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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 10:12 am
Jan, I think they are still keeping that one on the back burner.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 10:22 am
LOL - they may make use of it yet if the PQ have their way, no?
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 10:57 am
Not sure the PQ is interested in becoming the 51st state.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 7:20 am
November 16 1989 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules fetus has no right to life under common law, the Quebec Civil Code or the Quebec Charter; following injunctions brought under Barbara Dodd and Chantal Daigle cases. 1983 MARGARET CALLS IT QUITS Ottawa Ontario - Margaret Trudeau files for divorce from Prime Minister Trudeau; granted April 2, 1984. 1979 Mississauga Ontario - Mississauga residents start to return after work crews drain liquid chlorine from rail tankers; no one killed or injured in largest single movement of people in Canada 1928 Ottawa Ontario - Georges-Jean Knight first French Ambassador to Canada presents credentials to Governor-General. 1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 hanged in Mounted Police barracks in Regina; before dying, he gives exclusive interview to journalist Nicholas Flood Davin, who entered prison disguised as a priest. Just after eight in the morning, the hangman appears in the doorway of his cell; Riel asks, 'Mr. Gibson, you want me? I am ready'; after receiving absolution from the priest, he ascends the scaffold; as he and the priest are reciting the words of the Lord's Prayer, the trap door drops. Riel's body is sent to St-Boniface and interred in the cemetery in front of the Cathedral. 1857 Lucknow India - William Hall wins Victoria Cross at Relief of Lucknow; first Canadian Sailor, First Black Canadian; first Nova Scotian to be awarded the VC. 1838 Prescott Ontario - Republican Colonel Nils Von Schoultz surrenders with 137 of his Hunters Lodge rebels after the four day battle of the Windmill; Hunters' losses estimated at 80, and British and Canadian losses were 16 dead and 60 wounded; Von Schoultz and 10 other men are later hanged at Kingston 1837 Quebec - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford issues warrants for the arrest of 26 Patriote leaders on charges of high treason, after the Rebellion of 1837's first skirmish at Longueuil; Wolfred Nelson among those named. Born on this day: 1923 - 2004 Don Loney football player, coach. Loney played as a CFL centre for 8 years, and was Captain of the Ottawa Rough Riders for three of those years. After leaving pro football, he went to coach at St. Francis Xavier University, where he became known as the Father of Maritime Football. In 1959 he helped establish the Atlantic Bowl, and from 1957-1974 he led the St. FX team to 133 wins, 31 losses and 2 ties. His teams won nine conference titles, four Atlantic Bowls and Canada's first ever College Bowl in 1966. 1839 - 1908 Louis-Honoré Fréchette poet, playwright, born at Levis Quebec; dies in Montreal. Fréchette got a law degree from Laval, while at the same time publishing poems and plays. After he failed to set up a profitable law practice and newspaper, he emigrated to Chicago and worked for the Illinois Central Railway from 1866-71, while continuing to write. He lost all his manuscripts in the Great Chicago fire, and returned to Quebec, where he threw himself into politics, getting elected as the Liberal MP for Levis in 1874. He married into a wealthy family, which let him devote himself to literature, and he soon won a French prize for his second book of poems, Pêle-mêle. Fréchette wrote the historical epic La Légende d'un Peuple, as well as political polemics. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1901.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 11:51 am
re that Mississauga evacuation in 1979. I was in Toronto at the time and really remember that. If I remember correctly ( a rare occurrence )over a million people had to be evacuated (yep Miss, is a bedroom community for Toronto but the pop is over 1 million I think) and there were no problems, even though they had to evacuate into Toronto traffic!!! Hazel, the mayor at the time, is still the mayor. In fact she is the only mayor Mississauga has ever had. When she dies I don't know what they will do! In the 80's,people used to come from around the world to study her evacuation plans.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 9:36 am
November 18 1992 Casey Quebec - RCMP seize record 4,323 kilos of cocaine with a street value of $2.7 billion. The Canadian military, with the help of the US DEA, track the plane from South America, then chase it with jet fighters and military helicopters over New Brunswick, forcing it to land at a remote Quebec airstrip; on Nov. 20 they close a processing lab in Laval and arrest 4 Quebeckers, 3 Columbian nationals. 1981 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company announces closure of its 65 Ontario catalogue stores. 1963 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government closes last segregated school for blacks in the province. 1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan legislature passes law giving citizens of that province Canada's first prepaid medical care plan. 1959 Ottawa Ontario - Board of Broadcast Governors rules Canada's TV stations must have 45% Canadian content from April 1, 1961; 55% Canadian content after April 1, 1962 1936 BIRTH OF THE GLOBE & MAIL Toronto Ontario - George McCullagh's Globe newspaper purchases The Mail & Empire and amalgamates the two papers to form The Globe and Mail; Thomson Newspapers will acquire the daily in 1980. 1929 Burin Newfoundland - Cape Breton earthquake sends huge 15.2 metre tidal wave to Newfoundland; kills 27 people on Burin Peninsula, does $2 million damage. 1926 London England - Imperial Conference adopts the Balfour Report; sees a new role for Britain and the self-governing Dominions, as 'autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status.' 1883 Ottawa Ontario - Sanford Fleming's Standard Time scheme begins at midnight Atlantic Time in Nova Scotia and the eastern Seaboard of the US. Canada and the US agreed to divide the continent into four time zones, primarily to manage the nightmare of local times clasing with rail.way timetables. Other world nations will endorse the Canadian engineer's idea at a 1884 Washington conference. 1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie decides on a coup d'etat for December 7; to create a republican government in Canada that would petition for union with the United States. Born on this day: 1939 - Margaret Atwood poet, novelist, critic, was born at Ottawa. Atwood's family spent several months a year in the bush of Ontario and Quebec. She was educated at the University of Toronto, Radcliffe College and Harvard University, and lives in Toronto with fellow author Graeme Gibson and daughter Jess. Atwood's novels include The Edible Woman (1972), Surfacing (1972), Lady Oracle (1976), Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981), The Handmaid's Tale (1985 - Governor General's Award), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993). Her short stories include Dancing Girls (1977), Bluebeard's Egg (1983), Murder in the Dark (1983), Wilderness Tips (1991), Good Bones (1992). Her poetry included Selected Poems (1965), The Circle Game (1966 - Governor General's Award), The Animals in that Country (1968), The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Procedures for Underground (1970), Power Politics (1971), You Are Happy (1974), Two-Headed Poems (1978), True Stories (1981), Murder in the Dark (1983 -with short stories), Interlunar (1984) and Selected Poems II (1986) Her criticism includes Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972), Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1984) and Strange things: Factions of the Malevolent North in Canadian literature (1995). She has also edited The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1982) and The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories (1995). 1904 - 1990 Jean-Paul Lemieux painter, art teacher, was born at Quebec City. Lemieux studied at the Academia Colarossi in Italy, at la Grande Chaumière in Paris, then at Loyola and the Ecole du Meuble in Montreal in the 20s and 30s; taught there, replacing Paul-Emile Borduas; moved to the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Quebec City, where he taught from 1937 to 1965. He is known for his ethereal figures set against receding landscapes.
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Lumbele
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| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 8:39 am
November 19 1983 Montreal Quebec - Bruce Hood officiates in his 1,000th National Hockey League game; first NHL referee to reach that mark. 1981 Ottawa Ontario - 3,000 Indians march on Parliament Hill, and more in other sites across Canada, to protest exclusion of aboriginal rights from constitution. 1963 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe scores record-breaking 545th goal against Charlie Hodge of the Montreal Canadiens, breaking Maurice Richard's mark. Olympia crowd give him 20 minute standing ovation 1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet passes order to amalgamate all government-owned railroads; origin of CNR. 1869 CANADA SHOPS THE BAY London England - The Hudson's Bay Company owners approve the deed of surrender of their Rupert's Land territory to Canada. The terms are £300,000 cash, land around HBC posts and 1/20th of the Prairie fertile belt (some 2.8 million hectares of farmland); to come into effect December 1. 1867 London England - British government rejects request to allow British Columbia to join Confederation immediately. 1866 New Westminster, BC - Vancouver Island, which had been a separate colony, becomes part of British Columbia; due to financial crisis. 1858 Langley BC - James Douglas arrives at HBC Fort Langley, 40 km up the Fraser River from the coast, on the SS Beaver. He reads a proclamation creating the Crown Colony of British Columbia, and is sworn in by Judge Matthew Begbie as first Governor. To take up the new post, he resigned as Hudson's Bay Company Governor of Vancouver Island. Britain conferred colonial status on BC to hold off US annexationists, and to bring the law to the gold miners swarming into the territory, formerly controlled by the HBC. Douglas will bow to pressure and on Feb. 14, 1859, proclaims the site of the capital to be New Westminster. 1804 Montreal Quebec - Mr. Ormsby, a Scottish actor, opens Canada's first English language theatre with two plays, The Busy Body and Sultan. 1686 Europe - England and France sign Neutrality Pact to settle Hudson Bay dispute and decide on boundary. 1578 Plymouth England - Humphrey Gilbert leaves Plymouth with ten ships; commissioned by Queen to find new lands and start colony; three ships desert to piracy; rest forced to return to England. Born on this day: 1939 - 1985 Elizabeth Cleaver author, illustrator, was born at Montreal; died in Montreal. Cleaver is best known for her collage works, The Wind Has Wings (1968), The Loon's Necklace (1977 - a retelling of a native legend). 1937 - Marilyn Bell marathon swimmer, was born at Toronto. On Sept 8-9, 1954, 16 year old Bell became the first person to swim the 51.5 km stretch of Lake Ontario, from Youngstown, NY to Toronto; later the youngest person to swim the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the English Channel. 1919 - 1991 Charles Allard MD, broadcast entrepreneur, was born at Edmonton; died in Edmonton. Starting his career as a medical doctor - he became chief surgeon at Edmonton General - Allard moved into real estate, building up Allarcom Developments, which he sold to Carma in 1980. He was also involved in North West Trust, Seaboard Life and Allarcom Broadcasting, which owns Edmonton CITV, Superchannel, YTV and other media properties.
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 10:07 am
1869 Canada Shops the Bay - and the death knell of a Canadian Hudson's Bay just might be 2005  
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 10:23 am
November 20 1995 MULRONEY SUES RCMP, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Montreal Quebec - Brian Mulroney files $50-million lawsuit against the federal Department of Justice and the RCMP. Claims reputation hurt by letter sent by investigating police to Swiss banking authorities alleging a kickback in the sale of 34 Airbus jets to Air Canada in 1988. 1992 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes bill creating a College of Midwives in Ontario; first province to regulate and recognize the profession of midwifery. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Bertha Wilson retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; spent 9 years as the first woman on the Court. 1989 Montreal Quebec - Fabric roof of the Olympic Stadium tears during a wind storm. 1969 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph Drybones' conviction for being intoxicated off the reserve overturned by Supreme Court, who rule he was denied his rights; Drybones Case affects Treaty rights and off-reserve law. 1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists set off bomb in Montreal's Loyola College. 1942 Dawson Creek BC - Opening of 2,450 km (1,523 mile) long Alcan Military Highway, or Alaska Highway; from Dawson Creek, BC to Fairbanks, Alaska; road built to supply Pacific North West and Alaska in case of Japanese invasion. 1871 Arthabaska Quebec - Wilfrid Laurier first elected to Quebec Assembly; later MP for Quebec East and Canada's 7th Prime Minister. 1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - First telegraph lines link Winnipeg and eastern Canada via Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota. Born on this day: 1964 - John MacLean NHL right winger, was born at Oshawa, Ontario. MacLean was selected as an underage junior by the New Jersey Devils in the first round (sixth pick overall) of the 1983 NHL Entry Draft; signed by New Jersey as a free agent, July 9, 1998; acquired by San Jose from New Jersey with Ken Sutton for Doug Bodger and Dody Wood, December 7, 1997; led San Jose in shots, second in goals, points and power-play goals; now with New York Rangers. 1928 - Norman Antony 'Toni' Onley artist, was born at Douglas, Isle of Man. Onley immigrated to Canada in 1948; worked in Ontario and BC, studied in England and Mexico; 1964 settled in Vancouver. 1924 - Ann Rutherford TV/movie actress, panelist. Rutherford starred in Leave It to the Girls. 1922 - 1989 Raymond Affleck architect, was at Penticton, BC; died at Montreal. Affleck was educated at McGill and in Zurich, Switzerland; works include the Arts and Culture Centre in St John's (1967), Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre (1955), Montreal's Place Bonaventure (1964-68), Place Ville Marie (1956-65), and the Maison Alcan (1983); Market Square in Saint John (1983). 1906 - 1996 John Josiah 'J.J.' Robinette trial lawyer. In his 62 year career, Robinette argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other lawyer; defended both common criminals and high-profile businesses and clients. 1892 - 1965 James Bertram 'Bert' Collip biochemist, educator, codiscoverer of insulin with Banting and Best, was born at Belleville, Ontario; died at London, Ontario. Collip received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1916; 1921 asked to join the team investigating the internal secretion of the pancreas; Jan 1922 discovered a way to produce a nontoxic, antidiabetic pancreatic extract; produced the first insulin suitable for use on human beings; 1923 received from J. R. R. Macleod a quarter share of the Nobel Prize money awarded to Banting and Macleod; 1928 Professor of Biochemistry at McGill; 1947-61 Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. 1889 - 1938 John Babbitt McNair lawyer, politician, judge, was born at Andover, NB; died at Fredericton. McNair served as Premier of New Brunswick 1940-52; 1955 named chief justice of New Brunswick; 1957 he headed the Royal Commission examining the fiscal status of Newfoundland; 1965 Lieutenant Governor. 1849 - 1938 Francis Longworth Haszard lawyer, politician, judge, was born at Bellevue, PEI; died at Charlottetown. Haszard was elected to the Assembly in 1904; 1908 Premier of PEI; 1911 Judge of the Supreme Court; retired in 1930. 1841 - 1919 Wilfrid Laurier born in St-Lin, Quebec, son of Carolus Laurier and Marie Martineau; Canada's 7th Prime Minister, 1896-1911; attends Le Collège de L'Assomption and McGill University.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Monday, November 21, 2005 - 7:54 am
November 21 1988 Canada - Brian Mulroney wins federal election with 169 seats to 83 Liberal; 43 NDP; 0 other; ran on a platform of Free Trade with the US. 1979 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau announces his resignation as Liberal leader after leadership convention in March selects his successor; after defeat by Clark's PCs. He would return, however, after the Clark government is defeated on a Non-confidence motion, and loses the 1980 election. 1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode bomb on Boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal. 1954 Halifax, Nova Scotia - HMCS Labrador arrives in Halifax via the Northwest Passage and around North America via the Panama Canal; a 29,000 km voyage. 1950 Canoe River, BC - Canadian military troop train collides with CNR passenger train at Canoe River, after failing to get off on a siding; 21 killed (including 4 engine crew), 53 injured. The soldiers were all members of the 2nd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, bound from Camp Shilo, Manitoba, to Fort Lewis, Washington, for winter training prior to going to Korea. None of the east-bound passengers on the other train were injured but their baggage and express cars were derailed. The wreck was the result of a mistake on the part of a CNR dispatcher, who wired the troop train to pull into Blue River instead of Canoe River; charges were dismissed because of the courtroom skill of the dispatcher's lawyer, John Diefenbaker.
1921 London England - King George V proclaims Canada's Coat of Arms, designates white and red as the official Canadian colours. 1899 Montreal Quebec - First automobile appears on the streets of Montreal; a 'Crestomobile'. 1817 St John's, Newfoundland - St John's suffers second disastrous fire in three weeks, after previous conflagration of Nov. 07, and another Feb. 12, 1816; 2,600 of a total population of 10,000 homeless. Other fires will level the city on June 09, 1846, and July 8, 1892, before proper water mains and pumps are installed. 1784 BIRTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK Fredericton, New Brunswick - - Thomas Carleton, younger brother of Sir Guy Carleton, and defender of Quebec against the Americans in 1775-76, arrives at Parrtown as first Governor to proclaim the new Province of New Brunswick. 1763 Quebec Quebec - James Murray officially appointed Governor-in-Chief of Quebec; serves from Aug. 13, 1764 to May 12, 1768; was former military Governor. Murray clashed with the British and Yankee merchants who swarmed into Quebec, because he would not violate his promises to the French. Recalled to England in 1766 to face charges of partiality, he saw the charges dismissed, but never went back to Canada. Born on this day: 1979 - Alex Tanguay NHL centre, was born at Ste-Justine, Quebec; in rookie season with the Colorado Avalanche. 1934 - Howard Pawley lawyer, politician, academic, was born at Brampton, Ontario. Pawley moved to Winnipeg at age 17 and was educated at Manitoba Teachers College, United College and Manitoba Law School; 1969 elected as CCF/NDP MLA for Selkirk, and re-elected 1973, 1977, 1981; 1969-76 minister of municipal affairs in Schreyer government; 1973-77 attorney general until defeat; served in Opposition; 1979 Nov. elected provincial leader of the Manitoba NDP; 1981 Nov. elected Premier in election; 1986 March reelected; 1888 resigned as Premier; 1990 joined the political science department at the University of Windsor. 1929 - Laurier LaPierre broadcaster, author, academic, was born at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. LaPierre earned his PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 1962; taught French Canada studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, and Loyola College in Montreal; 1962-78 teaches at McGill; 1964-66 co-host with Patrick Watson of the CBC's This Hour Has Seven Days; moved to Vancouver to host a daily show on CKVU-TV; 1991 served on the Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future; 1992 wrote Canada, My Canada. 1928 - Tom Gayford equestrian, was born at Toronto. Gayford represented Canada on the international equestrian scene for several years, starting at the 1959 Pan American Games. In 1968 he brought home Canada's first ever equestrian Olympic gold medal, from the Mexico Olympics, with team mates Jim Day and Jim Elder. Gayford designed the 1976 Montreal Olympics jumping course, and has served as equestrian team leader since 1978. 1902 - 1985 Foster Hewitt broadcaster, voice of Hockey Night in Canada, was born at Toronto; died in Scarborough. Hewitt started as a sportswriter for the Toronto Star. He started in radio in March, 1923, when he made one of the world's first hockey broadcasts from Toronto's Mutual Street Arena, using an upright telephone. For over 50 years he was the announcer for thousands of NHL, world and Olympic hockey matches. He also did the broadcast of the 1925 King's Plate, Canada's first broadcast of a horse race. Conn Smythe got him to MC and call the play-by-play at the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931. Hewitt served as the voice of the Leafs up until the 1960s, both radio and TV, when his son Bill took the reins. Hewitt also wrote several sports books. 1893 - 1952 Angus MacDonald educator, co-op leader, was born at Glassburn, Nova Scotia; died at Ottawa. MacDonald studied at St Francis Xavier, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and the University of Toronto; 1925 inspector of schools for Antigonish and Guysborough counties; 1930 associate director of St Francis Xavier's extension department; leader of the department's Antigonish Movement; organized credit unions; 1934 managing director of the Nova Scotia Credit Union League; 1943 helped reorganize the Co-operative Union of Canada; 1944 CUC national organizer; 1945 CUC national secretary. 1787 - 1865 Samuel Cunard merchant, ship owner, was born at Halifax Nova Scotia; died in London. Cunard started working in the timber business with his father, then expanded into shipping. He was a founder of the Halifax Bank in 1825, and a shareholder in the Great William in 1833. In 1838 he founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as the Cunard Line, Ltd., and won the British mail contract for ten years. In 1840, his first steamship, the Britannia, with Cunard himself at the helm, made the voyage from Liverpool to Boston in 14-days, 8-hr, beginning the first regular transatlantic service by steamship. Cunard launched his first iron ship, the Persia, in 1855, and by his first screw-propelled ship, the China, in 1862. Queen Victoria knighted him in 1859 for his contributions to British shipping. 1643 - 1687 René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle fur trader, explorer, was born at Rouen, France; murdered by his men in Texas. La Salle entered the Jesuit order as a novitiate in 1658, but was released from his vows in 1667 due to mental instability; sailed for New France; joined Sulpician expedition, falsely claiming to speak Iroquois; 1673 persuaded Frontenac to grant him letters of nobility; 1678 got commission to explore the west, and started chain of trading posts; 1682 descended the Mississippi to its delta with a party of French and Indian guides, and on April 09, claimed the entire region for Louis XIV; 1864 given command of an expedition to invade Mexico via the Rio Grande; Feb. 1685 landed at Matagorda Bay in Texas after losing most of his supply ships; Apr 1686 set off for Fort St-Louis-des-Illinois with 20 men to seek help, but killed en route.
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Lumbele
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| Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 12:11 pm
November 22 1995 Ottawa Ontario - Roméo Leblanc named Canada's 25th Governor General, replacing Ray Hnatyshyn; first Acadian to hold the post 1986 GRETZKY HITS 500 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers' Wayne Gretzky scores his 500th career goal in 5-2 victory over Vancouver Canucks; reaches mark in record-setting 575 games, becomes the 13th NHLer to score 500 goals. 1983 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports that Canada's population will reach 25,000,000 on this day or the next. 1971 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis, 1970. 1963 Toronto Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination leads to closing of Toronto Stock Exchange in mid session for first time. 1957 Cornwall Ontario - First ship passes through Iroquois Lock, first lock of new St. Lawrence Seaway. 1944 London England - Canadian General A.G.L. McNaughton told by Army Council that only conscription will provide enough reinforcements; members threaten to resign if he doesn't agree. Eventually 13,000 conscript 'zombies' will be sent overseas. 1842 Mount St Helen, Washington - Toronto painter Paul Kane watches and sketches the eruption of Mount St Helens. 1726 Quebec Quebec - New France brings in first tax and control of alcoholic beverages. 1594 London England - Martin Frobisher dies; Arctic explorer, discoverer of Frobisher Bay for England. Born on this day: 1973 - Cassie Campbell hockey player, born at Brampton, Ontario. Campbell plays defence for the University of Guelph (OWIAA)/North York Aeros; was on the gold medal winning team at the World Championships in 1994 and 1997. 1957 - Alwyn Morris canoeist, born at Montreal. Morris won the K-1 1000 m and K-1 500 m junior Canadian championships in 1977; at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics he and Hugh Fisher won gold in the K-2 1000 m (time 3:24.22) and bronze in the K-2 500 m (1:35.41). 1943 - Floyd Chester Sneed rock drummer. Sneed played with Three Dog Night. 1943 - Yvan Cournoyer hockey right winger, born at Drummondville Quebec. Cournoyer joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1963-64 as a power play specialist, and toiled with them for 15 years, 5 years as their captain, until he was forced to retire from a back injury in 1979. Cournoyer made up for his size - he was just 5'7" and 178 pounds - with exciting speed and deft puck handling, and he quickly gained the nickname The Roadrunner. He was also a clean player, and was only penalized a grand total of 255 minutes over 15 seasons. Cournoyer was a 4 time NHL All Star, and played on 10 Stanley Cup championship teams, all with the Montreal Canadiens. He also scored a great goal in the final Canada-USSR series game on Sept 28, 1972. On a pass from Phil Esposito and Brad Park, Cournoyer tied the score at 5-5, then proceeded to set up Paul Henderson's winner. In regular season play, Cournoyer notched 863 points (428 goals) in 968 games. In the playoffs, he scored 127 points (64 goals) in 147 games, and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP in 1973. 1941 - Jacques Laperriere hockey player. Laperriere played defence for the Montreal Canadiens. 1933 - Irene Macdonald diver. Macdonald was Canadian champion from 1951-61, and held the US three metre even title from 1957-60. She won the Bronze Medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1954, and the Silver at the 1958 Games. At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics she won the Bronze - Canada's first Olympic diving medal. 1923 - Arthur Hiller film director, born at Edmonton, Alberta. Hiller was educated at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto (psychology), and got a law degree at the University of British Columbia. He started his directing career in TV, then moved into films, directing a wide variety of movies such as , Love Story (1970), The Out-of-Towners (1970), The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Silver Streak (1976) and The In-Laws (1979). 1921 - Max Ward aviator, entrepreneur, was born at Edmonton. Ward joined the RCAF in 1940 and served as a flight instructor; 1946 founded the Polaris Charter Company in Yellowknife, NWT, starting with one single-engined DH 83C de Havilland Fox Moth; 1953 founded Wardair Ltd., specializing in the air transport of heavy equipment to the Far North; 1961 got a licence to operate international air charters; 1962 acquired a DC-6A, and went into the transatlantic charter flight business, with head office to Edmonton; 1984 started to fly scheduled routes; 1989 burden of debt forced sale to PWA, and Canadian Airlines. 1893 - 1976 Raymond Collishaw air ace, was born at Nanaimo BC; dies at West Vancouver. Collishaw began his career as a naval aviator, and served with the Scott Antarctic Expedition in 1911. Entering the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, he proceeded to shoot down 60 enemy planes in World War I, second only to Billy Bishop. After the conflict, he stayed aloft in Southern Russia and Persia assisting the White Russians. At the beginning of World War II, he was put in command of the RAF in Egypt, but was not found to be an able administrator, and was retired in 1943 with the rank of Air Vice Marshall. 1881 - 1965 Herbert James Symington lawyer, business executive, born on this day at Sarnia, Ontario, in 1881; died at Montreal Sept. 28, 1965. Symington was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1905; prominent Liberal and colleague of J.W. Dafoe and T.A. Crerar; 1936 appointed to the board of the CNR; controller or electricity supplies during World War II; 1941-47 President of Trans-Canada Airlines; helped found the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal; later chairman of the board of timber company Price Brothers. 1753 - 1830 Richard John Uniacke lawyer, politician, born at Castletown, Ireland; died at Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia. Uniacke moved to the Cumberland district of Nova Scotia as a trader, but returned to Ireland to study law; 1781 Solicitor General of Nova Scotia; 1784 advocate general of the Vice-Admiralty Court; 1783-93, 1798-1805 MLA; 1789-93, 1799-1805 Speaker of the House; 1797 Attorney General; promoted BNA colonial union and commercial independence. 1698 - 1778 Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil soldier, last Governor of New France 1755-60 was born at Quebec City; died at Paris, France. Vaudreuil followed his father into the Troupes de la Marine, and was appointed governor of Trois-Rivières 1733; 1742 succeeded Bienville as governor of Louisiana to 1753; 1755 appointed Governor of New France, succeeding Duquesne; during Seven Years War clashed with Montcalm over using guerrilla warfare on the frontiers; 1760 Sept. 08 surrendered Montreal and New France after negotiating terms protecting the religion and laws of the Canadians, but not allowing the French troops the honours of war; 1763 arrested and tried in the Affaire du Canada, but charges dropped.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 8:38 am
November 23 1995 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chretien unveils federal unity plan; Prime Minister suggests distinct society thrust 1981 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government states that it does not agree to restore native and women's rights in proposed Constitution, in opposition to Ottawa and the other provinces.
1952 Korea - Red Chinese forces launch three-day offensive against Le Royal 22e Régiment (the Van Doos) in Korea. The picture shows a young UN journalist named René Lévesque interviewing members of the regiment. 1944 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King switches his conscription policy, announces that 16,000 home defence conscripts will be sent to England as reinforcements; riots follow in Montreal and Quebec. 1904 St Louis, Missouri - Third Olympic games close. Canada did not send an official team, but Canadians bring back four golds, in golf (George Lyon), lacrosse (Winnipeg Shamrocks), soccer and the 56 lb. weight throw (Etienne Desmarteau). 1837 St-Denis, Quebec - Patriote leader Wolfred Nelson leads his followers in defeating Col. Charles Gore and his 2,000 British troops at the battle of St-Denis. Gore's Waterloo veterans, 6 companies of infantry and a detachment of artillery, have no success against the deadly fire of the rebels, holed up in Nelson's distillery and behind the thick stone walls of the Maison Saint-Germain; British suffer 6 dead and 11 wounded, Nelson's Patriotes lose 12 men and seven wounded; a British prisoner, Lt. George Weir, is also killed trying to escape; Nelson later jailed in Montreal; Louis-Joseph Papineau, Thomas Storrow Brown and a young George-Etienne Cartier flee to St-Hyacinthe, then the US. 1815 CANADA'S FIRST STREET LIGHTS Montreal Quebec - Montreal installs first street lamps, fueled by whale oil; first streetlights in Canada. 1809 Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Jordan hanged, and his tarred and chained corpse is hung on a gibbet at the entrance to Halifax Harbour; convicted in Canada's first piracy trial; seized a vessel that was previously his property. 1760 Verchères Quebec - Anne Carr baptized; first Protestant baptism in Quebec. Born on this day: 1975 - Matt Johnson NHL left winger, was born at Welland, Ontario. Johnson was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the second round (33rd pick overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. 1971 - Dan Kesa NHL right winger, was born at Vancouver, British Columbia. Kesa was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft 1939 - Bill Bissett poet, painter, publisher, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bissett has published over 50 books of poems, including Nobody Owns the Earth (1971), Beyond Even Faithful Legends: Selected Poems (1980), and since 1985, with Talonbooks, works like Canada Geese Mate for Life, Seagull on Yonge Street, Animal Uproar, What We Have, Hard 2 beleev, Inkorrect Thots; an anarchist, Bissett refused to obey normal spelling and grammar rules, and is well known as a sound poet. 1923 - Daniel Hill social activist, public servant, was born at Independence, Missouri. Hill got his a PhD in sociology from the University of Toronto; 1962-73 headed the Ontario Human Rights Commission; 1984 Provincial Ombudsman of Ontario; member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal; author of Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism (1977) and The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada (1981). 1916 - Patricia Kathleen 'P.K.' Page poet, painter, was born at Swanage, Dorset, England. Page left England in 1919 and settled in Red Deer, Alberta; educated in Calgary and Winnipeg; studied art in Brazil and New York; moved to Montreal and worked as a filing clerk, historical researcher and from 1946 to 1950, scriptwriter at the National Film Board; part of the group that founded Preview (1942-45); poems first appeared in Unit of Five (ed Ronald Hambleton, 1942); 1950 married W.A. Irwin; 1953-64 lived in Australia, where her husband was Canadian High Commissioner, then in Brazil and Mexico, where he served as Ambassador; 1964 moved to Victoria. Poetry includes As Ten As Twenty (1946); The Metal and the Flower (1954, Governor General's Award); Cry Ararat! (1967); Poems Selected and New (1974); Evening Dance of the Grey Files (1981); and The Glass Air (1985). 1914 - 1992 Ralph Collins diplomat, was born at Kunming, China; died in Ottawa. Collins worked in the Department of External Affairs from 1940 to 1979; served in China during World War II, and headed External Affairs' Far Eastern Division; served as ambassador to South Africa and in 1971, Canada's first ambassador to the People's Republic of China. 1902 - 1982 Victor Jory actor, was born at Dawson City, Yukon. Jory played in over 100 movies in a 50 year career from 1930 to 1980, including Canadian Pacific (1949 - Dirk Rourke). 1900 - 1991 Robert McClure medical missionary, church leader, was born at Portland, Oregon to Canadian medical missionaries. After getting his medical degree in 1923, McClure was posted to Honan, China where he helped set up a rural medical system. In 1937, with war between China and Japan, he served as Red Cross medical director in Central China, and led the Friends Ambulance Unit during World War II. After the War he served in Palestine and India, and in 1968 was elected first unordained moderator of the United Church. 1883 - 1973 Archibald Huntsman marine biologist, administrator, editor, professor, was born at Tintern, Ontario; died at St Andrews, New Brunswick. Huntsman was one of the founders of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada; 1934-53 served as the Board's chief scientist and director; 1927-54 Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Toronto. 1862 - 1932 Gilbert Parker journalist, author, politician, was born at Camden East, Ontario; died in London, England. Parker left for England in 1890 after teaching for several years in Ontario; 1900 MP for Gravesend to 1918); known for his historical novels, including Pierre and His People (1892) and Carnac (1922). 1858 - 1931 Henri-Marc Ami paleontologist, geologist, was born at Belle-Rivière, Quebec, the son of a Swiss pastor; died at Menton, France. Ami studied geology at McGill University under John William Dawson; 1882-1911 worked for the Geological Survey of Canada, primarily on geological formations in Quebec and the Maritimes; 1895-1900 editor of the Ottawa Naturalist; 1900 elected to the Royal Society of Canada; 1911 retired to work privately on geological prehistory. 1856 - 1921 Frederic Nicholls engineer, entrepreneur, was born in England; died at the Kellogg sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan. Nicholls came to Canada in 1874 after training as an electrical engineer in Germany; 1887 helped John A. Macdonald and the Conservative Party draft the National Policy of tariff protection; founded and edited the Canadian Manufacturer magazine until 1893; 1891 brought first electric lighting to Toronto with his Toronto Incandescent Light Company; founded the Electrical Development Company to develop Niagara power, and the Canadian General Electric Company to manufacture electric equipment. 1817 - 1886 William Jack mathematician, astronomer, professor, was born at Trailflatt, Scotland; died at Fredericton, New Brunswick. Jack was a professor at King's College, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, from 1840 to 1885, and was President 1861-85; 1851 built the first astronomical observatory in Canada on the campus. 1750 - 1817 James Glenie soldier, politician, was born at Fife, Scotland; died at London, England. Glenie served in Quebec during the American Revolutionary War period; 1787 resigned his commission and settled in New Brunswick; clashed with Lt-Governor Thomas Carleton and his Loyalist compact; 1789 elected to the Assembly and fought for responsible government with the Governor and Council; led to political deadlock from 1795 to 1799, which lost him support; 1805 left for England where he died in poverty.
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November 24 1995 Pembroke Ontario - CN runs last train over the Beachburg subdivision from Pembroke (mile 89.20) to Nipissing (mile 215.36) through Algonquin Provincial Park; will abandon line the following year. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes new Immigration Act; limits right of appeal to adverse rulings; overhaul of 1976 version; some must move where skills are needed. 1981 Ottawa Ontario - Metric Commission orders scales in 35,000 stores altered from Imperial units to metric by Dec. 1983; advertising allowed only in metric after Dec. 31, 1983 1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists let off two bombs in the Eaton store in downtown Montreal. 1937 Ontario - Bertram Brooker wins first Governor General's Literary Award for novel; Award established by Canadian Authors Association; given annually to best Canadian books in several categories. 1922 Edmonton Alberta - City Council approves by-law outlawing swearing in public; after complaints from golfers on public courses. 1905 RAILWAY REACHES EDMONTON Edmonton Alberta - - William Mackenzie & Donald Mann complete the Canadian Northern Railway to Edmonton, as Lieutenant Governor G.H.V. Bulyea drives home a silver spike. Mackenzie & Mann's northern transcontinental will eventually run from Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton to Vancouver, but the effort bankrupts the pair, and in 1917 the line becomes a part of the Canadian National Railways. 1892 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott resigns due to ill health; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister after John A. Macdonald's death; took the post turned down by Langevin, Tupper and Thompson; served from June 16, 1891; replaced by John Sparrow David Thompson, Canada's fourth Prime Minister until his sudden death on Dec 12, 1894, after being sworn in as a member of the Imperial Privy Council by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. 1843 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin & Louis-H La Fontaine, fighting for Responsible Government, demand that Governor-General Metcalfe make no government appointments without consulting them; he refuses; all the Ministry resigns except Dominick Daly. 1807 Burlington Ontario - Joseph Brant dies at Wellington Square; Six Nations Mohawk Chief who fought on the British side in the War of American Independence, and led his people to settle in the Grand River Valley after the war; gave his name to the city of Brantford; translated some scriptures and part of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois. Born on this day: 1976 - Christian LaFlamme NHL defenseman, was born at St. Charles, Quebec; in his second season with the Chicago Blackhawks. 1971 - Keith Primeau NHL centre, was born at Toronto, Ontario; selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the first round (third pick overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft; traded with Paul Coffey and a 1997 first-round draft pick to the Hartford Whalers for Brendan Shanahan and Brian Glynn on Oct. 9, 1996; currently with Carolina Hurricanes; brother of Wayne, number one draft pick by Buffalo in 1994. 1959 - Todd Brooker alpine skier, was born on this day at Paris, Ontario; Brooker started skiing at age 4 and racing at 12; 1979 injured a knee his first year on the Canadian team; 1982-83 won 2 World Cup events and ended the season as #1 ranked FIS downhiller; 1985 won downhill in Japan, and had 8 other top-ten finishes; 1987 forced to retire after serious knee injury at Kitzbuhel. 1931 - Andrew Sarlos financier, was born at Budapest, Hungary. Sarlos studied economics at the University of Budapest; 1956 fought in the anti-Soviet revolution and escaped to Canada via Austria; qualified as a chartered accountant; worked with Canadian Bechtel and Acres Ltd. and ended up running their merchant banking; 1974 set himself up as an investment counselor, managing assets of over $500 million. 1886 - 1951 Al Christie writer, director, producer, was born at London, Ontario; died in Hollywood. Christie made the first of his 70 movies in 1912; produced a remake of Tillie's Punctured Romance with W. C. Fields in 1928. 1881 - 1931 Florence Wyle sculptor, poet, was born at Trenton, Illinois; died at Newmarket, Ontario. Wyle moved to Canada in 1913; worked for over 50 years with her companion Frances Loring in a converted Toronto church; 1928 founding member of the Sculptors' Society of Canada. 1864 - 1889 Andrew Macphail medical doctor, professor, editor, was born at Orwell, PEI; died at Montreal. Macphail studied at Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, then took medical studies at McGill; 1893-1905 practiced medicine and taught at Bishop's University medical school in Montreal; 1907-37 McGill professor of the history of medicine; 1911 founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal; 1914 enlisted as medical officer in World War I; 1907-20 edited The University Magazine, a quarterly of political and social criticism. 1859 - 1931 Adam Shortt economic historian, was born at Kilworth, Ontario; died at Ottawa. Shortt was educated at Queen's, Glasgow and Edinburgh universities; 1886 joined the staff at Queen's; 1891-1908 professor of political science; 1908-17 served on the first Civil Service Commission in Ottawa; 1918-31 chaired Board of Historical Publications at the Public Archives of Canada; works include Documents Relating to Canadian Currency, Exchange and Finance During the French Regime (1926); Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1759-1791 (1907, 1918; with A.G. Doughty); and the 23-volume Canada and its Provinces (1913-1917; with A.G. Doughty). 1848 - 1929 William Stevens Fielding journalist, politician, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia; died in Ottawa. Fielding was Canada's Finance Minister for a total of 19 years, the longest tenure in Canadian history. 1847 -1889 Alexander Davie lawyer, politician, was born at Wells, England; died at Victoria. Davie immigrated to Vancouver Island in 1862; 1873 first to be called to the BC bar; 1872-74 Clerk of the BC Legislature; 1875 elected in Cariboo; 1877 Cabinet minister in the Elliott government; 1882 elected for Lillooet; 1883 attorney general in the Smithe government; 1887 succeeded Smithe as premier but died in office two years later. 1833 - 1891 Curé Antoine Labelle Roman Catholic priest, was born at Ste-Rose, Quebec; died at Quebec City. Labelle was appointed parish priest of St-Jérôme de Terrebonne in 1868; had vision of a chain of francophone and Catholic colonies from Montreal to Winnipeg; ardent supporter of the CPR in 1872; 1888 Deputy minister of agriculture and colonization in the Mercier government.
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November 25 1989 Chicoutimi Quebec - Earthquake centered near Chicoutimi hits eastern Canada; measures almost 6.0 on the Richter Scale. 1988 Nelson, New Brunswick - Allan Legere captured by police after six month killing spree; convicted murderer had escaped from jail in Moncton May 3 and was the subject of a huge manhunt. 1987 Sutton Quebec - Jehane Benoît dies; cooking consultant, author and broadcaster, born Jehane Patenaude at Montreal Mar. 21, 1904. Madame Benoît studied at the Cordon Bleu in Paris; 1925 started a cooking school in Montreal called Fumet de la Vieille France; 1935-40 started The Salad Bar, concentrating on vegetarian cuisine; appeared on CBC's Take 30; wrote over 30 books, including Madame Benoît's Microwave Cook Book (1975). 1968 Burnaby BC - Police charge 104 student radicals with trespassing after three-day occupation of Simon Fraser University's administration building. 1885 BANFF PARK OPENS TO TOURISTS Banff Alberta - - Canadian government establishes Rocky Mountains Park at "Siding 29" on the CPR, 3 km from present-day Banff, which was relocated 3 years later to be near the local hot springs. Now the main town in Banff National Park, it was named by financier Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona, for his home county in Scotland. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th duke of Argyll, sworn in as Governor General of Canada; the 33 year old Lorne will serve until 1883; his wife is Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Princess Louise. 1857 Kingston Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier forms the Macdonald-Cartier Ministry with John A. Macdonald on the retirement of E-P Taché. Cartier, who was a rebel in 1837, is Attorney-General Canada East; his French Canadian 'bleu' members hold the balance of power in the Union. 1851 Montreal Quebec - George Williams founds a branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in St Helen's Baptist Church; first YMCA in North America. 1837 St-Charles Quebec - Col. George Wetherall and 350 British troops charge 100 Patriote rebels holed up in the Manoir Debartzch, south of the village of St. Charles, two days after the rebels declare a republic known as the Confederation of the Six Counties, and after Francis Gore's defeat at St. Denis. The British storm the manor house, then burn the village before leaving; they lose 7 dead and 23 wounded; the Patriotes lose about 30 wounded and 28 dead, some shot as they swam across the Richelieu River. 1758 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - John Forbes renames Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt, which later becomes Pittsburgh; end of French rule in Ohio Valley Born on this day: 1971 - Magnus Arvedson NHL left winger, was born at Farjestad, Sweden. Arvedson plays for the Ottawa Senators. 1969 - Jacqueline and Jillian Hennessy actors, were born at Edmonton, Alberta. The Hennessys played twin sisters Coral and Mimsy in David Cronenberg's 1988 shocker Dead Ringers. 1941 - Jacques Leduc film director, cameraman, was born at Montreal. Leduc joined the National Film Board in the early 1960s as a cameraman; 1967 started directing for the NFB; 1970 first film 'On est loin du soleil', about Brother André; 1973 Tendresse ordinaire; 8 film series, Chronique de la vie quotidienne; 1982 Albédo; 1984 Le dernier glacier, on the closing of Schefferville; 1986 Trois journées dans l'histoire recente du Québec. 1918 - 2005 Beland Honderich newspaper owner, was born on this day at Kitchener, Ontario. Honderich started his career in 1935 with the Kitchener-Waterloo Record; 1943 reporter then financial editor with the Toronto Star; 1955 Editor in Chief; 1966 President and Publisher; 1969 Chairman of the Toronto Star and Torstar. 1904 - 1987 Gillis Philip Purcell journalist, was born on this day at Brandon, Manitoba,; died in Toronto. Purcell was educated at the universities of Manitoba and Toronto; joined The Canadian Press; served as press officer for the 1st Division, Canadian Army, and lost his left leg during maneuvers; 1945-69 CP General Manager; set up photo, broadcasting and French services. 1893 - 1981 Bob Abate coach, was born at Toronto. A sports coach for 40 years, Abate was supervisor at the Elizabeth Street Playgrounds in Toronto - his teams were called the Lizzies - and he coached such greats as Lionel Conacher. 1902 - 1985 Eddie Shore hockey defenceman, was born at Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan; died in Springfield, Massachusetts. Shore first played pro hockey with the Regina Pats and Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Hockey League, where he got a name as a tough and ruthless defender. When the WHL went bankrupt in 1926, he was sold to the Boston Bruins, where he won the Hart Trophy as MVP four times, and was a first team NHL All Star seven times. 1888 - 1982 Alfred Charpentier union leader, was born at Montreal ; died in Montreal. Charpentier started bricklaying in 1905; 1911 President of the International Union of Bricklayers; 1916 developed the Catholic union movement with Fathers Joseph-Papin Archambault and Maxime Fortin; 1921 helped found the Confédération des travailleurs catholiques du Canada (CTCC), with 80 Catholic unions; 1935-46 President of the CTCC; 1971 published memoirs, Cinquante ans d'action ouvrière. 1867 - 1949 Herbert Greenfield farmer, politician, businessman, was born at Winchester, England; died in Calgary. Greenfield came to Canada in 1892; 1906 homesteaded north of Edmonton; 1921 President of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and VP of the United Farmers of Alberta; 1921 elected for the UFA in the provincial election; asked to accept the position of premier after it was refused by Henry Wise Wood; 1925 resigned due to illness; replaced by John Brownlee. 1857 - 1942 Frederick Haultain lawyer, politician, was born at Woolwich, England; died in Montreal. Haultain qualified as a lawyer in Ontario; 1884 set up practice at Fort Macleod, NWT; 1888 elected to the Territorial Assembly; 1896-05 served as nonpartisan Premier of the Territories; 1904 campaigned for federal Conservatives; 1905-12 led the opposition Provincial Rights Party in Saskatchewan; 1912 Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Saskatchewan; 1916-38 Chief Justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. 1851 - 1929 Frank Shepherd medical doctor, professor, was born at Como, Quebec; died in Montreal. Shepherd taught Anatomy at McGill University for many years; pioneer dermatologist; Dean of Medicine; President of the Art Association of Montreal; Chairman of the Board of the National Gallery of Canada. 1849 - 1935 David Goggin schools administrator, was born in Durham County, Ontario; died in Toronto. Goggin served as Superintendent of Education in the North-West Territories from 1893 to 1902, and established the centralized school systems of Alberta and Saskatchewan along the Ontario model, in spite of the objections of francophone Catholics. 1843 - 1933 Tom Thompson journalist, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; died in Oakville, Ontario. Thompson wrote political satire for St Catharines and Toronto newspapers under the pseudonym 'Jimuel Briggs'; 1874 started The National, a weekly political paper; 1879 returned to Toronto after a few years in the US; spokesman for the Knights of Labour; 1887 published The Politics of Labour; 1890-91 edited weekly Labour Advocate.
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November 26 1991 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Goalie Manon Rhéaume plays one game for the QMJHL Trois-Rivières Draveurs; the first woman to play on a major junior A hockey team; later goaltender for the Women's Canadian National Team at the 1992 and 1994 Women's World Championships, winning a gold medal both times; 1992 signed as free agent by the Tampa Bay Lightning and played in an exhibition game (Tampa Bay Lightning vs. St. Louis Blues) on Sept. 23, 1992, making her the first woman to play in a professional hockey game; 1998 goalie for the Canadian Olympic Silver medal women's team. 1984 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur announces he will retire from hockey; after 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens. 1975 Ottawa Ontario - The Canadian Radio-Television Commission orders Canadian TV cable companies to black out identical US programs available on Canadian television at the same time; CRTC rules ensure that Canadian advertisers are not subsidizing US Stations. 1971 Moncton, New Brunswick - Viola Léger puts on her first performance of Antonine Maillet's 'La Sagouine', a series of 16 dramatic monologues by an illiterate but philosophic Acadian cleaning woman, for a Moncton radio station; first staged by Moncton's Les Feux-Chalins, a troupe founded by Father Jean-Guy Gagnon and others in 1969; will be performed at the Théâtre du rideau vert in Montreal, and in 1974 on Radio Canada; 1979 in english on CBC. 1967 Toronto Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts opens 4-day Confederation of Tomorrow Conference; premiers agree on need to alter constitution. 1958 New York City - Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard scores his 600th NHL career goal against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. 1926 Washington DC - Charles Vincent Massey takes up duties as first Canadian Ambassador to Washington; Canada's first official diplomatic posting to a foreign country after Balfour Report and Dominion independence. 1917 FOUNDING OF THE NHL Ottawa Ontario - Frank Calder is elected President of the new National Hockey League, founded on this day. The new League replaces the National Hockey Association, and consists of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs. Quebec did not to operate that first season. Seven years later, the Boston Bruins became the first US club to get a franchise. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - Abigail Becker single-handedly rescues the captain and seven crew members of the overloaded schooner Conductor, foundered on a sandbar off Long Point on Lake Erie. The 'Heroine of Long Point' later rescued 6 other mariners from another wreck. 1869 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald refuses to take over Rupert's Land December 1 as agreed, due to the Metis occupation of Fort Garry and the Red River Insurrection. He orders Sir John Rose, Canadian representative in London, not to pay the £300,000 owing until the HBC can guarantee peaceful possession. Born on this day: 1972 - Chris Osgood NHL goaltender, was born at Peace River, Alberta; selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round (54th pick overall) of the 1991 NHL Entry draft; 1997-98 Season: tied for third in NHL in wins. 1938 - Rich Little impressionist, master of mimicry, born at Ottawa. Little does over 200 characterizations in his stage show, including uncanny versions of Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Cary Grant and Clark Gable. He has also worked as an actor in such films as The Late Shift, Happy Hour, and Dirty Tricks, as host of TV's Rich Little Show (1976), and You Asked For It (1981-83). His Ronald Reagan album, the First Family Rides Again, sold 1 million copies. 1933 - Robert Goulet actor, baritone, was born at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Brought up in Edmonton, Goulet won a singing scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto; 1951 made concert debut in Edmonton in Handel's Messiah; worked as disk jockey on Edmonton radio station CKUA for two years; sang with the Canadian Opera Company and at the Stratford Festival; 1960 landed role as Lancelot in Lerner & Loewe's Broadway premiere of Camelot opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; wins Grammy as Best New Artist of 1962; 1968 Tony award for his role as Jacques in Happy Time; hit songs include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, and Camelot; has also acted in Mr. Wrong, I'd Rather be Rich, Atlantic City, Beetlejuice, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, and Blue Light. 1920 - 2004 Daniel Petrie TV and stage director, actor, was born at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Petrie studied at St. Francis Xavier, Columbia and Northwestern universities; directed A Raisin in the Sun (1961); 1984 won Genie for his semi-autobiographical The Bay Boy (1984), starring Liv Ullmann and Kiefer Sutherland. 1910 - 2004 James Simpkins artist, cartoonist, was born at Winnipeg. Simpkins served in the Canadian Army during World War II; joined National Film Board as staff artist; 1948 created the Jasper cartoon that appeared in Maclean's for 24 years; also did filmstrip production, illustrated books and drew a monthly cartoon for the Medical Post. 1904 - 1991 Armand Frappier physician, microbiologist, was born at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec; died in Montreal. Frappier studied at l'Université de Montréal; 1930 MD; 1931-32 studied tuberculosis and BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccine in the US and at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on a Rockefeller scholarship; 1933 lab chief at Hôpital Saint-Luc, Professor of Bacteriology at U de M; 1938 founded l' Institut de microbiologie et d'hygiène de Montréal, today's Institut Armand-Frappier; 1945-65 founder and Dean of world's first French-language school of hygiene at U de M; 1974 retired. 1894 - 1974 James Charles McGuigan Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto, was born at Hunter River, PEI; died at Toronto. McGuigan graduated from St Dunstan's College and Laval; 1930 appointed Archbishop of Regina; 1935 Archbishop of Toronto; Dec. 23, 1945 appointed Canada's first non-French Cardinal by Pope Pius XII. 1889 - 1971 F.H. 'Frank' Underhill historian, was born at Stouffville, Ontario; died in Ottawa. Underhill studied at the universities of Toronto and Oxford; served as an officer in the Canadian Army during World War I; 1918-27 taught history at University of Saskatchewan; 1927-55 at University of Toronto; wrote for Canadian Forum; first president of the League for Social Reconstruction; 1933 main author of the Regina Manifesto of the CCF; 1955 appointed curator of Laurier House, Ottawa. 1881 - 1952 Leo Smith composer, cellist, author, professor, was born at Birmingham, England ; died in Toronto. Smith was a child prodigy; played cello in the Halle and Covent Garden orchestras; 1910 came to Canada; 1911 taught at the Toronto Conservatory and joined the Toronto Symphony; 1917-18 principal cellist, and again 1932-40; 1938-50 Professor of music at the University of Toronto; wrote Musical Rudiments (1920), Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries (1931) and Elementary Part-Writing (1939). 1861 - 1956 Colin Mackenzie soldier, was born in 1861; died at London, England,. Mackenzie came to Canada as Chief of the General Staff, 1910-13; resigned after disagreements with Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence. 1768 - 1852 Moses Hart businessman, was born at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Hart was the brother of politician Benjamin. Hart was one of the first shareholders of the Bank of Montreal and the Bank of Canada.
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November 27 1961 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe becomes the first hockey pro to play in 1,000 NHL games. 1960 Toronto Ontario - Gordie Howe scores his 1,000th point with an assist as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs. 1956 Melbourne Australia - Donald Arnold, Ignace d'Hondt, Lorne Loomer and Archie MacKinnon win a rowing Gold medal for Canada in Coxless Fours (four-oared shell without coxswain) at the Melbourne Olympic Games. 1944 Ottawa Ontario - Air Minister C.G. 'Chubby' Power quits King cabinet in protest against conscription. 1898 Yarmouth Nova Scotia - East Coast gale sinks S.S. Portland, drowning 91; 400 other Maritimers killed by the same storm. 1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Wandering Spirit hanged outside Fort Battleford with 7 other Crees; for the murders at Frog Lake on April 1; last public execution in Canada; in his statement, Wandering Spirit blamed the CPR as the main cause of his peoples' sufferings because the railway brought many settlers to the region. 1861 Montreal Quebec - First streetcars in Montreal make their debut. 1829 Port Robinson, Ontario - William Hamilton Merritt opens Welland Canal from Port Dalhousie to Port Robinson; engineered by Samuel Keefer; to Port Colborne in 1833; deepened in 1841; enlarged in 1850; replaced by the new Welland Canal, with a depth of nine metres, in 1932. Born on this day: 1976 - Chad Kilger NHL centre, born at Cornwall, Ontario; selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the first round (fourth pick overall) of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft' traded by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks with Oleg Tverdovsky, and a 1996 third-round pick to the Winnipeg Jets for Teemu Selanne, the rights to Marc Chouinard, and a 1996 fourth round draft pick on Feb. 8, 1996; now with Chicago Blackhawks; son of Bob Kilger, a former NHL referee (1970-80) Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. 1967 - Garry Valk NHL left winger, born on at Edmonton, Alberta; selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the sixth round (108th pick overall) of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft; selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1993 NHL Waiver Draft; traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for J.J. Daigneault, Feb. 21, 1997. 1952 - Sheila Copps politician, born at Hamilton, the daughter of perennial Hamilton Mayor Vic Copps. After working for the Ottawa Citizen and Hamilton Spectator, Copps ran for a seat in Queen's Park in 1977. She was defeated, but after a stint working for Liberal leader Stuart Smith, she won a seat in 1981. In 1982, after coming second to David Peterson in the leadership race, she switched to federal politics, and was elected for the Liberal Party in Hamilton East during the Mulroney sweep. With Brian Tobin and John Nunziata, a trio called the Rat Pack, she harried the PC government with disruptive tactics. She ran for the leadership against Jean Chrétien in 1990, was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of the Environment after the 1993 election; later Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Canadian Heritage. 1943 - Nicole Brossard writer, publisher, feminist, was born at Montreal. Brossard founded the literary magazine La Barre du jour in 1965; poetry collections include Le Centre blanc (1970), Suite logique (1970), Mécanique jongleuse suivi de masculin grammaticale (1974, Governor General's Award), Double impression (1984, Governor General's Award). 1933 - Jacques Godbout novelist, filmmaker, poet, born at Montreal. Godbout worked for the National Film Board; 1959 co-founder of Liberté; 1962 helped found the Mouvement laique de la langue française; 1977 helped found the Union des écrivains québecois. His films include Yul 871, Kid Sentiment, Ixe 13, La Gammik, and over 16 documentaries; novels include: L'Aquarium (1962), Le Couteau sur la table (1965), Salut Galarneau! (1967), D'amour, P.Q. (1972), L'Isle au dragon (1976), Les Têtes à Papineau (1981) and Une Histoire américaine (1986). 1915 - 1983 Yves Thériault writer, born at Quebec City; died at Joliette, Quebec. Thériault is famous for his novel Agaguk, published in 1958 and translated into 7 languages.
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| Monday, November 28, 2005 - 8:32 am
November 28 1996 Montreal Quebec - Synchro swimmer Sylvie Fréchette joins the Cirque du Soleil as an artist-trainer; Barcelona gold medal winner; only athlete to receive seven perfect 10's in solo at the 1991 World Aquatic Championships. 1983 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Appeal rules Cabinet decision to allow US cruise missile testing in Canada did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 1978 Quebec - Bill 101 declared Ultra Vires. 1970 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists Jacques Cossette, Jacques Lanctôt, Marc Charbonneau and Pierre Séguin allowed to leave for Cuba after they hand over British trade commissioner James Cross. 1956 Ottawa Ontario - Canada grants $1 million and free passage to Canada to refugees from Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule. 1925 Montreal Quebec - NHL goalie Georges Vézina collapses in a game; dies of tuberculosis 4 months later; tended goal for the Canadiens 1910-25 without missing a game; Canadiens donated the Vézina Trophy to the NHL in his honour. 1907 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dial telephones first used at Sydney Mines; possibly first dial telephones in Canada. 1885 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet orders creation of Banff Hot Springs Reserve (today, Banff National Park); consisting of 10 square miles on the northern slopes of Sulphur Mountain surrounding three hot springs. 1812 BRITISH AND CANADIANS BEAT BACK AMERICANS Fort Erie Ontario - - British and Canadian militia drive back a second American attempt to cross Niagara River at Fort Erie; War of 1812. 1698 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698, soldier, Governor of New France, dies in the Château St-Louis at Quebec; born at St-Germain, France; 1672 obtained governorship of Canada; 1682 recalled to France after quarrel with Intendant Jacques Duchesneau; 1689 reinstated as governor when the Iroquois Confederacy were attacking New France; 1696 commanded punitive expedition to destroy Oneida and Onondaga villages and crops; replaced by Louis de Callières. Born on this day: 1966 - Benoit Hogue NHL right winger, was born at Repentigny, Quebec; selected as an underage junior by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round (35th pick overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Randy Wood to the Dallas Stars for Dave Gagner and a 1996 or 1997 sixth-round draft pick on Jan 28, 1996; signed with Tampa Bay Lightning as free agent, July 29, 1998. 1963 - Kevin Dineen NHL right winger, was born at Quebec City; selected as an underage junior by the Hartford Whalers in the third round (56th pick overall) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Hartford Whalers for future considerations on Dec. 28, 1995; plays with Carolina Hurricanes. 1949 - Paul Shaffer rock & roll keyboardist, actor, comic, band leader, was born at Thunder Bay, Ontario. Shaffer studied sociology at the University of Toronto while playing in bars and in jazz bands; 1972 musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell; part of the group Northern Lights who sang the song 'Tears Are Not Enough' which was on the We Are The World album.. He was a Saturday Night Live regular 1975-80 aka Don Kirshner; music director of the Blues Brothers; David Letterman's sidekick & bandleader of The World's Most Dangerous Band 1982-93 (NBC), then Paul Shaffer & the Party Boys of Rock 'n Roll / ...& the CBS Orchestra 1993-present. 1932 - Ray Perkins rhythm and blues Singer, of Crew Cuts. 1931 - Ramsay Cook historian, was born at Alameda, Saskatchewan. Cook studied at the universities of Manitoba, Queen's and Toronto; has taught at U of T and York; currently with U of T Press; works include John W. Dafoe and the Free Press (1963), Canada and the French Canadian Question (1966), The Maple Leaf Forever (1971) and The Regenerators (1985). 1929 - Ken Winters music critic, broadcaster, was born at Dauphin, Manitoba. Winters has been a baritone soloist, organist, choir director, composer and teacher; 1956-66 music and dance critic of the Winnipeg Free Press; 1966-71 at the Toronto Telegram; 1981 co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada with Helmut Kallmann and Gilles Potvin; has appeared on CBC Radio from 1956 to the present. 1909 - 1990 Lotta Hitschmanova humanitarian, was born at Prague, Czechoslovakia; founder, in July 1945, of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada (USC Canada), to help children in postwar Europe. 1901 - 1968 Carlyle Clare Agar helicopter pioneer, founder of Okanagan Air Service, was born at Lion's Head, Ontario; died at Victoria BC. Agar's family moved to Edmonton in 1905; 1940 joined the RCAF; awarded an Air Force Cross for work as a flight teacher; 1947 flew first commercial helicopter to Canada, spraying Okanagan orchards with insecticide; 1949 airlifted construction material, equipment and personnel to the Palisade Lake Dam site; 1951 airlifted material to Aluminium Co of Canada's Kemano dam and Kitimat smelter. 1884 - 1963 Cal Bricker dentist, track athlete, was born in Toronto. Bricker set a world long jump record of 24' 1.5" at the 1908 Olympic trials, a mark that stood for 27 years; took bronze at the 1908 Games in the long jump and placed fourth in the hop step and jump; 1912 won silver medal in hop step and jump at the Stockholm Olympics, just behind the US Olympic record breaker. 1851 - 1917 Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl diplomat, was born at St James's Palace, London; died at Howick, England. Grey served as Governor General of Canada, 1904-11; donated the Grey Cup for football supremacy; also inaugurated music and drama festivals. 1680 - 1740 Noël Levasseur sculptor, was born at Quebec City. Levasseur built the balustraded tabernacle at the chapel of the Hôpital-Général in Quebec (1722-23).
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| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 7:56 pm
November 29 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament backs UN resolution allowing the use of military force to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein will ignore UN deadline of Jan. 15 to withdraw, and Canadian units, including fighters, field hospitals and ships are sent to the Persian Gulf. 1983 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Kanchan Stott, age 37, reaches Halifax 207 days after leaving Victoria, BC; first cross-Canada run by a woman; longest recorded run (6688 km) by a woman . 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves $74 million plan to computerize air traffic control; will improve safety and ease airport congestion 1964 Los Angeles, California - Canadian actor Lorne Greene, Pa Cartwright on the NBC TV show Bonanza, has a # 1 Billboard pop hit with 'Ringo'; second Canadian to have a #1 pop hit in the United States, after Paul Anka. 1963 CANADA'S WORST AIR DISASTER Ste-Thérèse de Blainville Quebec - - Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew crashes in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport; there are no survivors; no satisfactory explanation to Canada's worst air disaster. 1947 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation removes ET IND IMP from the obverse legend of Canadian coins; means 'and Empress of India'. 1899 Cape Town South Africa - William Dillon Otter arrives in Cape Town with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, to fight in the Boer War. 1798 Charlottetown PEI - Legislature of Island of St. John votes to change name to Prince Edward Island; takes place June 3, 1799 1760 Detroit Michigan - Major Robert Rogers gets surrender of French at Fort Detroit; when the British refuse to lower prices on trade goods and furnish them with ammunition, the Native Americans grow restive, stirred up by the Delaware prophet and his disciple Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa. 1745 Saratoga, New York - French burn Saratoga and later Albany, to retaliate for the efforts of Mohawk Valley Indian trader William Johnson to get the Iroquois on the warpath; part of King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) 1744-1748. Born on this day: 1971 - Brad May NHL left winger, born at Toronto, Ontario; selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round (14th pick overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft; now with Vancouver Canucks. 1955 - Howie Mandel actor, comedian, talk show host, born at Toronto. Mandel has played in St. Elsewhere (Dr. Wayne Fiscus), Parenthood, Good Grief!, and as the cartoon voice of Bobby/his dad in Bobby's World's; and his own talk show. 1949 - 1983 Stan Rogers folksinger, songwriter, born in Hamilton, Ontario; dies at age 33 in a fire on an Air Canada jet at Cincinnati airport June 02, 1983. Rogers recorded 4 albums: Fogarty's Cove, Turnaround, Between the Breaks, Northwest Passage; two more compilations, From Fresh Water, and For the Family, were released after his death; hits include Barrett's Privateers, Make and Break Harbour, The Mary Ellen Carter, and Northwest Passage. 1941 - Denny Doherty singer, songwriter, actor, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Doherty started his first folk trio, The Colonials, later the Halifax Three, in 1959; signed a recording contract in New York, but the group broke up; joined Cass Elliot as a member of her Greenwich Village group, The Big Three; recruited Zal Yanovsky and John Sebastian and changed its name to The Mugwumps, a Beatles clone; group broke up without a contract, Sebastian and Yanovsky forming The Lovin' Spoonful and Cass and Doherty joining John and Michelle Phillips of the Journeymen to become The New Journeymen and then The Mamas and the Papas; 1965 moved to Los Angeles and started generating hits like California Dreaming, Monday Monday, Go Where you Wanna Go, I Saw Her Again Last Night, Words of Love, Dancing in the Street, Dedicated to the One I Love, and Creeque Alley; 6 top 5 hits from 1965 to 1967; albums included If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (#1), The Mamas The Papas (#4), Deliver (#2) and Farewell To The First Golden Era (#5); 1969 group split up; Doherty recorded two solo albums, then returned to New York; played the lead on Broadway in John Phillip's Man on The Moon; 1978 returned to Halifax to host Denny's Show for CBC TV; acted in Paul Ledoux's North Mountain Breakdown and at the Neptune Theatre; has performed in Fire, The Secret Garden and his hit children's TV show Theodore Tugboat; occasionally plays with the new Mamas and the Papas with Spanky McFarlane and McKenzie Phillips; Jan. 1998, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1932 - Bickert Edward jazz guitarist, born at Hochfeld, Manitoba. Bickert started playing professionally in 1955 in Toronto; has worked with Canadians Ron Collier, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Don Thompson and Moe Koffman, as well as US saxophonist Paul Desmond. 1918 - 1991 Robert Bell nuclear physicist, professor, born at Ladner, BC. Bell graduated from UBC in 1941; worked on radar development at the National Research Council during World War II; 1945 graduate studies at McGill; 1948 PhD in nuclear physics; joined Canadian Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River; 1952 taught at McGill; 1960 Ernest Rutherford Professor of Physics; 1970-79 Principal and Vice-Chancellor. 1912 - 1981 John Fisher broadcaster, public relations professional, 'Mr. Canada', born at Sackville, New Brunswick; died at Boynton Beach, Florida. Fisher graduated in law from Dalhousie University; reporter in Halifax; 1943-55 CBC 'roving reporter', broadcaster of 'John Fisher Reports' a 15 minute show heard 3 times a week on CBC; 1956 executive director of the Canadian Tourist Association; special assistant to Prime Minister Diefenbaker; Canada's chief Centennial Commissioner. 1906 - 1987 John Tully oceanographer, fisheries scientist, born at Brandon, Manitoba; died at Nanaimo, BC. Tully headed the Pacific Oceanographic Group in Nanaimo from 1946 to 1965. 1902 - 1995 Humphrey Carver architect, author, born at Birmingham, England; died in Ottawa. Carver came to Canada in 1930; 1931-37 landscape architecture with Carl Borgstrum; 1938-41 taught at the University of Toronto's School of Architecture; 1946-48 taught at U of T's School of Social Work; pioneered Regent Park North public-housing project; 1948-55 chaired Research Committee of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; 1962 author of Cities in the Suburbs. 1832 - 1916 William Macdonald Conservative politician. Macdonald was a Senator (British Columbia) for 43 years, 4 months; (Dec. 13, 1871 - Apr. 13, 1915). 1818 - 1880 George Brown newspaper proprietor, politician, born in Alloa, Scotland; raised in Edinburgh; dies in Toronto. Brown first immigrated with his father to New York in 1837; 1843 moved to Toronto to start the Banner, a newspaper for Upper Canada's Presbyterians; 1844 founded the Toronto Globe newspaper to promote Responsible Government; 1851 elected MLA for Kent; 1853 promoted representation by population, to give the more populous Upper Canada a majority of seats in the legislature; Jan 1857 reorganized Reform Party adopted 'Rep by Pop' and annexation of the Northwest; Aug 1858 formed government with A.A. Dorion and his Lower Canada Liberals; 1863 married Anne Nelson, daughter of Edinburgh publisher; elected MLA for South Oxford; June 30, 1864, he and fellow Reform Liberals Oliver Mowat and William MacDougall joined Macdonald, Galt and Cartier in the Great Coalition Ministry to carry Confederation; Dec 1865 resigned from coalition Cabinet but continued to support Confederation; 1867 defeated in first federal election; 1874 appointed Senator by Alexander Mackenzie; 1880 died of infection from a minor leg wound when a dismissed Globe employee, George Bennett, shot him in his office.
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| Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 6:07 am
November 30 1992 Montreal Quebec - Michael Ondaatje wins Governor-General's Award for English Fiction for novel The English Patient; won Britain's Booker Prize earlier. 1983 Ottawa Ontario - Close of the 1st Session of the 32nd Parliament, 1st Session; longest session on record, at 1326 days; 591 sitting days of the House of Commons, 329 sitting days of the Senate; from April 14, 1980. 1962 Cornwall Ontario - Chlorine gas escaping from railway tank car sends 100 residents of Cornwall to hospital. 1942 Ottawa Ontario - Stanley Knowles 1908-1997 sworn in as MP for Winnipeg North Centre; CCF/NDP Member for total of 37 years, 4 months, 21 days; to 31 March 1958; then June 18, 1962, to July 09, 1984. 1940 OTTAWA WINS ONLY 2-GAME GREY CUP Toronto Ontario - Ottawa Rough Riders beat Toronto Balmy Beach 8- 2 in first of two game total points Grey Cup competition; Ottawa wins second game and 28th Grey Cup 12-5; the only two-game series ever played. 1933 Montreal Quebec - Arthur William Currie dies; soldier, educator, born at Strathroy, Ontario, Dec. 05, 1875. Currie was appointed commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade on Sept. 29, 1914, commander of the 1st Canadian Division on Sept, 13, 1915 and commander of the Canadian Corps on June 09, 1917; led Canada's 100 days, beginning Aug 8 and lasting until 11 Nov 1918, the most successful of all Allied offensives during the war culminating in the victory at Vimy Ridge and the rout of the Germans eastward; served as Principal of McGill before his death. 1915 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government publishes World War I casualties reported so far: 539 officers and 13,017 men killed in action. 1824 Welland Ontario - Samuel Keefer starts construction of the Welland Canal, joining Lake Erie and Lake Ontario; engineer and President of the Welland Canal Company 1782 Paris France - US and Britain agree on preliminary peace terms to end American Revolutionary War. 1629 England - Claude de Saint-Etienne de La Tour awarded baronetcy of Nova Scotia when he changes his allegiance to England; prisoner in England since 1628. Born on this day: 1976 - Mike LeClerc NHL left winger, born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. In first season with Anaheim Mighty Ducks. 1915 - 2005 Henry Taube chemist, Nobel Laureate, was born at Neudorf, Saskatchewan. Taube studied under Spinks and Herzberg at the University of Saskatchewan, and did his PhD at the University of California in 1940. He has taught at Berkeley, Cornell and Stanford, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983 for his work in providing the theoretical base for electron transfer in inorganic chemistry. 1883 - 1962 James Garfield 'Jimmy' Gardiner teacher, farmer, politician, born in Hibbert Township, Ontario; dies in Lemberg, Saskatchewan. Gardiner studied at Manitoba College; 1914 Saskatchewan MLA; 1922-26 Cabinet minister, 1926-29, 1934-35 Liberal Premier of Saskatchewan; 1935-57 federal Minister of Agriculture (a record length for any Canadian to hold a cabinet portfolio); established Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration to help drought-stricken farmers; 1940-41 Minister of National War Services; 1948 ran for Liberal leadership but lost to Louis St-Laurent. 1874 - 1942 Lucy Maud Montgomery writer, born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island; died in Toronto. Montgomery was raised in Cavendish, and educated at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University. She wrote the best seller Anne of Green Gables in 1908, and seven sequels, as well as the Emily trilogy. She also wrote The Island Hymn, an ode to PEI, approximately 500 short stories and almost 450 poems. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald and moved near Uxbridge Ontario. At her death, she left over 5,000 pages of unpublished personal diaries, from 1889 to 1942, that are now being edited and published. 1872 - 1918 Dr. John McCrae physician, poet, was born at Guelph, Ontario; died of pneumonia in Boulogne, France. McCrae won a scholarship to the University of Toronto; had to take a year off due to severe asthma, which recurred throughout his life; 1894 attended U of T medical school; 1898 MD and gold medal; resident at Toronto General Hospital; 1899 interned at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with his brother Thomas, as associates of Dr. William Osler; 1899 led Guelph contingent, D Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, in the South African War; 1901 resumed studies in pathology at McGill; Governor's Fellow in pathology and resident assistant pathologist, with research work at McGill and autopsy duties at Montreal General Hospital; 1902 resident pathologist at Montreal General; 1904 associate in medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital; 1905 set up his own practice; 1909 a major contributor's to Osler's Modern Medicine, a 10-volume textbook; 1910 served as expedition physician when the Governor General, Lord Grey, journeyed by canoe from Norway House on Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay; 1912 co-authored a textbook on pathology; 1914 appointed brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with the rank of Major; April 1915 in the trenches at the Second Battle of Ypres, and treated the effects of poison gas; wrote the poem In Flanders Fields in memory of the death of one of his close friends; first published in England's Punch magazine December, 1915. 'In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row,/ That mark our place; and in the sky/ The larks, still bravely singing, fly/ Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago/ We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,/ Loved and were loved, and now we lie/ In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe:/ To you from failing hands we throw/ The torch; be yours to hold it high./ If ye break faith with us who die/ We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/ In Flanders fields.' 1916 Chief of Medical Services at No. 3 (McGill) Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Cammiers in France; February 1916 moved to ruins of the Jesuit College at Boulogne; 1917 troubled by severe asthma attacks and bronchitis; January 1918 moved to Number 14 British General Hospital for Officers, where he died of pneumonia and meningitis; 1919 In Flanders Fields and Other Poems published posthumously; because of the poem's popularity, the poppy was adopted as the Flower of Remembrance for the war dead of Britain, France, the US, Canada and other Commonwealth countries. 1849 - 1917 Lemuel John Tweedie lawyer, politician, was born at Chatham, New Brunswick. Tweedie served as New Brunswick's Surveyor General and Provincial Secretary before becoming Liberal premier in 1900; 1907 Lieutenant Governor until 1912. 1842 - 1919 Maria Hannah Norris Baptist missionary, born on at Canso, Nova Scotia; died in Toronto. Norris determined to serve as a missionary in Burma in 1869; June 18, 1870, founded the first Canadian women's missionary aid society, precursor of the Womens Baptist Missionary Union of the Maritimes. 1840 - 1928 Henry Birks silversmith, born in Montreal, Quebec; dies in Montreal; founder of the Henry Birks and Sons jewellery chain, that flourished in family hands for five generations until the 1980s. 1811 - 1928 Joseph Marshall d'Avray, 2nd Baron de Brett Maréchal educator, born at London, England; dies in Fredericton. d'Avray was educated at the French royal court; 1848 first master of the Fredericton Normal School; 1854-58 superintendent of education; 1852 Professor of Modern Languages at King's College, which became the University of New Brunswick in 1859.
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| Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 7:51 am
December 1 1995 Ottawa Ontario - Government introduces employment insurance reform measures in the Commons. 1994 Montreal Quebec - Lucien Bouchard struck by flesh-eating bacteria; doctors will be forced to amputate his left leg. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act to replace War Measures Act; continues outlawing of FLQ, lets police arrest without warrant. 1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists set off bomb on the campus of McGill University. 1969 Canada - Police forces bring in breathalyzer testing to take blood alcohol levels of suspected impaired drivers. 1926 ONTARIO SCRAPS PROHIBITION Ontario - Ontario goes wet as voters decide on government control of sale of liquor; rather than prohibition. 1920 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa declares that no immigrant can enter Canada with less than $250; plus $125 per family. 1891 Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, a YMCA trainer from Almonte, Ontario, nails two peach buckets up on opposite ends of the Springfield College gym and instructs his students to toss soccer balls into them, thus inventing the game of basketball. He had been looking for a new indoor phys-ed activity for the winter season. 1869 Pembina Manitoba - William McDougall enters Manitoba and formally takes possession of the North West Territory for Canada; commissions John Stoughton Dennis to raise a police force. He had not yet been told that John A. Macdonald was refusing to pay the HBC until peaceful possession could be guaranteed. Meanwhile, at Fort Garry, the Metis National Committee draws up list of rights as condition for joining Canada; Metis to elect own legislature, English & French official languages. 1680 Canada - Halley's Comet appears for three months; 'The Great Comet' visible until February. 1535 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier's men begin to experience the effects of scurvy, due to lack of vitamin C in their diet; the Iroquois will show them how to make cedar tea ('tisane d'anneda') as a cure. Born on this day: 1963 - Sam Reid keyboardist, songwriter, of Glass Tiger; originally called Tokyo the band toured Ontario the province for several years before changing their name to Glass Tiger and signing with Capitol; had #1 hit with 'Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)' from their 1986 debut album The Thin Red Line; 1988 released Diamond Sun album; 1991 released last album, Simple Mission 1962 - Sylvie Daigle speed skater, born at Sherbrooke, Quebec, the youngest of 5 daughters; started speed skating at age 8; studied physical education at l'Université de Sherbrooke, won Olympic medals at Calgary (gold medal in 1500 m; silver medals in the 1000 m and 3000 m), Albertville (gold medal in short track 3000m relay with Angela Cutrone, Eden Donatelli, Nathalie Lambert and Annie Perreault) and Lillehammer (silver medal in short track 3000m relay with Christine-Isabel Boudrias, Isabelle Charest, Angela Cutrone and Nathalie Lambert); studying medicine at l'Université de Montréal. 1935 - George Bowring writer, born at Penticton BC. Bowring served in the RCAF and studied at the University of British Columbia; taught in Calgary, London and Montreal before returning to Vancouver to teach at Simon Fraser University; 1964-74 founding editor of Imago; has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction and criticism; 1969 Governor General's Award for Poetry: The Gangs of Kosmos; 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction: Burning Water, a novel about George Vancouver. 1933 - Alex Campbell lawyer, politician,. was born at Summerside PEI. In 1966 Campbell was elected Premier of PEI at age 33, a post he held until 1978, when he retired to the bench. 1926 - {Allyn Ann McLerie film and TV actress, born at Grand-Mère, Quebec. 1913 - 1997 Len Norris cartoonist, born at London, England. Norris was editorial cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun from 1950 to 1978. 1898 - 1977 Stuart Sinclair Garson lawyer, politician, premier of Manitoba, born at St Catharines, Ontario; died at Winnipeg. Garson attended the Manitoba Law School; 1919-36 practised law at Ashern and Eriksdale; 1927-48 Liberal-Progressive MLA for Fairford; 1936-48 Provincial Treasurer; 1943-48 Premier; 1948-57 Liberal MP for Marquette; federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General. 1890 - 1932 Buffalo Child Long Lance writer, actor, impostor, was born Sylvester Long at Winston-Salem, North Carolina; died at Arcadia, California. Long Lance was of mixed Indian, white and possibly black ancestry; passing himself off as a Cherokee, Sylvester Long Lance, he was able to enter the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania; fought in the Canadian Army in World War I; settled in Calgary and wrote for several newspapers; 1922 adopted by the Blood as Buffalo Child; 1928 published fictitious autobiography, Long Lance, about growing up as a Blackfoot on the plains; 1930 starred in film The Silent Enemy, a feature film about northern Canadian Indians before European contact; 1932 committed suicide when rumours of his true origins began circulating. 1875 - 1929 Edmond-Joseph Massicotte artist, illustrator, born at Montreal; died at Sault-au-Récollet, Quebec. Massicotte produced images of French Canadian customs and traditions for periodicals such as Le Monde illustré and L'Almanach du peuple. 1802 - 1891 Armand de Charbonnel Sulpician priest, born near Monistrol-sur-Loire, France; died at Crest, France. Charbonnel entered the Society of St-Sulpice; 1839-47 priest in Montreal; 1850-60 Roman Catholic bishop of Toronto; fought for separate education for Catholics, and brought Basilian Fathers, Christian Brothers and Sisters of St Joseph to Toronto; established St Michael's College; instituted the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Toronto Savings Bank; used funds from his noble estate in France to eliminate the diocesan debt and complete St Michael's Cathedral. 1749 - 1825 Jacob Mountain first Anglican bishop of Quebec, born at Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, England; died at Quebec City. Mountain studied at Cambridge; 1793 appointed bishop of the new diocese of Quebec; built 60 churches, including a stone cathedral in Quebec City; established 35 missions; built clergy from 9 to 60; obtained charter for McGill University; his son George was bishop of Montreal and third bishop of Quebec.
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December 2 1989 Winnipeg Manitoba - Audrey McLaughlin elected national leader of the NDP, succeeding Ed Broadbent. NDP also retract support of Meech Lake Accord. McLaughlin won Yukon seat in 1987 by-election; first New Democrat MP elected in the Yukon; 1988 reelected, NDP caucus chair. 1985 Quebec - Robert Bourassa, with the slogan 'la force de l'expérience', leads the Liberals back to power in Quebec after 9 years of PQ rule, defeating René Lévesque's successor Pierre-Marc Johnson with 56% of the vote and 99 seats; loses his own riding of Bertrand, but subsequently elected (Jan. 20) in the riding of St Laurent; puts forward list of five demands as Quebec's conditions for signing the Constitution. Bourassa was re-elected leader of the Liberals in the fall of 1983, replacing Claude Ryan. 1971 Oslo Norway - Canada signs fishing and sealing agreements with Norway; end of Norway's right to fish within Canada; seal harvest split between Canada and Norway. 1969 Copenhagen Denmark - Canada, US, Denmark and USSR set up permanent secretariat to deal with problems of the Inuit. 1949 London England - British Parliament gives Canada the power to make changes to the British North America Act 1867. 1942 Germany - Canadian bomber crew get key data on German airborne radar; prelude to big bomber offensive; return badly shot up. 1933 NEWFOUNDLAND GOES BUST St. John's Newfoundland- Newfoundland gives up self-governing Dominion status and suspends constitution; caused by disastrous financial situation. 1907 Los Angeles, California - Tommy Burns from Hanover, Ontario, KOs Gunner Moir to retain the world heavyweight boxing title. Burns was the smallest champion ever, at only 162 lbs and 5'7"; captured the crown from Marvin Hart Feb. 23, 1906. 1837 Toronto Ontario - John Rolph advances date of Upper Canada coup to December 4, causes confusion among the rebels. 1615 Quebec Quebec - Father Jean Dolbeau departs from Quebec to minister to the Montagnais. Born on this day: 1972 - Sergei Zholtok NHL Centre, was born at Riga, Latvia; selected by the Boston Bruins in the third round (56th pick overall) of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft; 1996 signed as a free agent by the Ottawa Senators; picked up by Montreal Canadiens Sept. 1998. 1966 - Kelly Buchberger NHL right winger, was born at Langenburg, Saskatchewan; selected as an underage junior by the Edmonton Oilers in the ninth round (188th pick overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. 1963 - Ron Sutter NHL centre, was born at Viking, Alberta; selected as an underage junior by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round (fourth pick overall) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Quebec Nordiques with 1994 first-round draft pick (Brett Lindros) to the New York Islanders for Uwe Krupp and 1994 first-round draft pick (Wade Belak) on June 28, 1994; currently with San Jose Sharks. One of the five Sutter brothers; three have served as NHL team captains (Brian, St. Louis, 1979-88; Darryl, Chicago, 1982-87 and Brent, Islanders, 1987-91); Duane and Brent also played for the Islanders. 1939 - Francis Fox lawyer, politician, was born at Montreal. Fox studied at Jean-de-Brébeuf College and the universities of Montreal, Harvard and Oxford; 1972 entered politics as a Liberal; served in Trudeau cabinets as Solicitor General, Secretary of State and Minister of Communications; helped create Telefilm Canada; 1994 sat on Ottawa's Information Highway Task Force. 1934 - Bill McCreary NHL referee; formerly played for New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and St. Louis Blues. 1915 - 1972 Louis-Marcel Raymond botanist, was born at St-Jean, Quebec; died at Montreal. Raymond was educated at l'Université de Montréal; 1943 joined Brother Marie-Victorin at the Jardin Botanique; 1970 retired at age 54; wrote over 240 scientific works and another 500 literary articles on botany and history. 1890 - 1985 George Stewart engineer, business executive, was born at Winnipeg; died at Toronto. Stewart studied engineering from McGill; joined Imperial Oil at its Sarnia, Ontario, refinery as a draughtsman; 1918 built Imperial refinery at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; 1931 superintendent of Sarnia refinery; 1934 GM of refining operations; 1944-55 served as a director, president and chairman of Esso. 1888 - 1974 M. J. Coldwell teacher, politician, CCF founder, was born at Seaton, England; died in Ottawa. Coldwell emigrated to Canada as a teacher in 1910; 1924-34 leader in teachers' organizations and Regina alderman; 1932 leader of the Saskatchewan provincial Farmer-Labour Party; 1934 defeated in quest for seat; 1935-58 MP for Rosetown-Biggar; 1939 disagreed with leader JS Woodsworth, a pacifist, on the declaration of war; 1942-62 succeeded Woodsworth as CCF leader, heading the party in 5 general elections; 1945 member of the Canadian delegation at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco. 1811 - 1885 Jean-Charles Chapais businessman, politician, Father of Confederation, was born at Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec; died at Ottawa. A merchant from St-Denis de Kamouraska, Chapais served as MLA for Kamouraska 1851-67; 1867 elected both provincially and federally; lost both seats due to voting irregularities, but won Champlain riding by acclamation; 1867-69 Minister of Agriculture; 1868 appointed to the Senate; 1869-73 Receiver General.
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| Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 2:41 pm
December 3 1996 Paris France - Hélène Viel of Montreal killed in a terrorist attack in the Paris Metro; an innocent bystander. 1991 Ottawa Ontario - Governor-General's Awards: Rohinton Mistry for English Fiction for first novel 'Such a Long Journey'; Bernard Arcand for French non-fiction for 'Le Jaguar et le tamanoir'; Andre Brochu for French Fiction for novel 'La Croix du Nord'; from Ville Mont-Royal; Gilbert Dupuis for French drama for 'Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri'; Madeleine Gagnon for French poetry for 'Chant pour un Québec lointain'; Robert Hunter, Robert Calihoo for English non-fiction for 'Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers his Unsuspected Past'; Joan MacLeod for English drama for book 'Amigo's Blue Guitar'; Don McKay for English poetry for book 'Night Field'. 1991 Kapuskasing Ontario - Employees acquire 52% of Spruce Falls pulp & paper mill; cut workforce to 800, take pay cut; residents own 7%; Tembec 41%. 1985 Quebec Quebec - Old Quebec classified as a United Nations (UNESCO) World Heritage Site. 1978 Montreal Quebec - Former FLQ terrorists Jacques Cossette and Micheline Lanctôt return from exile in Cuba and France. 1960 CANADA GETS TWO MILLIONTH POST-WAR IMMIGRANT Quebec Quebec - - Annette Toft arrives at Quebec City from Denmark; Canada's 2,000,000th immigrant since 1945. 1960 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of Edmonton International Airport, Canada's largest airport. 1915 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Philippe Beaubien appointed to the Senate as a Conservative; serves for 33 years, 1 month and 14 days, until his death Jan 17, 1949. 1878 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian Pacific Railway connects Winnipeg with Emerson, Minnesota, and the outside world; Pembina branch connects with St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. 1838 Windsor Ontario - 400 republicans and Canadian exiles cross from Detroit and attack Windsor. 1653 Canso Nova Scotia - Fur trader Nicolas Denys purchases rights to islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from Cap Canseau to Cap des Rosiers on Gaspé; gets royal mining concession; becomes Lord Proprietor and Governor of Cape Breton. Born on this day: 1970 - Laura Schuler hockey forward, was born at Scarborough, Ontario; plays for the University of Toronto Blues and Newtonbrook Panthers; 1997 member of the gold medal team at the World Championship in Kitchener, Ontario. 1955 - Melody Anderson TV and soap actor, was born at Edmonton, Alberta. Anderson has acted in Manimal, as Neely in Jake & the Fatman, and as Natalie Dillon in All My Children. 1930 - Yves Trudeau sculptor, was born at Montreal. Trudeau studied at the École des beaux-arts; 1950s produced stylized bronze spiral figures; 1960s moved into iron and wood organic creations; 1970s became more geometrical and abstract; 1984 produced a large sculpture of a ship under full sail to mark the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's landing at Gaspé. 1922 - Eli Mandel poet, was born at Estavan, Saskatchewan, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Mandel has taught English and creative writing at the universities of Alberta, Victoria, Toronto and York; 1967 won the Governor General's Award for his collection An Idiot Joy. 1919 - 1994 Charles Lynch journalist, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but came to Canada at the age of two weeks; died in Ottawa. Lynch grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick; 1936 started his career in journalism with the Saint John Citizen at age 17; 1943 war correspondent for Reuters; 1944 posted to London; covered D-Day landings and the Nuremberg War Trials. He became head of Southam News, and wrote a daily column on national affairs for 20 years. 1917 - 2004Miriam Waddington poet, social worker, professor, born Miriam Dworkin at Winnipeg; Waddington studied at the University of Toronto; 1945 awarded MSW from the University of Pennsylvania; 1964 English professor at York University; books of poetry include Green World (1945), The Season's Lovers (1958), The Glass Trumpet (1966), The Price of Gold (1976), The Visitants (1981) and Collected Poems (1986). 1890 - 1986 Florence Inman Senator (Prince Edward Island) for 30 years, 10 months, 3 days; from July 28, 1955 until her death May 31, 1986. 1878 - 1970 John Ferris Liberal Senator (British Columbia) for 33 years, 1 month, 16 days; from Jan 09, 1937 until his death Feb. 25, 1970. 1872 - 1962 Arthur Hardy Liberal Senator (Ontario) for 40 years, l month, 3 days; from Feb. 10 1922 until his death March 13, 1962. 1867 - 1933 William Bowser lawyer, politician, premier of BC, was born at Rexton, New Brunswick; died at Vancouver. Bowser graduated from Dalhousie in law; 1891 set up practice in Vancouver; 1903-24 Conservative MLA; 1907 BC Attorney General; Dec. 15, 1915 succeeded McBride as Premier, but the divided party defeated at the polls; 1916-24 Leader of the Opposition; died while leading an independent nonpartisan group to find ways of dealing with the Depression. 1843 - 1929 William Otter soldier, was born in Clinton, Ontario; died in Toronto. Otter fought in the Canadian militia against the Fenians at the battle of Ridgeway in 1866; 1883 joined the permanent force; 1885 commanded the Battleford column in the North West Rebellion; 1899 commanded the first Canadian contingent in the Boer War; 1908 first Canadian-born chief of the general staff; 1910-12 Inspector General of the Canadian Militia; 1914 in charge of enemy internment in World War I; 1922 second Canadian soldier, after Arthur Currie, to reach the rank of general.
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| Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 3:04 pm
December 4 1996 Scottsdale Arizona - Wilf Carter dies at age 91; born in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, son of a Baptist minister; Canadian country music legend. 1990 Toronto Ontario - CTV show ENG, a newsroom drama, wins 1990 Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series; 'Love and Hate' wins for best dramatic mini series (Thatcher murder saga); Jackie Burroughs wins for best lead actress in a continuing dramatic role; Art Hindle wins for best lead actor in continuing role; Frank Mankiewicz wins for best director in miniseries; for Love and Hate; Michelle St. John wins for best lead actress in a miniseries; Kenneth Welsh wins for best lead actor (Love and Hate); Where The Spirit Lives wins for best TV movie; about native residential schools; awarded by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Arts. 1973 USA - Alfred Carl Fuller dies at age 88; born in Nova Scotia; manufacturer, marketer, founder of the Fuller Brush Co. 1970 Montreal Quebec - British Trade Commissioner James Cross finally released in return for safe passage to Cuba for his FLQ kidnappers; three weeks later, Pierre Laporte's suspected kidnappers, Paul and Jacques Rose and Francis Simard, are arrested south of Montreal. 1967 Cap-de-la-Madeleine Quebec - FLQ terrorists steal $9,000 worth of firearms and munitions from a store in Cap-de-la-Madeleine. 1950 Chinnampo Korea - Royal Canadian Navy Captain J.V. Brock in command of the six UN destroyers of Task Element, receives an order to help prepare for a withdrawal from Inchon; in HMCS Cayuga, Brock leads his destroyers - three Canadian ships, two Australian and one American - 32 km up the narrow Taedong River at night to Chinnampo, the port of Pyongyang; the channel is seeded with North Korean mines and two ships run aground and turn back for repairs; Dec. 05, at Chinnampo, the force guards the evacuating troops against enemy attack, then starts shelling the port to destroy railway lines, docks and huge supplies of strategic materials which had to be left behind; Dec. 06 all ships clear of the river. 1909 U of T WINS FIRST GREY CUP GAME Toronto Ontario - The University of Toronto beats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6, in the 1st Grey Cup game, before 3,807 fans. The Governor General, Earl Grey, donated the trophy for the Canadian football championship. Three years later, the first western team to play in the championship was the Edmonton Eskimos, of the Western Canada Rugby Football Union. College teams stopped competing in 1936. 1902 Toronto Ontario - Ontario goes dry, brings in prohibition by 199,749 votes; with 103,542 opposed; under Ontario Liquor Referendum Act 1837 Toronto Ontario - John Rolph & Samuel Lount assemble rebel force at Montgomery's Tavern on Yonge Street in Hogg's Hollow. 1674 Chicago Illinois - Jacques Marquette reaches Chicago River and winters on the site of Chicago, a name the local Indians give to a variety of wild onion. Born on this day: 1972 - Jassen Cullimore NHL defenseman, was born at Simcoe, Ontario; selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the second round (29th pick overall) of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft; plays with the Tampa Bay Lightning. 1945 - Roberta Lynn Bondar neurobiologist, astronaut, was born at Sault St. Marie, Ontario. Bondar was the first Canadian woman astronaut in space. After a career as a neurobiologist, she joined the Canadian Space Program in 1983 and trained with NASA in Houston for three years before serving on the space shuttle Discovery as payload specialist on the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission in January, 1992. She was appointed Science Advisor to the Chrétien government. 1944 - Anna McGarrigle singer, songwriter, was born at Montreal. McGarrigle and her sister Kate started playing in coffee houses and colleges in the early 1960s; Kate moved to New York in 1970, but they reunited in 1975; albums include Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1976), Dancer With Bruised Knees (1977), Pronto Monto (1978), French Record - Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse (1981), Love Over and Over (1982), Heartbeats Accelerating (1990); Matapedia (1996) and The McGarrigle Hour (1998); Linda Ronstadt recorded her song 'Heart Like a Wheel', as well as Kate's '(Talk to Me of) Mendocino'; the duo have been called 'the finest singer-songwriter team ever to go ignored by the American public' (J. D. Considine in the Rolling Stone Album Guide). 1937 - Donnelly Rhodes movie and TV actor, was born at Winnipeg Manitoba. Rhodes studied at the Manitoba Theatre Center and was a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School in Montreal. After his stage debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, he worked as a bit player at Universal Pictures - he was a gunslinger in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He also played the suave Phillip Chancellor Sr. on the TV soap The Young and the Restless (1973-76), then landed the role of veterinarian Dr. Grant Roberts on the Vancouver-based family series Danger Bay (1984). 1931 - Alex Delvecchio NHL centre, was born at Fort William, Ontario. Delvecchio played for the Oshawa Generals then moved to the Detroit Red Wings, where he played for 24 seasons; 1962-1973 Captain; 1952, 1954 and 1955 Stanley Cup; 1959, 1966, 1969 Lady Bing Trophy winner, with only 383 regular-season penalty minutes in his career; had total 486 goals and 825 assists in 1548 games, plus 35 goals and 69 assists in playoffs; retired Nov. 09, 1973. 1913 - 1978 Mark Robson movie actor, director, writer, producer, was born at Montreal; died in Los Angeles. Robson directed a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s. 1835 - 1912 Richard Cartwright financier, politician, was born at Kingston, Ontario, the grandson of loyalist Richard Cartwright. Cartwright was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; continued his family interests in finance, transport, real estate, mining and manufacturing; 1863-1904 MLA and MP for Kingston and other ridings; 1869 broke with Macdonald government and sat as an independent; 1873 joined the Liberal Party; 1873-78 Mackenzie's Minister of Finance; 1896-1911 Laurier's Minister of Trade and Commerce; 1904-12 Senator. 1800 - 1883 William Fenwick Williams soldier, was born at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia; died at London, England. Williams entered the British Army as a young man; 1855 led the heroic defence of Kars against Russia during the Crimean War while on loan to the Turkish army; 1859-65, Commander in Chief in BNA; prepared defenses against possible US invasion during the American Civil War; 1865-67 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
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| Monday, December 05, 2005 - 1:15 pm
December 5 1996 Paris France - Quebec singer Robert Charlebois receives the Grande médaille de la chanson. 1976 Oxford England - The first 4 Canadian women Rhodes Scholars are chosen. 1970 Toronto Ontario - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson Trophy are all stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame; later recovered. 1940 Britain - Torpedoed Canadian destroyer 'Saguenay' limps into British port after taking a hit from a German torpedo; first Canadian warship torpedoed. 1924 Calgary Alberta - Calgary Police Chief Ritchie says his police cannot stop the Ku Klux Klan from recruiting in Calgary, if no laws are broken. 1902 WIRELESS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Glace Bay, Nova Scotia - Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first readable wireless radio signals 3,200 km across the Atlantic from his station at Glace Bay, Cape Breton to Poldhu in Cornwall, England. Two years earlier, he had sent a message across the English Channel; on Dec. 12, 1901, he had sent the first transatlantic wireless test signal - the letter 'S' repeated over and over - from Poldhu to his assistant Percy Wright Paget flying a box kite trailing a 121 metre long copper wire antenna on Signal Hill, St. John's. Nfld. The Canadian government gave Marconi $80 000 to set up wireless operations at Glace Bay, after nervous Newfoundland undersea cable companies, claiming a monopoly on transatlantic messages, booted him off the island. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada Ltd. - today's Canadian Marconi Company - was chartered in 1902. 1893 Toronto Ontario - F. B. Featherstonhaugh buys first electric car in Toronto; built by Dickson Cartage Works. 1892 Ottawa Ontario - John Sparrow David Thompson sworn in as Prime Minister; former Nova Scotia Premier and Justice, Supreme Court of Nova Scotia ; serves until his death at Windsor Castle, Dec. 12, 1894. 1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie leads 800 rebels 8 km down Yonge Street from Montgomery's Tavern to Toronto, where they are met by Dr. John Rolph and Robert Baldwin; a group led by Samuel Lount is dispersed by a picket at Gallow's Hill below St. Clair, and the rebels flee in disorder; two days later they are routed by the militia. 1700 Montreal Quebec - Severe influenza epidemic hits the people of Montreal. Born on this day: 1970 - Kevin Haller NHL defenseman, was born at Trochu, Alberta; selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round (14th pick overall) of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Hartford Whalers for Paul Coffey on Dec. 15, 1996; playing with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. 1966 - Bruce Deacon marathoner, school teacher, was born at Ottawa, Ontario. Deacon's personal best time of 2:13:35 was set at the 1994 London Marathon; he ran 39th at the 1996 Olympic Games (2:19:56). 1946 - Andy Kim pop singer, songwriter. Kim wrote the Neil Diamond hit Rock Me Gently, and co-wrote Sugar Sugar. 1914 - Frank Thurston aeronautical engineer, was born at Chicago, Illinois. Thurston's British parents took him to England as a child; 1937 joined the National Physical Laboratory; 1947 recruited by the National Research Council to help develop Canada's aircraft industry; 1959 director of the National Aeronautical Establishment after cancellation of the Avro Arrow project; engineered low-speed aerodynamics and STOL projects, chaired NATO's Advisory Group for Aerospace R&D; organized development of the Canadarm used by NASA's Space Shuttle. 1912 - 1990 Gérard Dion priest, sociology professor, was born at Ste-Cécile de Frontenac, Quebec; died in Quebec City. Dion studied at the Collège de Lévis; 1939 ordained with degree in theology from Laval; 1943 taught sociology at Laval; 1946 assistant director of new Department of Industrial Relations; 1957-63 Director of the Department; writings include 'L'Immoralité politique dans la province de Québec' (with Father Louis O'Neill) and the 'Dictionnaire canadien des relations du travail' (1976). 1904 - 1973 Desmond Burke soldier, sharpshooter. Burke won the King's Prize at Bisley at age 24; wrote technical books on the sport of rifle shooting. 1899 - 1971 Brian Timmis football player, coach. Timmis helped Hamilton Tigers win three Grey Cups in 1928, 1929 and 1932; later coached Hamilton to the 1934 Grey Cup. 1885 - 1980 Ernest Cormier architect, engineer, was born at Montreal. Cormier studied engineering from École Polytechnique, Montréal and architecture at the École des beaux-arts in Paris from 1908-14; works include the Palais de Justice, Montréal (1920); l'Université de Montréal (1924-50); his Montreal house (1418 Avenue des Pins, 1930-31); the Supreme Court building in Ottawa; St Michael's College, Toronto. 1875 - 1933 Arthur Currie businessman, soldier, the victor of Vimy Ridge, was born at Napperton, Ontario; dies in Montreal. A militia officer from Victoria BC, Currie was appointed first Canadian commander, in 1917, of Canada's overseas forces in World War I, and was Canada's first General. He ended his career as Chancellor of McGill University. 1829 - 1908 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière lawyer, politician, was born at Épernay, France; died in Quebec City. Joly de Lotbinière served as the member for Lotbinière in the Assembly of the Province of Canada 1861-67; 1867-85 Quebec MLA Lotbinière; 1874-79 replaced Boucher de Boucherville as Premier of Quebec until defeat; 1867-74 and 1896-1900 MP Lotbinière; 1896-1900 Laurier's Minister of Inland Revenue; 1900-06 Lieutenant Governor of BC.
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| Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 8:18 am
December 6 1995 Ottawa Ontario - New firearms legislation comes into force on the anniversary of the Montreal massacre; bans imports of automatic assault weapons; new rules and regulations for owning a firearm include a waiting period to buy guns, safe-storage rules, and full registration in stages. 1994 Quebec Quebec - Premier Jacques Parizeau tables draft bill declaring Quebec a sovereign country with Canadian economic association; sets terms for the referendum debate; PQ government also sets up regional commissions, invites Quebec people to contribute their ideas for a new Quebec society; 50,000 people will respond, but the Quebec Liberal Party boycotts the hearings. 1989 Montreal Quebec - Marc Lepine, age 25, armed with a Sturm Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle, knives and bandoliers of ammunitions, kills 14 women engineering students in a classroom at the École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, wounds 13 others, shouting 'You're all a bunch of feminists'; then turns the gun on himself. The dead: Genevieve Bergeron, 21: Hélène Colgan, 23; Nathalie Croteau, 23; Barbara Daigneault, 22; Anne-Marie Edward, 21; Maud Haviernick, 29; Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31; Maryse Laganière, 25; Maryse Leclair, 23; Anne-Marie Lemay, 22; Sonia Pelletier, 28; Michèle Richard, 21; Annie St-Arneault, 23; Annie Turcotte, 21. 1928 Ottawa Ontario - John Aird appointed by Mackenzie King to chair the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting, and to discuss the merits of public broadcasting; need to stop privately owned Canadian stations falling into American hands; also need to provide alternative to US programming flooding across the border; assisted by Charles Bowman, editor of the Ottawa Citizen; submits report Sept. 11, 1929; recommends creation of a national broadcasting company like Britain's BBC, to develop a service capable of 'fostering a national spirit and interpreting national citizenship'. 1921 CANADIAN WOMEN EXERCISE FIRST FEDERAL VOTE Canada - Agnes McPhail is elected to the House of Commons for the United Farmers of Ontario in the first election in which all Canadian women exercise their right to vote (wives of soldiers could vote during World War I); a country schoolteacher, she is Canada's first female MP. Mackenzie King wins the election with 40.7% of popular vote; gets 116 seats to 50 for Arthur Meighen's Conservatives, 64 for Progressives, 5 others; Meighen loses own seat in Portage La Prairie; CCF member J. S. Woodsworth 1874-1942 is the first socialist elected to the House of Commons. 1917 Halifax Nova Scotia - Downtown Halifax is blown to pieces as a French munitions freighter, the Mont Blanc, coming through the Narrows carrying 2,300 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 35 tons of high octane gasoline, and 10 tons of gun cotton, collides with the Belgium steamship Imo, outbound to New York City, at 8:45 am. The Mont Blanc is propelled towards the shore by the collision, its picric acid ablaze, and the crew abandon ship, after failing to alert the harbour of the peril. Minutes later the blazing ship brushes by a pier, setting it ablaze. The Halifax Fire Department respond quickly, and are just positioning their engine up to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc explodes at 9:05 am in a blinding white flash. The blast levels downtown Halifax, killing 2,000, injuring over 8,000, leaving 10,000 homeless, and doing $50 million damage. The shock wave shatters windows at Truro, 100 km away, and the sound can be heard in Charlottetown. A recent theory suggests that this, the greatest manmade explosion before the atomic bomb, may have been due to enemy sabotage. 1911 Calgary Alberta - Calgary judge convicts two dairy delivery men for theft after they removed a rival firm's milk bottles from doorsteps and milk chutes, to get annoyed customers to switch companies. 1907 Baddeck, Nova Scotia - Thomas Selfridge takes first recorded flight in Canada of a heavier-than-air machine; he is lifted into the air in a tetrahedral kite, Cygnet I, designed by the Aerial Experimental Association (AEA) with funding from Alexander Graham Bell's wife Mabel; the kite crashes, but Selfridge is not seriously injured. 1900 Lévis Quebec - Quebec parliamentary reporter Alphonse Desjardins opens the first credit union in North America; goals are to fight usury, improve the living conditions of workers, let French Canadians build savings and slow the exodus to US mill towns; the first branch is what is today les Caisses populaires Desjardins. 1752 Halifax, Nova Scotia - John Bushell publishes 8-page pamphlet for government; first book published in Canada. 1678 Niagara Ontario - François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénélon arrives at Niagara River with Hennepin from Fort Frontenac; they observe Niagara Falls the next day. Born on this day: 1933 - Dennis Burton painter, born at Lethbridge, Alberta. Burton studied at Ontario College of Art 1952-56; explored erotic themes in such works as Smokeshop Sex Marauder, 1960, and Garterbeltmania, 1965. 1921 - 1944 George 'Buzz' Beurling Canada's top World War II air ace with 31 1/2 kills, was born on the Miramachi, and brought up in Verdun Quebec. A high school dropout, Beurling hung around airports until he learned to fly, failed to join the RCAF, but got into the RAF, where he shoots down 15 planes; June 09 1942, posted to Malta with 249 Squadron, RAF; shoots down 27 German planes in a two week period, earning him the DFC, DSO, DFM and Bar; Oct. 14, 1942 wounded and shot down over Malta; transferred to the RCAF as a flight lieutenant, with 403 and 412 Squadrons; Oct. 1944 rebels against service discipline and released from RCAF; 1948 joins Israeli Air Force; May 20, 1948 killed at age 26 when the Norseman plane he is piloting to Palestine for the Israeli underground army Haganah blows up during a landing at Urbe airport in Rome; buried in Rome's English cemetery between the graves of Keats and Shelley, but two years later the grateful state of Israel exhumes his body, lays him in state in Haifa, and buries him at the base of Mount Carmel, near the cave of Elijah the Prophet. 1907 - 1984 York Wilson painter, born at Toronto. Wilson studied commercial art at Central Tech; 1926 worked at Brigden's engraving house in Toronto; 1939 exhibited with the Canadian Group of Painters at the NY World's Fair; 1950 trip to Mexico stimulated him to paint murals; known for murals at McGill University Library (1954), and Toronto's Imperial Oil Building (1957) and O'Keefe Centre. 1900 - 1989 King Gordon journalist, socialist, born at Winnipeg, the son of writer Ralph Connor (pen name of Charles Gordon); died at Ottawa. Gordon studied at the universities of Manitoba, Oxford and Union Theological Seminary; founding member of Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, League for Social Reconstruction and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF); 1944-47 editor of The Nation; 1947 joined the UN, serving in Korea, the Middle East and the Congo; 1962 taught international relations at the universities of Alberta and Ottawa; later Chairman of CUSO. 1891 - 1976 Mabel 'Timmie' Timlin economist, professor, born at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; died at Saskatoon. Timlin came to Saskatoon in 1917; 1921-29 studied at the University of Saskatchewan as a secretary while taking classes; 1940 PhD at the University of Washington; 1950 Professor at U of S; works include Keynesian Economics (1942), Does Canada Need More People? (1951) and The Social Sciences in Canada: Two Studies (1968), with Albert Faucher. 1843 - 1920 William Sullivan journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, born at Hope River, PEI; died at Memramcook, NB. Sullivan worked for the Charlottetown Herald; 1872 elected to PEI Assembly; 1877 Leader of the Opposition; 1879-89 Conservative Premier; 1889 Chief Justice of PEI. 1822 - 1887 David Stirling architect, was born at Galashiels, Scotland; died at Charlottetown. Stirling immigrated to St John's, Nfld. in 1847 to help rebuild the town after the 1846 fire; 1872 appointed Dominion Architect for federal works in Nova Scotia; buildings include Pictou County Court House (1855), the Halifax Club, Hensley Chapel, King's College, Windsor (1877, with W.C. Harris), and the Kirk of St James, Charlottetown. 1803 - 1885 Susanna Moodie author, pioneer, born at Stowe House, Suffolk, England; died in Toronto. Moodie came from a family of writers. In 1831 she and her husband Lt. J.W.D. Moodie and their 2 sons and 5 daughters emigrated to Upper Canada to take a military land grant, and settled at Lakefield, north of Peterborough, Ontario. Her memoir of that time, Roughing It In the Bush (1852), is a Canadian literary classic.
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