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List of important anniversaries
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2000
| 1000 (1000) |
Establishment of a Viking colony at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland. |
| 250 (1750) |
November : First astronomical observatory in Canada established at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) by the Marquis de Chabert.
First chamber of commerce in Canada founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia; then known as the Association for the Benefit of Trade, it has been called the Halifax Board of Trade since 1883. |
| 225 (1775) |
May 1 : Quebec Act took effect after receiving royal assent on June 22, 1774; it considerably extended the borders of Quebec and sought to firmly establish the provincial government there in the northern part of the continent. |
| 200 (1800) |
Philemon Wright arrived at the Chaudière Falls in Hull (founding of Hull, Quebec). |
| 150 (1850) |
October : Discovery of the Northwest Passage by Captain Robert McClure. |
| 125 (1875) |
February 23 : Municipality of Hull established.
April 5 : Supreme Court of Canada created.
June 1 : Start of construction of main Canadian Pacific line at Fort William, Ontario.
Late August : Fort Calgary built by 50 men from Division "F" of the Northwest Mounted Police commanded by Inspector Brisebois. |
| 100 (1900) |
July 6 : Art Museum of Toronto incorporated and founded. It became the Art Gallery of Toronto on April 24, 1919 and acquired its present name, the Art Gallery of Ontario, on July 8, 1966.
December 6 : Desjardins Credit Union Movement founded in Lévis, Quebec. |
| 75 (1925) |
February 24 : Canada and the United States signed a treaty establishing an International Boundary Commission, with one representative from each country, to maintain an effective border between Canada and the United States. The treaty came into force on July 17 of that year.
The United Church held its first service.
November 25 : Royal Canadian Legion founded. |
| 50 (1950) |
April 25 : Agreement to build the Trans-Canada Highway signed by the governments of Canada, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.
May 29 : The RCMP ship St. Roch reached Halifax after a voyage from Vancouver through the Panama Canal. It was the first ship to sail around North America.
June 7 : Teleglobe Canada Inc. (then the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation) incorporated.
June 25 : Start of Korean War.
Summer : Construction of the Trans-Canada Highway began. Completed in 1970, it is the longest national highway in the world.
October 4 : Official opening of a $95-million interprovincial oil pipeline between Edmonton and head of Great Lakes.
Cardiac stimulator unveiled in Toronto. |
| 25 (1975) |
March 24 : Beaver adopted as official symbol of Canada.
November 11 : James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and Northeastern Quebec Agreement signed, the first modern land claims settlements. These agreements fulfilled a commitment made in the late 1800s to resolve territorial questions. |
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2001
| 425 (1576) |
August 11 : British admiral Martin Frobisher, on board the Gabriel, discovered the Northwest Passage. |
| 250 (1751) |
August 3: Bartholomew Green established the first printing press in Halifax. |
| 175 (1826) |
Colonel John By arrived in Bytown (now Ottawa) to build the Rideau Canal. |
| 150 (1851) |
April 17 : Launch of the Marco Polo, the most famous sailing ship built in New Brunswick, because of its speed records.
April 23 : Responsible government established in Prince Edward Island.
April 23 : Canada issued its first postage stamp, the three-penny red beaver.
November 25 : Francis Grafton and James Clexton established the first YMCA in Montréal.
E.B. Eddy Company established in Hull, Quebec. |
| 125 (1876) |
February 23 : Library of Parliament opened in its present building.
June 1 : Opening of first Royal Military College in Kingston; the Act to Establish a Military College in one of the Garrison Towns of Canada had received royal assent on May 26, 1874.
July : Asbestos discovered for the first time in Quebec by farmer Joseph Fecteau on road 5 of concession 27 in Thetford Township.
August 10 : First long-distance call in the world between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. |
| 100 (1901) |
July 4 : Hartland Bridge opened in New Brunswick. When covered in 1922, it became the longest covered bridge in the world, at 390.8 metres.
December 12 : Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi received a wireless message from Poldhu, Cornwall, England on Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland. This was the first Trans-Atlantic radio transmission. |
| 75 (1926) |
May 5 : Rouyn incorporated; May 8: Noranda incorporated. On July 5, 1986, Rouyn-Noranda merged and became the largest mining town in Quebec (gold and copper). |
| 50 (1951) |
May 31 : Royal assent given to an Act amending the Northwest Territories Act, granting an elected assembly.
October : First use of first commercial service in the world employing cobalt-60 radiation treatment for cancer, at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario.
November 12 : National Ballet of Canada gave its first performance in Toronto to mark its founding.
The National Research Council of Canada invented the STEM antenna, of crucial importance for the first space craft. |
| 25 (1976) |
June 23 : CN Tower opened in Toronto, a monument to Canada's commitment to telecommunications, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure at 550 metres. The tower cost $63 million to build.
July 17 to 31 : Olympic Games in Montréal, Quebec.
September : First issue of L'actualité magazine published in Quebec.
November 7 : First coast-to-coast non-stop flight from west to east by a Canadian fighter plane. The aircraft landed in Shearwater, Nova Scotia.
International Stress Institute founded in Montréal by Hans Selye, who discovered stress or adaptation syndrome in 1936. |
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2002
| 425 (1577) |
July 28 : Exploration of Baffin Land by Martin Frobisher during his second voyage. |
| 250 (1752) |
March 23 : The Halifax Gazette, Canada's first newspaper, starts publishing once a week.
The first book published in Canada, a government report, is printed in Halifax. |
| 225 (1777) |
Congregation Sherith Israel establishes Canada's first permanent synagogue, in Montréal. |
| 175 (1827) |
The first steam turbine is put into operation in Nova Scotia. |
| 150 (1852) |
July 18 : Incorporation of Sherbrooke, Quebec.
December 9 : Laval University receives a royal charter, becoming the first French-language Roman Catholic university in North America.
Toronto Stock Exchange founded by a group of businessmen.
Father Lacombe arrives in Alberta. |
| 125 (1877) |
August 22 : Alexander Graham Bell is granted patent no. 7739 for the invention of the telephone.
September 22 : Signature of the Blackfoot Treaty (Treaty No. 7) in Alberta.
October 9 : Work begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
First flour mill in Canada, McLean's Mill, is established in Manitoba. |
| 100 (1902) |
January 2 : Dawson City, Yukon, incorporated.
December 15 : First official transatlantic wireless message, from Governor General Lord Minto to King George V, transmitted by Marconi from Glace Bay to Cornwall, England. |
| 75 (1927) |
February 1 : Royal assent to the Old Age Pensions Act.
February 14 : Creation of the Toronto Maple Leafs, formely the Toronto St Pats who had been in the National Hockey League since November 22, 1917.
March 27 : Canadian patent is awarded to Edward Samuel Rogers for the alternating-current radio. He had applied on April 6, 1925. This invention made it possible to manufacture radios which could be plugged into the household power supply.
Bilingual postage stamps issued. |
| 50 (1952) |
February 6 : Accession to the Throne of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
February 14 : Incorporation of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.
February 28 : Swearing in of Vincent Massey as the first Canadian-born Governor General since Confederation.
September 6 : CBC inaugurates the first television station in Canada - CBFT Montréal.
October 11 : CBFT Montréal airs the first televised hockey game in Canada - the Montréal Canadiens vs the Detroit Red Wings.
October 14 : Lester B. Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| 25 (1977) |
January 1 : Canada announces that its territorial waters extend 200 miles from its coasts.
April 1 : Inauguration of the telemedicine service via Hermes satellite, provided by Memorial University in St John's and the University of Western Ontario in London.
April 7 : Toronto Blue Jays play for the first time in the American Baseball League, defeating the Chicago White Sox 9 to 5. The Blue Jays had joined the American Baseball League on March 26, 1976.
June 24 : Syncrude Canada opens the largest oil sands project in the world at Mildred Lake, northeastern Alberta. This project was funded in part by the governments of Canada, Alberta and Ontario, which had agreed in the Winnipeg Accord of February 4, 1975 to invest $600 million in the project.
July 14 : Royal assent to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
October 7 : Television cameras allowed into the House of Commons for the first time. |
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2003
| 425 (1578) |
May 31 to October 17 : In his last expedition, Martin Frobisher sails out of Harwich, England, at the head of a flotilla of 15 vessels headed for Frobisher Bay, in order to establish a colony. The expedition was also supposed to bring back gold-bearing ore, but the ore proved to be worthless. On June 20, Frobisher took possession of Greenland in the name of Queen Elizabeth I, renaming it "West England". |
| 225 (1778) |
June 3 : First publication of the Montréal Gazette. |
| 200 (1803) |
First pulp and paper mill in Canada. |
| 175 (1828) |
August 6 : First St John's rowing regatta (now the Royal St John's Regatta), the oldest uninterrupted sporting event in North America. |
| 150 (1853) |
The Northwest Passage negotiated by ship for the first time.
Invention of kerosene by Abraham Gesner of Prince Edward Island.
Construction terminated on The Toronto, the first locomotive constructed in Canada.
The longest gas pipeline of its day (25 km) brought natural gas to Trois-Rivières, Quebec, for street lighting. |
| 125 (1878) |
Introduction of electric lighting to Canada. |
| 100 (1903) |
February 3 : Founding of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec.
March 1 : Inauguration of first electrical power line between Shawinigan and Montréal. Covering a distance of 135 kilometres, it was the longest east of the Mississippi.
October 7 : Discovery of the first silver deposit in Cobalt, Ontario.
First major hydro-electric station is built by the Shawinigan Water and Power Company. It was demolished in the early '50s. |
| 75 (1928) |
March : First issue of Chatelaine in English.
March 13 : Eileen M. Vollick of Hamilton, Ontario, becomes the first Canadian woman to obtain a pilot's licence. |
| 50 (1953) |
February : Queen Elizabeth II bestows the title "Royal" on the Winnipeg Ballet. The ballet company had been founded in 1939.
April : The municipality of Metropolitan Toronto is created.
June : The first uranium mine in Canada is opened, at Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan.
June 4 : Incorporation of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
October 20 : First private television station in Canada commences operations. CKCO-TV of Sudbury, Ontario, had received broadcasting authorization from the CRTC in March of that year. The station is still broadcasting, but as MC - TV. |
| 25 (1978) |
April 1 : Creation of VIA Rail as a Crown corporation.
April 2 : First edition of the Edmonton Sun.
October 8 : Gilles Villeneuve wins the Formula I Canadian Grand Prix in Montréal, the first Canadian driver to do so.
September 7 : The first employees of the Canadian Human Rights Commission take up their duties. |
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2004
| 200 (1804) |
A Scots actor named Ormsby opens the first theatre in Canada, in Montréal. |
| 150 (1854) |
Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn (1833-1868), a native of York (now Toronto) in Upper Canada (now Ontario), is the first Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross for his military heroism during the Crimean War of 1854-1856. [See 2006 - 150th (1856)]. |
| 125 (1879) |
August 15 : First Canadian National Exhibition held at Fort York in the former garrison building, Toronto.
First demonstrations of electric lighting in major Canadian cities (Quebec City, Toronto, etc.) |
| 100 (1904) |
August 17 : Incorporation of the Ford Motor Company of Canada. |
| 75 (1929) |
January 1 : Establishment of the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register, using "CF" serial numbers.
April 23 : The Canadian government gives patent no. 289058 to Dr Karl Clark and his team at the Alberta Science Council for the discovery of the hot water process for oil sands separation.
May 17 : First time a parachute is used in Canada as a safety device, by C.S. Caldwell, Montréal.
May 21 : Canadian Feed Industry Association.
Elizabeth Gregory MacGill, first Canadian woman to obtain a diploma in aeronautical engineering (Michigan University). |
| 50 (1954) |
March 30 : Inauguration of the Toronto subway, the first in Canada.
July 1 : Creation of the St Lawrence Seaway Authority. |
| 25 (1979) |
February 2 through 11 : Ottawa's first Winterlude.
June 22 : The Edmonton Oilers join the National Hockey League. The club had started as a World Hockey Association team on November 1, 1971.
September 5 : Inauguration of the plan to launch Canada's first gold coin, the Maple Leaf, to stimulate gold mining in Canada.
September 21 : Announcement of the Hibernia oil discovery, off the shores of Newfoundland.
October 25 : Inauguration of LG2, the largest power generating project in Canada.
Creation of the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
Foundation of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, in Montréal. |
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2005
| 400 (1605) |
August : Founding of Port-Royal, in Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia). |
| 150 (1855) |
May 7 : Establishment of responsible government in Newfoundland.
December 25 : First recorded hockey game (played in Kingston by members of the Royal Canadian Rifles posted there).
First Canadian oil wells. |
| 125 (1880) |
March 6 : Founding of the National Gallery of Canada.
June 24 : First public singing of O Canada, lyrics by Adolphe-Basile Routhier and music composed by Calixa Lavallée.
October 21 : Sir John A. Macdonald and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company sign an agreement to build a Trans-Canadian railway. |
| 100 (1905) |
May 4 : Incorporation of Kelowna, British Columbia.
September 1 : The province of Saskatchewan joins Confederation.
September 1 : The province of Alberta joins Confederation.
Opening of the Federal Observatory. |
| 75 (1930) |
February 15 : Appointment of Cairine Wilson to the Senate (first woman appointed to the Senate).
June 27 : Incorporation of Canadian Airways Ltd. (now Canadian International Airlines).
August 16 to 23 : First British Commonwealth Games held (British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1970, British Commonwealth Games in 1974 and Commonwealth Games as of 1978), in Hamilton, Ontario. They brought together 500 athletes from 11 countries, cheered on by over 4,000 spectators.
November 1 : Opening of the first international vehicle tunnel in the world, the underwater tunnel from Detroit to Windsor. Tunnel opened to vehicle traffic on November 3.
December 4 : Incorporation of Molson Breweries Ltd., founded in 1786 and currently called Molson Companies Ltd., as of 1973. |
| 50 (1955) |
January 7 : First television broadcast of the Speech of the Throne, opening the session of Parliament.
April 1 : RCA First Vickers Viscount is the first airline in North America with turbine aircraft.
September 2 : Opening of the 1,280-metre long Canso causeway, between Nova Scotia on the mainland and Cape Breton Island. |
| 25 (1980) |
July 1 : Proclamation of the National Anthem Act, making "O Canada" national anthem of Canada. |
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2006
| 225 (1781) |
February 15 : Construction of the first lock canal in North America, in Côteau-du-Lac, on the Saint Lawrence, by William Twiss.
December 24 : Baron Friedrich von Riedesel displays the first Christmas tree, in Sorel, Quebec. |
| 175 (1831) |
June 1 : Sir James Ross discovers the magnetic north pole. |
| 150 (1856) |
January 29 : Establishment of the Victoria Cross, one of the most important military awards, given to British and Commonwealth troops for gallantry in the presence of the enemy, retroactive to the Crimean War. Some 100 Canadians have received the Victoria Cross to date (see 2004-150 (1854)).
September 8 : First flight of a balloon manufactured in Canada and first passengers transported in the balloon called "Canada", from Montréal to Pointe-Olivier, Quebec.
October 26 : Opening of the railroad between Montréal and Toronto. |
| 125 (1881) |
February 15 : Royal Assent given to an act of Parliament (Act respecting Canadian Pacific Railway - Acte concernant le Chemin de fer Canadien du Pacifique) which incorporated the Canadian Pacific Railway. |
| 100 (1906) |
February 19 : William Kellogg created the Battle Creek Cornflake Company to produce cereal from a recipe he devised for his patients suffering from mental illness.
May 26 : Incorporation of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; the first settlers arrived in the area in 1883.
June 7 : Founding of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, now Ontario Hydro, the first public hydro-electric company in Canada. |
| 75 (1931) |
December 11 : British Parliament passes the Statute of Westminster, recognizing the autonomy of British dominions.
Canada becomes an urban country, according to the census definition. |
| 50 (1956) |
April 10 : The Montréal Canadiens Hockey Club wins its first of five consecutive Stanley Cups, a fact that has not been equalled to date.
September 25 : A transatlantic telephone cable between the United Kingdom and North America is opened with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York.
November 4 : The United Nations General Assembly adopts Canadian resolutions to create a contingency force to end the Suez Canal crisis. |
| 25 (1981) |
June 7 : Founding of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation.
November 13 : First flight trials of the Canadarm as part of the second Columbia space shuttle mission. |
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2007
| 200 (1807) |
Montréal Curling Club, the first club devoted to this sport in North America, is founded. |
| 175 (1832) |
May 29 : Lieutenant Colonel John By and his family's arrival aboard the steamer Pumper marks the official opening of the Rideau Canal, linking the Ottawa River to Lake Ontario. The construction of this canal was one of the largest engineering projects in North America. |
| 150 (1857) |
December 31 : Ottawa is selected as the capital of the Province of Canada by Queen Victoria. |
| 125 (1882) |
May 28 : Formation of the Royal Society of Canada.
May 30 : Incorporation of Brandon, Manitoba, on the site of a former Hudson's Bay Company trading post (1783-1832). |
| 100 (1907) |
December 6 : first recorded flight in Canada at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. |
| 75 (1932) |
May 20 and 21 : First solo flight by a woman pilot, Amelia Earhart, from Newfoundland to Londonderry, Ireland.
August 20 : The Ottawa agreements between the United Kingdom, Canada and other Commonwealth dominions and territories, considered the high point in the principle of preferential treatment among the nations of the Commonwealth.
Inauguration of the Trans-Canada Telephone System. |
| 50 (1957) |
February 16 : Creation of the Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), a fusion of the Fédération des unions industrielles du Québec (FUIQ) and the Fédération provinciale du travail du Québec (FPTQ). At the present time, the FTQ is the largest Quebec union.
March 28 : Royal assent given to the Canada Council Act, which created the Canada Council, an independent body with the mission of encouraging the arts, humanities and social sciences.
May 2 : Founding of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
July 31 : Distant Early Warning (DEW) line put into operation.
August 1 : Creation of NORAD(North American Air Defence Agreement).
September 12 : Formation of NORAD (North American Air Defence Agreement).
October 12 : Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Lester B. Pearson.
October 14 : Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II reads the speech from the Throne opening the First Session of the Parliament (first time that function is filled out by the reigning Sovereign).
November 3 : NRU reactor inaugurated at Chalk River, Ontario. |
| 25 (1982) |
March 4 : Appointment of Bertha Wilson to the Supreme Court of Canada, the first woman on Supreme Court.
April 17 : Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in which was included the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
May 19 : The Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup for the first time.
June 28 : House of Commons passes the Access to information Act.
Summer : The National Indian Brotherhood becomes the Assembly of First Nations.
October 27 : Legislation passed renaming Dominion Day as Canada Day.
December 10 : Signature by Canada and 118 other nations of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (the establishment of the 12-mile territorial sea stocks, maritime scientific research and seabed mining). |
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2008
| 400 (1608) |
Founding of Québec by Samuel de Champlain, which was incorporated in city in 1833. |
| 250 (1758) |
October 2 : First representative assembly in what was to become Canada met at Halifax.
Erection of a lighthouse on Sambro Island at the entrance to the Port of Halifax, the oldest such structure still standing.
Construction of the first naval shipyard in North America at Halifax. |
| 250 (1758) |
2nd siege of the Fortress of Louisbourg which fell to the largest invading army (14,000 soldiers) every assembled in Canadian colonial history. |
| 200 (1808) |
May 28 to July 2 : Simon Fraser explores the Fraser River to its mouth. |
| 125 (1883) |
December 1 : Incorporation of Regina, which was to become the Capital of the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905. |
| 100 (1908) |
January 2 : Opening of the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.
June 9 : Creation of the Civil Service Commission (the Public Service Commission of Canada).
Robert Stanley Weir composes the English words for "O Canada".
Publication of the novel Anne of Green Gables. |
| 75 (1933) |
July 19 to 22 : Creation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation or CCF (later the New Democratic Party). |
| 50 (1958) |
January 1: Creation of the Canadian Football League, which had been the Canadian Football Council since 1956.
September 6 : Royal assent given to the Parole Act, creating the Parole Board. October 10 : TransCanada Pipelines completes the last section of the world's longest gas pipeline. Gas from Alberta was piped into Toronto for the first time on October 27, 1958. The record stood until the Eighties, when the Soviets built a pipeline between Siberia and western Europe. |
| 25 (1983) |
July 7 : Public announcement of the creation of the Canadian Astronaut Program. Its first employees start work on December 3.
October 1 : Start of commercial operation of a nuclear power plant fuelled by natural uranium and cooled by ordinary "light" water, at Gentilly, Quebec.
The first heart-lung transplant is performed in London, Ontario at the University of Western Ontario's University Hospital. |
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2009
| 475 (1534) |
April 25 to September 5 : Jacques Cartier visits Canada for the first time, exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence and wintering at the site of what is now Quebec City. |
| 375 (1634) |
July 4 : Trois-Rivières, Quebec, is founded. |
| 275 (1734) |
April 1 : First Canadian light house (24 metres high) opened at Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This was destroyed along with the fortress, after falling to the English in 1758. |
| 250 (1759) |
250th anniversary of the Battle of Quebec. |
| 225 (1784) |
July 7 : Creation of the colony of New Brunswick, which obtained its own elected assembly. |
| 200 (1809) |
August 19 : The Accommodation, the first steamboat successfully built entirely in Canada, is launched at Montréal. |
| 175 (1834) |
March 6 : Incorporation of Toronto, which had been known as York since 1793. |
| 150 (1859) |
April 15 : The first steam boat is put into service on the Red River, to connect Winnipeg, Manitoba, and St. Paul, Minnesota.
December 20 : Construction begins on the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa.
First running of the Queen's Plate in Toronto. |
| 125 (1884) |
February : The first nickel and copper deposits are discovered at the Murray Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Sudbury subsequently becomes the largest nickel producing area in the world.
Fall : The first Timothy Eaton Company catalogue is published.
October 20 : First publication of the Montréal daily La Presse. |
| 100 (1909) |
February 23 : The first heavier-than-air craft, the Silver Dart, completes the first motor-powered flight in the British Empire, landing at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
June 1 : Department of External Affairs is created (now Foreign Affairs and International Trade).
December 4 : The directors of the National Hockey Association award a franchise to the Montréal Canadiens Hockey Club. It wins its first Stanley Cup at the end of the 1915-16 hockey season and is admitted to the National Hockey League on November 22, 1917.
Montréal Neurological Institute founded by the celebrated neurosurgeon, Dr Wilder Penfield.
Governor General Lord Grey donates the Grey Cup. |
| 50 (1959) |
June 26 : St. Lawrence Seaway opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and United States President Dwight Eisenhower.
November 2 : The National Energy Board is created as a result of the passage of the National Energy Board Act.
October 5 : Proclamation of the Farm Credit Corporation Act, passed on July 18. |
| 25 (1984) |
April 17 : Canada Health Act (health insurance).
October 5 : Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian astronaut to take part in an American space mission.
Canada-Soviet Union agreement on scientific research in the Arctic. |
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2010
| 400 (1610) |
June : Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay |
| 225 (1785) |
May 18 : Incorporation of Saint John, New Brunswick |
| 175 (1835) |
March 2 : The trial of Joseph Howe in the court room of the Supreme Court (now the library of the legislature) in Province House. Establishing freedom of the press in Canada.
March 11 : The Province of Canada prints its first bank notes. |
| 150 (1860) |
April : Founding of the Art Association of Montréal, by rich Montréal art collectors, the forerunner of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the oldest in the province of Quebec.
June 27 : The Queen's Plate race is run for the first time at the Carleton Race Track in Toronto.
September 1 : The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) lays the cornerstone for the Parliament Building in Ottawa. |
| 125 (1885) |
January 1 : Adoption of standard time based on the Greenwich Observatory's 24-hour system, pursuant to the recommendation by Sir Sandford Fleming, following the International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, USA, in October 1884.
November 16 : Execution of Louis Riel, in Regina, Saskatchewan. |
| 100 (1910) |
May 4 : Creation of the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| 75 (1935) |
March 11 : The Bank of Canada begins operations.
July 5 : The Canadian Wheat Commission Act, 1935, establishing the commission of the same name, receives Royal Assent.
Frère Marie-Victorin publishes Flore Laurentienne, a work still widely used by botanists. |
| 50 (1960) |
July 1 : Treaty Indians obtain the right to vote in Canada.
July 5 : Election of the Liberal Party, lead by Jean Lesage, in Quebec; beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
August 10 : The Canadian Bill of Rights receives Royal Assent.
October: First publication of Chatelaine, the modern magazine in Quebec. |
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