TODAY–Friday 13 May 2011 IN CANADIAN HISTORY-Cape Breton Island-Nova Scotia

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1898	BIRTH OF THE YUKON Ottawa Ontario – The Yukon Territory is organized, with Dawson City chosen as the capital.
1606	Also On This Day... La Rochelle France – Baron Jean de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 sails for Port Royal on the 150 ton trading vessel Jonas, accompanied by his son Charles de Biencourt, and by Marc Lescarbot, the first historian of New France, Louis Hébert, the first officer of justice, and Jean Ralluau. Poutrincourt is partner in the company of his friend Pierre de Monts, who stays behind in France. The voyage to Acadia will take two and half months. The king of France had given de Monts a monopoly on the fur trade in exchange for colonization of the area..
1937	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Roch Carrier 1937- writer, Canada Council administrator, was born on this day at Ste-Justine-de-Dorchester Quebec in 1937. Carrier was educated at the Université de Montréal and the Sorbonne (doctorate in literature); resident dramatist with the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. His novels and story collections include La Guerre, Yes Sir! (1968), Floralie, Ou Es-Tu? (Floralie, Where Are You?) (1969), Il est par là, le Soleil (Is it the Sun, Philibert?) (1970), Jardin des Délices (The Garden of Delights) (1975) , Il n y a pas de Pays sans Grand Père (No Country without Grandfathers) (1977), Les Enfants du Bonhomme dans la Lune (The Hockey Sweater and other stories) (1979) and La Dame qui avait des Chaînes aux Chevilles (Lady with Chains) (1981).[For a complete bibliography consult this National Library page. Photo: Yves Beaulieu} Also Gil Evans 1912-1988 jazz pianist, composer, orchestrator, was born Ian Ernest Gilmore Greene on this day at Toronto in 1912; died Mar 20, 1988 at 75 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
In Other Events…
1997	Montreal Quebec – Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche faints two hours into the French portion of the federal leaders’ debate; Jean-François Lépine had just posed the first question on Canadian unity to Jean Chrétien: ‘Since you declared victory with only 50.6% of the votes in the last referendum, will you recognize a Yes victory with the same proportions?’ The debate is cancelled and the unity portion resumed May 18.
1992	Toronto Ontario – CBC VP Public Affairs Trina McQueen moves the network’s flagship TV news shows The National and The Journal from 10 pm slot to 9 pm.
1991	Regina Saskatchewan – Baltej Dhillon, a Sikh, becomes the first RCMP officer to wear a turban since the force’s creation in 1873.
1991	Ottawa Ontario – Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn delivers Throne Speech; promises Commons-Senate Committee to study the Constitution; education; Aboriginal Affairs; reform of Parliament.
1991	Toronto Ontario – Nolan Ryan pitches his record seventh no-hitter, in a 3-0 win over the Blue Jays, striking out 16 batters.
1989	Saskatchewan – Swift Current defeats Saskatoon 4-3 in overtime to win Memorial Cup; Major Junior A Championship
1985	Los Angeles California – Selma Diamond dies at 64; born in Montreal Aug 5, 1920; actress, scriptwriter, played Too Close For Comfort’s Mildred Rafkin, and Night Court’s Selma Hacker (1984-85).
1983	Nova Scotia – Nine fishermen charged with piracy after West Pubnico incident.
1974	Ottawa Ontario – Bank of Canada raises prime lending rate to 8.75%.
1971	Montreal Quebec – Ottawa to build Short Take-Off and Landing airport in Montreal; with commuter service to a similar Ottawa and Toronto STOL port.
1968	Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa borrows $262 million from West German, US, and Italian sources, to increase cash reserves.
1964	Quebec Quebec – National Assembly passes Education Bill 60, establishing the Quebec Department of Education.
1961	Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa to subsidize shipyards; reserves shipments between Canadian Great Lakes ports to Canadian ships only.
1954	Washington DC – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signs bill approving the St. Lawrence Seaway agreement with Canada.
1954	Ottawa Ontario – CNR amalgamates its National Transcontinental Railway Branch Lines Company and 5 other subsidiaries.
1942	Anticosti Island Quebec – Two more Canadian ships lost to German U-Boats in the St. Lawrence.
1940	Ottawa Ontario – R. B. Hanson chosen as interim leader by the Conservative Party, replacing R.J. Manion; serves to Nov. 12, 1941.
1940	The Hague Netherlands – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her daughter Juliana flee to London as the Nazis occupy Holland; Princess Juliana will bring her children to Ottawa for safety.
1930	Fort Radium NWT – Gilbert LaBine discovers pitchblende ore on the shore of Great Bear Lake; will become a chief source of uranium and radium.
1919	Winnipeg Manitoba – Fifty-two unions join the metal trades workers, setting the stage for a strike that will paralyze essential services in the city.
1873	Westville Nova Scotia – Sixty men die in the Westville coal mine, in Canada’s first major mine disaster.
1859	Fredericton New Brunswick – King’s College at Fredericton gets charter as University of New Brunswick.
1756	Quebec Quebec – Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 arrives in Canada to command the French forces under Governor Pierre de Vaudreuil 1698-1778, a native-born Quebecker; Vaudreuil will not get along with Montcalm, fearing a lack of French commitment to save New France.
1724	Paris France – Louis XV issues a royal edict ordering the building of stone walls to defend Montreal.
1604	Port Mouton Nova Scotia – Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 names ‘Port-au-Mouton’ for a sheep that jumps overboard.

TODAY–Thursday 12 May 2011 IN CANADIAN HISTORY-Cape Breton Island-Nova Scotia

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1870	BIRTH OF MANITOBA Ottawa Ontario – George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Manitoba Act, incorporating most Metis demands, given Royal Assent; the old District of Assiniboia enters Confederation as Canada’s fifth province, Manitoba [the name means ‘The Great Spirit Speaks’].
1873	In Today's Canadian Birthdays... J. E. H. ‘Jock’ MacDonald 1873-1932 painter, poet, was born on this day at Durham, England in 1873; dies in Toronto Nov 26, 1932. A founder of the Group of Seven, MacDonald emigrated from England at age 14; got his first formal training at the Hamilton Art School and at the Central Ontario School of Art and Design in Toronto. In 1895 he started work at Grip Limited, eventually becoming senior designer, and inspired Tom Thomson to paint the Canadian wilderness. MacDonald’s masterpiece The Tangled Garden (1916, National Gallery, Ottawa – in the picture) was heavily criticized at the time for its size. MacDonald served as art editor for the Canadian Forum and as a teacher and director of the Ontario College of Art until his death.
1921	And in Other Canadian Birthdays... Farley Mowat 1921- author, was born on this day at Belleville, Ontario in 1921. Mowat grew up in Windsor, Ontario and Saskatoon. In 1935 his uncle, an ornithologist, took him on a trip to the Arctic, which awakened his love of nature. He served in the Canadian army during World War II and wrote about his experiences in The Regiment (1961) and And No Birds Sang (1979). He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1949. His fiction includes Lost in the Barrens (1956 Governor General’s Award), The Black Joke (1962), The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966) and The Snow Walker (1975). His non-fiction includes People of the Deer (1952) , The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be (1957), The Desperate People (1959), Coppermine Journey (1958), Ordeal by Ice (1960), Owls in the Family (1961), Never Cry Wolf (1963 – filmed 1983), West Viking (1965), The Polar Passion (1967), Canada North (1967), This Rock Within the Sea (1968), Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970), A Whale for the Killing (1972), Tundra (1973), Canada North Now (1976), And No Birds Sang (1979), and Virunga (1987 – the Dian Fossey story, republished as Woman in the Mist). Also Christian Campbell 1972- actor, was born on this day at Toronto in 1972. Campbell is the big brother of Neve Campbell. He is the co-founder of the Los Angeles-based theatre company Blue Sphere Alliance. For more, check out the Internet Movie Database . Also Anne Ottenbrite 1966- swimmer, was born on this day at Whitby, Ontario in 1966. Ottenbrite won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad, making her the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold medal in swimming; also took silver in the 100m breaststroke and bronze as part of the 400m medley relay team. Also James Houston 1921- author, filmmaker, civil servant, was born on this day at Toronto in 1921. Houston served as a civil administrator in the Arctic in the late 1040s, taught the Inuit printmaking and founded the West Baffin Co-Operative to sell their art; wrote novels and legends for both adults and children, including Tikta’Liktak (1975 – Canadian Childrens Book of the Year) and the White Dawn (1971). Also William Giauque 1895-1982 chemist, was born on this day at Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1895; dies in 1982. At the University of California, Giauque discovered a way of producing temperatures near absolute zero, and won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Also Robert Baldwin 1804-1858 lawyer, statesman, was born on this day at Toronto in 1804; died in Toronto Dec. 9, 1858. Baldwin was joint leader with Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine of the first and second Liberal administrations in Canada, which established the principle of responsible, or cabinet, government in Canada. Also Louis Hennepin 1626-c1705 Franciscan missionary, was born on this day at Ath, Belgium in 1626; dies in Rome c1705. Hennepin was chaplain of Fort Frontenac when he met René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. With La Salle he explored the Great Lakes in 1679 as far as Illinois; wrote the first published description of the country.
In Other Events…
1997	Montreal Quebec – Jacques Parizeau publishes Pour un Québec souverain, stating that within days of a referendum victory, Quebec would have no choice but to declare the sovereignty of Quebec.
1995	New York City – Cineplex Odeon Corp. and Cinemark USA Inc. terminate merger talks that would have created the world’s largest movie theatre company..
1992	Montreal Quebec – Canada’s largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.
1990	Toronto Ontario – Michael Mike Harris wins Ontario PC Party leadership, defeating Rookie MPP Diane Cunningham of London 7,175 to 5,825 votes; chosen by one-member, one-vote system from 33,000 PC members.
1989	Toronto Ontario – Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance.
1986	Ottawa Ontario – Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens resigns from cabinet while an inquiry looks at a $2.6 million loan to one of his holding companies; denies breaking conflict of interest guidelines.
1984	Toronto Ontario – Ontario begins to extend provincial funding to Roman Catholic High Schools.
1981	Colorado Springs Colorado – North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) changes name to North American Aerospace Defence Command.
1975	Toronto Ontario – Ontario brings in Family Law Reform Bill; to establish equality of both partners in a marriage.
1970	Geneva Switzerland – Montreal awarded the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.
1966	Winnipeg Manitoba – Flag of Manitoba proclaimed; red ensign with provincial crest.
1966	Ottawa Ontario – Parliament passes Act to establish the Science Council of Canada.
1965	Ottawa Ontario – Supreme Court upholds 1876 treaties with Saskatchewan Indian tribes requiring the Crown to give them free medical care.
1958	Ottawa Ontario – Opening of first session of 25th Parliament; until September 6.
1955	New York City- Canadian pop star Gisele MacKenzie performs on the NBC-TV’s Justice on this Night, singing her song, Hard to Get, that will climb to #4 on the Billboard pop music chart by September.
1937	London England – King George VI’s coronation heard throughout the Empire on the first worldwide radio broadcast.
1922	Ottawa Ontario – Royal Canadian Navy cuts force to three small ships on each coast as an economy measure.
1903	Niagara Falls Ontario – Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1890	Ottawa Ontario – Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 convicted by Parliament of looting furs during command of Northwest Rebellion; will resign his post under censure in June.
1887	Ottawa Ontario – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 appointed to the Senate; Dean of Law at McGill University, and later Canada’s third Prime Minister.
1885	Batoche Saskatchewan – Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 and his Metis warriors run out of ammunition; fire stones and nails before giving up the fight; Dumont flees to US.
1876	Ellesmere Island NWT – British polar expedition stops 650 km short of the North Pole; farthest northern point reached to that date.
1875	Charlottetown PEI – Opening of the Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1867	London England – George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees passage of his Canada Railway Loan Act; to approve £3 million loan guarantee for Intercolonial Railway from Quebec to Halifax.
1848	London England – James Ross sails with Robert McClure and Francis McClintock on the Enterprise and Investigator; will winter in Leopold Harbour, Somerset Island.
1846	Montreal Quebec – Canadian Assembly petitions Queen Victoria for reciprocity – reciprocal free trade with the US .
1820	Quebec Quebec – George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; serves from June 19, 1820 to Sept. 8, 1828.
1804	Alberta – David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Lake Athabasca.
1802	Windsor Nova Scotia – Royal charter grants university powers to King’s College, Windsor.
1776	Ile à La Crosse Saskatchewan – Thomas Frobisher starts to build trading post at Ile à La Crosse on the Churchill (Misnipi) River.
1775	Crown Point New York – Seth Warner captures Crown Point from British.
1630	Cape Sable Nova Scotia – Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 fights off father Claude, at Fort Lomeron; also called Fort St. Louis; Claude had joined the English and enrolled his son Charles as a Nova Scotia baronet.

 

 

TODAY–Sunday-8 May 2011 IN CANADIAN HISTORY-Cape Breton Island-Nova Scotia

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1987	BIRTH OF THE LOONIE Ottawa Ontario – Royal Canadian Mint unveils one-dollar coin to replace the paper dollar; made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on its rear side.
1982	Also On This Day... Zolder Belgium – Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve began his racing career on snowmobiles, and won the world championships in 1974. He entered his first car race in 1973 and by 1976 was dominating the Formula Atlantic series. He signed with McLaren and later joined Ferrari to drive Formula One. In 1978 he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal – a first by a Canadian driver. Visit the Gilles Villeneuve Museum .
1818	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 politician, was born on this day at Gagetown, New Brunswick in 1818; dies at Saint John June 25, 1896. A Father of Confederation, Tilley is credited with bringing New Brunswick into the union; as Macdonald’s Finance Minister, he introduced the National Policy of tariff protection. Also Thomas B. Costain 1885-1965 historical novelist, was born on this day at Brantford, Ontario in 1885; dies in 1965 in New York. Also George Woodcock 1912-1957 anarchist, poet, critic, historian, travel writer, playwright, scriptwriter, biographer, editor, was born on this day at Winnipeg in 1912; dies in Vancouver Jan. 28, 1995. Woodcock is the author of George Orwell: The Crystal Spirit (1966). Also Sidney Altman 1939- molecular biologist, was born on this day at Montreal in 1939. Altman won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their discovery of catalytic RNA. He is currently with the Biology Department at Yale University. Also Jeff Wincott 1957- actor, was born on this day at Toronto in 1957. Wincott starred as Detective Frank Giambone in the Night Heat (1985) TV and has appeared in many action films. For more, check out the Internet Movie Database .
In Other Events….
1991	Bathurst New Brunswick – 1,400 United Steelworkers of America workers end strike at Brunswick Mining and Smelting; cost local economy $40 million in lost wages.
1984	Ottawa Ontario – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican President, addresses Parliament during official visit to Canada.
1984	Quebec Quebec – Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois.
1979	Mexico Mexico – Mexico to sell Canada 17 million L ( 100,000 barrels) of oil a day for 10 years; will look at purchase of Candu reactor.
1974	Ottawa Ontario – Pierre Trudeau loses a non confidence vote on the budget, when the Conservatives and NDP combine to defeat the Liberal government by a vote of 137 to 123; says he will call an election for July.
1967	Ottawa Ontario – Opening of 2nd session of the 27th Parliament; until April 23, 1968.
1963	Haiti – Canada evacuates citizens by air from riot-torn Haiti.
1951	United Nations New York – Canada signs trade agreements with 16 other countries at UN; resulting from Torquay Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1950-51.
1950	Manitoba – Ten thousand people evacuate the Red River valley south of Winnipeg; the flood ends May 25 after causing $25 million damage.
1945	Berlin Germany – Second World War ends in Europe with unconditional surrender of German land, sea and air forces to the Soviets.
1945	Halifax Nova Scotia – In the second day of rioting, 10,000 servicemen loot and vandalize downtown Halifax during VE-Day celebrations.
1915	Ottawa Ontario – Government appoints War Purchasing Board.
1907	Los Angeles California – Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Jack O’Brien in the 20th round, to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
1906	Edmonton Alberta – founding of the University of Alberta at Edmonton.
1906	Kamloops BC – American desperado Bill Miner holds up a CPR train, but gets only $15 and is captured a few days later; Canada’s first train robbery is the subject of a film ‘The Grey Fox’.
1882	Ottawa Ontario – Order-in-Council divides NWT into Athabasca, Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, provisional districts of the NWT, with the capital at Regina.
1880	Victoria BC – Founding of the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company; the first in British Columbia.
1871	Washington DC – John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 signs the Treaty of Washington; US gets fishing rights in Canadian waters, use of Canadian canals; both countries have freedom of navigation on the Great Lakes.
1858	Chatham Ontario – American abolitionist John Brown 1800-1859 holds an anti-slavery convention at Chatham.
1842	Toronto Ontario – Michael Power 1804-1847 appointed the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1821	London England – William Parry 1790-1855 sails from England on a new voyage to the Arctic; until Oct. 10, 1823.
1818	London England – Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond 1764-1819 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from July 30, 1818 until his death from rabies on Aug. 28, 1819.
1813	Toronto Ontario – General Zebulon Pike departs from York to Fort Niagara after burning the Parliament Buildings, looting the town; occupied since Apr 27.; British retaliate a year later by burning the American capital, Washington.
1760	Quebec Quebec – French Superior Council meets for the last time.
1642	Montreal Quebec – Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve becomes the first governor of Ville-Marie.
1620	Le Havre France – Samuel de Champlain sails for Canada, accompanied by his young wife Hélène, who ‘brought him a useful dowry.’
1604	LaHave, Nova Scotia – Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives in Acadia with Champlain, Hébert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony. The first piece of land they encounter they call Cap de LaHeve, now called LaHave, where Champlain draws the first official map ever made in North America.

TODAY–Monday-2 May 2011 IN CANADIAN HISTORY-Cape Breton Island-Nova Scotia

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1670	BAY DAY London England – Charles II grants a Royal charter to his cousin Price Rupert and a group of investors called The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson’s Bay: today’s Hudson’s Bay Company. Two French explorers and traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers, proposed the fur-trading company to the group, and mounted a successful season of trade a year earlier. The charter gives the company the exclusive monopoly of commerce in lands flowing into Hudson Bay, and charges them to find a route to the South Seas.
1497	Also On This Day... Bristol England – John and Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born navigators, set sail to follow Columbus’ route to what he thought was Asia; Cabot’s expedition reaches land June 24th, likely at Cape Breton, then sails east along the south coast of Newfoundland. The picture shows the Lord Mayor and Bishop sending off the expedition at the Bristol wharves.
1660	Also On This Day... Hawkesbury Ontario – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Native allies, starts battle against a war party of 800 Iroquois at an abandoned Algonkian fur fort at Long Sault on the Ottawa River; the French hold back the Iroquois for a time, but all are killed during the battle or tortured to death as prisoners. The French fight so bravely that the Iroquois abandon their plans to attack Montreal.
1797	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Abraham Gesner 1797-1864 inventor, was born on this day at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia in 1623; dies in Halifax April 29, 1864. In 1846, Gesner will invent kerosene oil, and build a refinery in New York in 1854. Kerosene will soon light the world, replacing the more expensive whale oil. Also William Buell Richards 1815-1889 politician, lawyer, was born on this day at Brockville, Ontario in 1815; dies in Ottawa 1889. Richards was first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1875-79) Also John Galt 1779-1839 author, land agent, was born on this day at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1779; dies in Greenock, Renfrewshire, April 11, 1839. A Scottish novelist (The Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd), Galt was also agent of the claimants of Upper Canada for losses incurred during the War of 1812, and founder of the Canada Company and the town of Guleph; also father of politician Alexander Tilloch Galt.
In Other Events…
1991	Ottawa Ontario – Justice Bertha Wilson heads Canadian Bar Association task force to improve status of women in legal profession; she retired from the Supreme Court in November 1990 after 8 years.
1991	Ottawa Ontario – Supreme Court strikes down 190 year old law that let the Crown jail people found not guilty by reason of insanity, or commit them to a mental institution indefinitely.
1988	Ottawa Ontario – National Arts Centre sells 16,408 seats for the British musical CATS, the largest single-day sale of tickets for a musical in Canada.
1988	Halifax NS – Bruce Curtis transferred to Nova Scotia prison from New Jersey after a campaign by family and friends; was sentenced to 20 years for 1982 shooting death of classmate’s mother; maintained the gun went off accidentally.
1986	New York City – Nova Scotia singer Anne Murray’s Now and Forever (You and Me) reaches #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
1986	Ottawa Ontario – Dr. Wilbert Keon performs Canada’s first artificial heart transplant at the Ottawa Civic Hospital; fits patient Noella Leclair, 42, with a Jarvik 7- 70 until a human heart is found several days later.
1986	Vancouver BC – Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo ’86; Vancouver Exposition runs until October 13th.
1975	Point Lepreau NB – New Brunswick starts building of $900 million Point Lepreau nuclear power station; to provide 30% of New Brunswick’s electricity on completion in 1980.
1970	Amsterdam Netherlands – International Olympic Committee awards the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal; first time for a Canadian city.
1969	Ottawa Ontario – Federal government and Trans-Canada Telephone Systems form Telesat Canada, to develop communications satellites.
1964	Toronto Ontario – Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1964	Louisville Kentucky – Windfield Farms owner Edward Plunkett (E. P.) Taylor 1901-1989 sees jockey Bill Hartack ride his stallion Northern Dancer to victory in the Kentucky Derby; first Canadian-bred horse to win; the same pair will go on to take the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
1962	Ottawa Ontario – Canadian dollar officially pegged at US 92.5¢.
1961	Montreal Quebec – Ocean liner Empress of Canada arrives at Montreal on maiden voyage; new flagship of Canadian Pacific fleet.
1939	Ottawa Ontario – The National Film Act creates the National Film Board as a public production agency, headed by Scottish film maker John Grierson 1898-1972.
1919	Winnipeg Manitoba – Winnipeg metalworkers (the Central Metal Trades) go on strike for an eight hour day.
1885	Edmonton Alberta – Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 relieves Fort Edmonton during the North West Rebellion.
1885	Cut Knife Hill Saskatchewan – Colonel William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 forced to retreat with eight dead and 15 wounded, as Cree chief Poundmaker 1826-1886 holds off his attack at Cut Knife Hill.
1881	Portage La Prairie Manitoba – Canadian Pacific Railway starts building its prairie section of track; first sod turned for the CPR as a company line; first rail also laid at Fort William.
1838	Quebec Quebec – James Cuthbert 1769-1849 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada, a 22 member body set up by Governor Colborne.
1835	Victoria BC – Hudson’s Bay Company launches The Beaver, the first steamship on the British Columbia coast.
1835	Quebec – William Colville, Lord Amherst Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; resigns in May.
1610	London England – John Guy (c1584- c1629), the Sheriff and later Lord Mayor of Bristol, is charged by the Company of Adventurers & Planters of London & Bristol (Newfoundland Company) to colonize the island; King James I had given the Company the grant of Newfoundland at the urging of Francis Bacon.
1602	Ratcliffe England – George Weymouth and expedition set sail on the ships Discovery and Godspeed to find the North West Passage to China; carries letters for the Khan; promised £500 prize by East India Company.