Some 1500 people gathered that evening at Champs de Mars, a large park in the heart of Montreal. In the glow of burning torches, hatred was spewed and farmed until a grievance convoy broke away and headed towards the legislature building.
Nellie McClung, suffragette, journalist, reformer (i.e. disturber par excellence), was instrumental to getting women declared “persons” by the Supreme Court in 1928.
On the morning of April 4th, convinced his ordeal would never end, Herbert Norman said goodbye to his wife, went up to a rooftop, and jumped to his death.
Over the course of the last 75 years, NATO’s relevance and even its raison d’etre have shifted in the eyes of the people it serves.
On March 31, 1949, the Dominion of Newfoundland, (population nearing 360,000) voted—by a razor-thin majority—to join the Dominion of Canada.
Ultimately, time proved Chrétien right for not joining the Iraq War. This was a big moment, and perhaps the decision that Chrétien will be remembered for most.
This was a shabby ordeal members on both sides of the House wished to forget, so after the report on the scandal was released in September 1966, it was left to fade away.
By temperament and circumstance, Clark was the embodiment of that now-extinct species, the Red Tory, perfectly balancing the progressive and the conservative impulses within his party and the country.
He was an unknown small-town doctor without a stellar academic record or any impressive qualifications let alone any serious research experience. He had never treated a patient with diabetes or shown any interest in the disease. Banting did not let these details derail him.
In February 1980, Trudeau, defying the odds of history, won the election. When he stepped down for good in 1984, he would have seen that in his second retirement, he had recast both his country and his political obituaries.
