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Miles Macdonell Proclaims Founding of Assiniboia

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Campaign Poster of Brian Mulroney and Wife Mila
  • September 4, 2026 - French and Indian War - English troops occupy Île Perrot; closing in on Montréal. Montréal, Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - American Revolution - Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies discuss measures for common safety, at Philadelphia; Canada and Georgia are not represented, though invited; Vermont, not being organized, is not invited. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • September 4, 2026 - Religion - Edward, Duke of Kent funds First Sunday School at Quebec, a free school. Quebec, Quebec
  • September 4, 2026 - Miles Macdonell proclaims Lord Selkirk's ownership of the 185,000 square kilometres that constitute Assiniboia; Selkirk's agent and a former soldier, Macdonnell arrived August 30, 2026 with the First Red River Settlers, mostly Scottish, at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine River, to found the Red River Settlement. As First Governor of Assiniboia, his duty is to establish the colony on land acquired by Selkirk from the Hudson's Bay Company; he will build Fort Douglas near the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. The Red River Colony will be destroyed in a feud with the Norwesters in 1815, but will be re-established by Selkirk in 1817. St. Boniface, Manitoba
  • See: Excerpts from Miles Macdonell's Journal, Manitoba Historical Society
  • September 4, 2026 - War of 1812 - Major Adam Muir leads British expedition against Fort Wayne; retreats when confronted by a larger force under US Gen James Winchester. Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • September 4, 2026 - War of 1812 - Unified party of Shawnee, Kickapoo, Miami, Potawatomi and Winnebago warriors start 13 day siege of Fort Harrison; not successful. Indiana
  • September 4, 2026 - War of 1812 - Canadian turncoat Joseph Willcocks is killed by Drommond's forces during the Seige of Fort Erie; the head of the Canadian Volunteers is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY. Fort Erie, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Czar Alexander I signs ukase declaring Russian zone of exclusivity on the west coast of North America from Lat. 51 degrees N to the Bering Sea; forbids non-Russian ships to approach Pacific coast of North America south of 51 degrees north - as far south as Oregon - and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners. Moscow, Russia
  • September 4, 2026 - Métis Fur trader Tête Jaune is killed by local native people; Tête Jaune Cache and Yellowhead Pass are named after him. Alberta
  • September 4, 2026 - British Colonial Secretary the Duke of Newcastle refuses to allow the Prince of Wales to visit Kingston because he would have to pass under a controversial triumphal arch erected by the Orange Order. Kingston, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Confederation - Charlottetown Conference - The delegates attend Sunday church services and take a day of rest. Charlottetown, PEI
  • September 4, 2026 - Pacific Scandal - Start of special parliamentary inquiry into the awarding of CPR contracts. Ottawa, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Frederic Stupart of the Dominion Meteorological Observatory issues Canada's First prepared storm warning. Toronto, Ontario
- September 4 - Sport - Ned Hanlon of Toronto wins the world rowing championship at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • September 4, 2026 - John A. Macdonald signs provisional agreement with CPR syndicate for building of the Canadian Pacific Railway; group consists of Bank of Montreal President George Stephen, US rail financier Duncan Mclntyre, and Ontario-born Minnesota entrepreneur James Jerome Hill; Stephen's cousin Donald Smith of the Hudson's Bay Company, who withdrew support for Macdonald during the Pacific Scandal, lurks in the background. Ottawa, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Steamboat Kootenai grounded and damaged; the boat is mothballed while undergoing repairs at Little Dalles. BC
  • September 4, 2026 - BC Southern Railway tracks opened through the Jerome Tunnel and into Moyie City, BC
  • September 4, 2026 - Medicine – Royal Victoria College for Women at McGill University opens; funded by Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, a controlling shareholder of the Bank of Montreal, the Hudson's Bay Company and the CPR, is a strong believer in education for women. Montréal, Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - Governor General Earl Grey formally proclaims The Saskatchewan Act, 1905 and swears in Amédée Forget as its First Lieutenant-Governor; the Province of Saskatchewan hereby enters Confederation as the 9th province. Regina, Saskatchewan
- September 4 - Henri Bourassa marries Joséphine Papineau. Montréal, Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - Caledonia Football Club and Hillhurst Football Club play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship. Calgary, Alberta
  • September 4, 2026 - Robert Baden-Powell presides over First Boy Scout rally in England; movement funded in part by Canadian High Commissioner Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona. Britain
  • September 4, 2026 - World War I - Mobilization of the 73rd Infantry Battalion at Montreal. Montreal, Quebec
  • September 4, 2026 - World War I - Canadian Corps takes over section of the Somme line; facing village of Courcelette. Courcelette, France
  • September 4, 2026 - Official opening of the Montréal municipal library. Montréal, Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - Louis St-Laurent appointed Minister of External Affairs. Ottawa, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter, Queen Juliana, who spent the war in Ottawa. Netherlands
  • September 4, 2026 - David Hodgson of St Ann's Bay catches a tuna weighing 452 kg. St. Ann's Bay, Nova Scotia
  • September 4, 2026 - Icebreaker makes the first passage of McClure Strait, the fabled Northwest Passage. Nunavut
  • September 4, 2026 - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in last episode of CBS-TV legal drama, Perry Mason, broadcast on this day. Hollywood, California
  • September 4, 2026 - James Gladstone dies; Canada's First Senator of Aboriginal ancestry. Fernie, BC
  • September 4, 2026 - Crime - Art thieves rob Montréal Museum of Fine Arts of $3 million of paintings and art objects; including $1 million Rembrandt; largest art heist in Canadian history. “They were discriminating thieves and had a fairly good idea of what they were looking for,” says museum spokesman Bill Bantey.. Montréal, Québec
- September 4 - Canada-Soviet Series - Team Canada beats the USSR 4-1 in Game 2 of the Super Series/September to Remember, to even out the series against the Soviets; known as Brother Night, because of the goal scoring of Frank Mahovlich and Pete Mahovlich and the goaltending and marksmanship of Tony Esposito and Phil Esposito. Toronto, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Crime - Art thieves enter Montréal Museum of Fine Arts through a skylight at 2:00 am, bind and gag three museum guards and make off with $3 million of paintings and art objects; including jewellery, figurines and 18 paintings, including a Delacroix, a Gainsborough and a rare Rembrandt landscape estimated at $1 million. "They were discriminating thieves and had a fairly good idea of what they were looking for," said museum spokesman Bill Bantey, of the largest art heist in Canadian history. Montréal, Québec - CBC Archives
- September 4 - Canada-Soviet Series - Team Canada beats the USSR 4-1 in Game 2 of the Super Series/September to Remember, to even out the series against the Soviets; known as Brother Night, because of the goal scoring of Frank Mahovlich and Pete Mahovlich and the goaltending and marksmanship of Tony Esposito and Phil Esposito. Toronto, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Swimming - Jocelyn Muir, age 15, becomes the youngest person to complete the 51-km swim across Lake Ontario; in 2012, 14-year-old Annaleise Carr completed the crossing to raise funds for a summer camp for children with cancer. Toronto, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Federal Election - Brian Mulroney wins landslide victory against opponents Liberal John Turner and New Democrat Ed Broadbent. His Progressive Conservative Party takes a record 212 of 282 seats, to 40 Liberal; 30 NDP; 1 other, in the biggest majority (seat total) ever won by a federal party in Canadian history; also takes 58 of 75 seats in his home province after promising to reintegrate Québec into the Canadian family "with honour and enthusiasm"; Turner suffers crushing defeat nationally, but wins own seat in Vancouver Quadra.
  • September 4, 2026 - Mila Mulroney gives birth to son Daniel Nicholas Dimitri on the first anniversary of her husband's sweep to power. Ottawa, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Claude Brochu appointed CEO of the Montréal Expos baseball club. Montréal, Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - Paleontology - The world's biggest dinosaur nest is uncovered in the Alberta Badlands, 80 kilometres east of Lethbridge; fetuses in the dinosaur eggs were the first ever uncovered. Lethbridge, Alberta
  • September 4, 2026 - Military - Gulf War - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces formation of Operation Scimitar, to provide air cover for the two destroyers and the supply ship sent to the Persian Gulf in late August of 1991 as part of Operation Friction, tasked with enforcing the United Nations trade blockade against Iraq. Canada first sent 18 CF-18 fighter jets, 36 pilots and 255 ground crew, with 200 support personnel and a company from the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment for security. Doha, Qatar was chosen as the site for camps Canada Dry 1 and 2.
  • September 4, 2026 - Six people killed in a car-Via Rail train crash at a rural crossing near Stratford. Stratford, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Aboriginal - Splinter group of about 30 members of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation occupy Ipperwash Park, claiming it contained a sacred burial ground; protester Dudley George shot dead by a police officer (later convicted of criminal negligence causing death) on September 6; the standoff will end on September 13. Ipperwash, Ontario - See History of Canada Online.
  • September 4, 2026 - Alanis Morrisette voted Best Artist at the 13th annual MTV Awards. Los Angeles, California
- September 4 - CRTC awards broadcast licences for 23 new channels, including a new History and Entertainment Network; CHUM Ltd. of Toronto receives 6 licences. Ottawa, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - Annie Perreault speedskating champion, has an operation on both her legs. Montréal, Québec
- September 4 - Hockey - Gordie Howe, 69, agrees to suit up for the IHL's Detroit Vipers in the team's season opener against the Kansas City Blades on Oct. 3; will become the only professional to play in six consecutive decades. Detroit, Michigan
- September 4 - Huron Central Railway, owned by Genessee Rail-One, takes over operation of the former CP line between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sudbury. Sudbury, Ontario
  • September 4, 2026 - New Incat 046 catamaran collides with a dragger in Yarmouth Harbour, killing fishing captain Clifford Hood, age 33; the fast ferry carries up to 900 passengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth across the Bay of Fundy at 80 kmh. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
  • September 4, 2026 - Opening of the The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook, BC.
  • September 4, 2026 - Military - US warplane mistakenly fires on Canadian soldiers about to attack Taliban forces in Afghanistan, killing Pvt Mark Graham; about 30 others are wounded, five seriously. Afghanistan
  • September 4, 2026 - Steven Point named British Columbia’s first indigenous lieutenant-governor by Prime Minister Stephen Harper; a former provincial court judge, treaty negotiator and chief of the Skowkale First Nation. Victoria, BC
  • September 4, 2026 - Election - Quebec voters return the Parti Québecois to power after nine years in opposition, albeit with a minority; PQ leader Pauline Marois the first female premier of the province; she will resign in 2014, when Philippe Couillard leads the Liberals to a majority, as voters rebuff the PQ's agenda for a possible third sovereignty referendum and its devisive secular charter. Québec
  • September 4, 2026 - Hockey - Steve Moore signs an out-of-court settlement of his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Todd Bertuzzi and the Vancouver Canucks for an on-ice attack in 2004, shortly before it was set to go to trial; terms of the settlement remain confidential. Vancouver, BC

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