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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 9:29 am
October 6 1992 China - Canadian built Ultra Violet Auroral Imager and Cold Plasma Analyzer instruments carried on board Swedish-German Freja satellite launched on a Chinese Long March IIC rocket. 1992 Windsor Ontario - Ontario Consumer & Commercial Relations Minister Marilyn Churley announces the province has chosen Windsor as site of pilot casino; will supply badly needed revenue to border city, help control organized crime. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports killings by handguns doubled to 136 in 1991 from 68 in 1990 and 45 in 1989; used in half of shooting homicides, up from 30% in 1991. 1991 homicides rose to a record 753, up 14.8% from 1990; BC and Manitoba highest; PEI lowest; 270 killed by firearms, up almost 40% since 1990. 1983 Victoria BC - NDP Leader Dave Barrett ejected from the Legislature for defying a ruling by Speaker Walter Davidson over fiscal restraint bills; first leader of a Canadian political party to be forcefully ejected. 1976 Barbados - Cuban jet leased from Air Canada crashes near Barbados, killing 78. 1967 Ucluelet BC - 19.26 in of rain falls in 24 hours for a Canadian record. 1923 Quebec City - Earthquake rattles windows and causes mud slides in Quebec region. 1911 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 resigns as Prime Minister following political upset by Borden; Liberal Party leader since 1887; MP Quebec East since 1877; Leader of the Opposition until his death in 1919. 1890 Washington DC - US President William McKinley brings in punitive McKinley Tariff; Canada applies counter-tariffs soon after, leading to recession on both sides of the border. 1825 Miramachi New Brunswick - Beginning of great Miramachi fire that kills over 500 people. Born on this day: 1914 - Gerry Wilmot hockey commentator, was born at Victoria BC; described in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's fastest speaking broadcaster. 1896 - 1986 Bill Cook hockey player. Cook entered organized hockey with the Kingston Frontenac juniors in 1916, then turned pro with the Saskatchewan Sheiks in 1922, winning three Western Canada League scoring titles; in 1926 he and his brother 'Bun' joined the New York Rangers, and he played with them for 12 years, winning two Stanley Cups, and scoring 228 goals and 140 assists.; two-time winner of the Art Ross scoring trophy; first all-star team three times. 1866 - 1932 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden radio pioneer and inventor, was born at Milton [East Bolton], Quebec; died in Hamilton, Bermuda. After studies at Bishop University, Fessenden went to work for Thomas Edison, then the Westinghouse labs and the US Weather Service. In 1902, he started his own company to develop his superheterodyne discoveries, and in 1906 accomplished the first two-way radio voice transmission between Scotland and his shore station at Brant Rock Massachusetts. That Christmas he broadcast the world's first public program of music and voice transmitted over long distances, from Brant Rock to the ships at sea. His inventions include the wireless telephone, the first wireless compass and the fathometer. He had over 300 patents, and was awarded $2.5 million by the US Radio Trust for his inventions, many of which were used by the US in World War I without his permission. 1853 - 1812 Thomas George, Lord Shaughnessy of Montreal and Ashford CPR railway magnate, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died in Montreal. Shaughnessy was a protégé of Van Horne, and the chief administrator of the Railway. 1769 - 1812 Isaac Brock soldier and administrator, the Hero of Upper Canada was born at St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands; killed by an American bullet at the battle of Queenston Heights, during a successful defense of Upper Canada against American attack. 1744 - 1813 James McGill fur trader, merchant, and politician, was born at Glasgow, Scotland; died in Montreal. McGill began his career in Montreal as a fur trader and North West Company partner until about 1810. His property investments flourished and his bequest of land and money led to the founding of McGill University.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 10:03 am
October 7 1997 Montreal Quebec - RCMP ordered to make reparations of $2 million to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for defamatory accusations released during the Airbus enquiry. 1969 Montreal Quebec - Montreal's 3,700 police and firefighters stage 16-hour wildcat strike, resulting in violence, looting and arson, as well as the death of one policeman and one civilian; both unions legislated back to work Oct. 8; during the strike, FLQ terrorists broke into an armory and stole weapons. 1963 Quebec - FLQ leader Georges Schoeters given 2 five-year terms for terrorist activities; Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve get 12 years for death of Sgt. O'Neill. 1918 Montreal Quebec - Epidemic of Spanish Influenza claims its first victim in Montreal; brought by returning veterans. 1913 Okotoks Alberta - William Stewart Herron discovers oil on the Dingman site near Calgary, sparking Alberta's first oil boom. Herron, a local horse wrangler, first noticed gas bubbling out of an old mine shaft in 1911, collected samples, and formed a company to drill on the site. 1774 London England - Quebec Act given Royal Assent; province to be ruled by a governor and from 17 to 23 councillors; freedom of religion given to Roman Catholics, and permission for Catholics to hold public office; guaranteed use of the French language; establishment of the French Civil Code and the English Criminal Code; maintenance of the seigneurial system; all to promote loyalty in the event of an American revolution. 1763 London England - King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763; constitutes the new British Province of Quebec; provides terms of government for the territories Britain acquired from France under the Treaty of Paris; recognizes Indian rights in British North America, effectively closing lands north and west of the Alleghenies to settlement; sets the western boundary where the 45th parallel crosses St. Lawrence NW to Lake Nipissing; the Appalachian watershed becomes the eastern boundary of Quebec. 1737 Trois-Rivieres Quebec - Iron ore is smelted in Canada for the first time on the banks of the St Maurice River upstream from Trois-Rivières. Parks Canada presently operate the Forges de St.-Maurice as a national historic site. 1661 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Uvil shot for selling alcohol to the Indians. 1535 Trois-Rivieres, Quebec - Jacques Cartier plants a cross at the mouth of the St. Maurice River and claims the land for France; calls the river the Fouez. Born on this day: 1938 - Gary Bergman hockey player. Bergman was a member of the Winnipeg Warriors, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Barons, NHL Detroit Red Wings, Memphis Wings, NHL Minnesota North Stars, and back to the Detroit Red Wings 1936 - Charles Dutoit conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 1901 - 1977 Francis X. 'Frank' Boucher All-star NHL center, coach, was born at Ottawa; died in Kemptville. Boucher started his hockey career with the RCMP team, then played with the Ottawa Senators and Vancouver Millionaires. In 1926 he was traded to the New York Rangers, where he centred a line with Bun and Bill Cook. He was a three time all-star, and played on two Stanley Cup winning teams. Frank Boucher was a gentleman's gentleman on the ice, and won the Lady Byng Trophy an unprecedented 8 times. The Trophy was finally given to him, and another one made. In 1940 he coached the Rangers to the Stanley Cup. 1786 - 1871 Louis Joseph Papineau lawyer, rebel, author, was born at Montreal; died at the seigneury of Montebello, Quebec. Papineau was leader of the unsuccessful 1837 Patriote revolt in Lower Canada.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 10:17 am
October 8 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn unveils new $2.8 million peacekeeping monument on traffic island in Ottawa; called Reconciliation; to honour 90,000 Canadians who served, 80 who died on duty since 1947. 1989 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays lose American League title to Oakland A's with 4-3 loss in Game 5. 1984 Nashville Tennessee - Springhill, Nova Scotia's Anne Murray wins the Country Music Association's Album of the Year Award for 'A Little Good News'; sold over 12-million copies; first woman and first Canadian to win the award. 1978 Montreal Quebec - Gilles Villeneuve wins his first Formula 1 race at the Montreal Grand Prix. 1971 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules Indian woman cannot be deprived of Indian status because of marriage to non-Indian; under the Bill of Rights. 1951 Montreal Quebec - Princess Elizabeth arrives at Dorval Airport to start cross-country tour with her husband Prince Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh; her first Royal Tour lasts until November 12; she will be crowned Queen the following year. 1943 Italy - Italian government surrenders to Allied forces; Germans and Fascist supporters keep fighting on. 1928 Washington D.C. - US Supreme Court decides that Canadians working in the US not liable for immigration fee when crossing. 1804 Lake Ontario Ontario - Government schooner 'Speedy' lost with all hands in a storm on Lake Ontario; dead include Judge Cochrane; Solicitor-General Gray; Surveyer Stegman. 1783 Adolphustown Ontario - Loyalists from New York travel through Quebec and settle at Adolphustown. 1643 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne Mance opens the Hôtel Dieu, Montreal's first hospital and the first lay hospital in North America; she will treat the French and Indian populations for over 30 years. Born on this day: 1864 - 1955 Ozias Leduc painter, was born at St-Hilaire; died in Ste-Hyacinthe. Leduc started his career in a Montreal statue factory painting murals, and exhibited first with the Art Association of Montreal in 1891. He was a symbolist, and spent much of his career decorating churches.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 10:39 am
October 9 1997 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada declares unconstitutional the section of Quebec's referendum law dealing with the financing of third parties, saying that the ceiling on expenses retrains the free expression of certain individuals and groups; regarding the section of the law forcing groups to join either a YES or NO committee, the Court suggests these restrictions are a clear restraint on freedom of expression. 1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Crowd of 5,000 demonstrate at the Manitoba Legislature demanding aid to grain farmers suffering from a global subsidy war; Mulroney government pledges $800 million the following day. 1984 Ottawa Ontario - Peter Greyson sentenced to 89 days in jail for pouring red ink on an original copy of the 1982 Constitution Act; Toronto art student was protesting the former Liberal government's decision to test cruise missiles in Canada. 1982 Brisbane Australia - Canada wins 26 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze medals, finishing 3rd at Commonwealth Games, Brisbane. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald sworn in as Prime Minister with his ministry; back in power after win over Alexander Mackenzie. 1874 Fort Macleod Alberta - James Farquharson Macleod arrives at Fort Whoop-Up with the first North West Mounted Police troop, guided by Metis scout Jerry Potts. They find the whisky trading post empty, but build a fort on an island in the Oldman River. The first arrest comes with the capture of five whiskey traders with two wagon loads of fire water (a concoction of brandy and pepper), buffalo robes and rifles. 1867 Spotted Island Labrador - William Jackman, captain of a Bowrings sealing steamer, swims through the surf to rescue 11 men from a wooden fishing vessel, the Sea Clipper, wrecked on a rocky reef. Then with the help of others and a rope, he swims out to the reef 16 more times to save the remaining men and women. 1812 Fort Erie, Ontario - US Lieutenant Jesse Elliot leads two boats of American soldiers and sailors up the Niagara River, and at 3:00 am, completely surprises the crews of the British ships 'Detroit' and 'Caledonia' at anchor under the protection of the guns of Fort Erie, freeing 40 American sailors who were prisoners aboard the two brigs, and capturing 70 British and Canadian sailors; in ten minutes sails them away; Caledonia makes it to the American naval base at Black Rock, but Detroit runs aground. 1668 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first Franco-Huron college at Quebec. 1002 Labrador/NWT - Leif Erikson lands in what is now North America on about this date. Born on this day: 1967 - Carling Bassett-Seguso tennis player, actor, was born at Toronto, daughter of media mogul John Bassett. Bassett began her winning career in 1981, taking the Canadian indoor junior title, and by 1982 was ranked first in the world in juniors. In 1983 she turned professional, and got to the quarter finals in the French and Australian Opens and at Wimbledon. The following year she made it to the US Open semifinals, and to the semis of five Virginia Slims tourneys. Bassett retired from competition in 1988. 1955 - Linwood Boomer actor, was born at Vancouver in 1955. Boomer starred as Adam in the TV series Little House on the Prairie. Boomer also produces the popular show, "Malcolm in the Middle" and produced "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "Night Court". 1890 - 1944 Aimee Semple McPherson radio's first female evangelist, was born Aimee Kennedy at Ingersoll, Ontario; died in Oakland California. When she was only 17, McPherson married Pentecostal evangelist Robert Semple, and accompanied him to China on missionary duty. When he died she moved to the US with her daughter, married another evangelist, H. S. McPherson, and started tent preaching. In 1918, they moved to Los Angeles, and in 1923, with her marriage shaky but her services packed, she opened her 5,000 seat Angelus Temple of the Foursquare Gospel, complete with high wattage radio show. Her main message was no divorce, no dancing and no cosmetics, but in 1926 she divorced McPherson, and disappeared for a time with her radio station manager. Her career faltered, and she divorced a third husband, and died of an apparent accidental drug overdose in 1944.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 10:56 am
October 10 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa releases legal text of Charlottetown Accord; some changes to Senate and native rights; not yet signed or legally binding. 1978 Ottawa Ontario - Female pages hired for the House of Commons for the first time. 1970 FLQ TERRORISTS KIDNAP PIERRE LAPORTE Montreal Quebec - October Crisis comes to a head. Chronology of this day: 5:30 pm - Quebec government refuses to free Front de Libération du Québec prisoners; 5:45 pm - Government rejects other FLQ conditions; 6:00 pm - Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette opens a news conference to announce that the government refuses to negotiate with FLQ terrorists; 6:18 pm - Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte 1921-1970 kidnapped by FLQ cell while playing football with his son outside his suburban home in St-Hubert; 7:10 pm - intense police activity begins around Montreal as the search begins for Laporte. 1964 Quebec Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Quebec marred by demonstrations; police wield nightsticks to break up crowds; called 'le Samedi de la Matraque'. 1911 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Wilfrid Laurier; was Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; serves to July 10, 1920. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie resigns with his Liberal government after election defeat by John A. Macdonald. 1864 Quebec Quebec - Opening of Quebec Conference; 33 delegates start drafting 72 Resolutions as an outline to the proposed union, which will form the core of the British North America Act; ends October 29. The Conference is attended by the following, who were at Charlottetown as well: Edward Chandler 1800-1880, John Johnson 1818-1868, William Steeves 1814-1873, Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 (New Brunswick); Jonathan McCully 1809-1877, Adams George Archibald 1814-1892, Robert Dickey 1811-1903, William Henry 1816-1888, Charles Tupper 1821-1915 (Nova Scotia); George Coles 1810-1875, John Hamilton Gray 1812-1887, Thomas Haviland 1822-1895, Edward Palmer 1809-1889, Andrew Macdonald 1829-1912, William Pope 1825-1879 (PEI); and from the Province of Canada: George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873, Hector-Louis Langevin 1826-1906, John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891, George Brown 1818-1880, Alexander Campbell 1822-1892, Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1825-1868, William McDougall, Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893. The following were not at Charlottetown: Peter Mitchell 1824-1899 and Charles Fisher 1808-1880 (New Brunswick); Ambrose Shea 1815-1905 and Frederick Carter 1819-1900 (Newfoundland); Edward Whelan 1824-1867 (PEI); Étienne-Paschal Taché 1795-1865 and Jean-Charles Chapais 1811-1885 (Canada East); James Cockburn 1819-1883 and Oliver Mowat 1820-1903 (Canada West) 1851 PEI - Great American Gale destroys 80 fishing vessels, killing 130 men; one of Prince Edward Island's worst natural disasters. 1849 Montreal Quebec - Over 325 prominent Montreal citizens sign Annexation Manifesto, advocating union of Canada and US; including John Abbott, a future prime minister; later published in Montreal Gazette. 1663 Paris France - The King approves the 'dîme' law, whereby the Habitants of New France are obliged to pay one-thirteenth of their harvest to the seigneur. Born on this day: 1966 - Karen Percy skier; at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, Percy became the first Canadian skier in 20 years to win two Olympic medals in the same games, with bronze medals in Downhill and Super G; she narrowly missed a third medal in the Combined when she lost the grip on her ski pole and came fourth. 1960 - Al Connelly Guitarist of the rock group Glass Tiger. 1946 - Pete Mahovlich NHL Centre. The younger brother of superstar Frank, Peter Mahovlich starred with the Montreal Canadiens for several years and also played with the Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Hornets, Fort Worth Wings, Montreal Voyageurs and Pittsburgh Penguins. 1863 - 1912 Louis Cyr the strongman of Quebec, was born at St-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Quebec; died in St-Jean-de-Matha. Cyr's family moved to Massachusetts when he was a boy, but he returned to Montreal to work as a policeman in 1882. He was soon giving shows of his prowess in weightlifting, and defeated all comers in a North American open in 1885 and a world meet in 1892. P. T. Barnum hired him as a strongman, and in Boston in 1895, Cyr hoisted the heaviest weight ever lifted by a human being - a platform with 19 fat men weighing a total of 1967 kg. On his retirement he opened a tavern in Montreal. 1819 - 1894 Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck first Governor-General of Canada, was born at Templemore, Ireland; died in Enniskerry, Ireland. Monck attended Trinity College, Dublin, served as a Liberal MP and Lord of the Treasury, then was appointed Governor General of British North America in 1861. He carefully handled Canada's relations with the US during the period, and tirelessly promoted Confederation. From 1874-92 he was Lord Lieutenant of Dublin.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 11:17 am
October 11 1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; Chronology of the day: 2:15 am - police search the homes of several suspects; 9:03 am - discovery of communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; FLQ extend deadline; 10:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman arrested; 12:00 am - Robert Bourassa meets his Cabinet in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; 1:00 pm - discovery of a further communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; 5:00 pm - another communiqué from the Chénier cell; 9:45 pm - Bourrassa offers to negotiate to free the hostages; 10:00 pm FLQ deadline expires. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Committee on the Study of Election Expenses recommends full disclosure of election spending by parties and candidates. 1952 Montreal Quebec - CBFT Television in Montreal carries the first hockey telecast in Canada, Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings, in French; origin of Radio-Canada's 'la Soirée du Hockey'. 1942 Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen sails the RCMP patrol vessel 'St. Roch' into Halifax harbour after making the first west-to-east crossing of the Northwest Passage; one of his eight-man crew had died of a heart attack in the Arctic as the wooden sailing schooner with an auxiliary engine spent the winter in the ice less than 80 km from the North Magnetic Pole. The St. Roch was built in North Vancouver in 1928. A wooden schooner with sail and auxiliary engine, she left Vancouver in the summer of 1940, took the southerly route through the Arctic islands, and spent two winters trapped in the ice; she was the second ship to sail the Passage, after Amundsen's Gjoa in 1908. She returned to Vancouver July-Oct. 1944 by the northerly Lancaster Sound route, and today you can see her berthed in Vancouver's Maritime Museum. 1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden Cabinet bans strikes and walkouts for duration of war. 1911 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden succeeds Wilfrid Laurier as Prime Minister; to Oct. 12, 1917, then head of Unionist Government to July 10; ninth Dominion Ministry. 1875 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Party of almost 300 Icelanders land on the steamer International en route to their colony of New Iceland on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; harsh winters and an epidemic that killed over 200,000 of their sheep caused them to look for a new home. 1869 METIS START RED RIVER REBELLION St-Vital Manitoba - Canadian surveyor Adam Clark Webb and his crew try to mark off a long farm field belonging to Metis André Nault, a cousin of Louis Riel; when Nault asks them to leave and they refuse, a group of 16 unarmed Metis led by Riel arrive; Riel places his foot on the surveyor's chain, and tells the crew 'You go no further'. This incident marks the beginning of the Red River Insurrection; Metis and others object to transfer of Rupert's Land to Canadian sovereignty without being consulted, and fear a flood of eastern settlers will destroy their way of life. 1849 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Gazette publishes the Annexation Manifesto, asking for union with U.S. if commercial difficulties with Britain cannot be resolved. 1615 Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain, with a war party of Hurons, is ambushed by the Onondagas. The Hurons get the worst of the fighting after a three hour battle, even though Champlain uses his blunderbuss against the Iroquois. He is wounded and the party withdraw back across Lake Ontario. Born on this day: 1929 - Raymond Moriyama architect, was born at Vancouver. Moriyama took his training at the U of T and McGill, then started a practice in Toronto in 1958. His best known buildings are the Ontario Science Centre (1969), The Metro Reference Library (1977) and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (1990). 1893 - 1983 George Hodgson swimmer. Hodgson won the mile swim for Canada at the 1911 Festival of Empire Games in London, beating the world record holder, Sid Battersby of Britain; 1912 Stockholm Olympics won gold in the 400m and the 1500m freestyle, both in record times which stood until 1942; Canada's first double gold Olympian. 1852 - 1933 Mary Macleod Western Canada pioneer, was born Mary Drever at Red River Manitoba; died in Calgary. At age 17, during the Red River Rebellion, Macleod was able to evade her Metis guards and deliver an important despatch to Colonel Garnet Wolseley. In 1876 she married a man who had been a young soldier on the Red River Expedition - the new Commissioner of the NWMP, James Macleod. She accompanied her husband on many of his inspection tours, and was a signer of Blackfoot Treaty #7 in 1877.
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| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 4:17 pm
October 12 1970 TRUDEAU SENDS IN THE TROOPS Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues: Chronology of the day: 1:45 am - new FLQ communiqué; 2:45 am -James Cross writes a letter to CKLM; 8:00 am - Canadian Army troops leave Camp Petawawa and mobilize in Ottawa to meet terrorist threats, guard government buildings and officials, and protect the diplomatic community; 4:00 pm - FLQ Chénier cell issues another communiqué; 10:55 pm - new FLQ communiqué. 1968 Mexico City - Canadian athletes join 111 other nations at the opening of the 19th Summer Olympic games in Mexico; first Olympiad ever held in Latin America attracts 5,530 competitors; Canada will win one gold medal (Equestrian - Team Jumping: Jim Day, Jim Elder, Tom Gayford), three silver medals (Elaine Tanner in 100 and 200m Backstroke and Ralph Hutton in 400m Freestyle), and one bronze medal (4x100m Freestyle: Angela Coughlan, Marilyn Corson, Marion Lay, Elaine Tanner). 1957 Stockholm Sweden - Lester Bowles Pearson awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his establishment of a United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt to solve the Suez Crisis and halt the Israeli-British-French invasion. 1937 Toronto Ontario - Public schools open six-weeks late after polio epidemic eases; disease claimed 150 lives that summer. 1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden forms Unionist Government, with 10 Liberals and 13 Conservatives in Cabinet; many English Speaking Liberals abandon Laurier over conscription issue. 1899 Ottawa Ontario - Canadians split over Britain's decision to go to war against the Boers in South Africa; most English Canadians want to support the Mother Country, but many French Canadians identify with the Boers, or like Henri Bourassa reject getting involved in an imperial war. Wilfrid Laurier's solution is to decline joining the Boer War officially by sending the Canadian Army (a decision given to Joseph Chamberlain in 1897), but to place 8,300 volunteers at the disposal of Britain and supply up to $3 million in funding. 1872 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald defeats Alexander Mackenzie with 49.1% of popular vote, versus Mackenzie's 49.9%; 104 seats to Liberal 96; balloting from July 20 to Oct. 12. 1759 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Pontbriand tells the people of Quebec to accept the English conquerors. 1615 Syracuse, New York - A wounded Samuel de Champlain and his Huron war party withdraw back toward Lake Ontario after defeat by Senecas and Onondagas. 1535 Quebec Quebec - Iroquois show Jacques Cartier and his crew the use of tobacco. Born on this day: 1951 - Bernie Ruoff CFL kicker, was born in West Germany. Ruoff put his soccer-trained foot to good use for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger Cats. 1909 - 1996 Dorothy Livesay poet. Livesay's works range from angry (Day and Night, 1944) to intensely personal lyricism (Selected Poems, 1957). 1880 - 1913 Louis Hémon author, was born in Brest, France; died near Chapleau, Ontario. Hémon wrote Maria Chapdelaine, the best known novel of French-Canadian pioneer life.
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| Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 8:48 am
October 13 1993 Stockholm Sweden - British-born Canadian citizen Michael Smith awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry; jointly with US chemist Kary Mullis for work on DNA molecules of genetic material. 1992 London England - Michael Ondaatje named joint winner of $45,000 Booker Prize with British author Barry Unsworth; for novel The English Patient; Toronto poet, novelist came to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1962; first Canadian to win the prize, awarded for Commonwealth literature. 1970 OCTOBER CRISIS STANDOFF Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues, as 15 soldiers from the 22nd Regiment arrive in Montreal to assist civil authorities; other units take up positions in Quebec City; police have Jacques Lanctôt under suspicion; Paul Rose picked up by surveillance but lost. Chronology of the day: 10:00 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux set free; 2:00 pm - Robert Lemieux meets Quebec Government lawyer/negotiator Robert Demers; 5:20 pm: Robert Lemieux makes a speech critical of the Government; 5:30 pm: Government refuses to negotiate further. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada opens diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China; ends official ties with Taiwan. 1966 Montreal Quebec - Robbers get away with $1 million mail theft at Montreal International Airport. 1952 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence allows 16 year olds to enter the Canadian Army. 1866 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys 2,500 buildings in Quebec City. 1812 Queenston Ontario - Isaac Brock dies in battle while storming the Queenston Heights to dislodge Stephen Van Rensselaer and his invading army of 1,200 US troops and militia; Roger Sheaffe takes command after Brock's death. Americans lose 90 dead, 100 wounded, over 850 prisoners. Ironically, Brock was awarded a knighthood in England three days before his death; a monument to him stands at Queenston Heights. 1812 Queenston Ontario - James Secord, of the 1st. Lincoln Militia, badly wounded in the Battle of Queenston Heights. The following May, Queenston is again invaded by the Americans, this time successfully; all men over 18 made prisoners of war, but due to his wounds, Secord allowed to stay in his home with his wife, Laura Ingersoll Secord, and three US officers billeted in the house. In June, 1813, the couple overhear the Americans planning a surprise attack on Lt. FitzGibbon and his Mohawk warriors at Beaverdams. Laura walks 32 km to the Decew house where FitzGibbon is staying; her warning and a decisive American defeat leads to the salvation of Upper Canada. 1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal; renames it Annapolis Royal in honour of Queen Anne; end of French rule throughout Nova Scotia. Born on this day: 1833-1912 Edward Blake politician, was born at Adelaide, Ontario; died in Toronto. Blake was a lawyer, prime minister of Ontario (1871-72), and leader of the federal Liberal Party (1880-87). While he was a brilliant orator and an authority on the Canadian constitution, he was not a good politician, and was never able to make headway against John. A. Macdonald. 1817 - 1906 William Kirby novelist and writer, was born at Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England; died in Niagara on the Lake. Kirby's historical novel about Quebec, The Golden Dog (1877, 1896), is a classic of Canadian literature.
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| Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 9:23 am
October 14 1992 Stockholm Sweden - Rudolph Marcus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to theory of electron transfer reactions; 69 year old Montreal-born scientist researching at Caltech. 1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 5:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux issues a statement on the breakdown of talks to free Laporte and Cross; 8:00 pm - Robert Bourassa replies to Lemieux; it is later revealed that the FLQ has 22 cells and 130 hard core members. 1960 Havana Cuba - Fidel Castro's government nationalizes all foreign banks except Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada. 1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode two bombs in Montreal. 1944 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe becomes Minister of Reconstruction as well as Munitions and Supply; lures away Mackintosh and a brain trust of economists from Finance to assist him. 1942 Port-au-Basques, Newfoundland - German U-boat torpedoes Newfoundland Railway Fleet steamship 'Caribou' in the Cabot Strait on the North Sydney-Port-au-Basques route; 137 lives lost. In spite of this the Battle of St. Lawrence is rapidly ending after taking 700 lives, 23 ships. 1935 KING BEATS BENNETT IN DEPRESSION LANDSLIDE Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King defeats R. B. Bennett in the 18th federal general election; wins 171 of the 245 Commons seats, to 40 Conservatives, 17 Social Credit; 7 CCF, 1 Independent; takes 44.8% of the popular vote for the largest majority since Confederation. King will remain prime minister until 1948. Arthur Meighen becomes Senate Opposition leader on King's victory; only person to lead government and opposition in both houses. In other results, Henri Bourassa loses his Labelle seat. 1698\Quebec Quebec - New France census shows the following tallies: 32,524 arpents under cultivation, with 994 sheep, 5,147 pigs, 684 horses, 10,209 cattle; 2,310 houses (211 in Trois-Rivières, 1,460 in Québec, 639 in Montréal); population includes 7,391 males, 6,424 females; settlements include Batiscan with 422 inhabitants, Beauport with 444, Château-Richer with 373, L'Ancienne-Lorette with 68, L'Ile d'Orléans with 1,472, Longueuil with 223, Montréal with 1,185, Québec with 1,988, Rivière-du-Loup with 22, Sorel with 59, Ste-Anne de Beaupré with 222. 1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse mobilizes inhabitants of Montreal, alerted by barking dogs, against a force of invading Iroquois; will beat back the Iroquois in a two day battle near Montreal. 1641 Montreal Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny takes formal possession of Montreal Island for Sieur de Maisonneuve's colonizing company. Born on this day: 1949 - Dave 'The Hammer' Schultz NHL enforcer. Schultz's ability to intimidate and bully opposing forwards worked for a time when he played with the Broad Street Bullies - the Philadelphia Flyers - until other teams hired their own enforcers. 1938 - Ron Lancaster football player and coach, was born at Fairchance, Pennsylvania. Lancaster worked as quarterback of the CFL Ottawa Rough Riders from 1960-63, playing with Russ Jackson. In 1963 Ottawa traded him to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, where he played for another 13 years, until retiring in 1978. He coached the Regina team for two years, then went into TV colour commentary, then returned to coach the Edmonton Eskimos, leading them to the Grey Cup in 1993. In his CFL career, The Little General set 30 league records, connecting for 3,384 passes (50,535 yards) and scoring 333 touchdowns. He was twice outstanding CFL player, went to the playoffs 17 times and was on 2 Grey Cup winning teams. 1929 - Yvon Durelle boxer, born at Baie Ste Anne, New Brunswick. Durelle started his boxing career in 1947; 1953 took the light heavyweight title of Canada in a 12 round decision over Gordon Wallace; 1957 beat Wallace again to take the British Empire light heavyweight crown; 1958 narrowly missed the world light heavyweight title in a battle with Archie Moore, knocking Moore down four times, but losing to a KO in the 11th round. 1848 - 1924 Byron Edmund Walker banker, was born on a farm in Seneca Township, Haldimand County, Ontario, one of 9 children; dies at Toronto. Walker entered the service of his uncle J.W. Murton, a private banker in Hamilton, at age 12; 1868 hired as a discount clerk by the new Canadian Bank of Commerce; 1872 accountant at the head office in Toronto; 1873 junior agent in New York; 1875 manager of the Windsor branch; 1878 manager at London; 1879 inspector of the bank; 1880 manager at Hamilton; 1881 sent to New York again as joint agent; 1886 General Manager; President from 1907 to 1924. Walker set in place the division of the bank into departments. In 1891-92 he was chairman of the bankers' section of the Toronto Board of Trade; 1893 vice-president of the Canadian Bankers' Association; 1911 bolted from the Liberal party and opposed Laurier's policy of Reciprocity with the US, because it would weaken ties with Britain; instrumental in defeat of Liberals and election of Borden, whom he advised, helping to formulate the Finance Act of 1914 and financing Canada's conduct of World War I. President of the Royal Canadian Institute 1898-1900; a founder of the Toronto Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Ontario); 1905 founder of the Champlain Society; 1910 knighted by King George V; 1911 founder of Appleby School for boys in Oakville, Ontario; 1913 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada; 1912-24 Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the driving force behind establishment of the Royal Ontario Museum; 1910 Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto and Chancellor in 1923.
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October 15 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Eric Hoskins wins 1992 Pearson Peace Medal, awarded by United Nations Association in Canada; 31 year old doctor gave humanitarian aid to postwar Iraq. 1989 Edmonton Alberta - Los Angeles Kings star Wayne Gretzky gets two goals and one assist against his former Oiler teammates to pass Gordie Howe as the National Hockey League's all time scoring leader, with 1,851 career points. His first goal ties the game in the third period, his second wins it 5-4 in overtime. Gretzky does it in his 780th NHL game; Howe's record came in 1,767 games. 1986 Stockholm Sweden - University of Toronto professor John Polanyi named joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 1970 OCTOBER CRISIS CONTINUES Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sends the Canadian Army into Montreal at the request of the Quebec government. Chronology of the day: 9:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa rejects conditions imposed by the FLQ for freeing hostages James Cross and Pierre Laporte; 10:00 pm: FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux declares that his mandate is over; 4:00 am following - Trudeau proclaims the War Measures Act, giving police sweeping powers to arrest and detain without warrant anyone suspected of involvement with the FLQ. 1954 Ontario - Hurricane Hazel drives across the Appalachians and hits South-Central Ontario; 124 km/h winds, 10.1 cm (4 in.) of rain falls in 12 hours, the heaviest rains in southern Ontario history; on Raymore Drive in Etobicoke, 17 homes are swept into the Humber River, and 36 are killed when debris blocks a bridge and more homes are washed away; storm does $25 million damage, kills total of 83 people. 1912 Port Alberni BC - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney reach Alberni after first cross-Canada motor trip; 52 day trip to establish the All Red Route; they spent 41 days of driving in their Reo. 1672 La Malbaie, Quebec - First wood exported to France from La Malbaie [Murray Bay].. 1666 New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy puts Mohawk villages to the torch after making peace with Senecas and Oneidas; claims Iroquois territory for Louis XIV. 1663 Quebec Quebec - New France expels undesirables from the colony. 1582 France - Gregorian calendar introduced in Catholic countries, cutting 10 prior days (October 5 becomes October 15). Born on this day: 1953 - Betsy Clifford skier, was born at Old Chelsea, Quebec. Clifford's father was manager of the Camp Fortune ski area, and she learned to race at an early age, capturing the national junior championship at age 12, the Canadian senior slalom championship at age 13, and competing for Canada in the 1968 Olympics at age 14; 1970 took the giant slalom race at Val Gardena, Italy, at age 16, becoming the youngest person ever to win the World Championships; 1971 finished second in the World Cup slalom; 1974 won silver in the World Downhill Championship; 1976 retired at age 23. 1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith economist, author, diplomat, was born at Iona Station, Ontario. Galbraith was educated at the Ontario Agricultural College, University of California, and Cambridge University. He has been Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University, since 1949, served on the US National Defense Advisory Commission, and was Deputy Administrator, U.S. Office of Price Administration, director of the Office of Economic Security (1946), US Ambassador to India (1961-63) and editor of Fortune magazine (1943-1948). His major books include Modern Competition and Business Policy (1938), A Theory of Price Control (1952), American Capitalism (1952), The Great Crash: 1929 (1955), The Affluent Society (1958), The Liberal Hour (1960), Ambassador's Journal (1969), The New Industrial State (revised 1971), Economics and the Public Purpose (1973), Money (1975) , The Age of Uncertainty (1977) , A Journey Through Economic Time (1994) and The Good Society: The Humane Agenda. 1840 - 1894 Honoré Mercier Liberal Premier of Quebec 1887-1891, was born at St-Athanase, Iberville County; died in Montreal. Mercier helped found the Parti national in 1872, to dissociate the liberals from the Parti Rouge, and was elected MP for Rouville; 1879 moved to provincial politics; 1885 elected leader of the provincial Liberal Party; 1885 severely criticized Riel's hanging; 1886 elected Premier; settles Jesuits estates issue, creates a separate University of Montreal, encourages railway building and colonization; 1888 creates Department of Agriculture and Colonization, with Curé Antoine LaBelle as deputy minister; hosts first interprovincial conference of premiers since Confederation, forcing Ottawa to recognize provincial autonomy in fiscal matters; Dec 1891 removed from office in Baie des Chaleurs railway scandal, but no proof he was personally involved. 1701 - 1771 Mother Marie d'Youville founder of the Grey Nuns, was born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de La Jemmerais at Varennes Quebec; died in Montreal. Youville was educated by Ursulines at Québec; 1722 married brandy trader François d'Youville of Montreal and had two children; he died in 1730; 1727 experienced a religious conversion; 1737 founded a charitable lay group with four other women; 1747 her group took over the bankrupt Hôpital Général de Montréal, founded in 1692 by François Charon de La Barre; 1753 her group given title to the hospital by Louis XV; 1755 founding of the order - the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général de Montréal (Soeurs grises); 1959 first Canadian-born person to be beatified.
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October 16 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court Justice Barry Strayer rejects appeal by Native Women's Association of Canada to halt referendum; says right to be included in talks expired March 12. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports youth violence offenses up to 855 per 100,000 in 1991, up from 415 in 1986; assault charges total 632 per 100,000, up from 300 in 1986. 1976 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds. 1970 TRUDEAU INVOKES WAR MEASURES ACT Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declares 'a state of apprehended insurrection' and imposes the War Measures Act before dawn, after Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was found murdered. Canadian troops are ordered to protect public figures, and police round up and interview 497 possible suspects, arresting 250, including Michel Chartrand, and searching 170 homes, in an attempt to break the FLQ cell structure and find British diplomat James Cross, also kidnapped by the terrorists. The Act lets Cabinet overrule civil rights and authority. It is the first time emergency powers have been used in peacetime, and the only use of the 1914 statute during a domestic crisis; it could be invoked when the Cabinet perceived the existence of 'war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended'. Chronology of the day: 04:00 am - Proclamation of the War Measures Act; 11:00 am - government issues special emergency regulations; 5:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa approves the proclamation of an emergency; 8:00 pm - Mayor Jean Drapeau approves the government's action; 10:15 pm - Pierre Trudeau addresses the nation. 1946 Detroit Michigan - Floral, Saskatchewan's Gordie Howe plays in his first NHL game, and scores his first goal as a Detroit Red Wing; against the Toronto Maple Leafs. 1944 Ottawa Ontario - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar promoted to the rank of General; first Canadian to hold that rank in the field. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie ends his only elected term of office; Canada's first Liberal prime minister. 1820 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island officially rejoins Nova Scotia. 1690 Quebec Quebec - William Phips arrives at Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, and asks for surrender; Count Frontenac, with garrison of 3,000 refuses; the English start bombarding the city on the 18th, but have little effect; after a defeat at Beauport on the 21st, they retreat. Quebec's annual fete de Notre Dame de la Victoire is held on this day. 1666 New York State - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; arrives at deserted Mohawk village of Andarague after rain-soaked march of several days; destroys settlement and Iroquois corn crops. as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help. Born on this day: 1974 - Paul Kariya hockey left winger, was born at Vancouver. Kariya was selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the first round (fourth pick overall) of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft; appeared in only 22 games in the 1997-98 season, after Gary Suter-inflicted head injury. 1943 - Fred Turner Rock & Roll Singer, bassist, songwriter. Turner is one of the driving forces behind Canadian supergroup Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO); songs include: Takin' Care of Business, Let It Ride, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Looking Out for Number One, Hey You. 1870 - 1954 Wallace Turnbull aeronautical engineer, inventor, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick; died in Saint John. After studies in Germany and at Cornell University, Turnbull went to worked for the Edison labs. In 1902, he retired and set up his own wind tunnel in his private lab in Rothsay, New Brunswick, where he collaborated with Alexander Graham Bell and in 1927 developed one of aviation's most significant inventions - the variable-pitch propeller - that allows plane propeller blades to cut the air at different angles depending on speed - giving a plane efficiency and maximum power in takeoffs and landings, and economical cruising at speed.
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October 17 1990 Stockholm Sweden - Richard Taylor wins Nobel Prize for Physics with Friedman and Kendall; for work on quarks; born Medicine Hat; Professor Stanford University. 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament begins regular live TV coverage of the debates and Question Period in the House of Commons. 1974 St. John's, Newfoundland - Mark Kent, age 17, arrives in St. John's, the first person to run the 6,529 km [4,057 miles] across Canada; started in Victoria, BC 102 days earlier. 1970 FLQ TERRORISTS STRANGLE LAPORTE Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 6:18 pm - Front de libération du Québec Chénier cell strangle Pierre Laporte 1921-1970; 7:30 pm - FLQ announce the 'execution' of Laporte; 10:00 pm - Quebec government issue communiqué deploring the action; 10:30 pm - St-Hubert Airport security reports suspicious Chevrolet sedan parked beside a hangar; 11:15 pm - police arrive at St-Hubert Airport and start checking the car for signs of a bomb; 12;15 am - police open the trunk and discover a body, apparently Laporte's, strangled with the chain of a religious medal; 2:45 am - Pierre Laporte's body positively identified; Quebec Labour Minister was kidnapped by the FLQ Oct. 10. 1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliot Trudeau introduces the Official Languages Act in Parliament.; legislation will require all federal departments, commissions and agencies to use both English and French in dealings with the public. 1967 New York City - Montreal composer Galt MacDermot opens his rock musical 'Hair' to rave reviews at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway; runs for 1,758 performances, and is adapted for film. MacDermot will go on to write the Tony Award-winning score for Two Gentlemen of Verona, and another musical, The Human Comedy; also ballet scores (La Novela, Salome); film scores (Cotton Comes To Harlem, Fortune and Men's Eyes, Mistress); chamber music (Wind Quintet); an Anglican Liturgy (The Mass in F); poetry (The Thomas Hardy Songs), drama accompaniments (The Sun Always Shines For The Cool, The Shooting of Dan McGrew), and band, jazz and rap repertory. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada for the second time (formerly July 1, 1867 to Nov. 05, 1873); holds office to June 6, 1891. 1777 Saratoga New York - British General John Burgoyne is surrounded and trapped, surrendering to American General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga; the battle marks the reversal of British fortunes in the war. 1671 London England - first auctioning of furs from Hudson Bay at Garroway's Coffee House. 1541 Paris France - Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval given seigneurial ownership of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador; Cartier appointed a subordinate. Born on this day: 1963 - Norm Macdonald comic 1948 - Margot Kidder movie actor, was born at Yellowknife, NWT. After some TV roles, and a date with Pierre Trudeau, Kidder's first film appearance was in Norman Jewison's Gaily, Gaily (1969). She also starred in the Amityville Horror (1979) and as reporter Lois Lane in the four Superman movies (1978, 81, 83 and 87). 1945 - Dave Cutler CFL kicker, was born at Biggar Saskatchewan. Cutler joined the Edmonton Eskimos in 1969 and played with them until his retirement in 1984. He led the CFL in scoring 7 times, and has a lifetime 627 converts, 464 field goals and 2237 total points, a record in professional football. 1922 - Pierre Juneau arts executive, was born at Verdun Quebec. Juneau served as administrator of the National Film Board from 1949 to 1966, then joined the Board of Broadcast Governors as Deputy Governor, and was Chairman of the successor Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission 1968-75. He then served as Deputy Minister of Communications, and President of the CBC 1982-89, where he was responsible for bringing in the new CBC Newsworld service. 1915 - 1994 Harry Saltzman movie producer, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick; died of a heart attack in Paris. Saltzman co-produced the first nine classic James Bond films with Cubby Broccoli.
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October 18 1992 Atlanta Georgia - Visiting Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves 5-to-4, in Game 2 of the World Series, to tie the series at one game apiece; pre-game ceremony marred by a US Marine Corps color guard that entered the stadium mistakenly carrying the Canadian flag upside down. Jays first non-American team to win a World Series game. 1981 Montreal Quebec - Expos-Dodgers National League playoff game postponed because of rain, for the first time in League history. The following day, Montreal loses to Los Angeles 2-1 and is eliminated three games to two. 1976 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau issues conflict of interest guidelines for his ministers. 1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 12:15 am - police open the trunk of a suspicious Chevrolet sedan parked beside a hangar at St-Hubert Airport; discover a body, apparently strangled with the chain of a religious medal; 2:45 am - body positively identified as that of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, kidnapped by FLQ terrorists Oct. 10; 12:00 noon - new communiqué from the FLQ claiming responsibility; warrants issued for the arrest of Marc Charbonneau and Paul Rose; FLQ captive James Cross writes a letter to authorities. 1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada agrees to maintain 12,000 army and air force in Europe as part of NATO commitment. 1929 COURT RULES WOMEN ARE INDEED PERSONS London England - The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, reversing an April 1928 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, rules that the word 'person' in Section 24 of the British North America Act refers to both male and female persons, and that Canadian women are eligible to be summoned to and serve as members of the Senate of Canada. Five Alberta women - Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby - had appealed the decision to Canada's highest court of appeal at the time. The fight began in 1918 when a lawyer appeared before Judge Emily Murphy and said her judgments were illegal because she was not a 'person' under British legal custom. 1877 Hamilton Ontario - Hugh C. Baker, Charles D. Cory, T. C. Mewburn and Mrs. I. R. Thompson get the world's first telephone service, installed by the Bell Company. 1748 Aix-la-Chapelle, France - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession. PEI, Cape Breton & Louisbourg are returned to France; in exchange for Madras, India. 1646 New York State - Jesuit Fathers Isaac Jogues & Jean de La Lande killed by Mohawks while on a peace mission. The 'black robes' are blamed for a smallpox epidemic among the Iroquois, since Jogues had left a chest of gifts for them the previous year, just before the outbreak of the disease; he is dispatched with a hatchet blow to the head. Born on this day: 1932 - Iona Campagnolo broadcaster, politician, was born Iona Hardy at Galiano Island, BC. Campagnolo was brought up in Prince Rupert, where she started her career as a broadcaster in 1965. She was head of the local school board, an alderman, Liberal MP for Skeena 1974-79 and federal Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport 1976-79. She was first woman President of the Liberal Party of Canada 1982-86. 1919 - 2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau lawyer, politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada 1968-79, 1980-84, Liberal Party Leader 1968-1984, was born at Montreal; son of Charles-Emile Trudeau and Grace Elliott. Trudeau attends Jean de Brébeuf College, B.A. 1940; l'Université de Montréal, LL.L. 1943; Harvard University, M.A. Political Economy 1945; École des sciences politiques, Paris 1946-1947; London School of Economics 1947-1948; Canada's first PM born in the 20th century.
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October 19 1989 Paris France - Josée Chouinard wins second gold medal in artistic skating at the World figure Skating Championships. 1987 BLACK MONDAY MARKET MELTDOWN Toronto Ontario - The Toronto Stock Exchange follows New York down, as a crashing stock market leads to global financial panic. The TSE 300 Index drops 407 points, and the Dow Jones plunges 508.32 points, or 22.62 per cent, wiping out $500 billion in share values. 1970 Montreal Quebec - Police discover the FLQ hideout where Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was hidden, and then murdered. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves introduction of the War Measures Act, 190 votes to 16. 1966 USA - Elizabeth Arden dies at age 81; founder of the cosmetics manufacturing giant was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Toronto Dec 31, 1884. 1944 Aardensburg Netherlands - Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg. 1957 Montreal Quebec - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard scores his 500th career goal, leading the Canadiens to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks; first NHL player to reach that mark; does so in 863 games. 1864 St. Albans, Vermont - Confederate States of America Lt. Bennett Young leads 25 Confederate Civil War fugitives hiding in Montreal to St. Albans, where they rob three banks of $200,000, and kill one person, before escaping back across the border to St-Jean; thirteen are arrested a few days later, and held for extradition, but are released on a technicality by a Montreal police magistrate; northernmost engagement of the US Civil War. 1844 Toronto Ontario - Gale force winds force water from Lakes Ontario and Erie onto the streets of Toronto and Buffalo; as many as 200 persons drown on the lakes. Born on this day: 1939 - Tommy Ambrose singer, composer, was born at Toronto. Ambrose began his career at age 5 singing at Youth for Christ rallies. In 1960-61 he hosted the CBC show While We're Young, and hosted his own Tommy Ambrose Show in 1961-63, and from 1975-76 the gospel music show Celebration. Today he is a prolific writer of advertising jingles. 1937 - Marilyn Bell marathon swimmer, was born in Toronto. In September 1954, at age 16, Bell was the only one to finish the Canadian National Exhibition sponsored 50 km race across Lake Ontario, touching the CNE breakwater 21 hours after leaving Youngstown NY; also conquered the English Channel and the Straits of Juan de Fuca . 1784 - 1857 John McLoughlin fur trader, doctor, was born near Riviere du Loup in 1784; died in Oregon City, Oregon. McLoughlin was hired by the North West Company in Montreal as a doctor in 1803, and by 1814 was a partner. He helped promote the coalition with the Hudson's Bay Company, and in 1821 was made a Chief Factor, and posted by Sir George Simpson to the Columbia District. The two often clashed over how to deal with American settlers and trading ships - McLoughlin was an humanitarian, seeing US statehood as inevitable - and he left the HBC in 1848 to start a flour and sawmill operation, becoming The Father of Oregon in the process.
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October 20 1992 JAYS WIN FIRST WORLD SERIES GAME OUTSIDE THE US Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves 3-2 in Game 3 of the World Series, taking a 2-1 lead in games; in the pre-game ceremony at SkyDome, the Marines Corps color guard presents the Canadian flag correctly, two days after another guard held the banner upside-down before Game 2 in Atlanta; first World Series game played outside the USA. 1970 Montreal Quebec - Funeral held for Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, slain by FLQ terrorists. 1956 Churchill Manitoba - Canada launches first rockets to examine weather and ionosphere. 1953 Sudbury Ontario - Canada's first privately-owned television station goes into operation in Sudbury. 1903 Washington DC - Joint High Commission issues Canada/Alaska boundary award, the commissioners voting 4-2 to support the US claim for a boundary running behind the heads of the inlets, but agreeing to equal distribution of 4 islands at the mouth of Portland Canal; the British commissioner, Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, breaks the deadlock, but the two Canadian members, A.B. Aylesworth and Sir Louis Jetté, refuse to sign the lopsided award, and return to Ottawa; Alaska Boundary Crisis leads to a Canada's determination to protect its own interest through the creation of the Department of External Affairs. 1855 Toronto Ontario - Toronto new provincial capital of Canada; until Ottawa became capital in 1859. 1818 London England - Treaty of London sets 49th Parallel as boundary from Lake of the Woods to Rockies; North American Fishing convention also restores US fishing and curing rights around the Gulf of St. Lawrence; US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country. 1671 Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon, the Intendant of New France, orders the colony's bachelors to marry the women brought over from France - the so-called Filles du Roy - or lose their fishing, hunting and fur-trading rights. 1629 London England - Samuel de Champlain taken to London by the Kirke brothers after the capture of Quebec; left Tadoussac Sept. 14; petitions the English to return New France to the Company of 100 Associates; will be released and sent to Dieppe Nov. 30; Kirkes occupy Quebec until 1632. 1611 Gravesend England - Henry Hudson's mutineers on board the Discovery reach London in a half-starved condition; all the ringleaders including Juet had died; Bylot, Syms, Edward Wilson, Prickett, Matheus, Bond, Clements and Motter are questioned, and a recommendation made that they be hanged; the trial does not take place until 1618, and the Admiralty court finds the survivors not guilty. Born on this day: 1963 - Julie Payette Canadian Space Agency Shuttle astronaut; Payette is the first Quebec-born astronaut. 1961 - Johnny Dee Singer/guitarist, songwriter, of Honeymoon Suite. 1904 - 1986 Tommy Douglas Baptist minister, politician, was born at Falkirk Scotland; died in Ottawa. Douglas moved with his family to Winnipeg in 1919, where he witnessed the General Strike. After serving as a printer's apprentice, he decided to enter the Church, and studied at Brandon College for 6 years. In 1930 he was posted to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the Dust Bowl and the Depression first hand. In 1933, he attended the first meeting of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and ran provincially the following year, but was defeated. In 1935 he won federally, and was elected to Parliament, where he argued for government intervention to help Canada's poor. In 1944, he left federal politics, and was elected Premier of Saskatchewan. After 17 years of welfare innovation, including Canada's first medicare system, Douglas left to serve as founding leader of the New Democratic Party. He retired in 1979. 1873 - 1951 Nellie McClung women's rights advocate, legislator, author, was born Nellie Mooney at Chatsworth, Ontario; died in Victoria BC. McClung moved with her family to homestead in the Souris Valley, Manitoba in 1880, and didn't attend school until she was 10 years old. By age 16 she had earned her teachers' certificate and started teaching school. In 1896, she married the druggist of nearby Manitou, John Wesley McClung, became active in the Womens' Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), started a family, and published a popular novel - Sowing Seeds in Danny - in 1908. After moving with her family to Winnipeg, she became active in the suffrage movement and joined the Liberal Party. In 1915 the McClungs moved to Edmonton, where she continued the fight for suffrage, prohibition and other reforms. She was involved in the Persons Case, and sat as a Liberal MLA in the Alberta Legislature from 1921-26. The family then moved to Vancouver Island, where she continued writing (including her 1935 autobiography, Clearing in the West), served on the Canadian Authors Association and the CBC Board, and was sent as a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations in 1938.
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October 21 1988 New York City - Canadian rock/folk musician Robbie Robertson's album, 'Robbie Robertson' certified Gold. 1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins support of NDP for constitutional proposals; by agreeing to give provinces more control over natural resources. 1976 Stockholm Sweden - Lachine Quebec born writer Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; novels include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (won 1975 Pulitzer Prize), The Dean's December (1982), More Die of Heartbreak (1987) and The Bellarosa Connection (1989). 1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans use of artificial sweetener cyclamate; fear it is a carcinogen. 1967 Toronto Ontario - Protest groups demonstrate against war in Vietnam at US consulates in Toronto and other large Canadian cities. 1926 MCGILL STUDENT GIVES HARRY HOUDINI A DEATH BLOW Montreal Quebec - While performing in Montreal, famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini invites a McGill student to punch him hard in the stomach. The young man complies before Houdini has a chance to brace himself, and the blow leads to his death ten days later from internal bleeding. 1880 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald signs the final Canadian Pacific Railway contract with the George Stephen syndicate, providing a subsidy of $25 million dollars in cash and 25 million acres of land in return for completion of the line within 10 years and a guarantee that the Company would operate the railway 'efficiently' forever. Macdonald was feeling his age, and thought the line would not be completed in his lifetime. However, five years later, on Nov. 7, 1885, Donald Smith, his old enemy, drove home the Last Spike at Craigellachie, and a few years after that, Macdonald himself took his wife Agnes on a summer trip across Canada on the CPR. 1878 Paris France - John Labatt's India Pale Ale wins a gold medal at the International Exposition. Labatt devised the recipe for the light-colored ale at his brewery in London, Ontario. 1637 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First French child born at Three Rivers. Born on this day: 1976 - Mélanie Turgeon alpine skier, was born at Alma, Quebec. Turgeon has raced Slalom, Downhill and Super G for the Canadian Team since 1992, at age 18 won an unprecedented five medals at the world junior championships in Lake Placid, including gold in the giant slalom and the combined event, then took 5th-place at the 1993 World Cup in Tignes, France; ranked 23 overall in the World in FIS Downhill World Cup in 1998, the top Canadian. 1954 - Brian Tobin politician, was born at Stephenville, Newfoundland. Tobin attended Memorial University to study political science. After a short career as a broadcaster he ran for the Liberals and was elected to the House of Commons in 1980. After the Mulroney sweep, he formed an opposition group journalists called the Rat Pack with John Nunziata and Sheila Copps. Appointed Minister of Fisheries and Oceans in the first Chretien ministry, Tobin left federal politics on the resignation of Clyde Wells to take the Newfoundland Premiership. 1949 - Mike Keenan NHL hockey coach. Keenan reached the Stanley Cup finals with Philadelphia (1987) and Chicago (1992). He coached Team Canada to Canada Cup wins in 1987 and 1991, and led the New York Rangers to a 1994 Stanley Cup title after 54 unsuccessful years. He quit a month later in a pay dispute and signed with St. Louis as coach-GM. 1877 - 1955 Oswald Avery Bacteriologist , was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of a Baptist minister; dies in Nashville, Tennessee. Avery's 35 years of work on the pneumococcus bacteria at the Rockefeller Institute made him one of the founders of immunochemistry; he laid the foundation for later discoveries that launched the science of molecular genetics.
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October 22 1996 Canada - End of General Motors strike at Oshawa and Boisbriand, as GM and the CAW settle three-week strike that idled over 46,000 workers across North America. 1992 STEVE MACLEAN BLASTS OFF Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Steve MacLean blasts off from Kennedy Space Center at 12:09 pm CDT, a mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle flight STS-52, with CANEX-II and responsibility for the first test of the CSA's Space Vision System (SVS), designed to help operators of the RMS Canadarm or Mobile Servicing System (MSS) of the future berth or deploy satellites. Maclean will also perform a series of seven Canadian experiments on material science, fluid physics, atmosphere characterization, and the human body's ability to adapt to space flight. On the first day, he activates the Queens University Experiment in Liquid Metal Diffusion (QUELD), a high temperature furnace that operates in the mid-deck of the Shuttle and examines the diffusion of bismuth and tin into each other. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Senate passes Mulroney government bill overhauling the Unemployment Insurance Fund; employers and workers to shoulder the entire cost. 1958 Ottawa Ontario - Blanche Margaret Meagher appointed Canadian Ambassador to Israel, Halifax-born Meagher Canada's first woman ambassador; later serves as ambassador to Austria and Sweden. 1945 Ottawa Ontario - King Government brings in Canadian Citizenship Act to the House of Commons; becomes law in January, 1947; abolishes 'Canadian national' or 'British subject' as the legal terms for non-aliens in Canada. 1944 Savio River, Italy - Seaforth Highlanders Private Ernest Alva 'Smoky' Smith shows conspicuous heroism, holding the Savio River crossing against German counter-attacks and destroying at least two enemy tanks; awarded the Victoria Cross. 1881 Toronto Ontario - McGill and U of T play Canada's first college football game on the University of Toronto lawn; the two teams try to play annually after that; the first football games under the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) will be played in 1898. 1854 London England - John Rae arrives in England to claim the £10,000 British Admiralty prize for discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition; the Hudson's Bay Company explorer, fur trader and surgeon made four expeditions to the Arctic before meeting an Inuit man who told him of a group of white men who died of starvation four years earlier, and sold him some marked silverware and a medal which confirmed they were remains of the Franklin expedition. Rae will not be awarded the prize until July, 1856, since his report quotes Inuit statements that the last survivors had resorted to cannibalism, and many Britons, including Lady Franklin, insisted that sailors of the Royal Navy would never do such a thing; therefore Rae was not to be believed. 1692 Verchères Québec - Madeleine Jarret de Verchères gathers about 20 local habitant farmers into her family's fortified home, Fort Dangerous, when some Iroquois appear; fires cannon to warn other families; with her father François, a militia colonel, away in Montreal, the 14 year old will defend the fort against Iroquois siege for the next 8 days, with only 2 militia and her young brother; when help arrives, she says: 'I surrender my arms to you', then collapses; Jarret seigneury about 32 km east of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River opposite Repentigny. 1642 Quebec Quebec - Father Charles Raimbault dies at Quebec; first Jesuit in New France. Born on this day: 1967 - Ron Tugnutt goaltender, was born at Scarborough, Ontario. Tugnutt was selected as an underage junior by the Quebec Nordiques in the fourth round (81st pick overall) of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft; traded to the Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs before moving to the Ottawa Senators in 1997. 1870 - 1943 Camille Roy priest, literary critic and Rector of Laval University, was born at Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec; died in Quebec. Roy was an expert on the development of French-Canadian literature, and compiled the Manuel d'histoire de la littérature canadienne-française in 1907. 1844 - 1885 Louis Riel Metis leader, the eldest of eleven children, born in a log cabin near St-Boniface, Manitoba; died on the gallows at Regina Nov. 16, 1885. Riel's mother, Marie-Anne Gaboury, was the daughter of the first white woman in the West. His father, Louis Riel Sr., had built a grist mill on the Seine River, and in 1839, helped break the Hudson's Bay Company trading monopoly through an organized resistance. In 1858, young Riel was sent by Bishop Alexander Taché to Montreal to study for the priesthood, but he left the seminary in the final years of his studies and clerked in a Montreal law office, where he met such luminaries as George-Etienne Cartier and a young Wilfrid Laurier. After a disastrous love affair, he drifted to Chicago, then returned to the Red River settlement. On October 11, 1869, he and 17 others forced a group of Canadian surveyors off the farm of his cousin André Nault. During the insurrection that followed, Riel and his fellow rebels ordered an Ontario Orangeman, Thomas Scott, shot. In 1872 Riel ran for Parliament, but gave up his riding in favour of George-Etienne Cartier, then in trouble with the Pacific Scandal. He won the seat by acclamation after Cartier's death, but did not take his seat in Ottawa because of an Ontario warrant for his arrest for the death of Scott. Again in 1874, Riel ran for Parliament and won. He journeyed to Ottawa and even registered with the clerk in the House of Commons, but followed his friends' advice and moved to Montreal. In 1875, Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie granted him amnesty on the condition that he stay out of the country for five years. During his exile, Riel became depressed and was later hospitalized in a mental institution in Beauport, under the assumed name of La Rochelle. On his release in January 1878, Riel settled in Montana, took a teaching position at a church school and married Marguerite Bellehumeur. In 1884, Gabriel Dumont and three members of the Batoche Metis community implored him to come back to Saskatchewan and help them fight for their rights. The result was rebellion and, inevitably, defeat. On July 6th, 1885, Riel was found guilty of high treason by six English-speaking Protestant jurors. Even though they recommended mercy, Stipendary Magistrate Hugh Richardson refused their appeal, as did the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council, and a medical commission was divided on the question of Riel's sanity, so the Cabinet decided to proceed, and Louis Riel was hanged in Regina on November 16, 1885.
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Lumbele
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| Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 9:06 am
October 23 1993 JAYS REPEAT WORLD SERIES WIN Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter hits a three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Toronto an 8-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series; defending champions take the Series 4-2; first team to win the World Series on Canadian soil. 1995 Canada - Referendum jitters send Canadian dollar and country's stock markets plunging. 1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Government brings in Bill 63, to promote the teaching of the French language in Quebec; gives parents the choice of the language of instruction for their children, but requires some French language instruction for anglophones and immigrants. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Lester Pearson says that Ottawa will pay 50% of the cost of higher education. 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the Number Two Cumberland mine traps 174 miners; rescue workers bring 81 men out the first day, 12 more found alive on Oct. 30, 7 more on Nov. 1; 74 die in the deepest coal mine in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6. 1945 Brooklyn, New York - Brooklyn Dodgers announce that Jackie Robinson will play for their farm club, the Montreal Royals; first black baseball player hired by a major league team.. 1935 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Bennett ; until Nov. 15, 1948; Bennett PM since Aug. 7, 1930; appoints his chief Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe as Justice Minister. 1918 Juneau Alaska - CPR steamer 'Princess Sophia' hits submerged rock; bound from Skagway, Alaska to Vancouver; sinks the following day with great loss of life. 1864 Montreal Quebec - Canadian militia and police arrest 14 escaped Confederate Civil War fugitives four days after they robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, killed one person and got away with $200,000, before heading back to Montreal, where they had been hiding out; brought before a Montreal Police magistrate, they are released on a technicality; only $19,000 of the stolen money is ever recovered. 1837 St-Charles Quebec - Wolfred Nelson leads 5,000 Patriotes in the two-day Grand Assembly of the Six Counties at St-Charles in the Richelieu Valley; claims that 'the time has come to melt our spoons into bullets'; at the instigation of their leader, Louis-Joseph Papineau, the conference delegates approve Thirteen Resolutions based on the Rights of Man adopted during the French Revolution; the young Sons of Liberty erect a Column of Liberty in the square. Born on this day: 1968 - Lucie Laroche freestyle skier; with her brother Philippe has been a member of the Quebec Air Force. 1913 - 1986 Gordie Drillon hockey player, was born at Moncton, New Brunswick. Drillon was called to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1936, to fill in for the ailing Charlie Conacher; played 7 NHL seasons with the Leafs, from 1936 to 1943, averaging 22 goals a season; last Leaf to win the NHL scoring title (1938). 1885 - 1970 Lawren Harris painter, member of the Group of Seven, was born at Brantford, Ontario in 1885; died in Toronto. A member of the family who co-owned the Massey-Harris farm machinery company, Harris attended the University of Toronto for a year, then studied art in Europe, returning to Canada in 1908. He was a founding member of the Arts and Letters Club, married painter Bess Housser, and worked as an illustrator for Harper's, before devoting himself entirely to painting. He began painting Toronto houses in the immigrant district, and in 1914 helped plan and finance the Studio Building on Severn Street in Toronto as a workshop for Canadian painters such as A. Y. Jackson, Tom Thomson, J. E. H. MacDonald, Franklin Carmichael and Harris himself.
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Lumbele
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| Monday, October 24, 2005 - 4:54 am
October 24 1995 Quebec - Cree people of Nouveau-Québec hold their own referendum; decisively reject sovereignty option. 1995 Chicago Illinois - The Quebec government and its agencies buy up hundreds of millions of Canadian dollars in a move to stabilize markets ahead of the referendum. Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada rate rises 98 basis points, the largest jump in 3 years. 1992 Atlanta Georgia - Dave Winfield whacks a two run double in the 11th inning to give Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 win over Atlanta Braves; Jays take baseball's World Series four games to two, and are the first team from outside the United States to take the title; game actually won on the 25th, as it went on after midnight. 1978 Toronto Ontario - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones convicted of heroin possession, given a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to put on a future charity concert for the blind. 1964 Tokyo Japan - Closing of 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo; Canada takes home one gold medal (Coxless pairs: George Hungerford, Roger Jackson); two silver (Judo - Plus 80 kilograms: Doug Rogers; and Track and Field - 800 m: Bill Crothers); and one bronze (Track and Field - 100 m: Harry Jerome). 1962 Japan - John George Diefenbaker puts Canada's air defences on high alert in reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis that broke two days earlier, when the US ordered Soviet missiles out of Cuba. The alert should have gone out earlier, under treaties with the US, but Diefenbaker delayed, angering the Kennedy government. 1928 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Post Office issues Canada's first bilingual stamp in the 2¢ denomination, with a bust of George V and the words 'Postes' and 'Postage'. 1921 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Nova Scotia fishing schooner Bluenose defeats the New England schooner Elsie by almost 5 km to win the International Schooner Championships. 1901 Ontario - Anna Edson Taylor, a 50 year old Michigan teacher, and a non-swimmer, is the first person known to go over 160 foot Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive; she hoped to make money from the feat, but will die in poverty. 1850 London England - British Treasury sends memorandum to Colonial Secretary Earl Grey criticizing Canadian Inspector-General Francis Hincks' proposed Currency Act of 1850; the Act, passed Aug. 10 and set to become law Jan. 01, pegs the $US at 5 Canadian shillings, and provides for Canadian silver coins matching US denominations; Grey informs Lord Elgin that the Act should be disallowed. It is not until July 01, 1858, that Britain permits Canada to have a decimal currency. Born on this day: 1946 - Jerry Edmonton Rock & Roll drummer, of Steppenwolf. 1929 - Normie 'China Clipper' Kwong football player, was born Lim Kwong Yew at Calgary. Kwong played 14 seasons as a CFL running back with the Edmonton Eskimos; from 1950 to 1962 he ran 9022 yards, averaging 5.2 yards a carry; scored 74 touchdowns; played on three consecutive Grey Cup championship teams (1954, 1955, 1956); 5 time CFL all-star; 2 times Schenley Award winner as outstanding Canadian player (1955-56); 1956 Canada's Athlete of the Year; 1989 returned to the CFL to revitalize Calgary Stampeder franchise as President and General Manager; 1991 Grey Cup appearance; 1980 member of Calgary Flames hockey team ownership group to 1994. 1908 - 1993 John Tuzo Wilson geologist and geophysicist, was born at Ottawa; died in Toronto. Wilson was the first student in geophysics at the University of Toronto, did graduate work at Cambridge and Princeton, where he received his PhD in geology in 1936. He then worked for the Geological Survey of Canada, spent seven years in the Canadian Army, and taught at the University of Toronto from 1946 to 1974. Wilson's 1965 paper, A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift, explained transform faults, which link trenches (where the plates collide) and rifts (where the plates pull apart). He rekindled studies in plate tectonics, then held in disrepute, proved the phenomenon of continental drift and seafloor spreading, and suggested the existence of hot spots which remain stationary under the moving plates and produce volcanic chains of islands like Hawaii or Japan.. Wilson was first non-American president of the American Geophysical Union, which altered its rules to allow his election. In 1974 he was appointed Director of the Ontario Science Center.
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Lumbele
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| Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 5:49 am
October 25 1993 TORIES GO OVER THE CLIFF, CHRETIEN IN POWER Canada - Kim Campbell's Progressive Conservatives lose 152 of their 154 Commons seats in the federal election, dropping to just 16% of the popular vote and 2 seats - Jean Charest in Sherbrooke and Elsie Wayne in Saint John, NB. Jean Chrétien's Liberals win a comfortable majority with 177 seats (41.32% of popular vote); the Bloc Quebecois form the Official Opposition with 54 seats (13.51%), the Reform Party have 52 seats (18.72%), mainly in Alberta and BC, and the NDP 9 (6.87%). The PCs lose their status as an official party, and Campbell is out after four months in power. 1982 Ottawa Ontario - Senate passes legislation officially naming July 1 Canada Day. 1978 Red Bay Newfoundland - Selma Barkham and a team of Public Archives of Canada researchers find a Spanish galleon off the coast of Labrador; sunk in 1525. 1960 Windsor Ontario - Gas explosion in the Windsor downtown kills 11 people and injures more than 80. 1951 Montreal Quebec - Montreal the first Canadian city to reach a population of more than one million people. 1939 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the Inuit are a federal responsibility. 1923 Stockholm Sweden - Frederick Banting & J. J. R. Macleod of the University of Toronto jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the hormone insulin, which was to save the lives of millions of diabetics. Banting, whose idea launched the research, shares the prize money with Charles Best. Macleod, who supervised the research, shares with J.B. Collip. They are the first Canadians to win a Nobel Prize. 1854 Balaklova Russia - Lieutenant A.R. Dunn, of Toronto, part of an English brigade of 600 men who charge the Russian army at 11 am, during the Crimean War; unhorsed, he empties his revolver at the Russians, then uses his sword - too long by regulations - to save several of his fellow cavalrymen; his bravery during the Charge of the Light Brigade made him the first Canadian to win the Victoria Cross. 1798 New Brunswick - Boundary commission makes the St. Croix River southern border between New Brunswick and Maine. 1768 Charlottetown PEI - Port La Joie, the major town in Prince Edward Island, is renamed Charlottetown in honour of Queen Charlotte. Born on this day: 1974 - Chris Murray hockey right winger, was born at Port Hardy, BC. Murray was selected by Montreal Canadiens in the third round (54th pick overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft; acquired by Ottawa Senators from Carolina for Sean Hill, Nov. 18, 1997. 1967 - Kelly Chase hockey right winger, was born at Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. Chase was selected by the Hartford Whalers in the 1994-95 Waiver Draft for cash; now with St, Louis Blues. 1966 - Wendel Clark hockey left winger, was born at Kelvington, Saskatchewan. Clark was selected as an underage junior by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (first pick overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft; acquired then traded by the New York Islanders with Mathieu Schneider and D.J. Smith to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Kenny Jonsson, Darby Hendrickson, Sean Haggerty, and a 1997 first-round draft pick on Mar. 13, 1996; 1998 signed as a free agent by the Tampa Bay Lightning 1949 - Laurie Skreslet guide, mountaineer, was born at Calgary. Skreslet was the first Canadian to climb the world's highest mountain, 8848 m high Mount Everest, on Oct. 5, 1982. 1949 - Réjean Houle hockey player, manager; former player, General manager of the Montreal Canadiens. 1935 - Don Duguid curler. Duguid's rink won 17 straight games in international play; took 3 out of the 4 Canadian Men's championship they entered; 1970, 1971 won the World Championship and the Air Canada Silver Broom trophy; after retiring, Duguid covered the world championship for CBC-TV and started several curling schools. 1923 - Jean Duceppe actor; father of Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles. 1914 - Annis Stukus football player, team manager. Stukus played for 7 seasons with the Toronto Argonauts, as quarterback, place kicker and two-way backfielder; on two Grey Cup winning teams; helped organize Edmonton Eskimos team that won three consecutive Grey Cups in the mid 1950s; helped launch BC Lions; 1971 signed Bobby Hull to $1 million contract as General Manager of the WHA Winnipeg Jets. 1913 - Phil Marchildon baseball pitcher, was born at Penetanguishene, Ontario. Marchildon led his home town team to many Ontario finals in the early 1930s before moving to Toronto to play 2 seasons for the Maple Leafs; 1940 signed by Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics; after 3 years of military service played with the Boston Red Sox in 1950; won 68 out of 185 games. 1901 - 1968 George Duthie sports developer, team manager. Duthie joined the Canadian National Exhibition staff in Toronto in 1933; and organized the famous CNE long distance swims; also the Canadian Boating Federation; also in charge of sports and entertainment for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II; organized inter-service leagues; 1967 appointed to National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sport. 1892 - 1970 Nell Shipman was born Helen Foster-Barham at Victoria, BC; died in Cabazon, California. A silent films pioneer from 1913 on, Shipman was one of the first women in the world to direct her own films and establish her own production company. She wrote, directed and acted in The Girl From God's Country (1921). 1886 - 1964 Karl (Paul) Polanyi Economic anthropologist and former Hungarian politician, was born at Vienna, Austria; died in Pickering, Ontario.
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Lumbele
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| Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:34 am
October 26 1997 Jerez Spain - Jacques Villeneuve finishes third at the 69-lap European Grand Prix at Jerez, clinching the Formula One title and becoming the first Canadian to win the World Championship of Drivers; driving for the Williams Renault team, the 26 year old native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu holds off Michael Schumacher's smash-and-grab assault on lap 48. 1992 CHARLOTTETOWN ACCORD IS HISTORY Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney says Charlottetown Accord is 'history' after voters reject deal by margin of 54.4% to 44.6%; Yes side wins in Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick, and only barely in Ontario; total of 74.9% of 18,517,982 eligible Canadians vote; almost 83% of eligible Quebeckers; Prime Minister says he is disappointed but vows to respect verdict, and turn attention to shoring up weak Canadian economy. 1987 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adopts the Meech Lake Accord. 1940 Atlantic - Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain is torpedoed and sunk, with child evacuees bound for Canada; the ship was bombed two days earlier. 1917 Passchendaele Belgium - Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps starts its first action against well entrenched Germans, taking over where the Anzac troops left off, to capture the Belgian town of Passchendaele. The Flanders bloodbath lasts until Nov. 30. In total, 2,834 Canadian lives are lost and casualties reach 16,000, to win just five square km of muddy quagmire. Canadians win two Victoria Crosses the first day of the battle. 1908 Canada - Wilfrid Laurier wins the Eleventh Canadian federal general election 135 seats to 85; defeats Robert Borden with 50.4% of popular vote; increase in Commons representation to 218 seats. Two future Prime Ministers are also elected for the first time - William Lyon Mackenzie King (Liberal - York North) and Arthur Meighen (Conservative - Portage La Prairie). 1850 NWT - Sir Robert McClure aboard HMS Investigator completes crossing of North West Passage via Prince of Wales Strait or around Banks Island; will return by ship in 1854 after travelling on foot over the ice to Beechey Island. 1830 Albany, New York - New York Governor De Witt Clinton opens the $7,602,000 Erie Canal joining the Hudson River with Lake Erie; 585 km route built in eight years; allows traffic to bypass British-controlled lower St. Lawrence, but also gives Upper Canada another outlet for produce and a longer shipping season. 1813 Chateauguay Quebec - Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry, leading 1,600 French Canadian Voltigeurs (light militia), turns back Gen. Wade Hampton and 3,000 Americans after four hours of fighting at a ford over the Châteauguay River, 56 km southwest of Montreal; 300 front line militia blow hunting horns in the woods, making the Americans think they are facing a larger force; de Salaberry set up a barricade after learning of Hampton's invasion Oct. 21. 1670 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaboury jailed for eating meat during Lent. Born on this day: 1976 - Steve Kelly hockey centre, was born at Vancouver. Clark was acquired by Tampa Bay Lightning from Edmonton with Bryan Marchment and Jason Bonsignore for Roman Hamrlik, Dec. 30, 1997. 1858 - 1921 Arthur Sifton lawyer, politician, was born at St, John's, Ontario; died in Ottawa. Like his brother Clifford, Laurier's Minister of the Interior, Arthur Sifton played a great role in the development of the Canadian West. He promoted provincehood for Alberta and served as its first Chief Justice, and later Premier 1910-17. In 1917 Borden invited him to join the Union Government, and a year later he was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. 1802 - 1864 Joe Montferrand strongman, was born at Montreal. Montferrand grew up in the Ottawa Valley where he was known for taking on 20 English troublemakers at once; billed by PT Barnum as the Strongest Man in the World; retired to Montreal, where he owned a tavern and restaurant; commemorated in the folk song, Mufferaw Joe.
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Jan
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| Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 12:28 pm
1670 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaboury jailed for eating meat during Lent. Wow we've come a long way, baby!!!!!!!
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Lumbele
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| Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 7:38 am
October 27 1995 PM ADDRESSES MONSTER REFERENDUM RALLY Montreal Quebec - Jean Chrétien addresses over 40,000 people at Place du Canada in the biggest political rally in Canadian history 3 days before the Quebec Referendum; many from across Canada had arrived by bus, train, plane and car for the Unity Rally, to urge Quebec to stay in Canada. The Prime Minister had been criticized for doing nothing to stem the Oui tide after the entry of Lucien Bouchard into the fray; promises major changes to Canada. 1995 Canada - Canadian banks all but shut down Canada's $30-billion-a-day foreign exchange market as business dries up ahead of the Quebec referendum. 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Chief of Defence Staff John de Chastelain says the Canadian Forces will comply with Federal Court of Canada ruling that banning gays from military contravenes Charter of Rights. 1979 La Grande Quebec - Quebec Premier René Lévesque flips a switch to start LG-227, the first generator of the LG-2 (La Grande River) second dam, now called the Barrage Robert-Bourassa; the $15.1 billion James Bay power project is the world's second largest power producer. 1977 Sherbrooke Quebec - Charles Marion released by kidnappers after payment of $50,000 ransom; credit union loans manager held captive for 82 days; Canada's longest kidnapping-for-ransom. 1968 Mexico City - Close of 19th Summer Olympic games in Mexico; Canadians take home one gold medal (Equestrian - Team Jumping: Jim Day, Jim Elder, Tom Gayford), three silver medals (Elaine Tanner in 100 and 200m Backstroke and Ralph Hutton in 400m Freestyle), and one bronze medal (4x100m Freestyle: Angela Coughlan, Marilyn Corson, Marion Lay, Elaine Tanner). 1918 Foret de Mormal, France - Royal Flying Corps Major William George 'Billy' Barker, from Dauphin, Manitoba, wins the Victoria Cross for shooting down a German Rumpler two-seater and three Fokker D VII fighters though wounded three times and while fainting twice from the pain; crash-lands his plane behind British lines in the Mormal forest. 1854 Baptiste Creek, Ontario - Great Western Railway express train hits a gravel train between Chatham and Windsor; 52 killed, 48 injured in Canada's first major rail accident. 1853 Sherbrooke Quebec - City of Sherbrooke donates a Canadian/American flag to be flown on the boundary; one side has the Stars and Stripes, the other the British Cross of St. George. 1642 Sillery Quebec - Jean Nicollet [Nicolet] de Belleborne c1598-1642, interpreter, explorer, drowns in the St. Lawrence opposite Sillery while returning to Trois-Rivières to save an Iroquois prisoner the Algonkians wanted to torture. Nicollet was sent by Champlain to live with the Indians and learn their languages, and spent two years with the Algonquins on Allumette Island, and with the Nipissing on the Upper Ottawa and Lake Huron from 1620-1629; his search for the Western Sea for the Company of 100 Associates took him to Green Bay on Lake Michigan, and the Fox and Illinois rivers, where he made a treaty with the Winnebago people; first European to explore the American Northwest. Born on this day: 1971 - Mike Ricci hockey centre, was born at Scarborough, Ontario. Ricci was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round (fourth pick overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft; June 20, 1992 traded with Ron Hextall, Peter Forsberg, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, a 1993 first-round draft pick, and cash and future considerations to the Quebec Nordiques for Eric Lindros; Nov. 20, 1997 acquired from Colorado by San Jose Sharks with a 1998 second-round draft pick for Shean Donovan and a 1998 first-round draft pick. 1948 - Garth Drabinsky entertainment mogul, was born at Toronto. Drabinsky's innovative remodeling of old cinemas and his creation of new multiscreen picture palaces made his Cineplex Odeon one of North America's largest exhibitors. In the 1980s he allied himself with MCA, and during a breakup won the rights to the company's live entertainment business. His new firm Livent produced such stage blockbusters as The Phantom of the Opera, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Showboat. In 1998, after management difficulties, Livent was taken over by US investors. 1928 - Gilles Vigneault singer, songwriter, poet, was born at Natashquan, Quebec. Vigneault started his career as a school teacher and then as a lecturer at Laval University in Quebec, where he began to host a folklore show on Radio Canada with Jacques Lebrecque. On August 5, 1960, he began to perform his own unique singing poetry at the Boîte à chansons. His haunting songs Gens du Pays and Mon Pays (Ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver - recorded by Monique Leyrac in 1966) have not only become anthems for French Canada, but have moved people everywhere with their passion and romance. 1928 - 1961 Robert Hayward speedboat racer; killed in a race on the Detroit River. Hayward started as a mechanic for the Miss Supertest hydroplane crew in 1957; 1959 won the Harmsworth Trophy in Miss Supertest at a speed of 107.5 miles per hour, breaking a thirty year domination by US boats; successfully defended the title in 1960 and 1961 c1915 - 1994 Harry Saltzman film producer, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick; died of a heart attack in Paris, France. Saltzman co-produced 'Dr. No', 'Goldfinger' and seven more James Bond films with 'Cubby' Broccoli from 1962-1974. 1910 - 1963 Jack Carson TV/film/radio actor, was born at Carman Manitoba; dies in Encino, California. Educated at Carleton College, Carson started in vaudeville, then moved to films in 1937. He played supporting roles in Westerns and dramas, first specializing in cowardly bullies, then nice guys with a heart of gold. His films include The Strawberry Blonde (1941 - opposite James Cagney), Make Your Own Bed (1944 - with Jane Wyman), Mildred Pierce (1945 - where his famous line was "I'm so smart it's a disease!"), A Star is Born (1954 - with Judy Garland) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 - with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman). In the 1940s he teamed with old friend Dennis Morgan in a series of Doris Day musicals. One of his wives (1952-58) was actress Lola Albright. 1880 - 1956 Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough 14th Governor-General of Canada 1931-35, was born at London England; dies in Stanstead, England March 10, 1956. The only businessman ever appointed Governor General, Bessborough was Vice-Chairman of de Beers. He and his wife were enthusiastic thespians, and helped start the Dominion Drama Festival. c1728 - 1779 James Cook naval captain, navigator, explorer, was born or Oct. 28 at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England in about 1728; killed at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Feb. 14, 1779. Cook was the first to map the Newfoundland coast and Grand Banks, first to map Canada's west coast in any depth, and was killed shortly after his discovery of the Sandwich Islands.
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Lumbele
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07-12-2002
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 12:49 pm
October 28 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports more children studying French; 2 million anglophones; plus 300,000 in immersion courses. 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau confirms to the House of Commons that the RCMP entered a Montreal office in 1973 without a warrant to copy the membership lists of the Parti Québécois. 1973 Toronto Ontario - Secretariat wins his final race by 6 1/2 lengths in the Canadian International Stakes at Toronto's Woodbine. 1955 Lauzon Quebec - Fire destroys shipyards at Lauzon. 1914 Ottawa Ontario - The War Cabinet orders the registration of all 'alien enemies,' specifically Germans and Austrians; provides for establishment of 'concentration camps' to house internees and their families in exchange for work such as clearing bush and cutting lumber in the national parks. 1900 Paris France - Paris Olympiad closes after 5 months of games; Canada did not send an official team, but George Orton, from Hamilton, Ontario, wins a Gold Medal in the Steeplechase. 1864 PROVINCES DRAFT BLUEPRINT FOR UNION Quebec Quebec - Quebec Conference adjourns with a celebratory banquet after weeks of discussion and debate. The delegates from Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and PEI summarize proceedings in a blueprint for Confederation called Seventy-Two Resolutions (Quebec Resolutions), which are sent to the British Parliament and the provincial legislatures for approval; it will take two more years before the Confederation proposal is approved. 1830 Dresden Ontario - Josiah Henson arrives in Upper Canada from Maryland with his wife and four children on the Underground Railway. The escaped American slave becomes pastor of a local church and starts a technical school. He is the model for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that Abraham Lincoln said started the US Civil War. 1824 Montreal Quebec - First classes begin at Montreal Medical Institute, Canada's first medical school. 1790 Madrid Spain - Nootka Sound Convention signed in Madrid; Spain surrenders exclusive rights on Pacific coast. Born on this day: 1966 - Benoît Hogue NHL left winger, was born at Repentigny, Quebec. Hogue was selected as an underage junior by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round (35th pick overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft; traded to Toronto Maple Leafs, Dallas Stars; now with the Tampa Bay Lightning. 1963 - Kevin Dineen NHL right winger, was born at Quebec City. Dineen was selected as an underage junior by the Hartford Whalers in the third round (56th pick overall) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Hartford Whalers; now with the Carolina Hurricanes. 1941 - Pierre Desjardins football player. Desjardins played for the CFL Montreal Alouettes. 1938 - Gary Cowan golfer. Cowan won the Ontario and Canadian junior national title in 1956; 1961 took the Canadian senior amateur title; 1964 wins the Ontario Amateur title and ties for the low amateur score at the US Masters; member of 22 Ontario Willingdon Cup and 6 America's Cup teams. 1919 - 1986 Paraskeva Clark painter, was born Paraskeva Plistik at St. Petersburg, Russia; died in Toronto. Clark studied in the Soviet Free Studios from 1917-21, but left Russia for Paris on the death of her husband. She then moved to Canada with her new Canadian husband Philip Clark in 1931, and brought some flair to the Toronto art scene in the 1930s and 1940s. 1599 - 1672 Marie de l'Incarnation founder of the Ursuline Order of Canada, was born Marie Guyart at Tours, France; died in Quebec City. Guyart was moved to go to Canada by reading the Jesuit Relations. She arrived in Quebec Aug 1, 1639 with Mme. de La Peltrie and two Ursulines, and founded a convent in the lower town. In 1642 they moved into a stone building in the upper town, and started educating French and Indian girls. Guyart wrote a catechism in the Iroquois tongue, and also compiled Huron and Algonkian dictionaries.
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07-12-2002
| Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 1:25 am
October 29 1992 Ottawa Ontario - StatsCan reports Canada spends 9.2% of GNP on health care - US$1,837 per capita; the USA spends 12.4% - $2,566 per capita; Canadians healthier than Americans, and spend less on health care. 1971 Montreal Quebec - Riot erupts during protest against lockout and strike at Montreal newspaper La Presse; leaves 160 people injured. 1967 Montreal Quebec - Expo '67 closes in Montreal, after hosting 50,306,648 visitors over six months; opened April 27. 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Rescue workers in Springhill find 12 more coal miners alive after underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the Number Two Cumberland mine; 7 more will be brought out on Nov. 1, but 74 die in the deepest coal mine in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6 from the 3,960 metre depth. 1929 CANADIAN EXCHANGES FOLLOW WALL STREET SOUTH Canada - Montreal and Toronto Stock Exchange share prices plummet in their worst drop ever, as the New York market crash spreads quickly around the Globe. The Calgary Stock Exchange closes for a few hours, but reopens when traders think the situation is only temporary. World governments quickly impose tariffs to protect their native industries from dumping, but this causes a collapse in world trade and leads to the Great Depression. 1925 Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins only 99 seats in the 15th Canadian federal general election, but stays in power with the support of 24 Progressives and 6 Labour MPs. Arthur Meighen's Conservatives, who won 116 seats, are left out in the cold, as the Progressives back King when he promises to cut tariffs and bring in old age pensions. 1923 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bluenose defeats the American schooner Columbia in an international boat race. 1923 Calgary Alberta - United Farmers of Alberta open the head office of the Alberta Wheat Pool; the first grain pool in North America; the Pool starts operations as an agricultural cooperative to try and stabilize prices, which had dropped severely in the past few years; has 16 elevator lines, 25,719 members and over 1 million hectares under contract. 1923 Nelson BC - Peter 'The Lordly' Verigin killed by a bomb planted in the railroad coach in which he was traveling; leader of Doukhobors settling in western Canada. 1764 Quebec Quebec - Meeting of 94 merchants of Quebec to draft a petition to Britain complaining that certain Britons want to impose on the colony a system of government that is not acceptable to the inhabitants. Born on this day: 1977 - Matt Higgins NHL centre, was born at Calgary, Alberta. Higgins was the Montreal Canadiens first pick in the 1996 Entry Draft (18th Overall). 1973 - Eric Messier NHL defenseman, was born at Drummondville, Quebec. Messier was signed as free agent by Colorado Avalanche Oct. 1, 1995. 1964 - May Allison marathon runner, was born at Toronto. Allison's personal best was 2:32.56 at the 1996 Cleveland Marathon, where she finished second; she finished 52nd at the Atlanta Olympics. 1953 - Denis Potvin NHL defenseman, was born in Hull, Quebec. Potvin was brought up in the National Capital region and played Junior for the Ottawa 67s. A tough, intelligent, self-confident, do-it-all player, he was the anchor of the New York Islanders, leading them to four consecutive Stanley Cups. Potvin won the Norris Trophy 3 times, (1976, 1978 and 1979), and was a 5-time NHL First Team All Star. He had a career 310 goals and 742 assists. Some say Denis Potvin was the greatest defenseman of all time, even greater than Bobby Orr. He broke all of Orr's goal and point records; now ranks second in all time scoring among defenseman behind only the still active Paul Coffey, with whom he shares the record for most goals scored by a defenseman in a playoff game (3). Potvin retired in 1988 after 15 seasons because he had "nothing left to prove." 1953 - Jean Ratelle NHL centre. Ratelle starred with the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins. 1940 - W. Gordon Galen Weston grocer, merchant, entrepreneur, was born in England, the son of Garfield Weston, and grandson of Toronto biscuit manufacturer George Weston. Weston's father moved to England in 1933 and was elected to the British House of Commons but never gave up his Canadian citizenship. Weston build up a chain of supermarkets in Ireland while in his twenties, and acquired the Brown Thomas department store; with his brother Garry, he now runs George Weston Ltd. a conglomerate, of retail and food manufacturing companies in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, West Germany and Ireland; revitalized Loblaws in the 1970s and 80s, and acquired the Holt Renfrew department store chain in 1986; his wife Hilary was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. 1926 - Jon Vickers opera tenor, was born at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. After an early career across Canada and on the CBC, Vickers started to perform abroad in 1957, winning success in New York and Covent Garden, and was a popular Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walkure at Bayreuth. His favourite role was Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. Vickers retired in 1988. 1907 - 1966 Douglass Montgomery film actor, aka Kent Douglass, was born at Brantford, Ontario; died in Norwalk, Connecticut. Montgomery played in over a dozen B movies in the 30s and 40s. 1867 - 1951 Tom MacInnes poet, was born at Dresden, Ontario; died in Vancouver. MacInnes wrote a recollection of his days in the Yukon gold rush, Lonesome Bar (1909).
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