Friday, June 01, 2018

On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1927 - 
Government liquor stores in Ontario start selling liquor to adults with $2 permits, as prohibition ends; the province has been dry since 1921.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

On This Day In Canadian History....

1990 - Premier Don Getty announces that Alberta will privatize 50% of $3 billion giant, Alberta Government Telephones (AGT); Albertans given first right to buy shares. Through a name change in 1996, a merger with BCTel in 1998, and acquisitions of telnet companies like Clearnet Communications, Telus is now Canada's second largest telcom company

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1961 - Torrential storm drops 25 cm of rain in one hour in Buffalo Gap, Saskatchewan; one of Canada's most intense rainstorms on record.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1934 - Allan Roy Dafoe delivers the last of the Dionne Quintuplets: Annette, Emilie , Yvonne, Cecile and Marie.

Monday, May 28, 2018

On This Day In Canadian History.... 

1900 - Berliner Gramophone Co. of Montreal registers the famous dog and gramophone symbol, His Master's Voice as the company's Canadian trademark. Three of the four major global record companies have units which can trace their ancestry to Berliner Gramophone, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI.