July 9,1827 Guelph Ontario - Group of 150 destitute and homeless settlers arrived in Ontario via New York; after emigrating from England to Venezuela where they found the climate, soil and political conditions inhospitable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 9, 1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake - Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passes Act Against Slavery, banning the further import of slaves into Upper Canada, and limiting the contract of those remaining; Act declares that slaves' children should be free at age 25; all slaves entering the province from this date were henceforth automatically free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 9,1793 Quebec Quebec - Importation of slaves into Lower Canada prohibited; bill to abolish slavery failed until 1804. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 9,1755 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Daniel de Beaujeu 1711-1755 kills 600 of 1200 British regulars under General Edward Braddock in an ambush at Fort Duquesne; both Braddock and de Beaujeu mortally wounded in the Battle of the Monongahela, near present-day Pittsburgh. One survivor was an aide to Braddock - Col. George Washington - who wrote to his brother, 'But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 9,1615 Huronia Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 travels up Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing, and down French River into Lake Huron; explores and maps; first discovered by Etienne Brulé and father Caron. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 9,1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, ME. Take your favorite policeman or O.P.P. out for a donut today! Lets get to Tim's............ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - July 9,1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe of Washington, MO. You see, Henry was tired of sitting around, puffing on his string bean pipe and decided to go for something more convenient...