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06-18-2013, 10:14 AM

Today's Canadian Headline....

1812 US GOES TO WAR AGAINST CANADA
Washington DC - US President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain due to seizure of American vessels in Napoleonic Wars, and British support of native resistance to US westward expansion; beginning of War of 1812; to Dec. 24, 1814; only major war, other than Indian wars, fought on Canadian soil.

1603
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec with Grave du Pont to go on an exploring trip up the 'River of Canada' - the St. Lawrence; finds that the Algonkians have taken over from the Iroquois as the dominant tribe since the arrival of Jacques Cartier 80 years earlier.
1993 Montreal Quebec -Expo's Dennis Martinez wins his 200th game; 92nd major league pitcher to reach that mark.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle's Public Service Reform Act simplifies hiring, firing and transfer of employees; greater discretion in contracting out work.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson suspends further exports of automatic arms to Middle East for six months; pending policy review by Commons committee.
1991 Maniwaki Quebec - Quebec gives Barriere Lake Algonquin band control of ancestral lands in La Verendrye reserve.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret brings in legislation to make environmental-impact studies mandatory for federal projects or joint projects.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post President Donald Lander declares $149 million profit and $60 million dividend payment to the Government; says corporation not yet ready for privatization.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Nelson Mandela tells joint session of the Commons and Senate that Canadian support is crucial in ending Apartheid; Deputy President of the African National Congress was jailed for 27 years.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl dies Canadian musician the star of CBC Radio's Happy Gang from 1937 to 1959.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams his single Heaven stays at #1 on the Billboard charts for the second week.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Frank Miller defeated on series of confidence votes by alliance of Liberals and NDP; resigns next day, ending 42 years of Conservative rule in Ontario; Liberal leader David Peterson and 23-member cabinet sworn into office June 26.
1984 New Brunswick - New Brunswick celebrates bicentennial of founding as a British colony.
1983 Space - NASA astronaut Sally Ride, first US woman in space, deploys Canada's Anik C2 communications satellite into Earth orbit from the Challenger space shuttle.
1980 New York City - Ottawa comic Dan Ackroyd premieres his movie The Blues Brothers, co-starring John Belushi.
1979 Newfoundland - Premier Brian Peckford wins his first election as provincial Conservative leader.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - National Gallery opens exhibition of 203 Group of Seven paintings; to commemorate 50th anniversary of Group's founding.
1962 Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins minority in 25th federal general election 116 seats to 100; 30 Social Credit; 19 CCF; defeats Lester Pearson with 37.3% of popular vote.
1959 Torbay Newfoundland - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives with Prince Philip to start 45 day Canadian tour; earlier that day, CBC Montreal broadcast the first live telecast from England to Canada, showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving London.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
1940 England - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces compulsory military training for home defence.
1928 Wales - US aviator Amelia Earhart arrives on a flight from Newfoundland in about 21 hours; first woman to fly across the Atlantic; will later make the flight solo.
1915 Banks Island NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 sights new uncharted land, and claims it for Canada.
1900 Victoria BC - Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Robert McInnes 1840-1904 forced to resign by resolution of BC Legislature.
1899 Lethbridge Alberta - Opening of CPR line through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing; subsidized by 1897 Crows Nest Pass Agreement, which also set fixed freight rates on Prairie grain traffic.
1882 Montreal Quebec - CPR buys Montreal-Ottawa line.
1855 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of rebuilt Sault Ste. Marie Canal; original canal built by the North-West Company in 1797.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Denis-Benjamin Papineau 1789-1854 joins Draper to form the Draper-Papineau Ministry; after resignation of Viger on June 17.
1846 Toronto Ontario - First telegraph system was opened to Hamilton and Niagara Falls.
1822 London England - Boundary Commission draws up border along St. Lawrence River and through Great Lakes.
1820 Cumberland House Manitoba - John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves Cumberland House on expedition to the Coppermine River.
1816 Ontario - Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.
1793 Fraser River BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Fraser River.
1784 London England - King George III partitions Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick.
1776 St-Jean Quebec - US invaders under John Sullivan 1740-1795 retreat to St. John's.
1776 Montreal Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 arrives at Montreal with 200 followers from the Mohawk Valley; Loyalist from Albany, New York.

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