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September 11

1995
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau announces when the next referendum will be held: the day before Halloween - a year less a day after being elected.

1995
Chicago Illinois - Canadian dollar plunges as polls show the Yes side in the lead in Quebec's referendum campaign on sovereignty.

1987
Santa Monica, California - Lorne Greene (1915-1987) dies at age 72. Born in Toronto, actor Greene was best known for his role as Pa Ben Cartwright in the American TV series Bonanza. Greene started his rise to fame as a CBC radio newscaster (he was known as the Voice of Doom for his wartime broadcasts). After his move to Hollywood, he starred in Sailor of Fortune, Roots (John), Battlestar Galactica (Commander Adama) and as narrator of the Last of the Wild.

1972
Munich Germany - Munich Summer Olympics end; Canada takes home two silver medals in Swimming: 100-metre butterfly: Bruce Robertson and 400-metre individual medley: Leslie Cliff; plus three bronzes, two in swimming: 200-metre backstroke: Donna-Marie Gurr and 4x100-metre medley relay: Erik Fish, Robert Kasting, William Mahoney, Bruce Robertson; one in Yachting - Soling: Paul Cote, John Ekels, David Miller.

1960
Rome Italy - 17th Olympic games close in Rome; Canada takes home only one medal, a silver in Rowing Eights: Donald Arnold, Walter d'Hondt, Nelson Kuhn, John Lecky, Lorne Loomer, William McKerlich, Archie MacKinnon, Glen Mervyn, Sohen Biln.

1958
Lancieux France - Robert Service 1874-1958 dies. The Bard of the Klondike came to Canada at age 20, 'for I was not satisfied with a humdrum existence.' After working with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria, he was transferred to the Whitehorse branch in 1905, and then to Dawson City where wrote his famous poems, The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. Service worked as an ambulance driver and newspaper correspondent during World War I.

1944
Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King hosts US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill at the second Quebec Conference held in the Chateau Frontenac; to Sept. 16.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Government orders all Canadian women, single and married, born between 1918 and 1922, to register with the Unemployment Insurance Commission; due to critical shortage of labour in wartime; many volunteer to help with the harvest.

1888 LORD STANLEY'S VOICE PRESERVED
Toronto Ontario - Governor-General Lord Stanley records an address to the President of the United States onto an Edison phonograph cylinder. This is the world's oldest known sound preserved on a record.

1784
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Walter Patterson annexes PEI to Nova Scotia; Lieutenant-Governor until July 26, 1786.


Born on this day:

1943 - Raymond Villeneuve
political organizer, was born at Quebec. Villeneuve was founding member of the FLQ (Front de liberation Quebecois).

1920 - 2002 Dalton Camp
political organizer, advertising executive, columnist, radio commentator was born at Woodstock, New Brunswick. Camp was an early supporter of Robert Stanfield, and assisted his election as Nova Scotia Premier in 1956, and as national PC leadership in 1967, where he helped engineer the downfall of John Diefenbaker.

1917 - 1981 Robert Trelford McKenzie
political scientist and BBC television commentator, was born at Vancouver, BC; died in London England. McKenzie was known for his use of the word 'swingometer' on British TV to describe electoral shifts.

1862 - 1935 Julian Hedworth George, Lord Byng of Vimy
12th Governor-General of Canada 1921-26; born at Wrotham Park, England; dies in Thorpe-le-Soken England. Field Marshall Byng was a British aristocrat and cavalry officer who commanded the Canadian Corps from 1916 on, but he wisely left the principal soldiering at Vimy Ridge to Sir Arthur Currie and his artillery professionals. As Governor-General, he refused Mackenzie King's request to dissolve Parliament on a vote of confidence, precipitating the King-Byng affair. In 1925, his wife Evelyn donated the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship and excellence to the National Hockey League.


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September 12

1994 PQ BACK IN POWER
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau wins Quebec election for Parti Quebecois, defeating Daniel Johnson's Liberals; wins 77 of the 125 seats, up from 33; Liberals drop from 78 to 47 seats.

1993
Hollywood California - BC born actor Raymond Burr 1917-1993 dies at age 76; known for his roles as star of Perry Mason, and Ironside's Robert Ironside; also in Centennial, 79 Park Avenue, Unsolved Mysteries.

1983
Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels 2 Soviet diplomats for trying to obtain prohibited high technology equipment.

1974
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Egg Marketing Agency orders 28 million eggs destroyed; rotted due to improper storage.

1959
Hollywood California - Toronto actor Lorne Greene stars as Pa Cartwright in new NBC-TV western drama Bonanza; with Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, and Pernell Roberts; first Western broadcast in colour, will last fourteen seasons.

1920
Antwerp Belgium - Seventh Olympiad closes in Antwerp. Canada takes home three gold medals, in Ice Hockey: The Winnipeg Falcons, in Boxing - 66.68-kg: Albert Schneider and in Track and Field - 110m hurdles: Earl Thomson; three silver medals, in Boxing - 53.53 kg: Chris Graham, in Boxing - 72.57 kg: Georges Prud'homme, and in Swimming - 1,500 freestyle: George Vernot; and three bronze medals, in Boxing - 72.57 kg: Moe Herscovitch, in Boxing - 61.24 kg: Chris Newton, and in Swimming - 400m freestyle: George Vernot.

1846
King William Island NWT - John Franklin finds his ships 'Erebus' and 'Terror' are locked into the ice. He fails to enter the North-West Passage because of an error on his chart.

1696
Placentia Newfoundland - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville arrives at Plaisance with Bonaventure to begin campaign to drive English out of Newfoundland.

1657
Nova Scotia/New Brunswick - Thomas Temple agrees to divide Acadia with William Crowne; takes area from Lunenburg to St. George River, Maine.

1646
Montreal Quebec - Huron traders arrive in new France with 32,000 lbs of beaver pelts.



Born on this day:

1961 - Mylene Farmer
singer, songwriter, was born at Montreal.

1952 - Neil Peart
heavy metal drummer, songwriter, of Canadian supergroup Rush.

1950 - Andreas Josenhans
yachtsman. In 1976, with Glen Dexter and Sandy MacMillian from Nova Scotia, placed 8th in Olympic sailing at the Montreal Olympics; July 1977 won the World Sailing Championships in Hanko Norway in their yacht Delusions, beating 68 crews from 18 nations, taking only 58.4 penalty points in the 7 race series; Dexter crew placed second in 1978, then took the World title again in 1980

1943 - Michael Ondaatje
poet, professor and novelist, was bornin Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Ondaatje moved to Canada in 1962 via England, studied at U of T and Queens University (MA), and started teaching at York University in Toronto in 1971. His books of poetry include The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970- Governor General's Award), and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do (1978 - Governor General's Award). His novels are: Coming Through Slaughter (1976 - about the madness and death of New Orleans jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden), Running in the Family (1982 - about his family's life in Ceylon), In The Skin of a Lion (1987 - set in 1930's Toronto) and The English Patient (1992 - - Governor General's Award and Booker Prize shared). The novel is set in Italy in World War II, and was recently filmed - it won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Picture. To learn more, check out this unofficialMichael Ondaatje Web Page.

1938 - Claude Ruel
Montreal Canadiens trainer

1937 - George Chuvalo
boxer, was born in Toronto. Chuvalo was Canadian heavyweight Champion from 1958-1961 and 1964 to his retirement in 1979, and is notable for having stood up to fighters like Foreman, Patterson, Frazier and Mohammed Ali without being knocked down. His lifetime pro record is 79-15-2, and 70 of his victories were KOs. Today, after losing his two sons to heroin, he is a sought after speaker on youth and drugs.

1901 - 1975 Ben Blue
actor, was born Benjamin Bernstein at Montreal. Blue was a celebrated comedian and dancer whose origins in Vaudeville translated to the silent screen, then to films and TV. He acted in Accidental Family and appeared on the Frank Sinatra Show.

1866 - 1941 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Lord Willingdon
13th Governor-General of Canada 1926-31, was born in Ratton, England; died in London. Willingdon was George V's tennis partner and later served as Viceroy of India.

1864 - 1922Bob Edwards
editor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland; died in Calgary. Edwards came to Canada in 1894 and set up his satiric news sheet, the Calgary Eye Opener, in 1902. An alcoholic who supported Prohibition, Edwards survived several law suits, one from Premier Sifton, and left Calgary in disgust in 1906, but he returned in 1911, and was elected to the Alberta Legislature as an independent in 1921.

1844 - 1920 Erskine Henry Bronson
lumberman, politician, was bornin Bolton, New York; died in Ottawa. Bronson's father Henry was attracted to Ottawa in 1853 by the cheap water power at the Chaudire Falls. He took over the Bronsons and Weston Lumber Company in 1889 on his father's death, and diversified into hydro and street railways, while serving in provincial politics as a Minster in Mowat and Hardy governments.

1818 - 1896 David L. Macpherson
politician and railway builder, was born at Castle Leathers, Inverness County, Scotland; dies at sea . Macpherson was involved in Pacific railway promotion from his Toronto base; he served as Minister of the Interior from 1883 to 1885.


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1995
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sells most of its stake in Petro-Canada through a share offering that brings in $1.8-billion.

1981
Montreal Quebec - The Soviet Union wins its first Canada Cup hockey tournament by defeating Team Canada 8-1 in the final game. They are later caught trying to smuggle the Cup out of the country.

1981 FIRST TERRY FOX RUN
Canada - Eight hundred Canadian communities participate in the first Terry Fox 10k Run to raise money for cancer research. One year earlier, the 23 year old Fox was forced to end his Marathon of Hope in Thunder Bay, when the cancer that took his leg spread to his lungs.

1971
Ontario - Ontario to give free hospital and medical care for low-income earners and those 65 and over.

1969
Toronto Ontario - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's band the Plastic Ono Band perform for their album "Live Peace In Toronto". New cuts include Give Peace A Chance, Cold Turkey, Yer Blues and a 12 minute Yoko piece, plus the oldies Blue Suede Shoes, Money and Dizzy Miss Lizzy.

1944
Rimini Italy - Canadians capture Coriano Ridge in fierce fighting south of Rimini.

1940
Liverpool England - Luxury liner S.S. City of Benares leaves port with British children being evacuated to Canada to escape World War II. The ship is torpedoed by U-boat during the night about 600 miles out to sea; only 13 of the over 90 children survive.

1886
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Telegraph starts operation across Canada.

1779
Quebec Quebec - Frederick Haldimand asks dramatist Richard Cumberland to select books for public library at Quebec.

1759
Quebec Quebec - James Wolfe drifts downstream on the ebb tide at 2 am with Captain William Delaune, commander of The Forlorn Hope, riding in a lead whaleboat with muffled oars; after keeping his plans secret from even his trusted lieutenants, he orders a first team of 24 soldiers to land at l'Anse au Foulon, a cove 3 km west of Quebec; the men quickly climb an overgrown path up the cliff face, with muskets strapped to their backs and surprise a company of Canadian militia under Captain Duchambon de Vergor; most of his men have been sent home to gather in the crops; down below, the Highlanders and light infantry secure the beachhead, helping the remaining transports land with a first wave of troops, artillery, and supplies; a second wave comes across from Lévis, while British frigates from Quebec to Beauport start firing with every gun to direct all French attention to the city.
At 5 am, Wolfe reaches the top of the cliff with the remaining light infantry; before him stretches the Plains of Abraham, named for the habitant, Abraham Martin, who had first cleared the land, a broad, flat field leading to the walls of Quebec.
At 6:30, Montcalm is told that patrols have spotted the English on the Plains of Abraham; he orders the regular troops to form up outside the walls, militia on the wings, regiments of the line in the center, the Royal Roussillon near the river, then those of Guyenne, Béarn, Languedoc and La Sarre.
At 9:30, Wolfe walks along the ranks, talking to his 4,500 troops, and giving his final orders. Canadian and Indian sharpshooters start firing from the woods to the north, and a musket ball shatters Wolfe's wrist. As the French start to advance he is hit by a shell fragment in the abdomen, but still keeps his feet. The French hold their fire until they are within 25 m of the British lines.
At 12 m, Wolfe gives the order to fire, and one great volley rips through the French ranks, mortally wounding the commanders of the La Sarre and Guyenne regiments. The last volleys are fired with the two armies only feet apart, then Wolfe gives the order to charge with bayonet, and the French turn to flee.
Wolfe is leading the grenadiers when a bullet hits him in the chest, puncturing both lungs. Someone yells "see how they run". Wolfe opens his eyes and asked "who runs?", a soldier replies, " The French run sir". With this it is said, Wolfe replies, "Now God be praised, I die in peace", and closed his eyes forever.
Montcalm is then wounded outside the walls, with a fatal bullet in the groin, and one in the thigh. He asks two soldiers to hold him up in the saddle as he goes in the St. Louis Gate, so as not to cause more panic. When the surgeon tells him he has only a few hours to live, Montcalm replies, 'So much the better, I shall not see the surrender of Quebec'.. He dies early the next morning.


Born on this day:

1941 - David Clayton-Thomas
rock musician, was born in Surrey, England. Clayton-Thomas grew up in Toronto, and fronted The Fabulous Sheas, before joining the New York rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears in 1968, and producing such hits as Lucretia MacEvil, Spinning Wheel and You Make Me So Very Happy.

1926 - Emile Perry 'Cat' Francis
NHL hockey legend. Francis was a player, coach and manager with the New York Rangers, the St. Louis Blues and the Hartford Whalers.

1860 - 1937 Ralph Connor
pen name of novelist, was born Charles Gordon in Glengarry County near Cornwall, Ontario; died in Winnipeg. Gordon was a Presbyterian minister, and his novels, such as Glengarry School Days (1902) espouse red-blooded Christianity. He became Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1921, and helped with the creation of the United Church in 1925.

1799 - 1841 Charles Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham (of Sydenham and Toronto)
merchant and statesman, was born at Wimbledon, Surrey, England; died in Kingston, Ontario. As Governor General of Canada 1839 - 41, Sydenham helped develop the institution of Responsible Government.

1775 - 1868 Laura Secord
loyalist, heroine of Upper Canada, was born Laura Ingersoll in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; died in Chippewa. On the night of June 22, 1813, Secord heard two American officers billeted in her house talking about a surprise attack on the British post at Beaver Dams. She walked 30 km through American lines to warn Lt. Fitzgibbon, sometimes leading her cow as a decoy, and the US soldiers were ambushed by Fitzgibbon and some loyal Iroquois.


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September 14

1992
Windsor Ontario - Paul Martin Sr dies at age 89; first elected 1935; Liberal MP 33 years; Senator, High Commissioner in London"; last surviving cabinet minister from Mackenzie King era.

1991
Regina Saskatchewan - Grant Devine grants $431m to Saskatchewan Indian bands for land entitled under treaty but never handed over; signs deal with Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney sends squadron of F-18 fighter jets, with 450 pilots and flight crew, to Persian Gulf"; raises to $74 million Canadian aid to Kuwaiti refugees.

1986 JAYS BATS HOT
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays hit 10 home runs against the Baltimore Orioles to set a major league baseball record for most homers in a 9 inning game. The 11 home runs by both teams also set a record.

1960
Quebec - Antonio Barretteresigns as leader of Union Nationale party.

1936
Vanier Ontario - Dorothea Palmer arrested for distributing birth control information; a nurse; acquitted at subsequent trial which made distribution legal.

1926
Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King defeats Arthur Meighen in the general election, winning 128 seats to the Conservatives' 91, with 46.1% of the popular vote. The Progressives win 20 seats; 6 other.
Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen resigns as Conservative leader on defeat in the general election; calls leadership convention; PM since July 7.

1814
Baltimore Maryland - British troops end three day attack on Baltimore and Fort McHenry to retaliate for American burning of York (Toronto) and Newark (Niagara); Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner during bombardment.

1758
Fort Duquesne Pennsylvania - James Grant defeated by French at Grant's Hill near Fort Duquesne, with 800 men.

1535
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier reaches the Iroquois village of Stadacona [Quebec] on his second voyage; meets Donnacona again; greeted with Iroquois word 'Kanata' or 'Cantha;' meaning 'settlement of huts'; first recorded use of name.


Born on this day:

1904 - 1962 Frank Amyot
canoeist, was born at Toronto. From 1924-35, Amyot won six national titles in Canadian single-blade canoeing. In 1936, he coached and managed the Canadian Olympic canoeing team at Berlin, and won Olympic gold in the 1000 Metres Canadian singles canoeing, the first Canadian to do so.

1898 - 1993 Floyd Sherman Chalmers
editor, publisher, philanthropist, was born at Chicago, Illinois; died in Toronto. Chalmers's father was a Canadian; he grew up in Orillia and Toronto, and started his reporting career at 17 with the Toronto News. At 21, he became editor in chief of the Financial Post, and during his lifetime built up a 22% shareholding in Maclean-Hunter, publisher of the Post and Maclean's. He became President in 1952, and Chairman in 1969. He and his wife Jean were life-long patrons of the arts; they helped set up the Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Festival, commissioned Harry Somers' opera Louis Riel as a Centennial project, and set up the Floyd S. Chalmers Foundation to aid the arts, and the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music at the University of Toronto.


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1993
Canada - Other provinces follow lead of Nova Scotia and Quebec, announcing compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus; Ottawa to hold inquiry on reform of the blood system.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports on language preferences from 1991 Census: 17.1 million Canadians (60.5%) identify English as their mother tongue; down from 60.6% in 1986. 6.8 million (23.8%) identify French; down from 24.3% in 1986. 4.1 million (13%) identify another language, especially Chinese, Spanish or Punjabi; up from 11.3% in 1986.

1991
Space - Astronauts on board NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-48 deploy Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, containing the Canadian Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII).

1970
Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba lowers its voting age to 18.

1960
Montreal Quebec - Canadiens star Maurice 'Rocket' Richard retires from NHL hockey with a record 544 goals, plus 82 playoff tallies.

1959
Ottawa Ontario - Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier is installed as Canada's first French Canadian and 19th Governor General; soldier-diplomat serves until 1967.

1949
Hollywood California - Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels stars as Tonto, with Clayton Moore as the masked hero, in first episode of ABC-TV's The Lone Ranger.

1885
St. Thomas Ontario - P.T. Barnum's famous circus elephant Jumbo charges and is killed by a Grand Trunk train in the St, Thomas railway yard; weighed over 3,900 lbs. and was probably the largest pachyderm ever in captivity.

1884 CANADIANS ON THE NILE
Quebec Quebec - Frederick Charles Denison sails for Egypt with 386 Canadian Voyageurs to help Lord Kitchener ascend the Nile, mount a resistance to Sudan revolutionary leader Mahdi, and rescue General Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. The boatmen were organized by Garnet Wolseley, who had commanded the Red River Expedition in 1870; many were recruited from the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company. Sixteen died; they were Canada's first official participants in an overseas war.

1823
Montreal Quebec - A whale is sighted in Montreal harbour.


Born on this day:

1932 - Harry Sinden
NHL player coach. In 1970, Sinden coached the Boston Bruins to their first Stanley Cup since 1941. He came out of retirement in 1972 to coach the victorious Team Canada in their 8-game summit with the USSR, and served as Boston General manager from 1972 on.

1901 - 1993 Gweneth Lloyd
ballet teacher, choreographer, was born at Eccles, England; died in Kelowna, BC. Lloyd was founding Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet from 1939 to 1952, and in 1946 she helped set up the Banff Centre's summer dance program.

1907 - 2004 Fay Wray
film star, was born Vina Fay Wray in Cardston, Alberta. Wray is best known for her role as Ann Darrow, the frightened woman caught in the paw of a colossal gorilla and carried to the top of the Empire State Building in the movie King Kong (1933). Wray moved at a young age to Los Angeles, and haunted studio casting offices in her teens. She landed her first bit part in a Universal western in 1923, and in 1928, won stardom in Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March. From then on she played at Paramount opposite such leading men as Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Fredric March, and William Powell.

1833 - 1868 Alexander Dunn VC
soldier, was born at Toronto [York]; killed in a hunting accident in Abyssinia. Dunn was the first Canadian winner of the Victoria Cross, for his bravery in the Crimean War, as a Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1856. He later helped organize the 100th Regiment of Foot in Canada, and served as its CO in Gibraltar.


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1984
Winnipeg Manitoba - Pope John Paul II spends the morning in Winnipeg, then flies to Edmonton that evening; first papal visit to Canada.

1974
Regina Saskatchewan - Canada's first female RCMP recruits sworn into the force as constables.

1960
New York City - Canadian diplomat Yves Prévost becomes President of the United Nations General Assembly.

1957
Canada - Canada hit by epidemic of Asian flu.

1945
Hong Kong, China - British accept formal surrender of Hong Kong from the Japanese.

1939
Halifax Nova Scotia - The first escorted ship convoy leaves Halifax for Britain; in formation to protect against German U-Boat attacks.

1917
Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Bégin asks Quebeckers to vote for prohibition; they do not.

1914 CANADA GETS AN AIR FORCE
Ottawa Ontario - Sir Sam Hughes sets up the first Canadian military air service, the Canadian Aviation Corps; forerunner of the RCAF.

1791
London England - King George III demands that all French coats of arms be removed from Quebec.

1638
Paris France - Prince Louis born in the Palais du Louvre; becomes Louis XIV, King of France, at age 5, and will rule for 72 years; Canada his personal property.


Born on this day:

1967 - Michael Smith
decathlete, was born at Kenora, Ontario. Smith represented Canada at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, placing 14th (8083 points); 1990 won his first international gold for Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland (8525 points); 1992 withdrew from Barcelona due to hamstring injury; 1994 gold at the Commonwealth Games (8326 points); 1996 13th at the Atlanta Olympics (8271 points); 1996 set his Personal Best of 8,625 points - the Canadian Record - placing first at the unofficial World Championships of Combined Events in Gotzis, Austria.

1959 - Jennifer Tilly
TV/film actor, was born at Harbor City, California. Tilley grew up in BC after her mother Patricia, a Canadian teacher and ex stage actress, divorced her father Harry, a car salesman, and moved the family home to live with Tilly's grandmother on Texada, off the east coast of Vancouver Island. Her mother married John Ward, a hippie religious fanatic, divorced again, and again moved the family, this time to Victoria. Tilley and sister Meg were both bitten with the acting bug, and went off to Hollywood. Jennifer initially specialized in bimbo roles - she played mobster moll Gina Srignoli in TV's Hill Street Blues (1981), Blanche 'Monica' Moran in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), and Key West's Savannah Sumner (1993).

1926 - Doug Hepburn
weightlifter. Hepburn won the World Weightlifting Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1953, with a lift of 1,030.25 pounds; the following year, he took the gold medal at the British Empire Games in Vancouver.

1919 - 1990 Laurence Johnston Peter
educator, psychologist, writer, was born at Vancouver; died in Palos Verdes Estates, California Jan. 12, 1990. Peter wrote the 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.

1858 - 1923 Andrew Bonar Law
British Prime Minister from Oct. 23, 1922, to May 20, 1923, was born at Kingston, New Brunswick; died in London England. Bonar Law was sent to live with wealthy relatives in Scotland when he was 12, and became a partner in a firm of iron merchants. The only British Prime Minister to come from the Empire, he led the Conservative Party during the periods 1911-21 and 1922-23, but had to retire after only 209 days as PM because of poor health.

1838 - 1916 James Jerome Hill
railway promoter and financier, was born at Rockwood, near Guelph, Ontario . Hill moved as a young man to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he helped set up a shipping business and in 1856, with the quiet backing of the Hudson's Bay Company, a steamboat line down the Red River to Winnipeg. In 1878 he and Donald A. Smith and George Stephen pulled together the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad running north into Manitoba, then the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. In 1890 Hill consolidated all of his railway holdings into the Great Northern Railroad south of the Canadian border to Seattle, which effectively blocked rival lines from tapping into CPR business.


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1991
Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister Marcel Masse cites end of Cold War as Canada to cut military in Europe from 6,600 to 1,100 over 15 years saving $11 billion; Baden-Solingen base to close in 1994 and Lahr in 1995.

1984 MULRONEY TAKES OFFICE
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- takes office, sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister at age 45; with 40 Cabinet members, the biggest cabinet in Canadian history; including ex PM Joe Clark 1939- as Minister of External Affairs.

1975
Winnipeg Manitoba - Guess Who Day is declared in Winnipeg to honour the local supergroup.

1970
Ottawa Ontario - Jack McClelland and Claude Ryan launch the Committee for an Independent Canada, to protest high levels of foreign investment in Canada, and the tax breaks enjoyed by US magazines such as Time and Readers Digest. The nationalist group, which originated with Walter Gordon, Abe Rotstein and Peter C. Newman, will present a 170,000 name petition in June 1971 to PM Trudeau demanding limits on foreign investment. The CIC, whose policies will help justify such institutions as FIRA and Petro-Canada, disbands in 1981.

1952
North York Ontario - Edwin Alonzo Boyd captured in barn near Toronto, with William Russell Jackson, and Leonard Jackson; after biggest manhunt in Canadian history.

1949
Toronto Ontario - Early morning fire consumes the Canada Steamship Lines cruise liner SS Noronic moored at its dock in Toronto harbour, killing 130 of 522 passengers, mostly American tourists. The Canada Steamship Lines vessel, built at Port Arthur in 1913, was the largest Canadian and most luxurious passenger steamer ever placed in service on the Great Lakes.

1878
Canada - John Alexander Macdonald defeats Alexander Mackenzie in Canada's 4th general election 142 seats to 64 ; PM to June 6, 1891; secret ballot and simultaneous voting first used; Honoré Mercier loses his seat by only 6 votes.

1792
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Governor John Graves Simcoe convenes the first meeting of the legislature of Upper Canada at Newark [Niagara].

1764
Quebec Quebec - Court system set up in Quebec; legal cases arising prior to Oct. 1 allowed to be tried in common courts in French; Walter Murray appointed Receiver General.

1759
Quebec Quebec - Claude Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, lieutenant du roi at Quebec, signs the French capitulation of Quebec; the following day hands over the town to General George Townshend, Wolfe's successor.


Born on this day:

1962 - Peter Lhotka
producer, filmmaker, was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lhotka is best known for his Jake and the Kid (1995) and Destiny Ridge (1994) productions.

1959 - Hank Ilesic
football player, was born at Edmonton, Alberta . Ilesic has served as a CFL punter and place kicker for the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts.

1917 - 2004 Pierre Sévigny
politician, educator, was born at Quebec City. Sévigny was an early supporter of John Diefenbaker, and in 1959 was appointed Associate Defence Minister. He resigned to protest Diefenbaker's policies in 1963, and was later embroiled in the Gerda Munsinger affair, for associating, while a Minister, with a woman who may have been working for East German intelligence. Before retiring he taught commerce at Concordia University.

1914 - Thomas Bata
shoemaker, was born at Prague, Czech Republic, son of the owner of the world's largest shoe company. Bata moved head office to Canada as World War II approached, and in 1939 founded the town of Batawa, north of Trenton, Ontario, as his Canadian manufacturing base. Today the company makes over a million pairs of shoes a day in over 60 countries.

1885 - 1957 George Cleveland
actor, was born at Sydney, Nova Scotia; best known for his TV role as Lassie's Gramps Miller.

1676 - 1744 Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis
explorer, soldier, was born at Beauport, Quebec ; died at Natchitoches, Louisiana . Saint-Denis led a 1714 expedition from French-held Natchitoches, in Louisiana Territory, to the Spanish town of San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa) on the Rio Grande.


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1992
Yellowknife NWT - Explosion rocks Giant Gold mine, killing 9 miners, during labour dispute; miner later charged with first-degree murder.

1976
Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler again acquitted of performing illegal abortion.

1954
Toronto Ontario - Gallup Poll says a family of four can live comfortably on $50 a week, more than $10 less than the estimate of $60.56 in 1951; half of this amount spent on food.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/ Radio Canada authorized to start a national radio service.

1885
Montreal Quebec - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.

1875
Ottawa Ontario - William Buell Richards 1815-1889 appointed first Chief Justice of the new Supreme Court of Canada, founded on this day; will hold its first session in 1876.

1873
New York City - Panic caused by failure of the brokerage firm of Jay Cooke and Co. results in a five-year depression in North America; Cooke was trying to compete with the CPR, and meddled in Canadian politics.

1867
Canada - John Alexander Macdonald wins first Dominion election, defeating George Brown with 51.1% of the popular vote; gets 108 seats to Liberal 72; balloting took place from Aug 9 to Sept 18.

1841
Montreal Quebec - Solicitor-General Charles Day passes Public Schools Act; $80,000 annually for elementary schools in Canada West, $120,000 for Canada East; creation of the post of Superintendent of Public Schools; teachers to be paid $68 a year.

1759
Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay surrenders Quebec garrison to Townshend after Lévis withdraws to Montreal; Brigadier General James Murray takes over as Governor, and sets about repairing the defenses; his garrison of 7,000 troops has meagre rations and rapidly falls victim to illness, particularly scurvy; by April, only about 3,000 troops will be fit to fight.


Born on this day:

1950 - Darryl Sittler
NHL player. Sittler, who played for the London Knights, Toronto Maple Leafs and the first Team Canada, scored 10 points in one game on Feb. 7, 1976.

1933 - Scotty Bowman
NHL player, coach. Bowman is the all-time leading NHL coach in both regular season wins (880) and playoff victories (140) over 22 seasons. He led the Montreal Canadiens to five Stanley Cups (1973, 1976-79), Pittsburgh to another (1992). He entered the 1994-95 season with Detroit Red Wings and in 1977 led them to the Stanley Cup as well.

1923 - Bertha Wilson
Supreme Court Justice, was born Bertha Wernham at Kirkaldy, Scotland. Wilson came to Canada with her husband, Presbyterian Minister John Wilson, in 1949. After studies at Dalhousie, she was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1957, then moved to Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt in Toronto in 1959, and the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975. Known for her human rights and family law decisions, she was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1982 as Canada's first female Justice.

1888 - 1938 Grey Owl
naturalist, writer, was born Archie Belaney at Hastings, England; died in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Belaney has an unhappy childhood, being raised by maiden aunts and a stern grandmother, and he fantasized about the Indians he read about in boys' magazines. At age 17 he left England for Northern Ontario, where he lived with the Ojibway, taking the name Grey Owl and claiming he was the son of an Apache woman and a Scottish fur trader. In 1931, he published his first book, Men of the Last Frontier, followed by Pilgrims of the Wild (1934), The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People (1935) and Tales of an Empty Cabin (1936). With his Iroquois wife Anahareo, he managed a beaver conservation program in Prince Albert National Park, and gave popular lectures on wildlife.

1895 - 1979 John George Diefenbaker
politician and Canada's 15th Prime Minister 1957-63, was born in Neustadt Ontario, the son of William T. Diefenbaker and Mary Bannerman; died in Ottawa. In 1903, Diefenbaker's parents moved to Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, then Saskatoon in 1910.
He got his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and started a practice in Prince Albert in 1924. For the next 20 years he blended a reputation as a winning defence lawyer with a losing record in Conservative Party politics. He was shut out federally in 1925 and 1926, and provincially 1929 and 1938. He was elected Leader of the Saskatchewan Tories in 1936, but saw them blanked in the 1938 federal election.
In March 1940 he was finally elected an MP, and held his seat in 1945, 1949 and 1953. A skilled Opposition parliamentarian, he was elected head of the Progressive Conservatives in 1956 to replace George Drew. After the Pipeline Debate of the year, he swept aside the Liberals under Louis St-Laurent, and became Canada's Prime Minister in 1957. The following year, he won in a landslide, with 203 seats.
His Canadian Bill of Rights, his 'Northern Vision,' and his anti-apartheid work with the Commonwealth all mark his tenure, but after he canceled the Avro Arrow contract in 1959, restless voters gave him only a minority, and he was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963.


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1996
Ottawa Ontario - CBC/Radio Canada President Perrin Beatty announces 2,500 job cuts must be made in the coming months.

1988
Washington DC - US Senate ratifies Canada-U-S Free Trade Agreement by a vote of 83-9. The vote marked the last step in the American legislative approval process. The agreement, aimed at eliminating trade barriers, began taking effect the following January.

1985 TUNAGATE SCANDAL HITS MULRONEY MINISTER
Ottawa Ontario - Fisheries Minister John Fraser reverses himself, and orders a recall of 1,000,000 cans of rancid tuna after media reports that some cans contained rotting fish. Fraser resigns Sept. 23 because his Ministry at first refused to recall the Star-Kist product. He is later elected Speaker of the House of Commons.

1980
Ottawa Ontario - Terry Fox 1958-1981 invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The one-legged cancer victim whose marathon run across Canada raised millions of dollars for cancer research is the youngest so honoured.

1977
Tyuratam, Kazakhstan - USSR launches 4,500 kg Cosmos 954 satellite; will re-enter the atmosphere 4 months later and crash over North West Territories, spreading radioactive debris.

1941
Atlantic - German U-Boat sinks Canadian corvette HMCS Levis.

1889
Quebec Quebec - Rock slide into Quebec City's lower town kills 45 people.

1654
Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First Canadian marriage on record, when 11 year old Marguerite Sédilot marries Jean Aubuchon.

1648
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Boisdon opens Quebec's first licensed tavern; forbidden to open when church services being held.

1542
Quebec Quebec - Ausillion de Sauveterre pardoned by Roberval; the pardon is New France and Canada's oldest official document extant.


Born on this day:

1951 - Daniel Lanois
record producer, singer/songwriter. Lanois moved with his mother and brother to Ancaster, Ontario at the age of 10. By age 17, he was playing in local bands and operating his first studio out of the basement of his parents' house. In 1974 he and his brother Roger opened the Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton, and soon attracted such Canadian acts as Martha and the Muffins, The Parachute Club, M&M, Luba, Ian Tyson, Sylvia Tyson and Robbie Robertson, as well as international stars such as Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and The Neville Brothers. A few years later, he set up a studio in London, England to work with Brian Eno, U2 and Emmylou Harris, and also began to record his own material. In 1989 he cut his first solo album, Acadie, including the hit Jolie Louise, featured on the TV series Northern Exposure. In 1993 he released his second solo album, For The Beauty of Wynona, and worked with his sister Jocelyne on the music for the Canadian production of Camille. He also wrote the soundtrack to Billy Bob Thornton's 1996 film, Sling Blade.

1940 - Sylvia Tyson
folk-country singer, was born Sylvia Fricker in Chatham, Ontario . She grew up singing in the choir at her family's church, but at age 15, decided she wanted to be a folk singer, and moved to Toronto after finishing high school. She soon hooked up with coffee house singer and ex rodeo cowboy Ian Tyson, and in 1960 they started performing as Ian and Sylvia, marrying in 1964. In 1961 they cut their first album, and Ian's song Four Strong Winds became a major international hit. Sylvia's song, You Were on My Mind was a 1965 hit for the We Five, and was also recorded by fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell and Gord Lightfoot. In 1970 they pulled together their Great Speckled Bird country rock band, and started a CTV network show, Nashville North, later the Ian Tyson show, but their professional and marital lives split under the strain. Sylvia hosted a CBC radio folk show Touch The Earth from 1975-80, cut several solo albums, and toured with the a cappella gospel group Quartette.

1924 - Don Harron
journalist, entertainer, was born in Toronto. Harron worked for the CBC while a student at U of T, joined the Stratford Festival in the early years, and had several stage and film roles in England and Hollywood. He wrote the libretto for the Charlottetown Festival's musical Anne of Green Gables, and hosted CBC's Morningside 1977-82, and the Don Harron Show on CTV 1983-85. He also developed the characters of Parry Sound farmer Charlie Farquharson and Toronto matron Valerie Rosedale for the stage, and published Farquharson's satirical Histry of Canada and Jogfree of Canada, and Debunks Illustrated Guide to the Canadian Establishment.

1919 - Doug Fisher
politician, journalist, was born in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Fisher was known as The Giant Killer after his 1957 defeat of C. D. Howe in Port Arthur for the CCF. He held the seat for the NDP until 1965, when he left politics to work as a syndicated columnist for the Toronto Telegram and Sun newspapers, and host a weekly CJOH-TV Ottawa public affairs show. He was also a Director of Hockey Canada from 1971-78).


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1987
Fort Simpson, NWT - Pope John Paul II arrives to hold a mass for the people of Fort Simpson, fulfilling a promise he made Sept. 18, 1984, when fog prevented him from making a planned visit.

1984 POPE HOLDS FINAL MASS IN CANADA
Ottawa Ontario - Pope John Paul II holds huge outdoor mass on LeBreton flats in Ottawa before returning to Vatican; on 12 day papal visit to Canada.

1977
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces removal of wage and price controls, effective April 14, 1978.

1972
Ottawa/Montreal - RCMP bomb squad defuses a letter bomb in a park after removing it from the Israeli Consulate. At the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa, the RCMP find explosives in one of six envelopes arriving from Amsterdam. Arab terrorist group Black September believed responsible; Israeli official in London, England, killed a day earlier after opening a letter.

1917
Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen presents Military Voters Act, giving the vote to soldiers and sailors under 21, and serving women; female relatives of servicemen also get the vote.

1917
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes new tax on income as a 'temporary measure' to help pay for the war effort and post war recovery.

1816
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Opening of first stagecoach line from York to Niagara.

1697
Rijswijk Netherlands - France and England sign Treaty of Ryswick, under which England, Spain, Holland and the Holy Roman Emperor make peace with France at the end of the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War); all places taken during the war to be mutually restored; France returns York Factory to the Hudson's Bay Company and Newfoundland to the British in exchange for Acadia.

1603
Sable Island Nova Scotia - Thomas Chefdostel rescues eleven starving survivors of la Roche colony; convicts presented to Henri IV and pardoned; Norman captain.

1503
Newfoundland - First use of name 'Newfoundland,' in Daybooks of King's Payments; Canada's oldest place name of European origin.


Born on this day:

1951 - Guy Damien Lafleur
NHL right winger, was born at Thurso, Quebec. Lafleur began his hockey career as a gifted junior with the Quebec Remparts, scoring 130 goals while leading his team to the Memorial Cup in 1971. He joined the Montreal Canadiens the following year, and after a slow start, led the NHL in scoring 3 times (1975-78); was 2-time MVP (1977-78), had 6 consecutive 50 goal seasons (including a career-high 60 in 1977-78), was voted Right Wing All Star 1975-80 and played for 5 Stanley Cup winners. He was playoff MVP (Conn Smythe Trophy) in 1977. He retired early in 1984-85 after 14 seasons with the Canadiens, but returned to play with the New York Rangers in 1988-89 after his election that year to the NHL Hall of Fame. He finished his career with the Quebec Nordiques 1989-90 and 1990-91.

1923 - 1992 Maurice Sauvé
businessman and politician, was bornat Montreal; died in Montreal. Sauvé worked for the Canadian and Catholic Federation of Labour and helped promote Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Liberal MP from 1962-64, but left to work for Consolidated Bathurst. Married to Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Ottawa in 1985.


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1995
Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Canadian Mint issues first Canadian $2 pieces.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - The new Ottawa Senators hockey team play their first home exhibition game in the Civic Centre; lose 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals. Ottawa is finally back in the NHL after 58 years; the old Stanley Cup winning Senators moved to St. Louis in 1934.

1971
Canada - Canadian cigarette manufacturers to end broadcast advertising, effective Jan. 1, 1972.

1967
Waterloo Ontario - Peter van Ginkel appointed 'affiliate artist' at Waterloo Lutheran University (Wilfrid Laurier University); first such appointment in Canada.

1944
Rimini Italy - Greeks and First Canadian Corps take Rimini; overall, the Canadians in Italy are bogged down in slow, vicious fighting from one Italian river to another.

1931
London England - Britain goes off the gold standard that Churchill had put them on in 1926; $Canadian hurt; down 25% in New York; TSE & Standard stock exchanges peg share prices.

1928
Ontario - Post office introduces airmail stamps.

1911
Canada -Robert Laird Borden wins Canada's 12th federal general election 134 seats to 87, upsetting Laurier with 50.9% of popular vote; on issues of reciprocity and Canadian Navy.

1896 OPENING OF THE NEW OTTAWA EX
Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of the Central Exposition in the new Aberdeen Pavilion in Lansdowne Park grounds; known formerly as the Dominion Industrial Exhibition, now the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa's fall fair started in 1879.

1826
Hull Quebec - John By starts to build Rideau Canal; with Thomas MacKay contracting; until 1832.


Born on this day:

1934 - Leonard Cohen
poet, novelist, songwriter, was born at Montreal. Cohen came from a wealthy Westmount family that owned a garment factory. He attended McGill and Columbia universities, and has a home in Montreal, but he has lived for extended periods in Greece and Los Angeles, where he belongs to a Zen Buddhist community. He published his first book of poetry, Let us Compare Mythologies , in 1956, followed by The Spice-Box of Earth (1961), Flowers for Hitler (1964), Selected Poems (1968 - won the Governor General's Award, but declined), The Energy of Slaves (1972), Death of a Lady's Man (1978), Book of Mercy (1984), Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993). His novels include The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). He issued his first record, The Songs of Leonard Cohen in 1968, followed by New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Recent Songs (1979), Various Positions (1985), I'm Your Man (1988), and The Future (1992). He went on full concert tours of Europe and North America in 1988 and 1993. Other artists have sung his work, including Jennifer Warnes' Famous Blue Raincoat (1986) and the tribute album I'm Your Fan (1991). In 1993, Cohen was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, and the first academic conference devoted to his work took place in Red Deer, Alberta.

1930 - 2004 John Morgan
Comedian, comedy writer, of The Royal Canadian Air Farce. John came to Canada from Wales, and has at various times been a newspaper reporter, a magazine editor, a school-teacher and a pub owner. In 1966 he turned to comedy writing, and since then has been one of Canada's most prolific writers for radio, television and stage. He co-created the CBC Radio series Funny You Should Say That; was one of the founders of Air Farce; wrote the pilot for King of Kensington, and served as script consultant and writer for several television comedy series. He's written and performed in England, including his BBC Radio Series It's All In The Mind of John Morgan. His Air Farce characters include Jock McBile, the monosyllabic Mike from Canmore, and the Prophet on the Mount. John performed and wrote on Air Farce until his retirement at the end of Season 8 (April 2001).

1902 - 1937 Howie Morenz
hockey great, was born at Mitchell, Ontario; died in Montreal. Morenz joined the Canadiens in 1923, was the NHL's leading scorer in 1927 and 1931 and was Hart Trophy MVP in 1928, 1931 and 1932. He was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934 and then the New York Rangers, where he helped drum up US interest in hockey. He resumed his career with the Canadiens in 1936, but on Jan. 28 1937 he suffered a head injury, and died six weeks later. Thousands of mourners filed past his coffin at centre ice in the Montreal Forum. In fourteen seasons, Morenz had 270 goals and 467 points.

1645 - 1700 Louis Jolliet
explorer, cartographer, was born at Beaupré, near Quebec; died near Quebec. Jolliet studied for the priesthood, but left in 1667 to become a fur trader. In 1672, Intendant Jean Talon commissioned him to see if the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific. By mid July 1673, with Jesuit father Jacques Marquette, he had followed the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Wisconsin to the mouth of the Arkansas, far enough south to prove it emptied into the Gulf. In his later years he traded furs in the lower St. Lawrence at Mingan, but was ruined by English raids.


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1995
Anchorage Alaska - AWACS plane with US and Canadian military personnel crashes on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base, killing all 24 people aboard.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - World Wildlife Fund says Canada losing 1 sq km of wilderness every hour, due to city sprawl, farming, roads, mining, hydro development; urges setting aside more parkland.

1988 CANADA SAYS SORRY
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney apologizes in the name of the Government of Canada for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians, and announces a $300 million compensation package.

1972
Moscow Russia - USSR beats Team Canada 5-4 in Game 5 of the super series before 15,000 fans, including 3,500 noisy Canadians; 13 days since game 4 in Vancouver; Phil Esposito slips on the ice, gets up and bows to the crowd with a big smile on his face during the player introductions; Paul Henderson suffers a mild concussion, but scores on his next shift; leading 3-0 after two periods, Team Canada gives up 5 third period goals on 11 shots, giving the Soviets a 3-1-1 lead in the series.

1969
Ellesmere Island NWT - Canadian anthropologist Charles Marius Barbeau honoured by naming highest mountain in the Canadian Arctic Mt. Barbeau.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Expo 67 breaks attendance record of 42,973,561 set at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

1966
Ottawa Ontario - Cuban nationalists hit Cuban Embassy in Ottawa with bazooka.

1939
Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up censorship bureau under War Measures Act; to examine all political speeches.

1877
Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta - Chief Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxica) leads the Blackfoot-speaking peoples - the Siksika (Blackfoot), Piikani (Peigan) and the Kainai (Blood), along with their allies the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) and their old adversaries the Nakoda (Stoney) - in a meeting with Commissioner David Laird and Lt-Col James MacLeod of the NWMP to make Treaty #7, at So-yo-pow-ahx-ko (Ridge Under Water), today's Blackfoot Crossing. Canada's last major first nations treaty is signed the following day; sets aside reserves of 69,039 sq km in the land south of Red Deer River and beside the Rocky Mountains; provides $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction, social benefits.

1653
Quebec Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys lands at Quebec with de Maisonneuve and 100 soldiers to defend Montreal against the Iroquois; Bourgeoys intends to start a school in Montreal, but finds not enough children of school age because of heavy infant mortality.


Born on this day:

1901 - 1997 Charles B. Huggins
surgeon, cancer researcher, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia ; dies in Chicago. Huggins researched the relationship between hormones and prostate and other cancers; he received (with Michael E. De Bakey) the 1963 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research and (with Peyton Rous) the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1966.

1868 - 1931 Louise McKinney
women's rights activist, MLA, was born Louise Crummy at Frankville, Ontario; died in Claresholm, Alberta. McKinney left her teaching job in 1903 to serve as the western organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and was President for 20 years.
In 1917, she was elected to the Alberta Legislature as the first women legislator in the British Commonwealth, and in 1919, she was one of the Famous Five in the Persons Case, whose appeal to the Privy Council won the right for women to sit in the Senate. She also served as VP of the World WCTU and the IODE.

1762 - 1850 Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe
governor's consort, diarist, was baptized at Northampton, England; died in Devon England. An orphan daughter of Lt-Col Thomas Gwillim, Simcoe married John Graves Simcoe in 1782, and came with him to Newark [Niagara], Upper Canada in July 1792 when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor, and accompanied him to York [Toronto] to found a new town in 1794. She left a lively diary and watercolours, and had two sons and seven daughters.


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1988
Seoul, South Korea - Canadian Ben Johnson sets world record in the 100 metre sprint at the Summer Olympic Games in 9.79 seconds against arch-rival, American Carl Lewis; later stripped of gold medal after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids.

1985
Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur dismissed from public relations post with Montreal Canadiens.

1971
Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie found guilty of the 1970 kidnapping of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte.

1973 CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS WIN PAY PARITY
Windsor Ontario - United Auto Workers and Chrysler sign a contract giving Canadian auto workers wage parity with the US for the first time.

1961
Ottawa Ontario - Connie-Gail Feller dethroned after less than 6 weeks as Miss Canada because she returned home for a religious holiday without permission from officials; Feller, the first Ottawan to wear the crown, replaced by runner-up Miss Victoria.

1912
New York New York - Richmond, Quebec-born Mack Sennett releases his first Keystone Comedy movie, financed by two of his bookie friends. He is already a silent screen veteran, acting with fellow Canadians Marie Dressler and Mary Pickford. In 1914, he directed 35 comedies featuring his new star Charles Chaplin. In 1935, after directing a Buster Keaton movie, he went bust, and returned to Canada a pauper.

1873
Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime Lépine arrested for treason; president of the court-martial which condemned Thomas Scott in 1870.

1844
Montreal Quebec - Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe dissolves Parliament and forces an election.

1787
Toronto Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester purchases the site of Toronto from three Mississauga Indian chiefs in a meeting near the site of the old French Fort Rouillé. The Toronto Purchase costs the British Crown £1,700 in cash and trade goods; the land is surveyed a year later, but not settled for another six years.

1577
Gravesend England - Martin Frobisher returns to England from his second voyage to the Arctic with 200 tons of ore as ballast; his three kidnapped Inuit, a man, woman and child, die a month later of influenza.


Born on this day:

1946 - Anne Wheeler
film producer, director, writer, was born at Edmonton, Alberta. Wheeler got a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Alberta, worked as a computer programmer, then returned to U of A for a Masters in Music Education.
She started her film career at Filmwest with Great Grandmothers (1976), a short about pioneer women, then worked as a freelancer for the NFB, producing A War Story in 1981, about her father's experiences as a Japanese POW in World War II. Wheeler has worked on over 26 award winning documentaries, docudramas, theatrical shorts, and TV dramas, including A Change of Heart (1984), Loyalties (1986), Cowboys Don't Cry (1988), Bye Bye Blues (1990 - Winner of 3 Genies), Angel Square (1991) and the Diviners (1992-93 - her adaptation of the Margaret Laurence novel).

1932 - Dominique Michel
comedienne. Michel is best known for her vivacious Radio Canada TV appearances (she is a staple of the Bye Bye New Year's Eve show), and her performance in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire (1986).

1906 - 1994 Charles Ritchie
diplomat, diarist, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia; died in Ottawa. Ritchie had a successful career with External Affairs, from 1934-71, serving as Ambassador to Germany, the UN, the USA, NATO and the EEC and the UK He is known for his delightful and insightful diaries - The Siren Years (1974 - Governor General's Award), An Appetite for Life (1977), Diplomatic Passport (1981) and Storm Signals (1983), as well as My Grandfather's House (1987) a memoir of his childhood.

1897 - 1984 Walter Pidgeon
TV/movie actor, singer, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick; died in Hollywood, California. Pidgeon had a long movie career, from 1925-78, and was a major star at MGM. He is best known for his roles in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956).


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1972
Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars defeat Soviet team 3-2 in second game in the USSR; USSR still leads series 3-2 with one tie.

1969
Toronto Ontario - Ontario bans use of pesticide DDT, effective January 1, 1970.

1958
Ottawa Ontario - Defense Minister George Pearkes decides to cancel the Canadian fire control and missile systems of the Avro Arrow program; a major step in the road to final cancellation Feb. 20, 1959.

1952
Toronto Ontario - Thieves make off with six boxes of gold bullion worth $300,000 from an unguarded building at Malton Airport. The gold, awaiting shipment to Montreal, is never found; likely flown to New York in a private plane and smuggled to Hong Kong.

1927 BIRTH OF THE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Conn Smythe changes the name of the NHL's Toronto St Patricks hockey team to the Maple Leafs.

1905
Toronto Ontario - Henry Fleming the first to band a bird in Canada.

1897
Queenston Ontario - Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company open new double track steel arch bridge; upper floor leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.

1859
Ottawa Ontario - Capital of the Province of Canada moves from Quebec City to Ottawa; previously in rotation at Toronto, Kingston and Montreal.

1788
Nootka BC - First shipment of Canadian furs sent to China.

1683
Paris France - Jews expelled from all French possessions in America, including New France.


Born on this day:

1948 - 1998 Phil Hartman
actor, comedian, comedy writer, cartoon voice, was born at Brantford, Ontario in 1948; shot by his mentally troubled wife May 28, 1998 in Encino, California. Hartman acted as Captain Coral on Pee Wee's Playhouse, and was a regular on Saturday Night Live 1986-94, playing the Weekend Update anchor, Prez Clinton, Frank Sinatra. He has also done voice as Darkwing Duck's Paddywhack, The Smurfs, Dennis the Menace, The Simpsons (attorney Lionel Hutz) and played NewsRadio's Anchorman Bill McNeil.


1917 - Thomas Shoyama
economist, public servant was born in Kamloops, BC. Interned with other Japanese Canadians in World War II, Shoyama began his career in the Tommy Douglas government in Saskatchewan, and left for Ottawa in 1964 to work as a senior economist with the Economic Council of Canada. In the 1970s and 1980s he served as Deputy Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Deputy Minister of Finance and Chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.


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1992
Montreal Quebec - Royal Bank CEO Allan Taylor releases study showing costs of breakup of Canada, says a No vote would be disastrous for the economy; 15% drop in living standards by 2000; each Canadian $4,000 poorer, 720,000 jobless, 1.25 million to emigrate to US. Three days later, the Canadian dollar shows its biggest drop in value since the Depression.

1979
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Star newspaper stops publishing after 110 years.

1956 FIRST DIRECT DIALING TO EUROPE
Clarenville, Newfoundland - Canadian Overseas Telephone Company (COTC), the British Post Office and American Telephone & Telegraph open the first direct dial transatlantic calling service with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York. The new $42 million cable from Oban, Scotland, jointly owned by the three firms, consists of two lines laid 30 km apart on the ocean floor.

1942
Pacific - Squadron Leader K. A. Boomer downs Japanese fighter off Alaska; RCAF's only air combat in North America.

1926
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sworn in as Prime Minister; until Aug. 7, 1930; replacing Arthur Meighen, PM since June 29.

1871
Montebello Quebec - Louis Joseph Papineau dies at his seigneury at Montebello; first elected to Lower Canada Assembly in 1809; became leader of French-Canadian Patriotes and sparkplug of Rebellion of 1837; later became too radical for mainstream populace of Quebec, and died in obscurity.

1839
Montreal Quebec - Lower Canada government deports 58 patriotes to exile in Australia.

1775
Montreal Quebec - Vermont revolutionary Ethan Allen captured by British troops as he rashly leads an attack toward Montreal before the Army of the Continental Congress arrives; the leader of the Green Mountain Boys a prisoner in an English jail for three years.

1750
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia fixes wage of laborers at 18 pence a day, with a rum and beer provision; first recorded government wage fixing in Canada.

1726
Nova Scotia - Some Acadians sign a British oath of allegiance on condition they do not have to fight the French.


Born on this day:

1934 - Ron 'Mighty Mite' Stewart
football running back, was born at Toronto. Stewart started his 13 season CFL career with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1957; in 1960, his best year, he rushed for 1020 yards on 139 carries, and scored 15 touchdowns; then helped the Riders win the Grey Cup, setting a CFL record of 287 yards rushing in a single game; led the League in rushing in 1964 (867 yards); played a key role in Grey Cup wins in 1968 and 1969, when he caught Russ Jackson passes for two touchdowns - one for 80 yards; won Shenley Award as top Canadian 1960; Jeff Russell Memorial Trophy 1960, 1967; had career total of 983 carries for 5690 yards, 42 touchdowns rushing. and 25 touchdowns receiving.

1933 - Ian Dawson Tyson
country singer, was born at Victoria BC. Tyson wanted to be a rodeo cowboy, but an accident at age 19 ended that dream, so he learned to play the guitar, moved to Toronto in 1959 and started to sing in coffee houses, where he teamed up with Sylvia Fricker, and in 1960 they started performing as Ian and Sylvia, marrying in 1964. In 1961 they cut their first album, and Ian's song Four Strong Winds became a major world hit. In 1970 they pulled together their Great Speckled Bird country rock band, and started a CTV network show, Nashville North, later the Ian Tyson show, but their professional and marital lives split under the strain. While Sylvia hosted a CBC radio folk show Touch The Earth from 1975-80, Ian went off to Nashville, but returned in 1978 to tour solo. He set up a cattle ranch in Ontario, then moved to Alberta, and got into cowboy poetry. In 1983 he produced Old Corrals and Sagebrush, followed by Ian Tyson (1984) and Cowboyography (1986- winner of 1987 Juno for Best Country Male Vocalist).

1932 - 1982 Glenn Herbert Gould
pianist, was born at Toronto; died in Toronto. Gould studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and soloed with the Toronto Symphony at age 14. His brilliant 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations won him instant global acclaim. He toured in Europe and the USA, and from 1961-64 co-directed the summer music program at Stratford, but he disliked the public life, and in 1964 retired from the stage, preferring to record in the studio. His contrapuntal clarity and unorthodox performances of Bach and Beethoven as well as Shoenberg and Hindemith became well known. He did CBC TV and radio documentaries and wrote for magazines and newspapers. He died of a massive stroke, apparently due to complications from medication, at age 50.


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1993
Niagara Falls, Ontario - Dave Munday takes his second plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel; 53-year-old diesel mechanic from Caistor Centre, Ontario, the first person to make two trips over the Falls; previous trip in 1985.

1991
Guiane - European Space Agency rocket launches Canada's Anik-E1 (mass 2,977 kg) comsat from Kourou, French Guyana, aboard an Ariane 44P rocket.

1976 SWEET KICKS FOR WORLD RECORD IN BIG O
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Alouette kicker Don Sweet notches his 17th and 18th consecutive field goals, setting a world record before 68,500 fans in the first football game played in Olympic Stadium; Sweet will run the string to 21 before missing.

1972
Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars fight back to tie series, defeating the Soviet team 4-3 in the third game in the USSR; series now tied 3-3 with one tie.

1963
Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a branch of the Royal Bank in Montreal.

1950
England - Sun turns blur over parts of the United Kingdom due to airborne sulphur particles from forest fires in Northern Alberta and BC.

1904
London England - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.

1813
Amherstburg Ontario - William Henry Harrison's 4,500 US troops land near Fort Malden to move against Proctor up the Thames; beginning of American military rule in western Ontario for the remainder of the War of 1812.

1826
Ottawa Ontario - Incorporation of Bytown; becomes City of Ottawa in 1855.

1751
Halifax, Nova Scotia - 1,000 immigrants from Wurtemburg, Germany arrive.


Born on this day:

1946 - John Gray
playwright, was born at Ottawa. Gray was raised in Truro, Nova Scotia. He attended Mt. Allison University and UBC in Vancouver, where he helped found the Tamanhous Theatre. In 1978 he staged his two-man Musical Billy Bishop Goes to War, which toured Canada to great acclaim. It opened on Broadway in 1980 and won the Governor General's Award for Drama in 1983. His other works include the play 18 Wheels (1977), the musical Rock and Roll (1981) and the novel Dazzled (1984).

1917 - 1976 Réal Caouette
politician, was born at Amos, Quebec; died in Ottawa. Caouette joined the Social Credit movement, and was elected to the Commons in 1946. He became leader of the Ralliement des Créditistes, and allied his group with Robert Thompson's federal party in 1961. In the 1962 federal election, 26 out of the 30 Social Credit seats were from Quebec, and he effectively held the balance of power in Diefenbaker's minority government. He broke with Thompson in 1963, but held his bloc together until he retired from ill health in 1976.


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1994
Argentia, Newfoundland - US Navy closes Argentia submarine detection base; last US military base in Canada.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- increases the size of the Senate to 112, appointing 8 new senators: Keon, Meighen, Forrestal, Grimard, Lavoie-Roux, Ross, Johnson, Berntson; now 54 PCs, 52 Liberals; to stop Senate from blocking GST.

1982
Moncton, New Brunswick - L'Evangeline stops publishing; this voice of Acadia was the only French language newspaper east of Quebec.

1977
Milan Italy - Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles 'Mike' Pearson dies in Ottawa at the age of 75; buried at Wakefield, Quebec; Canada's 14th Prime Minister 1963-68.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans sale of firecrackers.

1918 CANADIANS BREAK LAST GERMAN LINE
Canal du Nord France - Arthur William Currie leads Canadian troops in a three day offensive against the Canal du Nord, outflanking the last section of the Germans' defensive Hindenburg Line. Canadians capture over 7,000 prisoners and 205 heavy guns. Germans abandon the line and continue retreating east, finally signing the Armistice Nov. 11.

1879
Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Dominion Industrial Exhibition at Ottawa; Ottawa's fall fair became the Central Exposition in 1896; now called the Central Canada Exhibition.

1759
Quebec Quebec - First Protestant religious service on record in Quebec.

1610
Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain returns to France; stops writing in his journal for a time.


Born on this day:

1943 - Randy Bachman
rock & roll singer/guitarist, songwriter, music producer, was born on this day in 1943. Bachman was one of the leaders of Winnipeg supergroup The Guess Who, and wrote Shakin' All Over, These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, American Woman, and No Sugar Tonight. In 1970 he founded Bachman-Turner Overdrive; some of his more notable BTO songs are Let it Ride, Roll On Down The Highway, TakinÕ Care of Business, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Gimme Your Money Please and Blue Collar Lookin' Out for #1.

1915 - 1994 Harry Saltzman
Movie Producer. Saltzman co-produced the first nine James Bond films - such as Dr. No and Goldfinger - with Cubby Broccoli.

1834 - 1918 Charles Sise
business executive, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1834; died in Montreal. Sise came to Canada in 1880 as an agent of Alexander Graham Bell's Boston based National Bell Telephone Company, and incorporated the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. He was its President from 1890 to 1915, and was responsible for building a unified eastern service, as well as founding Northern Electric in 1895 (today Northern Telecom or Nortel.)


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1981 SUPREME COURT SAYS YES, BUT...
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that Prime Minister Trudeau's unilateral constitutional plan is strictly legal; Parliament can act alone to patriate the BNA Act; but a 'convention' requires substantial provincial consent, in that the plan does not follow normal constitutional procedures; suggests unilateral action might breach the spirit of federalism, and it is the duty of Ottawa to try and forge provincial consent. The new constitution, brought home without provincial consent, will be signed by the Queen on July 1st, 1982.

1972
Moscow Russia - Paul Henderson scores on Vladislav Tretiak with 34 seconds remaining in regulation time, giving Team Canada a 6-5 victory over the USSR hockey all-stars, and a 4-3-1 victory in the eight game Summit Series. The Soviets led 5-3 at the end of the Second Period, and Russian officiating threatened to turn the game into a brawl, but Phil Esposito and Yvan Cornoyer tied the game in the third. As Foster Hewitt called it, "Here's a shot. Henderson makes a wild stab for it and falls. Here's another shot. Right in front. They Score!!

1969
Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist bomb explodes at the home of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau.

1962
Vandenberg AFB, California - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base; weighs 320 lbs, cost $2.9 million; to study ionosphere from 1000 km in space; joint project of Defence Research Board and Canadian electronics industry.

1945
Calgary Alberta - Calgary Bronks football team changes its name to the Calgary Stampeders.

1892
Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick abolishes Legislative Assembly; upper house.

1854
London England - Edward Belcher arrives in England; all captains court martialled and honourably discharged or acquitted.

1793
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Upper Canada legislature passes decree that all slave children born in Upper Canada after this date were to become free at age 25.

1685
Quebec - Smallpox epidemic breaks out in New France.

1663
Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council forbids selling or giving liquor and firearms to the Indians.


Born on this day:

1928 - Jean Vanier
humanitarian, was born at Geneva, Switzerland. Vanier, son of the later Governor General Georges-Phileas and Pauline Vanier, served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, then after a career teaching theology in France, joined Father Thomas Philippe to start a home for men with mental and physical handicaps called L'Arche (the Ark) at Troisly, France, in 1964. Today there are over 100 versions of L'Arche around the World, including 23 homes of L'Arche Canada.



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1995
Montreal Quebec - Large pro-sovereignty rally held in Montreal Forum.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says 500 full time jobs a day disappeared during recession of past three years; 11 businesses, 73 people a day go broke.

1989
Ottawa Ontario - NDP leader Ed Broadbent announces his retirement from politics.

1988
Seoul Korea - Carolyn Waldo wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Two days later she will wins another gold in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian female to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

1922
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King declares Canada not automatically at war when Britain is; during Chanak Crisis in Dardanelles officials leaked British request for troops, to force Canada's hand.

1902
Dawson City, Yukon - Banks in Dawson City announce that they will no longer accept gold dust as legal tender; concern that miners lost money on transactions as gold dust particles were lost in handling.

1898
Canada - Canada holds national referendum on the prohibition of alcoholic beverages; 278,380 for, 264,693 against; government takes no action in view of close vote.

1668
Charles Fort NWT - Zachariah Gillam reaches Rupert River on the 'Nonsuch' with Medart des Groseilliers; they proceed to build Charles Fort, make a treaty with the local chief and spend the winter trading. The success of this venture leads to the creation of the Hudson's Bay Company.

1658
Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys departs for France with Jeanne Mance to recruit young girls to be teachers.

1498
London England - Jean Cabot receives a reward of £200 from King Henry VII for his discoveries in North America.


Born on this day:

1810 - 1882 Hugh Allan
financier and shipowner, was born at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland in; died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Allan built up a steamship line that carried immigrants from Britain to Montreal, and much of his success depended on his lucrative Royal Mail contract, awarded by the government. His contribution of $300,000 to the Conservative Party campaign in 1872 precipitated the Pacific Scandal that brought down John A. Macdonald.


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1996
Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien's government asks the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the legality of a unilateral declaration of independence on the part of the Province of Quebec.

1994
North America - NHL postpones start of hockey season for at least 2 weeks to deal with labour strife.

1994
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defence that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada votes 5-4 to deny bid of Sue Rodriguez, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, for doctor-assisted suicide; rules Criminal Code sanctions against assisting in a suicide do not infringe on her rights; Victoria woman will commit suicide four months later, aided by a sympathetic doctor.

1989 JAYS TAKE A.L. EAST
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 4-3, to win the American League East baseball title.

1960
Churchill Manitoba - Black Brant, the first all Canadian sounding rocket, launched from Churchill.

1953
Montreal Quebec - McGill University scientists develop radar system for early warning against air attacks.

1907
Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell founds the Aerial Experimental Association at Baddeck; with two young Canadian engineers, Casey Baldwin and John A.D. McCurdy, as well as US Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge and engine maker Glenn Curtiss. The first experiments are with kites, and a year later 4 biplanes are built at Curtiss' plant, including the Silver Dart.

1875
Ottawa Ontario - First sittings of the Supreme Court of Canada.

1746
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière leads remnants of 65-ship French armada, ravaged by storms and typhus, back to France; 2,400 men eventually die, none in action; no shots fired in d'Anville's failed attempt to recapture Louisbourg and Acadia.


Born on this day:

1957 - Dave Betts
rock musician. Betts was drummer for the band Honeymoon Suite.

1942 - Dewey Martin
rock musician, songwriter. Martin was drummer for the band Buffalo Springfield.

1940 - 1982 Harry Jerome
track and field athlete. Jerome ran the 100 m sprint in 10 seconds flat at age 19 during the Olympic trials, becoming the first Canadian to officially hold a world track record; won bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.

1939 - Len Cariou
TV/stage actor, singer, was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Cariou began his stage career in Winnipeg in 1959, joined the Stratford Festival in 1961, and has acted on Broadway since 1970. In 1979 he won the Tony Award as Best Actor for his work as the title character in Sweeney Todd.

1907 - 1958 Eddie James
football player. James starred for the Regina Pats, Winnipeg St John's, and the Regina Rough Riders through the 1920s and early 1930s, sometimes playing the full sixty minutes of the game on both offense and defense. The Eddie James trophy is awarded to the outstanding rusher in the Western Football conference of the CFL.

1899 - 1964 Henry Larsen
RCMP officer, navigator, was born at Fredrickstad, Norway; dies in Vancouver Oct. 29, 1964. From 1940-42, Sergeant Larsen sailed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol ship, the St. Roch, through the Northwest Passage from west to east, repeating the 1903-06 feat of Norwegian Roald Amundsen; in 1944 returned to Vancouver by a more northerly route through the Arctic Archipelago in only 86 days, becoming the first vessel to travel the passage in both directions; in 1950 Larsen sailed her through the Panama Canal to Halifax, making her the first vessel to circumnavigate North America.

1897 - 1975 Graham Towers
economist, banker, was born at Montreal; died in Ottawa. After serving in the First War and graduating from McGill, Towers entered a career with the Royal Bank, until he was summoned by R. B. Bennett in 1934 to head the new Bank of Canada. As first Governor of Canada's central bank, he helped Canada move out of Depression, through the Second World War and into post war recovery.

1813 - 1893 Dr. John Rae
Physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic, was born near Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland; died in London, England. A surgeon and expert outdoorsman, Rae worked for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1833 onward. He is best known for his ability to survive off the land and with the native Arctic people, and as the man who found the first remains of Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition to find the North West Passage.


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1992
Indian Brook Nova Scotia - Reg Maloney Micmac chief gets right to try some native court cases on 1,200 member reserve; minor criminal cases.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says first-time bride aged 26 in 1990, 22.6 in 1971; groom 27.9, 24.9; first marriages 77%, 90% in 1971; 7.1/1000 people; 7.9 in 1921.

1988 LEWIS AND WALDO WIN GOLDS (HER SECOND)
Seoul Korea - At the 24th Olympiad, Canadian super-heavyweight Lennox Lewis defeats Riddick Bowe to win Canada's first Olympic Boxing gold medal in 56 years. In the pool, Carolyn Waldo wins her second gold medal in synchronized swimming, in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian woman to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

1970
BC - Soviet vessels banned from fishing in Big Bank region off the west coast of Vancouver Island; after collisions between Soviet and Canadian ships.

1951
Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton becomes Mayor of Ottawa on death of incumbent. She is Canada's first woman mayor.

1947
Ottawa Ontario - Governor-General becomes independent; given authority to exercise all Royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada.

1932
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators readmitted to NHL, which drops Pittsburgh; financially troubled team unable to make a profit during Depression, and goes out of business.

1919
London Ontario - Canadian Army vaudeville troupe the Dumbells, who first performed at Vimy Ridge in 1917, premiere their musical review in London. They follow up with rave reviews at the Grand Theatre in Toronto, and opened a new variety show at the Ambassador Theatre in New York two years later, becoming the first Canadian musical on Broadway. The Dumbells disbanded in 1929.

1848
Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane returns from his wanderings on the prairies and Pacific coast of North America with over 700 sketches of life in the west; he starts to paint canvases of his subjects during this winter.

1578
London England - Martin Frobisher and his ships all return to England safely; worthless pyrites used to pave London streets; giving rise to the saying that the streets of London were paved with gold.


Born on this day:

1943 - Angèle Arsenault
folk singer, songwriter, was born at Abrams, PEI. Arsenault is known for collecting and performing of Acadian folk songs.

1928 - James Allen 'Jimmy' Pattison
businessman and entrepreneur, was born at Saskatoon. Pattison was raised in Vancouver, where he built up the largest car dealership in Western Canada. In 1967 he purchased Claude Neon signs, the first of his Pattison Group's over 50 acquisitions. He also managed the Expo 86 World's Fair, making it a great success.

1926 - 2000 Ben Wickes
cartoonist, was born at London, England. Wickes came to Canada in 1957, and started out in Calgary as a milkman and musician in the local militia band. Selling his first newspaper cartoons to the Calgary Herald, Wickes moved to Toronto in 1966 to join the Telegram, and started syndicating his cartoons, particularly his political series The Outcasts, and his single frame gags.


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1995
New York City - Alanis Morissette's debut album 'Jagged Little Pill' reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its 15th week; first chart topper for Maverick label, founded by Madonna.

1991
Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch American League East title and become first team in sports history to draw four million fans in one season.

1991
Regina Saskatchewan - Hazen Argue dies at age 70; Senator; first elected 1945 at age 24 for the CCF; jumped to Liberals in 1961; Canada's longest serving parliamentarian.

1952
Vncouver BC - Riot broke out at the Oakalla Prison Farm in Vancouver.

1948
Winnipeg Manitoba - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Progressive Conservative Party, replacing John Bracken; 827 votes, to J.G. Diefenbaker (311), Donald Fleming (104).

1887
Vancouver BC - Fraser River fisherman nets a 12 foot sturgeon, weighing 822 pounds.

1883
Kingston Ontario - Dr. Jennie Trout opens a women's medical college at Queen's University in Kingston.

1758 CANADA'S FIRST ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEETS
Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.

1604
Dochet Island Maine - Samuel de Champlain arrives back at Ste-Croix with Jean Ralluau after exploring the coast of Maine; they have a hard winter with de Monts and 77 others, and the following Spring move across the Bay of Fundy to found Port Royal on the Annapolis Basin.

1535
Lachine Quebec - Jacques Cartier arrives at the Iroquois village of Hochelaga; names Mont Royal [Mont Réal]; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine [China]; local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper; a priest blesses the Indian sick.


Born on this day:

1960 - Glenn Anderson
NHL winger. Anderson played for the Edmonton Oilers.

1930 - Dave Barrett
social worker, politician, was born at Vancouver. Barrett won his first election to the BC Legislature in 1960 as a CCFer. He became leader of the provincial NDP in 1969 replacing Tom Berger, and won the provincial election the following year. As BC Premier, he increased the government role in the economy, increasing mineral royalties, freezing agricultural land in the Fraser Valley. Defeated by Bill Bennett's Socreds in 1975 and 1983, he resigned his seat to become a Vancouver talk show host. In 1988 he won a seat in the House of Commons, and came a close second to Audrey McLaughlin in the NDP Leadership race, but was defeated in the Reform sweep of 1993.


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1992
Ste-Agathe Quebec - Bodies of two cult members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out condominium north of Montreal; the following day 48 members are found dead in Switzerland, and three more bodies will be found in the ruins at Ste-Agathe Oct 5.

1987
Washington DC - Simon Riesman and other negotiators sign the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, to take effect Jan. 1, 1989; all tariffs between the two countries to be phased out before 1999; creation of common energy market in petroleum, gas, uranium and electricity; creation of dispute settlement mechanism; deal reached just before US fast-track deadline for completing negotiations.

1986
Toronto Ontario - Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto's 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.

1981
New York City - Montreal Expos defeat the NY Mets 5-4 to win their first NL pennant; go on to beat Philadelphia in playoff series but lose to Los Angeles Dodgers in bid to reach World Series when Rick Monday hits winning home run off Expo pitcher Steve Rogers; end of split season disrupted by long players strike.

1977
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts inquiry into government-approved international cartel to market uranium; possible violations of combines law.

1946
Stephenville Newfoundland - American Overseas Airlines plane crashes near Stephenville, killing all 39 on board; worst civil aviation disaster in US history to date.

1914
Gaspé Quebec - First Canadian Division sails for England with 33,000 volunteers, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery, travelling in a 32 ship convoy escorted by 10 British warships; largest armed convoy ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; arrive in England Oct. 14.

1927 KING MAKES FIRST TRANSATLANTIC PHONE CALL
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian PM William Lyon Mackenzie King inaugurates the first transatlantic telephone service to the UK by chatting with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. For the time being, all calls are operator-assisted until 1956, when direct dialing comes in.

1874
Aurora Ontario - Edward Blake makes famous Aurora Speech, urging development of a Canadian spirit.

1738
Portage La Prairie Manitoba - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Verendrye rides up the Assiniboine Valley with sons Louis-Joseph and François to build Fort La Reine; on the site of Portage La Prairie.


Born on this day:

1973 - Neve Campbell
movie actor, was born at Guelph, Ontario. Her first name 'Neve' is her mother's maiden name and is pronounced 'nev'; it means 'snow' in Dutch. Her father Gerry was a drama teacher, and her mother Marnie a psychologist/yoga teacher who runs Neve's fan club. Her parents divorced while she was still a baby and she moved to Toronto with her father. She has three brothers - Christian (older, also an actor), Damien (younger) and Alex (youngest).
Neve started dance training at age 6, and at age 9 took classes at the National Ballet School of Canada, where she was trained in 6 different genres of dance, including jazz and classical ballet. She performed in Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker with the National Ballet of Canada, but after suffering a foot injury at age 12, she turned to acting, and landed her first role in a commercial for the Eaton Centre.
Her stage debut was in The Phantom of the Opera at Toronto's Pantages Theatre, directed by Hal Prince. Neve then landed the role of Daisy in the TV series Catwalk on YTV, and later moved to the US to play Julia Salinger in Fox's Party of Five (Emmy for Best Show in 1996). She played witch Bonnie in Columbia Pictures' The Craft, a film about high school students who experiment with witchcraft, and Sydney in Scream (see picture), a horror movie with Courtney Cox and Drew Barrymore (MTV's Best Movie of the Year for 1997). She has also done guest appearances in Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live.

1956 - Hart Bochner
TV/movie actor, the son of actor Lloyd Bochner. Bochner has played in East of Eden, Supergirl and Die Hard.

1953 - Duncan Regehr
TV/movie actor. Regehr has played in The Blue & the Gray, Wizards & Warriors and as Zorro's Zorro/Don Diego de la Vega.

1940 - Jean Ratelle
NHL centre. Ratelle played for the NY Rangers and Boston Bruins

1931 - Glenn Hall
NHL goaltender. Hall played for the Detroit Red Wings: Calder Trophy [1955-56]; the Chicago Black Hawks: Stanley Cup winner [1961], Vezina Trophy [1963]; and the St. Louis Blues: Vezina Trophy: 1967, 1969].

1928 - 1986 Erik Bruhn
ballet dancer, was born at Copenhagen, Denmark; died in Toronto. Bruhn was noted for his classical technique. He appeared mainly as a guest artist with North American and European companies.

1882 - 1974 Alexander Young 'A. Y.' Jackson
painter, was born at Montreal; died in Kleinburg Ontario. Jackson started his artistic career in 1895 in lithography, and studied art in evening classes and at the Art Institute in Chicago. In Sept. 1907, he enrolled in the Julien Academy in Paris, and studied impressionism.
On his return to Montreal, his painting Edge of the Maple Wood brought him to the attention of the other Group of Seven artists. Lawren Harris bought this painting, and invited Jackson to move to Toronto in the fall of 1913, where he shared a studio with Tom Thomson.
A trip to Canoe Lake in 1914 cemented his vision - Red Maple (1914, National Gallery, Ottawa) comes from this period - and he started to paint with Varley and Lismer as well.
From 1915 on, Jackson served in the infantry, and in 1917 was appointed official artist for the Canadian war memorials. By Sept 1919, he was back painting his beloved landscapes in Georgian Bay, and took a boxcar trip to Algoma with Harris, Macdonald and Johnson. The Group of Seven held their first exhibition in May 1920, and he took part in this and six other shows with them.


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1993
Clayoquot Sound, BC - Clayoquot Sound environmental activists close down their anti-logging protest camp on Vancouver Island for the winter; over 700 arrested during 3 months of demonstrations.

1988
Washington DC - Nine Canadians victimized by CIA brainwashing experiments at McGill University in the 1950s reach out-of-court settlement, sharing $750,000 award.

1982
Toronto Ontario - Canadian pianist Glenn Gould dies of a stroke at age 50; possibly complicated by addiction to medication.

1982 CANADIAN REACHES PEAK OF CLIMBING CAREER
Nepal - Laurie Skreslet 1950- reaches the top of 8,848 m (29,002 ft) Mt. Everest; Calgary native the first Canadian to achieve this goal.

1936
Quebec Quebec - Historian Abbé Lionel Groulx proposes the creation of a separate French state in North America.

1922
Haileybury Ontario - Great Haileybury fire kills 41 people; leaves 10,000 homeless.

1920
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Wing Commander Robert Leckie takes off from Dartmouth to begin the first flight across Canada; he arrives in Winnipeg Oct. 11. From Winnipeg Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots fly to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17. The Total elapsed time is 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km.

1909
Red Deer, Alberta - End of disastrous prairie fire around Red Deer; 5 million acres burned, several people killed, homes and livestock destroyed.

1873
Gimli Manitoba - Sigtryggur Jonasson leads first Icelander group to found a new settlement on Lake Winnipeg; they name it 'Gimli,' which means 'Paradise,' or 'The Great Hall of Heaven' in Icelandic. The settlers arrive in 1875.

1851
PEI - Freak gale off coast of Prince Edward Island sinks 100 American fishing vessels and kills at least 130 fishermen.


Born on this day:

1949 - 1993 Jay Scott
film critic, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska; died in Toronto. Scott moved to Toronto in 1977, and wrote insightful movie reviews for the Globe and Mail until his early death in 1993.

1807 - 1864 Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine
politician, statesman, was born at Boucherville Quebec; died in Montreal. LaFontaine was originally a follower of Papineau, but shied away from the Patriote leader's growing radicalism. After the Union in 1841, he worked as joint prime minister with Robert Baldwin in 1842-43 and again during Lord Elgin's "Great Ministry" of 1848-51, when responsible, or cabinet, government was finally achieved.

1796 - 1852 John Richardson
author, was born at Queenston, Ontario; died penniless in New York City. Richardson fought alongside Tecumseh in the War of 1812. He was a writer of historical and autobiographical romantic novels, including Wacousta, or The Prophecy (1832), about a Scot who turns Indian during Pontiac's Uprising.


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October 5

1992
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia - 4 Westray officials charged with violating mine safety rules; failed to clear explosive dust; mine disaster killed 26.

1987
Washington DC - Canada and US sign Free Trade Agreement.

1984
Cape Canaveral Florida - Marc Garneau first Canadian in space on board Space Shuttle Challenger Flight STS-41G; during the eight day mission he will travel a total of 3.4 million miles around the Earth in 133 orbits; the crew will deploy the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, conduct scientific observations of the earth with the OSTA-3 pallet and Large Format Camera (LFC), and demonstrate potential satellite refueling with an EVA and associated hydrazine transfer. Mission duration is 197 hours 23 minutes.

1980
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo Ron Leflore steals bases 96 and 97 against Philadelphia, becoming the first player in baseball history to win the stolen bases title in both major leagues. Leflore won the American League title In 1978, stealing 68 bases with Detroit.

1970 FLQ TERRORISTS KIDNAP BRITISH TRADE ENVOY
Montreal Quebec - British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross kidnapped at gunpoint from his Westmount home at 8:45 am by masked Front de Libération du Québec terrorists; FLQ group consists of Jacques Lanctot, Marc Carbonneau, Louise and Jacques Cossette-Trudel and Yves Langlois; at 1:00 pm they deliver a communique to a site in Parc LaFontaine demanding a $500,000 ransom, and the release of 23 'political' prisoners; at 4;00 pm Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette holds a press conference making the FLQ conditions public; at 5:00 pm the Bourassa and Trudeau cabinets both hold emergency meetings; Cross will be released unharmed in December.

1949
New York City - Canadian mission attends opening ceremony, as the United Nations flag is raised over its new New York headquarters.

1940
England - Second World War Battle of Britain ends, with RAF airmen, many of whom were Canadian, driving Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe from the skies over southern England.

1869
Saint John, New Brunswick - Hurricane comes up the Bay of Fundy, sinking or driving ashore over 120 ships.

1795
Edmonton Alberta - Hudson Bay Company starts building a fur trade post on a sheltered curve of the North Saskatchewan River, near the present day Alberta Legislature.

1786
Halifax Nova Scotia - Prince William becomes the first member of the Royal Family to visit Halifax; the 21 year old is known as 'Coconut Head' to his fellow Navy officers; he has a reputation for 'wenching'.


Born on this day:

1970 - Tina Poitras
race walker, was born at Thompson, Manitoba. Poitras grew up in Hull; a 10 km walk specialist, she is ranked 1st in Canada (44:31); came 32nd in Atlanta 1996.

1970 - Nicolas Fontaine
aerobatic skier; 6th at Lillehammer in the Aerials, behind Canadian Air Force teammates Jean-Luc Brassard and Lloyd Langlois.

1965 - Mario Lemieux
NHL Center for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was born at Montreal. Lemieux dropped out of school at age 16, a year after joining Montreal's Laval Voisins junior hockey team. In 1984 the last place Pittsburgh Penguins made him their first pick in the National Hockey League draft. During his career Lemieux was the NHL Rookie of Year (1985 Calder Memorial Trophy), 4-time NHL scoring leader (Art Ross Trophy 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993); 3-time All-NHL first team (1988, 1989, 1993); twice regular season MVP (Hart Trophy 1988, 1993); 3-time All-Star Game MVP. In the 1987-1988 season Lemieux overtook Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's top scorer, either scoring or assisting in over half of his team's 319 goals, and was selected as Sporting News's Player of the Year. He led Pittsburgh to consecutive Stanley Cup titles (1991 and 1992) and was playoff MVP (Conn Smythe Trophy) both years. He won the 1993 scoring title despite missing 24 games to undergo radiation treatments for Hodgkin's disease, diagnosed in February; then he missed 62 games during the 1993-94 season due to back injuries; On Aug. 29, 1994 he said he would sit out 1994-95 season due to fatigue, and in 1996-97 played his last season. The Penguins retired his #66 sweater. Mario Le Magnifique had 613 goals, 881 assists and 1,494 total career points in a span of 12 seasons. No player in history has averaged more goals per game (.823) than Lemieux.

1965 - Patrick Roy
NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and the Colorado Avalanche.

1958 - Gerry Sorensen
skier. Sorensen started skiing at age 10, and joined the national team in 1979; 1981 took the Haus World Cup downhill in Austria, the first in 10 years by a Canadian woman; 1982 won the World Alpine Downhill Championship, the second Canadian woman to achieve this feat after Nancy Greene.

1939 - Marie-Claire Blais
novelist and poet, was born at Quebec City. Blais' characters are outcasts, prostitutes and homosexuals, inhabiting a bleak landscape without hope.

1920 - Jake Gaudaur Jr.
footballer. Gaudaur is the son of famous rowing champion Jake Gaudaur Sr.; a two time Grey Cup champion, Gaudaur served as CFL Commissioner for 16 years, setting up a player pension plan, chaired a selection committee for the Canadian Football Hall of Fame; also served on Canada's Sports Hall of Fame; as was appointed Chairman in 1984.

1916 - Roy Conacher
hockey player, was born at Toronto, with his twin brother Bert, younger brothers of Charlie and Lionel Conacher, another brother, and five sisters. Conacher started with the Marlboro Bantams and Midgets, and during 1935-36, played on the West Toronto Nationals that captured the Memorial Cup. In 1936-37, he was an All-Star with the OHA Senior champion, Dominion Breweries. During 1938-39, he played with the NHL Boston Bruins, leading the League with 26 goals; in the 1939 playoffs, he scored six goals, including the Stanley Cup winner against the Toronto Maple Leafs; helped the Bruins win the Cup again in 1940-41, then joined the RCAF at the end of the 1942 season; returned to the Bruins in 1946, but General Manager and Coach Art Ross traded him to Detroit, where he led the Red Wings in scoring with 30 goals, then Chicago, where he played under brother Charlie as coach, and led the NHL in scoring during the 1948-49 season with 68 points, making Charlie and Roy the only brother combination in NHL history to win the Art Ross Trophy; retired due to injuries 1952 finishing with a career 226 goals, one more than Charlie.