| 1900 |
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Norfolk
Historical Society founded in Simcoe, Ontario |
| 1900 |
Dec |
31 |
Winston Churchill, 26, addressed Massey
Hall audience about Boer War |
| 1901 |
May |
2 |
West
& Peachey shipped their 46th alligator (the sixth this year) to
Calendar. |
| 1901 |
Jun |
1 |
Simcoe's
population: 3,007 |
| 1903 |
Jan |
22 |
Queen Victoria,
British monarch for 64 years, died |
| 1903 |
Apr |
30 |
Dr. Emily Stowe of Norwich,
Ontario, Canada's first practising female physican, died. |
| 1903 |
Jun |
12 |
Ontario established a 7 miles per hour speed limit for automobiles |
| 1903 |
Jul |
08 |
Ontario appointed Alex Fraser to the new
post of Provincial Archivist |
| 1905 |
Aug |
07 |
McKinley and Darragh accidentally
discovered silver at Cobalt |
| 1906 |
Jun |
06 |
Dr. Annie Backus organized
Courtland Women's Institute |
| 1906 |
Dec |
24 |
First radio broadcast |
| 1907 |
Aug |
20 |
Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater opened |
| 1908 |
Aug |
12 |
First Model-T rolled
off Ford Motor Company assembly line |
| 1908 |
Dec |
01 |
Simcoe police chief Archibald
Malone shot constable William Wilkins |
| 1909 |
Feb |
27 |
Ontario received its Coat of Arms from England's King Edward VII |
| 1909 |
Jun |
01 |
Governor-General Lord Grey donated Grey Cup to Canadian football champions |
| 1909 |
Jun |
03 |
William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1909 |
Aug |
02 |
Airplane first tested in Canada for military use |
| 1909 |
Sep |
02 |
Scarborough, Ontario hosted North America's first air show. The only plane there crash
landed into Lake Ontario after a few seconds of flight |
| 1912 |
Jun |
24 |
Norfolk Golf and Country Club
chartered |
| 1911 |
Jul |
11 |
Huge forest fire near Cobalt, Ontario
killed 200, leaves 3,000 homeless |
| 1911 |
Jul |
29 |
Railway between Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) and Montreal completed |
| 1911 |
Dec |
14 |
Norewgian Roald
Amundsen discovered the South Pole |
| 1913 |
Mar |
07 |
Native author Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 52, died |
| 1914 |
Jul |
17 |
Town of Hearst, Ontario (population 1,000) almost totally destroyed by fire |
| 1914 |
Aug |
05 |
Canada enters World War I |
| 1914 |
Oct |
03 |
First Canadian soldiers -- 33,000 in 30 ships -- left for England |
| 1916 |
Mar |
02 |
Ontario's Temperance Act passed, banning sale of liquor |
| 1916 |
Jul |
29 |
223 people die in fire that destroys settlements of Porquis Junction, Iroguois Falls,
Kelso, Nuskha, Matheson and Ramore, Ontario |
| 1917 |
Apr |
12 |
Women given the right to vote in Ontario |
| 1917 |
Jun |
02 |
Canadian Flying Ace "Billy" Bishop's daring solo raid on Cambrai, which
earned
him the Victoria Cross |
| 1917 |
Jul |
08 |
Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson drowned in Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake |
| 1917 |
Aug |
29 |
National military service act imposes conscription |
| 1917 |
Sep |
01 |
City of Berlin, Ontario renamed Kitchener |
| 1918 |
Jun |
19 |
Canadian Flying Ace "Billy" Bishop shot down five German planes in 15
minutes |
| 1918 |
Jun |
24 |
Canada's first airmail flight,
Montreal to Toronto, took over six hours |
| 1918 |
|
|
Norfolk Cooperative Association
formed |
| 1918 |
Oct |
17 |
Fearing Spanish Flu, doctors
closed Simcoe's churches, schools, library and theater |
| 1918 |
Nov |
11 |
First World War ended after 8 million killed, 21 million wounded |
| 1919 |
Aug |
26 |
U.S. pilot Rudolph Schroeder won The Great Toronto-New York Air Race |
| 1919 |
Dec |
02 |
Toronto's Ambrose Small sold his chain of theatres for $1.75 million, banked the first
million, left his office about 7 p.m., and was never seen again |
| 1921 |
Jul |
19 |
Prohibition began in Ontario |
| 1922 |
Mar |
28 |
Toronto's first radio station, CFCA, began broadcasting |
| 1922 |
Nov |
18 |
City of Dresden wrecked
off Long Point. Its cargo of liquor drifted ashore. Locals quickly carried it home for
"safe keeping." Most wasn't recovered. |
| 1924 |
Apr |
01 |
Royal Canadian Air Force
founded |
| 1924 |
Aug |
2-7 |
Old
Boys Reunion held in Simcoe |
| 1924 |
Aug |
31 |
Jarvis ratepayers vote 111 to 4
to bring electric lights to their village |
| 1924 |
Oct |
23 |
Ontario votes to keep prohibition |
| 1925 |
Jun |
10 |
Union of Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists forms
the United Church of
Canada |
| 1925 |
Jun |
17 |
Simcoe's Carillon Tower dedicated
as a World War I memorial |
| 1925 |
|
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Norfolk General Hospital opened |
| 1927 |
Mar |
29 |
Government controlled sale of alcohol replaced prohibition in Ontario |
| 1927 |
Jun |
15 |
Belleville, Ontario's Morse Robb patented
world's first electric organ |
| 1927 |
Jul |
09 |
NHL hockey star Leonard
"Red" Kelly born in Simcoe |
| 1927 |
Sep |
02 |
Port Dover Mausoleum cornerstone
laid |
| 1929 |
Jun |
11 |
Toronto's Royal York Hotel
opened |
| 1929 |
Jul |
15 |
Toronto inventor Thomas Carroll demonstrated the combine harvester near Sarnia,
Ontario |
| 1929 |
Oct |
29 |
Black Tuesday. Stock market crashed, kick-starting the
Great Depression |
| 1929 |
Dec |
13 |
Actor Christopher Plummer born in Toronto |
| 1931 |
Nov |
12 |
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens built in six months at the height of the Depression |
| 1932 |
Mar |
26 |
The White Trillium flower proclaimed the emblem of Ontario |
| 1934 |
May |
24 |
Dionne Quintuplets born near North Bay, Ontario |
| 1934 |
Jun |
10 |
Mitchell Hepburn sworn in as 11th Premiere of Ontario |
| 1936 |
Nov |
18 |
The Globe bought The Mail and Empire and became The Goble and
Mail newspaper |
| 1937 |
Feb |
09 |
St. Catharines, Ontario's Gideon Sundback patents his invention: the zipper |
| 1937 |
Feb |
13 |
Simcoe's
H.S. Falls department
store destroyed in spectacular fire |
| 1939 |
Aug |
12 |
Bata, world's largest footwear manufacturer, established in Toronto by Thomas Bata |
| 1941 |
Apr |
20 |
28 German prisoners of war escaped from POW camp 300 miles from Thunder Bay |
| 1941 |
Aug |
26 |
19 German prisoners of war tunneled out of Fort Henry at Kingston |
| 1941 |
Dec |
07 |
Canada declared war on Japan after bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 |
Aug |
19 |
Battle of Dieppe, France. 900 of 5,000 Canadians involved killed, another 1,300 taken
prisoner. |
| 1942 |
Dec |
21 |
Canada's wartime butter rationing began |
| 1944 |
Sep |
05 |
An earthquake at Cornwall, Ontario caused $500,000 damage |
| 1945 |
May |
08 |
Armistice with Germany signed |
| 1945 |
Aug |
06 |
C. D. Howe said Canadians "intimate" in developing atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima |
| 1946 |
Jul |
10 |
Canada's first drive-in theater, "The Skyway," opened in Stoney Creek,
Ontario |
| 1948 |
Feb |
05 |
Barbara Ann Scott, 19,
of Ottawa, won Olympic Gold in ice-skating |
| 1949 |
Sep |
08 |
Construction began on Toronto's Yonge Street subway |
| 1951 |
Mar |
28 |
Ballerina Karen Kain born in Hamilton, Ontario |
| 1951 |
Aug |
14 |
Marjorie Kelly of Glen Meyer won Miss
Canada title |
| 1951 |
Dec |
21 |
Canada instituted old age security payments |
| 1952 |
Sep |
08 |
CBC TV began broadcasting |
| 1953 |
Jul |
13 |
Stratford (Ontario) Festival opened,
Alec Guiness playing Richard III |
| 1953 |
Aug |
15 |
Tornado causes $5 million damages in Sarnia, Ontario |
| 1954 |
Oct |
15 |
Hurricane Hazel killed 82 people, caused $24 million
damage in Ontario |
| 1955 |
Jul |
31 |
Toronto's Marilyn Bell, 17, becomes youngest person to ever swim the English Channel |
| 1956 |
Jun |
23 |
Simcoe AM Radio Station CFRS'
first broadcast |
| 1957 |
Jun |
10 |
John Diefenbaker elected Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1957 |
Oct |
12 |
Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1957 |
|
|
Dial telephones introduced in
Simcoe.
All used GArfield-6 (426) prefix |
| 1959 |
Jun |
26 |
Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| 1960 |
Aug |
04 |
Bill of Rights approved by House of Commons |
| 1961 |
May |
16 |
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and
wife begin a two-day visit to Ottawa |
| 1961 |
Aug |
27 |
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame/Hockey Hall of Fame opened by
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker at Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto |
| 1962 |
Jun |
04 |
First Canadian nuclear reactor produces electricity |
| 1962 |
Jul |
30 |
TransCanada Highway officially opened |
| 1963 |
Nov |
22 |
U.S. President John F. Kennedy
shot in Dallas, Texas |
| 1964 |
Feb |
09 |
The Beatles first
appeared on The Ed Sullivan TV Show |
| 1964 |
May |
02 |
Northern Dancer, owned by E. P. Taylor of Toronto, won
Kentucky Derby |
| 1965 |
Dec |
09 |
Power failure at Niagara Falls caused blackout across Ontario and much of northeastern
U.S. Nine months later the birth rate hiccupped |
| 1967 |
Jun |
|
The Beatles' 8th
album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released |
| 1967 |
Aug |
04 |
Simcoe's first annual Friendship
Weekend |
| 1968 |
Apr |
04 |
Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. assassinated |
| 1968 |
Jun |
06 |
Robert F. (Bobby)
Kennedy assassinated (Shot Jun 5, died Jun 6) |
| 1968 |
Jun |
25 |
Oakville, Ontario's Sandra Post won U.S. Laidies Pro Golf Tournament |
| 1969 |
Aug |
|
Norfolk
native Rick Danko performed at Woodstock Music and Art
Fair, a member of The Band |
| 1969 |
Sep |
26 |
Ontario Science Centre opened
in Don Mills |
| 1969 |
Dec |
10 |
NHL hockey star Rob
Blake born in Simcoe. Won Stanley Cup in 2001. |
| 1970 |
Jan |
22 |
Boeing 747 jumbo jet's
first commercial flight |
| 1971 |
Mar |
04 |
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair of Vancouver |
| 1971 |
May |
22 |
Ontario Place recreation
facility officially opened in Toronto |
| 1972 |
Jun |
11 |
Devastating frost stikes rich agricultural
lands in southwest Ontario |
| 1972 |
Jun |
15 |
Ontario legalized organ transplants |
| 1972 |
Sep |
28 |
Paul Henderson's last minute
goal wins Canada-USSR hockey series in Russia. All Canada celebrates! |
| 1973 |
Jun |
12 |
Shaw Festival Theater opens at Niagara-on-the-Lake |
| 1974 |
Aug |
15 |
710-acre Metro Toronto Zoo (one of world's largest) opens |
| 1975 |
Apr |
02 |
Toronto's CN Tower became
world's tallest free standing structure |
| 1975 |
Oct |
13 |
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau imposed wage and price controls |
| 1975 |
Nov |
10 |
400,000 residents were evacuated from Mississauga, Ontario after a train carrying chemicals
derailed |
| 1975 |
Nov |
10 |
The Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald. In the most famous disaster of Great Lakes shipping, the huge
222-metre ore freighter mysteriously sank during a storm on Lake Superior,
killing 29 and inspiring an iconic song by Canadian singer-songwriter
Gordon Lightfoot. |
| 1977 |
|
|
Radio Shack, Apple and
Commodore introduce world's first pre-assembled micro-computers |
| 1977 |
Aug |
16 |
Elvis Presley died |
| 1980 |
Oct |
27 |
Lawyer/broadcaster/novelist/Member of
Parliament, Judy LaMarsh died. As Canada's
minister of health and welfare 1963-65, she introduced national medicare,
national pensions (CPP), and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. |
| 1981 |
Aug |
27 |
Bank of Canada interest rates topped 21 percent
IBM introduced the IBM personal computer |
| 1982 |
Apr |
17 |
Queen Elizabeth II signed Canada's
Constitution into law in Ottawa |
| 1983 |
Dec |
23 |
Jeanne Sauve, Canada's first woman speaker of the House of Commons, named Canada's
first female Governor-General. (She was sworn in the following May.) |
| 1991 |
Sep |
26 |
Village of Jarvis evacuated after
natural gas explosion |
| 1992 |
Jan |
22 |
Roberta Bondar, Canada's first woman in space,
blasted off aboard Discovery
shuttle |
| 1997 |
Jun |
01 |
Ontario's Donovan Bailey beat U.S.' Michael Johnson in $1 million, 150 metre race
for title Fastest Man in the World |
| 1997 |
Aug |
31 |
Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, killed in a Paris, France car accident |
| 1999 |
Dec |
10 |
Norfolk native,
musician Rick Danko of The Band, died
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