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Lieutenant-Colonel Julien Brosseau, VD, was the first Commanding Officer. It was redesignated as the 85th Regiment on 8 May 1900, as Le Régiment de Maisonneuve on 29 March 1920, as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, Le Régiment de Maisonneuve on 7 November 1940 and finally Le Régiment de Maisonneuve on 15 December 1945. [1]
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
Montreal's St. Patrick's Day parade and the Irish in Quebec Montreal's is the oldest St. Patrick's Day Parade in Canada and one of the largest parades in Montreal.; Greek Independence Day Parade on Hutchison in Jean Talon, it happens right after the St. Patrick's Day Festival.
In 1987, the Club Souverain de l'Estrie started the movement "For a paid holiday in memory of the Patriots," [7] [8] while other organizations, such as the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal and the Comité du 15 février 1839 (founded by Pierre Falardeau in 1997 to help finance the movie February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)), later joined ...
On May 5, the last bomb of the Front de libération du Québec exploded at the Casa d'Italia in Montreal. It was placed by the Reynald Lévesque cell. On May 8, the Petit Québec libre barn located in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Rochelle is burned down by the RCMP.
June 4 – 1945 Ontario general election: George Drew's PCs win a majority; A V-E Day parade on Sparks Street, Ottawa (May 8, 1945) June 11 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority; June 26 – Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
Le Lin du Canada - La culture du lin: Le Lin du Canada - L'utilisation du lin - Seconde partie: Whispering City: La Forteresse: Fyodor Otsep: 1948: Femmes dépareillées: Femmes dépareillés: Albert Tessier [1] Les République des As: 1949: Les Ennemis de la pomme de terre: Maurice Proulx: The Grand Bill: Le Gros Bill: Jean-Yves Bigras, René ...
The Angel of Victory (French: L'Ange de la Victoire) is a statue crafted by London-born sculptor Coeur de Lion McCarthy (1881–1979), installed in Montreal's Windsor Station, in Quebec, Canada. [1] It was commissioned in 1922 in memory of the 1,116 Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees who died in World War I. Copies of the statue were also ...