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Subject: Oct 2nd Events
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 11:47:58 EDT

1895
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up northern districts of Yukon, Ungava,
Mackenzie, and Franklin, under the administrative control of the north West
Territories government at Regina; enlarges Athabasca District eastward; Yukon becomes
a territory in 1897; others divided into the districts of Mackenzie,
Keewatin and Franklin in 1918.
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1887
Vancouver BC - Fraser River fisherman nets a 12 foot sturgeon, weighing 822
pounds.
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1883
Kingston Ontario - Dr. Jennie Trout opens a women's medical college at
Queen's University in Kingston.
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1871
PEI - Start of construction of Prince Edward Island Railroad.
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1861
London England - Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck 1819-1894 appointed
administrator of Canada; serves from Oct. 25 to Nov. 28, 1861.
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1847
Quebec Quebec - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Quebec; three
years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph.
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1754
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Opening session of first Supreme Court in
English-speaking Canada held at Halifax.
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1744 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 ends siege
of Annapolis Royal, when he gets order to withdraw to winter quarters at
Minas.

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