On This Day In Canadian History....
1919 - British Army Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off, from St. John's Nfld, in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight; their 3,100 km flight ends 16 hours later with a nose-down landing in a Clifden, County Galway, Ireland peat bog; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1833 - John Wilson kills Robert Lyon in the last fatal duel in Ontario; the two law students and former friends quarrelled over remarks made by Lyon about a local teacher, Elizabeth Hughes; Wilson will be acquitted of murder; later marries Hughes and becomes an MP and judge.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1690 - Henry Kelsey sets out from York Factory, Manitoba, with party of Stone and Assiniboine Indians on journey lasting two years; Hudson's Bay Company employee will record first European description of grizzly bears and buffalo.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1638 - Jesuits in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec describe first recorded earthquake in Canada; tremors for six months, from Gaspé to Montreal, but no casualties reported.
