#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory: August 21, 1944: The First Canadian Army is victorious in the Battle of Falaise, Normandy, and complete the largest encirclement on the Western Front with the surrender and capture of German 7th Army.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory August 22, 1915: James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope, is born in Brantford, Ontario.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory August 23, 1541: On his third voyage to Canada, Jacques Cartier and 1500 settlers land near Quebec City.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Aug 24, 1870: Wolseley Expedition arrives at Fort Garry, Manitoba during the Red River Rebellion. The three-month journey from Toronto ended Louis Riel's provisional government and the threat of the American expansion into western Canada.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory August 25, 1917: The Canadian Corps, under command of Sir Arthur Currie capture Hill 70, near Lens, France, during the First World War.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory August 25, 1904: William Hall dies. Hall was the third Canadian and first Black to receive the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory August 29, 1899: Catharine Parr Traill, author of TheBackwoods of Canada, dies at 97.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Aug 29, 1918 WWI: The Canadian Corps, alongside British, Australian and NZ troops defeat the Germans in the Second Battle of Bapaume during the Hundred Days Offensive.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Aug 30, 1909: Charles Doolittle Walcott discovers the Burgess Shale fossil site in what is now British Columbia's Yoho National Park. Walcott was first Director of the United States Geological Survey, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Sept 1st, 1905: Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Dominion of Canada as its 8th and 9th provinces, both separated from the Northwest Territories.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Sept 1st, 1980: Terry Fox ends his Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is unable to continue due to cancer.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Sept 3rd, 1724: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, is born in Strabane, Ireland. He twice served as Governor of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Sept 6, 1864: One of the most iconic photos in Canadian history is taken at the Charlottetown, PEI where leaders from the colonies of PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East & Canada West discuss confederation.

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Sept 7, 1959: Maurice Duplessis, the 16th Premier of Quebec, dies at age 69. Duplessis dominated provincial politics from the 1930s to the 1950s. With a total of 18 years and 82 days in office, he is the longest-serving premier in Quebec history.

“This unscrupulous indifference to historical truth indicates that the controversy over empire is not really a controversy about history at all. It is about the present, not the past.” Nigel Biggar Colonialism

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory Egerton Ryerson was appointed Superintendent of Education for Canada West (now Ontario). mailchi.mp/19b7c30654ad/o…