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1992 CANADIAN CONVOY TO SARAJEVO

Croatia - Canadian peacekeepers start trek to Sarajevo, Bosnia; 800 troops in armored vehicle convoy move to keep airport open as part of international relief effort to bring in food and medicine.

1965

Also On This Day...

Toronto Ontario - Rex Woods starts project to duplicate Robert Harris painting of the Quebec Conference of 1864, that was burned during the fire of 1917; to be presented to Canada by Confederation Life. Here's the result.

1948

Also On This Day...

Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 delivers his last speech to the House of Commons before his retirement.

1948

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Murray McLauchlan 1948-
folk, country singer, was born on this day at Paisley Scotland in 1948. McLauchlan came to Canada at age 5; started singing in coffee houses in Toronto's Yorkville district at 17; had first gold record with Farmer's Song 1973 (Juno Award for best folk single, best country single and composer of the year); also won Juno in 1976, 1977 and 1979 for best male country singer.

In Other Events....
1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 holds a press conference with Toronto journalists; tells how their research will not only benefit astronauts as they conduct long-term space missions, but also people on Earth; some research will aid studies on osteoporosis and the affects steroids have on bones, and also may help doctors on Earth develop treatments for muscle diseases like muscular dystrophy.
1992Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- unveils equestrian statue of herself on Parliament Hill; by BC sculptor Jack Harman.
1990Ottawa Ontario - Chief Justice Brian Dickson retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; served as justice since 1973; replaced Bora Laskin in April 1984.
1989Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada stops issuing one-dollar bills, and starts replacing them with the dollar coins that come to be known as loonies.
1987Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Hockin starts first stage of financial deregulation by opening ownership of securities industry; with Monte Kwinter, his Queen's Park counterpart.
1984Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- sworn in as Canada's 17th Prime Minister, replacing Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-; PM until Sept 17.
1983Toronto Ontario - C-Channel pay TV arts network goes off the air; operating only since Feb. 1.
1983Calgary Alberta - Ottawa and Alberta agree to set Canadian oil at $29.75 per barrel, or 75% of world price; producers get world price for oil discovered 1974-80.
1983Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council timekeepers join international colleagues in adding a leap second to the last minute of June, to keep atomic time in tune with solar time; same process followed Dec. 1989.
1983Canada - Simpson-Sears retailing chain fined $1 million for misleading advertising; largest such fine in Canadian history.
1982Montreal Quebec - NHL decides Eric Lindros will go to the Flyers instead of the Rangers; New Jersey's new NHL franchise also officially named the Devils after fan balloting.
1981Canada - Canadian postal workers start 42-day strike.
1976Victoria BC - British Columbia Court of Appeal rules that the province owns seabed mineral resources between Vancouver Island and the mainland; rejects federal claims.
1976Goose Bay Newfoundland - US Air Force closes base at Goose Bay, Labrador, when lease expires.
1976Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post bans open-window envelopes since they snag in letter sorting machines.
1973Toronto Ontario - Opening of Canada's first National Lesbian conference.
1973Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark marries Maureen McTeer, a researcher in the Progressive Conservative Party office in Ottawa.
1972Dorchester Ontario - Billy Joe Booth killed in an aircraft explosion; nine year defensive linesman with Ottawa Rough Riders.
1972Vancouver BC - Rolling Stones open their seventh American/Canadian tour; will hit San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque, Washington, Montreal and New York.
1972Revelstoke BC - A record 963.2 inches of snowfall falls in one season on Mt. Copeland; since July 1 of the previous year.
1967Bell Island Newfoundland - Dosco Industries Ltd. closes Bell Island iron mine after 72 years of operation.
1967Ottawa Ontario - Zakir Husain President of India starts two-day visit to Canada.
1960Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens new Ottawa International Airport.
1952Ottawa Ontario - Canada asks International Joint Commission for approval to build St. Lawrence hydro plants; in international rapids section.
1945Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Star-Phoenix publishes classified ad reading: FOR SALE. one homemade coffin. Never used. Reason for selling: Improved health; fit 6' 2''.
1944Off the Shetlands, Scotland - Flight Lt. David Hornell VC scores U-boat kill; one of four by RCAF 162 Squadron this June.
1944Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to establish a Department of Reconstruction.
1941Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie King government brings in Bill 80, sanctioning his promise not to bring in conscription for overseas service; passes July 23 by 141-45.
1930Rome Italy - Archbishop Forbes of Ottawa holds a Pontifical Mass at the Vatican to celebrate the first Catholic canonization of North Americans, the Jesuit martyrs.
1915Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Army sets up Hospital Commission to provide treatment for wounded; name changed to Military Hospitals Commission in October.
1912Regina Saskatchewan - Tornado roars through the downtown core of Regina in five minute rampage at 4:50 pm, killing 28, and damaging or destroying three churches, the new Carnegie Library, commercial buildings and homes; 2,500 left homeless. Mayor Peter McAra cancels Dominion Day celebrations.
1866Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick approves Confederation; votes funds for Intercolonial Railroad.
1864 Canada - Christopher Dunkin 1812-1881 passes the Canada Temperance Act, regulating local option laws passed in Canada West in 1853 and Canada East in 1855; the so-called Dunkin Act.
1859Niagara Falls Ontario - Charles Blondin (Jean-François Cravelet) crosses Niagara by tightrope before a crowd of 25,000; drinks champagne; does a back somersault; recrosses blindfolded, on a bicycle, on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back; the so-called 'Prince of Manila'.
1858Victoria BC - First Chinese colonists reach Victoria.
1851Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin retires from public life.
1848Toronto Ontario - Toronto Schools closed for a year because city council refuses to raise funding from £500 to £2,000 per annum.
1837Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 helps found the Committee of Vigilance of Upper Canada; to form a provisional revolutionary government for Upper Canada.
1812Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada gives US citizens 14 days to leave the province.
1777Ticonderoga New York - John Burgoyne 1722-1792 reaches Fort Ticonderoga; starts week-long siege.
1772Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 arrives back at Fort Prince of Wales from the Arctic, proving that no water route exists across North America; he writes up account of journey; first to describe Inuit life in Coppermine area.
1766Quebec Quebec - Aemilius Paulus Irving 1714-1796 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Sept. 24, 1766.
1759Lévis Quebec - Brigadier General Robert Monckton captures Point Lévis after a short fight; sets up camp and moves artillery into position to start firing on Quebec, less than a kilometre away. Montcalm sends Abenaki warriors to harass the English.
1690Manitoba Canada - Henry Kelsey c1667- 1724 travels up the Hayes and Fox Rivers to Moose Lake.
1665Quebec Quebec - Henri de Chastelard de Salières arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment, 100 officers and 1,000 men; begins forts at Sorel, St-Louis, Ste-Thérèse, Ste-Anne and St-Jean.
1665Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment to do battle with the Iroquois.
1578Greenland - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 takes possession of Greenland for Elizabeth I; calls it West England.
1398Guysborough Nova Scotia - Legend has it that Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, lands at Guysborough on this day, and visits the sites of Pictou and Stellarton.