Foster Hewitt, the voice of Canadian hockey, arrival was announced November 21, 1902. “Henderson has scored for Canada” Foster Hewitt's understated description of the series winning goal for the '72 Summit Series Hewitt provided play-by-play coverage, first on radio and later CBC tv, for generations of hockey fans. For 40 years his distinctive voice heralded […]
On November 20, 1820, the whaling ship Essex was sunk by an 80-ton sperm whale. The story of the Essex and its crew was the real-life horror story that inspired Herman Melville’s literary classic Moby Dick. "Oh, my God! where is the ship?" Captain George Pollard, Jr, finding nothing but wreckage on returning to his […]
Activist and union organiser Joe Hill, the "troubadour of discontent", was executed by the Utah government on November 19, 1915. My will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide My kin don't need to fuss and moan "Moss does not cling to rolling stone" My body? Oh, if I could choose I […]
