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March 21 – The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned; May 2 – The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency; June 18 – In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government; July 1 – First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by ...
On the day of his reinstatement, Team Canada's executive director, Wayne Gretzky, offered Bertuzzi a spot on the national team's summer orientation camp in preparation for the 2006 Winter Olympics. [19] A week later, Bertuzzi broke his 17-month-long public silence by again admitting to his mistake and expressing a desire to move on with his life.
Upper Canada's first capital is Newark (present-day Niagara-on-the-Lake); in 1797 [21] it is moved to York, now Toronto. The population of Upper Canada grows from 6,000 in 1785 to 14,000 in 1790 to 46,000 in 1806.
The cancer had spread to his lungs, and he was forced to abandon the course on September 1, 1980, just northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario after 143 days. He had run 5,373 km (3,339 miles, or around 23.3 miles per day) through Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario.
Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows was an uncontrolled discharge of between 9,000 kilograms (20,000 lb) and 11,000 kilograms (24,000 lb) of mercury from the Dryden Mill's chloralkali plant in Dryden into the headwaters of the Wabigoon River in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario from 1962 until 1970. [1]
1962 – John Munro, elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election, and served continuously as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hamilton, Ontario. Munro was appointed to Cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , and served variously as Minister of Amateur Sport, Minister of Health and Welfare and Minister of Labour from 1968 to ...
Ontario's first television station, CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto. November 1: First English broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada is televised from Maple Leaf Gardens. 1953: January 20: The Metropolitan Toronto School Board, a school board with a federation of 11 school boards, is formed. 1954: January 1: Metropolitan Toronto is created ...
[21] A play called Innocence Lost, written by Beverley Cooper and based on Truscott's conviction, was featured at the Blyth Festival Theatre in Blyth, Ontario during the summer 2008 season. It was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama in 2008. The play was remounted again in the company's 2009 season and was ...