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Information about Canada

  • With its Country Official Name, Canada.Canada's capital city is Ottawa which can be found in Americas.Canada is an independent county.The dailing code for the country is (+1)

Holidays in Canada

Today in History for May 17

On this day in 2015

  • EVENTS
  • Canada defeats Russia to win gold at the 2015 IIHF World Championship.

On this day in 2005

  • BIRTHS
  • Amelie Timer, TikTok Star, born in Canada.
  • Amélie Timer, TikTok Star, born in Vancouver, Canada.
  • Khadim Kane, Soccer Player, born in Canada.

On this day in 2002

  • BIRTHS
  • Theodor Alexander Corbeanu, Soccer Player, born in Canada.

On this day in 1999

  • BIRTHS
  • Kristen Hancher, Instagram Star, born in Canada.

On this day in 1997

  • BIRTHS
  • Callum Montgomery, Soccer Player, born in Canada.

On this day in 1994

  • BIRTHS
  • Joseph Onabolu,, Toronto, born in Canada.

On this day in 1993

  • BIRTHS
  • John Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1991

  • BIRTHS
  • Andy Andreoff, Canadian ice hockey player, Pickering, born in Canada.

On this day in 1990

  • BIRTHS
  • Piinksparkles, YouTube Star, born in Canada.

On this day in 1989

  • BIRTHS
  • Lynxaria, Twitch Star, born in Canada.
  • Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer, London, born in Canada.
  • Brent Regner, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, Westlock, born in Canada.

On this day in 1988

  • BIRTHS
  • Jenni Hucul, Canadian bobsledder, Edmonton, born in Canada.

On this day in 1987

  • BIRTHS
  • Tyler Plante, American ice hockey goaltender, Milwaukee, born in Canada.
  • Con Kudaba, Canadian water polo player, New Westminster, born in Canada.
  • Hamish Kippen, Canadian photographer, Belfast, born in Canada.

On this day in 1985

  • BIRTHS
  • Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater, Melbourne, born in Canada.
  • Northcote, Canadian singer, Scarborough, born in Canada.
  • Melina Soochan, Canadian musician, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1983

  • BIRTHS
  • Paul Ballard, Canadian soccer player, New Westminster, born in Canada.

On this day in 1982

  • BIRTHS
  • Steve Holbrook, Entrepreneur, born in Calgary, Canada.
  • Craig Culpan, Canadian rugby union player, Vancouver, born in Canada.
  • Elkana Mayard, Canadian soccer player, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1979

  • BIRTHS
  • Tyson Heung, German speed skater, Brampton, born in Canada.
  • Patrick Doyon, Canadian animator, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1977

  • BIRTHS
  • Pradeeban Peter-Paul, Canadian table tennis player, Colombo, born in Canada.
  • Brad Goddard, Canadian actor, Lucan Biddulph, born in Canada.

On this day in 1976

  • BIRTHS
  • Bobby Kokavec, tennis player (1976-), Windsor, born in Canada.
  • Clay Hill, lacrosse player, Hamilton, born in Canada.

On this day in 1974

  • BIRTHS
  • Filomena Rotiroti, Canadian politician, Montreal, born in Canada.
  • Parm Gill, Canadian politician, Moga district, born in Canada.
  • Mike Prokopec, Canadian ice hockey player, Toronto, born in Canada.

On this day in 1973

  • BIRTHS
  • Mark Anthony Graham, Soldier and Athletics competitor, Vancouver, born in Canada.
  • Melanie Mcquaid, triathlete, Victoria, born in Canada.
  • Natalie Brown, actress, model, Timmins, born in Canada.
  • Steve Barakatt, Canadian musician, Quebec City, born in Canada.

On this day in 1971

  • BIRTHS
  • Bill Lindsay, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, Fernie, born in Canada.

On this day in 1970

  • BIRTHS
  • Dane Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player, Castlegar, born in Canada.
  • Daniel Gauthier, Canadian ice hockey player, Charlemagne, born in Canada.
  • Sébastien Britten, figure skater, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1969

  • BIRTHS
  • Steve Young, Alberta politician, Alberta, born in Canada.
  • Alan Doyle, Canadian musician, Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove, born in Canada.

On this day in 1968

  • BIRTHS
  • Jordan Banks, Canadian Businessman, Managing director of Facebook Canada, Ottawa, born in Canada.

On this day in 1967

  • BIRTHS
  • Cameron Bancroft, Canadian actor, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1966

  • BIRTHS
  • Adrian Owen, British neuroscientist, Gravesend, born in Canada.

On this day in 1965

  • BIRTHS
  • Blake Marshall, Canadian football player, Guelph, born in Canada.

On this day in 1964

  • BIRTHS
  • David Adjey, Canadian television chef, Scarborough, born in Canada.
  • Elfi Schlegel, All-American college gymnast, Canadian international gymnast, sports broadcaster, Toronto, born in Canada.

On this day in 1963

  • BIRTHS
  • Gary Mawson, American darts player, Etobicoke, born in Canada.
  • Doug Smith, Canadian ice hockey player, born 1963, Ottawa, born in Canada.
  • Michelle Conn, Canadian field hockey player, Warburg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1962

  • BIRTHS
  • Ray Bennett, Canadian ice hockey coach, Innisfail, born in Canada.

On this day in 1961

  • BIRTHS
  • Jamil Azzaoui, Canadian singer, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1960

  • BIRTHS
  • Daryl Skilling, Canadian swimmer, Port Kembla, born in Canada.

On this day in 1959

  • BIRTHS
  • Scott Macleod, Canadian ice hockey player, Vancouver, born in Canada.

On this day in 1958

  • BIRTHS
  • Carlos Del Junco, Cuban-Canadian jazz musician, Havana, born in Canada.

On this day in 1957

  • BIRTHS
  • Todd Hardy, Canadian politician, British Columbia, born in Canada.
  • Jeff Allan, Canadian ice hockey player, Toronto, born in Canada.

On this day in 1956

  • BIRTHS
  • Stephen E. Nagler, Canadian-American physicist, Oshawa, born in Canada.
  • Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus, Hamilton, born in Canada.

On this day in 1955

  • BIRTHS
  • Claude Larose, Canadian ice hockey player, born 1955, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, born in Canada.

On this day in 1953

  • BIRTHS
  • Jack De Heer, Canadian ice hockey player, Lethbridge, born in Canada.
  • Stan Keyes, Canadian politician, Hamilton, born in Canada.

On this day in 1952

  • BIRTHS
  • Ted Lenssen, Dutch-Canadian ice hockey goaltender, Oakville, born in Canada.
  • Howard Hampton, Lawyer, politician, Fort Frances, born in Canada.
  • Ed Alexiuk,, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1951

  • BIRTHS
  • Doreen Hamilton, Canadian politician, Regina, born in Canada.

On this day in 1949

  • BIRTHS
  • Billy Diamond, Cree chief, Waskaganish, born in Canada.
  • Myra Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Saint John, born in Canada.

On this day in 1948

  • BIRTHS
  • André Maltais, Canadian politician, Capitale-Nationale, born in Canada.

On this day in 1946

  • BIRTHS
  • Joan Barfoot, Canadian writer, Owen Sound, born in Canada.

On this day in 1944

  • BIRTHS
  • Pierre David, Canadian film producer, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1941

  • BIRTHS
  • John Wyre, Canadian percussionist, Minneapolis, born in Canada.
  • Andy Boychuk, Canadian marathon runner, Orono, born in Canada.

On this day in 1939

  • BIRTHS
  • Eldon Worobieff, Canadian rower, Maple Creek, born in Canada.

On this day in 1938

  • BIRTHS
  • Gordon Dawe,, Saint-Lin–Laurentides, born in Canada.

On this day in 1935

  • BIRTHS
  • Sandra Gwyn, Canadian journalist, St. John's, born in Canada.
  • Wilbert Keon, Canadian politician, Sheenboro, born in Canada.

On this day in 1934

  • BIRTHS
  • Eddie Panagabko, Canadian ice hockey player, Norquay, born in Canada.

On this day in 1933

  • BIRTHS
  • Anthony Schneider, Canadian ice hockey player, Regina, born in Canada.

On this day in 1932

  • BIRTHS
  • Billy Red Lyons, Canadian professional wrestler, Hamilton, born in Canada.
  • Charlotte Oleson, Canadian politician, Minnedosa, born in Canada.

On this day in 1929

  • BIRTHS
  • Florian Côté, Canadian politician, Centre-du-Québec, born in Canada.

On this day in 1928

  • BIRTHS
  • Eric Charles Milner, Canadian mathematician, London, born in Canada.

On this day in 1927

  • BIRTHS
  • Al Buchanan, Canadian ice hockey player, Winnipeg, born in Canada.
  • Johnny Mooring, Canadian musician, Springhill, born in Canada.
  • Marilyn Hall,, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1924

  • BIRTHS
  • Alan Brock Macfarlane, Canadian politician, Victoria, born in Canada.

On this day in 1923

  • BIRTHS
  • Alex Nicholson, Canadian ice hockey player, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1918

  • BIRTHS
  • Guy Sylvestre, Canadian civil servant, Sorel-Tracy, born in Canada.

On this day in 1917

  • BIRTHS
  • Murdo Martin, Canadian politician, Lingwick, born in Canada.

On this day in 1915

  • BIRTHS
  • Carl Liscombe, Canadian ice hockey player, Perth, born in Canada.

On this day in 1914

  • BIRTHS
  • Robert N. Thompson, Canadian politician, Duluth, born in Canada.

On this day in 1912

  • BIRTHS
  • Charles Drury, Canadian politician, Montreal, born in Canada.
  • Irving Meretsky, basketball player, Windsor, born in Canada.
  • George Brown, Canadian professional ice hockey player, born 1912, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1910

  • EVENTS
  • Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins.

On this day in 1898

  • BIRTHS
  • A. J. Casson, Canadian painter, Toronto, born in Canada.
  • George Chisholm Mackay, Canadian flying ace, Sunderland, born in Canada.

On this day in 1895

  • BIRTHS
  • Joseph-Ludger Fillion, politician, Alma, born in Canada.

On this day in 1886

  • BIRTHS
  • Arthur De Witt Foster, Canadian politician, Montreal, born in Canada.

On this day in 1884

  • BIRTHS
  • Charles Edward Hanna, Canadian politician, Belleville, born in Canada.

On this day in 1883

  • BIRTHS
  • Archibald Black, Canadian rower, Winnipeg, born in Canada.

On this day in 1878

  • BIRTHS
  • Rube Vickers, Canadian baseball player, St. Marys, born in Canada.

On this day in 1877

  • BIRTHS
  • Robert Jones, Canadian ice hockey player, born 1877, Newcastle, born in Canada.

On this day in 1876

  • BIRTHS
  • William Thomas Kergin, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island, born in Canada.

On this day in 1873

  • BIRTHS
  • Albert Edward Matthews, Canadian politician; 16th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Lindsay, born in Canada.

On this day in 1867

  • BIRTHS
  • Dave Gaudreau, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Bentinck, Ontario, born in Canada.

On this day in 1866

  • BIRTHS
  • George Arthur Fraser,, Woodstock, born in Canada.

On this day in 1863

  • BIRTHS
  • Léon Gérin, Canadian sociologist, Quebec City, born in Canada.

On this day in 1857

  • BIRTHS
  • Billy Reid, American baseball player, London, born in Canada.

On this day in 1853

  • BIRTHS
  • Alex Taylor, Canadian businessman, Ottawa, born in Canada.

On this day in 1849

  • BIRTHS
  • Phillip Heiminck, Canadian politician, Trois-Pistoles, born in Canada.

On this day in 1845

  • BIRTHS
  • Maccallum Grant, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Hants County, born in Canada.

On this day in 1843

  • BIRTHS
  • Robert Beith, Canadian politician, Clarington, born in Canada.

On this day in 1840

  • BIRTHS
  • Henry M. Munro, farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Kings County, born in Canada.

On this day in 1834

  • BIRTHS
  • John Godkin Giles, Canadian politician, Athens, born in Canada.

On this day in 1817

  • BIRTHS
  • Daniel Macdonald, Canadian politician, Newport, born in Canada.

On this day in 1795

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean Blanchet, Canadian physician and politician, Dublin, born in Canada.

On this day in 1784

  • BIRTHS
  • Ambrose Blacklock, Canadian politician, County of Moray, born in Canada.

On this day in 1775

  • EVENTS
  • American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

On this day in 1672

  • POLITICS
  • Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada).

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