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1988 |
CANADA SAYS SORRY
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- apologizes in the name of the Government of Canada for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians, and announces a $300 million compensation package. |
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Also On This Day...
Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta -
Chief Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxica) 1936-1890 leads the Blackfoot-speaking peoples - the Siksika (Blackfoot), Piikani (Peigan) and the Kainai (Blood), along with their allies the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) and their old adversaries the Nakoda (Stoney) - in a meeting with Commissioner David Laird and Lt-Col James MacLeod of the NWMP to make Treaty #7, at So-yo-pow-ahx-ko (Ridge Under Water), today's Blackfoot Crossing. Canada's last major first nations treaty is signed the following day; sets aside reserves of 69,039 sq km in the land south of Red Deer River and beside the Rocky Mountains; provides $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction, social benefits. |
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1762 |
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1762-1850 governor's consort, diarist, was baptized on this day at Northampton, England in 1762; died in Devon England Jan. 17, 1850. An orphan daughter of Lt-Col Thomas Gwillim, Simcoe married John Graves Simcoe in 1782, and came with him to Newark [Niagara], Upper Canada in July 1792 when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor, and accompanied him to York [Toronto] to found a new town in 1794. She left a lively diary and watercolours, and had two sons and seven daughters.
Also Louise McKinney 1868-1931 women's rights activist, MLA, was born on Louise Crummy this day at Frankville, Ontario in 1868; died in Claresholm, Alberta July 10, 1931. McKinney left her teaching job in 1903 to serve as the western organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and was President for 20 years. In 1917, she was elected to the Alberta Legislature as the first women legislator in the British Commonwealth, and in 1919, she was one of the Famous Five in the Persons Case, whose appeal to the Privy Council won the right for women to sit in the Senate. She also served as VP of the World WCTU and the IODE.
Also Charles B. Huggins 1901-1997 surgeon, cancer researcher, was born on this day at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1901; dies in Chicago Jan. 12, 1997. Huggins researched the relationship between hormones and prostate and other cancers; he received (with Michael E. De Bakey) the 1963 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research and (with Peyton Rous) the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1966.
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| In Other Events.... |
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1996 |
Lisbon Portugal - Jacques Villeneuve wins the Formula One Grand Prix of Portugal. |
| 1995 | Montreal Quebec - Opening of first Montreal Chamber Music Festival. |
| 1995 | Anchorage Alaska - AWACS plane with US and Canadian military personnel crashes on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base, killing all 24 people aboard. |
| 1994 | Hollywood California - Ottawa actor Matthew Perry appears in premiere of TV Comedy Friends on NBC-TV. |
| 1992 | Ottawa Ontario - World Wildlife Fund says Canada losing 1 sq km of wilderness every hour, due to city sprawl, farming, roads, mining, hydro development; urges setting aside more parkland. |
| 1992 | Toronto Ontario - Provincial Round Table on Environment shows true hidden pollution costs of tap water, energy; wants ban on release of persistent toxic chemicals by year 2000. |
| 1992 | Ottawa Ontario - Canada Committee formed to support Charlottetown Accord; led by Yves Fortier, June Callwood, Marc Garneau, Robert Stanfield; Ed Broadbent, Bill Davis, Peter Lougheed, Iona Campagnolo. |
| 1992 | Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs land claim deal with Premier Romanow and Federation of Saskatchewan Indians; bands to acquire up to 670,000 hectares in lands entitled under treaties. |
| 1991 | Britain - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams' hit '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' stays at the #1 spot on the UK pop singles chart for the 12th straight week. |
| 1988 | Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Canadian Mint starts production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin. |
| 1987 | Orleans Ontario - Quintuplets born to Kim and Lauren Forgie; Canada's first quints since the Dionnes of 1934. |
| 1985 | Champaign Illinois - Canadian performers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell join Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, John Fogerty and John Mellencamp in the first Farm Aid concert; help raise $10 million for midwest farmers. |
| 1982 | Los Angeles, California - Vancouver actor Michael J. Fox debuts in the NBC comedy, Family Ties. |
| 1982 | Nepal - Canadian Mount Everest Expedition establishes Camp 2; will make their final climb Oct. 5. |
| 1976 | Calgary Alberta - Premier Peter Lougheed opened the new Glenbow Centre, housing the Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library, and Archives; $9 million facility opens with exhibit of western Canadian contemporary art, displays of First Nations cultures, pioneer artifacts, and military history. |
| 1972 | Moscow Russia - USSR beats Team Canada 5-4 in Game 5 of the super series before 15,000 fans, including 3,500 noisy Canadians; 13 days since game 4 in Vancouver; Phil Esposito slips on the ice, gets up and bows to the crowd with a big smile on his face during the player introductions; Paul Henderson suffers a mild concussion, but scores on his next shift; leading 3-0 after two periods, Team Canada gives up 5 third period goals on 11 shots, giving the Soviets a 3-1-1 lead in the series. |
| 1970 | Quebec - Creation of the Parc de la Mauricie. |
| 1969 | Ellesmere Island NWT - Canadian anthropologist Charles Marius Barbeau honoured by naming highest mountain in the Canadian Arctic Mt. Barbeau. |
| 1968 | St-Jovite, Quebec - Running of the first Player's Grand Prix at Mont Tremblant. |
| 1967 | Montreal Quebec - Expo 67 breaks attendance record of 42,973,561 set at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. |
| 1966 | Ottawa Ontario - Cuban nationalists hit Cuban Embassy in Ottawa with bazooka. |
| 1961 | Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO). |
| 1959 | Moscow Russia - Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 made member of Soviet Academy of Sciences; director of Montreal Neurological Institute; with Edgar Steacie 1900-1962, chairman of National Research Council. |
| 1952 | New Brunswick - Hugh John Flemming 1899- leads Conservatives to win in provincial election. |
| 1939 | Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up censorship bureau under War Measures Act; to examine all political speeches. |
| 1930 | Ottawa Ontario - Bennett government passes Unemployment Relief Act at end of special parliamentary session; agrees to increase public works with emergency $20 million grant. |
| 1929 | Ste-Foy, Quebec - First vehicle traffic across the new Quebec Bridge. |
| 1914 | Montreal Quebec - Assembly of 32,000 volunteers to fight in France. |
| 1906 | Fernie BC - Coal miners at Fernie and Michel go on strike; until November 13. |
| 1902 | Ottawa Ontario - Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway becomes part of the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway. |
| 1892 | Thetford-Mines, Quebec - Thetford Mines incorporated. |
| 1883 | Toronto Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway to Collingwood and points north. |
| 1874 | Saskatchewan - Northwest Mounted Police estimate the Plains buffalo herd at one million animals; the last great herd moving south into the United States to be annihilated. |
| 1874 | Quebec Quebec - Charles-E. Boucher de Boucherville sworn in as Conservative Premier of Quebec. |
| 1866 | Charlottetown PEI - New Brunswick and Nova Scotia offer Prince Edward Island $800,000 support to join Confederation, but are unsuccessful. |
| 1851 | Quebec Quebec - Province of Canada capital moves in rotation to Quebec City from Toronto. |
| 1836 | Quebec Quebec - Opening of 3rd session of 15th Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until Oct. 4.1836. |
| 1760 | Montreal Quebec - William Colville, Lord Amherst divides Canada into the military districts of Quebec, Montreal and three Rivers; Thomas Gage c1719-1787 named military governor of Montreal. |
| 1731 | Crown Point, NY - Governor Marquis de Beauharnois starts building Fort St-Frédéric at Pointe la Chevelure (Crown Point) at the foot of Lake Champlain; small stockade for a garrison of only 30 men; replaced in 1736 by a limestone fort for 120 men; by 1742 the largest French fortress outside Quebec, and a centre for the Indian trade with the Abenakis of the St. Francis, the Arundacks of the Ottawa, and the Wyandots of the west. |
| 1653 | Quebec Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 lands at Quebec with de Maisonneuve and 100 soldiers to defend Montreal against the Iroquois; Bourgeoys intends to start a school in Montreal, but finds not enough children of school age because of heavy infant mortality. |
| 1583 | England - Golden Hind lands in England with sole survivors of Gilbert expedition to Newfoundland; Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 drowned in a storm off the Azores when his 10-ton frigate Squirrel went down with all hands. |
| 1538 | Paris France - Jacques Cartier receives 50 écus d'or for the instruction of the Indians. |