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1603 CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST TRIP TO CANADA
Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur with Gravé du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's ship 'Bonne Renommé'; his first major voyage to Canada.

In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux announces that Sikhs in the RCMP can wear turbans and other religious garb while in uniform.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa scraps gas export test; companies no longer need to prove exports beneficial.
1980 Dortmund West Germany - Tracey Wainman, age 12, the youngest Canadian skater to compete in a world championship.
1973 Alberta - Alberta Indians awarded $190,000 settlement in back payment of ammunition money promised to them under their 1877 treaty; sum of $2,000 should have been paid annually.
1972 Edmonton Alberta - First radio and TV coverage of regular sittings of the Alberta legislature.
1970 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Bruin Bobby Orr picks up four points against Detroit, to become the first NHL defenceman to score 100 points in a season; from Parry Sound, Ontario.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; her fifth marriage, his second.
1962 Prague Czech Republic - Donald Jackson first in the world to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition; gives him a gold medal at the world championships.
1943 Freetown, Sierra Leone - Canadian Pacific steamer, Empress of Canada, torpedoed by German U-Boat and sunk off the coast of West Africa, with the loss of 400 lives.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta legislature opens first session in temporary quarters at the Thistle skating rink.
1894 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 7th Parliament meets until July 23; protects young offenders in prisons by ordering separation from older prisoners, cuts duty on tea imported from UK.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature opens its first session as a province.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Alexandre-Antonin Taché 1823-1894, Bishop of St. Boniface, meets Metis council at Fort Garry; new list of rights includes claim for separate schools.
1843 Victoria BC - Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc 1818-1889 appointed first priest on Vancouver Island.
1827 Cambridge Ontario - Absolom Shade's village of Shade's Mills becomes town of Galt; named after John Galt of the Canada Company; now part of Cambridge.
1827 Toronto Ontario - Royal Charter granted to King's College; now University of Toronto
1744 Paris France - France declares war on Britain, in War of the Austrian Succession; called King William's War in North America; to Oct. 14, 1748.
1657 Quebec - Mother Giffard de Saint-lgnace dies; first Canadian woman to take religious vows.
1615 Bristol England - William Baffin c1584-1622 sails as pilot and mapmaker in the Discovery, Captain Robert Bylot, on first voyage to Hudson Bay; charts Hudson Strait, west end of Southampton Island, and Foxe Channel.

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