Feb 7
1792 Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe issued a proclamation advertising the availability of vacant crown lands for new settlement.
1792 The first map of Cornwall was issued by surveyor William Chewett. It recorded 40 landowners.
1804 John Deere, American inventor of agricultural implements, was born.
1812 Charles Dickens, English novelist, was born in Portsmouth, England.
1964 The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."
1984 Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.
Feb 8
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer, was born.
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, was born.
1828 Jules Verne, French author, was born.
1853 A petition by Mayor J.B. Turgeon was presented to the Executive Council requesting that Bytown be converted into a city named Ottawa.
1879 Sandford Flemming read a paper before the Canadian Institute in Toronto, outlining his concept of a world-wide, uniform system of reckoning time.
1906 Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor of xerography, was born.
Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is responsible for Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell Counties. Our mission is “To encourage, assist and bring together all those interested in the pursuit of family history.” If you want to discover more about your family origins, or how and where to locate information about your ancestors, our members will be there to help you.
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