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| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 4:57 pm
January 25 1996 Red Deer Alberta - Leilani Muir awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province's Eugenics Board in 1959. 1979 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture. 1977 New York New York - Rene Levesque tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'. 1973 BC - Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island., spilling 378,000 litres of fuel oil; spill spreads 320 km south. 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa issues injunction, on behalf of her husband and the unborn child, to prevent a woman having an abortion. 1963 Newfoundland - Wilson Kettle dies at age 102; has 582 living descendants. 1932 GG MAKES FIRST TRANS CANADA PHONE CALLS Ottawa Ontario - Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system. 1905 Toronto Ontario - George William Ross Liberal government defeated by Conservatives under James Whitney. 1791 London England - British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. 1627 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert c1575- 1627 dies of a fall, after ten years in Quebec; body later reinterred in church attached to the Quebec General Hospital; Canada's first doctor, settler. Born on this day: 1917 - 1990 Paul Rowe football player, was born at Victoria BC. Rowe graduated from the University of Oregon and played pro football for three years with the Calgary Bronks, before leaving in 1941 to serve in WW II. On his return he played for the Calgary Stampeders and was leading scorer in the Western League in 1939 and 1948 (Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy), leading the Stamps to the 1948 Grey Cup. 1822 - 1905 William McDougall hockey player, born at York County; dies in Ottawa. McDougall founded the Toronto newspaper The North American, and was one of the fathers of Confederation. He was appointed lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories in 1869, but was prevented from taking his post by the Red River Insurrection.
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:42 pm
January 26 1993 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne Sauvé dies in hospital at age 70; born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, Sauvé served as Canada's first woman Governor General, also the first female Speaker of the House of Commons. 1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. exonerated in Marshall Enquiry Report nearly 19 years after he was falsely convicted, and wrongly served 11 yrs for stabbing death of Sandy Seale in Sydney, NS; report says Marshall a victim of ineptitude and unfairness, as well as racism, because he was a Micmac Indian. 1980 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark warns USSR that Canada will boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow if Soviet troops do not leave Afghanistan by Feb. 20th. Canada does not attend the Games. 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald LeDain issues part one of his Commission on the Non-medical Use of Drugs Report; recommends legal heroin for pain treatment; later rejected by government. 1924 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves the Red Ensign as Canada's official flag for government buildings at home and abroad; until the Maple Leaf is adopted. 1836 Montreal Quebec - John Colborne, Baron Seaton assumes his new post as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in British North America. 1776 Quebec - Eustache Chartier de Lotbiniere, a Canadian priest, is appointed chaplain to serve Canadians who joined the American invading force; US Congress ratifies appointment Aug. 12; US Army's first chaplain is a French Canadian. 1666 Europe Canada - War between England and France until July 31, 1667. 1611 Dieppe France - Madame de Poutrincourt leaves Dieppe with Jesuits Pierre Biard and Enémond Masse and her son, Charles Biencourt; first titled lady, first Jesuits in Canada. Born on this day: 1961 - Wayne Gretzky hockey player, born at Brantford, Ontario. Gretzky, also known as The Great One, began his pro career with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association in 1978 and was then acquired by the NHL Edmonton Oilers. He became the youngest player to score 50 or more goals and 100 or more points in a season, with 212 points in 1982. He led the Oilers to four Stanley Cup championships (1984, 85, 87, 88), and during the 1988-89 season became the highest scorer in the history of the NHL. On Aug. 9, 1988 Edmonton owner Peter Pocklington traded him to the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky won the Art Ross Trophy for leading the NHL in scoring nine times (1981-87, 1990-91), and the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player nine times (1979-87, 1989). Gretzky is the all-time points leader (goals and assists combined) in the NHL for both the regular season and the playoffs. On Mar. 23, 1994 he surpassed his hero Gordie Howe by setting a new record for the most career goals in the NHL - 802. He was traded to the St. Louis Blues in 1996, and later to the New York Rangers. 1907 - 1982 Hans Selye endocrinologist, born at Vienna Austria; died in Montreal. Selye is famous for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body. After medical training in Prague, Paris and Rome, Selye moved to Canada in 1932, and taught at McGill University. In 1945 he was lured to the Université de Montréal to head its Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, where he developed his General Adaptation Syndrome about the effects of stimuli or strain on the human body - alarm, resistance and exhaustion - and the role of stress in disease. His major popular works are the Stress of Life (1956) and Stress Without Distress (1974). 1893 - 1966 Frank Nighbor hockey player. Nighbor turned pro in 1913 with Toronto, moved to Vancouver and helped them win the Stanley Cup in 1915, then moved to the Ottawa Senators until 1929, where he played for four more Stanley Cup winners and was the first winner of two trophies - the Hart (MVP) and the Lady Byng (Most Gentlemanly Player - twice).
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:43 pm
January 27 1994 Ottawa Ontario - Toronto area MP Jag Bhaduria quits the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent, after it was revealed he had falsified his academic background. 1984 WAYNE'S WORLD Edmonton Alberta - The Los Angeles Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2, ending Wayne Gretzky's NHL record for consecutive point getting at 51 games. Gretzky collected a total of 153 points - 61 goals and 92 assists - during the scoring streak, which started Oct 5, 1983. 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules that forced retirement at 65 contravenes province's Human Rights Act. 1966 Portland Island BC - Princess Margaret returns Portland Island to province for use as provincial park; British Columbia's gift to Princess Margaret in 1958 1938 Niagara Falls Ontario - Ice dam crushes foundations of Honeymoon Bridge across Niagara River; causes bridge to collapse. 1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote and full political equality; two years before Ottawa. 1903 Toronto Ontario - Andrew Carnegie offers city of Toronto $350,000 for a central public library and two branch libraries; offer by US steel magnate accepted February 23. 1859 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier proclaims Ottawa the capital of the Canadas. As co-Premier, he had strenuously lobbied for Ottawa as the Queen's choice, against Montreal, Kingston and Toronto, as a place where French Canadians could feel at home. 1855 Toronto Ontario - Alan MacNab and Etienne-Paschal Taché take office as co-Premiers of the Union of the Canadas. 1721 Quebec Quebec - First regular mail coach service starts between Quebec and Montreal. Born on this day: 1931 - 2001 Mordecai Richler writer, born at Montreal. Richler grew up in the working class area near St. Urbain Street. He attended Sir George Williams (Concordia) University, but left before finishing his degree. He started writing novels, then lived for a time in Paris, then London, England (1959-72), where he worked as a freelance journalist and wrote TV and film scripts, before returning to Canada. His novels include The Acrobats (1954), Son of a Smaller Hero (1955), A Choice of Enemies (1957), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959 - filmed in 1974, and directed by Ted Kotcheff), The Incomparable Atuk (1963), Cocksure (1968 - Governor General's Award), St. Urbain's Horseman (1971 - Governor General's Award), Joshua Then and Now (1980 - filmed in 1985) and Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989). His children's books include Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975 - filmed in 1977). Richler has also written an autobiography, Home Sweet Home (1985). 'No matter how long I live abroad,' he has written, 'I do feel forever rooted in St. Urbain Street. That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right.' 1906 - 1987 Walter Lockhart Gordon businessman, politician, was born at Toronto. Gordon served as Finance Minister in the Pearson government.
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:43 pm
January 28 1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 5-2 that Canada's anti-abortion law violates pregnant women's right to 'security of the person' under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 1980 TAYLOR PULLS OFF THE CANADIAN CAPER Teheran Iran - Kenneth Taylor Canada's Ambassador to Iran engineers the escape of 6 US diplomats, housed with Canadian Embassy staff since Nov. 22, 1979, when the US Embassy was overrun during the Iranian revolution, and 66 hostages taken. The Americans leave with Canadian passports; Taylor himself leaves a few hours later. 1976 Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan authorizes provincial takeover of potash mines. 1918 Guelph Ontario - Dr. John McCrae dies; author of the World War I poem, In Flanders Fields. 1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Legislature passes the Temperance Act; allows use of liquor at home but prohibits public bars. 1914 Regina Saskatchewan - Nellie Letitia McClung, her Political Equality League stages mock Parliament in the Walker Theatre; actors debate whether to give equality to men. 1885 Khartoum Sudan - Frederick Charles Denison reaches Khartoum with his Canadian Nile Voyageurs too late to rescue General Charles Gordon, who had been killed; 16 Canadians lost their lives in this, Canada's first overseas military expedition. 1693 New York USA - Nicholas d'Ailleboust de Manthet attacks Mohawk villages in New York with Caughnawaga Indians; takes 300 Iroquois prisoners; under Frontenac's orders. Born on this day: 1943 - Paul Henderson hockey player. Henderson played junior with the Hamilton Red Wings, then moved to the Detroit Red Wings, before being traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs (1968-74). Henderson retired in 1981 after stints with the WHA Toronto Toros/Birmingham Bulls and the NHL Atlanta Flames. He scored the winning goal in the Canada/Soviet Union Summit Series on Sept 28, 1972, with 34 seconds remaining. 1848 - 1932 George Chaffey engineer, was born at Brockville Ontario. Chaffey moved to California as a young man, invented a cement pipe water system, and gave the name of Ontario to a California community. 1822 - 1892 Alexander Mackenzie stone mason, statesman, born at Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland, son of Alexander Mackenzie and Mary Fleming; died in Toronto. Mackenzie left school at age 14 to become a stonemason; emigrated to Canada in 1842; became MP for Lambton and later Canada's second Prime Minister (1873-78), the first Liberal to hold the office. 1807 - 1873 Robert McClure Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, was born at Wexford Ireland; died in London, England. A veteran of the Franklin search expedition of 1848, McClure completed the first crossing of the Northwest Passage in 1850-54, by navigating an Arctic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:44 pm
January 29 1990 HNATYSHYN TO RIDEAU HALL Ottawa Ontario - Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General; was MP Saskatoon West 1974-88 and Minister of Justice; wife Gerda; son of John, Canada's first Ukrainian-born Senator, and Helen, President of the National Council of Women. 1985 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield found not guilty of possession of marijuana; drug discovered in his bag during Royal Visit security search Sept 25th; he claimed it was planted. 1967 Ottawa Ontario - Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto.
1946 Haiti - Racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti; built by Smith and Rhulandat at Lunenburg, and launched March 26th, 1921, the ship was invincible in races. She was sold as a Caribbean cargo ship in 1938. Here is a MacCaskall photo of her in her glory, signed by her captain Angus Walters. 1897 Ottawa Ontario - Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, helps found the Victorian Order of Nurses at the request of the National Council of Women; name chosen to recognize Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. 1856 London England - Alexander Dunn awarded Victoria Cross for gallantry at the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854; first Canadian; awarded by Queen Victoria, the VC is Britain's highest military honour 1853 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Mechanics Institute and Athenaeum; forerunner of Ottawa Public Library. 1829 Montreal Quebec - Opening of McGill University in Montreal; built with legacy from fur trader James McGill. 1796 Toronto Ontario - Yonge Street officially opened, as a portage road running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe. Born on this day: 1906 - 1989 Joe Primeau hockey player, coach. Primeau played for Conn Smythe's Toronto Maple Leafs during their opening season in 1927, centering the Kid Line with Charlie Conacher and Busher Jackson. He won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1932, while helping the Leafs win their first Stanley Cup. After he retired from play, Primeau coached the St. Michael's College juniors to two national championships, the Toronto Marlboro Seniors to the Canadian crown and the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Stanley Cup in 1950 - making him the only coach to win the Allan Cup, the Memorial Cup and the Stanley Cup. 1901 - 1989 Edward Plunkett E.P. Taylor business leader, horseman. Taylor pulled together Canadian Breweries and other Canadian conglomerates, and built up Canadian horse racing through his Windfields Farm stables. Between 1960 and 1970 he was the top race-winning breeder in North America. Fifteen Queen's Plate winners came our of Windfields, plus such winners as Northern Dancer (1964 Kentucky Derby and Preakness) and Nijinsky. He was President of the Ontario Jockey Club from 1953 to 1973.
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:45 pm
January 30 1991 Toronto Ontario - The Hudson's Bay Company announces it is selling its fur business due to declining sales; the HBC was originally founded as a fur trading company in 1670. 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets 7% Goods and Services Tax bill through first reading in the Commons; to start January, 1991. 1985 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government states that metric measurement will continue to be mandatory, but retailers can use the imperial system at the same time. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces that over 100,000 Canadians aged 69 are now eligible for $75 Old Age Security pensions. 1964 Montreal Quebec - Terrorists raid armoury in Montreal for weapons and ammunition; group calling itself Comité révolutionnaire du Québec. 1948 St Moritz Switzerland - Canadian team attend opening of the fifth Winter Olympic games in St Moritz. Among those attending is Barbara Ann Scott, who will win the Gold in Figure Skating, and the RCAF Flyers ice hockey team, who will also take home the gold. 1930 Toronto Ontario - Police arrest 9 members of the Standard Exchange for fraud; including members of the 5 biggest mining companies; later 27 sent to jail. 1920 JOE MALONE SCORES RECORD SEVEN GOALS Quebec City - Quebec Bulldogs' Joe 'The Phantom' Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in one game against Toronto. He had previously scored nine goals in a Stanley Cup game against Sydney in 1913, and eight against the NHA Montreal Wanderers in 1917. In his first NHL season he scored 44 goals in only 20 games, and had 146 goals in only 125 games. 1856 Guelph Ontario - First Grand Trunk train arrives in Guelph from Toronto. On this day 67 years later the Grand Trunk is absorbed into Canadian National Railways. 1646 Trois- Rivières Quebec - Father de Nouë, a Jesuit priest, freezes to death in a blizzard on the way to Fort Richelieu. Born on this day: 1931 - John Crosbie politician, born at St. John's, Newfoundland. Crosbie started his political career in St. John's city politics, and in 1966 joined the Cabinet of Joey Smallwood. He failed to unseat Joey at a leadership convention in 1969 and joined the Frank Moores Conservatives in 1971, helping them win the 1972 provincial election, and serving in the Cabinet. In the 1976 election he won a federal seat for the Conservatives, and served as Joe Clark's Finance Minister. His 1979 'No pain, no gain' budget helped bring down the Ministry. He finished third in the 1983 Tory leadership convention, and served as minister in the Justice, Transport, Trade and Fisheries and Oceans portfolios in the Mulroney Cabinet. He retired before the 1993 defeat, and was appointed Chancellor of Memorial University. 1914 - 1992 John Ireland actor, was born at Vancouver BC; died at Santa Barbara California. Ireland TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Swimmer, over 200 movies and TV shows including All the King's Men (1949); Rawhide's Jed Colby, Cassie & Company. 1703 - 1778 François Bigot civil administrator, lawyer, was born at Bordeaux, France; died in poverty at Neufchatel, Switzerland. Bigot was the last Intendant of New France (1748-60). A gambler whose lavish living scandalized Quebec, Bigot's corruption and fraud weakened the colony and helped the British conquest. In 1763 he was forced to return 1.5 million Livres to the French Crown.
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| Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 6:46 pm
January 31 1990 Moscow Russia - George Cohon opens first McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, the world's biggest McDonald's; head of Canadian franchise subsidiary. 1982 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau urges end to Polish martial law on the 'Let Poland be Poland' TV broadcast; supporting the Polish Solidarity movement 1966 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeals reverses Jacques Hebert's contempt of court conviction; found guilty in 1965 for statements in book on Coffin murder. 1958 GLADSTONE FIRST ABORIGINAL SENATOR Ottawa Ontario - James Gladstone takes his seat as Canada's first native Senator; Alberta Blood Indian is appointed by Diefenbaker. 1957 Ottawa Ontario - Government makes Thanksgiving Day a statutory holiday; second Monday in October. 1907 Toronto Ontario - Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed. 1839 London England - John 'Radical Jack' Lambton, Lord Durham hands his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Prime Minister. The former Governor of the colony blames the power of the Family Compact and Chateau Clique for the 1837 rebellions, and recommends uniting the Canadas under one responsible government, with English the only official language, so as to assimilate the French Canadians. 1747 Grand Pre Nova Scotia - Arthur Noble, British commander at Grand Pre surprised by Villiers; loses 500 men. Born on this day: 1964 - Sylvie Bernier diver. Bernier started diving at age 10 and at 14 was a member of the Canada's National team. Six years later, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Bernier won a Gold Medal in Womens Diving, setting a new Olympic record with 530.70 points. She is the first Quebec-born woman to win Olympic gold and the first Canadian to win an Olympic diving gold.
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| Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 10:02 am
February 1 1983 Canada - New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel. 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa agrees to give the 3 maritime provinces 100% of the royalties from future offshore mineral finds inside the 5 km limit; 75% of royalties beyond. 1965 Churchill River Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill. 1963 NEIL YOUNG'S FIRST GIG Winnipeg Manitoba - 17 year old Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club 35 years ago today. 1920 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, comprising the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP), formed in the 1870's to administer the NWT, and the Dominion Police, that had guarded government buildings and enforced federal statutes since 1868; headquarters moved to Ottawa while training stays in Regina; size of force set at 2,500. 1893 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Coldest day on record in the province: -56.7 degrees Celsius. 1858 New Westminster BC - Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; requires miners to obtain licences to search for gold in the Fraser Valley. 1854 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec. 1799 Charlottetown PEI - Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean to Prince Edward Island. 1796 Toronto Ontario - Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York. Born on this day: 1940 - Herve Filion harness racing driver, trainer, and owner, was born at Angers Quebec. Filion became North America's most successful sulky jockey. 1895 - 1980 Conn Smythe ice hockey player, coach, manager, and owner, was born at Toronto; died at Caledon, Ontario. Smythe was builder of Maple Leaf Gardens and founder of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. 1882 - 1973 Louis Stephen St. Laurent lawyer and jurist, Prime Minister 1948-57, born at Compton Quebec, the son of Jean-Baptiste St-Laurent and Mary Broderick; dies at Quebec. St. Laurent will attend Collège St-Charles, Sherbrooke and l'Université Laval.
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| Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 10:06 am
February 2 1974 Christchurch New Zealand - Canada finishes in 3rd place at 10th Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand; 25 gold medals, 19 silver, 18 bronze. 1968 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, effective Jan. l, 1969; cities of Ottawa & Eastview, County of Carleton, Township of Cumberland. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll issues report of his Senate Committee on the Elderly; recommends guaranteed annual income at age 65; and programs to help seniors stay productive. 1963 Charlottetown PEI - Construction begins on the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building in Charlottetown. 1955 Sisson Dam NB - New Brunswick experiences the coldest day in recorded history in the Province: -47.2 degrees Celsius. 1942 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen loses by-election; resigns as Leader of the Conservatives and retires to practice law in Toronto; former Prime Minister was pro-conscription. 1942 Ottawa Ontario - Delegation of 400 Saskatchewan farmers and businessmen visit Ottawa to demand 'Dollar Wheat.' 1942 Vancouver BC - Ottawa proclaims western British Columbia a 'protected area' under wartime regulations, and orders Japanese nationals moved inland for security reasons; within weeks, the government includes second and third generation Canadians of Japanese origin under the edict; they are treated as aliens and deprived of their property. 1926 Ottawa Ontario - Henry Herbert Stevens releases damaging information about Customs officials accepting bribes; customs scandals lead to Mackenzie King's resignation June 28. 1807 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature passes bill setting up provincial grammar schools in all districts. Born on this day: 1867 - 1937 Charles Edward Saunders plant breeder, Dominion Cerealist, born at London Ontario; died in Toronto. Saunders was educated in chemistry at the University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins, and in 1903 was appointed by his father William, head of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, as a research scientist. Rigorously straining crosses of Red Fife and Hard Red Calcutta wheat made by one of his brothers, Saunders tested a new frost-resistant strain he called Marquis in 1907 at Indian Head Saskatchewan. It was a sensation, and by 1910, over 2000 local farmers were growing wheat where it not had been grown before. By 1920, 90% of the entire Prairie wheat crop was Marquis, and Saunders had helped open Canada's Prairies to large scale wheat farming. 1857 - 1941 Alexander Rutherford lawyer, politician, was born at Osgoode Ontario; died in Edmonton. Rutherford studied law at McGill, and practised law in Kemptville until 1895 when he headed west to Alberta. In 1905 he became the first Premier of the new province of Alberta.
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| Friday, February 03, 2006 - 3:32 pm
February 3 1994 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds human rights tribunal ruling on mandatory retirement in the Canadian Forces; recommends developing fitness standard instead of relying on an arbitrary age rule. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson bans all imports of Rhodesian goods, and all exports of Canadian goods to Rhodesia; with limited exceptions. 1959 Toronto Ontario - Gold bullion is traded on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange for the first time; today the TSE provides a market for gold futures. 1947 BBRRRRR!!! Snag Yukon - Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada; likely the lowest temperature on record in North America. 1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government extends compulsory military training from one month to four. 1916 Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven. The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The building, containing the Commons and Senate, will be rebuilt in the Gothic revival style, and completed in 1920. 1916 Ottawa Ontario - French-speaking teachers protest pay freeze, imposed after they refuse language restrictions; strike by 122 teachers closes 17 bilingual schools in Ontario. 1901 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dominion Iron and Steel Company starts up first of four new blast furnaces at Sydney. Born on this day: 1947 - Stephen McHattie actor, was born at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Steve McHattie played Uncle Jimmy Murray in the new CBC/Salter Films production of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily of New Moon. He has appeared in many films and TV shows including Centennial, Law & Order and The X-Files. 1936 - 'Stompin Tom' Connors singer, was born at Saint John New Brunswick. Connors grew up in Skinners Pond PEI. He started singing for a living in 1964, at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins Ontario, when he found himself broke. His foot stomping style was developed to keep the beat over the noise of the tavern. His trademark song is Bud the Spud, about a potato trucker from Prince Edward Island. 1911 - 1967 Robert Charbonneau novelist and literary critic, was born at Montreal; died in St-Jovite. Charbonneau was leader of the postwar generation of French Canadian novelists. 1843 - 1915 William Cornelius Van Horne railway builder, born at Chelsea, near Joliet Illinois; died in Montreal. Van Horne started working at age 14 as a telegraph boy on the Illinois Central Railroad. By 1880 he was manager of the Milwaukee Road, where he caught the eye of the CPR syndicate, who appointed him General Manager on Oct 1, 1882. Van Horne built the Winnipeg-Calgary section of the line by Aug 1883, and completed it to Port Moody by 1885. Three years later he replaced George Stephen as President. In 1991 he inaugurated the Canadian Pacific Empress line of steamships to the Orient. Van Horne was an accomplished amateur painter and architect, and helped plan the Banff Springs and Chateau Frontenac hotels.
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| Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 7:47 am
February 4 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Official Languages Commissioner Keith Spicer recommends use of French as the language of work for Quebec employees of Air Canada and CN Rail. 1976 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules that province does not have right to censor motion pictures. 1963 Ottawa Ontario - George Scott Harkness Defence Minister resigns over Canada's refusal to accept US nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles. 1924 CANADA'S FIRST WINTER OLYMPIC GOLD Chamonix France - First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey. 1901 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City revives its Winter Carnival; now a permanent annual event 1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg gets charter; becomes a city. 1858 Langley BC - Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River; leads to gold rush. 1667 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy hosts first ball held in New France, to celebrate his victories over the Mohawks. 1623 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert granted seigneury of Sault-au-Matelot by Henri, Duc de Montmorency; first seigneury of 150 founded during the French regime; beginning of feudal system to 1854. Born on this day: 1923 - Conrad Bain actor, was born on this day in 1923 at Lethbridge Alberta. Bain has acted as Grandpa in Postcards from the Edge (1990), Philip Drummond in Diff'rent Strokes (1978), Dr. Arthur Harmon in Maude (1972) , Dr. Rubicoff in The Anderson Tapes (1971) and Semple in Bananas (1971). He is also a veteran of the Love for Life soap opera. 1885 - 1962 Cairine Ray Wilson Canada's first woman senator, was born at Montreal Quebec, the daughter of Senator Robert Mackay and Jane Baptist; dies in Ottawa. Wilson was appointed in 1930 by Mackenzie King. She was President of the National Federation of Liberal Women 1938-48, the League of Nations Society 1938-42, and was Canada's first delegate to the United Nations in 1949. 1883 - 1964 E.J. 'Ned' Pratt poet, born at Western Bay, Newfoundland; died in Toronto. Pratt grew up in outport settlements served by his Methodist minister father. In 1904 he decided to enter the ministry himself, and attended Victoria College in Toronto, where he studied theology and psychology. He was ordained in 1913, but decided to teach instead, and joined the English Department at Victoria in 1920. He published his first collection of Poems, Newfoundland Verse, in 1923. Some of his more famous longer epic verses are The Cachalot (1926), The Titanic (1935) and Towards the Last Spike (1952). 1873 - 1905 Etienne Desmarteau policeman, strongman, was born at Boucherville Quebec; dies of typhoid fever in Montreal. A Montreal policeman, Etienne Desmarteau was unbeatable in tug of war and other weight sports. He was the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal; for the 57-pound hammer throw at the 1904 St. Louis games.
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| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:23 am
February 5 1991 Ottawa Ontario - Quebec and Ottawa sign immigration accord giving Quebec exclusive responsibility for selecting immigrants who wish to live in the province. 1980 THE MAN CALLED INTREPID IS HONORED Hamilton Bermuda - Sir William Stephenson is awarded the Order of Canada; the ailing Winnipeg-born engineer pioneered digital wireless photo transmission. He worked for British intelligence during World War II under the code name Intrepid, and was the personal contact man between Churchill and Roosevelt. 1973 Toronto Ontario - Start of construction on CN Tower, a communications transmission mast and observation post; to be the world's tallest freestanding structure 1968 Ottawa Ontario - Start of 3-day federal-provincial conference in Ottawa; provinces officially recognize French language rights. 1963 Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker's minority government is defeated 142-111 in House of Commons in two non-confidence motions over nuclear weapons policy, and Defence Minister Harkness' resignation; Dief resigns, and will be beaten by Lester Pearson in the federal general election. 1954 Queen Elizabeth Islands NWT - Most northerly group of Canada's Arctic islands, discovered by William Baffin in 1616, and not seen again until 1818, are named after Queen Elizabeth. 1946 Ottawa Ontario - Justice J.C. McRuer appointed to head new Royal Commission to examine allegations of Soviet spy ring operating in Canada; due to revelations of USSR Embassy defector Igor Gouzenko 1919-1982. 1857 London England - British House of Commons appoints a committee to investigate the business affairs and governing powers of the Hudson's Bay Company. 1790 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice W. T. Smith writes to Lord Dorchester advising a federation of the provinces of British North America. 1667 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Mining of bog iron nuggets begins at Three Rivers; later smelting at Les Forges de St-Maurice. This is the first large scale iron mining in Canadian history.
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| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:32 am
February 6 1990 Chicago Illinois - Brett Hull becomes the first son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 goals himself. 1977 Montreal Quebec - Premier Rene Levesque drives over a man lying in a Montreal street; coroner rules no criminal responsibility; Levesque fined $25 for not wearing his glasses at the time of the accident. 1972 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian airport radar and communications technicians strike, halting all but military air traffic until March 2.
1952 London England - King George VI dies in his sleep; born Dec. 14, 1895; his eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth accedes to the Throne as Queen Elizabeth II. The stamp was issued to commemorate her wedding to Prince Philip a year earlier. 1943 Mediterranean - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Louisbourg in the Mediterranean. 1893 Paris France - Canada signs reciprocity treaty with France, to come into effect October 14, 1895; French wines given low rates of duty. 1837 FIRST PLAY ON PARLIAMENT HILL Ottawa Ontario - Actors in the British garrison on Barrack Hill, the site of Canada's Parliament Buildings, produce Bytown's first play, 'The Village Lawyer.' 1813 Brockville Ontario - US Capt. Benjamin Forsyth crosses frozen St. Lawrence with 52 riflemen and attacks Brockville the next day; takes 52 hostages in War of 1812 skirmish. 1722 Quebec Quebec - The Council of New France makes abandoning children a death penalty offence; parish Priests are asked to publicize the law every few months. Born on this day: 1988 - Remington, Wade, Lance, William and Maxine Collier born at Toronto, the first Canadian quintuplets conceived outside their mother's womb. 1946 - Kate McGarrigle singer, songwriter, sister of Anna, born at Montreal. The McGarrigles started playing in public in Montreal coffeehouses in the early 1960s. In 1970 Kate married singer Louden Wainwright Jr., and based herself in New York. The sisters have produced the following albums - Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1976), Dancer With Bruised Knees (1977), Pronto Monto (1978), French Record (1981), Love Over and Over (1982) and Matapedia (1996) The last album contains a lament, Song For Gaby, written after the 1994 death of their mother Gabrielle Latremouille-McGarrigle. Linda Ronstadt has recorded Kate's (Talk to Me of) Mendocino. In the Rolling Stone Album Guide, J. D. Considine refers to them as "probably the finest singer-songwriter team ever to go ignored by the American public." 1918 - Louis Dudek born at Montreal. Dudek was a major figure in the Canadian poetry renaissance of the 1940s, founding Contact Press with Irving Layton and Raymond Souster, and launching the career of Leonard Cohen, among others.
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February 7 1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. wins apology from Nova Scotia for suffering due to 11 years false imprisonment for a murder committed in 1971; after a royal commission exonerates him; he eventually receives $270,000 in cash damages from Province. 1980 Ottawa Ontario - Justice L. P. Pigeon retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; TV cameras are allowed into the Court for the first time to film the proceedings. 1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ten provincial premiers agree to draft new constitution giving the French language equal status with English throughout Canada. 1926 Red Bank Ontario - Start of gold rush at Red Bank. 1922 New York New York - Lila Acheson Wallace and her husband Dewitt Wallace sell the first 5,000 copies of their new magazine, the Reader's Digest, the most-read periodical in history, with a current circulation of 15 million. Lila was born in 1889 at Virden, Manitoba. 1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald declares 'A British Subject I was born, a British subject I will die' during his final speech in the House of Commons, before entering his last election campaign. 1878 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Scott brings in Canada Temperance Act (Scott Act); gives provinces and local governments the option in licensing. 1867 PARLIAMENT PONDERS BNA ACT London England - Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, introduces a draft bill into the House of Lords to unite the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. It is called the British North America Act. 1792 Niagara Ontario - John Graves Simcoe advertises Upper Canada Crown Lands for sale; with fee scales; how to apply; US citizens wishing to settle can get free land grants. 1758 Halifax Nova Scotia - Governor Charles Lawrence proclaims a resolution passed by the Nova Scotia Council to organize the first Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia; it will be the first popularly elected parliament in Canada. Born on this day: 1946 - Arthur Ozolins pianist 1920 - Oscar Brand folk singer, born at Winnipeg Manitoba.
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February 8 1995 Ottawa Ontario - Romeo LeBlanc appointed Governor General; Acadian native; former teacher, journalist, federal Cabinet Minister. 1986 Hinton Alberta - Nine-car VIA Rail passenger train collides head-on with a CN freight, killing 29, injuring 93. 1984 CANADIANS IN SARAJEVO Sarajevo Bosnia - Canadian team attends ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame to open the 14th Olympic Winter Games in Kosevo Stadium, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; with 1,579 athletes representing 49 other countries. The Olympic facilities were virtually all destroyed during the civil war in Bosnia. 1980 Montreal Quebec - Former NHL president Clarence Campbell found guilty of conspiring to give Senator Louis Giguère a benefit in connection with a contract for airport duty-free shops; the Sky Shop affair. 1948 St Moritz, Switzerland - Fifth Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz. The RCAF Flyers win the Ice Hockey Gold, and Ottawa's Barbara Ann Scott takes home the Gold Medal in Figure Skating. 1879 Toronto Ontario - Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone; in lecture at the Canadian Institute in Toronto. Idea adopted by North American railways four years later. 1853 Ottawa Ontario - J. B. Turgeon, the Mayor of Bytown, petitions town Council to change name of Bytown to Ottawa. 1839 Aroostook New Brunswick - American and Canadian loggers clash in Aroostook lumber war over undefined boundary with Maine; truce struck on March 25. 1631 Paris France - King Louis XIII names Charles de La Tour Governor and Lieutenant-General of New France and Acadia; commission partly restored after peace treaty in 1632; La Tour builds Fort Ste-Marie at mouth of Saint John River, rich fur region. 1604 Paris France - Pierre de Gua de Monts forms de Monts Trading Company with Champlain and Gravé du Pont; Canada's first chartered company; with capital from Rouen, St. Malo and La Rochelle merchants. Born on this day: 1960 - Dino Ciccarelli NHL right winger. Ciccarelli has played for the Minnesota North Stars and the Washington Capitals. 1894 - 1956 Air Vice-Marshal William Avery 'Billy' Bishop VC, DSO fighter ace, father of the RCAF, born at Owen Sound, Ontario; dies in West Palm Beach, Florida. Bishop shot down 72 German aircraft during World War I, 25 in one ten-day period in 1918. In August 1918 he joined the British Air Ministry and formed the Royal Canadian Air Force as a separate brigade.
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| Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:49 am
February 9 1996 Reno Nevada - Canada's Donovan Bailey sets world record for the 50-meter dash with a time of 5.56 seconds at the Reno Air Games; old record of 5.61 set by Manfred Kokot of East Germany in 1973 and American James Sanford in 1981. 1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa orders 11 Soviet embassy officials deported for allegedly trying to infiltrate the RCMP Security Service. 1974 USA - Gordon Sinclair's recording of his radio commentary, The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion) peaks at #24 on the pop singles chart. 1966 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams - the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. The original teams - Toronto, Montreal, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Boston - will make up the NHL East Division. 1964 CANUCKS TAKE SLED GOLD Innsbruck Austria - Ninth Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Brothers Vic and John Emery, with Douglas Anakin and Peter Kirby, take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Bobsledding. The quartet set a world record in their first run, and repeat their victory at the 1965 World Championship. 1931 Ottawa Ontario - Vere Brabazan Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough appointed Governor-General of Canada, serving from April 4, 1931 to September 29,1935. 1883 Guelph Ontario - Ontario's first free public library opens at Guelph. 1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Metis establish a provisional government at Red River; Louis Riel elected President. 1760 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Captain John Byron starts tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt.
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| Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 12:42 pm
February 10 1983 Washington DC - Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles. 1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa limits seal catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland and Labrador. 1956 Quebec Quebec - Wilbert Coffin hanged for murder of three American hunters, killed in the Gaspé in 1953; many insist the Gaspé prospector was innocent. 1947 Paris France - Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland. 1942 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Spikenard. 1876 Toronto Ontario - Crooks Act takes power to grant tavern licences away from Ontario municipalities; now under provincial board. 1841 Kingston Ontario - The Act of Union comes into effect; uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with Kingston as its capital; Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham appointed first Governor-General of United Canada; until his death on Sept. 19, 1841. 1838 Quebec Quebec - Constitution of Lower Canada suspended as of March 27; Special Council proclaimed March 29. 1802 London England - Alexander Mackenzie knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land. 1763 FRANCE GIVES UP CANADA Paris France - France signs Peace of Paris ending the Seven Years War. France gives up Canada, keeping only St. Pierre and Miquelon and part of Louisiana; Spain cedes claims in the northwest, gets California. Born on this day: 1964 - 1989 Victor Davis swimmer, born at Guelph, Ontario; killed in a car accident in Montreal. A ferocious competitor, Davis got his first world record in the 200m breaststroke at the Worlds in Ecuador in 1982. After a bout of mononucleosis in 1983, he returned to the pool, and smashed the 200m world record at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, winning the Gold in a time of 2:13:34. He also took home a silver in the 100m breaststroke and in the 4x100m medley relay. In 1986 he took Gold in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games and the World championships. In the Seoul Olympics in 1988 he took Silver as a member of Canada's 4x100m medley relay team. The following year he was run down outside a Montreal bar. 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson broadcaster, born Adrienne Poy at Hong Kong. Clarkson came to Canada with her parents in 1942 following the Japanese invasion. After getting an MA from the University of Toronto, she attended the Sorbonne in Paris, then returned to Toronto in 1965, where she started her TV career as a CBC host of such shows as Take Thirty, Adrienne at Large and the Fifth Estate. After stints as a novelist, diplomat and publisher, she returned to broadcasting in 1989 as host of the arts show, Adrienne Clarkson Presents. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada. She was the first Chinese Canadian and second woman to hold this position. 1890 - 1977 Gilbert Labine prospector, was born at Westmeath in the Ottawa Valley; died in Toronto. Labine is known for his discovery of the pitchblende (radium) deposits on Great Bear Lake in 1930, and his establishment of the Eldorado refinery in Port Hope, Ontario in 1933. His company was secretly nationalized in 1944, and production used to fuel the first atomic bombs that pulverized Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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February 11 1978 Cranbrook BC - Pacific Western Airlines aircraft crashes at Cranbrook, killing 43 people; snowplow on runway during PWA jet's landing. 1977 Nova Scotia - Fisherman catches 20.2-kg lobster off Nova Scotia; the world's heaviest known crustacean. 1969 Montreal Quebec - Student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University; 97 persons charged with conspiracy to commit mischief and arson. 1967 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first Canada Winter Games; held for a week in Quebec City 1964 Port-au-Prince Haiti - Haiti expels eighteen Canadian Jesuits on grounds their activities are subversive. 1963 Kapuskasing Ontario - Shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded. 1922 Toronto Ontario - Frederick Grant Banting announces the discovery of insulin, used to treat diabetes, at the University of Toronto; with colleagues C.H. Best (1899-1978), J.B. Collip (1892-1965) and J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935). 1901 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 deplores employment of children under age 12; in the first Annual Report of the Bureau of Labour. 1869 WHELAN HANGED IN OTTAWA Ottawa Ontario - Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee; denies he did it; second last public execution in Canada. 1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie forcibly ejected from the Upper Canada legislature. Born on this day: 1945 - Abby Hoffman runner, was born at Toronto. Hoffman won her first national championship at age 15, running in the 880 yards.. She competed for Canada internationally from 1962-76, in four Olympics, four Pan-American Games (2 Golds) and two Commonwealth Games (1 Gold). After her retirement she served as Director of Sport Canada. 1926 - Leslie Nielsen TV/Movie actor, comedian, born at Regina Saskatchewan. Nielsen was raised in Fort Norman in the Yukon, where his father ran the RCMP detachment. He has starred in over fifty movies and 1,500 TV films. His most famous role is Lt. Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun series. One of his two brothers, Eric, became Joe Clark's deputy Prime Minister.
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| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:36 am
February 13 1990 Ottawa Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100,000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961. 1988 Calgary Alberta - Calgary plays host to over 1,800 athletes from 57 countries as the 15th Winter Olympics opening ceremonies take place in Olympic Plaza 1985 Montreal Quebec - Denis Lortie found guilty of first-degree murder of 3 Quebec National Assembly workers in his machine gun attack of May, 1984; the Canadian Armed Forces corporal sprayed the chamber with bullets before being calmed. 1969 Montreal Quebec - Terrorist bomb explodes at Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges, injuring 27. 1954 Toronto Ontario - Agnes Macphail dies at age 63. A former country school teacher in Grey County, she became Canada's first woman MP in the 1921 federal election, and held her seat until she was defeated in 1940, and became an Ontario MPP. She was a champion of the rights of farmers, women and prisoners was Canada's first woman delegate to the League of Nations. 1947 Leduc Alberta - Vern 'Dry Hole' Hunter strikes oil near Leduc, sparking a new Alberta oil boom; Toronto Stock Exchange lists 40 new Western Canadian oil and gas companies 1937 CANADIAN PRINCE VALIANT New York City - Halifax native Harold Foster publishes his first Prince Valiant comic strip, calling his original creation 'an illustrated historical novel.' Famed for its superb medieval detail, the strip was Foster's masterpiece, and he would write and illustrate it for the next 42 years; he had already drawn the Tarzan strip from 1929-1937.
Hamilton, Ontario Here is a picture of the city in the 1850s, taken from the Mountain. 1833 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton incorporated as a city; oldest in Ontario. 1759 Halifax Nova Scotia - First use of secret ballot in Canada in Nova Scotia Assembly; first legislature in British territory to permit secret voting. 1641 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour ordered to return to France due to pressure from d'Aulnay; his commission revoked ten days later; he disobeys and stays in Acadia. Born on this day: 1932 - Robert Fulford journalist, editor, critic, born at Ottawa, Ontario. Fulford started his career as a copyboy at the Toronto Globe in 1949, and after a stint at Macleans, he became book editor of the Toronto Star (1958-68), then editor of Saturday Night Magazine from 1968-87. He writes a regular column for the Globe and Mail, and is a visiting lecturer at the U of T. 1813 - 1887 Richard Moody engineer, colonial governor, was born at Bournemouth England; died in Barbados. Moody was appointed to head the British Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers in 1858, and became Lieutenant-Governor of the new Crown Colony in 1859. For the next five years he built roads and town sites, policed the gold fields and set up the capital at New Westminster, before the RE were disbanded in 1864.
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| Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 8:22 am
February 14 1984 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau attends funeral of Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov; has discussions with Soviet leaders on peace. 1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces $50 million project to extend CBC radio and television service to northern regions. 1973 Yukon - Pierre Elliott Trudeau agrees to set up committee to negotiate Native land claims in the Yukon. 1964 Halifax Nova Scotia - Oceanographic research vessel Hudson commissioned at Halifax. 1927 THE BIRTH OF THE LEAFS Toronto Ontario - Conn Smythe takes over the Toronto St. Patricks team and renames them the Maple Leafs. For the next 4 years the team plays out of the old Mutual Street Arena, until Smythe's ice palace on Carlton Street, Maple Leaf Gardens, is finished in 1931. 1918 Montreal Quebec - Fire at Grey Nuns Orphanage kills 64 children. 1915 France - First Canadian Division arrives in France from England, and moves into Flanders. 1890 Toronto Ontario - Fire partly destroys main building of the University of Toronto; $500,000 in damage 1826 Hull Quebec - Lt. Colonel John By of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario. 1663 Paris France - Canada becomes a Royal Province of France. Born on this day: 1931 - Bernie 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion hockey player, born at Montreal Quebec. Geoffrion was the second player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season. On the power play with Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore and Doug Harvey, his dynamic slap shot from the point was so heavy and powerful, the Canadiens often scored two or even three goals during a single minor penalty, so the NHL had to change the rules to let the penalized player back on the ice after only one power play goal was scored. Geoffrion won the Calder Trophy in 1952 and the Hart Trophy in 1961, and led the NHL in scoring twice. Statistics (Regular Season) - Games: 863, Goals: 393, Assists: 429; (Playoffs) - Games: 132, Goals: 58, Assists: 60. 1909 - 1972 Abraham Moses Klein poet, lawyer, was born at Ratno Ukraine; died in Montreal. A. M. Klein is known for such works as Hath Not a Jew...(1940) and The Rocking Chair (1948). He was editor of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle 1938-55.
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| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 9:49 am
February 15 1996 Victoria British Columbia - Ottawa settles claim with the Nisg'a Indians of BC; grants $190 million and full title to 1,930 sq km 1996 Hull Quebec - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies. 1982 Newfoundland - Oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, mostly Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada since World War II. 1980 United Nations New York - Iran officially complains to the UN that Canada had abused diplomatic privilege by smuggling six Americans out of Iran using diplomatic passports. 1976 Innsbruck Austria - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Kathy Kreiner takes home the Gold Medal in Womens Giant Slalom.
1968 Grenoble France - Nancy Greene wins Gold Medal in Women's Giant Slalom at the Tenth Winter Olympics in Grenoble. 1965 Ottawa Ontario - Canada's new Maple Leaf flag is unfurled in ceremonies on Parliament Hill; adopted after two-year debate and Royal Proclamation Jan. 28; replaces the Red Ensign. 1946 KING REVEALS GOUZENKO SPY PROBE Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King tells Parliament about Soviet spy ring activities in Canada; explains measures needed to investigate, detain suspects; based on revelations from Igor Gouzenko, a former clerk at the USSR Embassy in Ottawa; charges are later laid against 21 people, and 11 are convicted. 1932 Lake Placid New York - Third Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid; Winnipeg Hockey Club team takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey for Canada. 1880 Little Egypt Nova Scotia - Canada's first quintuplets born in Little Egypt, near Pictou; three live one day, the other two survive two days.
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Question, if anyone is still reading. April 20 will make it a full year of Headlines. Unfortunately, I won't be around for the last month. Would anyone be willing to finish the year out for me? I could send you a file with finished documents. All it would take would be posting one every day for that time.
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February 16 1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male; again wins Silver in 1988 Calgary Olympics. 1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games; fourth medal of his career. 1973 Havana Cuba - Canada signs anti-hijacking agreement with Cuba; each country to prosecute hijackers in the other's country, or return them to the country where the hijacking took place. 1971 FUDDLE DUDDLE DAY Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as 'fuddle-duddle.' 1967 Ottawa Ontario - Anne Francis (Florence Bird) chairs new Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada; 'to ensure for women equal opportunities with men'; first Canadian commission headed by a woman later made 167 recommendations, including paid maternity leave. 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Fourth Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch; Canada takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey. 1867 London England - John Alexander Macdonald marries Susan Agnes Bernard, the sister of his personal secretary; which event, he quips, 'was an example of union'. 1857 Ontario - Early thaw and floods in Canada West destroy mill dams and bridges. 1835 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature votes to erase records of William Lyon Mackenzie's many expulsions from that body. 1597 Paris France - Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de La Roche c1540-1606 gets grant from Henry IV for expedition to New France. Born on this day: 1953 - Lanny McDonald hockey right winger. McDonald was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (fourth overall) in 1973 , after a brilliant junior career with the Medicine Hat Tigers. Famous for his trademark bushy moustache, McDonald is still remembered in Toronto for his overtime goal to eliminate the New York Islanders in the 1978 playoffs, a goal he scored with a broken bone in his wrist and a broken nose. After six years with the Leafs, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies midway through the 1979-80 season, then the Calgary Flames acquired him during the 1981-82 season. McDonald was the first-ever recipient of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 1988 for dedication and service to hockey. He finished off his career as Captain of the Flames team that won their first Stanley Cup in 1989, and was named the NHL's Man of The Year. He retired with exactly 500 goals and 1,006 career points.
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February 17 1989 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa temporarily blocks import of Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses; the Ayatollahs of Iran considers the novel to be blasphemous to the Koran, and demand that Rushdie be assassinated. 1983 St John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Supreme Court rules the province owns offshore resources as far as the territorial limit, but not to the edge of the continental shelf. 1968 Springfield Massachusetts - Opening of the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, to honour the Almonte, Ontario, born inventor of the game. 1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson reduces age at which Old Age Pensions will be paid to 65 instead of 70; change to be phased in over five years. 1932 MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN Rat River Yukon - Albert Johnson, 'the Mad Trapper of Rat River,' killed by RCMP in shoot-out after 48-day 240 km manhunt in 40 below weather; charged with killing one Mountie, Constable Edgar Millen and wounding two others. The Mounties enlisted World War I air ace/bush pilot Wop May to help them track Johnson. 1919 Ottawa Ontario - Sir Wilfrid Laurier dies of a stroke at age 77; Canada's first Prime Minister of French ancestry; spent 45 uninterrupted years in the House of Commons; Canada's 7th PM 1896 to 1911, longest unbroken tenure in Canadian history. 1869 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; today's Humane Society 1834 Quebec Quebec - Augustin-Norbert Morin & Louis-Joseph Papineau draft Ninety-Two Resolutions demanding responsible government; adopted 56 to 32 by Lower Canada Assembly. 1764 Quebec - William Gregory appointed first Chief Justice of Quebec. Born on this day: 1938 - Martha Henry actor, born at Detroit Michigan. Henry started her Canadian career at the Crest Theatre in Toronto, studied at the National Theatre School and became a fixture at the Stratford Festival for many years, starting with Miranda in The Tempest in 1962. She has won several Genies and Geminis for more recent stage and TV work. In 1994 she treturned to Stratford to play Mary Tyrone in O'Neill's Long Day's Jounrney into Night.
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February 18 1981 Ottawa Ontario - Four Saskatchewan NDP MPs say they will oppose Ottawa's constitutional package. 1980 Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau defeats Joe Clark in the general election 146 seats to 103, with 32 for the NDP; wins majority government after nine months out of office; there are now no Liberal MPs west of Winnipeg. Only a few weeks earlier, Trudeau had announced he was retiring as Liberal Party leader. 1980 Lake Placid New York - Canada wins 2 medals at Winter Olympics in Lake Placid; Steve Podborski takes Bronze Medal in Downhill Skiing (Ken Read's ski comes off in the starting gate); Gaetan Boucher wins Silver Medal in Speedskating. 1972 Kitimat BC - Record 44.2 inches of snow fall on Kitimat. 1968 END OF GRENOBLE GAMES Grenoble, France - 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble; Canada's Nancy Greene takes home Gold Medal in Giant Slalom 1965 Stewart BC - Avalanche on Grandue Mountain kills 18 copper miners, 8 others at Oranduc Mines camp 48 km north of Stewart. 1932 Montreal Quebec - Sonja Henie wins her sixth straight World Women's Figure Skating Championship; following her win, she retires to Hollywood to become an actress. 1900 Paardeburg South Africa - Canadian troops play major role in nine-day Battle of Paardeburg; take over 130 casualties. 1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Charles Arkoll Boulton captured outside Fort Garry with Thomas Scott and group of Canadians trying to overthrow Louis Riel's government. 1814 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada MP Joseph Wilcocks expelled posthumously from the Assembly at York for being a traitor; led American raids into Canada. Born on this day: 1960 - Andy Moog NHL Goalie,. Moog has played for the Oilers, Bruins and others, and played for the Canadian Olympic team in 1988. 1953 - Robbie Bachman rock & roll drummer. Bachman is the younger brother of Randy Bachman, who started Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1970 when he left the Guess Who, and enlisted his brother Robbie, Chad Allan and Fred Turner into a new band called Brave Belt, then BTO. 1916 - 1999 Jean Drapeau Mayor of Montreal 1954-73
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