On This Date

  1 DECEMBER 1941 Wartime wage and price controls begin.   2 DECEMBER 1970 James Cross, kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec, is

1 NOVEMBER 1918 Sgt. Hugh Cairns earns the Victoria Cross for capturing machine-gun crews near Valenciennes, France. He is mortally wounded. 2 NOVEMBER 1971 A

  1 OCTOBER 1944 Battle of the Scheldt begins; the First Canadian Army has a hard slog to open the port of Antwerp. 2 OCTOBER

SEPTEMBER 1, 1944 Dieppe, France, is liberated, predominantly by Canadian troops. September 2, 1998 Swissair 111 crashes off Nova Scotia, killing 229. September 3, 1916

AUGUST 1, 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait. Canada sends a naval task group.
AUGUST 2, 1914
Germany invades Luxembourg, has mobilized 1.5 million men.
AUGUST 3, 2005
Canada’s last surviving First World War veteran, Ernest “Smokey” Smith, VC, dies.

JULY 1, 1934
Commodore Percy W. Nelles becomes the first Canadian-born Chief of the Naval Staff.
JULY 2, 1885
The Northwest Rebellion ends with the surrender of Big Bear, and with it, the nomadic life of the Cree.