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| Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 8:17 am
August 16 1996 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - Lunenburg designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1979 Ottawa Ontario - Right Honorable John Diefenbaker dies in Ottawa at age 83; born Sept. 18, 1895 in Neustadt, Ontario; Leader of the Opposition 1956-1957, 1963-1967; Prime Minister of Canada June 21, 1957 - April 22, 1963. 1971 Nova Scotia- Hurricane Beth slams into coast of Nova Scotia, doing serious damage. 1969 Halifax Nova Scotia- Opening of two-week long Canada Summer Games in Halifax-Dartmouth; first Canada Summer Games. 1969 Winnipeg supergroup The Guess Who receive their first gold record for 'These Eyes.' 1966 Stratford Ontario- Brian Macdonald premieres his ballet Rose Latulipe at Stratford Festival; first full-length Canadian ballet; with music by Harry Freedman 1936 Berlin, Germany- Closing of 11th Summer Olympics in Berlin. Canadians take home one gold medal (Canoe C-1 1,000 m: Francis Amyot), 3 silver (Basketball Team: Gord Aitchison, Ian Allison, Art Chapman, Charles Chapman, Edward Dawson, Irving Meretsky, Doug Peden, James Stewart, Malcolm Wiseman; Canoeing C-2 10,000 m: Harvey Charters, Frank Saker; Track and Field 400-metre hurdles: John Loaring) and 5 bronze (Canoeing C-2 1,000 m: Harvey Charters, Frank Saker; Track and Field 80-m hurdles: Betty Taylor; 800 m: Philip Edwards; 4x100-metre relay: Dorothy Brookshaw, Hilda Cameron, Jeanette Dolson, Aileen Meagher; Wrestling 72-kg freestyle: Joseph Schleimer). 1896 GOLDEN DAYS Bonanza Creek Yukon- George Washington Cormack and his wife Kate, acting on a tip from Canadian prospector Robert Henderson, discover placer gold in Rabbit Creek tributary of Klondike River, later called Bonanza Creek; with Patsy Henderson and his Indian helpers Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim. They stake their claims the following day, renaming Rabbit Creek Bonanza Creek. Carmack will later say that the gold veins were 'thick between the flaky slabs, like cheese sandwiches.' 1858 Ottawa Ontario- Assembly of the Province of Canada charters a Bank of Canada; abolishes imprisonment for debt. 1637 Quebec Quebec- Duchesse d'Aiguillon donates 22,400 Livres to establish Hotel-Dieu, first hospital in North America outside Mexico; Cardinal Richelieu's niece. Born on this day: 1954 - James Cameron screenwriter, producer/director, was born at Kapuskasing, Ontario; raised in Chippawa, a suburb of Niagara Falls. Cameron was mesmerized when he saw Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and tried to figure out how they had shot the film; started writing sci-fi stories - one written during biology class would later become the movie The Abyss. In 1971, his electrical engineer father moved the family to Orange County, California. Cameron studied physics and english at UCLA, dropped out, drove a truck to support his screenwriting, then got first professional film job as art director, miniature-set builder, and process projection supervisor on Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars (1980); debuted as a director with Piranha II: The Spawning (1981); during production, he had a dream of a machine coming from the future which attempted to kill him; the idea would later become The Terminator (1984), a futuristic action-thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton, and produced by his second wife Gale Anne Hurd. It was a huge success on only a $6.5 million budget, and was nominated for 7 Oscars, winning four, for sound, special effects and technical achievement. After this he wrote and directed more science-fiction action films such as Aliens (1986) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Abyss (1992). In 1994, Cameron produced and directed the first film to cost more than $100 million - True Lies, and in 1997 the first film to cost more than $200 million - Titanic - the first movie to pass the $1 billion mark, and the most profitable movie in history. On March 23, 1998 Titanic received 11 Oscars, including best picture and best director. Cameron's production company is Lightstorm Entertainment, and he is one of the founders of the visual effects company Digital Domain. 1909 - 1995 Ralph Barker Gustafson poet, professor, critic, was born in Lime Ridge, Quebec; died in North Hatley; Gustafson has written over 20 volumes of poetry and short stories and edited several anthologies. He taught at Bishops University from 1963-79. 1892 - 1982 Harold Foster originator of the adventure comic book, was bornin Halifax, Nova Scotia; brought up in Winnipeg, died in Spring Hill, Florida. Creator of Prince Valiant and other comic strips, Foster's life mirrored his art. He skippered a 9 metre sloop at age 12, supported his family by hunting, found and lost a gold claim, and rode a bicycle 1,600 km from Winnipeg to Chicago to study art. He produced the Tarzan strip from 1929-37 and then created Prince Valiant, an original historical adventure which he produced for 40 years in the funny papers.
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 4:00 pm
August 17 1990 Montreal Quebec- Olympic deficit swells to $16 billion. 1971 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa creates 457 French-speaking units in public service; affects 29,000 employees. 1969 Montreal Quebec- FLQ bomb explodes in a Ministry of Labour office. 1965 Toronto Ontario- Beatles play Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Telegram reviewer says, 'The Beatles whipped Toronto's teens into ecstatic frenzy last night in two wild 30 minute performances.' 1959 Yukon- Oil first discovered in the Yukon. 1943 Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King hosts Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the sixth Anglo-American War Conference, held in the Chateau Frontenac; the first Quebec Conference plans 1944 landings in France. 1943 Sicily Italy- Allied forces gain complete control of Sicily after five week campaign; Canadians have suffered 2,434 casualties since the July 10 invasion. 1936 Ottawa Ontario- Bank of Canada starts printing bilingual money. 1913 Toronto Ontario- Ontario Department of Instruction again issues Circular #17; bans use of French in Ontario schools past Grade 1. 1774 SPANISH MARINER DISCOVERS NOOTKA SOUND Nootka Sound BC - Juan Jose Perez Hernandez discovers Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, four years before Captain Cook's arrival; the local Nootka people are skilled whalers and trappers of sea otters. Born on this day: 1941 - Jean-Pierre Lefebvre filmmaker, was born in Montreal. Lefebvre and his wife and editor Marguerite Duparc have produced many notable films, including Les Maudits Sauvages (1971), Les Dernières fiançailles (1973), Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort (1977) and Les Fleurs Sauvages (1982).
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| Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 12:41 pm
August 18 1995 New York New York - Regina PetroCanada pump attendant Dick Assman makes cameo appearance on CBS's Late Show With David Letterman, after months of jokes - his name is pronounced 'OSS-man;' his business triples over the month of August. 1986 Maple Ontario - Folk singers Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker, formerly husband and wife, reunite for concert at Kingswood Music Theatre; first Ian and Sylvia performance in eleven years; joined by Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris and Murray McLauchlan. 1979 CANADA'S ROAD TO THE ARCTIC OPENS Dawson Yukon - opening of Dempster Highway from Dawson, Yukon, to Inuvik, NWT. 1978 Toronto Ontario - Maurice Bolyer dies at age 57; Canada's 'King of the Banjo' and a regular on CBC's Tommy Hunter TV show since 1965. 1972 Gravenhurst Ontario - Ottawa declares Norman Bethune birthplace a national historic site, and unveils plaque. 1960 Leopoldville Congo - Canadian peace-keepers man-handled by Congolese troops. 1887 Comeragh House, Waterford, Ireland - John Palliser dies; led the Palliser Expedition of 1857-1860 on Canada's western plains, to study the natural resources of the region and its potential for agricultural development. The expedition Report advised against settlement because of drought conditions they encountered; his name survives in the semiarid corner of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan known as the Palliser Triangle. 1833 Pictou Nova Scotia - Steamship 'Royal William' leaves Pictou; will arrive in Gravesend Sept 11; first vessel to cross the Atlantic under steam power. 1621 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain sends a list of grievances of Quebec's habitant settlers to the King, including requests for stronger courts and a military presence, plus a boost in Champlain's pension. 1603 Gaspé Quebec - Samuel de Champlain hears of copper mines from the local native people. Born on this day: 1910 - 1969 Robert Winters business leader, politician, was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; died in Monterey, California. An engineer trained at Mount Allison and MIT, Winters joined Northern Electric in 1934, and became a Lt. Colonel in World War II. He served as Liberal MP for Lunenburg from 1945-1957, was President of Rio Algom Mines, then returned to politics at Lester Pearson's urging, serving as his Minister of Trade and Commerce. After his narrow defeat by Trudeau in the Liberal Leadership race, he returned to business, and was President of Brascan until his death.. 1909 - 2005 Gérard Filion publisher, was born at Ile Verte, Quebec. After studies at Laval and l'École des hautes études commericales in Montreal, Filion headed the Union des cultivateurs catholiques, where as publisher of Le Devoir 1947-1963, he and editor André Laurendeau were implacable foes of Duplessis and advocates of the modernization of Quebec society. 1906 - 1985 Arthur LeBlanc 'The Acadian poet of the violin', was born in Village-du-bois-de-St-Anselme (Dieppe), New Brunswick; died in Quebec City. A child prodigy, LeBlanc studied at the École normale de musique in Paris, and composed his Concerto No. 2 with Darius Mulhaud. 1897 - 1975 Joe Tubman footballer, was born in Ottawa. Tubman starred with Ottawa teams as a kicking halfback from 1919 to 1929 (two Grey Cup wins 1925, 1926); refereed and umpired in interprovincial and then ORFU leagues, retiring in 1944. 1893 - 1973 Sir Ernest MacMillan musical dynamo, composer/conductor, educator, was born in Mimico, Ontario; dies in Toronto. A prodigy who was a professional organist at 15, MacMillan got his Bachelor of Music from Oxford. He edited The Canadian Song Book, used in many Canadian schools, and was Principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto 1926-42, and Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto 1927-52. He was appointed conductor of the Toronto Symphony from 1931-56, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 1942-56. He was knighted by George V in 1935. 1776 - 1862 Simon Fraser fur trader and explorer, was born in Mapletown, Near Bennington, Vermont; died at St. Andrews, near Cornwall, Ontario. Fraser's father was a Loyalist Captain who was captured by American revolutionaries and died in prison in Albany, New York. Brought up by his uncle Judge John Fraser in Montreal, Simon joined the North West Company as a clerk in 1792. He became a partner in 1801, and from 1805 to 1808 was put in charge of expanding the NWCo. activities in the northern interior of BC, which he called New Caledonia. He founded Fort McLeod (1805), Fort St. James and Fort Fraser (1806) and what is today Prince George (1807), and in 1808 journeyed down the hazardous river that David Thompson later named in his honour, thinking it was the Columbia. In 1809 he transferred to the Athabasca district, then to Red River, where he was arrested by Lord Selkirk in 1816, and later acquitted for complicity in the Seven Oaks Massacre. In 1819, before the union with the HBC, he retired to his estate in Glengarry County on the St. Lawrence, where he died after a long succession of business failures.
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| Friday, August 19, 2005 - 12:06 pm
August 19 1981 Toronto Ontario - Rocker Alice Cooper cancels his concert at the Canadian National Exhibition at the last minute, touching off a riot; police arrest 31 after fans hurl debris at the stage; $25,000 damage done to CNE Stadium. 1977 Quebec Quebec - Rene Levesque, Quebec Premier offers English-language education guarantees in Quebec in return for French-language guarantees in other provinces; turned down. 1942 Dieppe France - Major General J. H. Roberts leads 4,963 troops from 7 regiments of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, plus almost 1,000 British, in Operation Jubilee, a nine-hour raid on the small German-held port of Dieppe to test Hitler's Fortress Europe defences; Canadians suffer total of 3,500 casualties, with 900 killed, and 1,874 taken prisoner - Canada's costliest day in World War II; only 2,210 make it back to England; Captain John Weir Foote 1904-1988 and Lt.-Col. Charles C.I. Merritt 1908-1979 both win Victoria Crosses; gazetted Feb. 14, 1946. Rev. Foote, Canadian Chaplains' Service, was the padre of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry; during his eight hours on Dieppe beach, he tended the wounded while exposed to enemy fire; he climbed from the landing craft that was to have taken him to safety and let himself be taken prisoner so he could continue to tend the wounded men of his regiment. He is the only Canadian chaplain to receive the Victoria Cross. Merritt was C/O of the South Saskatchewan Regiment; despite serious wounds he kept leading his men across the Scie River before being taken prisoner; 81 men in the South Sasks were killed; awarded the VC for showing 'reckless bravery'. 1940 Canada - Start of national registration of all men between 14 and 60 years old. 1913 Nova Scotia/New Brunswick -Thousands of young men travel west to help bring in the harvest on prairie farms; railroads charge only a penny a mile; men placed by farmers' organizations. 1831 Cape Bay - Sailing ship Lady Sherbrooke wrecked off Cape Bay; 273 persons drown. 1826 GALT CHARTERS CANADA COMPANY London England - Scottish novelist/land agent John Galt gets a charter for the Canada Company, to colonize lands in the western part of Upper Canada (Ontario). Galt was an agent of those seeking losses from the Crown for damages suffered in the War of 1812. In 1824, he convinced the British Treasury to provide half the funds, with half coming from the Government of Upper Canada, using proceeds from land sales. Galt's Company acquired almost 2.5 million acres of Crown land. He founded the town of Guelph and built a road through the Queen's Bush to a new town on Lake Huron he called Goderich. 1809 Montreal Quebec - John Molson launches wooden paddle steamboat 'Accomodation' for service on the St. Lawrence River; carries 10 passengers; the first Canadian steamship; first successful steamboat built entirely in North America. 1712 Paris France - Treaty of Paris gives British and French a four month long break in hostilities. 1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher trades meat and furs with Inuit for trinkets and clothing; Inuit kidnap five of Frobisher's men. Born on this day: 1969 - Matthew Perry actor, co-star (Chandler Bing) of the TV sitcom Friends, was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Perry is the son of John Perry, a Los Angeles actor known for Old Spice commercials, and Suzanne Perry, a former press secretary for Pierre Trudeau. After his parents divorced soon after his birth, he grew up in his mother's home town of Ottawa; was #2 ranked junior tennis player in Ottawa at age 13; his mother married CTV anchorman Keith Morrison when he was 10. 1948 - Susan Jacks pop singer, was born at Saskatoon, Sask. Jacks sang with the 1970s group the Poppy Family. 1944 - Lyn Vernon mezzo-soprano, was born at New Westminster, BC. 1942 - Allan Monk baritone, was born at Mission, BC. 1938 - 1984 Archie McKinnon rower. McKinnon rowed in the bow position of the Coxless Four crew that won Canada's first Olympic gold medal in rowing at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. 1928 - Norman Brooks pop singer, was born at Montreal. Brooks played Al Jolson in the 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free; also starred in The Magic of Jolson on Broadway in 1975; had a big hit with his 1953 recording of Hello Sunshine. 1928 - Qaqaq Ashoona (Kaka) Inuit sculptor, was born near Cape Dorset, NWT, the elder son of Pitseolak Ashoona. A traditionalist, Qaqaq lives on the land near Cape Dorset. 1915 - 1985 Claude Rouleau co-op movement executive, was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec; died in Montreal. Rouleau founded the Assurance-vie Desjardins, and was President of the Mouvement Desjardins from 1972-81. 1912 - 1982 Jimmie Shields tenor, was born at St. Catharines, Ontario. Shields was a popular Irish tenor in Canada during the 1930's; from 1937 to 1941 worked with the Eddie Duchin and Morton Gould orchestras, in 1939 had his own weekly program on NBC, Enna-Jettick Melodies; regular performer on CBC from 1948 until his retirement in 1964. 1892 - 1977 Edwin Holgate painter, was born in Allandale, Ontario; died in Montreal. Holgate studied with Brymner and Cullen, taught engraving at Montreal's École des beaux-arts, and was invited to join the Group of Seven in 1930.
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| Saturday, August 20, 2005 - 9:19 am
August 20 1990 Kahnawake Quebec - Army moves to dismantle barricades on the Mercier Bridge south of Montreal put up by Mohawks; after three days of rioting by South Shore residents against the police 1987 OTTAWA BANS EMPLOYEE SMOKING Ottawa Ontario - Federal government slaps a total ban on smoking in public service offices, starting Jan. 1, 1988. Smoking by government employees at all public service counters ends immediately. 1982 Toronto Ontario - Former Indian Affairs Minister John Munro awarded $75,000 in libel damages against Toronto Sun newspaper. 1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot releases single, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, from his album Summertime Dream, about an ore carrier which sank on Lake Superior; will reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.. 1974 New York City - Ottawa native Paul Anka (with Odia Coates) has a Billboard #1 Pop Hit with '(You're) Having My Baby'; his last #1 was 'Lonely Boy' in 1959; longest recorded gap between top singles. 1970 Sudbury Ontario - Wind storm and tornado in Sudbury area kills four, injures 200 and does $10 million damage. 1944 St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France - Major David Currie's squadron holds fast in St-Lambert, a village half-way between Chambois and Trun, and the main escape route to the east; the Germans tried to mount a final decisive attack to break through the gap in the evening; Currie uses his 17-pounder anti-tank gun to knock out a Tiger tank, uses his command tank to knock out a Tiger and a rifle to deal with snipers who had infiltrated close to his HQ; in total, his squadron knock out seven German tanks, 12 88-mm guns, and forty German armoured vehicles; 300 German are killed, 500 wounded, and 2100 captured; after three days of continuous fighting, the Canadians take the village and block off the German escape route; when Currie is finally relieved, he collapses from nervous exhaustion. The only officer in his unit not killed or wounded, Currie will win the Victoria Cross, the only Canadian awarded the VC for action in Normandy who did not die in the process of earning it. 1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, saying 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' 1681 Montreal Quebec - Hotel Dieu offers first hospital insurance plan. 1664 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of New France orders shipload of 'undesirables' sent back to France. Born on this day: 1957 - Cynthia 'Cindy' Nicholas swimmer, born in Toronto. Nicholas smashed the record for crossing Lake Ontario in 1974, and in 1976 was the Women's World Marathon Champion. In 1977 she was the first woman to complete a double crossing of the English Channel. All in all she crossed the Channel 19 times, including 5 doubles. She is now a lawyer in Toronto. 1955 - Gary Lalonde rock & roll bassist, of Honeymoon Suite. 1930 - Mario Bernardi conductor, born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Bernardi started conducting with the Canadian Opera Company in 1957, and was founding Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra 1968-82, after which he worked with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic. 1825 - 1897 Amor de Cosmos BC politician, was born plain William Smith in Windsor, Nova Scotia; died in Victoria, B.C. As a young man, Amor de Cosmos left Nova Scotia for the California gold fields, then to BC, where he founded the British Colonist newspaper in Victoria . He started a campaign against the autocracy of Governor James Douglas, and was elected to the BC Legislature in 1863, where he promoted union with Canada. In 1872 he was elected an MP, and served as Premier of BC 1872-74. 1719 - 1787 François-Gaston, Duc de Lévis soldier, Maréchal de France, was born at the Chateau d'Ajac in Limoux, France; died in Arras, France. Lévis was second in command of the French Army in North America after 1756. In charge of Lake Champlain defenses and the Montreal garrison, he hurried to Quebec on the news it had fallen, and narrowly missed defeating the British at Ste-Foy in May 1760, but after reinforcements arrived, he retreated to Montreal, and surrendered on Sept 8.
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| Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 6:47 am
August 21 2017 Canada - The next total solar eclipse visible from Canada will happen on this day. 1995 Guyana - Cambior Inc. floods its large Omai gold mine in Guyana to limit environmental damage caused by cyanide-laced water escaping into a river. 1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - The United Church of Canada's third General Council ends three days of intense debate, voting 302-74 to reaffirm 1988 statement on homosexuality, which permits avowed gays and lesbians to seek ordination; policy had split Canada's largest Protestant denomination. 1968 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office announces closing of century-old Post Office Savings Bank. 1964 Bahamas - Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters. 1944 Falaise France - RCAF planes have hit 2600 German vehicles in the past four days. The First Canadian Army connects with the Poles - The Canadian Grenadier Guards rescuing the 1st Polish Armoured Division, trapped by the SS - and the Falaise Gap is finally closed, encircling the remnants of Kurt Meyer's 12th SS; from D-Day to Aug 21 the Germans lost 300,000 men; in early June Mayer had a division of 20,000 men with 150 tanks; now he has less than 300 men and no tanks or artillery. The next task of the Canadians is to move up the Channel coast and liberate the ports of Le Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk. Canadian casualties in taking Falaise and the Gap were 18,444 casualties including over 5,021 dead. The 3rd Canadian Division lost more than any other under Montgomery's command, primarily due to inferior equipment, such as the Sherman tank, no match for the German armour. 1862 Williams Creek BC - Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River; town of Barkerville, BC, grows up around mine; the find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo. 1816 Quebec Quebec - Quebec has an early season snowfall. 1796 SOLDIER KILLS MISSISSAUGA CHIEF Toronto Ontario - Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured. 1583 Sable Island, Nova Scotia - The Delight, with 85 persons aboard, founders on the banks of Sable Island; first Canadian shipwreck on record. Born on this day: 1969 - Josée Chouinard figure skater, was born at Rosemont, Quebec. Chouinard learned her craft at the CPA Les Lames d'Argent de Laval; was Canadian Champion in 1991, 1993 and 1994; skated 9th at Albertville and Lillehammer, and got to 5th in the Worlds in 1992 and 1994; coached at the Granite Club in Toronto by Louis Stong, with choreographer Sandra Bezic. Chouinard turned professional in 1994 and won the Canadian Professional Championships in 1994 and 1997. She was a Commentator with Kurt Browning at the 1995 Canada Day celebrations, was with Sun Life Stars on Ice 1993-1997, and Eaton's Skate the Nation tour. She is currently a spokesperson for Revlon, and Ambassador for the Heart & Stroke Foundation.. Chouinard married Jean-Michel Bombardier, Aug. 16, 1997. 1912 - 1995 Hector 'Toe' Blake NHL left winger, coach, was born to a French Canadian mother in Victoria Mines, Nova Scotia; died in Montreal. Blake joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1936 and won the Hart Trophy as regular season MVP in 1939 and the scoring championship in 1938-39. He led them to 3 Stanley Cups as a player on the Punch Line with Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, but had to retire in 1948 with a broken ankle. In 1955, the Canadiens brought him back as coach, and he led them to eight Stanley Cup championships in 13 seasons (five in a row 1956-60) - a National Hockey League record - before retiring in 1968 to become VP of the Club. 1885 - 1939 Edouard Fabre distance runner. In his 30 year career, Fabre ran in 315 match races on foot or on snowshoes, in races from two to two hundred miles in length; amassed 164 trophies and 151 medals; won the Boston Marathon on his fifth try in 1915 and again in 1927; in 1930 won the Usher's Green Stripe Snowshoe Marathon from Quebec City to Montreal. Fabre once beat a horse in a 24 hour distance event. 1722 - 1794 James Murray soldier and statesman, was born at Ballencrieff, Scotland; dies at Battle, England. Murray was present at the siege of Louisbourg and was one of Wolfe's three brigadiers at Quebec. He was left to garrison Quebec after the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and was mauled at Ste-Foy by the Duc de Lévis, who besieged the city until British reinforcements arrived in the Spring of 1760. In October Murray was appointed Military Governor of Quebec, and on Aug 10, 1764, sworn in as Quebec's first British civil Governor. He got the loyalty of the French by supporting the practice of the Roman Catholic religion and French law and customs in the courts, which led to clashes with the new British merchants, and ultimately his recall in 1766.
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| Monday, August 22, 2005 - 6:50 am
August 22 1994 NWT - Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole. 1992 Charlottetown PEI - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the premiers and aboriginal leaders sign the Charlottetown Accord after 5 day debate; Quebec to get 25% of Commons seats; veto over French language, culture; approval on three Supreme Court judges. Provinces to have the right to veto future changes in national institutions; get full control of forestry, mining, tourism, recreation, housing, culture; also urban affairs; can opt out of new national cost-sharing programs, and be compensated. Provinces agree in principle to get rid of interprovincial trade barriers. Accord enshrines native right to self-government in Constitution; 5 years to define concept before courts get involved; natives to be able to make native laws consistent with federal and provincial laws; peace, order, good government. Accord to let territories become provinces; existing provinces to OK terms and representation. Senate to be elected and equal; Quebec and Ontario to get 18 more Commons seats each; new Senate to be cut to 62 seats, 6 from each province, 1 from each territory; proposed new Senate can veto legislation on natural resources taxation and government appointments; Quebec senators in proposed new Senate can veto legislation on French language and culture. 1991 New York City - Colleen Dewhurst dies of cancer at age 67; Montreal born actor starred on Broadway, then in films such as Annie Hall, and The Blue and the Gray; she was Murphy Brown's mother in the TV series, and was twice married to George C. Scott. 1979 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Former prime minister John Diefenbaker buried on the University of Saskatchewan campus. 1952 Toronto Ontario - CBC tele-cine projectionist inserts a slide upside down; Canada's first known TV gaffe. 1919 Quebec Quebec - Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII opens the Quebec Bridge, redesigned and rebuilt since two disastrous crash, the first in 1910 that killed 75 workers, many from Caughnawaga, the second, the loss of the complete centre span in 1916. 1884 Calgary Alberta - Founding of the Calgary and District Agricultural Society; to promote the district's crops and the promise of the Calgary region by means of an annual exhibition; the 1885 fair was disrupted by the North West Rebellion, but it was held successfully in 1886; forerunner of the Calgary Stampede. 1837 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Association of Patriotic Women (l'association des Dames Patriotiques); urge the wearing of local clothing to avoid taxation. 1711 NINE HUNDRED DROWN IN ST. LAWRENCE Ile-aux-Oeufs Quebec - British Admiral Hovenden Walker's assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England. 1660 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Radisson & Medart des Groseilliers return to New France with big load of furs; later fined, and their furs confiscated, for trading without a license; they decide to approach the English about forming a company to trade into Hudson Bay. Born on this day: 1956 - Paul Molitor baseball shortstop, was born at St. Paul, Minnesota. Molitor signed as free agent with the Toronto Blue Jays on Dec. 7, 1992, after 15 years with Milwaukee Brewers; led the Jays to their 2nd straight World Series title as MVP; hit .418 in 2 Series appearances (1982, 1993); only player to hit 5 for 5 in World Series. 1954 - Frank Marino rock musician, of the Montreal-based heavy-metal group Mahogany Rush. 1935 - Rita Johnston Socred politician, was born Rita Leichert at Melville, Saskatchewan. Johnston served as a Surrey alderman from 1970 to 1983, partly under Mayor Bill Vander Zalm, and worked on his successful leadership campaign when he replaced Bill Bennett as BC Social Credit leader. She won election to the BC Legislature and in 1986 became BC Minister of Municipal Affairs and Transit, and Deputy Premier. When Vander Zalm resigned April 2, 1991, Johnston became Canada's first woman Premier. She was narrowly elected leader, but lost the election, and her own seat, to Mike Harcourt's NDP in Oct. 7, 1991. 1827 - 1906 Ezra Butler Eddy match manufacturer, was born in Bristol, Vermont; died in Hull, Quebec. Eddy moved his small friction match factory from Burlington Vermont to Hull in 1851 to be near a steady supply of matchwood and water power. He sold his product all across eastern Canada, and after disastrous fires in 1983 and 1900, his E. B. Eddy Co. diversified into paper and box products, as well as export markets. He was elected Mayor of Hull 6 times, and served in the Quebec Assembly from 1871-75. 1741 - 1788 Jean-François de Galaup, Count de La Pérouse navigator, was born at Albi, France. La Pérouse conducted wide-ranging explorations in the Pacific Ocean. In 1782, he captured HBC Fort Prince of Wales from Chief Factor Samuel Hearne
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| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 7:10 am
August 23 1988 St-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec - Fire ignites thousands of litres of oil laced with PCBs at a storage dump in St-Basile-le-Grand, SE of Montreal, forcing 3,000 residents to evacuate for 19 days; local labourer later admits to arson. 1941 England - William Lyon Mackenzie King booed by restless Canadian troops in England when he makes a speech; most have been in England for a year without seeing action. 1917 Toronto Ontario - Ontario cabinet passes order-in-council allowing the city of Berlin to change its name to Kitchener, effective Sept. 1. 1882 NO MORE PILE OF BONES Regina Saskatchewan - Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney replaces Battleford with Regina as the seat of government for the Northwest Territories; formerly Wascana, Cree for 'Pile of Bones,' referring to the buffalo bones that formerly littered the area and were now a cash crop; renamed Regina, after Queen Victoria, by Governor General, the Marquis of Lorne. 1835 Red River Manitoba - Red River settlers protest Hudson's Bay Company monopoly and high prices. 1820 Montreal Quebec - Lost pig enters the Bank of Montreal on St. James Street. 1797 Montreal Quebec - Emanuel Allen sold at public auction in Montreal; last slave transaction in Canada 1667 Quebec Quebec - Habitants of New France required to give 1/26 of their harvest to their seigneur (le dîme). 1577 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher kidnaps three Inuit, then sets sail for England. 1541 Cap Rouge, Quebec - Jacques Cartier arrives at Iroquois village of Stadacona on his third trip to Canada; starts to build Charlesbourg-Royale at western tip of Cape Diamond; first French fort in Canada; first French settlement in America. Born on this day: 1898 - 1960 Brooke Claxton lawyer and politician, was born in Montreal; died in Ottawa. Claxton began his career teaching insurance law at McGill. In 1940 he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal and served as Prime Minister King's Parliamentary Secretary, then Minister of Health and Welfare, bringing in the Family Allowance Program. He helped negotiate Newfoundland's entry into Confederation in 1949, then served as Minister of National Defence during the Korean War. In 1954 he retired to become head of Metropolitan Life, then first Chairman of the Canada Council in 1957. 1843 - 1932 William Southam newspaper publisher, was born in Montreal Quebec; died in Hamilton, Ontario. Southam began his newspaper career on the London Free Press. In 1877, he and a partner bought the ailing Hamilton Spectator and took it to profitability, then embarked on an acquisition program, buying the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Windsor Star and Montreal Gazette. His six sons continued the expansion, moving into broadcasting and business magazines. 1836 - 1880 James De Mille writer, academic, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia. De Mille was Professor of English at Dalhousie University from 1864-80. He is author of more than 30 works of fiction, including boys adventures stories, historical novels, and his satire, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1889), published after his death.
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| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 6:50 am
August 24 1992 Montreal Quebec - Valery Fabrikant shoots to death four fellow professors at Concordia University, Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogden, Aaron (Jaan) Saber, and Phoivos Ziogas; angry at the corruption that he perceived to be in the Engineering department; University Rector blames handgun permit laws. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - PM Brian Mulroney orders destroyers Athabascan, Terra Nova & supply ship Protecteur with 934 personnel to the Persian Gulf to participate in Gulf War. 1990 Kuwait - Canadian Chargé d'affaires William Bowden refuses to close Canadian Embassy in Kuwait City, as ordered by Saddam Hussein; five other Canadians and 17 Kuwaiti employees have no water or electricity. 1988 Toronto Ontario - Minnesota North Stars hockey player Dino Ciccarelli sentenced to 24 hours in jail and a $1,000 fine for assault; released after two hours; first NHL player to be jailed for a penalty on ice; hit Luke Richardson of the Maple Leafs over the head twice with a hockey stick. 1974 Quebec Quebec - First Francophone International Youth Festival ends at Quebec City; 25 French-speaking countries participate. 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa lets Asians with British passports enter Canada; expelled from Uganda Aug. 5 by Idi Amin; 4,420 Ugandan Asians enter as immigrants over next three months. 1949 Brussels Belgium - North Atlantic Treaty goes into effect, with the parties agreeing that an armed attack against one country would be considered 'an attack against them all.' NATO created by Canada, the US and 10 European countries. 1814 BRITISH TORCH WASHINGTON, AVENGE BURNING OF TORONTO Washington DC - Major-General Robert Ross leads 4,000 troops in attack on Washington; British burn the Capitol, White House, National Library and other government buildings; to retaliate for the American burning of York (Toronto) and Newark (Niagara) earlier in the War of 1812. 1791 Quebec Quebec - Constitutional Act proclaimed at Quebec; Order-in-Council divides Canada at Ottawa River; each province with own legislature and governor; Upper Canada capital at Newark (Niagara); Lower Canada capital at Quebec; under Act passed June 10 by the British Parliament. 1541 Cap Rouge, Quebec - Jacques Cartier plants cabbage, turnips and lettuce; sees shoots appear 8 days later; finds quartz 'diamonds' and 'gold' pyrites on Cape Diamond; later gives rise to the disparaging saying in France, 'un diamant du Canada.' Born on this day: 1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard freestyle skier. Brassard won gold for Canada in moguls at Lillehammer. 1951 - Mike DeRosier rock & roll drummer, of Heart. 1942 - Gary Filmon Premier of Manitoba, was born at Winnipeg. An engineer, Filmon entered the Sterling Lyon Cabinet in 1981, and succeeded Lyon after his defeat. In 1988 Filmon defeated the NDP led by Howard Pawley, and formed a minority government with 25 of the 57 Manitoba seats. He was reelected with a slim majority in 1990, and after bringing in an austerity program, was reelected in 1995. 1936 - Murray Balfour hockey player. Balfour played with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Hershey Bears and Boston Bruins. 1922 - 1987 Rene Levesque journalist, Premier of Quebec (1976-85), was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, grew up in New Carlisle, Quebec; died in Montreal. Levesque worked as an information officer for the US Army in World War II, then joined Radio Canada International in 1946, becoming Head of Radio and TV News in 1952. In 1956 he hosted the Point de Mire commentary program, in 1959 joined the CBC producers strike and in 1960 was elected a Liberal MNA for Montreal-Laurier. As a Cabinet Minister in the Jean Lesage Government, Levesque was responsible for the takeover by Hydro Quebec of the last privately owned power utilities.= In November 1967, frustrated by the constitutional impasse between Quebec and Ottawa, he quit the Liberal Party and helped join the independentist forces into the Mouvement souveraineté-association, which became the Parti Québécois the following year. In 1970 the PQ won 23% of the vote, and on Nov 15, 1976, defeated the unpopular Bourassa government, winning a 71 seat majority. Levesque's government brought in Bill 101, which formalized the status of French as Quebec's official language, but lost the Sovereignty Association referendum on May 20, 1980 with only 40% of the vote. He was reelected in 1981, but suffered through the constitutional patriation negotiations of 1981-82, and resigned in June 1985. 1920 - Alex Colville artist, was born in Toronto. Colville moved with his family to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He studied art at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, and joined the Canadian Army in 1942, serving in Europe as a member of the War Art program. At war's end, he taught art and art history at Mount Allison 1946-63, before retiring to paint full-time. Colville designed a set of coins for Canada's Centennial in 1967. From 1981-91 he served as Chancellor of Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S. Since 1973 he and his wife Rhoda have lived there in the house where Rhoda was born.
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| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 6:43 am
August 25 1994 St. Marys Ontario - St.Marys selected to be the home of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; 30 acre site adjacent to the St.Marys quarry will house an old stadium and museum with artifacts of Canadian baseball history; according to University of Western Ontario professor Bob Barney, Adam Ford, an early mayor of St. Marys, chronicled Canada's first game at nearby Beachville in 1838. 1990 Toronto Ontario - Morley Callaghan dies at age 87; wrote 20 novels and over 100 short stories; friend of Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway; won Governor-General's Award in 1952 for his novel The Loved and the Lost. 1987 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Medical Association decides to allow MDs to disclose blood-test results of people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus; normally a breach of patient confidentiality. 1943 Ottawa Ontario - Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits Ottawa; first official visit to Canada by a sitting US President. Warren Harding the first US president to visit Canada while in office, stopping in Vancouver on return from a trip to Alaska in 1923, a week before his sudden death. 1937 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park announced a delay of school openings due to a polio epidemic sweeping southern Ontario. 1873 Sydney, Nova Scotia - Hurricane slams into Cape Breton Island, washing away wharves and destroying at least 1200 fishing boats. 1814 Washington DC - British troops burn the American Library of Congress with its 3,000 books, many from the personal library of Thomas Jefferson. 1785 FIRST ISSUE OF THE MONTREAL GAZETTE Montreal Quebec - Fleury Mesplet publishes the first issue of 'The Montreal Gazette /Le Gazette de Montréal'; the oldest newspaper still in existence in Canada. 1782 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - First census of Newark, Upper Canada, lists 83 people 1718 New Orleans, Louisiana - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana directly from France instead of Quebec; many settle in present-day New Orleans. Born on this day: 1944 - Conrad Black publisher, was born in Montreal. Black started in publishing in 1969, building the Sterling chain of community newspapers. In 1978 he acquired the remnants of the Argus empire after the death of Bud McDougald, and parlayed it into new ventures such as acquiring and modernizing London's Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1985. He acquired Saturday Night magazine in 1985, then in 1992, partnered Paul Desmarais in the takeover of Southam Press. 1941 - Carol Bolt playwright, was born in Winnipeg. Bolt's most famous plays include Buffalo Jump (1971), Red Emma - Queen of the Anarchists (1974), Shelter (1975) and One Night Stand (1977). She also helped write TV's Fraggle Rock. 1923 - Monty Hall radio actor, game show host, TV producer, was born Monte Halperin in Winnipeg. Hall is known for his MC roles in Who Am I?, Let's Make A Deal and other shows. 1921 - 1999 Brian Moore novelist, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland; died in Malibu, California. After schooling in Belfast, Moore joined the British Ministry of War Transport during World War II, and served as a paramedic in North Africa, Italy, and France. He immigrated to Canada in 1948, and became a reporter on the Montreal Gazette. Moore's novels are The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955), The Feast of Lupercal (1957), The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) (Governor General's Award), Catholics (1972), The Great Victorian Collection (1975) (Governor General's Award), The Doctor's Wife (1976) (Anthony Burgess calls it one of the best 99 novels written between 1939 and 1984), The Mangan Inheritance (1979), Cold Heaven (1983) filmed in 1992, Black Robe (1985) filmed in 1991, The Color of Blood (1987) and Lies of Silence (1990) Moore also adapted Simone de Beauvoir's Le Sang des Autres (The Blood of Others) into a screenplay in 1984. He moved to California in 1959 to work with Alfred Hitchcock on the screenplay of Torn Curtain, but retained his Canadian citizenship and his summer home in Nova Scotia. 1915 - John Bassett publisher, broadcaster, was born in Ottawa. Bassett was the son of the publisher of the Montreal Gazette. After a newspaper career with the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Telegram, Bassett bought the Tely in 1952, and folded it in 1971 after investing in a TV license for CFTO, now the flagship of Baton Broadcasting. 1909 - 1993 Ruby Keeler movie/stage actress, tap dancer, singer, was born Ethel Hilda Lehy Keeler in Halifax, Nova Scotia; died in Rancho Mirage, California. Keeler is known for her fresh-faced ingenue roles in colossal kaleidoscopic Depression-era dance musicals such as 42nd Street and Dames; she was Al Jolson's wife in the 1930s. 1875 - 1960 C. S. Riley rower. Riley was a member of the Winnipeg Rowing Club from 1892 to 1929, as a rower, coach and official. In 1910, at the Royal Henley regatta, Riley won the Steward's Challenge Cup in fours as the stroke of the Winnipeg crew. During 1912 he led 14 WRC rowers to seven North American titles including eight fours senior and intermediate doubles and singles; Riley rowed his last race at age 70.
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| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 4:32 am
August 26 1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to extend full diplomatic recognition to the Baltic republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania; never recognized legitimacy of 1940 annexation by Stalin, but did not maintain diplomatic ties. 1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA launches Canada's Anik-D1 communications satellite (mass 730 kg) aboard a Delta rocket. 1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government adopts Bill 101 (La Charte de la langue française); French becomes the official language of Quebec; children whose mother or father went to English school eligible for English schooling; less stringent than Bill One. 1968 Appledore England - Hudson's Bay Company launches replica ketch Nonsuch II to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the HBC. 1966 Canada - Canada's 118,000 railway workers go on strike; close down telecommunications, air express; all but first-class mail and ferry service to PEI. 1962 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Amateur Hockey Association approves Father David Bauer's proposal to build a Canadian Olympic Hockey team, instead of sending club teams off to represent Canada; in 1965 a permanent national team for Canada was established. 1925 TED ROGERS SR. INVENTS AC TUBE Toronto Ontario - Edward S. Rogers Sr. invents the alternating-current tube, allowing plug-in batteryless radios. The call letters of his new radio station, CFRB, stand for 'Rogers Batteryless'. 1872 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald wires J.J.C. Abbott 'I must have another ten thousand'; stolen telegram later provided the opposition with proof that Macdonald had accepted money in return for his support in Parliament of the Hugh Allan group bidding for the CPR contact. 1784 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island separated from Nova Scotia; becomes its own colony, with Lieutenant-Governor and council. 1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher crew member finds what may be lump of gold; turns out to be fool's gold - iron pyrite. Born on this day: 1960 - Nancy Martinez pop singer. Martinez is known for her hit single 'For Tonight'. 1957 - Rick Hansen wheelchair athlete, spokesman, was born in Port Alberni, BC. Hansen is known for his Man in Motion round the world wheelchair tour, which raised $20 million for spinal chord research and wheelchair sports. 1910 - 1978 Jessie Gray Canada's first woman surgeon, was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1910; died in Toronto. Gray was a leading cancer surgeon, and was Surgeon in Chief of the Women's College Hospital in Toronto 1945-65. 1875 - 1940 John Buchan, 1st Lord Tweedsmuir statesman, writer, publisher, 15th Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), was born in Perth, Scotland; died in Montreal. Buchan wrote 50 books, including a biography of Lord Minto, and was one of the originators of the thriller genre - his Thirty-Nine Steps was written in 1919. He also pursued a career in politics, diplomacy, and publishing - he was a Director of Thomas Nelson & Son 1906-29. While in Ottawa he instituted the Governor-General's literary awards.
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| Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 5:45 pm
August 27 1990 Oka Quebec - Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka. 1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada upholds legality of the Indian Act; rules that aboriginal women marrying non-Indians must lose Indian status; a bill reversing this loss of status given Royal Assent June 1985. 1966 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists bungle holdup at the Jean-Talon cinema in Montreal; six arrested, aged between 19 and 22. 1942 Atlantic - German U-Boat sinks two ships off Newfoundland. 1928 Geneva Switzerland - Canada joins 61 other nations in signing the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, condemning the use of war as an instrument of national unity. 1912 WILBY & HANEY START FIRST CROSS CANADA MOTOR TRIP Halifax Nova Scotia - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney start first cross-Canada motor trip in REO Special; to establish the All Red Route; their trip takes 52 days to Victoria, BC; Wilby is an English journalist, Haney an REO Motor Car Company mechanic/driver. 1819 Richmond Ontario - Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond dies from the bite of a rabid fox while on a tour of Upper Canada; gives his name to the military settlement SW of Ottawa. 1793 Toronto Ontario - John Graves Simcoe names the capital of the new Province of Upper Canada 'York,' after the Duke of York; renamed Toronto, an Iroquois word meaning Place of Meeting, in 1834, when the city of 9,000 is incorporated. 1758 Kingston Ontario - Colonel John Bradstreet captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed; Commandant Pierre-Jacques Payen de Noyan capitulates in face of the British artillery after a token resistance of two days; has only 120 French Regulars, 40 Acadians and Indians, with their women and children. British load their bateaux and the two largest French vessels with 60 French cannon and as many of the 10,000 barrels of food, trade goods, and bales of furs they can carry, and sail off to Oswego, after burning and destroying the fort with the rest of the provisions, magazines, stores, artillery and ships. Bradstreet refuses his share of the £1 million French in booty, dividing his portion among his troops; he sends de Noyan and the prisoners to Montreal on parole, in exchange of an equal number of British captives to be forwarded to Albany. 1612 Churchill Manitoba - Captain Thomas Button lands in his ship 'Discovery'; becomes the first European to winter in Manitoba. Born on this day: 1976 - Sarah Chalke TV/Movie Actress, who played Roseanne's Becky Conner Healy, 1993-95, 1996-1997 was born in Ontario. 1953 - Alex Lifeson heavy metal singer/guitarist, songwriter, of the group Rush; albums include Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, Necromancer, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning. 1942 - Brian Peckford Premier of Newfoundland, was born in Whitbourne, Newfoundland. First elected to the House of Assembly in 1972, Peckford served as Minister of Mines and Energy, and established the regime for oil exploration on the Grand Banks. In March 1979 he replaced Frank Moores as Premier, and won the election of 1982 on a resources for Newfoundlanders platform. He was reelected in 1985, and resigned to go into private business in 1989 1884 - 1961 John Edward Brownlee politician, Premier of Alberta (1925-34), was born at Port Ryerse, Ontario; dies in Calgary. Son of a small town merchant, Brownlee moved to Calgary in 1909, got his law degree and became solicitor for the United Farmers of Alberta. He was involved in the creation of United Grain Growers in 1917, and in 1921 became Attorney General in the first UFA Cabinet, where he helped in the establishment of the Alberta Wheat Pool. After he became Premier in 1925, he and the Premier of Saskatchewan negotiated the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement with Ottawa, signed Dec 14 1929. He resigned in 1934, before the Social Credit sweep of 1935, and in 1948, joined UGG as President. 1873 - 1956 Maud Allan modern dance pioneer, was born Ulla Maud Durrant in Toronto; died in Los Angeles, California. Allan choreographed and performed over 50 expressionist dances, including her famous Vision of Salome. 1868 - 1956 Patrick Lally lacrosse player, referee, promoter, was born at Cornwall, Ontario. Lally and his brother operated a lacrosse stick manufacturing company in Cornwall; helped found the Canadian Lacrosse Association in 1925, and donated the Lally Perpetual Trophy for the amateur lacrosse champions of the world ion 1930. Known as the Father of Lacrosse in Canada, he was given a lifetime membership in the CLA in 1945. 1859 - 1938 Adrien Gabriel Morice priest, historian, was bornin Mayenne, France; died at St. Boniface. Morice joined the Oblates in 1879, served in Victoria, then was posted to the Stuart Mission at Fort St. James 1885-1905. Morice wrote a history and compiled a map of the northern Interior of BC, and wrote a book on the Language of the Carrier people.
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| Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 8:07 am
August 28 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister Marcel Masse says Canada prepared to send 750 troops to Somalia to help relieve famine and civil war. 1990 Oka, Quebec - Canadian Army offers 24 hour grace period to Mohawks at Kanasetake to dismantle barricades. 1968 Quebec Quebec - Michel Tremblay 1942- premieres 'Les Belles-soeurs'; one of first artistic uses of Quebecois French slang - 'joual'. 1941 AT THE END OF THE LONG DASH MARKING TEN SECONDS OF SILENCE... Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day. 1922 Craig Harbour NWT - Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition 1861 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie dies at age 66; Toronto's first mayor and leader of the Upper Canada rebellion of 1837. 1846 London England - British Possessions Act lets Canada and Maritime provinces enact tariffs and cut or repeal duties; marks new stage in Canadian independence. 1833 London England - British Parliament outlaws slavery in the British Empire; 700,000 persons are liberated. 1632 Quebec Quebec - Paul Le Jeune sends his first report on mission work and Indian life to the Provincial of the Jesuit Order; first of the annual 'Jesuit Relations'; Le Jeune was Superior of the Jesuits in Quebec from 1632-1639. Born on this day: 1969 - Jason Bradford Priestley TV/movie actor, director, was born in Vancouver, BC. Priestley has played in Sister Kate, and is best known as Beverly Hills 90210's heart throb Brandon Walsh. 1938 - Paul Martin business leader, politician, was bornin Windsor, Ontario, the son of Liberal Cabinet Minister Paul Martin. Martin went into business in 1966 as assistant to Paul Desmarais at Power Corp. He left in 1974 to buy out Canada Steamship Lines, today CSL Group. In 1988 he was elected to the House of Commons, was defeated by Jean Chréien in the Liberal Leadership race, and was appointed Minister of Finance in the Chrétien government; Canadian Prime Minister. 1932 - Andy Bathgate NHL Right Winger. Bathgate played for the NY Rangers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs and in 1959 won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL Most Valuable Player title. 1931 - John Perkins rhythm and blues singer. Perkins sang with the Crew Cuts. 1921 - 1979 John Chapman astrophysicist, was born in London, Ontario; died in Vancouver. Chapman was the architect of Canada's Space Program. From 1958 to 1971, first with the Defence Research Establishment and then the Department of Communications, he directed the ISIS/Alouette program that led to the launch of Alouette I, Canada's first satellite, in Sept 1962, and the Anik series beginning in 1972, and the pioneering Hermes TV broadcasting bird in 1976. 1913 - 1995 (William) Robertson Davies journalist, playwright, novelist, was born at Thamesville, Ontario; died in Orangeville, Ontario. Davies was the third son of Senator William Rupert Davies. He was educated at Queen's University in Kingston and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1938 he joined the Old Vic Repertory Company, and taught drama at the Old Vic Theater School. On his return to Canada in 1940, he became literary editor of Saturday Night Magazine, then editor of the Peterborough Examiner two years later. In 1960 he began teaching literature at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and continued until 1981. In 1963 he was appointed Master of the new Massey College at the University of Toronto. His novels include: the Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954) - won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, A Mixture of Frailties (1958); Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972) - won the Governor General's Award, World of Wonders (1975); the Cornish Trilogy: Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1985), The Lyre of Orpheus (1988). Other books include High Spirits (1982), Murther and Walking Spirits (1991),The Cunning Man (1995). His humorous essays include: The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949) , Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967). His plays include: Overlaid (1948), Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays (1949), Fortune, My Foe (1949), A Jig for the Gypsy (1954), At My Heart's Core (1950) - based on the lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, Question Time (1975). His essays are: A Voice from the Attic (1960), Stephen Leacock (1970), One Half of Robertson Davies (1978), The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1979) , and The Well Tempered Critic (1981).
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| Monday, August 29, 2005 - 6:13 am
August 29 1996 Baikonur Azerbaijan - Canadian UVAI (Ultra-Violet Auroral Imager) instrument launched on board the Russian Interball-2 spacecraft. 1994 Messina Italy - Toronto swimmer Carlos Costa swims across the 60 km wide Straits of Messina in 23.5 hours; first disabled athlete to complete a double-crossing of the Strait; 21-year-old athlete born with no bones below the knees. 1987 Toronto Ontario - Jocelyn Muir finishes her 60-day marathon swim around Lake Ontario to raise $250,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society; sets record for the longest international marathon. 1964 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a gun store in Montreal. 1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Borden's Union government passes Military Service Act; all male British subjects up to 45 years of age liable; with certain exceptions. 1907 Quebec Quebec - South cantilever arm of the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses during construction; over 65 workers killed, 11 injured in Canada's worst bridge disaster. The bridge is rebuilt in 1916 but the centre span falls into the river, killing another 13 people. When it is finally completed in September 1917, the Quebec Bridge is the world's longest cantilever bridge, and the largest bridge in the world. 1883 London Ontario - First Salvation Army service in Canada held at London. 1883 THAT'S COOKING WITH ELECTRICITY! Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Company, presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world's very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove. 1810 Quebec Quebec - Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada. 1756 Germany - Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada. 1583 Sable Island, Nova Scotia - Humphrey Gilbert drowns off Sable Island when his ship Delight is wrecked; 12 men rescued; his reputed last words 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!' Born on this day: 1959 - Chris A. Hadfield engineer, CSA astronaut, born in Sarnia, Ontario. Lt. Col. Hadfield grew up on a corn farm near Milton, Ontario; May 1978 joined Canadian Armed Forces; 1982 graduated in mechanical engineering, Royal Military College, Kingston; 1984-1985 fighter and CF-18 training at Cold Lake, Alberta; 1992 MSc in aviation systems, University of Tennessee; 1988 Liethen-Tittle Award for top pilot graduate of USAF Test Pilot School (third foreign student to win); 1991 US Navy Test Pilot of the Year (Top Gun); June 1992 one of four Canadian astronauts chosen from a field of 5,330; 1995, Nov. 12-20, mission specialist on STS-74 Atlantis, NASA's second Space Shuttle mission to Russian Space Station Mir; first Canadian mission specialist, first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit, first Canadian to Mir; works as a CAPCOM, the voice of Shuttle mission control, and Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency. In 1999 Hadfield will fly on STS-100, International Space Station assembly Flight 6A, to deliver and install the new Canadian Robot Arm (Space Station Remote Manipulator System), as well as an Italian-made resupply Logistics Module. During the flight Hadfield will become the first Canadian to walk in space. 1936 - 2005 Peter Jennings ABC news anchor, was born in Toronto. 1933 - Sorel Etrog sculptor, was born in Iasi, Romania. Etrog trained as an artist in Tel Aviv, and came to Toronto from Israel in 1963, encouraged by art dealer Samuel Zacks. He is known for his monumental bronzes. 1931 - Lise Payette broadcaster, politician, was born in Montreal. Payette started her broadcasting career with Radio Canada, and hosted the popular morning radio show Place aux Femmes in the 1960s, followed by a late evening talk show, Appelez-moi Lise. She joined the Parti Quebecois, was elected in the 1976 sweep, and joined the Levesque Cabinet as Minister of Consumer Affairs. During the 1980 referendum campaign she made the mistake of referring to Claude Ryan's wife as an 'Yvette' - a put down meaning a stay-at-home wife and career mother. L'Affaire des Yvettes ended her political career. 1901 - 1986 Aurèle Joliat hockey left winger, was born at Ottawa. Joliat played 16 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, from 1922 to 1938, and shone on a line with Howie Morenz and Billy Boucher; weighing only 61 kg, he was called the Mighty Atom' or 'Little Giant'. Joliat had great rushing speed, scoring 270 career goals with 190 assists and playing on three Stanley Cup winning teams (1924, 1930 and 1931); 1933-34 Hart Trophy NHL MVP. 1790 - 1881 William Gooderham distiller, was born in Scole, England; died in Toronto. Gooderham migrated to Canada in 1832 and went into the milling business with his brother-in-law James Worts. He and Worts' son built a small distillery in 1837 to handle surplus grain, expanded in 1859, and by 1875 Gooderham & Worts were Canada's largest distiller. He was also a founder and President of the Bank of Toronto.
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| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 6:35 am
August 30 1988 VICKI KEITH ENDS HER MARATHON SWIM Toronto Ontario - Canada's Vicki Keith staggers ashore from Lake Ontario, ending her marathon swim of all 5 Great Lakes and setting the women's world distance record of 38 km for the butterfly stroke; Keith started her marathon on July 1. 1987 Rome Italy - Toronto sprinter Ben Johnson runs the 100m dash at the world track and field championships in a world record 9.83, cutting one-tenth of a second from the previous record of 9.93 set by Calvin Smith four years earlier; record later erased by IAAF because Johnson admitted using steroids; in 1988, he will win gold at the Seoul Olympics with a time of 9.79 seconds but will be stripped of the medal after testing positive for steroids. 1976 Gravenhurst Ontario - Group of 17 Chinese officials attends official opening Norman Bethune's restored birthplace, operated by Parks Canada; served as a surgeon during Mao's long march, and died in China of blood poisoning. 1957 London England - Ottawa native Paul Anka's hit single Diana peaks at #1 on the UK pop singles chart and stays there for nine weeks. 1916 France/Belgium - Canadian Corps enters the Battle of the Somme, raging since July 1; engagements follow at Courcelette, Thiepval and Ancre Heights, end in the mud of mid-November with almost 25,000 Canadian casualties. 1856 Montreal Quebec - Abbé Chiniquy excommunicated; firebrand defector from Roman Catholic Church. 1851 London England - Parliament passes the Canadian Currency Act, specifying a conversion to decimal currency, and making the dollar legal tender, up to $10 per transaction; any new coins struck for Canada must have approval of British Government. 1843 Saskatchewan - Rupert's Land native Abishabis burned to death by his tribe to destroy his murderous spirit, after being caught and jailed by HBC after he killed an in-law's family and stole food and a canoe; claimed to be Jesus. 1812 Winnipeg Manitoba - Miles Macdonnell, Lord Selkirk's agent and a former soldier, arrives with the first settlers, mostly Scottish, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, to found the Red River Settlement. As first Governor of Assiniboia, his duty is to establish the colony on land acquired by Selkirk from the Hudson's Bay Company; he builds Fort Douglas near the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. The colony will be destroyed in a feud with the Norwesters in 1815, but will be re-established by Selkirk in 1817. 1611 Newfoundland - Newly appointed Governor John Guy issues Newfoundland's first laws; to protect forests and harbours and regulate the fishery. Born on this day: 1935 - Bill Glassco theatre producer/director, was born in Quebec City. Glassco is best known for establishing the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and staging the works of David French, James Reaney and Michel Tremblay. 1933 - Don Getty Alberta Premier, was born in Westmount, Quebec. After graduation from University of Western Ontario in Business, Getty moved to Alberta, played quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, then worked for Imperial Oil and as a stockbroker. In 1967, he was elected to the Alberta Legislature as one of Peter Lougheed's original six Conservatives. After the 1971 and 1975 elections, he served as Lougheed's cabinet but left to go into private practice in 1979. Six years later he won the Alberta PC Leadership and became Premier on Nov 1, 1985. He campaigned for an equal Senate, and saw this adopted in the Charlottetown Accord, shortly after which he left politics, and was succeeded by Ralph Klein. 1896 - 1983 Raymond Hart Massey TV/movie/stage actor, director, and producer, was born in Toronto, brother of Vincent Massey; died in Los Angeles, California. Massey started his acting career at school and college, and turned professional in London England in 1922. He played with Sibyl Thorndike in G. B. Shaw's Saint Joan, and made his Broadway debut as Hamlet in 1931. His movie career began in the US when he signed a 5 picture deal with Alexander Korda, and he became beloved for his portrayal of US President Abe Lincoln. He is also famous for his TV role as Dr. Kildare's Dr. Leonard Gillespie (1961-66).
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| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 6:35 am
August 31 1993 Ottawa Ontario - Government slaps a ban on cod fishing after stocks dwindle. 1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada-US Free Trade Agreement becomes law. 1987 Montreal Quebec - Quatre Saisons network launches La Maison Deschênes; 30 minute drama Canada's first daily TV soap opera. 1981 Langley BC - Clifford Robert Olson charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of nine children, after RCMP make a deal to lead them to the bodies and other evidence, in exchange for a $100,000 trust fund for his wife and infant son; native of Coquitlam, BC, will later be charged with killing 11 boys and girls aged nine to 18, and sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole. 1955 Toronto Ontario - Church of England in Canada changed its name to Anglican Church of Canada. 1938 Quebec - Torrential rains hit St. Lawrence Valley; 12 persons killed in flooding and landslides. 1906 Alaska - Roald Amundsen's ship Gjoa reaches Alaska; first ship to sail the Northwest Passage. 1673 Quebec Quebec - All beggars in Quebec ordered to leave by authorities. 1666 Quebec Quebec - Intendant Jean Talon's census taken. Here are some results: population of New France 3,418; Beauport 172; Beaupré 678; Ile d'Orléans 471; Montreal 584; Quebec 555; Sillery 217; Trois-Rivières 461. In addition, 63% are males; 257 women and 791 men are unmarried; 40% are aged 14 and under; 7 married women are aged 14 or under. 1527 FIRST LETTER WRITTEN FROM CANADA St. John's Newfoundland - John Rut writes to English King Henry VIII noting that there are 14 French and Portuguese fishing vessels in the harbour; also describes Labrador; the first recorded letter written from Canada. Born on this day: 1959 - Tony DeFranco pop musician, of The Defranco family. 1932 - Alan Fotheringham journalist, wit, was born in Hearne, Saskatchewan. Fotheringham is best known for his Southam and Financial Post columns from Ottawa and Washington and his Macleans pieces, plus his work on the late Front Page Challenge. 1931 - 1991 Cliff Lumsdon swimmer, coach. Lumsdon won five world marathon swim championships, the first in 1949 when he defeated 70 other competitors; first swimmer to cross the Straits of Juan de Fuca; 1955 only one of 30 swimmers to complete the 55 km distance in 46 degrees F water. 1931 - Jean-Marc Béliveau Montreal Canadiens hockey centre, born in Trois Rivières, Quebec. After his junior years with the Quebec Aces, Beliveau played his entire career (1953-71) with the NHL Canadiens, where he scored 507 goals and 1219 points. He helped the Habs to 17 Stanley Cup playoffs and 10 victories, many as team captain. He was playoff MVP (1965) and 2-time regular season MVP (Hart Trophy 1956 and 1964). His playoff record of 79 goals and 176 points stood until Wayne Gretzky broke it in 1987. Beliveau retired in 1971 and spent several years with the Canadiens front office. 1896 - 1982 Felix-Antoine Savard priest, poet, novelist, folklorist, was born in Quebec, Quebec. Savard's works show a strong nationalist spirit and a love of the land. 1807 - 1876 Sir John Young, Baron Lisgar Second Governor-General of Canada 1869-72, was born in Bombay, India; died in Baillieborough, Ireland. Lisgar calmed US-Canadian relations during the Fenian raids and helped in the sale of Rupert's Land to Canada and the creation of the province of Manitoba. He also founded the Governor General's Foot Guards.
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| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:02 am
September 1 1995 Toronto Ontario - Paul Bernardo found guilty of first-degree murder in sex-slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French; also guilty of seven other charges, including kidnapping and sexual assault; will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years on the two murder counts. 1983 North Pacific - Soviet SU-1 5 fighter shoots down Korean Air Lines 747 commercial jet after the plane entered Soviet airspace, killing 269 passengers, including 10 Canadians. 1980 TERRY FOX FORCED TO HALT MARATHON Thunder Bay Ontario - Terry Fox abandons Marathon of Hope 135 days and over 5,000 km after it started at St. John's, Newfoundland, on April 12; cancer has returned and spread to his lungs; hospitalized in Vancouver where he dies the following year. Fox was studying physical education in 1977, when he lost most of one leg to bone cancer. 1972 Montreal Quebec - Arsonists set fire to the Blue Bird Club, killing 37 and injuring 54; Montreal's worst fire since 1927. 1951 Victoria BC - Nellie McClung dies; author and advocate for women's rights; began her political activities in Manitoba, where she was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and continued her fight for female suffrage and dower rights for women when she moved to Alberta in 1915. She served as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton, Alberta, from 1921-1926. Her first novel, Sowing Seeds in Danny, published in 1908, launched a successful writing career. 1937 Vancouver BC - Trans-Canada Air Lines makes its first passenger and first international flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington. 1917 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Press; a co-operative news agency. 1905 Canada - Founding of Alberta and Saskatchewan on this day; enter the Dominion as 8th and 9th provinces. 1715 Paris France - Louis XIV dies of gangrene; King of Canada; his 72 year reign is the longest in European history. 1557 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier dies at age 66 at his estate of Limoilou. Born on this day: 1926 - James Crerar Reaney poet and playwright, was born at Easthope, near Stratford, Ontario. Reaney is best known for his plays, dealing with Ontario small-town life, such as Wacousta and the Donnelly Trilogy. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario. 1923 - Kenneth Thomson financier, was born in Toronto. The son of Roy Thomson, and the second Lord Thomson of Fleet, Thomson carried on his father's vision, investing in such properties as the Hudson's Bay Company, Thomas Nelson Publishing and the Globe and Mail. 1922 - Yvonne De Carlo TV/film actress, was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver. De Carlo has played in almost 90 movies, including The Munsters' (Lily Munster) and The Ten Commandments. 1868 - 1952 (Joseph-Napoleon) Henri Bourassa politician and journalist, was bornin Montreal, a grandson of Louis-Joseph Papineau; died in Outremont, Quebec. Bourassa was originally a Liberal MP and supporter of Laurier, but he resigned his seat in 1899 to oppose Canada's decision to participate in the Boer War, without consulting Parliament. He was a strong spokesman for French Canadian rights (but a foe of Abbé Groulx's idea of a separate Laurentian state), an enemy of conscription and Ontario's anti-French Regulation 17 and founder of the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir (1910), which he edited until 1932.
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September 2 1995 Toronto Ontario - British Nimrod plane plunges into Lake Ontario before horrified spectators during the annual airshow at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto; seven RAF crew members killed. 1986 Los Angeles, California - Canadian Cathy Eveyln Smith sentenced to three years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose that killed comedian John Belushi in March 1982. 1985 North Atlantic - Atlantic US-French expedition discovers the wreckage of the Titanic 900 km off the coast of Newfoundland, 73 years after the White Star liner sank. 1972 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and other dignitaries watch the Soviet national team win the opening game of hockey series with an out-of-shape and arrogant Team Canada by a score of 7-3; Canada is leading 2-0 after seven minutes, and will outshoot the USSR selects 32-30, but are stone-walled by goalie Vladislav Tretiak; shocked Forum fans boo the Canadian players. 'We were stunned, absolutely stunned,' said coach Harry Sinden after the game. 'It's the way they won. With speed, finesse, solid checks, outstanding goaltending and, most of all, teamwork. They're good. Just how good remains to be seen. There are still seven games to be played, but it's a real competition now.' 1945 Tokyo Japan - VJ Day; about 80,000 Canadians had volunteered to go to Pacific to fight Japanese. 1901 England - John Claus Voss reaches England in his Nootka Indian sailing canoe, the Tilikum, via Australia and New Zealand; left Victoria, BC, three years, three months and 12 days earlier; 65,000 km journey; Tilikum now on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria. 1875 Montreal Quebec - Catholic mob prevents the burial in consecrated ground of the printer Joseph Guibord 1804-1869, a member of l'Institut canadien de Montréal; with the approval of Rome, Bishop Ignace Bourget had forbidden Catholics from becoming members of the Institute on pain of excommunication; Guibord refused, and on his death, was not given the last rites. In 1874, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ordered his burial in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. On Nov 16, a military escort will finally escort his body for burial, in an area of the cemetery that Mgr. Bourget will immediately deconsecrate. 1797 Quebec Quebec - Catholic bishops required to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. 1752 Canada - Last day of the Julian calendar in Britain and the Colonies; the Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day problem goes into effect the next day, with tomorrow being September 14, hence 11 days are dropped from the year. Most other countries made the adjustment in 1582. 1578 CANADA'S FIRST CHURCH SERVICE Iqaluit NWT - Robert Wolfall, Martin Frobisher's chaplain, holds Canada's first recorded Christian services at Frobisher Bay. Born on this day: 1964 - Keanu Charles Reeves film actor, cartoon voice, was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Reeves' father is part Chinese, part Hawaiian - his name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in Hawaiian; grew up in Winnipeg; was MVP on his high school hockey team, where he was a goalie; dropped out of high school when he was 17 to become an actor; has played in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, River's Edge, Youngblood, Parenthood, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Speed, Little Buddha, A Walk in the Clouds, Johnny Mnemonic, Chain Reaction, My Own Private Idaho , Brotherhood of Justice, Babes in Toyland, Act of Vengeance, Dream to Believe. In 1995 Reeves played Hamlet on stage at the Manitoba Theatre Centre; 1995 Academy Awards presenter; 1995 MTV Movie Awards - winner 'Best Onscreen Couple' together with Sandra Bullock, for their performance in Graham Yost's 'Speed'. 1945 - Victor Lévy-Beaulieu writer. 1943 - Glen Sather NHL player, hockey manager, was born at High River, Alberta. Sather played 660 NHL games as a left-winger before joining the Edmonton Oilers of the WHA in 1976-77; coached the Oilers to a respectable 69 point total during their first NHL season in 1979-80 and was instrumental in acquiring 17 year old Wayne Gretzky from the Indianapolis Racers, as well as players like Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Andy Moog and Grant Fuhr; had 4 Stanley Cup winners as coach and General Manager of the Edmonton Oilers - in 1984, 1985, 1987 and (even after the Gretzky trade) 1988, and one as General Manager only in 1990; he ranks sixth on all-time NHL list with 553 wins (including playoffs). 1938 - C. Wilson Markle Jr. engineer, inventor of the film colorization process.
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| Saturday, September 03, 2005 - 7:42 am
September 3 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces a referendum will be held October 26th on the Charlottetown accord; he will later define a referendum victory as a Yes vote of 50 per cent plus one in each province; Bill 150 will be amended to reflect the Charlottetown resolutions, giving Quebec control over manpower, regional development, immigration, but diminishing Quebec's weight in the Senate. 1979 MULTICULTURAL TV GOES ON THE AIR Toronto Ontario - CFMT-TV goes on the air, broadcasting in 26 languages to an audience of 4.5 million. It is the world's first full time private multilingual TV station; MT= Multicultural Television. 1975 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards starts legal action against Official Language Act. 1962 Rogers Pass Alberta - John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway at Rogers Pass; stretching over 4800 miles from coast to coast. 1939 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes liner Athenia en route to Montreal. 1841 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin introduces September Resolutions in favour of responsible government; passed by Assembly of the Canadas. 1894 Canada - Labour Day officially celebrated in Canada for the first time. 1783 Versailles France - Americans John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay sign the Treaty of Paris (Versailles); ends American Revolutionary War, fixes Canadian boundary; deals with fishing rights. 1697 Ryswick Netherlands - Signing of Treaty of Ryswick ends King William's War (1689-1697) in America; France and England get back all lands they lost to each other. 1535 Tadoussac Quebec - Jacques Cartier and his crew sight white beluga whales in the St. Lawrence. Born on this day: 1929 - Armand Vaillancourt sculptor. 1810 - 1871 Paul Kane painter, was born at Mallow, Ireland; died in Toronto. In 1846, sponsored by Sir George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company, Kane accompanied the canoe brigades as far west as Victoria, sketching over 700 portraits and activities of western native people. He wrote an account of his travels in 1859. 1724 - 1808 Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester soldier and statesman, was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland; died in Stubbings, Berkshire, England. Carleton served under Wolfe as a Colonel at Quebec, was Governor of Quebec 1768-78 and 1785-95, before and during the American Revolutionary War. He advised and administered the Quebec Act, protecting the Catholic Church and Quebec Civil Law, and so succeeded in keeping French loyalty to the Crown and in holding back the invasion of the American forces. In 1782-83, as Governor of New York, he greatly aided the exodus of the American Loyalists north to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada. 1713 - 1736 Jean-Baptiste Gaultier La Vérendrye fur trader, was born at Ile Dupas, Quebec; killed by the Sioux at Lake of the Woods. La Vérendrye was the eldest son of Pierre La Vérendrye, and under his father's direction he built posts at Rainy Lake, Winnipeg River and Maurepas (Selkirk).
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| Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 5:41 am
September 4 1997 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe, 69, agrees to suit up for the IHL's Detroit Vipers in the team's season opener against the Kansas City Blades on Oct. 3; will become the only professional hockey player to play in six consecutive decades. 1985 Ottawa Ontario - Mila Mulroney gives birth to son Daniel Nicholas Dimitri on the first anniversary of her husband's sweep to power. 1984 Canada - Brian Mulroney wins the federal election in a landslide against opponents Liberal John Turner and New Democrat Ed Broadbent. His PC Party takes a record 212 of 282 seats, to 40 Liberal; 30 NDP; 1 other, in the biggest majority (seat total) ever won by a federal party in Canadian history; also takes 58 of 75 seats in his home province after promising to reintegrate Quebec into the Canadian family 'with honour and enthusiasm'; Turner suffers crushing defeat nationally, but wins own seat in Vancouver Quadra. 1972 Toronto Ontario - Team Canada beats the USSR 4-1 in Game 2 of the Super Series/September to Remember, to even out the series against the Soviets; known as Brother Night, because of the goal scoring of Frank and Pete Mahovlich and the goaltending and marksmanship of Tony and Phil Esposito. 1972 Montreal Quebec - Art thieves rob Montreal Museum of Fine Arts of $3 million of paintings and art objects; including $1 million Rembrandt. 1966 Hollywood California - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in last episode of CBS-TV legal drama, Perry Mason, broadcast on this day. 1950 St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia - D. McI. Hodgson of St Ann Bay catches a tuna weighing 997 lbs. 1909 England - Robert Baden-Powell presides over first Boy Scout rally in England; movement funded in part by Canadian High Commissioner Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914. 1899 Montreal Quebec - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona funds the Royal Victoria College for Women at McGill University, which opens on this day. Smith, a controlling shareholder of the Bank of Montreal, the Hudson's Bay Company and the CPR, is a strong believer in education for women. 1876 Toronto Ontario - Frederic Stupart of the Dominion Meteorological Observatory issues Canada's first prepared storm warning. Born on this day: 1932 - Armand Vaillancourt sculptor, was born at Black Lake Quebec. Vaillancourt monumental work consists of welded metal figures expressing his outrage at social injustice. 1908 - Edward Dmytryk film director, producer, was born at Grand Forks, British Columbia. Dmytryk studied at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, worked as an editor at Paramount, then directed his first film, The Hawk, in 1935. During the war he made several politically oriented films, such as Hitler's Children (1943). When director Sam Wood gave his name to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) as a supposed communist sympathizer, he was called before the McCarthy hearings, and became one of the Hollywood Ten cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify. He later recanted, named names, and was removed from the blacklist. He went on to direct several films, including Crossfire (1947), The Sniper (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and The Young Lions (1958). He and his wife also published a series of books: On film editing, On screen acting, On screen directing, On screen writing and On film making. 1881 - 1965 Isabella Preston horticulturist, was born in Lancaster, England; died in Georgetown, Ontario. Preston worked as a plant hybridist at the Ontario Agricultural College up to 1920, then joined W. T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. She originated nearly 200 varieties of rose, lilac, Siberian iris and lily. 1810 - 1880 Donald McKay shipbuilder, naval architect, was born at Jordan Falls, Nova Scotia; died in Hamilton, Massachusetts. McKay learned his trade in the family shipyards, then moved to the US where his East Boston yard built the largest and fastest of the clipper ships - Flying Cloud, Great Republic and Sovereign of the Seas.
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| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 8:16 am
September 5 1990 Montreal Quebec - Mercier Bridge through the Kanawake reserve opens after 55-day Mohawk standoff. 1983 New York City - Nova Scotian Robert MacNeil and colleague Jim Lehrer see their PBS show expanded to America's first hour-long network news show - The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. 1967 Gander Newfoundland - Czechoslovakian airliner crashes near Gander, killing 35 passengers. 1957 Ottawa Ontario - Louis St-Laurent resigns as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. 1945 GOUZENKO DEFECTS WITH SOVIET SPY FILES Ottawa Ontario - Cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defects from the USSR Embassy with more than 100 secret documents under his coat, detailing the workings of a major Soviet spy ring in Canada, with tentacles reaching into the Department of External Affairs code room, the British High Commissioner's Office and the Chalk River nuclear facility; result in 20 espionage trials and nine convictions. The RCMP give Gouzenko Canadian asylum and a new identity, and he dies in hiding in 1982. 1944 Cornwall Ontario - Earthquake does serious damage to the city of Cornwall. 1881 Sarnia Ontario - Forest fires in Ontario and Michigan kill an estimated 500 people in 20 villages near Lake Huron; the region is cloaked with a yellowish-green fog. 1755 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John Winslow, military commander at Annapolis, starts expelling 5,000 Acadians from Grand Pre, Annapolis & Fundy coast for refusing to take an oath of allegiance; their land and farms are forfeited to the Crown; most of the almost 10,000 Acadians forced into exile relocate to Louisiana. 1697 Churchill Manitoba - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, on the Pélican, attacks and defeats 3 Hudson's Bay Company ships, sinking 2, in pitched naval battle near York Factory in Hudson Bay; Pierre, the third son of Pierre Le Moyne, had been attacking HBC posts for a decade. 1619 Churchill Manitoba - Jens Eriksen Munk sails into Hudson Bay; forced to winter in estuary of Churchill River; Munk and two others will survive; 61 crewmen will die either of trichinosis from raw polar bear meat, or, more likely, Vitamin A poisoning from eating toxic polar bear liver. Born on this day: 1922 - 1984 Françoise Aubut organist and teacher, was born at St-Jérôme Quebec; died in Montreal. Aubut studied at the Paris Conservatory with Dupré and Messaien, and is the first North American to win the Grand Premier Prix. 1916 - 2002 Frank Shuster comedian, was born in Toronto. Shuster was a lifelong comedy partner of Johnny Wayne (1918-90). In World War II they wrote and performed for the Army Show, and in 1946 had their own CBC radio program. They made the transition to TV, and became 67-time regulars on the Ed Sullivan Show out of New York. 1899 - 1989 Helen Creighton folklorist, was born at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; died in Halifax. Creighton pioneered the collection of folk music in Canada, eventually collecting and transcribing over 2000 songs in Micmac, Gaelic, German, French and English. She collected both for the Library of Congress in Washington and for the National Museum of Canada.
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| Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 6:31 am
September 7 1995 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau tables Bill 1 in the National Assembly; to give that body the power to declare Quebec a sovereign country after a referendum victory. 1991 Calgary Alberta - Hailstorm lasting 30 minutes devastates Calgary and surrounding areas. 1985 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declines to join US Star Wars missile defence system. 1975 Montreal Quebec - Winnipeg-based rock group Guess Who hold their final concert, in the Montreal Forum. 1959 Schefferville Quebec - Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 dies of a heart attack; Union Nationale Premier for 15 years; gave Quebec its own corporate income tax (1947) and personal income tax (1953); made the French fleur-de-lis the province's official symbol (1948). 1949 Toronto Ontario - The Canadian liner, Noronic, burns at a pier in Toronto; 130 persons die. 1763 London England - King George III issues a proclamation urging his subjects to settle in Canada. 1659 Quebec Quebec - Smallpox epidemic hits Quebec. 1659 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys arrives back in Montreal from France with Jeanne Mance and 62 men and 47 women settlers to found the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first religious order originating in Canada. 1619 Churchill Manitoba - Danish navigator Jens Munk, searching for the North West Passage, lands at the mouth of the Churchill River and claims the territory for King Christian IV of Denmark; calls the territory Nova Dania - New Denmark. 1572 CANADA'S FIRST BUSINESS DEAL Chateau Bay, Labrador - An anonymous Basque fisherman buys four scallops - this is Canada's earliest recorded business transaction. Born on this day: 1945 - Jacques Lemaire NHL hockey player, coach, was born in Quebec. Lemaire was a long time centre for the Montreal Canadiens, and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He coached the St. Louis Blues, and resigned from the New Jersey Devils organization after the 1998 playoffs. 1917 - 1983 Maurice Lamontagne economist, politician, was born at Mont-Joli Quebec; died in Ottawa. Lamontagne taught economics at Laval University until 1954, when he entered the federal public service. He taught at Ottawa U, and was an advisor to Lester Pearson from 1958-63, when he was elected to the Commons. He served as Secretary of State, tirelessly promoting bilingualism and biculturalism. 1905 - 1984 Clarence Campbell NHL President 1946-77, was born at Fleming Saskatchewan; died in Montreal. A Rhodes Scholar and lawyer, Campbell commanded the 4th Canadian Armoured Division in World War II. As National Hockey League President, he brought in the All Star Game in 1947, and helped established the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960. His playoff suspension of Maurice 'Rocket' Richard in 1955 caused rioting in the Forum and in the streets of Montreal. 1925 - Allan Blakeney politician, Saskatchewan Premier 1971-82, was born at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Recruited into NDP politics from the Saskatchewan public service by Tommy Douglas, Blakeney served in Cabinet, was elected Leader in 1970, and defeated Ross Thatcher's Liberals in 1971. After wins in 1975 and 1978, he was defeated by Grant Devine's Conservatives in 1982. He retired to teach law at Osgoode Hall and the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1991 was appointed to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
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| Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 4:49 pm
September 9 1984 POPE ARRIVES FOR 12 DAY TOUR Ste-Foy, Quebec - Pope John Paul II arrives in Quebec City to begin 12 day tour of Canada; speaks at a three-hour mass at Laval Stadium attended by over 250,000 people; also visits the tomb of Bishop Laval; first pontiff to visit Canada. His itinerary is - Trois-Rivières, Montreal, St. John's, Moncton, Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Ottawa-Hull. 1979 Corbeil Ontario - Lynn Johnson premieres her For Better or For Worse cartoon strip in selected newspapers; two years later, she has 50 million readers worldwide. Based on her own family life, the strip was originally produced from a lakeside cabin in Northern Ontario. 1978 Hollywood California - Jack L. Warner 1892-1978 dies; film producer, studio boss. Warner was one of 12 children of Jewish immigrants from Poland who first settled in London, Ontario, where he was born. In 1905 he and his other Warner brothers, Albert (1884-1967), Sam (1888-1927) and Harry (1881-1958) started a film distribution business in Ohio, but were soon forced to sell out to the Patents Company. They started producing shorts in 1912, and established a studio at Burbank California called Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. In 1927 they launched the sound era with Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer. 1970 Ottawa Ontario - Government puts a complete ban on pesticide DDT in Canada, effective Jan. 1, 1971. 1965 Burnaby BC - Opening of Simon Fraser University. 1954 Toronto Ontario - Marilyn Bell touches the CNE Breakwater, utterly exhausted, becoming the first person to swim 5l.5 km across Lake Ontario, from Youngstown, NY. The 16 year old Bell does it in 20 hours, 59 minutes, battling lamprey eels and oil pollution; succeeding where marathon champions Florence Chadwick and Winnie Roach failed. 1949 St-Joachim Quebec - Quebec Airways DC-3 explodes and crashes, killing 23; J-A Guay and 2 accomplices later convicted of planting a dynamite bomb on the plane, and hanged for murder. 1930 Toronto Ontario - Percy Williams sets a new world track record of 10.3 seconds for the 100 Metres. 1615 Toronto Ontario - Étienne Brulé arrives at the Seneca village of Tayagon, at Baby Point; first European to view site of Toronto, on the east bank of the Toronto River, today called the Humber. In old Iroquois, the word "toronto" means, roughly, "a good place to do business." It may also be a Huron word meaning "fish weir" or "smelt trap." 1583 Azores - Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowns returning from Newfoundland when his ship Squirrel is wrecked in a storm off the Azores; his reputed last words 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!' Born on this day: 1964 - Brett Hull NHL hockey player, was born at Chicago Illinois. Named Hart Trophy Winner (League MVP) in 1991 with St. Louis, Brett holds the single season Right Wing scoring record with 86 goals; he and father Bobby have both won the Hart (MVP), Lady Byng (Sportsmanship) and All-Star Game MVP trophies. 1885 - 1976 H. R. MacMillan business leader, was born Harvey Reginald MacMillan in Newmarket, Ontario; died in Vancouver. MacMillan studied forestry at Guelph and Yale, and became BC's chief forester in 1912. After World War I, he joined British merchant Montague Meyer and went into the timber business, building up the H.R. MacMillan Export Co. with partner W. J. Van Dusen. In 1952 he merged the firm with Bloedel, Stewart and Welch to create MacMillan Bloedel, BC's largest employer.
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| Friday, September 09, 2005 - 6:17 am
September 8 1993 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Kim Campbell calls an election for October 25th. The Conservatives, who have a substantial majority, will be reduced to a pair of seats as the Liberals under Jean Chretien will come to power. 1972 Vancouver BC - USSR beats Team Canada 5-3 in Game 4 of the Summit Series, with Canada's best defender, Serge Savard, out of the lineup with a hairline fracture, and Vladislav Tretiak stopping 38 of 41 shots, including 21 in the final period. Vancouver fans boo Team Canada off the ice at the end of the last game played in Canada. A party of 3,500 flag waving Canadian fans will accompany them to the Soviet Union. 1971 Detroit Michigan - NHL star Gordie Howe retires for the first time; in 1973, decides to play with his sons for Houston of the WHA. He retires for good in 1980. 1968 Quebec Quebec - FLQ terrorist bomb explodes in Quebec City. 1966 Hollywood California - Montreal-born actor William Shatner as Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise start their mission as the crew of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi space epic Star Trek on NBC TV; first episode called The Man Trap; NBC will cancel the show Sept 2, 1969; Shatner will also play in the 1973 cartoon version, as well as in film spinoffs. 1952 MASSIVE MANHUNT FOR BOYD GANG Toronto Ontario - Edwin Alonzo Boyd leader of Boyd Gang escapes from Don Jail with fellow cop-killers Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan; charged with murder and armed robbery; after a massive manhunt, they are captured eight days later in a barn near Leslie Street in North York; Boyd and Jackson had also escaped from Don Jail a year earlier. 1907 Vancouver BC - Start of two days of anti-Oriental riots in Vancouver. 1775 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia hit by the 'Hurricane of Independence,' which started a week earlier in the West Indies; an estimated 4,170 people from North Carolina northward die in the storm. 1760 Montreal Quebec - Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil signs letters of capitulation surrendering Montreal and New France to Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Sir William Johnson with their force of 20,000 English troops, asks that his 2,000 soldiers be allowed to march out of the city with their guns and banners; Amherst refuses, and that evening, the flag of England replaces the fleur-de-lis at the Place d'Armes; the Chevalier de Lévis burns his battle flags to save his troops from the humiliation of surrendering them to the English; beginning of 'Regime Militaire' as Frederick Haldimand assumes the governorship; end of the French-Indian War (Seven Years War continues in other parts of the world until Feb. 10, 1763) The British will agree to give the French fair treatment, including freedom of worship, freedom to trade furs on an equal basis with the British, freedom of emigration and continued property rights. 1734 Montreal Quebec - Michel Sarrazin dies; doctor, philosopher, biologist. Born on this day: 1945 - Rogatien 'Rogie' Vachon NHL goalie, was born at Quebec City. Vachon played for the Montreal Canadiens and the LA Kings, and won the Vézina Trophy in 1968. 1937 - 1995 Barbara Frum broadcaster, was born Barbara Rosberg at Niagara Falls, New York . Frum is best known for her award winning interviews from 1971-81 on CBC Radio's As It Happens, and her work on CBC TV's The Journal news feature program from Jan. 1982 until her death. 1898 - 1972 Frank 'Pep' Leadley football player, was born at Hamilton, Ontario. Leadley helped Queen's University win the college title from 1921 to 1925 and three Grey Cups 1922 to 1924, as a drop kicking backfielder; joined his old team the Hamilton Tigers in 1926, adding two more Grey Cups before he retired in 1930. 1871 -1972 Robert Samuel McLaughlin car manufacturer, was born at Enniskillen, Ontario; died in Oshawa. In 1892, McLaughlin and his father Robert and brother George started The McLaughlin Carriage Works in Oshawa. In 1908 they began building auto bodies for William Durant of the Buick Motor Company in Flint, Michigan. The McLaughlin Buick was followed by the Chevrolet in 1915, and in 1918, Durant's General Motors bought control of the McLaughlin Works, keeping Robert as President of General Motors of Canada. By 1925 his Oshawa plant had 3,000 employees, and was building more cars in Canada than all other firms combined. McLaughlin was also an avid horseman, entering his first show in 1926 and winning over 1,500 ribbons for jumping in Canada and the US; his Parkwood Stables produced three Queen's Plate winners: Horometer in 1934, Kingarvie in 1946 and Moldy in 1947.
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07-12-2002
| Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 10:20 am
September 10 1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Referendum Bill to decide the fate of the Charlottetown Accord; question is, 'Do you agree that the Constitution of Canada should be renewed...; on the basis of the agreement reached on Aug. 28, 1992'. 1985 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet issues Order in Council detailing waters in Arctic archipelago Canada considers to be internal waters; Canada will take steps to strengthen sovereignty in the Arctic, including more military surveillance flights. 1964 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons appoints 15-member committee to study and recommend new Canadian flag. 1943 Rome Italy - Germans seize Rome; Italian navy turns fleet over to Allies. 1941 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta government orders all schools closed due to the epidemics of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) and encephalitis; lessons published in the newspapers. 1939 CANADA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King announces that Canada is now at war with Germany. Canada makes her own declaration of war for the first time. King notes that there are currently 4,500 soldiers in the Canadian Army (+60,000 reserves); 4,500 in the RCAF; 1,800 in the RCN. 1898 New Westminster, BC - Fire destroys the town of New Westminster. 1813 Put-in-Bay, Ohio - US Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry captures smaller British naval fleet under Lt. Robert Barclay on Lake Erie; takes the Detroit, the Queen Charlotte, the Lady Prevost and three armed schooners; victory gives the Americans command of the lake for the rest of the War of 1812. Perry reports to Washington: 'We have met the enemy, and they are ours.' 1746 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld sees his French fleet of 54 ships, destined for Louisbourg and Annapolis, wiped out by a hurricane; the remainder reach Chebucto, where d'Anville dies of a heart attack. 1621 Edinburgh Scotland - King James I grants all of Canada and Acadia to his secretary Sir William Alexander, who promises to set up the colony of Nova Scotia, or New Scotland. Born on this day: 1948 Margaret Trudeau-Kemper former wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (1968-1979), author of 'Beyond Reason', and now a private citizen in Ottawa, was born at Vancouver, daughter of Liberal Cabinet Minister James Sinclair.
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