|
Year |
Month |
Start Date |
Event |
|
1787 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political
figure (d.1860) |
|
1862 |
April |
2 |
By-law
to establish a Montreal Fire Department. |
|
1871 |
April |
2 |
The first Canadian census finds the population to be
3,689,257 |
|
1873 |
April |
2 |
The Pacific Scandal breaks out |
|
1892 |
April |
2 |
Secret
Cleege Societies are condemned at the McGill Convocation. |
|
1893 |
April |
2 |
Died -
Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (b.1819) |
|
1912 |
April |
2 |
Born -
John Marlyn, writer (d.2005) |
|
1914 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Edwin Alonzo Boyd, criminal and leader of the Boyd
Gang (d.2002) |
|
1918 |
April |
2 |
Born -Marion Bryden, politician (d.2013) |
|
1920 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Gerald Bouey, 4th Governor of the Bank of Canada
(d.2004) |
|
1928 |
April |
2 |
Camillien Houde elected mayor of Montreal |
|
1931 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Howard Engel, writer and television producer |
|
1943 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Alan Tonks, politician |
|
1953 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Janet Nutter, diver |
|
1955 |
April |
2 |
The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connecting Halifax to
Dartmouth opens. |
|
1965 |
April |
2 |
Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the
United States that calls for a stop to the bombing of North
Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson |
|
1971 |
April |
2 |
Born -
Conrad Leinemann, beach volleyball player |
|
1972 |
April |
2 |
Born
-Graham Hood, middle-distance runner |
|
1973 |
April |
2 |
Montreal announces Canada's first lottery to help pay for
the 1976 Summer Olympics |
|
1974 |
April |
2 |
Died -
Douglass Dumbrille, actor (b.1889) |
|
1975 |
April |
2 |
The CN Tower is completed in Toronto |
|
1991 |
April |
2 |
Rita Johnston becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing
Bill Vander Zalm. She is the first woman to be the country's
head of government of British Columbia. |
|
1992 |
April |
2 |
Born -
John McFarland, hockey player |
|
1993 |
April |
2 |
The Farm Credit Corporation Act is passed |
|
1993 |
April |
2 |
Died -
Alexander Bell Patterson, politician (born 1911) |
|
1998 |
April |
2 |
A In the final appeal of the Delwin Vriend case, the Supreme
Court of Canada strikes down an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling
that barred LGBT persons from protection under the province's
human rights code. |
|
2001 |
April |
2 |
Died -Charles Daudelin, sculptor and painter (born 1920) |
|
2009 |
April |
2 |
Stephen Harper attends the 2009 G-20 London summit. |
|
2009 |
April |
2 |
Died -
Émilie Lavoie, supercentenarian (born 1898) |
|
2009 |
April |
2 |
Died -
Albert Sanschagrin, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec
(born 1911) |
|
2010 |
April |
2 |
Died - Edward Bayda, jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan
(1981–2006) (born 1931) |
|
2011 |
April |
2 |
Died -
James McNulty, 92, politician, MP for Lincoln
(1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972). (born 1918) |