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Events & People: 1946 - 1982 - Coggle Diagram
Events & People:
1946 - 1982
LOCAL:
(Wingham)
New Wingham Swimming Pool
REGIONAL:
(Huron County)
piggy lady's of heron county ( June 15th 1970
reembrace day contest 1967
PROVINCIAL:
(Ontario)
(1946-1969) baby boom
Canadian citizen act started ( 1946)
Universal health insurance is introduced within the province. (1966)
CN Tower is completed and opens to the public (1976)
NATIONAL:
(Canada)
Trans-Canada Highway Opens
The Korean War
The RCMP accepted it's first women recruits (1974)
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect (1982)
Terry Fox runs Marathon of Hope 1980
Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of Canada (1953)
September 1960 Nanaimo's Chinatown was destroyed by fire
Capital punishment was abolished from the Canadian Criminal Code (1976)
The Ocean Ranger drill rig capsized and sank in a storm off the coast of Newfoundland (1982)
the big bang
INTERNATIONAL:
(Global)
Sputnik - first man-made obect to orbit the earth
the 1 comit
Mount St. Helens erupted for the first time since 1857 (1980)
The Cuban Missile Crisis - US and Soviet Union (1962)
Civil rights march in the US where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech (1963)
August 1961 Construction begun on the Berlin Wall in Germany
LOCAL:
(Goderich)
REGIONAL:
(Perth County)
LOCAL
:
(Stratford)
Stratford's Population hits 23,000 in 1968
The Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre is opened. (1953)
Stratford's Art Gallery is housed (1967)
LOCAL : (Huron Park)
Army base used for ww2. The base operated from 1942 to 1967.
The based used to belong to british air force and North Atlantic Treaty Organization air training system.
Later the abandoned buildings were used for training grounds for new pilots
Presently the army base is now being used as a air port
LOCAL Exeter
Exeter was officially a town in 1951
Exeter had a F2 tornado on December 12, 1946.