short story collection The Teeth of My Father; 1978 Girl in Gingham (novellas); 1980 novel General Ludd; 1982 literary criticism, Kicking Against the Pricks; 1986 novel Adult Entertainment.

1945 - Neil Young
singer and songwriter, was born at Toronto, the son of Globe and Mail sports columnist Scott Young. Young started playing garage rock and roll in 1960, and by 1963 had cut his first record with the Squires, a Group from Winnipeg.
In the mid 60s, he played with 4 To Go, and in 1965 cut 16 songs at Motown studios in Detroit with The Mynah Birds.
In 1966 he helped found Buffalo Springfield - later CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - and toured southern California with them, selling out at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA.
In 1968 he toured the US solo, then Canada solo and released the album Neil Young (1969). He toured U.S. east coast with Crazy Horse, then released After the Gold Rush (1969), then toured with CSNY and Friends.
In 1971 he recorded most of the album Harvest with The Stray Gators, released the album 4 Way Street, and the following year played the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto solo. In 1973 he toured with The Santa Monica Flyers, and started playing prison and Indian Community benefits. In 1976 he played The Last Waltz Concert with The Band and Joni Mitchell.
Other albums from this period include Zume (1975) Long May You Run (1976 - Stills Young Band), Decade (1977), Comes a Time (1978) and Rust Never Sleeps (1979).
In 1980 Young played the Bread & Roses Festival with Friends, and released the album Hawks & Doves (1980), Re-Ac-Tor (1981), Trans (1982- Friends) , Everybody's Rockin' (1983- Shocking Pinks). In 1984 he played Austin City Limits with the International Harvesters. In 1985 he helped record "Tears are Not Enough" with Northern Lights, and played Live Aid in Philadelphia, and Farm Aid with The Grey Riders. He has played other benefits for Vietnam Veterans, Greenpeace, Get Tough on Toxins, Hungerthon, Walden Woods and the Nelson Mandela Benefit.
On June 27, 1987 he played with his old band The Squires in a concert in the Blue Note Cafe, Winnipeg, and in 1988 joined Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen on stage for several concerts. He played Saturday Night Live in 1989 and in the 1990s released Ragged Glory (1990), Arc (1991), Harvest Moon (1993) and Broken Arrow (1996). He has toured with Crazy Horse and Friends, and played with Nicolette Larson, Nils Lofgren, the Grateful Dead, Warren Zevon, Brooker T. and the MGs, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, Brendan O'Brien and Pearl Jam (MTV Video Music Awards).
In 1994 he received the Canadian Governor-General's Performing Arts Award, and the following year was inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, thirty albums after he began.

1937 - Barbara MacDougall
stockbroker, journalist, politician, was born Barbara Jean Leamen at Toronto. MacDougall was educated at the University of Toronto, and after graduation worked as an investment analyst, and a business writer; 1976 VP of AE Ames; 1984 elected to Parliament as a PC in Toronto-St. Paul's; served in the Mulroney Cabinet as Minister of State for Finance, with responsibility for privatization, as well as in the Health & Welfare and External Affairs portfolios; 1993 returned to private life.

1930 - Jean-Guy Pilot
writer, producer, was born at St-Polycarpe, Quebec. After studies at Valleyfield, Rigaud and l'Université de Montréal, Pilot worked for Radio-Canada producing talk shows; 1959 co-founded the magazine Liberté; 1970-1985 head of cultural programming for SRC; 1985 returned to arts production; has published 8 poetry collections.

1925 - Agnes Nanogak
artist, printmaker, was born at Baillie Island, NWT. Nanogak started publishing prints with the Holman artists' co-operative in 1967; has illustrated 2 books of Inuit stories, Tales from the Igloo (1972), and More Tales from the Igloo (1986).

1921 - 1979 John Porter
sociologist, was born at Vancouver; died at Ottawa. Porter graduated from the London School of Economics, and taught primarily at Carleton University; his major study was the use of power by Canadian elites; 1965 published The Vertical Mosaic; 1979 published his collected essays, The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality, and Opportunity.

1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture
musician, teacher, composer, was born at Montreal. Papineau-Couture studied in Montreal and Cambridge, Massachusetts, under Nadia Boulanger, concentrating on Stravinsky and French Impressionist composers; taught at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and 'Universiteé de Montréal (Dean of the Faculty 1968-73).

1912 - 1968 Miller Brittain
artist, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick; died at Saint John. Brittain attended the Art Students League in New York from 1930 to 1932; specialized in painting the detail of urban life; served in the RCAF and worked as a war artist; his later paintings were more surrealist.

1729 - 1811 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de Bougainville
soldier, sailor, scientist, was born at Paris, France; died at Paris. Bougainville entered the French military in 1750 and was posted to Quebec in 1756 as aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montcalm; 1758 wrote treatise on the benefits of freer trade for New France; 1763 entered the French navy; founded short-lived colony of exiled Acadians on the Falkland Islands; 1771 published Voyage autour du monde; saw action in the French navy during the American Revolution; tropical vine bougainvillaea named after him.

1655 - 1727 Francis Nicholson
soldier, colonial administrator, was born at Downholme, England; dies at London, England. Nicholson led two unsuccessful attacks on New France via the Hudson River and Lake Champlain in 1709 and 1711; 1710 captured Port Royal in Acadia with 500 marines and a fleet led by Commodore George Martin; 1712 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia and Placentia; 1714 spent August to October in Nova Scotia, but was recalled.

1606 - 1673 Jeanne Mance
hospital founder, was baptized on this day at Langres, France; died at Montreal. Mance joined the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal in 1641 and accompanied de Maisonneuve and the first settlers to Ville Marie; spent first winter at the Sillery reserve; 1642 took first patients; 1645 completed the Hotel Dieu de Montréal; returned to France to raise funds; 1657 to France to bring the Hospitallers from La Flèche to staff the Hotel Dieu.

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<< 1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government bans import of comic books. >>?????????????

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"In December 1940, as Canada's trade deficit with the US grew, and British gold shipments were curtailed, government intervention in the economy broadened with the introduction of the War Exchange Conservation Act. Aimed at countries outside the sterling bloc (sterling bloc countries traded heavily with England and kept their currency at parity with the English pound), it was primarily designed to conserve American dollars by restricting the importation of non-essential goods. Among the items banned were fiction periodicals, a category that encompassed pulps and other newsstand magazines, including comic books. The government had inadvertently laid the groundwork for a Canadian comics industry."

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WOW, thanks Lumbele - do we still have a canadian comic industry? I know superman was created by a canadian (I think??) but he did it in the States, No?

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Yeah, I think Superman's creator started all that in the States, if I recall those heritage vignettes on TV right.

Don't know about the comic industry; they probably went the way of the dodo bird by now - like so much else. Maybe they are still printing here. Who knows? And I have no idea how to find out.LOL

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LOL sorry Lumbele, I meant it as more of a rhetorical question - not something you should research

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November 13

1989 Montreal Quebec - Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer Victor Davis 1964-1989 is hit by a car outside a Montreal bar and dies in hospital the following day. Davis sets his first world record for the 200 m breaststroke at the world championships in Ecuador, Aug 1982; reaches his peak at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where he wins Gold in the 200m breaststroke by breaking his own world record - 2:13:34. He also wins Olympic Silver in the 100m breaststroke and as part of Canada's 4x100m medley relay team; also wins two Golds at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, Gold at the 1986 World Championships and Silver as part of the 4 x 100m medley relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

1990
Montreal Quebec - Montreal invests $15 million to save the Expos baseball team.

1973
Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- acquitted in Montreal of having performed an illegal abortion; despite admitting carrying out 6,000 other abortions.

1968
Montreal Quebec - FLQ bomb explodes at Domtar factory.

1775
Montreal Quebec - American Revolutionary General Richard Montgomery enters Montreal through the Recollets Gates.

1760
St-Malo, France - Some Montreal militia delivered in transport ships to St-Malo after the fall of New France.

1757
New Brunswick/Nova Scotia - Some Acadians go into exile in Quebec.

1673
Quebec Quebec - First suggestion of the beaver as an emblem of Canada.

1637
St. John's Newfoundland - David Kirke, the first Governor of Newfoundland; brings out the first 100 colonists from England. He builds forts at Ferryland and St. John's to control the Grand Banks fishery. He is co-proprietor of the Colony with the Marquis of Hamilton and Earls Pembroke & Holland. Here is an picture of the old fishing village of Cupids.

1613
Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Samuel Argall leaves Port-Royal after putting French settlements in Acadia to the torch.


Born on this day:

1968 - Mark Fitzpatrick
NHL goaltender; selected as underage junior by Los Angeles Kings in second round (27th pick overall) of 1987 NHL Entry Draft; selected by Florida Panthers in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft; now plays for Chicago Blackhawks.

1960 - Wayne Parker
rock bass guitarist. Parker played with the group Glass Tiger.

1938 - 1994 Gérald Godin
poet, Parti québécois politician, was born at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec; died after a 10 year battle with a brain tumor. Godin published his first collection Chansons très naïves in 1960, followed by Poèmes et Cantos (1962), Nouveaux poèmes (1963), Les Cantouques (1967), Libertés surveillées (1975), Sarzènes (1983), Soirs sans atout (1986), Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler (1987). In 1975 he became head of the St-Jean Baptiste Society; worked as a researcher, then head of news at Radio-Canada from 1963-69; journalist at Québec-Presse de 1969-74; taught journalism at l'Universit&eaute; de Montréal and UQAM 1975-76; writer in residence at l'Université d'Ottawa 1976-1977; wrote for Macleans, La Presse, Le Journal de Montr&eacuteal, Canadian Forum, Montreal Star; 1977 elected for the PQ in Mercier, beating Robert Bourassa; minister in Levesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson cabinets 1980-89.

1922 - Madeleine Sherwood
actor. Sherwood played the Mother Superior in The Flying Nun.

1918 - 1988 George Parkin Grant
philosopher, was born at Toronto; died in Halifax. Grant was educated at Queen's and Oxford universities; 1947-60 taught philosophy at Dalhousie; 1960-80 Chairman of the Department of Religion at McMaster; 1980 returned to Dalhousie to teach political science and classics; works include 1959 Philosophy in the Mass Age, a discussion of religion and technology; 1965 Lament for a Nation, in which, as a pessimistic Red Tory, he mourns what he sees as Canada's slide into the maw of the American liberal empire; 1974 English Speaking Justice, where he says technological progress has replaced freedom and justice as our main social foundation; 1979 Technology and Empire, a critique of Vietnam and modern ideology; 1986 Technology and Justice.

1903 - 1994 Thomas Raddall
writer, was born at Hythe, England; died at Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Raddall came to Nova Scotia as a boy. Short story collections: The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek and Other Tales (1939, Governor General's Award, 1943); The Dreamers (1986). Historical novels: His Majesty's Yankees (1942); The Governor's Lady (1960). Non-fiction: The Nymph and the Lamp (1950, about his time as a Sable Island radio operator after World War I); Halifax, Warden of the North (1948, Governor General's Award); In My Time (1976, autobiography).

1872 - 1945 John MacIntosh Lyle
architect, urban planner, teacher, was born at Connor, Ireland; died at Toronto. Lyle came to Canada as a boy, attended Hamilton School of Art, trained as an architect at the Yale School of the Arts; 1894 attended l'École des beaux-arts in Paris; 1894-1906 architect in New York; 1906 designed Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre; 1913-27 Toronto's Union Station; 1923 Memorial Arch, Royal Military College in Kingston; 1923-24 Bank of Nova Scotia in Ottawa; 1930 Runnymede Library, Toronto; 1936 Dominion Coin Competition (animal and leaf motifs).

1849 - 1912 Charles Constantine
soldier, police officer, was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, England; died at Long Beach, California, while on leave. Constantine came to Canada as a young man; 1870 member of the Red River Expedition; stayed in Manitoba and became chief of the Manitoba Provincial Police; 1885 served in the North West Rebellion; Inspector in the North-West Mounted Police; 1894 sent to the Yukon to control abuses by the miners; 1895 commanded 20 man NWMP detachment in the Yukon, and helped maintain the law and Canadian sovereignty when gold was discovered in 1896; 1903 he led first NWMP expedition to western Arctic; set up detachments at Fort McPherson and Herschel Island.

1762 - 1829 Also Pierre Bédard
lawyer, politician, was born at Charlesbourg, Quebec; died at Trois-Rivières. Bédard was called to the Quebec bar in 1790; 1792 first elected to the Assembly of Lower Canada for Northumberland; a leader of the growing Parti canadien, in opposition to the Chateau Clique; 1806 helped found the Le Canadien newspaper; 1810 arrested and jailed with other staff of Le Canadien by Governor Sir James Craig, after writing critical commentary; released without being brought to trial; 1812 appointed to the bench.

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1991
Toronto Ontario - Ontario sells SkyDome to consortium of 8 companies for $280 million in cash and tax breaks.

1982
Vancouver BC - Workers raise the inflatable roof of Vancouver's BC Place, completing Canada's first domed stadium. The stadium opens the following June.

1969
Sudbury Ontario - 16,000 Inco employees end 128-day strike.

1969
Montreal Quebec - Organizers cancel annual Santa Claus parade in Montreal due to increased violence in city, and a civic law against demonstrations.

1964
Montreal Quebec - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.

1909
Atlantic Ocean - Joshua Slocum dies at sea on or after this date; ship's captain, explorer, author, first man to sail solo around the world, born at Wilmot Township, Nova Scotia Feb. 20, 1844; brought up at Westport, Brier Island. Slocum went to sea at 16, and served in merchant ships to Europe and the Far East; wrote Voyage of the Liberdade (1890), Voyage of the Destroyer (1894) and Sailing Alone Around the World (1900), about his epic 75,000 km voyage around the globe in a 13 ton oyster sloop, the Spray, from 1895 to 1898.

1849 TORONTO THE CAPITAL OF CANADA
Toronto Ontario - Toronto, Upper Canada becomes the new seat of the Union government; after a Tory mob had burned the Montreal Parliament buildings.

1835
Saint John, New Brunswick - Opening of insane asylum at Saint John; Canada's first insane asylum.

1778
Philadelphia Pennsylvania - George Washington writes Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress, that his French ally, the Marquis de Lafayette, wants to undertake a campaign against the British in Canada, to regain New France.

1606
Port Royal, Nova Scotia - Marc Lescarbot writes and produces North America's first European drama, Neptune's Theatre, staged in canoes outside the fort, complete with verses in French, Gascon and Micmac. The play is a 'jovial spectacle' where King Neptune arrives in a floating chariot drawn by six tritons, to the sound of trumpets and cannons, to greet Samuel de Champlain, as he returns to Port-Royal with Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, the lieutenant-governor of Acadia.


Born on this day:

1972 - Lori Dupuis
women's hockey left winger, was born at Williamstown, Ontario; member of the gold medal winning team at the 1997 World Championship in Kitchener, Ontario, scoring two goals and four assists.

1948 - Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales
future King of England, was born at London, England, the first child of Elizabeth II.

1945 - Tony Penikett
politician, was born in Sussex, England. Penikett start in politics began in 1972 as campaign manager for Wally Firth, NDP MP for the North West Territories; 1973 member of NDP federal council; 1975-76 executive assistant to Ed Broadbent; 1978 elected to Yukon legislature as sole New Democrat; 1981 leader of the Opposition in Yukon; 1981-85 NDP national president; 1985 defeating incumbent Conservatives, leader of Yukon minority government; 1989 won majority; 1992 defeated by newly formed Yukon Party, but kept his own seat.

1942 - Bryan 'Bugsy' Watson
hockey player. Watson played with the NHL Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals.

1911 - 1987 Frank Radford 'Budge' Crawley
filmmaker, was born at Ottawa, died at Toronto. Crawley broke into film making with his Ile d'OrlŽans, a film he made on his honeymoon with wife Judith, which won the Hiram Percy Maxim Award for best amateur film in 1939. John Grierson of the National Film Board hired him to make war training films, and for the next 40 years, Crawley Films produced hundreds of films, including The Loon's Necklace (1948 - Film of the Year at the first Canadian Film Awards, 1949); Newfoundland Scene (1950); The Power Within (1953); The Legend of the Raven (1958); The Entertainers (1967); Amanita Pestilens (1963); The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964); The Rowdyman (1972); The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975 - Academy Award for feature-length documentary); and Janice (1978 - Janice Joplin in concert).

1907 - 1970 Georges Chenier
billiards player. Chenier was North American snooker champion 1947 to 1970 and twice runner up to world champion Fred Davis of Britain; 1963 ran the first perfect game of 150 points ever registered in tournament play in the World Pocket Billiard Championship, beating the champion Irving Crane.

1891 - 1941 Frederick Banting
physician, physiologist, and Nobel laureate, was born at Alliston, Ontario; died in a plane crash on route to England. After medical training at the University of Toronto, Banting entered the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1915, becoming a Captain, then practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921. In 1922, working at U of T in the laboratory of Scottish physiologist J. J. R. Macleod and aided by Canadian physiologist Charles Best, Banting discovered the pancreatic hormone insulin, used in treating diabetes. The following year he and Macleod won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Objecting to the credit given Macleod, who had not participated in the discovery, Banting shared his half with Best. Macleod divided his share with Canadian chemist J. B. Collip, who helped Macleod purify insulin after its isolation. In 1923 the U of T set up the Banting-Best Department of Medical Research with Banting as its director. In 1934 he was knighted, and died in a plane crash on the way to England to take a wartime post.

1653 - 1727 Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Vallier
churchman, was born at Grenoble, France; died at Quebec City. Saint-Vallier arrived at Quebec July 31, 1688 and served as second bishop of Quebec until his death; founded the Hôpital Général at Quebec; promoted missions in Acadia, Louisiana and the west; quarreled with Governor Frontenac over declining morals, and a performance of Moliere's Tartuffe; 1704-09 captured and imprisoned in England; 1713 returned to Quebec and gave his fortune to the poor.

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Hey Sudbury made the highlights !!!

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Jan, I try not to cut events in a TVCHer's home town when I have to edit.

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Thanks Lumbele :-):-)

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November 15

1991
Toronto Ontario - Rob McCall, figure skater, dies of AIDS-related cancer at age 33. He and ice dancing partner Tracy Wilson won seven Canadian championships in a row from 1982-1988, and they took the Bronze medal at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; native of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

1976
Quebec - Rene Levesqueleads Parti Quebecois to victory in Quebec election, defeating Liberals under Robert Bourassa; wins 69 of 110 seats in the National Assembly; four women are elected: TV star Lise Payette, Louise Sauvé Cuerrier, Jocelyne Ouellet and Denise Leblanc-Bantey; Bourassa loses his own riding (Mercier) to the PQ poet Gérald Godin.

1968
Montreal Quebec - FLQ bomb explodes on Rue d'Iberville.

1960 LADY CHATTERLEY NOT OBSCENE
Toronto Ontario - Ontario panel of experts, appointed by Attorney General Kelso Roberts, finds that D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is not obscene according to the Criminal Code.

1948
Quebec - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Canada's 12th PM; to June 21, 1957; King in power since Oct. 23, 1935, setting a British Commonwealth record for long service.

1877
Regina Saskatchewan - North-West Territorial Council passes ordinance 'For the Protection of the Buffalo' in a failed attempt to slow the wanton destruction of the herds; provides for closed season on cows from Nov. 15 to Aug. 14; as many as 60 million buffalo once roamed the North American plains; by the late 1880s they are almost extinct.

1777
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Continental Congress of the 13 colonies approves the articles of confederation; provision made for the future admission of Quebec and the other British colonies.

1765
Quebec Quebec - Governor James Murray admits French speaking jurors to Quebec courts and allows lawyers to plead in French.

1690
Quebec Quebec - Three supply ships evade Phips' squadron and relieve Quebec.

1644
Quebec - François-Joseph Bressani survives Iroquois torture, sold to Dutch, who pay ransom to free him and return him to France.


Born on this day:

1975 - Yanick Tremblay
NHL defenseman, was born at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Quebec; plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

1898 - 1985 Gordon Churchill
lawyer, politician, born at Coldwater Ontario; died in Vancouver BC. Churchill was a veteran of both World Wars I and II. He was first elected to Parliament in 1951, and became close to John Diefenbaker, managing his leadership bid and 1957 election. A stalwart of the Cabinet, he served as Minister of Trade and Commerce, Veterans Affairs, and National Defence.

1746 - 1809 Louis Quesnel
sea captain, poet, opera composer, was born at St. Malo, France; died in Montreal. Quesnel came to Canada by accident, being captured by the British in 1799 while shipping arms to the American revolutionaries. Governor Haldimand gave him safe conduct after the war, and Quesnel set up a wine importing business in Boucherville. He was a poet and musician as well as a merchant, and wrote Canada's first opera, Colas et Collinette, a work first performed in Montreal in 1790. Geoffrey Ridout reconstructed it to great acclaim in 1963.

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1777 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Continental Congress of the 13 colonies approves the articles of confederation; provision made for the future admission of Quebec and the other British colonies.

how very interesting!