SEPTEMBER 1, 1985
Canada provides 140 troops and nine Huey helicopters to Operation Calumet, a United Nations multinational force supervising security provisions of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

60 pounder in action along side Arras-Cambrai Road.

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SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1918
The Canadian 1st and 4th divisions lead the assault on the Drocourt-Quéant Line at the end of the Second Battle of Arras.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
The Allied invasion of Italy begins. The British Eighth Army, including 1st Canadian Division and 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade, takes Reggio Calabria.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1814
Traitor Joseph Willcocks is killed during the siege of Fort Erie.  While a member of the Upper Canada legislature, he turned coat and served as a major in the American Army. He raised the pro-American Canadian Volunteers, who burned Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1813.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1945
Canada’s first nuclear energy is produced in the experimental nuclear reactor ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) at Chalk River, Ont.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2000
The first Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medals, awarded for service in a United Nations or international mission, are awarded by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Nearly 125,000 Canadians have served as peacekeepers.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1985
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces Canada won’t take part in Star Wars, the United States’ Strategic Defence Initiative to develop space weapons to intercept Soviet missiles.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1828
The Wolfe-Montcalm Monument is unveiled. It honours General James Wolfe and Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, both mortally wounded in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Sept. 13, 1759.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1950
Royal Assent is given to the bill authorizing participation of no more than 15,000 Canadian troops in the United Nations action in the Republic of Korea. More than 26,000 served, 516 died and more than 1,500 were wounded before the war’s end in 1953.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1939
Canada declares war on Germany.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1942
One officer and nine crew die as HMCS Charlottetown is torpedoed by a U-boat in the St. Lawrence River.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1919
Edward, Prince of Wales, who will reign as King Edward VIII for one year in 1936, arrives in Edmonton on his postwar tour of Canada.

The Plains of Abraham

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SEPTEMBER 13, 1759
General James Wolfe’s army defeats the Marquis de Montcalm’s forces during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1990
Canada provides CF-18 air cover in the Persian Gulf for Canadian and Allied ships during the Iraqi-Gulf crisis.

SEPTEMBER 15-16, 1993
Soldiers from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry are attacked by Croatian Forces while trying to enforce a case-fire agreement near a Serb enclave, known as the Medak Pocket.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1949
Future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson represents Canada at the first session of the North Atlantic Council, which governs the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1944
Two Canadian light-warning radar crews in gliders come under heavy anti-aircraft fire over Arnhem, the Netherlands, on the second day of Operation Market Garden.

SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1915
Expecting action, 1,076 members of the Newfoundland Regiment arrive in the Dardanelles to reinforce the British at Gallipoli.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1982
The first celebrations of the United Nation’s International Day of Peace, also known as Peace Day, are held.

View of Calais from the harbour area.

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SEPTEMBER 22 TO 1 OCTOBER 1, 1944
The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division suffers 300 casualties in Operation Undergo, the liberation of Calais, France.

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

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SEPTEMBER 23, 1958
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announces the Royal Canadian Air Force is to be equipped with BOMARC missiles.

SEPTEMBER 24 TO OCTOBER 7, 1984
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip commence a two-week tour in Canada.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1940
The Prince Robert, a passenger ferry converted to an armed merchantman, captures the German ship Weser off the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1990
In Quebec, the Oka Crisis ends with surrender the Mohawks of the Kanesatake Reserve, who barricaded roads and a bridge to prevent golf course development on land claimed as ancestral.

Trench mortar referred to as minenwerfers used by the German armies in the Canal du Nord during the Canadian advance east of Arras.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1918
The Canadian Corps successfully crosses Canal du Nord, breaching three lines of German defences of the Hindenburg Line, and go on to capture Bourlon Wood.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1813
In a pivotal naval battle of the War of 1812, the British thwart an American attempt to gain superiority on Lake Ontario. The battle is dubbed ‘The Burlington Races’ because the movement of the 16 ships resembled a yacht race from shore.

SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1939
Squadron Leader W.I. Clements lands near Amiens, France, with the tank of his Blenheim nearly empty, after a night reconnaissance trip into Germany. He is the first Royal Canadian Air Force member to see action against the enemy in the war.

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