Defining Moments in Canadian History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/04/1914	WW II starts	British declared war on behalf of the British Empire.
10/14/1914	Canadian troops arrived in England	The Canadian Active Service Force was mobilised on 1st September 1939 in anticipation of the declaration of war. The 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade was raised in Ontario. They embarked for the UK on the 17th December 1939 and arrived at Greenock, Scotland on the 25th December 1939.
04/09/1917	Battle of Vimy Ridge	Both French and British troops had tried and failed. Canadian troops had fought as part of British units.
08/29/1917	military service act	Military Service Act (Canada) Passed on 29 August 1917, it introduced military conscription overseas as voluntary recruitment proved insufficient to supply the Canadian forces in World War I with enough troops. The actual effect of the Act was limited, as less than 25,000 conscripts actually arrived in Europe.
01/12/1919	treaty of versailles	The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies.
06/21/1919	winnipeg general strike	Winnipeg exploded. Workers were off the job for 5 weeks long. It was striked for higher wages and union recognition.
10/03/1922	first woman appointed to the senate	In 1930 Cairine Wilson became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate, just months after the Persons Case gave women the right to sit in the Senate. It was 23 years before another woman was appointed to the Senate in Canada. Cairine Wilson was also Canada's first woman delegate to the United Nations.
10/29/1929	Black Tuesday	October 29, 1929, when the DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff.
10/31/1929	Great Depresion started	Throughout the years of 1929 to 1939, there was a world wide Depression and Canada was one of the worst affected countries. Financially and economically the country began to collapse regardless of what was done by political power.
07/05/1935	federal government creates Canadian Wheat Board	The Canadian government created the wheat board in 1935 in response to plummeting grain prices during the Depression that threatened to destroy the industry.
06/06/1944	Invasion of Normandy	On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though they had been fighting in mainland Italy for some nine months, the Normandy invasion was in a strategically more important region, setting the stage to drive the Germans from France and ultimately destroy the National Socialist regime.
05/07/1945	Germany surrenders	On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops fought to within yards of his subterranean bunker, Adolph Hitler put a pistol to his head, pulled the trigger and closed the curtain on the Third Reich. Before his death, Hitler anointed Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor with orders to continue the fighting. Hitler was unaware that the German surrender had already begun.
10/06/1945	Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.	An american plane dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. This ended the war
09/06/1947	Cold War	The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some. For many the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue.
03/31/1949	Newfoundland joins Canada	On April 1, 1949, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent cut the first ceremonial chisel strokes onto the blank stone. At 11:59 the previous night, Newfoundland had become a Canadian province.
04/04/1949	NATO was created	The countries of Western Europe and North America formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, in 1949.
01/01/1972	All Canadians are covered by universal healthcare	Universal health care is a broad concept that can be structured and funded in various ways. The common factor for all universal health care programs is that they require some form of government involvement, whether it is through legislation, mandates, or regulation. The laws determine what type of care must be provided, to whom the care must be provided, and the basis for determining coverage.
04/12/1980	04/12/1980 Terry Fox Begins Maraton Of Hope	Terry Fox was an amazing athlete until cancer took his right knee. So Terry Fox decided to run a marathon across canada to help fund money for cancer research.
12/06/1989	montreal massacre	A gunman confronts 60 engineering students during their class at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989. He separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave the classroom, threatening them with his .22-calibre rifle.
01/01/1991	Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) were put in effect	As of July 1, 2010, Ontario harmonized its retail sales tax with the GST to implement the HST at the rate of 13% and British Columbia harmonized its provincial sales tax with the GST to implement the HST at the rate of 12%. Also, as of July 1, 2010, Nova Scotia increased its HST rate from 13% to 15%.
01/01/1994	01/01/1994 NAFTA Goes Into Effect	NAFTA or North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement is an agreement that removes tariffs from the us canadian borders.
06/12/1995	Tonnie Is Introduced	The two dollar coin called the Tonnie was first introduce in December 6 1995
10/30/1995	The 1995 Quebec Referendum	"À la prochaine fois!" (Until next time!) promised René Lévesque after the 1980 Quebec referendum. Fifteen years later, on Oct. 30, 1995, Quebec and the rest of Canada faced that "next time" as Quebecers decided whether to separate from Canada. Though they voted to stay by the narrowest of margins, the referendum provoked questions about Canadian identity and Quebec's place in Confederation.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
09/01/1939 to 09/16/1945	World War II	After Germany invaded Poland on September 10th Canada and most of the other allies declare war on Germany.