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TODAY – NOV 6, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

On This Day

 

November 06

	Today's Canadian Headline...
1879	CANADA'S FIRST OFFICIAL THANKSGIVING DAYOttawa Ontario – The Canadian Thanksgiving Day is officially observed for the first time on this day. The holiday is moved to the week of Armistice Day after World War I, then fixed as the second Monday in October in 1957.
1769	Also On This Day... Churchill Manitoba – Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out from Fort Prince of Wales to explore the interior barrens west of Hudson Bay; he is away for five weeks on this, his first trip. Click here to explore Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne.
1861	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... James A. Naismith 1861-1939 physical education director, was born on this day in the Ottawa Valley at Almonte, Ontario in 1858; died in Lawrence, Kansas Nov 28, 1939. Naismith studied at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal, where he starred in football and lacrosse; 1887-90 taught physical education at McGill, then 1890-95 at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. In Dec. 1891, at Springfield College, Naismith devised thirteen rules for the game of basketball as an indoor activity for his students during the harsh winter months, in between football and baseball. Here he is with the peach baskets used as the first hoops. The game was an immediate success and in 1936 was accepted as an Olympic sport. In 1895, appointed director of physical education at the YMCA in Denver; 1898 MD Colorado University; 1898-1937 professor, physician and director of physical education at the University of Kansas. In 1959, he was voted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, officially called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in Springfield. In 1978 he was also inducted into Canada’s own Basketball Hall of Fame in Almonte, Ontario.Also George Back 1796-1878 Royal Navy officer, explorer, artist, was born on this day at Stockport, England, in 1796; died in London, England, June 23, 1878. Back learned watercolour while a prisoner of war in France from 1809 to 1814; made first Arctic voyage in 1818, sketching, mapping and writing; 1819 accompanied John Franklin to the Coppermine River; 1824-25 with Franklin overland to Great Bear Lake and the Arctic coast; 1834 mounted search mission for John Ross, found and travelled the Back (Thlew-ee-choh) River; 1836 encountered severe ice conditions; 1839 awarded knighthood and medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Also Louis-Victor Sicotte 1812-1889 lawyer, politician, judge, was born on this day at Boucherville, Quebec, in 1812; died in St-Hyacinthe Sept. 05, 1889. Sicotte was a strong Patriote and a co-founder of the St-Jean Baptiste Society, but in 1837-38 opposed rebellion because it would set back progress; 1851 elected to the Assembly for St-Hyacinthe; 1854 Speaker of the Assembly; 1857-59 Commissioner of Crown Lands; 1859 Leader of the Opposition from Canada East; May, 1862, co-Premier with John Sandfield Macdonald; May 08, 1863, defeated in Assembly; 1863-87 Judge of the Superior Court for St-Hyacinthe. Also Joseph Whiteside ‘Klondike Joe’ Boyle 1867-1923 mining developer, soldier of fortune, was born on this day at Toronto in 1867; died in London, England, Apr. 14, 1923. Boyle went to sea as a young man, then started a freight business in New York; 1897 managed Australian boxer Frank Slavin, touring Toronto, San Francisco, Victoria and Juneau, Alaska, then joined the Yukon gold rush. He and Slavin were among the first to cross the White Pass, opened the trail to Lakes Bennett and Tutshi, and filed a claim of 13.3 km along the Klondike River; 1900 lobbied in Ottawa for dredging concession; built profitable sawmill, docks and wharves; 1904 founded Canadian Klondike Mining Company; 1905 led the Klondike Wanderers hockey team east to play for the Stanley Cup; 1910 had massive dredging equipment in operation; 1911 built first hydroelectric plant in Yukon; 1916 raised machine-gun unit for service in World War I; sent to Russia to organize the railway system; 1917 appointed chairman of the All-Russian Food Board after Bolshevik takeover; returned national archive and paper currency to Romania after end of war; succeeded in getting a peace treaty signed between Russia and Romania; intelligence agent for British and French; worked to rehabilitate shattered Romanian oil industry; friend and possibly lover of Queen Marie; 1921 left Romania for London where he retired. Also Henry Thornton 1871-1933 railway manager, was born on this day at Logansport, Indiana, in 1871; died in New York City March 14, 1933. Thornton started his career with the Pennsylvania Railroad; 1914 general manager of the Great Eastern Railway in England;.director general of railways behind the battle lines in France during World War I; 1922-32 President of Canadian National Railways. Also James D. Norris 1906-1966 NHL Player, hockey executive, was born on this day in 1906; died Feb. 25, 1966. Norris was owner of the Detroit Red Wings (1933-43, 1946-66), Defensive Player of the Year Award named in his honour. Also Stephen Bosustow 1911-1981 animator, cartoon producer, film producer, was born on this day in 1911; died in 1981. Bosustow founded United Productions of America. Also Fernand Ouellet 1926- historian, was born on this day at Lac Bouchette, Quebec, in 1926. Ouellet got his doctorate from Laval, and has taught at Laval, Carleton, Ottawa and York universities. His major works are l’Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760-1850, and Le Bas-Canada, 1791-1840. Also Douglas Anakin 1930- bobsledder, teacher, was born on this day in 1930. Anakin joined Victor Emery’s Canadian four man bobsled team as the number two man at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Victor and John Emery, Peter Kirby and Anakin took the Gold medal in a time of 4:14:46; Canada’s first gold medal in the sport. Also Garry Kennedy 1935- artist, teacher, administrator, was born on this day at St Catharines, Ontario, in 1935. Kennedy served as first President of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax 1967-90, transforming a conservative school into an innovative powerhouse of talent. Also Garnet Richardson 1933- curler, was born on this day in 1933. Richardson played second on brother Ernie’s team with cousins Arnold and Wes as well as Mel Perry; they took five Saskatchewan men’s championships, four MacDonald Briers and four Scotch Cups. Also Barton Myers 1934- architect, was born on this day at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1934. Myers immigrated to Canada in 1968 to teach at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto; principal of Diamond and Myers; 1975 founded Barton Myers Associates with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles; projects include Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre and Housing Union Building (HUB) at University of Alberta; Sherbourne Lanes housing in Toronto; Seagram Museum in Waterloo; Art Gallery of Ontario additions. Also Bill Henderson 1944- rock vocalist, guitarist, was born on this day at Vancouver in 1944. Henderson played with the group Chilliwack. Also Fred Penner 1955- children’s performer, was born on this day at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1955. After graduating from the University of Winnipeg, Penner worked in child care and used music to entertain his children; 1972 started singing professionally and opened a children’s dance theatre company in Winnipeg with wife Odette Heyn; 1979 recorded hit single ,The Cat Came Back; album sold 150 000 copies in North America; 1984 started Fred Penner’s Place on CBC-TV; 1987 created his own record label, Oak Street Music, with artists such as Liona Boyd and Connie Kaldor. Also Ken Read 1955- downhiller, Crazy Canuck, was born on this day at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father was studying medicine, in 1955; raised in Calgary. Read started competing in ski races at age 8; 1974 joined the national alpine team; 1975 won World Cup season opener in Val d’Isère, France, to become the first Canadian male to win a World Cup event; won 5 consecutive Canadian national championships 1975-1980; won 6 World Cup downhills including back to back victories at Kitzbühel and Wengen in 1980; 1983 CBC Sports commentator; 1987 author, White Circus; VP of the Canadian Olympic Association, 1992 chef de mission at the Barcelona Olympics. Also Jean-Marc Chouinard 1963- fencer, was born on this day at Montreal in 1963. Chouinard was on the Canadian Fencing team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Also Patrick Burke 1970- CFL cornerback, was born on this day in 1970. Burke played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Also Mike Maurer 1975- CFL fullback, was born on this day in 1975. Maurer played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
In Other Events…
1998	Ottawa Ontario – Romeo Leblanc awards 1998 Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards at Rideau Hall. Winners are the CBC comedy team Royal Canadian Air Farce, singer Bruce Cockburn, tenor Jon Vickers, film producer Rock Demers, a co-founder of the Montreal Film Festival, Arnold Spohr, a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Paul Buissonneau, an actor, stage director and founder of La Compagnie de Théâtre de Quat’Sous in Montreal.
1995	New York City – Mark Messier scores his 500th NHL goal as Rangers beat Calgary Flames 4-2; 21st player to reach that mark.
1994	Montreal Quebec – Pierre Bourque elected Mayor of Montreal with 46.4% of the vote.
1991	Burgan Kuwait – Canadian team puts out last of 751 oil well fires started by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s troops at close of Gulf War.
1991	Toronto Ontario – Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laughren brings in law to encourage workers to buy shares and invest in venture capital funds; Ontario tax credit of 20% on first $3,500 invested.
1990	Quebec Quebec – Robert Bourassa 1933- urges the Belanger-Campeau Commission to find a clear consensus about what Quebeckers want to change; at opening session.
1988	Regina Saskatchewan – Regina beats up the Ottawa Rough Riders 45-11. The Ottawa Riders ends the football season with 2-16 win-loss and 618 points-against records, the worst in CFL history.
1984	Regina Saskatchewan – Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Colin Thatcher found guilty of murdering his ex-wife Joanne; sentenced to life in prison; angry that he had to pay her $820,000 in a divorce settlement, he tried to hire a killer, but when that failed, smuggled a gun into Canada and shot her.
1980	Ottawa Ontario – Parliamentary committee starts hearings on constitutional proposals; televised over 3-month period; rights for women, natives, handicapped, Acadians and those accused of crime.
1975	Toronto Ontario – Ontario limits rent increases to 8%, and moves to establish rent review boards.
1974	Rome Italy – Allan Joseph MacEachen 1921- pledges $785 million in Canadian food aid over three-year period at World Food Conference in Rome; Canadian External Affairs Minister.
1973	England – Canadian film producer Harry Saltzman starts filming the James Bond flick, The Man With The Golden Gun.
1970	Montreal Quebec – FLQ member Bernard Lortie arrested for the kidnapping of Quebec labour Minister Pierre Laporte.
1970	Ste-Foy, Quebec – Inauguration of the Pont Pierre-Laporte.
1969	Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa starts $50 million program to promote language training across Canada.
1968	Toronto Ontario – Toronto surgeons perform first plastic cornea implant in a human eye.
1960	Montreal Quebec – Canadian Pacific Locomotive A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0, built in 1887, pulls a special excursion train to St. Lin, in CP’s last steam locomotive trip.
1959	Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa starts new program to produce $1 billion in uranium, extending to 1966.
1958	Springhill Nova Scotia – Royal Canadian Humane Association awards Gold Medal to the citizens of Springhill for bravery in life-saving, after disaster of Oct. 23rd that kills 75 miners; 99 survive, trapped for two weeks in the deepest mine in North America.
1917	Passchendaele Belgium – General Arthur Currie’s Canadian Corps finally take the town of Passchendaele, in the third battle of Ypres; Canadians and Anzac troops suffer 240,000 casualties in four months to gain 8 km of muddy territory; offensive began July 31, and the Canadians took over from the battered Australians.
1906	Regina Saskatchewan – First long distance line reaches Regina from Winnipeg.
1884	Montreal Quebec – Montreal Foot Ball Club, QFRU, defeats Toronto Argonauts, ORFU, 30-0 in first CRFU Championship game; forerunner of Grey Cup.
1867	Ottawa Ontario – First sitting of the Parliament of Canada; adopts resolution for entry of Rupert’s Land and NWT into Canada; old Hudson’s Bay Company territory.
1837	Montreal Quebec – Thomas Storrow Brown 1803-1888 leads the Sons of Liberty (Fils de la Liberté) in a street fight with members of the Doric Club, a group of young anglophone Tories, after Doric mob wrecks the offices of his newspaper ‘The Vindicator’, and stones the houses of Louis-Joseph Papineau and André Ouimet.
1776	Cumberland Nova Scotia – rebels from Machias, Maine, repulsed in attack on Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia.
1769	Churchill Manitoba – Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out from Fort Prince of Wales to explore interior; away for five weeks.

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OBITS – NOV 6, 2010

Obituaries for November 6th, 2010

• Olive McPhee It is with broken hearts and deep sorrow we announce the passing of our mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother, Olive McPhee, 85, formerly of Wood Avenue, New Waterford, at the Maple Hill Manor on Nov. 5, 2010. Born in Ramea, Nfld., she was the daughter of the late Wallace and…

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• Margaret Paul It is with great sadness, that we announce the passing of our loving matriarch Margaret Marie Paul (nee Joe) who, after braving a lengthy illness, died peacefully on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Palliative Care Unit with her loving husband, Melvin and family…

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• Linda Browner Linda Marie Browner, 53 years of age, of Glace Bay passed away suddenly on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at the Glace Bay Hospital, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Glace Bay, Linda was the daughter of Rita (McLeod) and the late Clarence ‘Chubby’ Routledge. Linda is survived by her…

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• Catherine McCuaig Catherine McCuaig, 87, of Parkstone Enhanced Care, formerly of Sydney, we regret to announce has passed away surrounded by her loving family on Nov. 4, 2010. She was the daughter of Jennie Clarke, New Campbellton and John W. McLennan, New Campbellton. Survived by sisters, Louise Lutz…

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• David Rudderham It is with our deepest sadness we announce the passing of our beloved brother David ‘Super Dave’ Curtis Rudderham 46 of Louisbourg at the QE11, Halifax, on Thursday November 4, 2010. His journey in life started with difficulties at an early age where he overcame a brain tumor in spite of…

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• Graham ‘Sonny’ Hiscock It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Graham ‘Sonny’ Hiscock, Sonny passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 at the Glace Bay Hospital with his loving family by his side. Born in Glace Bay, he was the son of the late John and Lillian (Curtis) Hiscock and was a member of Knox…

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• Veronica McPherson It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our wonderful mother and grandmother, Veronica McPherson, on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born in Glace Bay, she was the daughter of the late Ronald Hugh and Mary Margaret (McMullin) O’Handley and was a…

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• Margaret MacRitchie Margaret Catherine (MacLeod) MacRitchie, 86, Little Narrows, Victoria County, died very peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 in Victoria County Memorial Hospital in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Born in Jubilee, Victoria County, Margaret was the only daughter of Kenneth Thomas and Annie (Ross)…

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• Cecil Boutilier Cecil Verner Boutilier, 76 of Glace Bay, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, surrounded by his loving family at the Glace Bay Hospital. Born in Wadden’s Cove he was the son of the late John James and Florence May (Watson) Boutilier. Our father Cecil was a hard working coal…

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OBITS – NOV 5, 2010

Obituaries for November 5th, 2010

• Helen (Rogers) Roland It is with heavy hearts and much sadness that we announce the passing of our dear mother, grandmother, sister and wife, Helen (Rogers) Roland. She was the daughter of the late Clarance Rogers and Ethel Spracklin. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Wendell Roland; daughters, Shirley…

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• Clara E. Winstanley It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Clara Winstanley, 51, of Sydney Mines, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Sydney Mines, Clara was the daughter of Richard and Shirley (MacIntosh) Winstanley….

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• Raymond Frederick Digou It is with great sadness that we, the family announce the passing of our dear father, grandfather, brother and uncle, Ray Digou, 91, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, surrounded by a loving and devoted family. Born in Sydney, April 20, 1919, he was the son of the late John ‘Jack’ and Mabel…

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• Joseph Anthony Young It is with God’s mercy and blessings and the deep sorrow of his brothers and sisters that we announce the passing into God’s hands of Joseph Anthony Young, formerly of 91 Roaches Rd., New Waterford, and most recently of Braemore Home, Sydney River, in his 63rd year, on Nov. 4, 2010. Born in…

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• Louis Charles Buckland Isn’t it a mystery when one passes and their lifelong love is soon to follow. Our beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, Louis Buckland passed away Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at the Northside General Hospital, after a lengthy illness. Born in Sydney, he was…

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• Pauline Christina McNeil Pauline Christina McNeil, 74, died Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, after a long illness. She was a lifelong resident of Bridgeport, Glace Bay, N.S. She is survived by three sisters, Clare, at home, Edna (Kevin) MacDonald, Burlington, Eileen (Pascal) Dupont, North Sydney; and one brother, Michael, at…

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• Evangeline Marshe Evangeline Marshe, Townsend Street, Sydney, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney. Born in Sydney, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Elizabeth (Pyke) Allen. Surviving are her husband, Gerald; daughters, Debra (Charles) Seymour, Amherst, and…

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• Mary Leblanc Surrounded by faithful friends, Mary Cecilia ‘Bomber’ Leblanc passed peacefully away at her home, The Vineyard, at L’Arche Cape Breton on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Born in North Sydney to the late John F. Leblanc and Lillian Irene Day, Mary is survived by brothers, John, Reg, Lawrence, Earl,…

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• Margaret ‘Peggy’ Landry Margaret ‘Peggy’ Genevieve Landry, St. Peter’s passed away peacefully on Nov. 4, 2010 at the age of 73 at the Strait Richmond Hospital; lovingly surrounded by her family after a short and courageous battle with leukemia. Born on Nov. 6, 1936 in Lynches River, Richmond County, she was the…

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• Dora Gove It is with heartfelt sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Dora G. Gove, age 95, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 at the Northside Community Guest Home. Born in LaPoile, Nfld., Dora was the daughter of the late William and Maria (Purchase)…

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• Linda ‘Lace’ Townsend Linda Marie (Johnston) Townsend, 52 of Sydney, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney, surrounded by her family. Born in Sydney, she was the daughter of Agnes (MacNeil) Johnston, Sydney and the late John ‘Jack’ Johnston. She was a member of St….

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• William Blunden The funeral service for William Blunden of Glace Bay who passed away Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 will be held Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 at 2 p.m. at Patten Funeral Home, Glace Bay. A reception at the Miner’s Village Restaurant will follow the service..

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TODAY – NOV 5, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

On This Day

November 05

	Today's Canadian Headline...
1939	AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG DASH .................Ottawa Ontario – The National Research Council in Ottawa first broadcasts its official time signal at EXACTLY 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
1956	Also On This Day... United Nations New York – Canadian Major-General ELM Burns 1897- accepts position as Commander of the first United Nations Emergency Force, as the Pearson peace plan is adopted by the UN General Assembly.
1959	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Bryan Adams 1959- rock superstar, was born on this day at Kingston, Ontario in 1959. With his trademark raspy voice, Adams was hired as the lead singer of a band called Sweeney Todd in 1976. He recorded several songs for them before leaving the band in 1977. His first solo album, Bryan Adams (1980), was followed by You Want It, You Got It (1981), then Cuts Like A Knife (1983), which brought him a world following. His fourth album, Reckless (1984), gave him his first Grammy nomination, and sold 4 million copies. It was the best-selling Canadian album to date. After Into The Fire (1987), his 1991 single (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, from the movie Robin Hood, sold more than three million copies in the US, becoming the second best selling single, second only to We Are The World. It won the Grammy for best song written specifically for a motion picture or television. That year Adams refused to attend Canada’s Juno Awards because of CRTC air time regulations – the song did not have enough Canadian content. According to his manager, Bruce Allen, the Junos “turned their back on the biggest hit to come out of Canada.” After Waking Up the Neighbours (1991), he released a greatest hits album, So Far So Good (1993), which spawned another #1 hit, Please Forgive Me. In 1995, he followed with Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? from the movie Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold, his fourth #1 hit; 18 Til I Die followed in 1996. Adams is a vegetarian. Check out his Official Web Site.Also Alphonse Desjardins 1854-1920 journalist, founder of the Caisse populaire, born on this day at Lévis, Quebec, in 1854; dies in Lévis Oct. 31, 1920. After studying European co-op models, Desjardins founded the first Caisse populaire, or people’s bank, in Lévis Dec. 06, 1900, as a way of improving the financial lot of the Quebec worker, and slow the exodus to the US; with support from the Roman Catholic Church, he expanded the concept through Quebec and Canada, founding 205 branches before he was forced to retire due to ill health in 1916; in 1913, the institutions were renamed ‘les Caisses populaires Desjardins’. Today’s Caisse is an economic powerhouse in Quebec. Also Alexei Yashin 1973- NHL centre, was born on this day at Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1973. The 6’3″ 225 lbs. Yashin was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the first round (second pick overall) of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. In 1997-98, he led the Sens in goals, points and shots for the second consecutive season, and is now team Captain; has appeared in 209 consecutive games; in 1998 gave a donation of $1 million to the National Arts Centre.
In Other Events…
1996	Quebec Quebec – Senator Jean-Louis Roux resigns from the post of Lieutenant Governor du Quebec after magazine L’Actualité revealed he indulged in antisemitism while a medical student at l’Université de Montréal.
1995	Ottawa Ontario – Jean Chrétien’s wife Aline stops a knife wielding intruder outside their bedroom at 24 Sussex Dr.; she locks the door and calls security; points up lax RCMP security.
1995	Montreal Quebec – Montrealer David Boys becomes World Scrabble Champion.
1992	Canada – Canadian Hemophilia Society says 800 hemophiliacs, 200 given transfusions got HIV (AIDS) virus; before heat treatment began in Nov, 1985
1992	Ottawa Ontario – Environment Department says March UV ozone levels 10% lower than pre-1980 average; in Toronto and Edmonton; 4% lower on average overall
1992	Palm Beach Florida – Brian Mulroney 1939- offers US President-elect Bill Clinton a standing invitation to visit Canada; calls Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas, from his Florida retreat
1992	Winnipeg Manitoba – Sharon Carstairs 1942- announces plans to step down as Liberal leader; helped revive Party in Manitoba, fought Charlottetown Accord; appointed to the Senate in the fall of 1994..
1983	Ottawa Ontario – Donald S. Macdonald 1909- appointed by Pierre Trudeau to head the Royal Commission into Canada’s Economic Prospects; former finance minister has a mandate to examine Canada’s economic future.
1981	Ottawa Ontario – Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- signs constitutional accord for the patriation of the constitution with nine premiers, after late night ‘Kitchen Cabinet Meeting’ involving Justice Minister Jean Chrétien, Ontario Attorney-General Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan Justice Minister Roy Romanow; René Lévesque abstains because the Constitution Act does not guarantee Quebec’s French-only language policy
1980	Toronto Ontario – Opening of World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto 1.5 million books on 27.3 km of shelves; 6,500 m2 in size; now part of Chapters chain.
1977	Houston Texas – Guy Lombardo dies at age 75; bandleader, born June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. Lombardo, his brother Carmen and his band the Royal Canadians were known for playing ‘the sweetest music this side of heaven’; his Auld Lang Syne is a New year’s Eve staple; sold over 100 million records; started speedboat racing in 1946, winning the International Gold Cup, a sweepstakes race for unlimited hydroplanes in his Tempo boats; US national champion 1946-49;1948 set a speed record of 119.7 mph; won Canadian titles in 1955 and 1956.
1976	New York City – Gordon Lightfoot’s single, ‘The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald’ hits #1 on the Billboard pop charts
1963	Montreal Quebec – Hal C. Banks charged with conspiring to cause bodily harm in assault on ship’s captain H.F. Walsh in 1957; Seafarers’ International Union leader
1962	United Nations New York – UN Political Committee approves Canadian formula for halting above-ground nuclear bomb tests.
1955	Montreal Quebec – Canadiens Jean Beliveau scores a hat trick in 44 seconds; second fastest on record.
1944	Florence Italy – Lieut.-General H.D.G. Crerar, General Guy Simonds and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division arrive in Italy. Lieut.-General Charles Foulkes succeeds Lieut.-General E. L. M. Burns as commander of the 1st Canadian Corps, and leaves for Holland to exchange appointments with Major-General H.W. Foster. General McNaughton had objected to the division of the Canadian army, and retires soon afterwards.
1944	Dinteloord Netherlands – Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord.
1938	Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa Roughriders score on a 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return.
1924	Ottawa Ontario – Opening of the first paved highway to Montreal.
1923	Alberta – Alberta votes for government control of liquor; after seven years of prohibition.
1917	Ottawa Ontario – Cabinet bans use of grain to manufacture liquor for the rest of the war.
1913	Cardston Alberta – Alberta Mormons hold ground breaking ceremony for the new temple at Cardston; excavation for the foundation begins Nov. 16.
1887	Montreal Quebec – Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats the Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion rugby football championship.
1884	Golden City BC – British Columbia portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Golden City.
1873	Ottawa Ontario – John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 resigns after revelations of campaign financing by Sir Hugh Allan in return for CPR contract.
1838	Lacolle Quebec – Colborne’s troops skirmish with Cyrille Côté’s 300 Chasseurs for a half hour at Lacolle, leaving 8 rebels dead.
1838	Quebec Quebec – Jean-Baptiste Toussaint Pothier 1771-1845 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada.
1824	Toronto Ontario – William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 first publishes ‘The Colonial Advocate’ in York; radical politics wins him popular support in Upper Canada
1818	Toronto Ontario – Chippewas cede 768,000 hectares in Northumberland, Durham, Ontario, Haliburton, Hastings, Muskoka; 1,900,000 acres
1814	Fort Erie Ontario – British drive Americans from Fort Erie after two months of skirmishing; Americans blow up fortifications before they leave.
1803	Toronto Ontario – Founding of weekly public market at York.
1666	Quebec Quebec – Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 brings his army back to Quebec after a summer battling the Iroquois.

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CAPE BRETON HERMIT COOKIES

CAPE BRETON HERMITS

Hermit Cookies 

 

¾ cups shortening or margarine

1 ¼ cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1 cup of pumpkin pie filling

2 cups of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

½ teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

½ teaspoon each: nutmeg, all spice and ground cloves

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup raisins

1 cup chopped dates

½ cup chopped nuts

(I use more raisins then nuts)

Method

Cream shortening (or margarine) and sugar

Beat in eggs and vanilla

Beat in pumpkin

Combine dry ingredients and stir in

Stir in raisins, dates and nuts

Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased sheet

Bake 375 F oven for 10 – 12 minutes

(depending upon size of cookies may take longer then 12 minutes)

DO YOU REMEMBER – 7

DO YOU REMEMBER – 7

 

Painting Nylons onto Ladies Legs – WWII

Hey, do you remember when during world war two women couldn’t purchase nylon stockings because all of the nylon material was being used for parachutes causing women to paint nylons onto their legs. My mother was good at this and women used to come to our place and have their legs painted to look like they were wearing nylons. They even had the seam painted down the back which really made the nylons look like the real thing. Sometimes there would two or three women at our place on a Friday/Saturday evening for example, folks getting ready to go out to parties, weddings or church I suppose. My mother was also good at plucking eye brows which was another thing that women wanted to have done. I thought plucking your eye brows was a somewhat painful way to look beautiful. But I guess it wasn’t as bad as the practice nowadays of getting the front of your face hauled back behind your ears in a face lift in an attempt to look younger. All you have to do is look at Joan Rivers to see this isn’t at all very   successful.

Well Done – Who got to Paint them On?

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Bravo, Canada

Canada – United States Relations

A U.N. snub is a badge of honor.

The Wall Street Journal – Oct. 20, 2010

 Life must be very good in Canada, or at least dull, judging by the domestic reaction to its failed bid last week for a temporary seat on the U.N. Security Council.

 Listen to the yowls in the papers north of the border: “A nation reeling,” “humiliating defeat,” “a rebuke from the global community,” “tarnishes our reputation,” “a slap in the face.”

 We say: Way to go. Canada seems to have annoyed a sufficient number of Third World dictators and liberally pious Westerners to come up short in a secret General Assembly ballot. The sins committed by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government include staunch support for Israel, skepticism about cap-and-trade global warming schemes, and long-standing commitment to the Afghan war.

 Americans would be so lucky to get a leader as steadfast on those issues as the Canadian Prime Minister.The United Arab Emirates took credit for putting together a group of anti-Canadian Arab and Islamic states to stop the bid for the two-year rotating chair. The UAE also has a beef withOttawa over landing rights for Emirates Airlines going into Canada.

 The U.S. role here is also embarrassing—to the U.S.

Richard Grenell, a former senior official at the U.S. Mission to the U.N., reported last week that America’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, refused to campaign on Canada’s behalf. Mr. Harper’s politics are not hers, and Liberal opposition leader and Obama political soulmate, Michael Ignatieff, declared last month thatCanada under Mr. Harper didn’t deserve to get one of the 10 temporary seats.

 The farcical nature of all this was made clear when the Canadians lost to Portugal, which—with all due respect to the memory of Vasco da Gama—is no global titan. This small and economically hobbled Iberian country will now hold one of two temporary spots reserved for Western bloc states. Germany was assured the other.

 Canada, on the other hand, is a serious country. Under Mr. Harper’s leadership, Canada has avoided the worst of the global recession and emerged with a vibrant banking system and strong currency (now trading near parity to the U.S. dollar).The courage of its soldiers in Afghanistan, and in other missions, is testament to a nation that honors its commitments.

 Canadians should wear the U.N. snub as a badge of honor.

(Article passed to me from Jim Troyanek, an old military buddy – CAPER)

 

TODAY – NOV 4, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY

On This Day

November 04

	Today's Canadian Headline...
1920	CANADA BOASTS WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL RADIOMontreal Quebec – Canadian Marconi’s radio station XWA licensed as CFCF Montreal; broadcasts first commercial radio show; station started in December 1919; reputedly the oldest in the world.
1956	Also On This Day... United Nations New York – Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 proposes a UN police force for Suez, to separate Egypt from the invading French, British, and Israelis. The United Nations implements his international emergency force scheme, and it becomes the model for all later UN peacekeeping actions.
1821	And in Today's Canadian Birthdays... Thomas Coltrin Keefer 1821-1915 civil engineer, land developer, was born on this day at Thorold, Ontario in 1821; died in Ottawa Jan 7, 1915. Like his father Samuel, one of the promoters of the Welland Canal, Keefer grew up on engineering projects, and as a youth helped build the Erie Canal in New York State. In the early 1850s, he started the survey of the Grand Trunk Railroad, and planned the Victoria Bridge in Montreal. In the 1860s, he settled in Ottawa, where he built the city waterworks (1874) and managed the Rockcliffe estate and Rideau Falls milling operations of his father in law Thomas Mackay. He sold the Mackay mansion, Rideau Hall, to the government in 1872, and built a new estate, the Manor House, today the residence of the Papal Nuncio. His major work, The Philosophy of Railroads (1849) was an international success, and he was the founding President of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1887. Also Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 soldier, was born on this day at Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1825; dies in London, England Jan. 25, 1898. Middleton was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 1842 given first commission, serves in Australia, New Zealand, India, Burma, Gibralter, and Malta; staff officer in India during 1857-1858 Mutiny; recommended twice for Victoria Cross; in Canada 1868-1870, where he marries his second wife, Eugénie Doucet of Montreal; 1870s executive officer at Sandhurst; 1884 general officer in command of Canada’s militia; 1885 outbreak of Northwest Rebellion; divides forces in three, and cautiously moves against Métis stronghold of Batoche; April 24, mauled by Gabriel Dumont at Fish Creek; May 12 overruns Batoche; May 15 captures Riel; returns east in June after surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) and recovery of whites held by Indians; knighted by Queen Victoria; 1890 resigns Militia post after Commons committee criticizes him for misappropriation of furs from Métis Charles Bremner during the resistance; returns to England and is appointed keeper of the crown jewels. Also James Douglas 1837-1918 mining engineer, industrialist, philanthropist, was born on this day at Quebec City in 1837; dies in New York City June 25, 1918. Douglas developed mines in the US Southwest. Also Raoul Dandurand l861-1942 politician, was born on this day in l861; dies March 11, 1942. Dandurand was a Senator for 44 years, l month, 17 days, from Jan. 22 , 1898 to Mar. 11, 1941. Also Howie Meeker 1924- NHL hockey player, MP, commentator, was born on this day at Kitchener, Ontario, in 1924. Meeker played Junior B in Stratford, and was recruited by Hap Day for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but had to go overseas with the Canadian Armed Forces for three years; in the 1946-47 season, he took the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL rookie of the year, scoring five goals in one game; 1953 back injury ended his career; served as Conservative MP in the early 1950s; started 30-year career in broadcasting for Hockey Night in Canada on CBC and later with TSN. Also Bobby Breen 1927-1990 actor, was born on this day at Toronto in 1927; died March 30, 1990. For a list of his movies, check out the Internet Movie Database.. Also Kate Reid 1930-1993 actor, was born on this day at London England in 1930; died of cancer on March 27 1993 at Stratford, Ontario. Reid came to Canada as an infant, and grew up in Toronto. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and started her acting career in summer straw hat theatre, going on to play at Toronto’s Crest Theatre and the Stratford Festival, where her memorable roles included Lady Macbeth and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. She then played Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway, and won an Emmy nomination for her 1963 TV performance as Queen Victoria in Disraeli. She played in Arthur Miller’s The Price (1968) and Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, both written with her in mind. Since then she has appeared in stage plays, TV roles and movies, ranging from Jalna and Nelly McClung to Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan and Dallas. For a list of all Reid’s roles, check out the Internet Movie Database. Also Richard Sévigny 1957- NHL goaltender, was born on this day in 1957. Also Tommy Henry 1969- CFL defensive back, was born on this day in 1969. Henry plays for the Edmonton Eskimos. Also Corey Schwab 1970- NHL goaltender, was born on this day at North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1970. Schwab selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 10th round (200th pick overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft; now with Tampa Bay Lightning. Also Eric Fichaud 1975- NHL goaltender, was born on this day at Anjou, Quebec, in 1975. Fichaud was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round (16th pick overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft; traded to the New York Islanders for Benoit Hogue, third-round draft pick (Ryan Pepperall) and fifth-round pick in 1996 Draft on April 6, 1995; acquired from N.Y. Islanders for Mike Watt, June 18, 1998; now with Nashville Predators.
In Other Events…
1996	Quebec – Thirty out of 45 Quebec CÉGEPs go on strike
1995	Cape Canaveral, Florida – RADARSAT earth observation satellite launched aboard a Delta-II; Canada’s first non-communication satellite launched since 1971.
1993	Ottawa Ontario – Jean Chrétien sworn in as Canada’s 20th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall; among his new Cabinet are six women, Sheila Copps, Sheila Finestone, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Diane Marleau, Christine Stewart and Anne McLellan.
1992	Ottawa Ontario – George Klein dies at age 88; prolific inventor worked for National Research Council for 40 years; led team that designed first nuclear reactor, gear design of Canadarm.
1992	Montreal: Quebec – Trois-Rivières goaltender Manon Rhéaume the first woman to sign a professional hockey contract.
1991	Ottawa Ontario – External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall bans Canadian trade with Haiti to protest Sept 30 overthrow of government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1991	New York City – Kingston, Ontario-born Bryan Adams’ ‘Can’t Stop This Thing We Started’ peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1990	Montreal Quebec – Jean Doré re-elected Mayor of Montreal
1990	Ottawa Ontario – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offers apology to Canadians of Italian origin forced to live in internment camps during World War II; earlier apology to Japanese Canadians.
1985	Ottawa Ontario – Canadian Red Cross starts testing donated blood for HIV, the syndrome linked to the AIDS virus; some tainted blood already in the system, so thousands of Canadians will contract HIV and Hepatitis.
1983	Ottawa Ontario – Atomic Energy of Canada sells Turkey a Candu nuclear reactor worth over $1 billion.
1982	Toronto Ontario – Ontario Supreme Court orders extradition of Canadian citizen Albert Helmut Rauca to West Germany; charged in connection with murder of over 11,000 Lithuanian Jews in World War II; first extradition of a Canadian accused of war crimes.
1981	Ottawa Ontario – Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque discuss holding a referendum on the BNA Act amending formula and Charter of Rights within two years; Lévesque later backs down, claiming a gang-up by the anglophone provinces.
1978	New York City – Springhill, Nova Scotia-born Anne Murray’s ‘You Needed Me’ peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1977	New York City – Canadian country rock group The Band’s documentary film ‘The Last Waltz’ is released.
1972	New York City – Canadian country rock group The Band’s ‘Don’t Do It’ peaks at #34 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1971	Ottawa Ontario – Canadian Transport Commission outlines plans to merge CN and CP passenger service by 1973; origin of VIA Rail Canada.
1970	Ste-Foy, Quebec – New St. Lawrence River bridge upstream from Quebec renamed the Pont Pierre-Laporte, to honour the former lawyer, Quebec Labour Minister and Le Devoir correspondent Pierre Laporte 1921-1970, kidnapped and killed by FLQ terrorists.
1969	Toronto Ontario – Opening of first conference of the Users of the Great Lakes at Toronto; to discuss pollution.
1969	Ottawa Ontario – Task Force on Government Information Services recommends forming of Information Canada; to coordinate all government information services
1966	Montreal Quebec – Start of direct air service to Moscow by TCA and Aeroflot.
1960	Ottawa Ontario – Justice Minister Davie Fulton 1916- announces 15-year rehabilitation program for prisoners in federal penitentiaries.
1959	Moscow Russia – National Research Council signs agreement with Soviet Academy of Science for exchange of scientists.
1959	New York City – Ottawa pop star Paul Anka has a number one hit single with Put Your Head on My Shoulder.
1956	Montreal Quebec – Journalist René Lévesque debuts in new Société Radio-Canada public affairs show, ‘Point de Mire’.
1953	Montreal Quebec – Société Radio-Canada starts broadcasting La Famille Plouffe; the series is Quebec’s first téléroman.
1952	Korea – Chinese launch offensive against Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Korea.
1943	New York City – Toronto actor Walter Huston stars in Samuel Goldwyn’s film The North Star, with Dana Andrews and Ann Baxter.
1941	Ottawa Ontario – Tory House Leader R B. Hanson criticizes government for not introducing a price freeze by Act of Parliament.
1936	Montreal Quebec – Creation of the Société Radio-Canada, the french counterpart of the CBC.
1915	Quebec Quebec – Opening of tuberculosis sanitarium/hospital in Quebec.
1914	Montreal Quebec – Mobilization 21st Battery of Artillery of Montreal, for service in France.
1892	Quebec Quebec – Honoré Mercier 1840-1894 acquitted in Baie des Chaleurs Railway bribery scandal, after being removed from office for bribery by Lieutenant Governor Auguste-Réal Angers; former Premier of Quebec will be reelected in Bonaventure, and serves until his death Oct. 30, 1894.
1879	Ottawa Ontario – Supreme Court rules that only the Queen or Governor-General can appoint Queen’s Counsels.
1873	Winnipeg Manitoba – Ambroise-Dydime Lépine l834-1923 sentenced to death for role in execution of Thomas Scott; sentence commuted and he serves two years in jail.
1864	Montreal Quebec – Antoine-Aimé Dorion and the Rouge party start an anti-Confederation campaign, in a letter to the electors, Dorion calls the agreement ‘poison’ and ‘a calamity’.
1838	Caughnawaga Quebec – Cyrille Côté and a hundred Patriotes from Châteauguay under the command of Cardinal et Duquet attack Caughnawaga looking for arms while the Mohawks attend church; Iroquois counterattack and beat back rebels, taking Cardinal and Duquet prisoner.
1838	Montreal Quebec – Governor Colborne declares martial law as Wolfred Nelson and Cyrille Côté lead second rebellion in Lower Canada; joined by several hundred Habitants, Nelson is declared President of the newly proclaimed Canadian Republic.
1838	Napierville Quebec – Robert Nelson again proclaims the independence of Lower Canada before a crowd of 700 Patriotes.
1837	Montreal Quebec – Les Fils de la Liberté (Sons of Liberty) hold a massive Patriote rally in Montreal on the Place d’Armes; a riot breaks out when members of the English Doric Club, determined to ‘crush rebellion in the bud’, throw a hail of stones at the rebels, who fight back; Chevalier de Lorimier and Thomas Storrow Brown are seriously injured in the street fighting; under the eye of the militia, the English youths roam the streets and demonstrate in front of the house of Louis-Joseph Papineau.
1837	Quebec Quebec – Government issues proclamation banning military drill in Quebec and Montreal.
1834	Toronto Ontario – William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes last issue of ‘The Colonial Advocate’.
1830	Montreal Quebec – Rebellion of the students of the Collège de Montréal, including a young firebrand from the Richelieu Valley, George-Etienne Cartier.
1809	Quebec Quebec – Arrival of John Molson’s steamboat Accommodation at Quebec after two and a half day trip from Montreal.
1804	Montreal Quebec – XY Company merges with North West Company on a l00-share basis.
1797	Quebec – Robert Shore Milnes Bouchette 1746-1837 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; also administrator of Lower Canada from July 30, 1799; until Nov. 29, 1808.
1776	Ticonderoga, New York – Loyalist groups join the British fleet at Crown Point on Lake Champlain.
1673	Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec – Blessing of the Chapel of the Hurons at l’Ancienne-Lorette.

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OBITS – NOV 4, 2010

Obituaries for November 4th, 2010

• Arlene (Devoe) Gordon Published November 4th, 2010

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• (Looks like the ‘Old Fella’ took the night off – CAPER)