1 January 1947 - The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect in Ottawa, Ontario.
15 February 1965 - Canada's new Maple Leaf flag is flown on Parliament Hill.
13 March 1928 - Eileen Vollick (1899-1972) becomes the first Canadian woman to obtain a pilot's license
17 April 1962 - Queen Elizabeth II signs the Royal Proclamation of the Canadian Constitution.
12 May 1870 - The Manitoba Act is given Royal Assent, creating Canada's fifth province
6 June 1944 - Canadian troops land on Juno Beach as part of the allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day
25 July 1990 - Lucien Bouchard announced the formation of the Bloc Quebecois
1 August 1959 - Georges-Philias Vanier becomes Canada’s first French Canadian Governor General
10 August 1960 - The Canadian Bill of Rights was enacted by Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker.
8 August 1946 – A Cabinet order ends conscription for Canadian military service and grants amnesty to those who went AWOL from the armed services since the previous New Year’s Day
22 August 1979 - Former Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker is buried on the University of Saskatchewan Campus
1 September 1982 - The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is adopted as part of the Constitution under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
5 September 1945 - Canada’s first nuclear reactor becomes operational in Chalk River, Ontario
18 September 1895 - Future Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker is born in Neustadt, Ontario.
19 September 1980 - Terry Fox is invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition of his marathon across Canada which raised millions of dollars for cancer research
26 September 1826 - The town of Bytown is incorporated. In 1955, Bytown will become the city of Ottawa and in 1867 it will officially become the capital of Canada
3 October 1927 - Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King makes the first transatlantic telephone call to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
10 October 1970 - The October Crisis comes to a head when FLQ terrorists kidnap Minister Pierre Laporte in response to the rejection of their demands by the Quebec government
18 October 1929 - Canadian women are finally declared “persons” under the law in culmination of the famous “Persons Case.”
24 October 1995 - The 50 year anniversary of the United Nations brings together the largest gathering of world leaders in history, including Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
31 October 1918 - The Alberta government prohibits all gatherings of seven or more people in response to the outbreak of Spanish flu and churches, schools and theatres are all forced to close
7 November 1907 - The test tokens for the first issue of Canadian coins are struck at the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint
14 November 1849 - Toronto becomes the capital of Canada following the burning of the Montreal parliament building by a Conservative mob; it would remain the capital until 1867
27 November 1885 - Wandering Spirit was hung alongside seven other Cree persons for the murders at Frog Lake on 1 April; these were the last public executions in Canada
28 November 1812 - The Canadian and British militias defeat the second American invasion of the War of 1812 at the Niagara River crossing near Fort Erie
5 December 1976 - The first 4 Canadian female Rhode Scholars are chosen
12 December 1885 - The first Canadian Pacific Railway freight train begins travelling to Montreal carrying Manitoban wheat
19 December 1917 - The first two games are played in the National Hockey League
26 December 1791 - British Prime Minister William Pitt passes the Constitutional Act, dividing Quebec along the Ottawa River into Upper and Lower Canada, each with a Lieutenant Governor and a Legislature.
