On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1789 - Estaban Jose Martinez arrives in Nootka Sound (of what is now British Columbia) on Spanish warship Princesa; proclaims Spanish sovereignty on west coast.

On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1536 - Jacques Cartier discovers threat of Iroquois rebellion; captures Chief Donnacona as hostage during a religious ceremony; promises to bring him back from France in ten moons.

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1497 - John and Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born navigators, set sail to follow Columbus' route to what he thought was Asia; Cabot's expedition reaches land June 24th, likely at Cape Breton, then sails east along the south coast of Newfoundland.

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1660 - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux with 16 compatriots and 44 Huron allies, intending to ambush the Iroquois, instead meets a war party of 300 Onondagas, and has to retreat into an abandoned Algonkian fort by the Long Sault Rapids on the Ottawa River; some French panic and fire on the Iroquois, leading to the desertion of Huron chief Annaotaha. When a powder cask blows up, the Iroquois attack.

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1971 - Canadian government allowed the anti-terrorist Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act to lapse at midnight; FLQ still illegal under Criminal Code.