1964: Prime Minister Lester Pearson officially opens the federal-provincial conference being held in Charlottetown to mark to 100th anniversary of the first Confederation conference.
The focus of the gathering is the search for an elusive formula for amending the British North America Act. Pearson continues to promote the Fulton-Favreau formula proposed by the current and former federal justice ministers. Ultimately, it is rejected by Quebec, delaying constitutional reform for nearly two more decades.
1916 — John King, a former lecturer at Osgoode Hall, dies in Toronto only a few weeks after his son moves his parents into a house on Avenue Road. The son, William Lyon Mackenzie King, is a consultant to John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the United States.
1950 — The government of Louis St. Laurent has called for an emergency session of Parliament to legislate Canada’s 125,000 striking railway and telegraph workers back to work. Employees are back on the job the next day after being off the job for nine days.
1938 — Paul Edgar Philippe Martin is born in Windsor, Ontario. He is the son of Paul Sr., a lawyer who is the Liberal MP for Essex East. Martin’s mother is Nelly Adams who has a Scottish-Irish-Métis background.
1987 — Appearing before a Senate-Commons hearing into the proposed Meech Lake Accord, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau attacks the agreement as a sell-out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to the provinces.
1872 — In the midst of an election campaign, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald sends a desparate telegram to John Abbott, the solicitor for the Canada Pacific Railway syndicate. Macdonald’s Liberal-Conservative party has been receiving election funds from the consortium and needs more.
1917 — Former Portage La Prairie lawyer Arthur Meighen becomes Secretary of State in Sir Robert Borden’s cabinet. Meighen, who was Solicitor-General, has been playing an active role in managing the war effort, including introducing the Military Services Bill into Parliament.
1870: Canadian troops commanded by Colonel Garnet Wolseley arrive in Manitoba to put an end to Métis provisional government. The Métis leader, Louis Riel, abandons Fort Garry and goes into hiding.
1898: For nearly three decades, Canada and the United States have argued about where the boundary on the Alaska panhandle should lie. Canada wants control of the heads of some fiords so the Yukon will have a southern water outlet ; the U.S. wants all the land to the heads of the fiords and beyond.
1925 — Lester B. Pearson marries Maryon Moody in a Winnipeg double ceremony that includes Moody’s sister Grace and fiancé Norman Young.
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