On this date: November 2017
1 November 1914
Four recent graduates of the Royal Naval College of Canada are among those lost when Germany’s Asiatic Squadron sinks HMS Good Hope. They are Canada’s first naval casualties of the war.
2 November 1869
With a band of 120 armed men, Louis Riel occupies Fort Garry (now Winnipeg).
3 November 1997
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien destroys the last of Canada’s landmine stocks in Kanata, Ont., to increase awareness of the Canada-sponsored worldwide landmine ban.
4 November 1924
The first flight of the Canadian Vickers Vedette prototype takes place in Montreal.
5 November 1914
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
6 November 1917
Canada and Britain launch an assault on the village of Passchendaele, which is captured by the 27th Battalion on the sam...