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1990
Ottawa Ontario - Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux announces that Sikhs in the RCMP can wear turbans and other religious garb while in uniform.

1980
Dortmund West Germany - Tracey Wainman, age 12, the youngest Canadian skater to compete in a world championship.

1973
Alberta - Alberta Indians awarded $190,000 settlement in back payment of ammunition money promised to them under their 1877 treaty; sum of $2,000 should have been paid annually.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation.

1964
Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; her fifth marriage, his second.

1962
Prague Czech Republic - Donald Jackson first in the world to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition; gives him a gold medal at the world championships.

1894
Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 7th Parliament meets until July 23; protects young offenders in prisons by ordering separation from older prisoners, cuts duty on tea imported from UK.

1744
Paris France - France declares war on Britain, in War of the Austrian Succession; called King William's War in North America; to Oct. 14, 1748.

1657
Quebec - Mother Giffard de Saint-lgnace dies; first Canadian woman to take religious vows.

1603 CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST TRIP TO CANADA
Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain leaves Honfleur with Gravé du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's ship 'Bonne Renommé'; his first major voyage to Canada.


Born on this day:

1943 - David Cronenberg
film director, was born at Toronto. First producing films with revolting special effects, such as They Came From Within (1975), Cronenberg has graduated to more palatable productions such as Videodrome (1983), Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch (1992) and Crash (1996), which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

1942 - Sybil Adelman
screen/scriptwriter; known for her work on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Alice.

1901 - Colin McPhee
composer, was born at Montreal; composer of H2O, Mechanical Principles.

1857 - 1939 Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen
chatelaine, reformer, was born at London England; died in Aberdeen. The wife of Governor General the Earl of Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen was a radical democrat with a social conscience; during her stay in Canada, she helped form Canada's National Council of Women, and with them, the Victorian Order of Nurses (1897).

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March 16

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Transport Minister Doug Lewis announces random drug and alcohol testing for workers in safety-sensitive jobs; up to 250,000 workers; in air, rail, ship, bus and trucking companies.

1989 BROWNING WINS FIRST OF FOUR IN PARIS
Paris France - Kurt Browning wins men's gold medal at World Figure Skating Championship; fourth Canadian in 78 years; will win the title three more times before turning pro in 1994.

1967
Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.

1965
Waterloo Ontario - University of Waterloo starts bilingual course in Honours French and Political Science; for students preparing to enter federal Civil Service

1855
Kingston Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier passes his Militia Act, constitutes all males between the ages of 18 and 60 as military forces of Canada; all men under 40 to be mustered once a year; Governor-General to be the Commander in Chief of the militia.

1843
Victoria BC - James Douglas starts construction of Fort Camosun [Victoria]; first Hudson's Bay Company post on Vancouver Island.

1800
Quebec Quebec - Jean-Joseph Casot, last Jesuit survivor of the French regime, dies at Quebec; the property of the order in Canada appropriates to the Crown.

1649
Midland Ontario - Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalement are tortured by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis; Brébeuf dies at 4 pm, his flesh stripped to the bone and his body burned with pitch and boiling water; Lalement, nephew of Jesuit superior Jérôme Lalement, dies the following day of burns; Brébeuf's skull is preserved in a golden reliquary in the Hotel Dieu at Quebec; he was canonized in 1930.

1649
Huronia Ontario - War party of 1000 Iroquois invade Huronia, capturing St-Ignace before sunrise; they will destroy all the villages and Jesuit missions in the area.


Born on this day:

1951 - Kate Nelligan
actress, was born Patricia Colleen Nelligan at London Ontario. Nelligan has played in Bethune, Eye of the Needle.

1949 - Victor Garber
actor, was born at Montreal. Garber is best known for his role in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

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1990
Ottawa Ontario - Housing Minister Alan Redway promises compensation to Chinese-Canadians forced to pay over $20 million for admission to Canada; from 1885-1923; from $50 to $500 per person.

1978
Toronto Ontario - RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Commons-Senate committee recommends removal of judge Leo A. Landreville from Ontario Supreme Court; first in Canadian history.

1955
Montreal Quebec - Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadien Maurice 'Rocket' Richard suspended from NHL by league president Clarence Campbell; sparks 7 hour riot along Ste-Catherine St., with 100 arrests.

1945
France - German U-Boat torpedoes RCN minesweeper 'Guysborough' in the Bay of Biscay.

1944
Montreal Quebec - International Air Transport Authority created to regulate air traffic among nations; IATA headquarters to be in Montreal.

1866
Washington DC - United States unilaterally ends Reciprocity Treaty, after Canadian fishing concessions to Americans end; operating since June 5, 1854; end of free trade starts a recession in Canada; causes public opinion in Maritimes to move toward Confederation.

1776
Boston Massachusetts - British forces leave Boston for Halifax after General George Washington seizes Dorchester Heights in a night attack.

1765 FIRST ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN CANADA
Quebec City - First Canadian St. Patrick's Day celebrated by Irish troops serving in the British Army at Quebec.

1577
London England - Martin Frobisher gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold.


Born on this day:

1926 - Marjory Shedd
badminton player, coach. Shedd won her first Canadian championship in 1953; in her career she won 6 national singles titles, 5 mixed and 14 ladies doubles titles and played on 6 Uber Cup teams in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She also played on several Canadian national basketball and volleyball champion teams and coached the U of T ladies volleyball team.

1826 - 1889 Alexander Morris
politician, statesman, was born at Perth Ontario; dies in Toronto. Morris was educated at Glasgow and McGill, and served as John A. Macdonald's law clerk. In his booklet Nova Britannia, he enthusiastically promoted Confederation. He served as first Chief Justice of Manitoba, and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories from 1872 to 1877, and was instrumental in negotiating Treaties 3,4,5 and 6 with the Saulteaux, Cree, Assiniboine, Blackfoot and Chipewyan people.

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1997
Los Angeles California - Singer Joni Mitchell is reunited with a daughter, Killauren, she gave up for adoption many years earlier.

1957
London England - Canada takes part in disarmament conference with Britain, the US, the USSR and France.

1942
Dawson Creek, BC - US Army Engineers start building Alcan (Alaska) Highway to supply the North West in case of Japanese invasion.

1918
Ottawa Ontario - First session of 13th Parliament meets until May 24; will put 10% wartime luxury tax on cars, gramophones, records, player pianos, jewels

1929
Windsor Ontario - Engineers break ground for the Windsor-Detroit tunnel under the Detroit River.

1892 LORD STANLEY DONATES A CUP
Montreal Quebec - Former Governor General Lord Stanley says he will donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions; awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only by NHL teams.

1849
Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie visits Toronto, where an attempt is made to lynch the former Mayor and rebel.

1836
Vancouver Washington - Hudson's Bay Company paddle wheel steamer Beaver arrives at Fort Vancouver; first steamboat on the Pacific Coast.

1766
London England - British pass Declaratory Act; gives Crown authority to make laws binding in the colonies; by and with consent of Parliament.

1687
Louisiana - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle assassinated at age 44 by mutineers on Gulf of Mexico.


Born on this day:

1900 - 1948 Jack Delaney
boxer, was born Ovila Chapdelaine. Delaney officially changed his name when he turned pro age 19, since the ring announcers had trouble pronouncing his French surname. In 1926 he took the world light-heavyweight title from Paul Berlenbach but he came back the next year to claim the title from him. He retired with a career total of 86 pro bouts, with 42 KOs, 27 decisions, 1 foul and 3 draws.

1879 - 1966 Norval Baptie
speed skater, impresario. Baptie won the world title in 1895 at only 16 years of age. In the following quarter century, he shattered every amateur and pro speed skating record, winning nearly 5000 races, from the 200 metres to the 8 kilometres. At the end of World War I he launched one of the world's first touring ice shows, including Olympic skating star Sonja Henie.

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March 19

1990
Ottawa Ontario - First world ice hockey tournament for women held in Ottawa.

1981 SABRES PLASTER MAPLE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4; score 9 goals in the second period, the most goals in one period by an NHL team; total 31 goals and assists another NHL record.

1970
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in rigid federal rules barring any foreign ownership of Canadian uranium mining.

1964
Ottawa Ontario - Sergeant Major Walter Leja awarded George Medal for heroic conduct while dismantling FLQ bombs in Montreal May 17,1963; he was severely wounded when a mailbox bomb went off in his hands.

1941
Washington DC - United States and Canada sign pact to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1937
Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes bill banning Canadian enlistment in the Spanish Civil War.

1885
Batoche Saskatchewan - Louis Riel seizes hostages and sets up Provisional Government of Saskatchewan; North West Rebellion begins; Riel President, Gabriel Dumont Adjutant-General of the Army.

1871
Ottawa Ontario - Minister of Inland Revenue Alexander Morris introduces Act to legalize metric system in Canada.

1860
Fredericton NB - New Brunswick legislature decides not to invite the Prince of Wales, then visiting Canada, because of costs; decides to erase today's debate from the record the following day.

1687
Texas - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle murdered by mutineers; he and his men are trying to reach the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico.


Born on this day:

1935 - Burt Metcalfe
actor, producer, director, was born at Saskatchewan. Metcalfe is known for directing Father of the Bride and for producing MASH.

1861 - 1929 Sir (Jean) Lomer Gouin
politician and statesman, was born at Grondines, Quebec; died in Quebec City. Gouin served as Premier of Quebec from 1905 to 1920.

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1991
Ottawa Ontario - Consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990.

1986 SONDRA SLAPS AIDE
Washington DC- Sondra Gotlieb, wife of Canada's then-ambassador to the USA Alan Gotlieb, slaps an aide in public during a reception for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

1970
Paris France - Canada signs treaty with 19 other countries to found La Francophonie; body for cultural and technological exchange among French-speaking nations.

1968
Los Angeles California - Toronto rocker Neil Young arrested on drug charges; later fined.

1939
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that Canada will consider any attack on Britain as an attack on the Commonwealth.

1914
New Haven, Connecticut - Canadian skaters attend the world's first international figure skating championships.

1901
Toronto Ontario - General Electric starts construction of a large Canadian factory in Toronto.

1800
Uxbridge Ontario - John Graves Simcoe grants 3,237 hectares (8,000 acres) in York County to Timothy Rogers; to settle Quaker community in King and Whitchurch Townships

1793
Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Hart elected first Jewish MLA in Nova Scotia; representing Liverpool.

1686
Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Troyes plans expedition to expel English and capture traders in Hudson Bay working for Radisson; ordered by Governor Denonville.


Born on this day:

1967 - Bryan Genesse
TV/movie actor. Genesse has played The Bold and the Beautiful's Rocco Carner, and Street Justice's Grady Jamieson.

1954 - Charlie Simmer
NHL Left winger. Simmer played for the LA Kings.

1948 - Robert Gordon 'Bobby' Orr
NHL defenseman, born in Parry Sound, Ontario. Orr started skating at age 4, was signed by the Boston Bruins at 14, and after an outstanding junior career with the Oshawa Generals, joined the hapless Boston Bruins in 1966 at age 18, winning the Calder trophy for Rookie of the Year in 1967.
A powerful rushing defenseman, Number Four led the NHL in scoring twice in 1970 and 1975 (first defenseman) and in assists 5 times. The Bruins took the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972, and Orr was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy both years as the outstanding player in the playoffs. Orr won the James Norris Trophy as best defenseman 8 years in a row, and was regular season MVP 3 times (1970-72). Grown men wept when Orr had to retire with a bad knee in 1979, with a career 270 goals and 645 assists. He suffered financially from being one of Alan Eagleson's first clients.

1939 - Brian Mulroney
lawyer, politician, born in Baie Comeau, Quebec, the son of Benedict Mulroney and Irene O'Shea; Canada's 18th Prime Minister (1984-93); attends St. Francis Xavier University and l'Université Laval.

1922 - Jack Kruschen
actor, was born at Winnipeg Manitoba. Kruschen played Papa in Webster, Busting Loose.

1907 - 1990 Hugh MacLennan
novelist and essayist, was born at Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; died in Montreal. A Rhodes scholar, Hugh MacLennan was the first major English-speaking writer to portray Canada's national character. He won the Governor-General's award five times - three times for fiction, and twice for non-fiction. His novels include Two Solitudes and The Watch that Ends the Night.

1896 - 1952 Wilfred 'Wop' May
pilot, World War I air ace. May was being pursued by German ace Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down.

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1992
Santa Barbara California - John Ireland dies of leukemia at 78; born Jan. 30, 1914 in Vancouver. Ireland was a Hollywood leading man, with over 200 movies and TV shows under his belt, including All the King's Men; Rawhide's Jed Colby, Cassie and Company.

1991
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules 9-0 that fetus not legal person; no guarantee to life under Criminal Code; upholds BC Court of Appeal ruling.

1977
Newfoundland - Greenpeace Foundation abandons protest against annual seal hunt off coast of Newfoundland; due to bad weather, ice conditions, and lack of money.

1970 AMERICAN WOMAN RELEASED
New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who release their hit single American Woman; the Winnipeg group have a blockbuster number one single on their hands.

1942
Vancouver, BC - James Woodsworth dies; a Methodist minister, he was first leader of the CCF; pushed Mackenzie King to enact an old-age pension plan; born Etobicoke Ontario July 29, 1874.

1916
France/Belgium - : German army starts offensive on the Somme before American troops can arrive to join the War; Second Battle of the Somme ends in November, with one million casualties.

1885
Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Louis Riel demands surrender of Crozier's NWMP detachment at Fort Carlton; 32 km from Batoche.

1864
Canada - J. S. Macdonald & A-A Dorion Ministry resigns after failing to achieve coalition.

1821
London England - North West Company agrees to merges with the Hudson's Bay Company; effective June 1, to run for 21 years under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company.

1666
Quebec Quebec - Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census.


Born on this day:

1936 - Ed Broadbent
politician, NDP leader, was born at Oshawa Ontario. Son of a GM auto worker, Broadbent got his PhD at the University of Toronto, and taught Political Science at York University before winning a federal seat for the NDP in Oshawa-Whitby in 1968.
Seven years later, after the Party made a disastrous showing in the polls, he replaced David Lewis as NDP leader, and in the 1984 Mulroney sweep, helped the NDP hold on to 30 seats, only 10 less than the Liberals.
In the 1988 election, he suffered when the Liberals took the lead in opposing the Free Trade deal, and in December 1989, he handed over the leadership to Audrey McLoughlin.

1904 - 1987 Jehane Benoît
author, cuisinière, was born Jehane Patenaude at Montreal; died at Sutton, Quebec. Benoît studied at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and graduated in Food Science from the Sorbonne in 1925. Back in Montreal, she started a popular cooking school, Fumet de la Vieille France, and from 1935-40 operated one of Canada's first vegetarian restaurants, The Salad Bar. She wrote over 30 books on Canadian and Quebecois cuisine, and on microwave cooking, and was a regular on radio and on CBC's Take Thirty.

1891 - 1966 Jonathan Hale
actor; born in Ontario; dies at Woodland Hills California.

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March 22

1995
Buenos Aires Argentina - Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games; the next day she and her three teammates are stripped of the gold medals they won in quadruple sculls; says she unknowingly took drug in a cold medicine..

1990
St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells introduces resolution to rescind Newfoundland support of Meech Lake accord; fears Meech Lake will cut Ottawa's ability to aid Newfoundland economically; effectively kills the deal.

1984
London, Ontario - Jane Gray dies; Canada's first woman broadcaster began her career in 1924 at CJGC (now CFPL) radio London by hosting Canada's first advice show.

1978
St-Jerome Quebec - Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking.

1955
Mississauga Ontario - Fire at Malton Airport causes $5 million in damage.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Department of Labour brings in National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations; program for industry meets wartime manpower shortage by directing people to jobs.

1929
New Orleans Louisiana - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana; Captain John Thomas Randell and crew taken to New Orleans as prisoners for violating prohibition laws; manufacture of liquor still legal in Canada.

1894 STANLEY CUP DAY
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association win the first Stanley Cup championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1, and winning the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament 3 games to 2. The AAAs (later the Montreal Victorias) were the first team to win what was known as known as Lord Stanley's Cup. A year earlier, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, former Governor General, had purchased the silver bowl in London for $48.67 to donate to the Canadian amateur champions; he said his sons had enjoyed playing hockey on the rink at Rideau Hall. Today, the Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports competition in North America.

1885
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.

1849
Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin burned in effigy at a Toronto demonstration against Rebellion Losses Bill; with effigies of Mackenzie and Blake.


Born on this day:

1972 - Elvis Stojko
three-time world champion figure skater, was born at Richmond Hill, Ontario. A martial arts and dirt bike enthusiast, Stojko has shown he can win or lose with equal dignity. His Olympic Silver Medal performance at Nagano, accomplished with a pulled groin, shows his sheer guts.
But he also conquered poor judging at the 1997 world championships in Lausanne, Switzerland by skating the performance of his life in the free skate - especially his quadruple toe, triple toe combination jump - to move from fourth after the short program to first place and the gold medal. At the 1991 Worlds, he was the first person to land a quadruple jump combination in competition - a quadruple toe loop/double toe loop. In 1994 he was awarded the Lionel Conacher Award for Athlete of the Year by the Canadian Press.

1942 - Barbara Parkins
actress, was born at Vancouver, BC. Parkins is known for her roles in Peyton Place, Asylum.

1940 - Dave Keon
hockey player. Keon was NHL Rookie of the Year in 1961. Playing with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he won the Lady Byng Trophy (1962 & 1963), and was Stanley Cup playoff MVP in 1967.

1931 - William Shatner
actor, TV host, novelist, film director, vegetarian, was born at Montreal. Shatner is best known for his roles as Star Trek's Capt. James Tiberius Kirk, Barbary Coast's Jeff Cable, T.J. Hooker's Sgt. T.J. Hooker, and in Rescue 911; author, Tek War.

1909 - 1983 Gabrielle Roy
Franco-Manitoban novelist, was born at St-Boniface, Manitoba, the youngest of 11 children; dies in Quebec City. Roy was educated in St-Boniface and taught in country schools in Manitoba for several years. In 1939, she travelled to Europe to study drama in London and Paris, then married in 1947 and moved to Quebec City.
She is the author of Bonheur d'Occasion (1945), translated as The Tin Flute (1947), a realistic portrayal of life in a Montreal slum, that won the Prix Femina in France and the Governor-General's award; La Petite Poule d'eau (1950) translated as Where Nests the Water Hen, Alexandre Chenevert (1954) translated as The Cashier; La Montagne secrète (1961) translated as The Hidden Mountain, and La Route d'Altamont (1966) translated as The Road Past Altamont. Bell Canada and the Stentor Alliance have sponsored an excellent Gabrielle Roy site at the National Library of Canada.

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March 23

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1994
Los Angeles California - Wayne Gretzky finally eclipses Gordie Howe's National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal. Here he is with his hero. Howe had heard about a 10 year old Brantford Ontario kid who had scored 385 goals in 85 games, and decided to pay him a visit.

1987
Kamloops, BC - Avalanche kills six American skiers and their Canadian guide.

1969
Toronto Ontario - Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer dies at age 84.

1949
London England - Royal Assent given to the North America Bill, passed by the British Parliament for the union of Canada and Newfoundland.

1945
Germany - Allies cross Rhine north of the Ruhr.

1937
Toronto Ontario- Toronto Stock Exchange moves into new building at 234 Bay St.; cost $750,000; air conditioned; called the Ticker Place by the Star Weekly.

1923
Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt announces his first hockey game, over the Toronto Star's radio station CFCA; known as voice of hockey.'

1752
Halifax, Nova Scotia - John Bushell 1715-1761 starts publishing Canada's first regular newspaper, the Halifax Gazette; until 1766, when it is shut down for criticizing the Stamp Act and replaced by the more official Nova Scotia Gazette. Originally from Boston, Bushell had worked with the late Bartholemew Green Jr., who set up the first printing press in Halifax. As today's Halifax Chronicle-Herald, it is the oldest existing newspaper in North America.

1670 FRENCH CLAIM LAKE ERIE
Port Dover Ontario - François Dollier de Casson claims Lake Erie territory for France; with fellow Sulpician priest René de Galinée.

1665
Quebec City - Jean Talon appointed Intendant of New France, in charge of finance and justice; Canada's first civil administrator holds Canada's first census; serves from September 23, 1665 to October 22, 1668, then 1670-72.


Born on this day:

1957 - Amanda Plummer
actress. Tony Award-winning actress [1982]: Agnes of God; The Fisher King, Joe Versus the Volcano, The World According to Garp, Pulp Fiction; Christopher Plummer's daughter.

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1981
Ottawa Ontario - Progressive Conservatives filibuster in Commons in effort to halt Trudeau's constitutional package.

1975
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes act making the beaver the official symbol of Canada.

1975
Thunder Bay, Ontario - Thunder Bay has one of Ontario's greatest one day snowfalls, with 102 cm.

1972
Newfoundland - Frank Duff Moores 1933- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; 33 seats to 9 for Joey Smallwood's Liberals

1945
Netherlands - Canadian Corporal Fred Topham wins VC for bravery as Canadian paratroopers and air support help Canadian Army cross the Rhine in Operation Varsity; start of the liberation of the Netherlands.

1936 LONGEST NHL GAME IN HISTORY
Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 after 16 minutes and 30 seconds of the ninth period (sixth overtime); this Stanley Cup game is longest in NHL history, at 176 minutes and 30 seconds; the win for the Wings actually comes after midnight, on March 25.

1837
Quebec City - Lower Canada gives blacks the right to vote.

1786
London England - British government prohibits trade between British North America and the US.

1745
Boston Massachusetts - William Pepperell leads expedition against Louisbourg, Nova Scotia; force composed largely of untrained Harvard students.

1670
Paris France - King Louis XIV orders 100,000 livres of silver and copper coins minted for New France; the 15 sol piece is today a rarity.


Born on this day:

1952 - Nicholas Campbell
TV actor. Campbell has starred as Diamonds' Mike Devitt, and in The Hitchhiker.

1949 - Steve Lang
rock bassist, of April Wine.

1936 - John Robert Colombo
poet, editor and writer, was born at Kitchener Ontario. Colombo is known for his eclectic collections of Canadiana, such as Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974) and Colombo's Canadian References (1976).

1936 - David Takayoshi Suzuki
geneticist and broadcaster, was born at Vancouver. Suzuki was interned with his Japanese Canadian family during World War II. After getting his PhD in 1961 from the University of Chicago, he returned to teach at UBC. In 1971, he started the CBC TV show Suzuki on Science, and in 1976 the radio show, Quirks and Quarks. He is known for his CBC show, The Nature of Things.

1907 - 1960 Paul Sauvé
military leader, Quebec Premier, was born at St-Benoît Quebec; died at St-Eustache. One of the founders of the Union Nationale Party, he served in the Quebec Assembly from 1936-56 under Maurice Duplessis. Sauvé was second in command of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal during the Normandy landings. Chosen successor to Duplessis in Sept., 1959, he promised a program of reform with the one word - 'désormais' - 'from now on,' but he died four months after taking office as Premier.

1890 -1954 Agnes MacPhail
politician, was born at Grey County, Ontario; dies in Toronto. MacPhail got into politics through the cooperative movement and the United Farmers of Ontario. In 1921, she became Canada's first female MP, in the first federal election in which women had the vote. She was appointed to the first Canadian delegation to the League of Nations, and founded the Canadian Branch of the Elizabeth Fry Society, which was dedicated to the welfare of prisoners. She lost her Commons seat in 1940, but ran successfully for the Ontario Legislature in 1943, where she served until 1951.

1803 - 1882 Egerton Ryerson
churchman, educator, was born at Norfolk County, Ontario; dies in Toronto. Ryerson was born an Anglican, but converted to Methodism in 1827, and was ordained a Minister. In 1829, he founded the Christian Guardian newspaper, where he attacked the Clergy Reserves set aside for the Anglican Church. In 1841, he founded Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario, today part of the University of Toronto. From 1844-76, Ryerson served as Superintendent of Education, and pushed through the School Act of 1871, which gave universal compulsory education to the children of Ontario.

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1986
USA - Brian Boitano of the U.S. wins his second world figure skating title, in spite of Canadian Kurt Browning's quadruple jump, the first ever landed in competition.

1982
Oakville Ontario - Colin and Gregory Rankin born; North America's first test-tube twins.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Roland Michener appointed Governor General; serves until 1974

1958
Malton Ontario - 14,000 Avro employees cheer maiden flight of supersonic fighter the AVRO CF-105 Arrow; one of world's most advanced airplanes at the time; cancelled five months later.

1903 CANADA SHORT CHANGED IN ALASKA BORDER FIX
Washington DC - Anglo-American Convention decides to define the Alaska-Canada border as it is today; US President Theodore Roosevelt had threatened to send in troops if the boundary was not fixed the way the US wanted. Left out of the talks, Canada ended up with no seaports in northern BC or the Yukon, and the resulting anti-British sentiment led to the founding of the Department of External Affairs in 1909.

1893
Toronto Ontario - Toronto cab driver fined for driving on Sunday; $2 or 10 days in jail

1886
Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature passes Workman's Compensation Act; first Act of its kind in Canada.

1880
Toronto Ontario - Globe editor George Brown shot in his office by George Bennett, a disgruntled ex-employee; dies later of wounds; Bennett hanged for murder.

1853
Windsor Ontario - Samuel Ward & Mary Ann Shadd publish first edition of 'The Provincial Freeman', a newspaper for the 40,000 blacks who had fled slavery in the southern US.

1807
London England - British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.


Born on this day:

1966 - Jeff Healey
singer, guitarist, was born at Toronto. One of the world's finest blues guitar virtuosos, Healey lost his sight at age one to retinoblastoma (eye cancer). His parents gave him his first guitar at age three and his adversity led him to develop an unconventional lap-top technique that involves using all five fingers for effects and bending strings with his thumbs. Healey's technique has been praised by blues guitarists Albert Collins, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn, who said that Healy would revolutionize guitar playing. In 1982 he recorded an independent video called Adriana which was played on MuchMusic.
The Jeff Healey Band came together in 1985, at Grossman's Tavern, when he joined forces with bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen. They signed with BMG Music Canada Inc. and released their debut album See The Light, in 1988. In 1990 their second album, Hell To Pay, featured a guest appearance by ex-Beatle George Harrison on a cover version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The first single, I Think I Love You Too Much, featured Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. The Band's biggest hit was the pop ballad, Angel Eyes, that reached the Billboard #5 spot in 1989. In 1995, the band released Cover to Cover, a compilation of cover songs; Healey's friend Amanda Marshall sings back-up vocals on one track and John Popper of Blues Traveller plays harmonica on another.

1593 - 1649 Jean de Brébeuf
Jesuit missionary to New France, was born at Condé-sur-Vire, Normandy; tortured to death with Gabriel Lalemant by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis, Huronia March 16, 1649. Brébeuf's skull is preserved in a golden reliquary in the Hotel Dieu at Quebec; he was canonized in 1930.

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1992
Toronto Ontario - Barbara Frum dies of leukemia at age 54; broadcast journalist, host of CBC Radio's As It Happens and CBC-TV's The Journal.

1987
Ottawa Ontario - Ontario Liberal MP Sheila Copps gives birth to a girl; first Member of Parliament to give birth.

1974
Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler acquittal overturned by Quebec Appeal Court in spite of 'not guilty' jury decision; decision later upheld by Supreme Court of Canada.

1940
Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King wins nineteenth federal general election 181 seats to 40 for the Conservatives under R. Manion; Social Credit 10; CCF 8; Independents 6; wins with 51% of popular vote.

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1921
Lunenburg Nova Scotia - Smith & Rhuland launch 40 m long schooner Bluenose, built at a cost of $35,000; designed by William J. Roue of Halifax, both for fishing and racing. In 1921, under Captain Angus Walters, she wins the Halifax Herald International Fisherman's Trophy, emblematic of the fastest ship in the North Atlantic fishing fleet; wins 5 times, never afterward defeated for this trophy; also returned from her first trip to the Grand Banks as highliner of the Lunenburg fleet, having caught more than any other ship. The government put her likeness on the ten cent piece in 1937; she stopped racing in 1938. Bluenose was sold in 1942 to Havana interests; she was wrecked on a reef off Haiti in 1946.

1908 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND SAYS NO TO CARS
Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads.

1885
Duck Lake Saskatchewan - Gabriel Dumont ambushes force of 98 NWMP officers and volunteers, led by Superintendent Crozier, at Duck Lake; forces police to retreat to Prince Albert with 12 dead; start of the Northwest Rebellion (Second Riel Rebellion).

1870
Ontario - News of the execution of Thomas Scott at Red River reaches Ontario; angers anti-Catholic Orangemen, who see the Metis action as religiously motivated.

1845
Montreal Quebec - Thomas Aylwin & Dominick Daly fight a harmless duel without injuring each other; one of Canada's last duels.

1663
Quebec Quebec - Bishop François de Laval gets royal grant to found a seminary at Quebec.


Born on this day:

1963 - Roch Voisine
hockey player, actor, singer, was born at St-Basile, NB. Voisine played junior hockey, and after an injury, studied at the University of Ottawa, then started his entertainment career in the Radio Canada puck opera Lance et Compte (He Shoots, He Scores). He is best known as a heartthrob singer; his albums include Coup de Tête, Hélène, I'll Always Be There (Juno 1994), Kissing Rain, On The Outside.

1950 - Martin Short
actor, comedian, writer, was born at Hamilton, Ontario. Short was a Second City TV Network regular 1982-83 and a Saturday Night Live regular 1984-85. He has played in 3 Amigos, The Associates (Tucker Kerwin), I'm a Big Girl Now, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Maniac Mansion, The Martin Short Show (Marty), Father Of The Bride II, Mars Attacks.

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1995
Montreal Quebec - Bell Canada says it will slash 10,000 jobs over three years while spending $1.7-billion (Canadian) to remake Canada's largest phone company.

1991
Quebec City - Belanger-Campeau Commission suggests referendum if Ottawa proposals not good enough; suggests keeping Canadian dollar, Crown Corporations.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Provincial finance ministers decline to help Ottawa collect GST.

1969
St-Jerome Quebec - Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal.

1953
United Nations New York - Canada presents gift of seven main doors for United Nations Building in New York.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87.

1935 CANADA'S LITERARY GG
London England - John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, appointed governor-general of Canada. An author himself (his novel The Thirty Nine Steps is regarded as the first modern thriller), he instituted the Governor-General's literary awards in 1937.

1883
Regina Saskatchewan - Pile-O'-Bones made capital of the Northwest Territories, which includes Alberta, Saskatchewan and the present-day Northwest Territories; soon renamed Regina to honour Queen Victoria.

1855
New York City - Halifax inventor Abraham Gesner gets US patents for kerosene distillation process; he and a group of investors set up the highly successful North American Kerosene Gas Light Company, to market the new lamp fuel that will completely replace whale oil.

1614
Port Royal Nova Scotia - Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt rescues starving survivors of Port Royal and takes them back to France; deeds property to son Charles, who remains with a few friends.


Born on this day:

1962 - Jann Arden
singer, songwriter, was born Jann Arden Richards at Calgary. Arden abandoned plans to be a teacher at 22, preferring the life of a musician. Stricken for a time by alcoholism, she stopped drinking at age 26, and after meeting Ian Tyson's ex-manager Neil MacGonigill, pulled her act together and signed with A&M. In February 1993, she released her first album, Time for Mercy, with the hit single I Would Die For You, (2 Junos). Her second album, Living Under June (194), had two hits, Could I Be Your Girl and Insensitive.

1916 - 1995 Jack M. Warner
film executive, was born at London, Ontario; died in Hollywood. Warner was co-founder of Warner Bros.

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You are doing great, Vee, but what happened to Lumbele??? Did you inherit the job or is she just on vacation?

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1991
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark says Department of External Affairs will operate Radio Canada International after CBC drops funding; 50% cut in service.

1984
Brampton Ontario - Eaton's store in Brampton gets union certification; first union in company's history.

1969
Montreal Quebec - Crowd of 6,000 students demand that McGill University be turned into a French institution.

1960
Sudbury Ontario - Ontario charters Laurentian University in Sudbury as a bilingual institution.

1944
Toronto Ontario - Stephen Leacock dies at age 74; comic author, McGill University political economist (1908-36); author of Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914), Frenzied Fiction (1918) and many others, he died leaving his autobiography, The Boy I Left Behind Me, still unfinished (published in 1946).

1935
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio Commission prohibits 'sales talks or spot advertising' on Sundays.

1918
Quebec Quebec - Anti-conscription riots break out in Quebec City; four civilians killed in shooting match with soldiers over Easter weekend.

1885 TROOPS SENT WEST ON CPR
Toronto Ontario - General Frederick Dobson Middleton leaves for the west in command of 5,000 troops to fight the North West Rebellion; reaches the end of the CPR on April 2, and splits up; Middleton goes to Batoche, Otter sent to Battleford, Strange goes after Big Bear.

1843
Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald elected an alderman for Kingston; Canada's first prime minister.

1795
Nootka Sound BC - Spanish evacuate trading post at Friendly Cove to British.


Born on this day:

1951 - Karen Kain
ballerina, was born at Hamilton, Ontario. Kain graduated from the National Ballet School in 1969, and soon became a principal dancer with the National Ballet. In 1973, she won the silver medal at the Moscow International Ballet competition, and dancing with Frank Augustyn [in the picture], won the best pas de deux prize. She has danced most classical roles, and often partnered Rudolph Nureyev. Before her recent retirement she danced many roles choreographed for her by James Kudelka, Roland Petit and others.

1906 - 1981 Joseph Wright Jr.
oarsman. Wright won the 1928 Olympic Silver Medal with Jack Guest Sr. in the double sculls event.

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1993 CALLBECK FIRST ELECTED FEMALE PREMIER
PEI - Catherine Callbeck leads her Prince Edward Island Liberals to a 31 seat landslide; first woman in Canada to be elected premier; Tory leader Pat Mella wins the only opposition seat in the PEI legislature.
Note: BC's Rita Johnson was the first woman Premier, but she replaced retiring Bill Vander Zalm in 1991, and lost the subsequent election.

1984
USA - Lynn Williams Toronto union leader elected President of United Steelworkers of America; first Canadian to hold the post.

1974
Ottawa Ontario - CBC announces it will gradually remove commercials from its AM radio stations.

1966
Quebec Quebec - Dow Brewery destroys 4,546,000 litres of beer after 16 people die in Quebec City area; 1 million gallons go down the drain.

1927
Toronto Ontario - Government control of liquor sales replaces prohibition in Ontario; origin of LCBO and Brewers Retail stores.

1922
Beaupré Quebec - Fire destroys basilica of Ste-Anne de Beaupré; shrine originally built in 1658 by sailors who escaped a shipwreck.

1867
London England - The British Parliament passes the British North America Act; to establish the Dominion of Canada, uniting Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; today's Constitution Act.

1848
Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls runs dry for 24 hours due to an ice jam on Lake Erie; beginning at 5 am; only time on record.

1778
Nootka Sound BC - James Cook lands at Nootka ('Friendly Cove') on the west coast of Vancouver Island, after 8 month voyage from England en route to search for a western entrance to the North West Passage; first Europeans to set foot on the island receive a warm welcome; trade iron goods, trap sea otters.


Born on this day:

1946 - Terry Jacks
singer/guitarist, songwriter, record producer. Jacks' major hit was Seasons in the Sun.

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1990
Quebec Quebec - Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2,000 marchers against university tuition fee increases; students also occupy Montreal Stock Exchange; over 250 arrested.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.

1972
Halifax Nova Scotia - Last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.

1954
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transit Commission opens Yonge Street subway; first line in Canada.

1901
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that marriages of Catholics by Protestant clergymen are valid.

1885
Battleford Saskatchewan - Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month. A formidable soldier, Poundmaker had participated in the signing of Treaty 6, and in 1881 had guided the Marquis of Lorne from Battleford to Calgary. But he was distressed at the treatment given the Cree people, and had agitated for fulfillment of the promises made under Treaty.

1864
Ottawa Ontario - Etienne-Paschal Taché forms Taché-Macdonald government with John A. Macdonald.

1834
Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie appointed first mayor of Toronto by the Council, defeating John Rolph.

1809
London England - Labrador Act gives Labrador to Newfoundland; boundaries later disputed by Quebec; Privy Council make final decision in 1927.

1644 FRENCH BATTLE IROQUOIS IN MONTREAL
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve defeats a large band of marauding Iroquois on the site of the Place d'Armes; aided by force of 30 settlers; they had massacred several habitant families.


Born on this day:

1968 - Céline Dion
superstar chanteuse, was born at Charlemagne, Quebec. Dion is the youngest of 14 children whose parents operated a small club east of Montreal, where she started performing at age 5 with her entire family. Her first song, composed at age 12, caught the eye of manager René Angelil, who financed the recording of her debut album, and later married her.
In 1982, she won the Gold Medal at the Yamaha World Song Festival in Tokyo. In 1983, she became the first Canadian ever to receive a Gold Record in France.
In 1988, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, before a TV audience of 600 million. Her English language breakthrough came when she recorded the title track for the Disney hit Beauty and the Beast, which garnered an Academy Award and a Grammy. Her second English album, 'Celine Dion,' had such hit singles as Love Can Move Mountains, Water From The Moon, If You Asked Me To and Did You Give Enough Love. In 'The Colour Of My Love', Dion duetted with British singer Clive Griffin on When I Fall In Love, featured on the soundtrack of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. She sang her hit My Heart Will Go On, the theme song from the film Titanic, at the Oscar ceremony.

1960 - Laurie Graham
ski racer, was born at Orangeville, Ontario. Graham started ski racing at age 9, and joined the National Ski team in 1978. In 1983, she won the first FIS World Cup race held in Canada, the Womens Downhill at Mont Tremblant. In 1984, at Puy St-Vincent, France, she became the first Canadian to win a World Cup Super Giant Slalom race. In the 1985-86 season, she notched two more World Cup Downhill victories along with two second and three third place finishes; she retired after winning a total of 6 World Cup races.

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1984
St. John's Newfoundland - One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, and to honour the memory of his friend Terry Fox; his 7,294 km run will be successful.

1978
Toronto Ontario - Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.

1958 DIEF WINS LANDSLIDE
Canada - John George Diefenbaker wins biggest victory to date in Canada's 24th general election; takes 208 seats to 49 for the Liberals under St-Laurent; 8 CCF; a majority of 151, with 50 Quebec seats; gets 53.6% of popular vote; serves as Prime Minister to April 22, 1963.

1949
St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland joins Confederation as Canada's 10th province; oldest Dominion in the British Commonwealth joins 82 years after Confederation; Joey Smallwood first Premier, until 1972.

1943
Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley announces that wartime meat rationing by coupon will begin in early May.

1914
Newfoundland - Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.

1890
Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature passes the Manitoba School Act, abolishing separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, effective May 1; non-sectarian system of public education.

1885
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa disallows BC's Chinese Restriction Act.

1831
Montreal Quebec - Montreal incorporated as a city; no longer an out-port of Quebec.

1713
Utrecht Netherlands - Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain; France keeps Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and Ile St-Jean (PEI).


Born on this day:

1929 - Lee Patterson
soap actor, was born at Vancouver British Columbia. Patterson played Dave Thorne in Surfside Six, and Joe Riley in One Life to Live.

1928 - Gordie Howe
hockey right winger for 32 seasons, was born at Floral Saskatchewan. Howe was the first player to score 1000 career major-league goals (1977). He played for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL (1946-1971), Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association (WHA) (with sons Mark and Marty 1973-1977), New England Whalers of the WHA (1977), Hartford Whalers of the NHL (1978-1980). Howe won six NHL scoring titles (Art Ross Trophy 1951-1954, 1957, 1963), was awarded the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player six times (1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963), and was a key member of 4 Stanley Cup winning teams.
He retired in 1980, at age 52, as the NHL leader in career goals scored with 801. He is second only to Wayne Gretzky on the NHL list for total points scored (goals and assists combined), with 1850.

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1995
Hollywood, California - Jack M. Warner dies; born Mar 27, 1916 in London Ontario; movie executive, co-founder Warner Bros.

1992
North America - NHL Players Association launches players' strike, first in the league's 75-year history; walkout ends 10 days later; NHLPA claims gains in free agency and licensing rights.

1980
Carleton Place, Ontario - First sheltered workshop in Canada to go on strike; Mentally disabled workers win raise in weekly salary to $10 from $7.50

1975
Canada - Canadian radio and TV stations first start giving the temperature in Celsius.

1969
Quebec Quebec - Quebec legalizes civil marriages.

1967
NWT - Robert Gauchie found by rescue workers after 58 day search; bush pilot forced down in remote section of NWT.

1873
Prospect Nova Scotia - The luxury Liner Atlantic, sailing from Liverpool to New York, turns into Halifax Harbour to get coal, but strikes a reef near Mars Rock, Meagher's Island; 546 people drown in heavy seas, while local fishermen manage to save 300.

1868 CANADIANS CELEBRATE FIRST APRIL FOOLS' DAY
Ottawa Ontario - First Canadian April Fools' Day on record. Poisson d'avril!

1776
Halifax Nova Scotia - Ships carrying 1,124 United Empire Loyalists arrive at Halifax from Boston; many with the British Army; in all, 40,000 Americans remain loyal.

1733
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Canada's first lighthouse lit for the first time, using coal from nearby Morien and Spanish River; the round 200 metre tower, made with cement from limestone burned in local kilns, is the first fireproof concrete structure in North America.

Born on this day:

1952 - Billy Currie
pianist, violinist, songwriter, of Ultravox.

1908 - 1980 Bob Nolan
country singer, poet, songwriter, was born Robert Clarence Nobles. Nolan was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers.

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I didn't know that the Warner brothers guy was born in canada. So many famous Canadian Hollywood types seem to come from London?? I lived for many years in london and, while it is a great city, I don't see why so many of it's citizens are more successful than other canadian cities - or it could just be that I react when I see London and not when I see other cities

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1991
Victoria BC - Rita Johnston sworn in as Premier on resignation of Bill Vander Zalm; Canada's first woman Premier (Catherine Callbeck of PEI will be the first woman elected Premier).

1975
Toronto Ontario - CN Tower completed; reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tons of concrete and steel.

1974
Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court fines K. C. Irving Ltd. and 3 other companies $150,000 for press monopoly of the province's English language newspapers.

1968 CANADA'S FIRST LOTTERY 30 YEARS AGO
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau creates Canada's first modern lottery, to help pay $250 million deficit from Expo '67; first such lottery in Canada.

1955
Halifax Nova Scotia - Opening of Angus L. Macdonald Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth.

1887
Juneau Alaska - US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific; other seizures on the 9,12, and 17th.

1871
Ottawa Ontario - Dominion of Canada's first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin.

1840
Toronto Ontario - Torontonians hold public street ox roast to celebrate Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert.

1667
Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon 1626-94, Intendant of New France, establishes the Code Civil and first civil courts of law in the name of King Louis XlV 1638-1715.


Born on this day:

1946 - Kurt Winter
rock & roll guitarist of The Guess Who.

1940 - Donald Jackson
figure skater, was born at Oshawa Ontario. Jackson won the Canadian Junior Men's title in 1955 at age 14, and held the senior crown from 1959 to 1962. He won the bronze at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics and then took the silver at the World Championships. At the 1962 Worlds he won gold with the first triple lutz ever jumped in competition..

1935 - Sharon Acker
actress. Acker played Della Street in the New Perry Mason, and Alice in Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop.

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1992
St. John's, Newfoundland - Congregation of Christian Brothers formally apologizes to victims of physical and sexual abuse at 94-year-old Mount Cashel orphanage; first complaints of abuse arose in 1970s; building to be razed, and proceeds used to help victims.

1975
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports record $2.19 billion paid out in 1974 for unemployment insurance benefits.

1967
Natal BC - Coal mine explosion kills 15 and injures 9 miners near Natal.

1946
Ottawa Ontario -
Canada agrees to acquire the Canadian section of the Alaska Highway, including telephone systems, buildings and other assets, for $108 million (1,221 miles at $88,000 a mile); 2,450-kilometre highway originally cost US$140 million to build, as a wartime supply route in case of Japanese invasion of North America.

1930 FIRST CUP IN OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the new Montreal Forum, beating Boston Bruins 4-3 in game 2 of a two-game series sweep.

1898
Yukon - Chilkoot Pass avalanche kills 88 men during the Klondike gold rush.

1836
Toronto Ontario - Baldwin, Rolph & Dunn resign from Bond Head's council to protest lack of democracy.

1826
Saint John NB - Financial panic hits New Brunswick as word spreads that banks in London had failed and the timber trade had collapsed; so-called Black Monday.

1669
Paris France - Louis XIV orders permanent militia established in New France.


Born on this day:

1945 - Bernard Marcel 'Bernie' Parent
hockey player, was born at Montreal. A superb goaltender, Parent led the Philadelphia Flyers to 2 Stanley Cups as playoff MVP (1974,75); he was a 2-time Vezina Trophy winner and holds the NHL record for season wins (47 in 1973-74).

1943 - 1986 Richard Manuel
singer, pianist, keyboardist, drummer, of The Band, was born at Stratford, Ontario; dies by his own hand in a Florida motel room, to universal sadness; buried in Stratford. Eric Clapton dedicated his song, Holy Mother, to Manuel. Here is a list of his greatest tracks:

* In A Station / Tears of Rage / Lonesome Suzie / I Shall Be Released "Music From Big Pink" The Band, 1968
* King Harvest (Will Surely Come) / Across The Great Divide / Whispering Pines / Rockin' Chair "The Band" The Band, 1969
* The Shape I'm In / Sleeping "Stage Fright" The Band, 1970
* The Moon Struck One "Cahoots" The Band, 1971
* Share Your Love With Me / The Great Pretender "Moondog Matinee" The Band, 1973
* Hobo Jungle / Rags & Bones "Northern Lights-Southern Cross" The Band, 1975
* Georgia On My Mind / Right As Rain / Let The Night Fall "Islands" The Band, 1977
* Country Boy - (Recorded Woodstock, 1985) "Jericho" The Band, 1993
* She Knows - (Recorded New York City, 1986) "High On The Hog" The Band, 1996

1918 - 2000 Louis Applebaum
composer, arts administrator, was born at Toronto. In 1985, Applebaum co-chaired the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee with Jacques Hébert.

1911 - 1956 Nanette Bordeaux
actress, was born at St-Georges Quebec; died Beverly Hills, California. Bordeaux starred in several Three Stooges movies in the 1950s.

1885 - 1981 Allan Dwan
film actor, director, was born at Toronto; died in California. Dwan directed almost 1850 films, from 1911 on, including several Shirley temple flics, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Peter Bogdanovich wrote a 1971 biography, Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer.

1876 - 1958 Margaret (Mary) Anglin
actress, was born at Ottawa; died in Toronto. Anglin was one of the most brilliant performers of her day, shining in Greek tragedies, Shakespearean plays, or contemporary dramas.

1858 - 1937 Jake Gaudaur Sr.
rower, was born at Toronto. In 1892 Gaudaur and his partner F. Hosmer defeated Ned Hanlan and another Torontonian William O'Connor for the double sculls championship of the world, a title they won several more times. At age 38, Gaudaur raced 8 time world champion Jim Stanbury and won an easy victory on the Thames course; he held the world single sculls title for another four years.