Mar 1
1632 Samuel de Champlain appointed first Governor of the royal colony of New France.
1815 Governor George Prevost is officially notified of the Peace of Ghent.
1881 Henry Birks opens a larger jewellery store on St. James Street in Montreal.
1944 The Canadian Government ends meat rationing.
Mar 2
1831 Upper Canada Assembly passes act legalizing marriages by Methodist ministers.
1877 City of Belleville incorporated.
1877 City of Brantford incorporated.
1916 Ontario's Temperance Act was passed.
1965 The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere in New York.
Mar 3
1838 Five hundred American sympathizers of the Upper Canada rebellion were repelled at Point Pelee.
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1890 Norman Bethune was born at Gravenhurst.
1921 University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.
1942 First combat flight of the Toronto-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1962 Carine Wilson the first woman senator in Canada died.
1967 The federal government appointed a royal commission on the status of women.
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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