Today in Canadian History
By Marc Affeld and Joe Burima
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Nov 11, 2019
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Each episode of Today in Canadian History contains an interview with a Canadian professor, journalist, author, or “everyday” historian and focuses on a unique event or moment that took place on that day in Canadian history. Today in Canadian History presents Canada’s past in a unique and accessible manner. The series is designed to be a first step to learning more about our past. We would like to remind Canadians not just about what makes our country great, but what makes it complicated, beautiful, diverse, and ours. Feel free to get in touch with Marc & Joe via-email: todayincanada@gmail.com
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December 3 – The October Crisis Ends.
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Dec. 2 – Writer Robertson Davies Passes Away
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Dec. 1 – James Naismith and Basketball
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Nov. 30 – General Arthur Currie Passes Away
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Nov. 26 – The NHL is Founded in 1917
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Nov. 25 – Happy Birthday, Banff!
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Nov. 24 – The Canadian Northern Railway is Completed to Edmonton
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Nov. 23 – HMS Tribune Sinks
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Nov. 22 – Artist Jack Shadbolt Passes
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Nov. 19 – René Lévesque Forms the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Nov. 18 – Introduction of Standard Time
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Nov. 17 – The 1999 Marshall Decision and Fishing Rights
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Nov. 15 – Ned Hanlan becomes world champion
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Nov. 10 – The Edmund Fitzgerald goes down
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Nov. 9 – The First Game of Football
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Nov. 8 – Viola Desmond is physically removed from theatre
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Nov. 5 – First CBC broadcast of official time signal
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Nov. 4 – Inventor George Klein Passes Away
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Nov. 3 – The story of Danylo Shumuk
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Nov. 2 – Compensation for sterilization victims
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Nov. 1 – Hungarian Immigrants in Canada
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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October 29 – The Great Depression
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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October 28 – William Hall is awarded the VC
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada is Founded
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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October 25 – Leslie McFarlane is Born
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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October 22 – Louis Riel is Born
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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October 20 – Tommy Douglas was born
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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October 19 – St. Albans Raid
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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October 18 - The Famous Five
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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October 15 – Chinese Rail Workers and the CPR
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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October 14 – SS Caribou sunk by German submarine
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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October 13 – Anniversary of the Canadian Navy
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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October 12 – Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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October 8 – Multiculturalism Policies Introduced
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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October 7 – First concert of the NAC Orchestra
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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October 6 – Radio station opens in Aklavik, NWT
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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October 5 – Laurie Skreslet becomes first Canadian to climb Everest
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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October 4 – Pianist Glenn Gould dies
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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October 1 – Artist Paul Kane returns to Toronto
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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September 30 – Arctic explorer John Rae is born
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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September 29 – The Aloutte 1
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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September 28 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau Passes Away
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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September 27 – Stanley Park opened in Vancouver
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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September 24 – Canada Lifts Sanctions Against South Africa
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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September 23 – Mack Sennett releases first film
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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September 22 – Building named after Clara Brett Martin
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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September 21 – The Toonie is Unveiled to the Public
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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September 20 – First signing of Treaty 5
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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September 17 – Fire on the SS Noronic kills over 115 people
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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September 16 – Construction begins on the Canso Causeway
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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September 15 – “The Greenpeace” Sets Sail in 1971
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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September 14 – Dorothea Palmer arrested for distributing information on birth control
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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September 13 – Laura Ingersoll is born
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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September 10 -1939 Canada Declares War on Germany
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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September 9 – Alexander Graham Bell creation breaks marine speed record
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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September 8 – The Children of the Klondike
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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September 7 – CBC Television Begins First Broadcast
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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September 6 – Launch of The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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September 2 – Celebrating the Discovery of the Wreckage of RMS Titanic
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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September 1 – Saskatchewan and Alberta become provinces (special edition!)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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August 31 – (First French Episode!) Opening of the Ouimetoscope Cinema.
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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August 30 – Vicki Keith becomes the first person to swim across all 5 Great Lakes
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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August 27 – The beginning of the first Canadian roadtrip by car
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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August 26 – Joseph Burr Tyrrell and the Canadian Dinosaur Rush
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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August 25 – Donald Marshall Sr. Passes Away
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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August 24 – Execution of Canadian Soldiers During WWI
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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August 23 – British Troops Prepare to Burn Washington
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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August 20 – Eaton’s Goes Bankrupt
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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August 19 – The Dieppe Raid of 1942
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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August 18 – The Dempster Highway opens in the Yukon
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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August 17 – First successful sailing of the Northwest Passage
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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August 16 – Gold Deposits are Discovered in 1896, Sparking the Klondike Gold Rush
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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August 13 – Jacques Cartier "Discovers" the St. Lawrence River
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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August 12 – Hockey Legend Hayley Wickenheiser is Born
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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August 11 – Revolutionary Canadian artificial heart to be manufactured and marketed
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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August 10 – Canadian Bill of Rights Enacted in 1960
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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August 9 – Wayne Gretzky is Traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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August 6 – Macdonald and The Double Shuffle
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert Claims Part of Newfoundland for Britain
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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August 4 – Fire breaks-out in the Library of Parliament
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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August 3 – William Avery Bishop is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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July 30 – Mark Tewskbury Wins Gold
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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July 29 – James Shaver Woodsworth was born
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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July 28 – R.B. Bennett’s Conservative Party wins the 1930 election
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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July 27 – Insulin isolated at the U of T
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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July 26 – French surrender Louisbourg
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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July 23 – The Komagata Maru Leaves Vancouver
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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July 22 – Alexander Mackenzie Reaches the Pacific
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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July 21 – Marshall McLuhan’s Birthday
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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July 20 – 19th Century Worker Bees
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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July 19 – The 1976 Montreal Olympics
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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July 15 – Canada officially takes control of Rupert’s Land
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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July 14 – The Death Penalty is Abolished in Canada
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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July 12 – Pierre Berton’s Birthday
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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July 9 – First Chuckwagon Race
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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July 8 – The Disappearance of Tom Thomson
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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July 7 – Norman Bethune
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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July 6 – Birth of George “Chief” Armstrong
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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July 5 – No. 2 Construction Battalion
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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July 2 – The Battle of the Somme
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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July 1 - Canada Day!
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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June 30 – The Chinese Exclusion Act
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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June 29 – Thoroughbred Horse Racing in Canada
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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June 28 – Chinese Canadians and the Prairie West
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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June 27 – O Canada Officially Adopted
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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June 24 – 1968 Saint-Jean Baptiste Day
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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June 22 – Dief the Chief Becomes Prime Minister
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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June 21 – National Aboriginal Day – Treaty 8
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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June 20 – National Library of Canada Opens
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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June 17 – Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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June 16 – Saskatchewan Wakes up to a Socialist Government
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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June 15 – Herman ‘Jackrabbit’ Smith-Johannsen
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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June 14 – Province of Canada’s First Parliament
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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June 13 – The Last Fatal Duel
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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June 9 – The Politics of The Great Depression
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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June 7 – The Beothuk
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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June 8 – Mackenzie King Becomes Longest Serving PM
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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June 6 – D-Day
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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June 3 – Newfoundland Referendum of 1948
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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June 2 – Stan Rogers Passes
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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June 1 – The Cypress HIlls Massacre
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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May 31 – Ernest Manning
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May 31, 2025 |
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May 30 – Neal Beaumont is Born
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May 30, 2025 |
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May 27 - Algonquin Park is Established
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May 27, 2025 |
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May 26 – The Avrocar or “Flying Saucer”
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May 26, 2025 |
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May 25 – Battle of Eccles Hill
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May 25, 2025 |
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May 24 – Tommy Chong is Born
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May 24, 2025 |
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May 19 – Parks Canada’s Anniversary.
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May 19, 2025 |
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May 18 – Fire in Montreal
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May 18, 2025 |
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May 17 – The Vickers Vedette
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May 17, 2025 |
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May 13 – Roch Carrier is Born
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May 13, 2025 |
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May 12 – Farley Mowat is Born
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May 12, 2025 |
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May 11 – The West End Gang
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May 11, 2025 |
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May 10 – The Legacy of Batoche
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May 10, 2025 |
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May 9 – The Chocolate Bar War
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May 09, 2025 |
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May 6 – North America’s first Pesticide Ban
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May 06, 2025 |
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May 4 – Law and Order in the Klondike
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May 04, 2025 |
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May 3 – Stampede Wrestling
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May 03, 2025 |
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April 29 – The Frank Slide
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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April 28 – Expo 67 Opens
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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April 27 – The Sacking of York
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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April 20 – The Rainmaker
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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April 19 – Black Loyalists During the American Revolution
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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April 15 – Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp is Liberated
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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April 14th – “Surplus Children”
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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April 12 – The March of New Brunswick’s 104th
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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April 11 – Byng and Vimy Ridge
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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April 7 – The First Stamps
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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April 6 – Vancouver Incorporated as a City
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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April 5 – The Ripple Rock Explosion
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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April 4 – E. H. Norman Takes His Own Life
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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April 1 – A Small Town Mayor and the First Offical Game of Curling
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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March 31 – Last Tot of Rum for Navy
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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March 30 – The Labrador Joins Newfoundland
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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March 29: Budge Crawley Wins Oscar
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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March 25 – The Aroostook War Take II
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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March 24 – Black Canadians Granted the Right to Vote
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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March 23 – The Gazette Hits the Stands
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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March 21 – The North West Company Merges with the Hudson’s Bay Company
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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March 18 – The SS Beaver Arrived at the Pacific Coast
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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March 17 – Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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March 16 – St. Urho’s Day
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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March 15 – King’s College Founded
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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March 14 – The One Big Union is Formed
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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March 11 – Richard Blanshard Arrives on Vancouver Island
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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March 9 – Arctic Winter Games
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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March 8 – International Women's Day Edition (Extended)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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March 7 – The Montreal Shamrocks
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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March 4 – Actor John Candy Passed
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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March 3 – First Official Indoor Game of Hockey
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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March 2 – Inuit Artist Jessie Oonark Passed
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Mar. 1 – The Great Winnipeg Gold Robbery of 1966
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Feb. 28 – Alex Janvier and the "Indian Group of Seven"
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Feb. 24 – Martha Louise Munger is Born
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Feb. 23 – Matonabbee
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Feb. 22 – Remembering the War of 1812
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Feb. 18 – The Battle of Paardeburg
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Feb. 17 – The Mad Trapper is Killed
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Feb. 16 – Citizenship Special
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Feb. 15 – The Great Upheaval
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Feb. 14 – The Asbestos Strike of 1949
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Feb. 11 – Patrick James Whelan executed
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Feb. 10 – War Brides Arrive in 1946
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Feb. 9 – 1913 Meteor Procession
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Feb. 8 – The Aroostook War
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Feb. 7 – First War Artists Commissioned
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Feb. 4 – Wreck of the Oil Tanker Arrow
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Feb. 3 – Pierre Trudeau Tours Cuba
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Feb. 2 – Wiarton Willie Festival
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Feb. 1 – The North West Mounted Police Becomes the RCMP.
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Jan. 31 – The Real James Bond, Sir William Stephenson Passes Away
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Jan. 28 – Women Get the Vote
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Jan. 27 – The Original Bluenose's Last Day
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Jan. 26 – Dr. Wilder Penfield is Born
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Jan. 25 – Lucy Maud Montgomery in Ontario
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Jan. 24 – Japanese Canadian Internment
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Jan. 21 – The 1910 Spanish River Train Wreck
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Jan. 20 – Doukhobors Arrive in Halifax
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Jan. 19 – The Jets Leave Winnipeg
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Jan. 18 – Canadian Content Rules Come into Effect
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Jan. 17 – Jacques Plante and Facial Protection in Hockey
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Jan. 13 – Major Gustave Biéler is Arrested by the Gestapo
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Jan. 11 – John A. Macdonald is Born pt. 2 of 2
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Jan 10 – John A. Macdonald is Born pt. 1 of 2
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Jan. 7 – Hank Snow Performs at the Grand Ole Opry
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Jan. 6 – Brother André Bessette Passes Away
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Jan. 5 – The Montreal Canadiens Play their First Game at Home
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Jan 4 – Canadian Artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod is Born
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Jan. 3 – “How the Scots Invented Canada”
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Highlight – The Disappearance of Tom Thomson
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – The October Crisis Ends
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – No. 2 Construction Battalion
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – The Great Winnipeg Gold Robbery of 1966
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – The Mad Trapper is Killed
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – Viola Desmond is physically removed from theatre
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – Tommy Douglas was born
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – “The Greenpeace” Sets Sail in 1971
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – Saskatchewan and Alberta become provinces
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight - British Troops Prepare to Burn Washington
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – Major Gustave Biéler is Arrested by the Gestapo
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – Macdonald and The Double Shuffle
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Highlight – The Komagata Maru Leaves Vancouver
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Dec 31, 2024 |