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April 23
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- Today's Features: Today is Canada Book Day.
- 1851 - Sandford Fleming's three-pence Beaver stamp issued; Canada's first regular postage stamp.
- 1923 - First concert of the New Symphony Orchestra, later the Toronto Symphony.
- 1924 - King George V opens the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
- April 23, 2026 - Under the Treaty of Susa, the British and French agree on mutual restoration of all territory and shipping taken subsequent to that date; Sir William Alexander will lose his Nova Scotia possessions to the French.
- April 23, 2026 - Fur Trade - Anthony Henday celebrates St. George's Day with a trade feast in the vicinity of what is now Edmonton. Edmonton, Alberta
- April 23, 2026 - Business - First meeting of the Montreal Committee of Trade; will be succeeded by the Montreal Board of Trade. Montreal, Quebec.
- April 23, 2026 - Settlement - John Galt starts settling the town of Guelph. Guelph, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Digging starts on the Shubenacadie Canal, to connect Halifax with the Bay of Fundy; first steam engine put to use in Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia
- April 23, 2026 - Settlement - Canada Company lays out the town of Goderich. Goderich, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Religion - Catholic Emancipation Act gives Roman Catholics in Prince Edward Island the right to vote. PEI
- April 23, 2026 - Education - Sir Charles Bagot lays the cornerstone of King’s College, the first college of the University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Post office issues Sandford Fleming's three-pence Beaver stamp; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp is one of the world’s earliest examples of a pictorial stamp; part of a series with a 6 penny Prince Albert stamp (issued May 12) and a 12 penny Queen Victoria (issued June 14); Nova Scotia issues its first stamp on September 1 and on New Brunswick on September 5; these first stamps are prepared on unperforated sheets to be cut by Postmasters. Kingston, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Urban - Guelph incorporated as a city. Guelph, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Education - Founding of McMaster University in Toronto as a union of Woodstock College and the Toronto Baptist College; moved from Hamilton, the college will again move back to Hamilton and the Bloor St. building becomes the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Incorporation of the town of Grand Falls and the rapidly growing railway centre of Moncton as a city. Fredericton, New Brunswick
- April 23, 2026 - Consumers Waterworks Company at Nelson, BC, incorporated.
- April 23, 2026 - Founding of Moncton's First railway union with international affiliation, the Moncton Lodge 226 of the International Association of Machinists. Moncton, New Brunswick
- April 23, 2026 - Energy - Nelson Electric Light Company incorporated. Nelson, BC
- April 23, 2026 - Sixth Session of the Seventh Dominion Parliament is prorogued; dissolved the following day. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country. Edmonton, Alberta
- April 23, 2026 - World War I - Second Battle of Ypres - German attack east and west of St. Julien is repulsed by the Canadian 13th Battalion Québec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada), which moves up reserves to plug a gap in the line at Ypres. Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher goes forward with his company machine-gun under heavy fire, and covers the retreat of a battery, losing four of his gun team. He then obtains four more men, and moves forward again to the firing line, but is killed while bringing his machine-gun into action under very heavy fire. For his bravery, Fisher is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously on June 23, the first Canadian-born man to win the VC while serving in the Canadian Army. St. Julien, Belgium
- April 23, 2026 - Rail -Switch installed at Princeton connecting the Kettle River Railway to the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway, completing the Kettle Valley Railway between Merritt and Midway. Princeton, BC
- April 23, 2026 - World War I - Royal Naval Reserve sets sail for England. St. John's, Newfoundland
- April 23, 2026 - Music - Luigi von Kunits conducts Toronto's New Symphony Orchestra in its first concert at Massey Hall; will become the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1927; von Kunits conducts TSO until his death in 1931. Toronto, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Media - Canadians hear radio broadcast of the voice of King George V opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Costing £12 million it was the largest exhibition ever staged anywhere in the world, and attracted 27 million visitors. Its official aim was "to stimulate trade, strengthen bonds that bind mother Country to her Sister States and Daughters, to bring into closer contact the one with each other, to enable all who owe allegiance to the British flag to meet on common ground and learn to know each other". Wembley, England
- April 23, 2026 - Calgary city officials meet with Canadian General Electric reps to discuss installing electric stop and go traffic signs in Calgary; concern expressed that drivers and pedestrians would not like to be regulated by a mechanical device. Calgary, Alberta
- April 23, 2026 - Foreign Affairs - William Clark appointed First British High Commissioner to Canada; takes office September 22 Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol leaves Calgary for nearby Chestermere Lake to take food and supplies to about 50 starving motorists, stranded in the Chestermere general store for five days after a freak spring snowstorm. Calgary, Alberta
- April 23, 2026 - Flood damages Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway's bridge at Princeton, BC.
- April 23, 2026 - Labour - Vancouver Mayor Gerry McGeer reads the Riot Act to disperse a crowd of unemployed protestors in Victory Square. Vancouver, BC
- April 23, 2026 - Representatives from the prairie provinces meet in the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon to discuss a farm implement co-op. Saskatoon, Manitoba
- April 23, 2026 - Military - HMCS Malahat re-commissioned as Victoria's Naval Reserve Division; originally commissioned as naval recruiting centre January 15, 2026. Victoria, BC
- April 23, 2026 - Hockey - Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup. Detroit, Michigan
- April 23, 2026 - Korean War - Battle of Kapyong - Second Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry survives the second day of a Chinese army attack while defending Hill 677; the Canadians losing 10 dead and 23 wounded. Kapyong Valley, Korea
- April 23, 2026 - Shipping - CP withdraws steamer Minto from service on BC's Arrowhead Lakes.
- April 23, 2026 - Labour - Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC) votes to merge with the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) to form the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), effective May 1; the TLC follows the lead of the CIO in the US, which purged Communists from its ranks and joined the AFL in 1955. Toronto, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Robert Taschereau appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Music - Rolling Stones play first Canadian show in Montreal, at the Maurice Richard Arena. Montreal, Quebec
- April 23, 2026 - Media - First public hearings of the CRTC held in the Chateau Laurier Hotel. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Environment - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel for an 11-hour period after Sudbury's air pollution index hits 102; (32 was regarded as satisfactory, 58 as possibily hazardous to human health); this is the First industrial closure in Ontario since the province's pollution index was established in 1970; the company had been given a two-year extension to install pollution control equipment. Sudbury, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Election - John MacLean leads PEI Progressive Conservatives to victory over Bennett Campbell's PEI Liberals in Prince Edward Island election. PEI
- April 23, 2026 - House of Commons approves the final draft of Canada's proposed new constitution. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Cliff Thorburn completes the first maximum break of 147 at the World Snooker Championship; compiles the break in the fourth frame of his second round match against Terry Griffiths (a match he went on to win 13-12); during the break, play stopped on the tournament's second table because Thorburn's friend and fellow Canadian Bill Werbeniuk wanted to watch him complete it. England
- April 23, 2026 - Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland sets up a five-member panel to inquire into allegations of the sexual abuse of children by priests; just as the Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal is breaking. St. John's, Newfoundland
- April 23, 2026 - Labour - Daniel Johnson convinces Québec civil servants to take 6 month pay freeze; Québec Treasury Board President in the Robert Bourassa government. Québec, Québec
- April 23, 2026 - Fiscal - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland agree to replace their provincial sales taxes and the GST with a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
- April 23, 2026 - Cinema - Ontario director James Cameron's film Titanic opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater; will win Oscar for Best Picture. New York, New York
- April 23, 2026 - Finance - Ted England, head trader at Peters & Company, purchases 100 shares of Bell Canada, the last trade ever made on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, as the TSE closes its floor after 145 years and moves to computer trading. Toronto, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Indigenous - Justice - Supreme Court of Canada rules that lower court judges should apply special provisions, such as traditional Native practices, when sentencing convicted aboriginal people; also should apply traditional disciplinary practices when sentencing Natives found guilty of criminal offences. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - The World Health Organization issues a travel advisory against Toronto along with Beijing and China's Shanxi province because of SARS; Canadian officials protest the lack of science behind the decision; the Toronto ban is lifted a week later. Geneva, Switzerland
- April 23, 2026 - Religion - PM Paul Martin attends a reception and interfaith prayer event with the Dalai Lama; first Canadian prime minister to meet the Tibetan exile and spiritual leader. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Foreign Affairs - Government announces closure of Canadian embassies in Cambodia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; cites changes in priorities. Ottawa, Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Olympics - Thousands attend an Olympic parade in Montreal, to celebrate the winners from the 2010 Winter Olympics. Olympic, Quebec
- April 23 - Labour - Stelco Lake Erie Works re-opens after 8-month lockout; 400 out of 1500 people lose their jobs at the steel mill. Ontario
- April 23, 2026 - Election - Alison Redford leads Alberta Progressive Conservatives to their 12th consecutive majority, with 61 seats; the Wildrose Party become the Official Opposition with 17 seats; the Liberal Party wins five. Alberta
- April 23, 2026 - Parliament of Canada passes the Journey to Freedom Day Act, commemorating April 30 as a national day marking the exodus of Vietnamese refugees and their acceptance in Canada after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Ottawa, Ontario
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