Thursday, June 9, 2011 Granby, Quebec
6:00 am
The temperature is +20 C, with a high predicted of +26 C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Showers or thunderstorms ending this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of thunderstorms. Wind becoming west 20 km/h late this morning. High 26. UV index 8 or very high. Tonight Cloudy periods. Low 11. Normals Max: 20°C Min: 10°C.
Boston beat Vancouver 4 - 0 last night to even the Stanley Cup series at two games apiece. The games now alternate between the cities with the next game in Vancouver tomorrow night.
7:20 am History
Here is an update of the other table I created on June 5, based on the first 3 chapters of "Picturing the Land". The new entries are in a brighter background.
| Canadian History | |
|---|---|
| Date | Description |
| 1497 | John Cabot discovers Newfoundland. |
| 1534 | Jacques Cartier visits mouth of St. Lawrence River, claims the land for France. |
| 1535 - 1536 | Cartier's 2nd visit to Stadacona (Quebec City) and Hochelaga (Montreal). |
| 1541 - 1542 | Cartier's 3rd visit and a failed attempt to establish a permanent settlement. |
| 1605 | Champlain helps establish first European settlement north of Florida (Port Royal, Acadia). |
| 1608 | Champlain establishes settlement of Quebec City. |
| 1759 | Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham (Quebec City) |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris: terms of the Conquest - banned French law, language, reduced right of Catholic church |
| 1774 | Quebec Act: allowed Catholics to hold office |
| 1791 | Constitutional Act: divided land into 2 provinces - Upper & Lower Canada |
| 1793 | French was recognized as an official language |
| 1837 | Rebellion in Toronto about limited freedom of Upper Canada legislative assembly led by William Lyon Mackenzie |
| 1841 | Act of Union: amalgamated Upper & Lower Canada into the United Province of Canada |
| 1867 | Canadian confederation. |
| 1869 | Red River Rebellion led by Louis Riel. |
| 1885 | North-west Rebellion led by Louis Riel. |
| Last spike driven on CPR rail line from Ottawa to Vancouver. | |
| 1905 | Alberta and Saskatchewan join confederation. |
| 1914 - 1918 | World War I. |
| 1929 - 1935 | The Great Depression |
| 1939 - 1945 | World War II. |
| 1972 | Hockey: Canada defeats Russia in an 8-game series. |
8:00 am
We returned to Coras restaurant for a repeat of the breakfast we had a couple of days ago. This time I brought my camera.
4:30 PM
We photographed one more cemetery and took a few photos at two others. Then we returned to a restaurant in the village of Dunham for a delicious lunch. Then across the street to see what was in the local library. This turned out to be a good move as they had a number of useful local history books.
5:00 PM Science
While in the library I used my iPad2 to read "Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science". This book focuses more on the science and thus gives a better sense of Feynman's unique contribution to physics.
Here is a quote that caught my eye: " A Ph. D. thesis is research done by a professor under particularly trying conditions" [p. 142]