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Today in Canadian History — 213 episodes
August 18 – The Dempster Highway opens in the Yukon
August 17 – First successful sailing of the Northwest Passage
August 16 – Gold Deposits are Discovered in 1896, Sparking the Klondike Gold Rush
August 13 – Jacques Cartier "Discovers" the St. Lawrence River
August 12 – Hockey Legend Hayley Wickenheiser is Born
August 11 – Revolutionary Canadian artificial heart to be manufactured and marketed
August 10 – Canadian Bill of Rights Enacted in 1960
August 9 – Wayne Gretzky is Traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings
August 6 – Macdonald and The Double Shuffle
August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert Claims Part of Newfoundland for Britain
August 4 – Fire breaks-out in the Library of Parliament
August 3 – William Avery Bishop is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
July 29 – James Shaver Woodsworth was born
July 28 – R.B. Bennett’s Conservative Party wins the 1930 election
July 27 – Insulin isolated at the U of T
July 26 – French surrender Louisbourg
July 23 – The Komagata Maru Leaves Vancouver
July 22 – Alexander Mackenzie Reaches the Pacific
July 30 – Mark Tewskbury Wins Gold
July 21 – Marshall McLuhan’s Birthday
July 20 – 19th Century Worker Bees
July 19 – The 1976 Montreal Olympics
July 15 – Canada officially takes control of Rupert’s Land
July 14 – The Death Penalty is Abolished in Canada
July 12 – Pierre Berton’s Birthday
July 9 – First Chuckwagon Race
July 8 – The Disappearance of Tom Thomson
July 7 – Norman Bethune
July 6 – Birth of George “Chief” Armstrong
July 5 – No. 2 Construction Battalion
July 2 – The Battle of the Somme
July 1 - Canada Day!
June 30 – The Chinese Exclusion Act
June 29 – Thoroughbred Horse Racing in Canada
June 28 – Chinese Canadians and the Prairie West
June 27 – O Canada Officially Adopted
June 24 – 1968 Saint-Jean Baptiste Day
June 22 – Dief the Chief Becomes Prime Minister
June 20 – National Library of Canada Opens
June 17 – Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
June 16 – Saskatchewan Wakes up to a Socialist Government
June 15 – Herman ‘Jackrabbit’ Smith-Johannsen
June 14 – Province of Canada’s First Parliament
June 13 – The Last Fatal Duel
June 9 – The Politics of The Great Depression
June 8 – Mackenzie King Becomes Longest Serving PM
June 7 – The Beothuk
June 6 – D-Day
June 3 – Newfoundland Referendum of 1948
June 2 – Stan Rogers Passes
June 1 – The Cypress HIlls Massacre
May 31 – Ernest Manning
May 30 – Neal Beaumont is Born
May 27 - Algonquin Park is Established
May 26 – The Avrocar or “Flying Saucer”
May 25 – Battle of Eccles Hill
May 24 – Tommy Chong is Born
May 19 – Parks Canada’s Anniversary.
May 18 – Fire in Montreal
May 17 – The Vickers Vedette
May 13 – Roch Carrier is Born
May 12 – Farley Mowat is Born
May 11 – The West End Gang
May 10 – The Legacy of Batoche
May 9 – The Chocolate Bar War
May 6 – North America’s first Pesticide Ban
May 4 – Law and Order in the Klondike
May 3 – Stampede Wrestling
April 29 – The Frank Slide
April 28 – Expo 67 Opens
April 27 – The Sacking of York
April 20 – The Rainmaker
April 19 – Black Loyalists During the American Revolution
April 15 – Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp is Liberated
April 14th – “Surplus Children”
April 13 – Grey Owl Passes
April 12 – The March of New Brunswick’s 104th
April 11 – Byng and Vimy Ridge
April 7 – The First Stamps
April 6 – Vancouver Incorporated as a City
April 5 – The Ripple Rock Explosion
April 4 – E. H. Norman Takes His Own Life
April 1 – A Small Town Mayor and the First Offical Game of Curling
March 31 – Last Tot of Rum for Navy
March 30 – The Labrador Joins Newfoundland
March 29: Budge Crawley Wins Oscar
March 24 – Black Canadians Granted the Right to Vote
March 23 – The Gazette Hits the Stands
March 21 – The North West Company Merges with the Hudson’s Bay Company
March 18 – The SS Beaver Arrived at the Pacific Coast
March 17 – Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
March 16 – St. Urho’s Day
March 15 – King’s College Founded
March 14 – The One Big Union is Formed
March 11 – Richard Blanshard Arrives on Vancouver Island
March 9 – Arctic Winter Games
March 8 – International Women's Day Edition (Extended)
March 7 – The Montreal Shamrocks
March 4 – Actor John Candy Passed
March 3 – First Official Indoor Game of Hockey
March 2 – Inuit Artist Jessie Oonark Passed
Feb. 28 – Alex Janvier and the "Indian Group of Seven"
Jan. 27 – The Original Bluenose's Last Day
Feb. 24 – Martha Louise Munger is Born
Feb. 22 – Remembering the War of 1812
Feb. 18 – The Battle of Paardeburg
Feb. 17 – The Mad Trapper is Killed
Feb. 16 – Citizenship Special
Feb. 15 – The Great Upheaval
Feb. 14 – The Asbestos Strike of 1949
Feb. 11 – Patrick James Whelan executed
Feb. 10 – War Brides Arrive in 1946
Feb. 23 – Matonabbee
Feb. 9 – 1913 Meteor Procession
Feb. 8 – The Aroostook War
Feb. 7 – First War Artists Commissioned
Feb. 4 – Wreck of the Oil Tanker Arrow
Feb. 3 – Pierre Trudeau Tours Cuba
Feb. 2 – Wiarton Willie Festival
Feb. 1 – The North West Mounted Police Becomes the RCMP.
Jan. 31 – The Real James Bond, Sir William Stephenson Passes Away
Jan. 28 – Women Get the Vote
Jan. 26 – Dr. Wilder Penfield is Born
Jan. 25 – Lucy Maud Montgomery in Ontario
Jan. 24 – Japanese Canadian Internment
Jan. 21 – The 1910 Spanish River Train Wreck
Jan. 20 – Doukhobors Arrive in Halifax
Jan. 19 – The Jets Leave Winnipeg
Jan. 18 – Canadian Content Rules Come into Effect
Jan. 17 – Jacques Plante and Facial Protection in Hockey
Jan. 13 – Major Gustave Biéler is Arrested by the Gestapo
Jan. 11 – John A. Macdonald is Born pt. 2 of 2
Jan 10 – John A. Macdonald is Born pt. 1 of 2
Jan. 7 – Hank Snow Performs at the Grand Ole Opry
Jan. 6 – Brother André Bessette Passes Away
Jan 4 – Canadian Artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod is Born
Jan. 3 – “How the Scots Invented Canada”
Dec. 9 – Camp X
Dec. 8 – The Battle of Hong Kong and its Aftermath
Dec. 7 – The Battle of Montgomery_s Tavern
December 6 – The Halifax Explosion
December 3 – The October Crisis Ends.
Dec. 2 – Writer Robertson Davies Passes Away
Dec. 1 – James Naismith and Basketball
Nov. 30 – General Arthur Currie Passes Away
Nov. 26 – The NHL is Founded in 1917
Nov. 25 – Happy Birthday, Banff!
Nov. 24 – The Canadian Northern Railway is Completed to Edmonton
Nov. 23 – HMS Tribune Sinks
Nov. 22 – Artist Jack Shadbolt Passes
Nov. 19 – René Lévesque Forms the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association
Nov. 18 – Introduction of Standard Time
Nov. 17 – The 1999 Marshall Decision and Fishing Rights
Nov. 15 – Ned Hanlan becomes world champion
Nov. 10 – The Edmund Fitzgerald goes down
Nov. 9 – The First Game of Football
Nov. 8 – Viola Desmond is physically removed from theatre
Nov. 5 – First CBC broadcast of official time signal
Nov. 4 – Inventor George Klein Passes Away
Nov. 3 – The story of Danylo Shumuk
Nov. 2 – Compensation for sterilization victims
Nov. 1 – Hungarian Immigrants in Canada
October 29 – The Great Depression
October 28 – William Hall is awarded the VC
October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada is Founded
October 25 – Leslie McFarlane is Born
October 22 – Louis Riel is Born
October 20 – Tommy Douglas was born
October 19 – St. Albans Raid
October 18 - The Famous Five
October 15 – Chinese Rail Workers and the CPR
October 14 – SS Caribou sunk by German submarine
October 13 – Anniversary of the Canadian Navy
October 12 – Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie
October 8 – Multiculturalism Policies Introduced
October 7 – First concert of the NAC Orchestra
October 6 – Radio station opens in Aklavik, NWT
October 5 – Laurie Skreslet becomes first Canadian to climb Everest
October 4 – Pianist Glenn Gould dies
October 1 – Artist Paul Kane returns to Toronto
September 30 – Arctic explorer John Rae is born
September 29 – The Aloutte 1
September 28 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau Passes Away
September 27 – Stanley Park opened in Vancouver
September 24 – Canada Lifts Sanctions Against South Africa
September 23 – Mack Sennett releases first film
September 22 – Building named after Clara Brett Martin
September 21 – The Toonie is Unveiled to the Public
September 20 – First signing of Treaty 5
September 17 – Fire on the SS Noronic kills over 115 people
September 16 – Construction begins on the Canso Causeway
September 15 – “The Greenpeace” Sets Sail in 1971
September 14 – Dorothea Palmer arrested for distributing information on birth control
September 13 – Laura Ingersoll is born
September 10 -1939 Canada Declares War on Germany
September 9 – Alexander Graham Bell creation breaks marine speed record
September 8 – The Children of the Klondike
September 7 – CBC Television Begins First Broadcast
September 6 – Launch of The Canadian Encyclopedia
September 2 – Celebrating the Discovery of the Wreckage of RMS Titanic
September 1 – Saskatchewan and Alberta become provinces (special edition!)
August 31 – (First French Episode!) Opening of the Ouimetoscope Cinema.
August 30 – Vicki Keith becomes the first person to swim across all 5 Great Lakes
August 27 – The beginning of the first Canadian roadtrip by car
August 26 – Joseph Burr Tyrrell and the Canadian Dinosaur Rush
August 25 – Donald Marshall Sr. Passes Away
August 24 – Execution of Canadian Soldiers During WWI
August 23 – British Troops Prepare to Burn Washington
August 20 – Eaton’s Goes Bankrupt
August 19 – The Dieppe Raid of 1942
March 25 – The Aroostook War Take II
Mar. 1 – The Great Winnipeg Gold Robbery of 1966
Jan. 5 – The Montreal Canadiens Play their First Game at Home