1 September 1880
The British Arctic Territories are ceded to Canada, becoming part of the North-West Territories.
3 September 1783
The Treaty of Paris (1783) is signed by representatives of Great Britain and the U.S., officially ending the American Revolutionary War.
4 September 1939
Pilot Officer S.R. Henderson, serving in 206 Squadron, Royal Air Force, becomes the first Canadian to participate in an operational sortie during the Second World War when he serves as the lead navigator in a bomber force attacking German warships.
5 September 1979
The first Canadian gold bullion coin, stamped with the maple leaf, goes on sale.
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7 September 1850
The Robinson Treaties are signed. The British Crown agrees to pay the Ojibwa 2,160 pounds and annual payments of 600 pounds for lands on the northern shores of lakes Superior and Huron.
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8 September 1978
L’Anse aux Meadows, the site of a 1,000-year-old Norse colony in Newfoundland, is named a world heritage site.
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10 September 1939
Canada declares war on Germany.
11 September 2001
Al-Qaida terrorists hijack four commercial jets, crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.; passengers of the fourth plane force it to crash in Pennsylvania.
12 September 1846
Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror of the Franklin expedition are trapped in ice in the Arctic.
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14 September 1889
Nearly 400 Canadian voyageurs leave Halifax to participate in the Nile Expedition to rescue a British major-general trapped at Khartoum in the Sudan.
15 September 1762
Britain defeats France in St. John’s,
Nfld., in the last battle of the Seven Years’ War.
16 September 1939
The first convoy of the Second World War—designated HX-1—leaves Halifax for the United Kingdom. Eighteen merchant ships are escorted by HMC ships Saguenay and St. Laurent to a North Atlantic rendezvous with Royal Navy cruisers.
17 September 1944
Operation Market Garden, a bold but unsuccessful Allied attempt to shorten the war, begins.
18 September 1941
Vancouver’s Asahi baseball club plays its last game as Japanese Canadians are sent into exile or internment camps.
21 September 1995
The $2 coin—the Toonie—is unveiled.
23 September 1787
Mississauga chiefs sell 101,528 hectares of land—in the area of present-day Toronto—to the British for the modern equivalent of about $200,000.
25 September 1942
Canada joins the United States in combat against the Japanese in Kiska Harbor, Alaska.
28 September 1972
Canada defeats the Soviets in the eighth and final hockey game of the Summit Series.
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