June in History

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Month	Day	Year	Event
June	1	1901	Boer War-Engagement, Jamestown, Cape Colony
June	1	1919	This day is called Bloody Saturday when policy charged a demonstration of strikers during the Winnipeg General Strike, killing two and wounding twenty seven others.
June	2	1866	The Fenians, a group of radical Irish-Americans organized in New York in 1859 to oppose British presence in Ireland, begin a series of raids on Canadian territory in the hopes of diverting British troops from the homeland. The most serious of these was th
June	2	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Bronkhorstspruitstasie, South African Republic
June	2	1916	Battle of Mount Sorrel. Major General Mercer killed.
June	2	1916	Battle of Mount Sorrel
June	3	1885	Crees, and whites led by Mounties, fight the last military engagement on Canadian soil (near Loon Lake, Sask.)
June	3	1917	Affairs south of the Souchez River
June	4	1900	Boer War-Engagement, Sesmylspruit, Irene; Incident at Zwavelkranz, OFS
June	4	1976	Canada announces a 200-mile coastal fishing zone.
June	5	1813	The Battles of Stoney Creek is Canadian Victory
June	5	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Lindley /Heilbron
June	5	1989	The government announces cuts in the funding of VIA Rail, to much public outcry.
June	6	1659	Francois de Laval arrives at Quebec as de facto bishop of New France
June	6	1826	Reform editor William Lyon Mackenzie's printing shop in York is wrecked by Family Compact members
June	6	1829	Shawnandithit, the last of the Beothuks, dies at about age twenty-eight in St. John's, Newfoundland.
June	6	1854	Canada and the U.S. sign a Reciprocity Treaty, ensuring reduction of customs duties.
June	6	1891	John A. Macdonald dies age 76.
June	6	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Onderstepoort, South African Republic
June	6	1901	Boer War-Skirmish, Graspan, Reitz
June	6	1944	Canadians troops, along with British and Americans, land successfully on the coast of France and begin to drive the Germans back.
June	6	1944	Canadian troops push further than other allied units on D-Day.
June	7	1900	Boer War-Battle of Roodewal (Rhenoster River ),OFS; Skirmish, Elands River, South African Republic
June	7	1901	Boer War-Engagement, Zuurberg, Cape Colony
June	7	1917	Battle of Messines (Capture of Wytschaete)
June	8	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Bothaspas; Gansvleikop, Natal
June	8	1917	General Sir Arthur Currie appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Corps. Currie became the first Canadian to hold overall command of Canadian troops. He was appointed over other British Generals who had higher rank/more seniority. Currie had his detr
June	9	1643	Three settlers killed in first of countless Iroquois attacks on Ville-Marie.
June	9	1866	Private Timothy O'Hara extinguishes a fire in a boxcar of ammunition at Danville. Que., and wins the only Victoria Cross ever rewarded for an act in Canada.
June	10	1957	John Diefenbaker and the Conservatives win a minority government.
June	11	1900	Boer War-Battle of Allemansnek, Natal; Skirmish, Rhenosterriver (Honingkoppies), OFS
June	11	1900	Boer War-Battle of Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill), Pretoria
June	11	1917	Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden introduced a Military Service Bill.
June	11	1917	The military service bill is introduced, leading to a conscription crisis dividing French and English Canada.
June	12	1901	Boer War-Battle of Wilmansrust, Middelburg/ Ermelo, Tvl
June	14	1919	The first successful transatlantic flight leaves St. John's, Nfld.
June	15	1745	Fortress Louisbourg surrenders to the English (but will be handed back three years later).
June	15	1846	Oregon Treaty sets the 49th parallel as the western Canada/U.S. boundary.
June	15	1915	Second Action of Givenchy
June	15	1915	Battle of Givenchy.
June	18	1812	United States declares war on Britain (the War of 1812)
June	18	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Zoutpans Drift, South African Republic
June	18	1962	The Conservatives are returned to minority status in a federal election.
June	19	1791	Province of Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario) formed.
June	19	1816	Métis and a few Indians Massacre Selkirk settlers at Seven Oaks (Winnipeg)
June	19	1914	A dust explosion at a coal mine in Hillcrest, Alberta, kills 189 miners.
June	19	1938	The Workers' Unity League helps to organize the Vancouver Sit-ins in which Relief Camp workers and others occupied the Vancouver Post Office and some other public buildings. The protest was peaceful until the police extracted the men by force on Bloody Su
June	20	1945	The first family allowance ("baby-bonus") payments are made.
June	21	1749	Halifax founded by the English to offset Louisbourg.
June	21	1901	Boer War-Skirmish, Maraisburg (now known as Hofmeyr), Cape Colony
June	21	1919	Mounties smash 37 day old Winnipeg General Strike.
June	21	1919	An armed charge by the RCMP on Bloody Saturday kills one and injures thirty.
June	22	1774	Quebec Act, guaranteeing civil, language and religious rights to French Canadians, comes into force.
June	22	1813	Laura Secord overhears American troops planning an attack, and walks 30 km, crossing enemy lines, to warn Colonel James FitzGibbon. Two days later, the Americans are ambushed and surrender to FitzGibbon.
June	22	1869	Canadian Parliament agrees to buy Rupert's Land - All the Hudson's Bay Company territory.
June	22	1900	Boer War-Skirmish: America Station, Katbosch en Heuningspruitstasie, OFS
June	22	1960	Liberals under Jean Lesage win provincial election in Québec, inaugurating the Quiet Revolution which pressed for special status within Confederation.
June	23	1813	Beaver Dam is Canadian victory, the latter in part due to Laura Secord's famous 32 km, walk to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon, who had already been warned by Indians.
June	23	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Heidelberg, South African Republic; Vicinity of Winburg-Senekal
June	24	1497	John Cabot claims New World territory (either Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island) for England.
June	24	1611	Henry Hudson cast adrift in James Bay by mutineers.
June	25	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Leliefontein, Senekal, OFS
June	25	1968	Pierre Trudeau succeeds Pearson as leader of the Liberals and wins a majority in a federal election in an atmosphere like a media circus.
June	25	1993	Kim Campbell, the new Conservative party leader, becomes Canada's first female prime minister, but in October Jean Chrétien's Liberals win the general election.
June	26	1901	Boer War-Attackl, blockhouse, Delagoa Bay railwayline, Tvl
June	26	1917	Capture of Avoin
June	26	1945	Canada joins the United Nations.
June	26	1959	Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower officially open the St. Lawrence Seaway, which lets ocean vessels reach the Great Lakes.
June	26	1959	The St. Lawrence Seaway opens.
June	27	1901	Boer War-Incident, Uitkyk Station, Tvl
June	27	1918	Canadian Hospital ship Llandovery Castle sunk by German U-Boat. Life boats were pursued and sunk. 234 were killed, including 14 nursing sisters. 24 survived. This attack proved a rallying cry for the Canadian troops for the rest of the war.
June	27	1980	O Canada is officially adopted as Canada's national anthem.
June	28	1900	Boer War-Skirmish, Graskop, Volksrust, South African Republic
June	28	1914	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated in Sarajevo
June	28	1918	Action of La Becque
June	28	1919	End of the war/Treaty of Versailles
June	28	1981	Terry Fox dies. Minus one leg already lost to cancer, Fox attempted to run across Canada in 1980 in his Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research. But in September, near Thunder Bay, Ontario, cancer struck again and the run was called off. By th
June	29	1974	Mikhail Baryshnikov defects in Montréal.
June	30	1948	The Income Tax Act is enacted, taking effect for the 1949 and subsequent taxation years. After numerous amendments to the Income War Tax Act introduced in 1917, the new act largely reworded and codified the former law with little change in actual policy.
June		1832	Immigrants with Cholera land at Quebec. By September the disease will kill 3,800 there 4,000 in Montreal
June		1875	Bell's first functioning telephone is demonstrated in Boston.
June		1992	Canada is the first country to sign the international bio-diversity convention at the Earth Summit in Brazil.

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