I thought since we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canada's founding this year that it would be interesting to have a thread where we talk about this great and diverse country of people and look back on some of the historical events that shaped this country.
So what happened on Jan 6th.
January 6, 1786 - First sitting of the New Brunswick legislature takes place at Saint John. Saint John, New Brunswic
January 6, 1893 - Great Northern last spike, Scenic, Washington.
January 6, 1915 - Military - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France during World War I.
January 6, 1992 - Québec Superior Court judge rules that a 25-year-old paralyzed patient, "Nancy B," suffering from a rare neurological disorder and on life support, has no hope of recovery and has the right to die. Doctors will remove her life support on
February 13, after a 30 day appeal period lapses. Québec, Québec
January 6, 1998 - Hockey - Alan Eagleson pleads guilty to fraud in a Boston courtroom; the former hockey lawyer/agent and president of the NHL Players Association is fined $1 million; a day later, in Toronto, he is sentenced to 18 months in prison. Boston, Massachusetts
What about Jan 7th? Well because I can't do these everyday
January 7, 1832 - William Lyon Mackenzie is again expelled from the Upper Canada Assembly after winning a by-election on
January 2, and again re-elected; after being beaten by thugs and pelted with garbage, he will go into hiding until his departure for England in April 1832, after public meetings approved payment of his expenses. Toronto, Ontario
January 7, 1836 - William Lyon Mackenzie loses his Assembly seat in a rowdy, corrupt election; Tories win majority; Bidwell also loses. Toronto, Ontario
January 7, 1867 - Military - Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy.
January 7, 1955 - Media - CBC broadcasts the Speech from the Throne and the opening ceremonies of Parliament live on television for the first time. Ottawa, Ontario
January 7, 1998 - Indigenous - Canadian government apologizes to the nation's indigenous peoples for past acts of oppression; pledges $245 million for counseling and treatment programs. Canada's aboriginal population is about 810,000; includes 38,000 Inuits and 139,000 Metis, people of mixed Indian and white ancestry.
January 7 - Hockey -
Alan Eagleson pleads guilty in a Toronto courtroom, to three counts of fraud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in Canada Cup money from the 1984, 1987 and 1991 tournaments; the former hockey lawyer/agent and president of the NHL Players Association is sentenced to 18 months in prison; a day earlier, in Boston, Massachusetts, he had been convicted and fined $1 million; serves six months in the Mimico Correctional Centre, resigns from the Hockey Hall of Fame (after many members threaten to resign), is removed from the Order of Canada and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada. Toronto, Ontario
January 7, 2002 - Military - Canada announces plans to send 750 soldiers to join US combat operations in southern Afghanistan. Ottawa, Ontario
Might as well do Sunday and take the weekend off
January 8, 1815 - War of 1812 - US Maj Gen Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson scores a major victory over the British, led by Maj Gen Edward Pakenham, at the
Battle of New Orleans, fought after the treaty of Ghent had been signed. New Orleans, Louisiana
January 8, 1915 - H.G. Bellinger of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry dies at the Ypres salient. First Canadian known to have been killed in WWI.
January 8, 1941 - Federal Minister Ian Mackenzie announces that the RCMP will be registering all Japanese Canadians in British Columbia; a national security matter under the War Measures Act. They are later moved inland to detention camps. Vancouver, BC
January 8, 1942 - Conference on Japanese Matters convened in Ottawa.
January 8, 1998 -
Operation Recuperation - State of emergency declared in Montreal and over 18 Ontario municipalities; over 15,000 Canadian Forces personnel from more than 200 units respond in what is the largest deployment for a natural disaster in Canadian history. In hard-hit Quebec, 4, 000 soldiers help Hydro-Quebec with the worst ice storm damage; 1.3 million households will lose power in Eastern Ontario and Quebec. Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Anniversary thread
