On This Day In Canadian History....

1964 - IX Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria. Brothers Vic and John Emery, with Douglas Anakin and Peter Kirby, take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Bobsledding. The quartet set a world record in their first run, and repeat their victory at the 1965 World Championship.

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1948 - Fifth Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland. The RCAF Flyers win the Ice Hockey Gold, and Ottawa's Barbara Ann Scott takes home the Gold Medal in Figure Skating.

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1758 - Governor Charles Lawrence proclaims a resolution passed by the Nova Scotia Council to organize the first Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia; it will be the first popularly elected parliament in Canada.

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1722 - The Council of New France makes abandoning children a death penalty offence; parish Priests are asked to publicize the law every few months.

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1667 - Mining of bog iron nuggets begins at Trois-Rivières, Quebec; later smelting at Les Forges de St-Maurice. This is the first large scale iron mining in Canadian history.