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1987	`OTTAWA BANS EMPLOYEE SMOKING` Ottawa Ontario - Federal government slaps a total ban on smoking in public service offices, starting Jan. 1, 1988. Smoking by government employees at all public service counters ends immediately.
1620	`Also On This Day...` Southwest of The Pas Manitoba - HBC employee Henry Kelsey sees buffalo on the Prairies; the first white man to describe them.
1825	`And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...` Amor de Cosmos 1825-1897 BC politician, was born plain William Smith on this day in 1825 in Windsor, Nova Scotia; died in Victoria, B.C. July 4, 1897. As a young man, Amor de Cosmos left Nova Scotia for the California gold fields, then to BC, where he founded the British Colonist newspaper in Victoria . He started a campaign against the autocracy of Governor James Douglas, and was elected to the BC Legislature in 1863, where he promoted union with Canada. In 1872 he was elected an MP, and served as Premier of BC 1872-74. Also François-Gaston, Duc de Lévis 1719-1787 soldier, Maréchal de France, was born on this day in 1719 at the Chateau d'Ajac in Limoux, France; died in Nov 26 1787 in Arras, France. Lévis was second in command of the French Army in North America after 1756. In charge of Lake Champlain defenses and the Montreal garrison, he hurried to Quebec on the news it had fallen, and narrowly missed defeating the British at Ste-Foy in May 1760, but after reinforcements arrived, he retreated to Montreal, and surrendered on Sept 8. Also Mario Bernardi 1930- conductor, born on this day in 1930 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Bernardi started conducting with the Canadian Opera Company in 1957, and was founding Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra 1968-82, after which he worked with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic. Also Gary Lalonde 1955- rock & roll bassist, of Honeymoon Suite, born on this day in 1955. Also Cynthia 'Cindy' Nicholas 1957- swimmer, born on this day in 1957 in Toronto. Nicholas smashed the record for crossing Lake Ontario in 1974, and in 1976 was the Women's World Marathon Champion. In 1977 she was the first woman to complete a double crossing of the English Channel. All in all she crossed the Channel 19 times, including 5 doubles. She is now a lawyer in Toronto.
In Other Events....
1997	The Pas, Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway, owned by Omnitrax of Denver, Colorado, takes over operation of former CN lines to Flin Flon, Lyn Lake and Churchill.
1992	Calgary Alberta - Robert Fleming says proposed Constitution will cost $300 million more a year, with a larger Commons, more complex Senate; author of book on Parliament and legislatures
1990	Kahnawake Quebec - Army moves to dismantle barricades on the Mercier Bridge south of Montreal put up by Mohawks; after three days of rioting by South Shore residents against the police
1986	Charlottetown PEI - Poet Milton Acorn dies at age 63; 1976 winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry.
1983	Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa announces his return to politics.
1983	New York City - Vancouver group Loverboy has a Billboard #11 Pop Hit with Hot Girls In Love.
1982	Toronto Ontario - Former Indian Affairs Minister John Munro 1931-awarded $75,000 in libel damages against Toronto Sun newspaper.
1980	Toronto Ontario - Crowd of 1,400 riots when rocker Alice Cooper cancels a show due to illness.
1976	New York City - Gordon Lightfoot releases single, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, from his album Summertime Dream, about an ore carrier which sank on Lake Superior; will reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100..
1974	New York City - Ottawa native Paul Anka (with Odia Coates) has a Billboard #1 Pop Hit with '(You're) Having My Baby'; his last #1 was 'Lonely Boy' in 1959; longest recorded gap between top singles.
1973	Regina Saskatchewan - Rough Rider fullback George Reed sets all time world pro football rushing record, beating the 12,312 yards held by the NFL's Jimmy Brown; Reed also broke Brown's record of 106 touchdowns a week earlier.
1972	Sudbury Ontario - David Barrett 1930- sworn in as NDP Premier of British Columbia; serves until Dec. 11 1975.
1970	Sudbury Ontario - Wind storm and tornado in Sudbury area kills four, injures 200 and does $10 million damage.
1969	California - Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers of Invention after an eight-day tour in Canada; says he is tired of people who clap for all the wrong reasons.
1966	Bromont Quebec - Bromont incorporated.
1964	New Brunswick - First Ladies Marian Pearson & Lady Byrd Johnson open Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island.
1964	Darlington Ontario - Ontario Hydro announces new 1 million kw nuclear power station at Fairport, east of Toronto.
1955	New York City - Winnipeg's Gisele MacKenzie has a #1 Billboard hit with hard to Get.
1944	Chambois France - The First Canadian Army and Patton's Americans link up at Chambois, but the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are overrun by Germans trying to break out in a series of counter-attacks.
1944	St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France - Major David Currie's squadron holds fast in St-Lambert, a village half-way between Chambois and Trun, and the main escape route to the east; the Germans tried to mount a final decisive attack to break through the gap in the evening; Currie uses his 17-pounder anti-tank gun to knock out a Tiger tank, uses his command tank to knock out a Tiger and a rifle to deal with snipers who had infiltrated close to his HQ; in total, his squadron knock out seven German tanks, 12 88-mm guns, and forty German armoured vehicles; 300 German are killed, 500 wounded, and 2100 captured; after three days of continuous fighting, the Canadians take the village and block off the German escape route; when Currie is finally relieved, he collapses from nervous exhaustion. The only officer in his unit not killed or wounded, Currie will win the Victoria Cross, the only Canadian awarded the VC for action in Normandy who did not die in the process of earning it.
1941	London England - Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrives in England.
1940	London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, saying 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
1927	Victoria BC - John Duncan MacLean becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing John Oliver; serves to Aug. 20, 1928.
1925	Quebec Quebec - Major Georges-P Vanier appointed CO of the 22e Régiment at Quebec.
1914	Rimouski Quebec - Purser's safe raised from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland after two months of salvage operations.
1912	Thunder Bay Ontario - Fort William dock workers go on strike.
1907	Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Founding of the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon.
1899	Hull Quebec - First play presented in new Hull theatre.
1883	Regina Saskatchewan - First session of NWT Legislative Council meets in Regina.
1882	Regina Saskatchewan - First CPR train reaches Regina.
1882	Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Founding of Saskatoon by The Temperance Colonization Society, an Ontario group that wants to make the settlement the capital of a temperance colony; surveyed by F. L. Blake; first settlers reach the townsite overland from Moose Jaw in 1883.
1872	Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Bourget meets with George-Etienne Cartier to discuss election support.
1869	Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian survey crew arrives in Fort Garry to resurvey the settlement; will ignore existing agreements and ignite the Red River Rebellion.
1858	London England - Colony of British Columbia established; Hudson's Bay Company required to give up control of Vancouver Island to local authorities.
1849	Montreal Quebec - Rioters burn the Cyrus Hotel in Montreal.
1820	Winter Lake NWT - John Franklin 1786-1847 goes into winter quarters at Winter Lake; between Great Slave Lake and Coppermine River
1819	Toronto Ontario - Robert Gourlay 1778-1863 again found guilty of sedition under Alien Act; banished to US the following day.
1812	Nova Scotia - Isaac Hull on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) defeats the British ship Guerriere after a two-day battle off Nova Scotia in the War of 1812.
1742	Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Jean Urbain named director of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1738	Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First iron smelted by the upper blast furnace of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1707	Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Massachusetts militia colonel John March 1658-1712 driven away from Port-Royal by de Subercase and Pierre Morpain c1686-1749, Caribbean privateer.
1681	Montreal Quebec - Hotel Dieu offers first hospital insurance plan.
1664	Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of New France orders shipload of 'undesirables' sent back to France.
1648	Quebec Quebec - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 arrives as Governor of New France; to 1651; Maisonneuve named Governor of Montreal.
1642	Sorel Quebec - Fort Richelieu attacked by the Iroquois.
1586	Cumberland Sound NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 mounts hilltop to look for sea route; finds none through islands at head of Cumberland Sound; sails down coast of Labrador, stopping at Davis Inlet and Hamilton Inlet.
1585	Cumberland Sound NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 sails 290 km into Cumberland Sound; blocked by land.
1583	Cape Race Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 sails to Cape Race to fish for cod and explore mainland; sends two ships back to England.

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