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| 1939 | FIRST ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA
Quebec Quebec – King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe’s Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada; the first by a reigning British monarch; addresses citizens of Quebec in fluent French. The tour is designed to repair and enhance British-Canadian relations, as war clouds again gather in Europe. |
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And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Alfred Joseph Casson 1898-1992 Also Albert ‘Frenchy’ Belanger 1906-1969
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| 1996 | Cannes France – Toronto director David Cronenberg’s film Crash has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival; audiences are scandalized by the portrayal of characters sexually aroused by traffic accidents. |
| 1995 | Montreal Quebec – Hockey legend Hector ‘Toe’ Blake dies at 82; born at Victoria Mines, NS on Aug 21, 1912, Blake played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens, and was the Hart Trophy regular season MVP in 1939. He led the team to 2 Stanley Cups as a player and 8 more as coach; his eight Stanley Cup championships in 13 seasons as coach of the Canadiens is an NHL record. |
| 1993 | Fredericton New Brunswick – Country singer Stompin’ Tom Connors awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Thomas University. Born in Saint John Feb. 3, 1936, he moved to PEI as a boy and only reached Grade 9 in school. The writer of Bud the Spud and other ditties, Connors started singing for a living in 1964, when he found himself broke at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins. |
| 1992 | Toronto Ontario – Blue Jays pass the one million attendance mark in only 21 dates, earlier than any team in major league baseball history. |
| 1991 | Ottawa Ontario – Department of National Defence says it is canceling orders for $900 million worth of military equipment and cutting almost 1,000 jobs at Ottawa NDHQ; due to the easing of Cold War tensions. |
| 1991 | Ottawa Ontario – Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire Skyline Cablevision Ltd. of Ottawa for $70 million; plus $5 million for French language community channel. |
| 1990 | St. Andrews New Brunswick – Star-Kist Canada to close down tuna plant, throwing 250 people out of work; slumping prices to blame; plant closed due to tainted tuna scandal from 1985-88. |
| 1990 | Ottawa Ontario – Jean Charest’s Commons committee unanimously recommends approving Meech Lake by June 23; says Ottawa should promote the two official languages, recognize the distinct society clause, and reform the Senate. |
| 1984 | Toronto Ontario – Former CFRB journalist and broadcaster Gordon Sinclair 1900-1984 dies after a heart attack. |
| 1983 | Edmonton Alberta – New York Islanders win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Oilers 4- 2 in game 4. |
| 1978 | Ottawa Ontario – Robert B. Bryce 1910-sees no need to screen mergers, in his report of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration. |
| 1975 | Aylmer Ontario – Ten policewomen start training to be OPP constables at the Ontario Police College, ending 65 years of male-only service in the Ontario Provincial Police. |
| 1974 | Vancouver BC – Joe Morris 1913- elected president of the Canadian Labour Congress at Vancouver convention. |
| 1972 | Ottawa Ontario – Gerald LeDain issues his LeDain Commission Report Part Two, recommending abolition of penalties for possession of cannabis. |
| 1971 | Moscow Russia – Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts ten-day trip to Soviet Union. |
| 1971 | Montreal Quebec – Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup. |
| 1968 | Antigonish Nova Scotia – Mike McIntosh appointed to the Board of Governors of St. Francis Xavier University; first undergraduate on a Canadian university Board. |
| 1968 | Montreal Quebec – Opening of the Man and his World fair on the former Expo ’67 site on Ile Ste-Helene and Ile Notre-Dame. |
| 1963 | Ottawa Ontario – Construction begins on the National Library and Public Archives Building on Wellington Street in Ottawa. |
| 1957 | Cornwall Ontario – Canadian National Railways opens a 40 mile diversion of its Montreal to Toronto main line to avoid construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. |
| 1949 | Ottawa Ontario – Canadian government grants full diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel, founded May 14, 1948. |
| 1943 | England – Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany’s industrial Ruhr basin; 30 RCAF airmen part of the Squadron; 13 of the 53 dead are Canadians. |
| 1928 | Amsterdam Netherlands – Canadian athletes join 44 other nations and a total of 3,014 competitors at the opening of the ninth modern Olympic games. Canada will win four gold medals, two by Percy Williams (100m and 200m dash) and two by Ethel Catherwood (high jump and 4x100m relay). |
| 1919 | Winnipeg Manitoba – Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand organized to counteract Winnipeg General Strike; provide essential public services. |
| 1882 | Kingston Ontario – Queen’s College in Kingston given university powers; now Queen’s University. |
| 1878 | Ottawa Ontario – Thomas Edison demonstrates his new invention, the phonograph, to Governor-General and Lady Dufferin. |
| 1873 | Ottawa Ontario – Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 moves resolution to bring Prince Edward Island into Confederation. |
| 1871 | Fredericton New Brunswick – Common Schools Act sets up separate schools in New Brunswick. |
| 1855 | Charlottetown PEI – Charlottetown incorporated as a city. |
| 1851 | Saint John New Brunswick – Launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world. |
| 1849 | Red River Manitoba – Metis leaders James Sinclair and Louis Riel Senior intimidate the General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia during the trial of Guillaume Sayer for unlicensed fur trading; Sayer found guilty, but the court rules for mercy, saying that Sayer did not know that the Metis were not permitted to trade freely; illegal trading continues, threatening the monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company. |
| 1841 | Quebec Quebec – Landslide kills 32 die at Citadel Rock, Quebec City. |
| 1793 | Alberta – Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies. |
| 1790 | Quebec – Government bans export of wheat, oats, and flour to cut high prices. |
| 1775 | Philadelphia Pennsylvania- US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. |
| 1757 | Quebec Quebec – War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec. |
| 1689 | Europe – Beginning of King William’s War with France; to Sept. 20 1697. |
| 1673 | Sault Ste Marie Ontario – Fathers Marquette and Joliet leave Sault Ste Marie and paddle south across Lake Michigan to rediscover and claim Mississippi River for Louis XlV; they will reach south as far as the Arkansas River. |
| 1657 | France – Gabriel Thubières de Lévy de Queylus 1612-1677 leaves from France with Sulpician priests Gabriel Souart, Dominique Galinier, and Antoine d’Allet; appointed Vicar-General by la Societé des Prêtres de Sainte-Sulpice, the seigneurs of Montreal. |
| 1656 | Quebec Quebec – Zacharie Dupuy c1608-1676 leaves with a group of French to establish a settlement among the Onondagas; military commander of Quebec. |
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