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Today's
Canadian Headline....
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July 1st.
1927
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MESSAGE OF THE
CARILLON
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicates the Peace
Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over
telephone and telegraph lines; celebrating the Diamond Jubilee (60th
Anniversary) of Confederation. Read King's speech at our Canadian
Discovery Disk page.
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1909
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Also On This Day...
Melville Island NWT
 - Joseph-Elz?ar Bernier, captain of the government
steamship Arctic, places a metal plaque at Parry Rock claiming Canadian
sovereignty over the entire Arctic Archipelago; US and Norwegian whalers and
mining companies were trying to convince their governments to pursue
territorial claims. That's him with the musk ox calf. 'I took possession of Baffin Island for Canada in the presence of several Eskimo,' said Bernier,
'and after firing nineteen shots I instructed an Eskimo to fire the
twentieth, telling him that he was now a Canadian.' Read all about it at our Canadian
Discovery Disk page.
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1952
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And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
 Dan Aykroyd 1952-
actor, comedian, harmonica player, blues singer, director, writer, Hard Rock
Cafe owner, was born on this day at Ottawa in 1952. Aykroyd started his professional career
with Second City, then moved to Saturday Night Live (1975-79) as the Weekend
Update anchor, Jimmy Carter, Tom Snyder, Beldar Conehead and Elwood, one of
the Blues Brothers with John Belushi; has acted in films such as
Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Detroit, 1941, My Stepmother is an
Alien, Dragnet.
To find out more about Dan Ackroyd, check out this Dan Aykroyd fan
site, or The House of Blues page.
Also Pamela Anderson Lee 1967-
actor, was born Pamela Denise Anderson on this day at Ladysmith British Columbia in 1967. Lee has played Home Improvement's Lisa the
Tool Time Girl, Baywatch's C.J. Parker, and in the movie Barb Wire; Playboy
Playmate of the Month February 1990.
Also Genevi?ve Bujold 1942-
film actor, was born on this day at Montreal in 1942. Bujold has played in films like La Guerre
est Finie, King of Hearts, Choose Me, Anne of the Thousand Days, Coma.
Also Michelle Wright 1961-
country singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer, was born on this day in 1961.
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In Other Events....
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1992
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Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
breaks with tradition by naming some non-politicians to the Privy Council to
honour Canada's 125th birthday. Appointees
include hockey great Maurice Richard; business leaders Conrad Black and
Charles Bronfman; painter Alex Colville; writers W. O. Mitchell and Bruce
Hutchison; Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Polanyi; Micmac poet Rita Joe;
former Cabinet Ministers Ellen Fairclough, Alvin Hamilton, Jean-Luc Pepin,
Jack Pickersgill, Martiel Asselin and Paul Martin Sr; former MPs Lorne
Nystrom, William Scott and Marcel Prudhomme; former Premiers David Peterson
and Robert Lorne Stanfield; former NDP MP Pauline Jewitt (she dies four days
later, on July 5).
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1992
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Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth
II 1926- speaks to crowd of 50,000 on Parliament Hill; presides over Privy
Council ceremony; praises Canadian peacekeepers in Yugoslavia.
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1992
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Ottawa Ontario - Alan Lund dies;
former artistic director of the Charlottetown Festival; staged Anne of Green
Gables.
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1983
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Edmonton Alberta - Start of ten-day
World University Games; Canada has best-ever
showing: third behind US and USSR.
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1980
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Ottawa Ontario - Calixa Lavall?e's
'O Canada' officially proclaimed the national anthem of Canada; written in 1880
for St-Jean-Baptiste celebration; original words by A-B Routhier; English by
Stanley Weir (1908).
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1974
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Toronto Ontario - David Haber 1927-
appointed Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, succeeding
Celia Franca.
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1971
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Vancouver BC - Pierre Trudeau
1919- opens $2.5 million museum for aboriginal artifacts on UBC campus; gift
from Canada to honour
province's centennial.
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1970
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Winnipeg Manitoba - Pierre Trudeau
tells Canada Day heckler concerned about unsold grain, 'Relax mister. You
can't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders every day. This is a
fun day.'
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1968
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Ottawa Ontario - Unveiling of
bronze statue of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950,
by Raoul Hunter, on Parliament Hill.
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1968
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Geneva Switzerland - Canada signs nuclear
non-proliferation treaty with the US, Britain, USSR and 57 other
countries.
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1967
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Winnipeg Manitoba - United College
becomes the University of Winnipeg.
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1967
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Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth
II 1926- attends centennial celebrations on Parliament Hill.
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1966
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Toronto Ontario - CTV station
CFTO-TV transmits first colour television in Canada.
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1965
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Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Labour
Code comes into effect for all government employees.
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1962
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Saskatchewan - Ninety percent of
doctors of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons close their
offices for 23 days, providing only hospital-based emergency services; delays
start of Tommy Douglas' CCF government Medicare compulsory medical care
insurance plan; reach compromise July 23 after amendments to Saskatchewan
Medical Care Insurance Act.
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1960
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Canada - Treaty and
registered aboriginal Canadians given the right to vote.
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1959
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New Brunswick -
Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in New Brunswick.
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1958
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Conrwall Ontario - Ontario Hydro
engineers blast away St. Lawrence River cofferdam; lets
water build up for power station; man-made Lake St. Lawrence will be 40 km long,
64 km wide.
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1958
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Canada - CBC starts
nationwide TV broadcasts as new Trans-Canada microwave relay system goes into
operation.
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1958
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Canada -
Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland.
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1944
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Bretton Woods New Hampshire - Canada attends United
Nations Monetary and Financial Conference; until July 22.
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1942
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Ottawa Ontario - Wartime sugar
rationing starts in Canada.
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1941
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Ottawa Ontario - Unemployment
Insurance Act comes into effect; establishment of Unemployment Insurance
Commission.
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1935
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Regina Saskatchewan - City police and RCMP wade into crowds at
Regina Exhibition Grounds rally to arrest leaders of the On to Ottawa trek
after they return from unsuccessful meeting with Prime Minister Bennett in
Ottawa; one policeman killed, many police and rioters injured; end of trek by
2000 relief camp strikers from Western Canada; four days later the protesters
are given rail transportation home.
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1927
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Ottawa Ontario - Governments of Canada and Britain first communicate
directly, bypassing the Governor-General.
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1927
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Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park
passes law requiring all drivers in Ontario to have a license.
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1926
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Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen
1874-1960 takes Canada back on the gold
Standard.
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1923
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Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes
legislation which virtually suspends all Chinese immigration to Canada; day known to
Chinese community as Humiliation Day. In 1885, Chinese immigrants were
required to pay an entry fee, or head tax of $50 for entry into Canada; by
1900, as immigration continued, the amount was raised to $100 and then to
$500.
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1916
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Beaumont-Hamel France - Newfoundland troops capture
Beaumont-Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme; bloodiest battle
in history will cause casualties of one million dead or wounded by the time
it ends in November.
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1912
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Nanaimo BC - Canadian Pacific
leases the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company on Vancouver Island.
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1904
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St Louis Missouri - Third modern Olympic
games open in St Louis; to Nov. 23; Canada does not send a
team, but some Canadian athletes compete along with 13 official nations and
625 competitors; Montreal policeman Etienne
Desmarteaux will win gold in the hammer throw.
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1890
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Hamilton Bermuda - Telegraph cable
links Canada and Bermuda.
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1886
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Calgary Alberta - Huge fireworks
display celebrates arrival of the Pacific Express, the CPR's first through
passenger train to the Pacific coast, en route for Port Moody, BC.
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1885
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Washington DC - US terminates
reciprocity and fishery clauses worked out at Treaty of Washington March 8, 1871; Americans allowed to fish under treaty
terms until end of season.
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1881
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St Stephen New Brunswick - World's first
international telephone call made to Calais, Maine.
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1881
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Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock
Exchange moves into first permanent HQ at 24 King Street East; boom year;
price of a seat as high as $4,000.
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1878
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Geneva Switzerland - Canada admitted to
membership in Universal Postal Union.
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1873
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PEI - Prince Edward Island enters
Confederation as the seventh Canadian province on same terms as BC;
provincial government, annual grants, debt takeover (nearly bankrupt due to
$4 million railway debt).
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1876
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Quebec Quebec - Through rail
travel opens to Halifax from Quebec.
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1871
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Victoria BC - British Columbia enters
Confederation as the sixth Canadian province; keeps provincial government,
debt takeover, undertaking to build Pacific railroad.
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1871
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Ottawa Ontario - Parliament makes
decimal currency system uniform across Canada.
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1871
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Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the
Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.
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1870
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Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne
Cartier 1814-1873 passes Order-in-Council committing government to start
building a railway to Pacific within two years, as condition of BC's entry
into Confederation; after false starts and consolidations, construction will
begin May 1881.
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1868
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Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the
Department of Marine and Fisheries.
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1867
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Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander
Macdonald 1815-1891 sworn in as Canada's first Prime
Minister; to November 5, 1873; the new Dominion
starts life with just 30 civil servants.
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1867
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Canada -Proclamation of the British North America Act, creating the
Dominion of Canada out of Upper Canada (now Ontario, with its capital at
Toronto), Lower Canada (now Quebec, with its capital at Quebec), Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick. Canada not yet allowed to
deal directly with other states or control immigration; Canadian armed forces
still commanded by British officers.
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1865
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Quebec Quebec - Quebec City becomes the capital
of Canada East.
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1860
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Ottawa Ontario - The Prince of
Wales, later Edward VII, lays the cornerstone of the Parliament Buildings of
the Province of Canada.
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1860
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Saint John, New Brunswick - European and
North American Railway opens from Saint John to Shediac; becomes
part of the Intercolonial Railway on this day in 1867.
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1860
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London England - Britain transfers control
of Indian affairs to Canada.
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1858
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Montreal Quebec - First Canadian coins minted, in
denominations of one cent, five cents, 10 cents and 20 cent pieces; no
regular issue of bills until 1870.
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1857
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Aberdeen Scotland - Aberdeen Scotland: Francis McClintock
sails in the Fox to determine fate of Franklin expedition;
organized by Lady Franklin; has to delay search of King William Island until 1859.
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1838
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Coppermine NWT - Simpson &
Dease reach mouth of Coppermine River.
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1835
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Quebec Quebec - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849
appointed Governor-in- Chief of Lower Canada; serves from Aug. 25, 1835 to
March 30, 1838
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1828
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Fort Vancouver BC - Alexander McLeod
attacks lodge of Challum Indians to avenge murder of HBC clerk in January;
Chief Trader at Fort Vancouver.
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1815
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Toronto Ontario - Frederick
Robinson 1763-1852 appointed provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves until Sept. 21, 1815
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1796
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Detroit Michigan - Jay Treaty comes
into effect; British withdraw from Detroit, Grand Portage, and
Michilimackinac; both parties have free use of Great Lakes.
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1792
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Kingston Ontario - Lt-Col John
Graves Simcoe arrives to take up his post as first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.
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1782
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Lunenberg Nova Scotia - American
privateers attack Lunenberg.
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1752
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Paris France - Ange Duquesne de
Menneville, Marquis de Duquesne c1700-1778 appointed Governor of New France;
serves from July 1 to June 24, 1755.
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1742
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Churchill Manitoba - Christopher
Middleton d1770 explores north from Churchill on board the Furnace to find North West passage; with
William Moor (d1765) in Discovery.
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1629
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Baleine Nova Scotia - James Stuart, Lord Ochiltree lands with
60 colonists at Baleine, Cape Breton; granted barony by William Alexander.
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