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03-22-2013, 08:30 AM

Today's Canadian Headline...

1894 STANLEY CUP DAY
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association win the first Stanley Cup championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1, and winning the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament 3 games to 2. The AAAs (later the Montreal Victorias) were the first team to win what was known as known as Lord Stanley's Cup. A year earlier, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, former Governor General, had purchased the silver bowl in London for $48.67 to donate to the Canadian amateur champions; he said his sons had enjoyed playing hockey on the rink at Rideau Hall. Today, the Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports competition in North America.

1995 Buenos Aires Argentina - Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann 1965- tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games; the next day she and her three teammates are stripped of the gold medals they won in quadruple sculls; says she unknowingly took drug in a cold medicine..
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells introduces resolution to rescind Newfoundland support of Meech Lake accord; fears Meech Lake will cut Ottawa's ability to aid Newfoundland economically; effectively kills the deal.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- says he is optimistic Meech Lake can be saved by June 23rd deadline; in rare TV address.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament gives all party group mandate to study Meech Lake accord and to report back May 18; studying McKenna Option for companion agreement.
1984 London, Ontario - Jane Gray dies; Canada's first woman broadcaster began her career in 1924 at CJGC (now CFPL) radio London by hosting Canada's first advice show.
1979 New York City - NHL votes to absorb four World Hockey Association teams; the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and New England Whalers; end of the WHA.
1978 St-Jerome Quebec - Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking.
1973 Caughnawaga Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway Authority grants $1.5 million and 321.7 hectares of land to Caughnawaga Indians; to compensate for 526 hectares expropriated in 1955 for Seaway.
1971 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First radio and TV coverage of the proceedings of the Nova Scotia legislature.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $2 million program to hire 276 Francophone graduates for public service jobs; jobs where French is 'la Langue du travail'.
1955 Mississauga Ontario - Fire at Malton Airport causes $5 million in damage.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Labour brings in National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations; program for industry meets wartime manpower shortage by directing people to jobs.
1929 New Orleans Louisiana - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana; Captain John Thomas Randell 1878-1939 and crew taken to New Orleans as prisoners for violating prohibition laws; manufacture of liquor still legal in Canada.
1922 Canada - 12,000 BC and Alberta coal miners go on strike; until August 24, 1923.
1914 Martin Point Alaska - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 leaves Martin Point with two companions and heads east toward Banks Island.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - R. B. McMicking demonstrates Victoria's first 2 telephones.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin burned in effigy at a Toronto demonstration against Rebellion Losses Bill; with effigies of Mackenzie and Blake.
1834 Fredericton New Brunswick - Central Bank of New Brunswick chartered.
1740 Halifax Nova Scotia - Paul Mascarene c1684-1760 takes office as President of Council of Nova Scotia and administrator; until July 12, 1749.
1739 Paris France - François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière 1711-1740 appointed 5th Bishop of Quebec.
1723 Paris France - Compagnie des Indes [French West India Company] awarded tobacco monopoly in New France.

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