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1869 |
METIS START RED RIVER REBELLION
St-Vital Manitoba - Canadian surveyor Adam Clark Webb and his crew try to mark off a long farm field belonging to Metis André Nault, a cousin of Louis Riel; when Nault asks them to leave and they refuse, a group of 16 unarmed Metis led by Riel arrive; Riel places his foot on the surveyor's chain, and tells the crew 'You go no further'. This incident marks the beginning of the Red River Insurrection; Metis and others object to transfer of Rupert's Land to Canadian sovereignty without being consulted, and fear a flood of eastern settlers will destroy their way of life. |
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1942 |
Also On This Day...
Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sails the RCMP patrol vessel 'St. Roch' into Halifax harbour after making the first west-to-east crossing of the Northwest Passage; one of his eight-man crew had died of a heart attack in the Arctic as the wooden sailing schooner with an auxiliary engine spent the winter in the ice less than 80 km from the North Magnetic Pole. The St. Roch was built in North Vancouver in 1928. A wooden schooner with sail and auxiliary engine, she left Vancouver in the summer of 1940, took the southerly route through the Arctic islands, and spent two winters trapped in the ice; she was the second ship to sail the Passage, after Amundsen's Gjoa in 1908. She returned to Vancouver July-Oct. 1944 by the northerly Lancaster Sound route, and today you can see her berthed in Vancouver's Maritime Museum.
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Also On This Day...
Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635, with a war party of Hurons, is ambushed by the Onondagas. The Hurons get the worst of the fighting after a three hour battle, even though Champlain uses his blunderbuss against the Iroquois. He is wounded and the party withdraw back across Lake Ontario. This is the only known portrait of Champlain.
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1929 |
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Raymond Moriyama 1929 architect, was born on this day at Vancouver in 1929. Moriyama took his training at the U of T and McGill, then started a practice in Toronto in 1958. His best known buildings are the Ontario Science Centre (1969), The Metro Reference Library (1977) and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (1990).
Also Mary Macleod 1852-1933 Western Canada pioneer, was born Mary Drever on this day at Red River Manitoba in 1852; died in Calgary Apr 15, 1933. At age 17, during the Red River Rebellion, Macleod was able to evade her Metis guards and deliver an important despatch to Colonel Garnet Wolseley. In 1876 she married a man who had been a young soldier on the Red River Expedition - the new Commissioner of the NWMP, James Macleod. She accompanied her husband on many of his inspection tours, and was a signer of Blackfoot Treaty #7 in 1877.
Also George Hodgson 1893-1983 swimmer, was born on this day in 1893; died May 1, 1933. Hodgson he won the mile swim for Canada at the 1911 Festival of Empire Games in London, beating the world record holder, Sid Battersby of Britain; 1912 Stockholm Olympics won gold in the 400m and the 1500m freestyle, both in record times which stood until 1942; Canada's first double gold Olympian.
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| In Other Events.... |
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1994 |
Quebec - Gérald Godin dies, politician and Parti Quebecois Culture Minister, poet, Les Cantouques (1966). |
| 1992 | Oakland California - Toronto Blue Jay Roberto Alomar hits 2-run homer against Oakland A's pitcher Dennis Eckersley to send Game 4 of the American League Championship Series into extra innings; Toronto down 6-1 in seventh, goes on to beat the Athletics 7-6 in the 11th; Jays take 3-1 series edge in ALCS playoff; Eckersley saved 51 games for Oakland during the regular season. |
| 1985 | Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose third game of American League Championship Series as Kansas City Royals take a 6-5 comeback victory, led by George Brett, who has four hits, including two homers. |
| 1984 | Boston Massachusetts - Penguin rookie Mario Lemieux scores on his first shift of his first NHL game, putting his first shot behind Bruins goaltender Pete Peeters. |
| 1981 | Montreal Quebec - Expo pitcher Steve Rogers leads his team to a 3-0 victory over Philadelphia in Game 5 of the National League East Divisional playoff; throws a 6-hit shutout and knocking in 2 Expo runs. |
| 1978 | Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979. |
| 1977 | Manitoba - Sterling Lyon leads the Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; ousts NDP Premier Ed Schreyer after eight years in office. |
| 1972 | Quebec Quebec - Les Nordiques play their first NHL game in the Colisée arena. |
| 1970 | Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; Chronology of the day: 2:15 am - police search the homes of several suspects; 9:03 am - discovery of communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; FLQ extend deadline; 10:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman arrested; 12:00 am - Robert Bourassa meets his Cabinet in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; 1:00 pm - discovery of a further communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; 5:00 pm - another communiqué from the Chénier cell; 9:45 pm - Bourrassa offers to negotiate to free the hostages; 10:00 pm FLQ deadline expires. |
| 1978 | Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979. |
| 1968 | Washington DC - US pays Canada $52.1 million for BC flood control benefits from Columbia River project. |
| 1968 | Montreal Quebec - Opening of a congress of independantists to found the Parti Quebecois; Rene Levesque will be elected President the following day. |
| 1967 | Montreal Quebec - Quebec Justice Minister Frederic Dorion orders 6,000 Montreal Transportation Commission employees back to work, after 80-day strike. |
| 1966 | Ottawa Ontario - Committee on the Study of Election Expenses recommends full disclosure of election spending by parties and candidates. |
| 1962 | Zweibrucken Germany - First of 200 Canadian-built CF-104 Starflghters leave for West Germany; to join strike-reconnaissance squadron. |
| 1961 | Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the National Defence Medical Centre; to serve veterans, members of the three services and Parliamentarians. |
| 1960 | Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in program to help low-income families find rental housing. |
| 1952 | Montreal Quebec - CBFT Television in Montreal carries the first hockey telecast in Canada, Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings, in French; origin of Radio-Canada's 'la Soirée du Hockey'. |
| 1944 | Romagna Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division returned to the line and the 5th Division goes into corps reserve; for three weeks, the Canadians will fight in the watery Romagna area south of the Po Valley. |
| 1934 | Montreal Quebec - Pro-Fascist demonstration takes place at the Monument National in Montreal. |
| 1927 | Toronto Ontario - Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs first concert. |
| 1926 | Toronto Ontario - Hugh Guthrie chosen as interim party leader by Conservative Party, replacing Arthur Meighen; serves to Oct. 12, 1927. |
| 1920 | Winnipeg Manitoba - Wing Commander Robert Leckie arrives from Dartmouth Nova Scotia in the first flight across Canada; Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots take over the plane for the flight to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17; total elapsed time 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km. |
| 1918 | Cambrai France - Lt. Wallace Lloyd Algie of the 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, killed in a battle north east of Cambrai, after taking two machine gun nests, and capturing a German officer and 10 men. He is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously Jan. 21, 1919. |
| 1918 | Ottawa Ontario - Union government brings in new regulations for wartime labour; bans strikes and lockouts. |
| 1917 | Ottawa Ontario - Borden Cabinet bans strikes and walkouts for duration of war. |
| 1911 | Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 succeeds Wilfrid Laurier as Prime Minister; to Oct. 12, 1917, then head of Unionist Government to July 10; ninth Dominion Ministry. |
| 1910 | Kitchener Ontario - Adam Beck's Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario inaugurates first electrical service, sending Niagara power by a new transmission line to Berlin, now Kitchener; into Toronto by 1911. |
| 1884 | Quebec Quebec - Two dynamite explosions rock new Quebec parliament Buildings. |
| 1875 | Winnipeg, Manitoba - Party of almost 300 Icelanders land on the steamer International en route to their colony of New Iceland on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; harsh winters and an epidemic that killed over 200,000 of their sheep caused them to look for a new home. |
| 1853 | Barrie Ontario - Northern Railroad reaches Barrie from Toronto. |
| 1850 | Richmond Quebec - Opening of St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad from Longueuil to Richmond. |
| 1849 | Montreal Quebec - Montreal Gazette publishes the Annexation Manifesto, asking for union with U.S. if commercial difficulties with Britain cannot be resolved. |
| 1776 | Ticonderoga, New York - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 inflicts heavy losses on General Benedict Arnold's American fleet at Valcour Island off Crown Point; first naval battle of Lake Champlain a British victory, but it stalls Carleton's plans to invade the rebel colonies from Canada. |
| 1754 | Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday meets a party of Blackfoot Indians; he tries to convince them to travel to Hudson Bay to trade, but they decline; first European/Blackfoot contact. |
| 1676 | Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sets up public markets at Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal. |
| 1615 | Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 ambushed by Onondagas and Senecas near present-day Syracuse; Hurons get worst of fighting after three hour battle; Champlain wounded by an arrow; party withdraw back across Lake Ontario; French use guns against the Iroquois for the first time. |
| 1535 | Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier returns to Stadacona from his trip upriver to Montreal [Hochelaga]; he and his crew settle in for the winter. |