October 15th -- Today in Canadian History

I could blame/credit @bluefinstudios with this idea. Watch that guy, he’s a bit of an influencer. He mentioned to me one day that he liked checking out today in history and it got me to exploring for a Canadian one. For some strange reason I’m interested in Canadian history. Well, I’m interested in history but partial to Canadian.

So, let’s see what happened today in our past:

• 1605 — 400 Native Americans attacked a party at Stage Harbour, Cape Cod trying to capture iron implements. Among the party was Champlain. The attack and the determined opposition to French settlement in the area discouraged further attempts
• 1612 — Champlain appointed Lieutenant General of New France and is based in Quebec
• 1641 — Pual Chomedey de Maisonneuve arrives on the island that will become Montreal and starts building the settlement
• 1666 — Marquis de Tracy burns Mohawk villages after making peace with the Senecas and Oneidas and then claims Iroquois territory for France
• 1686 — Denonville appeals to France for help claiming the Iroquois are being stirred up by the English to attack settlements. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the earlier claim of their territory for France, right?
• 1754 — Anthony Henday sights the Rocky Mountains near Red Deer, Alberta and claims the area for the Hudson Bay Company
• 1777 — John Graves Simcoe is given command of the Queen’s Rangers during the American Revolutionary War — he will later become Governor of Upper Canada
• 1785 — Writ is issued for the election of the first representative assembly in New Brunswick
• 1792 — English law is introduced in Upper Canada
• 1840 — Population of Upper Canada 465,000 / Lower Canada 691,000
• 1851 — Sod is turned for the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railway at Toronto, Ontario — would later become the Northern Railway
• 1866 — Fire in Quebec City destroys 2,500 homes
• 1884 — The first issue of La Presse is published in Montreal, Quebec
• 1885 — First CPR (Canada Pacific Railroad) train reaches Lethbridge, Alberta
• 1918 — Last of WW1 prisoners of war incarcerated at Morrissey, BC are sent to Kapuskasing, Ontario
• 1920 — First commercial passenger flight into the bush. A two day trip to The Pas, Manitoba from Winnipeg. It carried two passengers.
• 1924 — Prince George, later King George VI visits Toronto, Ontario
• 1936 — Mary Sullivan becomes the first female aldermanin Canada when she’s sworn into office in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1942 — German U-Boats torpedoes a cargo ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Quebec
• 1951 — Charlotte Whitton becomes the first woman to elected as Mayor of a Major Canadian city when she’s elected in Ottawa, Ontario
• 1954 — Hurricane Hazel lashes South-Central Ontario with 124km/hr winds, dumping 10.1cm of rain in 12 hours. $25million in damage is done, 2,000 are left homeless and 83 are killed
• 1967 — Rene Levesque resigns from the Quebec Liberal party rejects Quebec separationg — on this day in 1968 he becomes the President of the new Parti Quebecois with a mandate to seek separation
• 1969 — Herbert Gray is appointed to the cabinet by Pierre Elliot Trudeau, becoming the first cabinet member of Jewish background
• 1970 — During the FLQ crisis Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau declares the War Measures Act for the first time during peacetime. The army is sent into the streets of Montreal and police are given sweeping powers of arrest and detention without warrants of anyone suspected of being involved with the FLQ
• 1984 — Trial of Saskatchewan politician Colin Thatcher begins for conspiracy to murder his wife
• 1986 — John Polanyi of the University of Toronto named a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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