| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 1608 |
Jul |
03 |
Champlain Founds Quebec City |
| 1616 |
Jul |
11 |
Samuel De Champlain Returns To Quebec |
| 1642 |
May |
17 |
De Maisonneuve Founds Ville Marie |
| 1713 |
Jun |
23 |
Declare Allegiance To Britain Or Leave |
| 1733 |
May |
29 |
Indian Slavery Is Upheld At Quebec City |
| 1749 |
Jun |
21 |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Is Founded |
| 1763 |
May |
18 |
Fire Destroys A Large Part Of Montreal |
| 1775 |
Sep |
17 |
Siege Of Fort St. Jean: Start Of Canada Invasion |
| 1789 |
Jul |
10 |
Mackenzie Reaches Mackenzie River Delta |
| 1793 |
Jul |
09 |
Act Against Slavery Passed In Upper Canada |
| 1793 |
Jul |
29 |
Fort And Settlement Built At Toronto By John Simcoe |
| 1800 |
Jun |
07 |
Thompson Reaches Saskatchewan River |
| 1812 |
Jul |
12 |
The U.S. Invades Windsor, Ontario |
| 1813 |
Oct |
05 |
Tecumseh Killed As Americans Win Battle Of Thames |
| 1818 |
Apr |
16 |
Congress Ratifies The Rush-Bagot Treaty |
| 1832 |
Jun |
07 |
Irish Immigrants Bring Deadly Cholera, Quebec |
| 1837 |
Mar |
24 |
Canada Gives African Canadian Men Voting Rights |
| 1840 |
Jul |
23 |
Canada Is Created |
| 1841 |
Oct |
16 |
Queen's University Founded In Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| 1861 |
Oct |
25 |
The Toronto Stock Exchange Is Created |
| 1864 |
Oct |
19 |
Raiders Launch Attack On Saint Albans |
| 1867 |
Sep |
28 |
Toronto Becomes The Capital Of Ontario |
| 1867 |
Oct |
23 |
72 Senators Enter The Canadian Senate |
| 1870 |
May |
12 |
The Manitoba Act Is Given The Royal Assent |
| 1872 |
Jun |
14 |
Trade Unions Are Legalised In Canada |
| 1878 |
Jul |
01 |
Canada Joins The Universal Postal Union |
| 1881 |
Feb |
16 |
Ottawa Parliament Incorporates Canadian Pacific Railway |
| 1885 |
Mar |
19 |
Provisional Government Declared By Riel In Saskatchewan |
| 1898 |
Jun |
13 |
Yukon Territory Formed, Dawson Capital |
| 1900 |
Nov |
07 |
The Royal Canadian Dragoons Fight Battle |
| 1904 |
Oct |
08 |
Edmonton, Alberta Becomes A City |
| 1905 |
Sep |
01 |
Alberta And Saskatchewan Join Canadian Confederation |
| 1910 |
May |
04 |
The Royal Canadian Navy Is Created |
| 1911 |
Jan |
30 |
Naval Service Becomes Royal Canadian Navy |
| 1916 |
Feb |
03 |
Canadian Parliament Buildings Burn Down |
| 1917 |
Apr |
12 |
Vimy Ridge Taken By Canadian Forces From Germans |
| 1918 |
Aug |
02 |
First Strike In Vancouver, Canada |
| 1923 |
Jul |
01 |
Canada Suspends Chinese Immigration |
| 1924 |
Apr |
01 |
The Royal Canadian Air Force Is Formed |
| 1926 |
Jun |
29 |
Arthur Meighen Returns As Prime Minister Of Canada |
| 1927 |
Jan |
09 |
Quebec Theatre Fire Kills 78 Children |
| 1939 |
May |
21 |
English Royalty Unveil Canadian Monument In Ottawa |
| 1940 |
Jun |
21 |
First Successful Of Northwest Passage |
| 1944 |
Aug |
21 |
Canadian And Polish Units Capture Falaise |
| 1945 |
Feb |
08 |
Rhine Occupied By U.K. And Canada In WWII |
| 1945 |
Oct |
16 |
The Food And Agriculture Organization Is Founded |
| 1949 |
Mar |
31 |
Newfoundland Joins Canadian Confederation, 10th Province |
| 1949 |
Sep |
17 |
Toronto Steamship Fire Kills 118 |
| 1957 |
Jun |
21 |
Fairclough First Canadian Female Cabinet Minister |
| 1957 |
Oct |
04 |
Avro Arrow Roll-out Ceremony At Their Ontario Plant |
| 1958 |
Mar |
25 |
Canada's Avro Arrow Makes Its First Flight |
| 1958 |
Jul |
01 |
CBC Broadcasts Via Microwave |
| 1959 |
Jun |
20 |
June Hurricane Strike's Canada, Killing 35 |
| 1963 |
Jul |
24 |
Iconic Canadian Schooner Launched In Lunenburg |
| 1965 |
Jan |
28 |
Flag Of Canada Design By Parliament |
| 1965 |
Feb |
01 |
Hamilton River Renamed Churchill River |
| 1965 |
Nov |
29 |
The Canadian Alouette 2 Satellite Is Launched |
| 1974 |
Jun |
29 |
Baryshnikov Defects To CA While On Tour |
| 1976 |
Jul |
14 |
Capital Punishment Is Abolished In Canada |
| 1979 |
Aug |
07 |
Tornadoes Hit Woodstock, Ontario, Canada |
| 1982 |
Apr |
17 |
Queen Elizabeth II Proclaims Patriation Of Canadian Constitution |
| 1990 |
Jul |
11 |
First Nations Land Dispute Begins In Quebec |
| 1992 |
Jan |
22 |
First Woman, In Space Also First Neurologist |
| 1992 |
May |
09 |
Nova Scotia Mine Disaster Kills 26 |
| 1993 |
Jun |
25 |
Kim Campbell First Female Prime Minister Of Canada |
| 1996 |
Nov |
19 |
Lt. Gen. Baril Leads Police In Zaire |
| 1999 |
Apr |
01 |
Eastern Northwest Territories Become Canadian Territory Nunavut |
| 2003 |
Aug |
14 |
Blackout Across US Northeast And Canada |
| 2005 |
Aug |
04 |
Pm Paul Martin Announces That 27th Governor |
| 2010 |
Aug |
13 |
Sun Sea Docks In Canada Carrying Tamils |
| 2012 |
Feb |
26 |
Train Derails In Burlington, Ontario |