|
Year |
Month |
Start Date |
Event |
|
1785 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14: Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, army and
militia officer, seigneur, jp, and office holder (d.1838) |
|
1807 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Francis Hincks, politician (d.1885) |
|
1810 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Jean-Baptiste Thibault, missionary and
pre-confederation (d.1879) |
|
1834 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Thomas Bain, politician and Speaker of the
Canadian House of Commons (died 1915) |
|
1837 |
December |
14 |
Battle of Saint-Eustache on December 14. |
|
1837 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th
Premier of Ontario (died 1901) |
|
1837 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Rebels are defeated, at St. Eustache, Jean-Olivier
Chénier is killed |
|
1837 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, physician and Patriote
(born 1806) |
|
1855 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - William Brymner, art teacher and painter (died
1925) |
|
1864 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Henry Edgarton Allen, politician |
|
1871 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes the first
franco-manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd |
|
1875 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Marie-Anne Gaboury, female explorer (b.1780) |
|
1886 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Yoho National Park established |
|
1892 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814) |
|
1897 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Robert Simpson, businessman and founder of
Simpsons (b.1834) |
|
1943 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Linda McIntosh, politician |
|
1954 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 – Steven MacLean, astronaut |
|
1956 |
December |
14 |
December 14 – John Diefenbaker is elected leader of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. |
|
1961 |
December |
14 |
Marie-Claire Kirkland becomes the first woman Member of the
Legislative Assembly and also the first woman cabinet member. |
|
1964 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist,
publicist and publisher (b. 1906) |
|
1967 |
December |
14 |
December 14: Lester B. Pearson announces he will step down as
prime minister early in the next year |
|
1967 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 – Dominic LeBlanc, politician |
|
1971 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Scott Koskie, volleyball player |
|
1973 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Tomasz Radzinski, soccer player |
|
1973 |
December |
14 |
Born
- December 14 - Sue Armstrong, field hockey player |
|
1989 |
December |
14 |
Canadian Space Agency formed on December 14. |
|
1998 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Minister of Finance Paul Martin prohibits Canada's
banks from merging. |
|
1999 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Montreal resident Ahmed Ressam is arrested in
Seattle and found with large quantities of explosives |
|
2001 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Pauline Mills McGibbon, politician and 22nd
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (born 1910) |
|
2006 |
December |
14 |
December 14 - Ed Stelmach is sworn in as Premier of Alberta |
|
2008 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 - Hank Goldup, ice hockey player (born 1918) |
|
2011 |
December |
14 |
Died
- December 14 – Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, 75, Olympic rower,
gold medalist (1960) (born 1936) |