On This Day In Canadian History....
1976 - House of Commons abolishes the death penalty by a free vote of 132-124.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1982 – Montreal Expos host first All-Star Game played outside the US; the National League defeats the American League 4-1.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1812 - US Brigadier General William Hull crosses the Detroit River with 2,500 troops and occupies the town of Sandwich; first American invasion in the War of 1812; worried about a new alliance between the British and the Indians led by Tecumseh, Hull will soon retreat to Detroit, and surrenders to the British a month later.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1990 - Corporal Marcel Lemay, a 31 year old constable, killed during gun battle as 100 members of La Sûreté du Québec attack Mohawk barricades, put up in March to block expansion of a golf course on land they claim was never signed away. Mohawks at Chateauguay (Kahnawake) set up sympathy blockade at Mercier bridge leading into Montreal, causing massive traffic jams for thousands of south shore commuters.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1789 – Near Inuvik, NWT, Alexander Mackenzie reaches flats and marshes of the Mackenzie Delta, struggles to within a short distance of Arctic Ocean before turning back.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1620 - Helene Boullé de Champlain arrives in New France; Champlain's wife enchants the Indian children, who admire her clothes and ask her to sing.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1924 - Winnipeg-born inventor and radio pioneer William Stevenson sends first photo across Atlantic by radio, to England.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1937 - Temperature at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, reaches 45C (113F), the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1905 - House of Commons passes bill establishing Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1797 - Law Society of Upper Canada established.
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1578 - Martin Frobisher takes possession of Greenland for Elizabeth I; calls it West England.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1891 - Ahearn & Soper start operating their Ottawa Street Railway Company with four electric tram cars; first street car service in Ottawa; origin of OC Transpo.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1981 - Terry Fox dies at age 22; one-legged runner of Marathon of Hope loses battle to lung cancer in a Vancouver hospital; started marathon in St. John's, Newfoundland; stopped near Thunder Bay; raised $25 million to fight cancer.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1980 - Parliament passes National Anthem Act, declaring Calixa Lavallée's 'O Canada' the national anthem replacing God Save the Queen; allows for minor changes to Robert Stanley Weir's English lyrics.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1813 - US Col. Charles Boerstler prepares to leave Queenston, Ontario before dawn on the 24th to make a surprise attack on Lt. James Fitzgibbon's British outpost at Beaver Dam, 15 km to the west; Laura Secord had left two days earlier to warn Fitzgibbon.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1611 - Twelve mutineers force Henry Hudson, son John, and seven of his weaker crew into a boat and cast them adrift on Hudson Bay; after winter of hardship, Discovery's crew were convinced he intended to continue his search for a north west passage and not return to England, and that he had hidden a large supply of food in his quarters. Nine mutineers make it back to England; four are tried for murder, but acquitted.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1749 - Edward Cornwallis arrives to found a settlement at Chebucto with two regiments and 2,576 settlers from England, Ireland and Germany; brings building supplies, a fire engine, hospital equipment and a midwife; with the help of New England builders, he starts laying out the town; later renamed in honour of Secretary of War George Dunk, the Earl of Halifax; Halifax, Nova Scotia
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.
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1866 - Timothy O'Hea puts out fire in Grand Trunk train in Sherbrooke, Quebec, loaded with 95 barrels of gunpowder; saves passengers and troops; awarded first and only Victoria Cross for valor inside Canada.
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