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On This Day and This Week in Canadian History features.
On Sept. 3, 1939, Mackenzie King told Canadians by radio that Canada would back Britain’s war — then waited a week to declare it, asserting sovereignty.
On Sept. 1, 1980, Terry Fox was forced to stop his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope near Thunder Bay, Ont., after cancer spread to his lungs, 5,373 km in.
On Sept. 1, 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan joined Canada — but the man who fought hardest for provincehood was frozen out of leading either one.
On the night of Aug. 24-25, 1927, a hurricane sank four Lunenburg, N.S. schooners, killing nearly 100 fishermen in one of Canada’s deadliest storms.
From the 1942 Dieppe Raid to The Tragically Hip’s 2016 farewell concert, four verified events from this week across Canadian history, with sourcing.