I was going to note the anniversary today of the battle of Queenston Heights, an event likely to be swept up in a great bicentenary fervour five years from now. But checking, I find the battle was October 13.
Historica notes today as the 108th anniversary of Henri Bourassa's resignation from Parliament over the Boer War -- but somehow it does not have the same ring. Nor does the 25th anniversary of the death of former Ontario premier John Robarts, noted in the Globe & Mail today.
Later (sound effect: blogger smacks forehead): The anniversary for October 18 is Persons Day, of course. Robert Sharpe and Patricia MacMahon have just written a terrific new book about it: The Persons Case from UTP and the Osgoode Society. And I have written about it for Law Times -- except (sound effect: blogger gnashes teeth) they have not printed the column yet, either in paper on online.
