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1894 STANLEY CUP DAY
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association win the first Stanley Cup championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1, and winning the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament 3 games to 2. The AAAs (later the Montreal Victorias) were the first team to win what was known as known as Lord Stanley's Cup. A year earlier, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, former Governor General, had purchased the silver bowl in London for $48.67 to donate to the Canadian amateur champions; he said his sons had enjoyed playing hockey on the rink at Rideau Hall. Today, the Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports competition in North America.

In Other Events...

1995 Buenos Aires Argentina - Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann 1965- tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games; the next day she and her three teammates are stripped of the gold medals they won in quadruple sculls; says she unknowingly took drug in a cold medicine..
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells introduces resolution to rescind Newfoundland support of Meech Lake accord; fears Meech Lake will cut Ottawa's ability to aid Newfoundland economically; effectively kills the deal.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- says he is optimistic Meech Lake can be saved by June 23rd deadline; in rare TV address.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament gives all party group mandate to study Meech Lake accord and to report back May 18; studying McKenna Option for companion agreement.
1984 London, Ontario - Jane Gray dies; Canada's first woman broadcaster began her career in 1924 at CJGC (now CFPL) radio London by hosting Canada's first advice show.
1979 New York City - NHL votes to absorb four World Hockey Association teams; the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and New England Whalers; end of the WHA.
1978 St-Jerome Quebec - Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking.
1973 Caughnawaga Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway Authority grants $1.5 million and 321.7 hectares of land to Caughnawaga Indians; to compensate for 526 hectares expropriated in 1955 for Seaway.
1971 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First radio and TV coverage of the proceedings of the Nova Scotia legislature.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $2 million program to hire 276 Francophone graduates for public service jobs; jobs where French is 'la Langue du travail'.
1955 Mississauga Ontario - Fire at Malton Airport causes $5 million in damage.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Labour brings in National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations; program for industry meets wartime manpower shortage by directing people to jobs.
1929 New Orleans Louisiana - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana; Captain John Thomas Randell 1878-1939 and crew taken to New Orleans as prisoners for violating prohibition laws; manufacture of liquor still legal in Canada.
1922 Canada - 12,000 BC and Alberta coal miners go on strike; until August 24, 1923.
1914 Martin Point Alaska - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 leaves Martin Point with two companions and heads east toward Banks Island.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - R. B. McMicking demonstrates Victoria's first 2 telephones.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin burned in effigy at a Toronto demonstration against Rebellion Losses Bill; with effigies of Mackenzie and Blake.
1834 Fredericton New Brunswick - Central Bank of New Brunswick chartered.
1740 Halifax Nova Scotia - Paul Mascarene c1684-1760 takes office as President of Council of Nova Scotia and administrator; until July 12, 1749.
1739 Paris France - François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière 1711-1740 appointed 5th Bishop of Quebec.
1723 Paris France - Compagnie des Indes [French West India Company] awarded tobacco monopoly in New France.

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