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04-29-2013, 08:55 AM

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1970 BOURASSA TAKES QUEBEC
Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's brother, incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada on this day as Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm; the Bell stock is soon listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, whose members quickly take to the new fangled device. The invention was developed over the past decade at the Bell homestead in Brantford, and the first business phones installed in Hamilton.

1903
Crowsnest Pass Alberta - A 90 million ton wedge of limestone slides off Turtle Mountain onto the coal mining village of Frank at 4:10 am, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; the slab is 1,300 ft high, 4,000 ft wide, 500 ft thick. Seventeen men in the mine dig themselves out a day later. The town will be permanently evacuated.
1995 Kitchener Ontario - Butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles.
1991 Iqualuit NWT - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $100 million program to clean up toxic sites and contaminated waste dumps in the Arctic.
1991 Elliot Lake Ontario - Denison Mines to close uranium plant in Elliot Lake, putting 1000 out of work; blames high costs, cancellation of Ontario Hydro supply contract.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Queen's offensive tackle Mike Schad chosen by Los Angeles Rams, to become the first Canadian football player ever selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
1981 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Phillies' Steve Carlton strikes out Montreal Expo Tim Wallach, in the first inning of the 6-2 victory; becomes the sixth major-league pitcher, and the first left-hander, to strike out 3,000 batters.
1973 New Brunswick - Saint John River flooding causes up to $25 million damage in New Brunswick.
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 outlines his James Bay project; Hydro Quebec to build $6 billion hydroelectric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in western hemisphere.
1970 Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Ontario government brings in $1 an hour provincial minimum wage; starting June 29.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - British PM Harold Macmillan arrives in Ottawa for talks with Diefenbaker and Cabinet on European Common Market.
1948 United Nations New York-Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 proposes 'collective-security league;' helps lead to formation of NATO.
1945 Netherlands - Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.
1944 Atlantic - German U-Boats sink Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Athabaskan off the coast of France.
1944 Atlantic - HMCS Haida drives flaming German warship aground.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley calls taxes 'a temporary wartime expedient' in budget speech to Commons; warns of probable $500 million deficit.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Supreme Court of Ontario bans employment of unqualified teachers.
1891 Vancouver BC - CP steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 7th Parliament meets until September 30; deals with government scandals.
1817 Washington DC - Richard Rush for the US and Charles Bagot for Britain sign the Rush-Bagot Agreement limiting the number of warships the two countries can maintain on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - 2 ships each under 100 tons on upper Great Lakes, 1 each on Lake Champlain. On this day in 1818, US President Monroe proclaims US naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1776 Montreal Quebec - Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 arrives in Montreal with Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase; sent by the Continental Congress to convert Canadians to freedom.
1745 Canso Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 departs Canso to attack Louisbourg with British naval squadron from West Indies under Comm. Peter Warren; joined at Canso by smaller groups from New Hampshire and Connecticut.
1742 North Dakota - François de Varennes de La Vérendrye leaves Fort La Reine with his brother Louis-Joseph, to follow the Souris River to the Missouri River watershed.
1671 Paris France - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 receives royal Patent for her Sisters of the Congregation of Montreal.
1644 Quebec - François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 captured by Iroquois near Fort Richelieu; ransomed by Dutch.
1628 Quebec - Guillaume Couillard-Lespinay c1591-1663 first person in Canada to use an ox-drawn plow; Louis Hébert's son-in-law.
1627 Paris France - Cardinal Armand de Richelieu 1585-1642 founds the Company of New France, or One Hundred Associates, with 100,000 crowns capital; 'to be proprietors of Canada; to govern in peace and war.' The company, a group of merchants and aristocrats, is given the monopoly of the fur trade; in return they have to settle 300 colonists a year up to 1643.

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