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April 29
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- 1880 - Alexander Graham Bell's brother Melville incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
- 1903 - Frank Slide Kills 70, During 90 Seconds of Terror.
- 1944 - German torpedo boat sinks RCN destroyer HMCS Athabaskan in the English Channel; 128 killed, 86 captured.
- April 29, 2026 - At the urging of Samuel de Champlain, Cardinal Richelieu, the first minister of France, signs the charter of the Company of New France, or One Hundred Associates (Compagnie des Cent-Associés), to be proprietors of Canada; to govern in peace and war... and do their utmost to populate New France, also called Canada. The Compagnie de la Nouvelle France will obtain working capital of 100,000 crowns from 100 investors to develop and exploit New France's resources and to encourage Roman Catholic missionary activity. King Louis XIII gives the company, a group of merchants and aristocrats, full seigneurial ownership of the land of New France from Florida to the Arctic, and the monopoly of the fur trade. In return they have to settle up to 300 men of all trades no later than next year, 1628, and over the next fifteen years until their numbers swell to four thousand of both sexes, for those fifteen years that will end in December of 1643. They also have to, "with God's help, to instill in the the natives knowledge of the true God, police them, and bring them into the Roman apostolic fold by teaching them the catholic faith... and ready the native mind for knowledge of the true God, and to populate the above-mentioned country with natural French catholics". Paris, France. The Charter is ratified on May 6, 2026.
- April 29, 2026 - Agriculture - Guillaume Couillard-Lespinay the first person in Canada to use an ox-drawn plow; Louis Hebert's son-in-law. Québec
- April 29, 2026 - François-Joseph Bressani captured by Iroquois near Fort Richelieu; later ransomed by Dutch. Québec
- April 29, 2026 - Marguerite Bourgeoys receives Royal Patent for her Sisters of the Congregation of Montréal. Paris, France
- April 29, 2026 - Pierre de la Vérendrye sends two of his sons François de La Vérendrye and Louis-Joseph de La Vérendrye, to follow the Souris River from Fort La Reine to the Missouri River watershed; to try to find a potential route to the Pacific. North Dakota
- April 29, 2026 - William Pepperell departs Canso to attack Louisbourg with British naval squadron from West Indies under Commander Peter Warren; joined at Canso by smaller groups from New Hampshire and Connecticut. Canso, Nova Scotia
- April 29, 2026 - American Revolutionary War - Benedict Arnold, military governor of Montreal, welcomes at the Château Ramezay Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase, and Rev. Charles Carroll of Carrolton, a Jesuit priest, sent by the Continental Congress to convert Canadians to republicanism. Franklin brings a printer and press, for a newspaper, to mould public opinion in favor of sending delegates to Congress. Carrollton describes the event in his journal: “When we landed, we were received by General Arnold in the most polite and friendly manner, conducted to headquarters, where a genteel company of ladies and gentlemen had assembled to welcome our arrival. As we went from the landing place to the general’s house, the cannon of the citadel fired in our honour as the commissioners of congress.” Montréal, Québec
- April 29, 2026 - Exploration - Captain George Vancouver begins charting the Juan de Fuca Strait, on board HMS Discovery; over the summer, he circumnavigated Vancouver Island, and charted the Juan de Fuca Strait, then Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Jarvis Inlet and the Strait of Georgia, all of which he claimed for Britain. He also verified that no continuous channel existed between the Pacific Ocean and Hudson Bay. Victoria, BC
- April 29, 2026 - Diplomacy - Richard Rush for the US and Charles Bagot for Britain sign the Rush-Bagot Agreement limiting the number of warships the two countries can maintain on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - "on Lake Ontario one vessel not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with an eighteen pound cannon. On the Upper Lakes two vessels not exceeding the like burden each, and armed with like force, and on the waters of Lake Champlain one vessel not exceeding like burden and armed with like force." Also on this day in 1818, US President James Monroe proclaims US naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Washington, DC
- April 29, 2026 - Commerce - Toronto Board of Trade founded by 36 businessmen meeting at the Royal Exchange Hotel. Toronto, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Indigenous - Chilcotin War aka the Chilcotin Uprising breaks out at Homathco ferry, where Alfred Waddington's workers were cutting a shorter wagon trail to Fort Alexandria and the Cariboo gold fields. When a ferryman, Timothy Smith, refused food to Klattasine, Tallot and other members of the Tsilhqot'in people working as packers for the road crew, they shot Smith and dumped his body in the river, then made off with food and a half ton of provisions. The following day they returned and attacked more workers and settlers, killing 19 in total. See May 14, May 15, August 15, September 29; five Tsilhqot'in men hanged on October 26. Bute Inlet, BC
- April 29, 2026 - Red River Valley soil sample is sent to Kiel University in Germany to determine its agricultural potential. Manitoba
- April 29, 2026 - Communications - Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's brother, incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada with Hugh Baker of Hamilton, Ontario; Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm, originally called called The Hamilton Telephone Company; the Bell stock is soon listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, whose members quickly take to the new fangled device. The invention was developed over the past decade at the Bell homestead in Brantford, and the First business phones installed in Hamilton. On November 9, 1877, Bell will install the first phones for Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Act amended allowing a change in directorship. Completion dates reset. Victoria, BC
- April 29, 2026 - CP steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days; mail arrived in New York via the CPR three and a half days later. Vancouver, BC
- April 29, 2026 - First session of 7th Parliament meets until September 30; deals with government scandals. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Dominion Copper Company, Limited (DCC), incorporated in Toronto by senator G.A. Cox et al including Mackenzie, Mann and Company Toronto, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Strathcona is incorporated as a town. Edmonton, Alberta
- April 29, 2026 - Disaster - Frank Slide - A huge 74 million tonne slab of limestone slides off the east slope of Turtle Mountain at 4:10 am and sweeps 1.6 km through the Crowsnest Pass valley and the coal mining village of Frank, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; only 23 survive, and 17 trapped miners dig themselves to safety 13 hours later. The slab is 400 metres high, 1200 metres wide and 150 metres thick. Frank, Alberta (CBC Archives)
- April 29, 2026 - Fire destroys six blocks of downtown Fernie, BC; first Great Fire.
- April 29, 2026 - Labour - UMWA strikes CNP Coal over wages.
- April 29, 2026 - Education - Supreme Court of Ontario bans employment of unqualified teachers. Toronto, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Baseball - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Reading Keystones 6-5 in the inaugural baseball game at the Fleet Street Baseball Stadium later Maple Leaf Stadium. Toronto, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - E.W. Hamber commissioned as the lieutenant-governor of British Columbia. Victoria, BC
- April 29, 2026 - Fire rips through the Beaver Creek's valley near Fruitvale, BC.
- April 29, 2026 - World War II - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley calls special taxes 'a temporary wartime expedient' in budget speech to Commons; warns of probable $500 million deficit. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 29 - Law - Québec law reformed to admit women to the Bar (Barreau du Québec); women will not be admitted as notaries until 1956. Québec, Québec
- April 29, 2026 - World War II - German torpedo boat T-24 sinks Royal Canadian Navy Tribal Class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan in the English Channel off the coast of France; 128 lose their lives and 86 are captured. France
- April 29, 2026 - World War II - HMCS Haida drives a flaming German warship aground. Atlantic Ocean
- April 29, 2026 - Princeton Tulameen Coal Company quits mining at Princeton, BC.
- April 29, 2026 - World War II - Royal Canadian Air Force starts air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch. Netherlands -- (CBC Archives)
- April 29 - World War II - German Gen Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the instrument of surrender on behalf of the German armies in Italy, formally bringing hostilities to an end on May 2; von Vietinghoff had taken command of Army Group C after Kesselring had been transferred to become Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front (OB West) in March. Italy
- April 29, 2026 - Military - Louis St. Laurent proposes founding a 'collective security league;' helps lead to formation of NATO. United Nations, New York
- April 29, 2026 - British PM Harold Macmillan arrives in Ottawa for talks with John Diefenbaker and Cabinet on European Common Market. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Ontario government brings in $1 an hour provincial minimum wage; starting June 29. Toronto, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Opening of Expo 67's World Festival of Entertainment in the Place des Arts in Montréal; opening gala features premiere of André Prévost's choral-orchestral work, Terre des Hommes, with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and the World Festival Chorus. Montréal, Québec
- April 29, 2026 - Election - Robert Bourassa leads Québec Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the provincial election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Québecois also elected to National Assembly. Québec
- April 29, 2026 - Energy - Québec Premier Robert Bourassa outlines his James Bay project; Hydro Québec to build $6 billion hydroelectric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in western hemisphere. Québec, Québec
- April 29, 2026 - Saint John River flooding causes up to $25 million damage in New Brunswick. New Brunswick
- April 29, 2026 - Frank Slide recognized as a National Historic Site. Frank, Alberta.
- April 29, 2026 - Baseball - Phillies' Steve Carlton strikes out Montréal Expos Tim Wallach, in the First inning of the 6-2 victory; becomes the sixth major-league pitcher, and the first left-hander, to strike out 3,000 batters. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- April 29, 2026 - Football - Queen's University offensive tackle Mike Schad chosen by Los Angeles Rams, to become the first Canadian football player ever selected in the first round of the NFL draft; plays in 65 games with LA and Philadelphia then returns to Canada in 1995 to play one season with Ottawa. Kingston, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Energy - Denison Mines to close uranium plant in Elliot Lake, putting 1000 out of work; blames high costs, cancellation of Ontario Hydro supply contract. Elliot Lake, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $100 million program to clean up toxic sites and contaminated waste dumps in the Arctic. Iqualuit, Nunavut
- April 29, 2026 - Kitchener butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles. Cambridge, Ontario
- April 29, 2026 - Jean Charest sworn in as 29th Premier of Quebec, replacing Bernard Landry; defeated Landry in the April 14 election; first Liberal government in a decade. Québec, Québec
- April 29, 2026 - A North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel rules in favour of Canada in the US - Canada softwood lumber dispute against the United States.
- April 29, 2026 - Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks at a US conference; reffirms his government's not to join coalition in Iraq, but says Canada wants to aid in rebuilding the country.
- April 29, 2026 - Religion - Indigenous - Pope Benedict XVI expresses "sorrow" to a delegation from the Assembly of First Nations over the abuse and "deplorable" treatment that aboriginal students suffered at residential schools run by the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican City
- April 29, 2026 - Transport - Canada offers Michigan a $550 million dollar loan to help build a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor.
- April 29, 2026 - Monarchy - Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, at Westminster Abbey; the Queen bestows on them the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; watched by an estimated two billion people around the world. London, England
- April 29 - Agriculture - Supreme Court of Canada rules that an Ontario ban on farm unions is constitutional; over 80,000 Ontario farm workers denied the right to unionize. Ottawa, Ontario
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