It's the Civic Holiday Weekend. Depending on where you live you'll be celebrating the life and achievements of John G. Simcoe, the 1st Lt-Governor of Ontario (Toronto); Joseph Brant, Mohawk Chief and hero of the War of 1812 (Brantford); Colonel R. S. McLaughlin, brought General Motors to Oshawa; Alexander MacKenzie, Canada's 2nd P.M. (Sarnia) and of course, here in Ottawa we're celebrating Colonel John By, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell holds the World's first definitive telephone tests, and makes the first intelligible telephone call from building to building, at Mount Pleasant, near Brantford; in a one-way transmission, he hears his uncle David Bell recite Hamlet's 'to be or not to be...'
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1909 - First passenger flight in Canada made in the Silver Dart at Camp Petawawa in an evaluation by the Canadian Army; original plane built by the Aerial Experiment Association formed by Alexander Graham Bell
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1959 - General Georges-Philias Vanier appointed Governor General; first French Canadian to hold the post.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1989 - CBC Newsworld makes its debut on cable; news and information channel goes on the air across Canada.
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On This Day In History....
1930 - Richard Bedford (R. B.) Bennett wins 17th Canadian general election 137 seats to 91 Liberals; 12 Progressive; United farmers 10, 5 other; defeats WLM King with 48.8% of popular vote.
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1913 - First issue of the newspaper 'Le Droit' published at Ottawa.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1991 - Canadian Football League assumes ownership of the nearly bankrupt Ottawa Rough Riders CFL football team.
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On This Day In History....
1990 - Lucien Bouchard announces formation of the Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party consisting of himself, five other ex-Conservative MPs and ex-Liberal Jean Lapierre; all of whom left their parties after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1967 - General Charles de Gaulle shouts the separatist slogan 'Vive le Quebec libre' from the balcony of Montreal's City Hall.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1576 - Martin Frobisher sails north into Frobisher Bay; thinks it is a passage to Asia; takes possession for England; names bay after himself.
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1871 - British Columbia Act comes into effect, making BC the sixth province to enter Confederation; George-Etienne Cartier promises rail link start within two years, completion within ten years; Canadian government takes over telegraph lines in the province, including the Collins Overland Stage Line.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1994 - Rolling Stones play a surprise date at the RPM club to preview of their Voodoo Lounge tour; had been rehearsing at a private school and an empty hangar at Pearson Airport.
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1976 - At the Montreal Olympics, Romania's 14-year-old star gymnast Nadia Comaneci, performing on the uneven parallel bars, scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history.
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On This Day In Canadian History....
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Montreal Summer Olympic Games in the afternoon, before Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and an enthusiastic crowd of 73,000 at Olympic Stadium
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1976 - House of Commons abolishes the death penalty by a free vote of 132-124.
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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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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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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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