On This Day In Canadian History....

1758 - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1988 - Carolyn Waldo wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Two days later she will wins another gold in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian female to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1959 - Last regularly scheduled CPR steam train leaves Ottawa's Union Station.

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1990 - Canada Packers (60%) and John Labatt (40%) merge into Maple Leaf-Ogilvie; operate Country Style Doughnuts and Buns Master franchises.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1904 - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.

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1956 - Canadian Overseas Telephone Company, the British Post Office and American Telephone & Telegraph open the first direct dial transatlantic calling service with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York. The new $42 million cable from Oban, Scotland, jointly owned by the three firms, consists of two lines laid 30 km apart on the ocean floor.

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1967 - Expo 67 breaks attendance record of 42,973,561 set at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

As an aside, in 1979, the aging grounds of Expo 67 and "Man and His World" made an appearance on the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica", episode, "Greetings From Earth"

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1992 - The new Ottawa Senators hockey team play their first home exhibition game in the Civic Centre; lose 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals. Ottawa is finally back in the NHL after 58 years.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1984 - Pope John Paul II holds huge outdoor mass on LeBreton flats in Ottawa before returning to Vatican; on papal visit to Canada.

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1969 - Federal Government to reorganize Canadian Armed Forces; 50% cut in NATO manpower; retirement of aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure. She served in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces Maritime Command from 1957 to 1970 and was the last aircraft carrier to serve Canada.

Editorial Note: My late uncle, Bernie Dubois, served aboard the HMCS Bonaventure for many years, until it's decommission.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1980 - Terry Fox invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The one-legged cancer victim whose marathon run across Canada raised millions of dollars for cancer research is the youngest so honoured.

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1957 - Ottawa singer Paul Anka's hit single 'Diana' stays at #1 on the pop music charts.

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1535 - Jacques Cartier reaches the Iroquois village of Stadacona [Quebec] on his second voyage; greeted with Iroquois word 'Kanata' or 'Cantha;' meaning 'settlement of huts'; first recorded use of name.

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1981 - 800 Canadian communities participate in the first Terry Fox 10k Run to raise money for cancer research. One year earlier, the 23 year old Fox was forced to end his Marathon of Hope in Thunder Bay, when the cancer that took his leg spread to his lungs. 

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On This Day In Canadian History....

1957 - Canada and the United States form North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) to coordinate air defence of the Continent, based in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado

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2001 - Among the 2,997 victims of the terrorists who perpetrated the horror that was 9/11, were 25 Canadians who perished in the attacks, fire and subsequent collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers....

Michael Arczynski (Montreal)    
Garnet Bailey (Lloydminster)
David Barkway (Toronto)
Ken Basnicki (Toronto)
Joseph Collison (Toronto)
Cynthia Connolly (Montreal)
Arron Dack (Toronto)
Frank Doyle (Ste. Adele, QC)
Michael Egan (Winnipeg)
Christine Egan (Winnipeg)
Albert Elmarry (Toronto)
Meredith Ewart (Montreal)
Peter Feidelberg (Montreal)
Alexander Filipov (Regina)
Ralph Gerhardt (Toronto)
Stuart Lee (Toronto)
Mark Ludvigsen (New Brunswick)
Bernard Mascarenhas (Newmarket)
Colin McArthur (Montreal)
Michel Pelletier (Montreal)
Donald Robson (Toronto)
Ruffino Santos (Vancouver)
Vladimir Tomasevic (Toronto)
Chantal Vincelli (Toronto)
Deborah Williams (Montreal) 


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1966 - Montreal-born actor William Shatner as Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise start their mission as the crew of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi space epic Star Trek on NBC TV; first episode called The Man Trap; NBC will cancel the show Sept 2, 1969; Shatner will also play in the 1973 cartoon version, as well as in film spinoffs.


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1980 - Terry Fox national telethon supporting his Marathon of Hope raises over $10 million for cancer research.


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On This Day In Canadian History....

1952 - Canada's first television station, CBFT in Montreal (part of CBC French network Radio-Canada) starts transmitting with a broadcast of Jean Cocteau's drama Oedipus Rex; English-language CBLT in Toronto starts operations two days later.


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On This Day In Canadian History....

1979 - Canadian gold Maple Leaf coin goes on sale in Canada, the US and Europe; Canada's first gold bullion coin a runaway success for the Royal Canadian Mint.


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