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On This Day - September 11
1861 – Toronto’s first streetcar route started operation. Horse-drawn trams improved upon previous transportation methods, but they were far from ideal. Heavy loads could not be hauled. The horses were expensive and required frequent rest periods. They also polluted the streets. Aw, horse pucky!
On This Day - September 5
1760 -Â The Murray Treaty of Longueuil was concluded between the Huron and the British. The Huron agreed to put down their arms. In return they would receive safe passage, free exercise of religion, local government and justice. The treaty was recognized in 1990 by the Supreme Court of Canada.
On This Day - September 4
2007 - PM Stephen Harper announced the appointment of Steven Point as BC's first Aboriginal lieutenant-governor.
On This Day - September 3
1810Â -Â Painter Paul Kane, who was the most famous of all Canadian artist-explorers, was born at Mallow, Ireland.
On This Day - September 2
1912 - Instigated by an American cowboy, Guy Weadick, and underwritten by Calgary businessmen, the first Calgary Stampede was held.
On This Day - September 1
Sep 1, 1864 to Sep 9, 1864 - The Charlottetown Conference was held in Charlottetown, PEI. At the conference Maritime union was virtually dropped, and the delegates agreed to meet a new conference in Québec to discuss a Canadian scheme for a union of all the colonies.
On This Day - August 31
1985 - “The Summer of ’69,” Canadian rocker Bryan Adams’ nostalgic ode to lost love and garage bands, peaked at number five on the American Billboard pop chart. “Those were the best days of my life...” You’re singing it right now, aren’t you?
On This Day - August 30
1891 - Educator Elmer Jamieson, who, with his fellow Mohawks, set up the first Amerindian communications network, was born at the Six Nations Reserve, Ont. After enlisting in the army, censorship of his letters led Jamieson to write home in Mohawk. When censors could not "crack his code," he was called in to reveal its secrets.
On This Day - August 29
1907 - Part of the Québec Bridge, the longest cantilever bridge in the world, collapsed, killing 75 of its 86 workers. People as far as 10 km away thought an earthquake had struck. Blame rested on American engineer Theodore Cooper’s grave errors in design and faulty load calculations. After another deadly collapse in 1916, the bridge was completed in 1917.
On This Day - August 28
1913 - Writer Robertson Davies, who is acknowledged as an outstanding essayist and brilliant novelist, was born at Thamesville, Ont. Among his best known works, Fifth Business (1970) casts characters in roles roughly corresponding to Jungian archetypes to show his belief that things of the spirit are more important than worldly concerns. Sounds good to us!
On This Day - August 27
1946 - Director André Brassard, who has directed numerous productions by the likes of Chekhov, Miller and Shakespeare, was born at Montréal. A frequent collaborator with celebrated writer Michel Tremblay, Brassard has staged many major Quebecois works and was instrumental in helping contemporary Québec culture come into its own.
On This Day - August 26
1961 - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker opened the Hockey Hall of Fame at Exhibition Place in Toronto. In 1945, and without a formal building, the Hall inducted its first members. Among the inaugural inductees were Dubbie Bowie, Hobey Baker and some guy named Lord Frederick Stanley.Â
On This Day - August 25
1826 - Politician Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, a Father of Confederation, was born at Québec. Langevin defended Québec's interests at the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences in 1864, and at the London Conference in 1866. After 1867 he represented Dorchester County in both Québec and Ottawa until dual representation was abolished in 1874.
On This Day - August 24
1814 – During the War of 1812, British forces captured Washington, D.C. and set fire to the White House. Frustrated by the growing damages wrought by invading U.S. troops, Sir George Prevost called for retaliation to "deter the enemy from repetition of similar outrages." That retaliation took shape with the capture and burning of Washington.
On This Day - August 23
1797 - The last slave transaction in Canada took place when Emmanuel Allan was sold at auction in Montréal. On Aug. 28, 1833 the British Parliament passed a law abolishing slavery in all British North American colonies. Between 1763 and 1865, most blacks migrating to Canada were fleeing slavery in the United States.
On This Day - August 22
1964 - The Beatles arrived in Vancouver, causing pandemonium. The band played a 25-minute concert at Vancouver's Empire Stadium before an audience of 20,261 screaming fans. Police were forced to control the crowd when fans charged the stage. None of the Fab Four were harmed, but nearly 10,000 hearts were broken. Â
On This Day - August 21
1860 - Police Officer Aylesworth Perry, who, as commissioner of the NWMP, transformed the police from a romantic frontier force into a modern national police force, was born at Violet, Ont. Perry modernized the force's equipment and methods. During the First World War, departures to serve overseas weakened the force, and its future was in doubt. However, the NWMP proved its usefulness in controlling postwar unrest, and was reorganized by Perry as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.