Science
Niagara Falls Created  (13 000 BC)
First Comet Sighting  (Nov 30, 1618)
Lunar Eclipse  (Dec 31, 1638)
Royal Society Chartered  (Apr 22, 1662)
Accommodation Launched  (Aug 19, 1809)
Grant for Geological Survey  (1841)
Geological Survey Founded  (1842)
Gesner Demonstrates Kerosene  (1846)
Work Begins on Victoria Bridge  (Jul 20, 1854)
Palliser Expedition in Alberta  (1857 to 1860)
Hind Expedition  (1857 to 1858)
Palliser Expedition  (1857 to 1860)
Foulis Invents Foghorn  (1860)
Total Eclipse Obscured  (Jul 17, 1860)
Victoria Bridge Opened  (Aug 25, 1860)
First Chemical Pulp  (1863)
First Soda Pulp Mill  (1865)
First Revolving Snow Shovel  (1869)
Weather Forecasting Begins  (1871)
Bell Works on Telephone  (1874)
First Electricity in Canada  (1877)
Geological Survey Confirmed  (1877)
Fleming's Standard Time  (Feb 8, 1879)
First Electrical Lighting  (1882)
First International Polar Year  (1882 to 1883)
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Louis Cyr
Louis Cyr. Musicologist, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 29 Oct 1936; B MUS (St-Louis, Edmundston) 1954, ARCT 1957, BA (St-Louis, Edmundston) 1957, L PH (Montreal) 1961, L TH (Montreal) 1965, MA musicology (Frankfurt) 1980. Ordained a ...


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