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1996
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils new $2 coin design; a bimetallic Polar Bear.

1984
Sarajevo Bosnia - Gaetan Boucher wins 2 Gold (1000m & 1500m) and a Bronze medal in Speedskating at Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. Brian Orser wins silver medal in figure skating.

1973 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIGITAL DATA SYSTEM
Montreal Quebec - Trans Canada Telephone System introduces Dataroute, the world's first national digital data system.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson's minority government loses a tax bill vote in the Commons, but win a vote of confidence Feb. 28th, after the Opposition demands that the government resign.

1930
Quebec Quebec - Quebec legislature rejects bill to admit women to the practice of law.

1928
St Moritz Switzerland - Second Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz; the University of Toronto Grads take home Canada's third consecutive Gold Medal in Ice Hockey.

1897
Stoney Creek Ontario - Adelaide Hunter Hoodless founds the Federation of Women's Institutes of Canada; motto 'For Home and Country'; promotes pasteurization of milk as one of its main projects (her infant son died after drinking impure milk); also helps found the National Council of Women, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the YWCA in Canada.

1889
Ottawa Ontario - Gabriel Dumont pardoned by Crown for role in 1885 Rebellion; Saskatchewan Metis leader

1732
Quebec Quebec - Religious houses in New France forbidden to shelter fugitives from justice.

1631
Quebec Quebec - First Lutheran baptism in Canada.

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1993
Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark announces he will not seek re-election; led Tories for 7 years, Prime Minister June 1979 to March 1980; MP for High River for 21 years.

1992
Toronto Ontario - Painter A. J. Casson dies at age 93; last surviving member of the Group of Seven; specialized in watercolours of Ontario towns.

1985
Primrose Alberta - First successful US cruise missile test in Canadian airspace; released from a B-52 bomber over Beaufort Sea, the missile successfully makes its way to the target in Alberta.

1969
Ottawa Ontario - John Munro announces formation of Hockey Canada, federal corporation to develop a national hockey team; Canadian Health Minister

1964
Shawinigan Quebec - Terrorists raid armoury in Shawinigan.

1959
Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister George Pearkes announces the Diefenbaker Cabinet decision to cancel AVRO CF-105 Arrow interceptor project because of costs; Bomarc-B missiles to be installed; A. V. Roe President Crawford Gordon immediately fires 5,000 of 10,000 employees; 14,000 in the industry eventually lose their jobs. Recent comments by former Minister Pierre Sevigny bring into question who ordered the seven existing aircraft scrapped

1945
Ottawa Ontario - Government issues Canada's first Family Allowance cheques.

1865
Quebec Quebec - Legislative Council of Canada votes 45-15 for Confederation.

1808
Toronto Ontario - Joseph Willcocks jailed for making 'false, slanderous, and highly derogatory' statements about members of the Assembly; Leader of the Opposition in Upper Canada.


Born on this day:

1942 - Phil Esposito
hockey centre, born at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Esposito was originally a member of the Chicago Blackhawks (1963-67), and was sent to Boston in 1967. Over the next eight seasons, aided by Bobby Orr on the blueline, he rewrote the NHL record books, becoming the first player in NHL history to score 100 points in a season (126 in 1969) and, two seasons later, set single-season standards of 76 goals and 152 points, which stood until Gretzky arrived on the scene.
Over a five-year period (1970-71 to 1974-75), he scored 55 or more goals and totaled 127 points or more in each season with combined totals of 326 goals and 687 points. He was a 6-time NHL 1st teamer and 2-time MVP (1969, 1974) and 5-time NHL scoring champion. He was a star of the 1972 Canada-Soviet series. In 1975, he was dealt to the New York Rangers, where he was top scorer for four years, and helped them to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1979. He served as GM of the NY Rangers 1986-88 and is President-GM of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Espo had 778 career goals - he is 4th in NHL scoring after Gretzky, Howe and Dionne - and was the first League player to get 70 goals in one season

1941 - Beverly 'Buffy' Sainte-Marie
singer, songwriter, was born to a Cree mother at Craven, Saskatchewan, on the Piapot Reserve. Sainte-Marie was sent out for adoption, and raised in Maine. She started out her singing career in folk, and wrote the popular protest song Universal Soldier for her debut album, It's My Way (1964). Other albums include Many a Mile (1965), Little Wheel Spin and Spin (1966), Fire and Fleet and Candlelight (1967), I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (1968), She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina (1971), Moonshot (1972), Quiet Places (1973), Native North American Child (1974) and Sweet America (1976).

1900 - 1983 Graham Spry
Canadian radio pioneer, was born at St Thomas Ontario. Spry founded the Canadian Radio League to promote Canadian broadcasting.

1887 - 1967 Vincent Massey
statesman, was born at Toronto; died in London, England. Massey was the first Canadian to serve as Governor General of Canada (1952-59).

1844 - 1909 Joshua Slocum
sea captain, adventurer, author, was born in Wilmot County, Nova Scotia; died at sea. Slocum grew up in Westport, Briar Island, NS; ran away to sea at age 16 and eventually owned his own vessels. His Voyage of the Liberdade (1890) tells of sailing a trading ship with his family on board. In 1893, his business foundering, he rebuilt a 13 ton 36 foot New England oyster sloop, The Spray, and from April 1895 to June 1898 sailed around the world single-handedly, the first man in history to do so.

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1995
Leader Saskatchewan - Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett touches down at Leader, becoming the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

1980 CLARK CALLS IT QUITS
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark submits resignation to Governor General, three days after his Tory government was defeated by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Canada lets International Atomic Energy Agency verify Canada's peaceful use of nuclear power.

1969
Montreal Quebec - Réjane Laberge-Colas appointed to Quebec Superior Court for the district of Montreal; Montreal lawyer the first woman named to the bench of a Superior Court in Canada.

1941
Newfoundland - Canadian co-discoverer of insulin Frederick Banting killed at age 49 in Newfoundland air crash en route to England on a wartime medical mission; Nobel Prize winner.

1935
London England - John Buchan appointed Governor-General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir; Buchan was also a biographer and novelist, who wrote one of the first modern thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps.

1891
Springhill Nova Scotia - Coal gas explosion in Springhill kills 129 miners.

1849
Halifax Nova Scotia - Pony Express carries first despatches from Digby for relay to Saint John, New Brunswick telegraph.

1642
Nova Scotia - Charles Menou d'Aulnay ordered to arrest Charles de La Tour for insubordination.


Born on this day:

1808 - 1894 Robert Campbell
fur trader, born at Glenlyon, Perth, Scotland; died on the Merchiston Ranch, near Riding Mountain, Manitoba. Campbell spent his life in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company (1830-71); he was an early explorer of the Yukon.

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1998
Nagano, Japan - Canadians take home record medal haul as 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano.

1995
Ottawa Ontario - Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark narrowly elected PC Party leader on 4th ballot; replaces Robert Stanfield; gets 1187 votes, to Claude Wagner's 1112; Brian Mulroney, whose campaign was judged too slick, finishes third.

1969
Montreal Quebec - Bomb explodes at Liberal Party social club, injuring two people.

1945
Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedoes Royal Canadian Navy corvette Trentonian.

1943
Gibraltar Mediterranean - Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.

1887
Canada - John Alexander Macdonald wins federal election 126 seats to 89 for Edward Blake of the Liberals; majority cut to 37 seats in a House of 215.

1838
Kingston Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie abandons plan to attack Kingston from Hickory Island in the Thousand Islands.

1825
London England - Britain and Russia set inland boundaries of Alaska/BC at first mountain range and 141st meridian.

1813 RED GEORGE INVADES THE USA
Ogdensburg New York - Lt. Col. 'Red George' Macdonnell leads 400 Prescott regular militia and Glengarry Light Infantry in a pre-dawn raid on US Fort Ogdensburg across the frozen St. Lawrence; to retaliate for Feb. 6 attack on Brockville; War of 1812.


Born on this day:

1903 - 1990 Morley Callaghan
writer, born at Toronto. Callaghan graduated as a lawyer, then worked as a journalist with the Toronto Star; novelist, whose main works are the novels Such is My Beloved (1934), The Loved and the Lost (1951), A Time for Judas (1983) and his literary memoirs, That Summer in Paris (1963).

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1992
Albertville France - The XVI Winter Olympic Games end in Albertville; Canada takes home two Golds - Kerrin-Lee Gartner for Downhill Skiing and the Womens Relay Short Track team for Speed Skating.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Rookie Vancouver MP Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Justice Minister in Mulroney Cabinet shuffle, replacing Doug Lewis; Benoît Bouchard becomes Minister of Industry, Science and Technology.

1988 CALGARY HOSTS THE WORLD
Calgary Alberta - Games of the XV Winter Olympiad open in Calgary.

1970
Toronto Ontario - First presentation of Juno Awards to honour the best Canadian recording artists; the award is named after CRTC Chairman and later CBC/SRC President Pierre Juneau.

1969
Vancouver BC - Start of hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo; first scheduled hovercraft service in Canada.

1951
Korea - Canadian troops with 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade make first contact with enemy.

1914
British Columbia - Fraser River rockslide nearly wipes out the area's salmon fishing industry.

1909
Baddeck, Nova Scotia - J. A. D. McCurdy flies the Bell designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 10 metres for nearly one kilometre across Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; first powered flight in British Empire.

1894
Toronto Ontario - Ottawa's hockey club refuses to go to Toronto to play in the second annual Stanley Cup game, so the Cup is awarded to the Montreal AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) for the second time.

1782
Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 named Commander in Chief of British North America.


Born on this day:

1949 - Marc Garneau
engineer, soldier, astronaut, space scientist, born at Quebec City. Garneau got his bachelor of science degree in engineering physics from the Royal Military College of Kingston in 1970, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England, in 1973. He was a combat systems engineer on HMCS Algonquin, 1974-76, then taught naval weapon systems at the Canadian Forces Fleet School in Halifax, 1976-77, where he designed a simulator for use in training weapons officers in the use of missile systems aboard Tribal class destroyers. He was promoted to Commander and attended the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College of Toronto in 1982-83.
Garneau was one of the first six Canadian astronauts selected in December 1983, and was the first Canadian to go into space, as a payload specialist on Shuttle Missions STS-41G Challenger (October 5-13, 1984) and STS-77 Endeavour (May 19-29, 1996), logging over 437 hours in space. Garneau has since served as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in Mission Control during Shuttle flights.

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1993
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney announces he is stepping down as Prime Minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; says his biggest disappointment was the failure of the Meech Lake Accord; Justice Minister Kim Campbell will win the June Tory leadership convention.

1986
Ottawa Ontario - Tommy Douglas dies; former Saskatchewan CCF Premier and national NDP leader was the first in North America to bring in government Medicare health plan.

1982
Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 77th goal of the season to break Phil Esposito's single-season NHL scoring record; adds goals 78 and 79 before the game ends; en route to his awe-inspiring 92 goal season.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - Federal government tables new criminal legislation, including abolition of hanging, increased minimum sentences for murder, stricter gun control and greater wire-tapping power for police.

1925
Washington DC - Canada and US sign boundary treaty; create International Lake of the Woods Control Board.

1905 WHAT A WAY TO TREAT LORD STANLEY'S MUG
Ottawa Ontario - Members of the Ottawa Silver Seven, winners of the Stanley Cup, celebrate their victory by booting the cup onto the frozen Rideau Canal; Captain Harry Smith retrieves it unharmed the following day.

1887
Vancouver BC - Vancouver loses city charter after failing to control rioting against Chinese immigrants.

1875
Provencher Manitoba - Louis Riel re-elected for Provencher and again expelled and declared an outlaw.

1797
Saint John New Brunswick - Political rivals John Coffin and James Genie fight a duel; neither is killed, as the combatants fire into the air, and honour is restored.

1662
Quebec Quebec - Bishop François de Laval announces that those selling liquor to the Indians will be excommunicated from the Church.


Born on this day:

1975 - Manon Rhéaume
hockey goaltender, was born at Trois-Rivières; goalie for Les Draveurs; first female NHL player; played for Canadian Women's Hockey team at Nagano Olympics.

1951 - Helen Shaver
actor, was born at St Thomas, Ontario. Shaver has starred in Who Has Seen the Wind, Bethune, In Praise of Older Women, The Craft, Born to be Wild, Desert Hearts, The Color of Money, The Amityville Horror, Starship Invasions, WIOU.

1932 - 2005 John Vernon
actor, was born Adolphus Vernon Agopsowicz at Montreal. Vernon has starred in The Outlaw Josey Wales, National Lampoon's Animal House (Dean Vernon Wormer), Chained Heat, Hostage for a Day, Dirty Harry, Hunter, Point Blank, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.

1825 - 1913 Richard Scott
Canadian Secretary of State 1874-78, 1896-1908, was born at Prescott Ontario; died in Ottawa. Scott grew up in Ottawa and was elected Mayor in 1852. He sat in the provincial parliament and was appointed Senator in 1874 by Alexander Mackenzie.

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1991
Toronto Ontario - Silver speculator Bruce McNall, hockey star Wayne Gretzky and entertainer John Candy jointly buy CFL Toronto Argonauts; Gretzky and Candy are later financially embarrassed by the bankruptcy of McNall.

1989
Whistler BC - Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada.

1971
Vancouver BC - Chapin Scott Paterson, an American citizen, hijacks a US Boeing 747 en route to Vancouver; turned over to FBI same day.

1966
Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson cuts a ribbon opening the 13 km long $200 million east-west Toronto subway.

1952
Oslo, Norway - Closing of the VI Winter Olympic games at Oslo; the Edmonton Mercurys take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Ice Hockey.

1945
Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of CBC's international short wave service, Radio Canada International.

1940 HOCKEY NIGHT HITS THE TUBE
New York City - Montreal Canadiens lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers in Madison Square Gardens in the world's first televised hockey game; on Westinghouse station W2XBS-TV.

1918
New York City - Carnegie Corporation donates $1 million to McGill University; to recognize the university's wartime services.

1880
Fredericton New Brunswick - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Fredericton.

1620
Paris France - Henri, Duc de Montmorency appointed Viceroy of New France; with Champlain as Lieutenant.


Born on this day:

1922 - Molly Lamb Bobak
artist, was born at Vancouver BC. Bobak studied at the Vancouver School of Art 1938-41 under Jack Shadbolt; in 1945 she was the only female appointed a war artist in the Second World War.

1867 - 1966 A.G.L. 'Andy' McNaughton
soldier, was born at Moosomin, Saskatchewan. McNaughton headed the National Research Council, commanded the First Canadian Division in World War II, and was Minister of National Defence and Canada's Ambassador to the UN.

1857 - 1910 Adelaide Hunter Hoodless
reformer, born at St. George Ontario; died in Toronto. Hoodless was founder of the world's first Woman's Institute, later the Federation of Women's Institutes of Canada (motto 'For Home and Country') which promoted pasteurization of milk as one of its main projects (her infant son died after drinking impure milk); she also helped Lady Aberdeen found the National Council of Women, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the YWCA in Canada.

1857 - 1927 Robert Bond
politician, was born at St. John's, Newfoundland; died at Whitbourne. Bond was Leader of the Liberal Party in Newfoundland and Prime Minister of the British Dominion from 1900 to 1909.

1752 - 1806 John Graves Simcoe
British soldier and statesman, born at Cotterstock Northumberland England; died in Exeter, Devonshire. Simcoe attended Eton and Merton College, Oxford; commanded the Queen's Rangers 1777-81 in the American Revolutionary War; he was first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1791 and founder of Toronto (York) in 1794. His wife Elizabeth kept a diary and painted scenes from their time in Upper Canada.

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1986
Geneva Switzerland - Goaltending great Jacques Plante dies at his home near Geneva at age 57; born Jan 17, 1929 at Mount Carmel Quebec; a six time Vezina trophy winner (five in a row with the Montreal Canadiens 1955-60); Plante introduced the protective goalie mask to hockey after being hit in the face in New York Nov 1, 1959.

1979
Manitoba/Saskatchewan - Total solar eclipse crosses western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Mitchell William Sharp Finance Minister 'repatriates' US $426 million currency and gold deposited with the International Monetary Fund; to drive up the value of the Canadian dollar.

1960
Lake Tahoe California - Anne Heggtveit wins the Gold Medal in Slalom at the 8th Winter Olympic games in Squaw Valley; from Chelsea, Quebec, Heggtveit is the first Canadian to win Gold in skiing; she also takes the FIS World Slalom and Alpine Combined titles this year.

1945
Rhine Germany - Canadian Army Sergeant Aubrey Cosens wins VC for bravery in Rhine fighting.

1942
Vancouver BC - Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act.

1920
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Parliament opens in newly rebuilt Centre Block; sessions were held in the Museum of Nature after the disastrous Feb. 13 1916 fire.

1857 CANADA ASKS THE QUEEN TO CHOOSE
Toronto Ontario - The Assembly of the Province of Canada formally requests Queen Victoria to choose a new permanent capital, after deadlock between supporters of Quebec, Montreal, Kingston and Toronto; originally in Montreal, the capital was moved to Kingston after Tory riots in 1849, then Quebec, then Toronto.

1851
Toronto Ontario - George Brown helps found Toronto Anti-Slavery Society.

1838
Pelee Island Ontario - Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels; until March 3


Born on this day:

1953 - Jim Crichton
rock & roll bassist, songwriter, keyboardist, of Saga.

1937 - 1997 Hagood Hardy
musician, composer, born at Angola, Indiana; dies in Toronto. Raised in Oakville, Ontario, Hardy started his professional career at age 18 playing the vibes at the House of Hamburg and other Toronto jazz clubs. He toured with jazz artists like George Shearing in the 1960s, and wrote commercial and ad tunes. In 1975 he struck gold when his instrumental piece, The Homecoming, adapted from an older Salada Tea jingle, became a Billboard Hot 100 and international hit. Hardy has composed music for many films and TV shows, including the score for Anne of Green Gables.

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1994
Lillehammer, Norway - 17th Winter Olympics end in Lillehammer; Canada takes home three Golds - Myriam Bédard for Biathlon (2) and Jean-Luc Brassard for Moguls Freestyle Skiing.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upholds Canada's anti-pornography law; rules sexually explicit material is obscene and not protected by the freedom of expression guarantee in the Charter of Rights.

1991
Iraq - Coalition under US General Norman Schwarzkopf proclaims victory over Iraq in the six-week Gulf War; Canadian troops start to return home after combat operations cease; Canada sent a total of 2,400 troops, 26 fighter planes, 3 warships and a field hospital.

1988 MANLEY TAKES SILVER AT CALGARY
Calgary Alberta - Elizabeth Manley of Ottawa wins Silver Medal in Women's Figure Skating at the Calgary Winter Olympics; East Germany's Katarina Witt wins Gold, Debi Thomas of the US gets the Bronze. Witt is the first woman figure skater since Sonja Henie to win gold medals in two consecutive Winter Olympic Games.

1977
Toronto Ontario - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group is arrested by the RCMP and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine; police seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia; Richards is released on $25,000 bail; later found guilty, but released on condition the Stones play two benefit concerts for the blind.

1951
Ottawa Ontario - Canada posts army officer to staff of Supreme Allied Commander; first step in providing Canadian ground troops in Europe for NATO

1900
Victoria BC - Charles Augustus Semlin dismissed as BC Premier by Lt-Governor T. R. McInnes.

1842
Shanty Bay Ontario - Opening of St. Thomas' Church, Shanty Bay, built of 'rammed earth'.

1839
Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until May 11; adopts resolutions favouring a union of Upper and Lower Canada.

1751
Quebec - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière sends Pierre-Marie Raimbeau de Simblin to build a fur trade fort at Lac de la Carpe to curb British influence south of Hudson Bay.


Born on this day:

1899 - 1978 Charles H. Best
medical researcher, physiologist, co-discoverer of insulin, born to Canadian parents at West Pembroke, Maine; died in Toronto. In 1921, working alongside Frederick Banting as a medical student at the University of Toronto, Best was the first to extract pancreatic insulin from dogs in a form that controlled diabetes; 1923 the Nobel Prize in physiology of medicine was awarded to Banting and Scottish physiologist John James Richard Macleod, who managed the laboratory; Banting protested the award to Macleod and shared his part of the prize equally with Best; 1923 University of Toronto sets up the Banting-Best Department of Medical Research; 1929 after graduate training in England, succeeds Macleod as Professor of Physiology at U of T; 1941 became Research Associate of the department and Director after Banting's death in a plane crash.
During World War II he helped start a Canadian program to provide dried human blood serum; also discovered the vitamin choline and the enzyme histaminase, and co-authored a physiology text; co-founded the Canadian Diabetes Association; 1951 U of T names the Charles H. Best Institute, a diabetes research laboratory, in his honour; 1963 served as a consultant to the medical research committee of the United Nations World Health Organization.

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1996
New York City - Ottawa native Alanis Morissette wins four Grammy awards including best female vocal for You Oughta Know and album of the year for Jagged Little Pill; at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.

1995
Fredericton New Brunswick - Judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years.

1988 CANADA SHUT OUT OF GOLD AT CALGARY
Calgary Alberta - Closing of the 15th Winter Olympic Games. Canada won two Silver Medals, in Singles Figure Skating (Feb 20 - Brian Orser and Feb 27 - Elizabeth Manley), as well as Bronze in Ice Dancing (Feb 23 - Tracy Wilson & Rob McCall), Womens Downhill (Feb 19 - Karen Percy) and Womens Super G (Feb 22 - Karen Percy again).

1985
Toronto Ontario - Publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau goes for a walk in an Ottawa blizzard and decides to resign; announces decision the following day; Canada's 15th Prime Minister.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson survives non-confidence motion by 138 votes to 119.

1960
Lake Tahoe California - Closing of the VIII Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley; Canada takes home two Gold Medals - Anne Heggtveit for Slalom and Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul for Pairs Figure Skating, as well as a Silver in Hockey (Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen) and a Bronze in Men's Figure Skating (Donald Jackson).

1956
Chatham Ontario - Chatham restaurant fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students.

1952
Ottawa Ontario - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canadian-born Governor General 1952-59; former President of the Massey-Harris Company 1921-25; Canada's first ambassador to the US 1926-30; Canadian High Commissioner in London 1935-46.

1838
Quebec - Robert Nelson raids Lower Canada from Vermont with Cyrille Côté; proclaims republic; stopped by militia.


Born on this day:

1962 - Rae Dawn Chong
actor, was born at Edmonton Alberta. Chong appeared in the film Quest for Fire.

1960 - 1980 Dorothy Stratten
Playboy Magazine playmate Aug 1979, was born Dorothy Hoogstratten at Vancouver, British Columbia; murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider Aug 14, 1980. Her life is the subject of a movie, Star 80.

1932 - Don Francks
actor, was born at Vancouver, British Columbia. Francks has played in such productions as Terminal Choice and Finian's Rainbow.

1929 - Moe Koffman
jazz flutist

1865 - 1940 Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
medical missionary, born at Parkgate, Cheshire, England; died at Charlotte, Vermont; 1883 while attending medical school at London University, was converted by US evangelist Dwight L. Moody and joined the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, serving as surgeon on the first hospital ship attached to the North Sea fisheries;
1889 made superintendent of the Mission; 1892 for 3 months cruised the Newfoundland and Labrador coast treating and providing missionary service to the fishermen, settlers and Inuit; 1893 opened the first hospital at Battle Harbour, and raised funds for the mission with speaking tours and popular books, such as Vikings of To-day (1895);
1909 married a Chicago heiress, Anne MacClanahan, who took him away from Labrador life; 1912 founded the International Grenfell Association, with HQ at St. Anthony's after a split with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen; by 1932 the IGA had built 6 hospitals, 4 hospital ships, 7 nursing stations, 2 orphanages, 2 residential schools, 14 industrial centres, and a cooperative lumber mill.

1712 - 1759 Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm-Grozon (de Saint-Véran)
soldier, was born at Château de Candiac, France; dies of wounds suffered at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec Sept 14, 1759. Montcalm was Commander in Chief of French forces in Canada (1756-59) during the Seven Years' War.

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1989
Toronto Ontario - Track coach Charlie Francis tells Dubin Inquiry that his pupil Ben Johnson and other athletes knowingly took banned steroids; testifies Johnson started using steroids in 1981; Johnson also admits guilt in testimony that June.

1988 GRETZKY ALL-TIME ASSIST LEADER
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky picks up assist No. 1,050 in a game against the Los Angeles Kings, becoming the NHL's all-time assist leader; he breaks the 26-year mark of Gordie Howe in only 681 games, vs Howe's 1,767 games.

1981
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's energy policy; Ottawa replies by compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a 'Lougheed Levy' to subsidize imports.

1976
Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties.

1974
Victoria BC - BC Court of Appeals rules Indian child can be adopted by non-Indian parents without losing status.

1965
La Salle Quebec- Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex in La Salle.

1963
Victoria BC - BC government establishes Victoria College as the University of Victoria; founds Simon Fraser University in Burnaby.

1943
Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Women's Army Corps as part of the Canadian forces; CWACs have full military titles and hold commissions.

1939
Montreal Quebec - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe opens first Trans Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montreal to Vancouver; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce.

1927
London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decides in favour of Newfoundland claim on Labrador boundary; long-standing dispute between Newfoundland and Quebec; two years earlier, Newfoundland had offered to sell Labrador to Quebec for $30 million.

1815
Quebec - Disbanding of Lower Canada militia after War of 1812.


Born on this day:

1947 - Alan Thicke
actor, TV host, comedy writer, producer, born Jeffery Thicke on this day at Kirkland Lake Ontario. Thicke has appeared in Thicke of the Night, Animal Crack-Ups, and as Growing Pains' Jason Seaver and Hope and Gloria's Dennis Dupree.

1935 - George Généreux
trap shooter. In 1952, at age 17, Généreux won the Clay Pigeon Trapshooting World Championship and the Olympic Gold Medal in Trap Shooting at Oslo.

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March 2

1993
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court allows proceedings to be televised for the first time; a hearing on taxation.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba Metis Federation can go to court to claim Red River Valley land promised in 1870s.

1990
Canada - Mark Tewksbury swims the 50m Backstroke in a world record time of 25.06 seconds. He also wins the Commonwealth Games 100m Gold this year.

1982
Ottawa Ontario - Progressive Conservative members boycott Parliament for two weeks; to protest of American Energy Security Bill.

1976
Toronto Ontario - Time magazine puts out last Canadian edition; loses advertising after Ottawa changes tax laws.

1965
Montreal Quebec - Lucien Rivard, jailed while fighting extradition to US on narcotics charges, escapes from Montreal prison using a garden hose to climb a prison wall; charges of bribery connected with the escape result in resignation of Justice Minister Guy Favreau; Rivard caught four months later, extradited to US, sentenced to 20-years.

1947
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit with 48.3 cm snowfall, one of its biggest single day March snows.

1831
Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act legalizing marriages by Methodist ministers.

1729 LET THEM PLAY CARDS
Paris France - King Louis XV authorizes a new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops; Governor at Quebec allowed to sign playing cards as specie.

1699
Biloxi Mississippi - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville builds Fort Maurepas on the Gulf of Mexico; French control now extends all the way down the Mississippi River.


Born on this day:

1945 - Gordon Thomson
soap actor, was born at Ottawa Ontario. Thomson has played Adam Carrington in Dynasty and the Colbys, Aristotle in Ryan's Hope, Mason Capwell in Santa Barbara.

1935 - 2001 Al Waxman
actor, born at Toronto. Waxman played the title role in the CBC situation comedy King of Kensington (1975-80), and has acted in Cagney & Lacey (1981-88), Meatballs 3, Spasms.

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March 3

1994 THE EAGLE IS BANDED
Boston Massachusetts - Alan Eagleson indicted on 32 counts of embezzlement, fraud and racketeering; former head of the NHL Players Association and Toronto hockey lawyer refuses to go to the US to face the grand jury; beginning of three years of legal wrangling.

1980
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau succeeds Joe Clark as Prime Minister; Clark PM since June 4, 1979.

1965
New York City - Canadian actor Christopher Plummer stars as Count von Trapp in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, The Sound of Music, opening on this day; his co-stars are Julie Andrews and Eleanor Parker.

1964
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves change of name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to Air Canada; to take effect January 1, 1965.

1953
Karachi, Pakistan - Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.

1942
England - First combat flight of the Canadian-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

1921
Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.

1919
Vancouver BC - First international airmail delivered, in a flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington.

1871
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves British Columbia's terms to join Canada; negotiated by George-Etienne Cartier.

1655
Montreal Quebec - Montreal physician offers first medical insurance.


Born on this day:

1920 - James Doohan
WW II military pilot, actor, was born at Vancouver BC. Doohan has played chief engineer Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) in Star Trek; Damon Warwick in The Bold and the Beautiful , and Pippin in Homeboys In Outer Space.

1890 - 1939 Norman Bethune
medical doctor, born at Gravenhurst Ontario; dies in China. Bethune started medical studies at McGill, served as a stretcher bearer in a field ambulance unit of the Canadian army in France in 1915, then after a bout of tuberculosis, studied thoracic surgery and joined the surgical team at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Disillusioned with medical practice - many of his patients grew sick again when they returned to squalid living conditions - he visited the Soviet Union in 1935, and secretly joined the Communist Party. He opened a health clinic for the unemployed in Montreal, then served as a battlefield doctor in the Spanish Civil War (1936), where he innovated mobile field hospitals.
He went to China in 1938 to help fight the Japanese invasion, devised a mobile medical unit that could be carried on two mules, but died of blood poisoning in 1939 due to the lack of penicillin. He is regarded as a hero in China and is called Pai-ch'iu-en - White Seeks Grace. His boyhood home in Gravenhurst is now a museum.

1847 - 1922 Alexander Graham Bell
speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, was born at Edinburgh Scotland; dies at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In 1870, Bell settled in Brantford, Ontario, where he developed the telephone from 1874-76. In 1876, he and his father made the first long-distance call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. The call was routed through Toronto, so the actual distance was 109 km. He patented his invention in 1876, and founded the Bell Telephone Company.

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1994
Durango Mexico - Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico; Candy was a Second City TV Network regular (Johnny LaRue/The Shmenge brothers' Yosh); his films include Radio Candy, 1941, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Three Amigos!, Summer Rental, Brewster's Millions, The Great Outdoors, Splash, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Home Alone (with Catherine O'Hara), JFK, Uncle Buck, Camp Candy, Cool Runnings.

1982 WILSON FIRST WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT
Ottawa Ontario - Bertha Wilson appointed first woman to sit on Supreme Court of Canada; Ontario Court of Appeal Justice; resigned Jan, 1991.

1977
Toronto Ontario - The Rolling Stones record their Love You Live album in Toronto.

1971
Vancouver BC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984.

1969
Ottawa Ontario - RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles.

1966
Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Justice Minister Cardin breaks news of the Munsinger Affair scandal, involving former Diefenbaker Associate Minister of National Defence Pierre Sevigny 1917- and his relationship with Gerda Munsinger, known to the RCMP as a prostitute with East German contacts.

1962
Ottawa Ontario - Cairine R. Wilson dies at 77; first Canadian female senator appointed

1946
Ottawa Ontario - Communist MP Fred Rose and 13 others charged with spying for the Soviet Union; result of Gouzenko revelations.

1933
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange stays open as US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt closes all US banks and stock exchanges; puts embargo on gold exports; good for Canadian mining shares; $US down 35 cents

1814
Wardsville Ontario - Americans defeat British at Battle of Longwoods; between London and Thamesville.


Born on this day:

1954 - Catherine O'Hara
comedy writer, actress, born at Toronto. From a family of artists (brother Marcus was a documentary director and sister Mary Margaret a pop singer), O'Hara got into showbiz the old-fashioned way. While waiting on tables at the Firehall Theatre in Toronto, she convinced Second City troupe member John Candy to listen to her routines. She joined the cast in 1973, while also appearing as a regular on the children's television show Coming Up Rosie, which sometimes featured Candy and a comic from Ottawa, Dan Aykroyd. By 1976, she was a regular on the highly successful Second City TV Network (Lola Heatherton, Brooke Shields); she has acted in Home Alone (with John Candy), Beetlejuice, Dick Tracy, A Simple Twist of Fate, Wyatt Earp, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour.

1949 - Carroll Baker
country singer

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1995
Pembroke Ontario - Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa; 660 paratroopers dismissed.

1980 TONTO RIDES INTO SUNSET
Woodland Hills California - Jay Silverheels dies; born Harold J. Smith May 26, 1919 on the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford Ontario; lacrosse player, boxer, actor, he played The Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto; founded the Indian Actors Workshop in 1963.

1982
Aspen Colorado - Steve Podborski wins men's downhill skiing World Cup title over Austria's Harti Weirather; Toronto native the first non-European to win, with three Cup wins and two seconds during the season.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Georges-Philias Vanier dies at age 78; soldier, Royal 22ème Regiment; Canada's 19th Governor-General 1959-67, and the first French Canadian to hold the position.

1943
Germany - British and Canadian bombers start Battle of the Ruhr; year-long bombing offensive against Germany.

1910
Rogers Pass BC - Avalanche kills sixty-two railroad workers in the Rogers Pass.

1891
Canada - John Alexander Macdonald wins the seventh general election, and his last, 121 seats to 94; defeats Wilfrid Laurier with 51.5% of popular vote; slogan 'the old man, the old flag, the old policy'.

1844
Montreal Quebec - Province of Canada revolving seat of government moved from Kingston to Montreal.

1800
Quebec - Fourth session of second Parliament of Lower Canada meets until May 29; penalties for harbouring runaway sailors, bridge over Jacques Cartier R.

1764
Quebec Quebec - Governor James Murray requires inhabitants of Quebec to declare their French money; before May 1


Born on this day:

1658 - 1806 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
soldier, explorer, and French colonial Governor, born at Les Laumets France; died in France. Cadillac arrived in Canada in 1683, fought against the Iroquois, founded the city of Detroit in 1701, and served as Governor of Louisiana (1710-17).

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1997
Nakina Ontario - Students at Nakina Public School, 100 km east of Lake Nipigon, exchange email with Queen Elizabeth, as she launches her official royal website from Buckingham Palace.

1969
Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier papers and memorabilia displayed at the National Library in Ottawa; first exhibit of its kind in Canada

1962
Riondel BC - Sons of Freedom Doukhobors bomb electric power pylon near Riondel.

1957
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada nullifies Quebec 'Padlock Law' of 1937; says jurisdiction federal and not provincial.

1925
Truro Nova Scotia - 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6.

1889
Toronto Ontario - Emile Zola's novels seized and destroyed by customs officers after they are ruled obscene.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorne helps found the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

1837
London England - British Parliament passes Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions; the Governor of Lower Canada can now pay salaries of officials; without approval of the Assembly, who are refusing to vote funds.

1834 TORONTO'S BIRTHDAY
Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto, formerly York, incorporated; population now 10,000; first municipal election to be held March 27th.

1617
Quebec Quebec - Louis Hébert signs agreement to become the first colonist of New France; he is a farmer and apothecary, and will provide herbal medicines to the inhabitants.


Born on this day:

1940 - Ken Danby
painter, born at Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. Born on the same day as Michelangelo, Ken Danby is best known for his painting of a masked goaltender, At the Crease (1972).

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1990
Halifax Nova Scotia - Lloyd Eisler & Isabelle Brasseur win Silver Medal in Pairs figure skating at World Figure Skating Championships;

1990
Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rules Nova Scotia Micmacs have constitutional right to hunt and fish for food as long as they obey conservation guidelines.

1986
Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretsky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.

1974
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts 5-year plan to build 50,000 housing units for rural and native families; payments geared to incomes.

1969
Montreal Quebec - Pierre-Paul Geoffroy pleads guilty to 129 charges of placing bombs, conspiracy, theft, and possession of dynamite; FLQ member connected to 31 Montreal-area bombings

1963
Quebec - FLQ starts campaign of violence by hurling Molotov cocktails at three Canadian Army armories.

1939
New York City - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, Auld Lang Syne, for Decca Records; Lombardo born in London, Ontario.

1878 TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE FOUNDED
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange incorporates; Ontario charter confirms TSE organization; rate scale :1/2% for stocks and debentures;1/4% if over $2,000.

1866
Ottawa Ontario - Canada puts 10,000 militia on alert after Fenians hold meeting in New York and threaten invasion; as precaution against anticipated attacks on St. Patrick's Day.

1719
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Michel-Philippe Isabeau starts to build Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island; engineer under director of fortifications Jean-François de Verville, who recommended the site in 1716. The fortress takes 25 years to build.


Born on this day:

1951 - Diane Jones-Konihowski
pentathlete, track coach was born at Vancouver. Jones-Konihowski did not win a medal in the Olympics, but struck Gold at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games and the XI Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in 1978, scoring a Canadian record 4768 points.

1934 - Douglas Cardinal
architect, born at Red Deer Alberta. Cardinal was the eldest of eight children of a half-Blackfoot game warden and a nurse. He studied architecture at UBC, but was asked to withdraw because his designs were thought too radical. He graduated with honours from the University of Texas in 1973, and returned to Canada. His St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, inspired by the Prairie and his Metis ancestry, brought him notice, and in 1983 he won the contract to design the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. This magnificent curving structure is faced in soft yellow Tyndall Stone from Manitoba. In 1993 Cardinal was chosen to design Washington's National Museum of the American Indian.

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1990
Sydney Nova Scotia - RCMP accept blame for bungled Donald Marshall investigation.

1984
Primrose Lake Alberta - First US cruise missile tested over western Canada; unarmed missile stays attached to B-52 bomber.

1982
London England - British House of Commons passes Canada Bill, allowing Canada to patriate its constitution; House of Lords will give final reading March 25th; Queen Elizabeth will sign the Royal Proclamation of the Constitution in a ceremony April 17th on Parliament Hill.

1965
St. John's Newfoundland - Government grants free tuition to all Newfoundland first-year students at Memorial University; first in Canada.

1945 TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Canada - International Women's Day first celebrated in Canada and around the world.

1906
Ottawa Ontario - Second session of tenth Parliament meets until July 13; passes Lord's Day Observance Act; bans Sunday work, transport and show

1901
Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.

1867
London England - British Parliament gives final reading to the British North America Act; few MPs attend to vote; more rush in after to vote against a more contentious bill to place a tax on dogs. BNA Act proclaimed March 29th.

1855
Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; first suspension bridge built to carry trains; first train crosses March 9.

1815
Charlottetown PEI - Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread.

1765
Montreal Quebec - Fire levels one-quarter of the town of Montreal.


Born on this day:

1940 - Susan Clark
actress, born at Sarnia Ontario. Clark has acted in The Choice, Night Moves, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Airport '75, Coogan's Bluff, Murder by Decree (1979), won an Emmy in 1976 for Babe!
On TV, Clark starrerd as Webster's Katherine Calder-Young Papadapolis (1983); she also plays the severe and autocratic Aunt Elizabeth Murray in the Emily of New Moon TV Series on CBC.

1938 - Hans Fogh
sailor, born at Copenhagen Denmark. Fogh won the Flying Dutchman Silver Medal for Canada in the 1960 Olympics, Flying Dutchman class world title in 1962, Soling world title in 1974, Bronze Medal for Canada in Soling in 1984 at Los Angeles Olympics; his 24 years between medals is an Olympic record..

1823 - 1898 Also Thomas Fuller
architect, born at Bath England; dies in Ottawa. A Gothic revival specialist, Fuller designed Canada's Parliament Buildings, as well as the New York State Capital in Albany. He was Dominion Chief Architect 1881-96.

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1995 CANADA FIRES FIRST SHOTS IN TURBOT WAR
Off Labrador - Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit; boat fires warning shots across bow of Spanish trawler Estai; leads to dispute between Canada and the European Union.

1990
St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord.

1980
Ottawa Ontario - National Archives of Canada acquires 1,000 historic Canadian documents; including the original order for the expulsion of the Acadians.

1977
Vancouver BC - Terry Fox loses right leg above the knee to cancer; fitted with artificial leg; learns to walk, drive a car, play golf

1951
Toronto Ontario - Commons approves incorporation of TransCanada Pipelines; to build 5,000 km natural gas pipeline from Alberta to Quebec; sparks Pipeline Debate when Government asks for $80 million loan to a consortium of Canadian and American investors.

1907
Hamilton, Ontario - Hamilton news seller fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.

1901
Victoria BC - Naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act.

1855
Niagara Falls Ontario - First Great Western Railway locomotive crosses the 255 m. long Niagara Falls suspension bridge to the USA, giving Ontario direct rail connection to New York. This is the world's first wire cable suspension bridge; it was built across the Gorge from 1851-55 by engineer John Roebling, who later built the Brooklyn Bridge.

1824
Quebec - Lower Canada Assembly passes Fabrique Act; priests in every parish to provide one school for every 100 families.

1541
Paris France - Jean-Francois de La Roque de Roberval authorized to take first boatload of convicts to Canada to found a colony; Jacques Cartier broke away from Roberval and went to Canada on his own.


Born on this day:

1934 - Marlene Stewart Streit
golfer, born at Cereal Alberta. Stewart Streit won her first victory over Ada Mackenzie in the 1951 Ontario Ladies Amateur Golf tournament; In 1956 she had 34 straight victories, including the US National, the North and South and the USA intercollegiate crowns, and the Canadian Open and Closed; she is the only woman to win the Canadian, British, Australian, and US Amateur titles.

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1989
Dryden Ontario - Air Ontario jet crashes after take off from Dryden, killing 24, injuring 45; inquiry later blames wing icing for the crash.

1981
NWT - Panarctic Oils Ltd. finds oil in offshore exploratory well in the eastern Arctic.

1945
Wesel Germany - First Canadian Army forces Germans across Rhine opposite Wesel, ending month-long campaign west of the Rhine; lose 5,304 dead in Rhine campaign.

1915
Neuve Chapelle France - Canadians see action in Battle of Neuve Chapelle.

1876 WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF SYMPATICO?
Boston Massachusetts - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful test of his new invention, the telephone, a month after patenting the device. He transmits the first intelligible speech, room to room, telling his assistant, 'Come here, Watson. I need you.' Back at his father's house in Brantford Ontario on August 3, he makes the first building-to-building call with his uncle David Bell, and a year later sets up the world's first telephone service in Hamilton, with four customers.

1813
Fredericton New Brunswick - Six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, start 52-day march overland to the St. Lawrence in winter; travel on snowshoes, pulling supplies on toboggans, lose only one man, arriving in Kingston April 12.

1793
Toronto Ontario - Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe and his wife Elizabeth dine on boiled black squirrel, porcupine, roasted passenger pigeon, raccoon, fish, beef and veal.

1626
Quebec Quebec - Jesuits granted the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges on the St. Charles River; first of many grants to religious order.


Born on this day:

1957 - Shannon Lee Tweed
model, actress, born at St John's Newfoundland. Tweed was Playboy Playmate, Nov 1981 and Playmate of the Year; actress, Meatballs 3.

1947 - Avril Kim Campbell
politician, born at Port Alberni, BC. Campbell studied Political Science at UBC, and did graduate work at the London School of Economics. She taught at UBC from 1975-78, and at Vancouver Community College 1978-81. She got a law degree, served on the Vancouver School Board 1985-86, then ran Premier Bill Bennett's office in Victoria. When Bennett retired, she ran for the Leadership of the Social Credit Party in July 1986, lost to Bill Vander Zalm, but won a seat in the BC Legislature that October.
Breaking with Vander Zalm over his abortion stand, she joined the Progressive Conservative Party, and won a seat in the November 1988 election. She served in the Mulroney cabinet in Indian Affairs (1989), Justice (1990) and National Defence (1993).
Defeating Jean Charest on the second ballot in the PC leadership race, Campbell became Canada's first woman Prime Minister, serving from June to November 1993. She lost the election that year to Jean Chretien, and is currently serving as Canadian Consul in Los Angeles

1937 - Tommy Hunter
country singer, born at London Ontario. Starting in 1965, he hosted the Tommy Hunter Show on CBC for 27 seasons.

1861 - 1913 Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
poet, lecturer, born at Chiefswood, Six Nations Mohawk Reserve, near Brantford Ontario; daughter of Chief Henry Martin and British wife Emily Howells; died in Vancouver. Johnson was a successful poet in her day, who gave readings and lectures in North America and Europe. Her most famous poem is The Song My Paddle Sings.

1796 - 1867 Julia Hart
novelist, born Julia Catherine Beckwith at Fredericton NB. At age 17, Hart wrote St. Ursula's Convent, or The Nun in Canada, a sentimental melodrama published in 1824. She is the first native-born Canadian to write a novel published in Canada.

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1996 LAST GAME IN THE OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings.

1984
Magdalen Islands Quebec - Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters.

1947
Toronto Ontario - Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.

1935
Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada starts operations under Governor Graham Towers; has mandate to issue currency and regulate money supply; government-owned central bank.

1931
Quebec Quebec - Province of Quebec extends civil rights to women, but still withholds the right to vote.

1908
Ottawa Ontario - Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development.

1848
Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin calls on leaders of the Reform majority to form new Cabinet; victory for Responsible Government. Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine is sworn in as Attorney-General in an all-Reform Executive Council; first French-Canadian prime minister; second Ministry with Robert Baldwin, known as 'The Great Administration.'

1835
Toronto Ontario - George Kingsmill sets up first formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto


Born on this day:

1955 - Leslie Cliff
swimmer. Cliff started her winning ways at the 1970 Commonwealth Games where she took three golds and two silver medals. At the Munich Olympics in 1972, she took the silver in the 400m Individual Medley - one of only five Canadians to win a medal. At the 1974 Commonwealth Games, she won two gold medals and set Commonwealth Games records in both the 200 and 400 IM. Overall, she amassed a total of 27 gold, 19 silver and 10 bronze medals.

1930 - 1986 Claude Jutra
actor, filmmaker, born at Montreal Quebec; died of drowning near Montreal. Jutra graduated in medicine from the University of Montreal but never practiced. He became a student actor at le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montreal and then at Cours Simon, Paris. His first film, Mouvement Perpetuel (1949) won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival (1950).
In 1956 he started working at the National Film Board of Canada, where he made Les Mains Nettes (1958), A Tout Prendre (1963), Comment Savoir (1966), and his best-known work, Mon Oncle Antoine [here's a still from the film], which won eight Etrogs at the Canadian Film Awards in 1971, and Best Picture at the Chicago Film Festival. Other work includes Kamouraska (1973) based on the Anne Hébert novel, and Surfacing (1981), based on the Margaret Atwood tale.
Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, Jutra drowned in 1986; his body washed up on the shore of the St. Lawrence at Cap-Santé on April 19, 1987.

1913 - John Weinzweig
composer, was born at Toronto. Weinzweig is best known for his piece, Enchanted Hill.

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1993
North America - Huge blizzard batters east coast of the US and Canada; wind piles snowdrifts ran as high as four metres; over 110 deaths.

1987 ORSER BEATS BOITANO AT THE WORLDS
Cincinnati Ohio - Brian Orser of Penetanguishene, Ontario beats defending champion Brian Boitano to became the men's World Figure Skating Champion; first Canadian to win the title since Stratford's Don McPherson in 1963.

1985
Ottawa Ontario - Security guard Claude Brunelle killed as three Armenian terrorists raid Turkish Embassy.

1972
Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe retires from the NHL after 26 seasons, to take a front office job with the Red Wings organization. A year later, at age 45, a bored Howe leaves Detroit and joins his sons Mark and Marty with the World Hockey Association Houston Aeros, followed by the Hartford Whalers. When the WHA folds, Howe finds himself back in the NHL at age 51.

1971
Quebec City - Quebec to compensate those arrested during the October Crisis and not charged; will destroy files and fingerprints.

1930
Ottawa Ontario - World War I air ace Billy Barker killed in a plane crash at Rockcliffe; shot down 53 enemy planes during the war, won Victoria Cross for a single-handed combat against some 60 German aircraft.

1903
Ottawa Ontario - Third session of ninth Parliament meets until October 24; raises head tax on Chinese immigrants to $500

1857
Burlington Heights Ontario - Great Western Railway bridge between Toronto and Hamilton collapses; 79 people killed, 18 injured as train falls 12 metres to the frozen Desjardins Canal below; the builder/financier of the railway, US promoter Samuel Zimmerman, is one of those killed.

1820
Dunkeld Scotland - Alexander Mackenzie dies; explorer, North West Company partner; first person to cross the North American continent and reach the Pacific over land.

1658
Quebec Quebec - Governor forbids inhabitants of New France to leave colony without permission.


Born on this day:

1912 - 2006 Irving Peter Layton
poet, was born at Neamt, Romania, and still going strong. Layton is a Jewish-Canadian poet based in Montreal.

1835 - 1909 Simon Newcomb
astronomer and mathematician, was born at Wallace, Nova Scotia; dies in Washington, DC. Newcomb is known for his astronomical tables - ephemerides, or tables of computed places of celestial bodies over a period of time, and tables of astronomical constants.

1821 - 1893 John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
lawyer, politician, was born at St.-Andre-Est Quebec, the son of Joseph Abbott and Harriet Bradford; died at Montreal. Abbott was Canada's 3rd Prime Minister 1891-92; first to be born in Canada; he also served as Dean of the McGill Law School.

1795 - 1861 William Lyon Mackenzie
journalist, printer and political reformer, born at Springfield, Angus, Scotland; dies in Toronto. Mackenzie was Toronto's first mayor; he fought the Family Compact, and led the unsuccessful revolt against the government in 1837, for which he fled into exile in the US. He was the grandfather of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King.

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1991
Ottawa Ontario - US President George Bush meets PM Brian Mulroney; signs Air Quality Agreement, committing both countries to curb emissions, pledging to end acid rain within 10 years; 150,000 Canadian lakes damaged; 15,000 considered dead.

1978
Hull Quebec - CRTC rejects introduction of pay TV in Canada.

1971
Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970. His brother Jacques Rose, Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie also sentenced. In November, Rose also gets additional life term for kidnapping Laporte; granted full parole in 1982.

1964
United Nations New York - Canada agrees to contribute to UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.

1961
Aldershott England - Major-General Allard the first Canadian to command a British army division..

1953
United Nations New York - USSR vetoes UN Security Council recommendation that Canada's Lester Pearson be named Secretary General.

1928 CANADIAN WOMAN LICENSED TO FLY
Hamilton, Ontario - Eileen Vollick gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot.

1885
Victoria BC - British Columbia Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants; later ruled unconstitutional.

1859
Windsor Ontario - John Brown brings first black slaves to Canada from the US via the Underground Railway; he is later made famous in a song, John Brown's Body, about a raid he made on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

1521
Lisbon Portugal - Joao Alvarez Fagundes records his discoveries made the previous year at Chedabucto Bay and south coast of Newfoundland; with Lisbon notary.


Born on this day:

1954 - Robin Duke
comedienne, SCTV, SNL; born in St. Catherines Ontario. A childhood friend of Catherine O'Hara, Duke appeared in many plays, underground films, and TV commercials (including a series for Pepsi, with O'Hara), before arriving at Second City in 1977. In 1980, she replaced O'Hara in the SCTV cast, as craftswoman Molly Earl, then became a cast member on Saturday Night Live, where she played characters like Wendy the Whiner and The Pig.

1914 - 1998 W.O. (William Ormonde) Mitchell
author, born at Weyburn, Saskatchewan; dies in Calgary. Mitchell wrote stories such as the Jake and the Kid that deal humorously with the hardships of western Canadian prairie life in the fictional town of Crocus, Saskatchewan. They were dramatized from 1950-56 on the CBC.
His 1947 novel, Who has Seen the Wind, is a Canadian classic. Alan King directed a film version in 1977, and Prairie artist William Kurelek illustrated a special edition in 1991. Other novels include The Kite (1962), The Vanishing Point (1973), How I Spent My Summer Holidays (1981) and Daisy Creek (1984).

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March 14

1997
Quebec Quebec - Quebec City Chamber of Commerce spends $500,000 for 20-room house formerly used by ex-Premier Jacques Parizeau as an official residence; Lucien Bouchard refused to move in.

1991
Munich Germany - Kurt Browning wins third consecutive World Figure Skating title over Victor Petrenko of Soviet Union; from Caroline, Alberta

1984
Ottawa Ontario - Marc Garneau named first Canadian to go into space; member of the Canadian Space Agency's Canadian Astronaut Program.

1978
Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time.

1970
Montreal Quebec - Eight Trinidad students convicted of conspiracy to obstruct computer centre at Sir George Williams University [now part of Concordia]; fined a total of $32,500 or up to four years in prison; ordered deported.

1946
Montreal Quebec - Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying; result of Gouzenko revelations.

1923 WORLD'S FIRST HOCKEY BROADCAST - 75 YEARS AGO TODAY
Regina Saskatchewan - Pete Parker, of CKCK Radio Regina, does the world's first play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game, as Edmonton beats Regina 1-0.

1916
Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan gives women the provincial vote.

1879
Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley brings in average 25% tariff on US goods; if US repeals or lowers duties, Canada will match them. This is the Conservative Party's National Policy of Protection.

1808
Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada House of Assembly expels Jewish member, Ezekiel Hart, for invalidating his oath by substituting the word 'Jewish' for 'Christian'.


Born on this day:

1968 - Megan Follows
actress, was born at Toronto Ontario. Follows started her acting career doing commercials at age 9; she is best known for her role as Anne Shirley in Anne of Avonlea (Gemini 1987) and Anne of Green Gables (Gemini 1985). Her father Ted Follows, mother Dawn Greenhalgh, and sister Samantha are all actors; her other sister, Edwina, is a producer and writer; and her brother Laurence is a producer. She has also appeared at Stratford in Romeo and Juliet.

1899 - 1992 K. C. (Kenneth Colin) Irving
entrepreneur, was born at Buchtouche, NB ; dies in Saint John. Irving's vast business empire still dominates the economy of New Brunswick, where he at one time employed 1 out of every 12 workers.

1868 - 1933 Emily Murphy
journalist, judge, was born at Cookstown Ontario; died in Edmonton. A newspaper writer (Janey Canuck), Murphy was appointed police magistrate for Edmonton in 1916, making her the British Empire's and Canada's first female judge. She was one of those women who took part in the symbolic Persons Case before Britain's Privy Council in 1929, to confirm that women were indeed 'persons' under the BNA Act.