Monday, December 27 – Harold Town, artist and media personality who gained international recognition for his technically inventive "single autographic prints," died in 1990 near Peterborough, Ontario. More
Tuesday, December 28–Composer Calixa Lavallée, who wrote the music for O Canada which became the Canadian national anthem, was born in 1842 at Verchères, Canada East. More
Wednesday, December 29 – After the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion a force of Upper Canadian militia found the Caroline moored at Schlosser and set it ablaze and then adrift over Niagara Falls. More
Thursday, December 30 –Humourist Stephen Leacock, whose comic masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town embedded the fictional small town of Mariposa in the Canadian psyche, was born in 1869 at Swanmore, England. More
Friday, December 31 –Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians first played for the 1929 New Year's Eve celebrations at New York's Roosevelt Grill, beginning an annual tradition. More
Saturday, January 1 –Léo Ouimet opened the first permanent film theatre in Canada at Montréal, the Ouimetoscope, in 1906. A year later he opened the first large film theatre in North America. More
Sunday, January 2 –The Royal Canadian Mint opened in Ottawa in 1908. More
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