On This Day In Canadian History....
1774 - British Parliament passes the Quebec Act; guarantees Catholic religious freedom; Coûtume de Paris for civil code, English law for criminal offenses; government by appointed council; trial by jury; also extends boundaries of Province of Quebec into Ohio Valley; to go into effect May 1, 1775.
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1984 - Parliament passes bill establishing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS to replace RCMP in dealing with foreign espionage, terrorism and subversion.
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1946 - Fred Rose sentenced to six years in prison for spying for the Soviet Union; charged after Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, defected and implicated Rose, Canada's only Communist Party MP.
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1644 - Jesuit priest François-Joseph Bressani tortured by Iroquois, then given to old woman to care for to replace a dead relative.
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1784 - King George III partitions Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick.
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