1926 MCGILL STUDENT GIVES HARRY HOUDINI A DEATH BLOW
Montreal Quebec - While performing in Montreal, famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini invites a McGill student to punch him hard in the stomach. The young man complies before Houdini has a chance to brace himself, and the blow leads to his death ten days later from internal bleeding.
1880
Ottawa Ontario -
John A. Macdonald signs the final Canadian Pacific Railway contract with the George Stephen syndicate, providing a subsidy of $25 million dollars in cash and 25 million acres of land in return for completion of the line within 10 years and a guarantee that the Company would operate the railway 'efficiently' forever. Here he is a month earlier making a speech at Hochelaga depot in Montreal on his return from Europe after getting an imperial guarantee for CPR financing. Macdonald was feeling his age, and thought the line would not be completed in his lifetime. However, five years later, on Nov. 7, 1885, Donald Smith, his old enemy, drove home the Last Spike at Craigellachie, and a few years after that, Macdonald himself took his wife Agnes on a summer trip across Canada on the CPR. Here they are, tanned and fit, admiring the Fraser River from a trestle in BC.
And in Other news on this day..
1976 Stockholm Sweden - Lachine Quebec born writer Saul Bellow 1915- wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; novels include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (won 1975 Pulitzer Prize), The Dean's December (1982), More Die of Heartbreak (1987) and The Bellarosa Connection (1989).
1970 Montreal Quebec - Officials release report on the autopsy performed on the body of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, murdered by FLQ terrorists.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain agree to develop heavy water reactors using Canadian system of natural uranium.
1944 Breskens Netherlands - Canadian troops occupy Breskens.
1918 Vladivostok Russia - Government appoints Canadian commercial commission for Siberia; based at Vladivostok.
1914 Quebec Quebec - Mobilization of the 23rd Battalion of Infantry of Quebec, for service in France.
1909 Fort McPherson, NWT - Anglican Bishop of the Yukon Isaac Stringer and a companion stumble into an Athabascan village after being lost in the wilderness for 51 days; left for Dawson in early Sept., and started a canoe trip down the Bell River, but when the river froze they abandoned their canoe and set off across the mountains back to Fort McPherson; got lost in fog and snow, ran out of ammunition, and by Oct. 17, they were reduced to eating the soles of the Bishop's sealskin boots.
1878 Paris France - John Labatt's India Pale Ale wins a gold medal at the International Exposition. Labatt devised the recipe for the light-colored ale at his brewery in London, Ontario.
1876 Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of western wheat to Eastern Canada arrives from Manitoba.
1874 Pelly Saskatchewan - NWMP force recrosses Prairies to Swan River barracks at Pelly; others continue to Winnipeg.
1802 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 explores west from mouth of Lesser Slave River and Lesser Slave Lake toward the forks of the Peace River.
1690 Beauport Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 orders a retreat from Quebec after being turned back in a skirmish on the Beauport Flats; had attacked Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, but Count Frontenac refused to surrender, and his shelling of the town had little effect.
1637 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First French child born at Three Rivers.
For a complete listing of Canadian History today visit Sympatico.ca - News
Montreal Quebec - While performing in Montreal, famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini invites a McGill student to punch him hard in the stomach. The young man complies before Houdini has a chance to brace himself, and the blow leads to his death ten days later from internal bleeding.
1880
Ottawa Ontario -
John A. Macdonald signs the final Canadian Pacific Railway contract with the George Stephen syndicate, providing a subsidy of $25 million dollars in cash and 25 million acres of land in return for completion of the line within 10 years and a guarantee that the Company would operate the railway 'efficiently' forever. Here he is a month earlier making a speech at Hochelaga depot in Montreal on his return from Europe after getting an imperial guarantee for CPR financing. Macdonald was feeling his age, and thought the line would not be completed in his lifetime. However, five years later, on Nov. 7, 1885, Donald Smith, his old enemy, drove home the Last Spike at Craigellachie, and a few years after that, Macdonald himself took his wife Agnes on a summer trip across Canada on the CPR. Here they are, tanned and fit, admiring the Fraser River from a trestle in BC.
And in Other news on this day..
1976 Stockholm Sweden - Lachine Quebec born writer Saul Bellow 1915- wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; novels include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (won 1975 Pulitzer Prize), The Dean's December (1982), More Die of Heartbreak (1987) and The Bellarosa Connection (1989).
1970 Montreal Quebec - Officials release report on the autopsy performed on the body of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, murdered by FLQ terrorists.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain agree to develop heavy water reactors using Canadian system of natural uranium.
1944 Breskens Netherlands - Canadian troops occupy Breskens.
1918 Vladivostok Russia - Government appoints Canadian commercial commission for Siberia; based at Vladivostok.
1914 Quebec Quebec - Mobilization of the 23rd Battalion of Infantry of Quebec, for service in France.
1909 Fort McPherson, NWT - Anglican Bishop of the Yukon Isaac Stringer and a companion stumble into an Athabascan village after being lost in the wilderness for 51 days; left for Dawson in early Sept., and started a canoe trip down the Bell River, but when the river froze they abandoned their canoe and set off across the mountains back to Fort McPherson; got lost in fog and snow, ran out of ammunition, and by Oct. 17, they were reduced to eating the soles of the Bishop's sealskin boots.
1878 Paris France - John Labatt's India Pale Ale wins a gold medal at the International Exposition. Labatt devised the recipe for the light-colored ale at his brewery in London, Ontario.
1876 Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of western wheat to Eastern Canada arrives from Manitoba.
1874 Pelly Saskatchewan - NWMP force recrosses Prairies to Swan River barracks at Pelly; others continue to Winnipeg.
1802 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 explores west from mouth of Lesser Slave River and Lesser Slave Lake toward the forks of the Peace River.
1690 Beauport Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 orders a retreat from Quebec after being turned back in a skirmish on the Beauport Flats; had attacked Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, but Count Frontenac refused to surrender, and his shelling of the town had little effect.
1637 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First French child born at Three Rivers.
For a complete listing of Canadian History today visit Sympatico.ca - News
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