{"items": [ { "compiler": "Kaarina Mikalson", "label": "Regina Riot", "group": "Political", "description": "The On-To-Ottawa Trek of unemployed men ended in Regina on Dominion Day. Police fired on the crowd and violence erupted, resulting in one death and several injuries. ", "startDate": "1935-07-01", "community": "Regina", "adminDiv": "Saskatchewan", "province": "Saskatchewan", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 50.45472, "longitude": -104.607, "latLng": "50.4547222,-104.6066667" }, { "compiler": "Kevin Levangie", "label": "Bethune's birth", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Dr. Norman Bethune, sometimes called the most famous Canadian, was a physician known for his work during the Spanish Civil War and with Mao's guerrilla 8th Army in the Chinese war against Imperial Japan.", "startDate": "1890-03-04", "community": "Gravenhurst", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 44.91964, "longitude": -79.3742, "latLng": "44.919643,-79.3741834" }, { "compiler": "Kaarina Mikalson", "label": "Death of Gerda Taro", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Gerda Taro, a German photo-journalist reporting on the Spanish Civil War, was injured by a tank on the Brunete Front. She died in hospital the following day. Ted Allan's Spanish Civil War novel This Time a Better Earth<\/i> features a fictionalized version of Taro named Lisa Kammerer. Ted Allan was a Canadian writer and war correspondent in Spain, and his novel brings the resonant and symbolic death of Gerda Taro to a Canadian audience. ", "startDate": "1937-07-26", "community": "Brunete", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.40431, "longitude": -3.99932, "latLng": "40.4043103,-3.9993244" }, { "compiler": "Kevin Levangie", "label": "Bethune visits the Soviet Union", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Dr. Bethune visited the Soviet Union to examine their approach to public health, particularly involving tuberculosis. Mostly impressed with what he saw, he returned politicized, eventually joining the Communist Party of Canada and travelling to Spain.", "startDate": "1935-08", "community": "Saint Petersburg", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Russia", "latitude": 59.9342802, "longitude": 30.3350986, "latLng": "59.9342802,30.3350986" }, { "compiler": "Kevin Levangie", "label": "Bethune arrives in Spain", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Dr. Bethune, having volunteered to go to Spain to aid with the Republican cause, arrives in Madrid. He sets to work, eventually contributing a Canadian led initiative that provided battlefield blood transfusions all across the front lines.", "startDate": "1937-11-03", "community": "Madrid", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.41678, "longitude": -3.70379, "latLng": "40.4167754,-3.7037902" }, { "compiler": "Emily Robins Sharpe", "label": "Spanish Civil War breaks out", "group": "Political", "description": "War breaks out in Spain as Franco's Nationalists seek to regain control of the new democratic republic.", "startDate": "1936-07-17", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.46367, "longitude": -3.74922, "latLng": "40.463667,-3.74922" }, { "compiler": "Kaarina Mikalson", "label": "Spanish Delegates in Montreal", "group": "Political", "description": "Representatives of the Spanish Republic toured Europe and North American to garner support against the Nationalist forces in Spain. They met a great deal of opposition in Montreal. Newspapers reported an angry mob of around 2 500 people gathered outside of the meeting's venue, and the meeting was relocated and ultimately cancelled. This event speaks to the Spanish Civil War as a contentious political and<\/i> religious issue in Canada, particularly for Quebec's Catholic majority. ", "startDate": "1936-10-23", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Emily Robins Sharpe", "label": "Spanish Civil War ends", "group": "Political", "description": "The conflict ends with Franco's triumph.", "startDate": "1939-04-01", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.46367, "longitude": -3.74922, "latLng": "40.463667,-3.74922" }, { "compiler": "Kaarina Mikalson", "label": "Death of Jules Paivio", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Jules Paivio, widely believed to be the last surviving Canadian volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, died at the age of 97. Paivio was still a teenager when he joined the International Brigades and fought in Spain. He was one of many Finnish-Canadians fighting in the Brigades.", "startDate": "2013-09-04", "community": "Aurora", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 44.00648, "longitude": -79.4504, "latLng": "44.00648,-79.450396" }, { "compiler": "Paisley Mann", "label": "Napoleon III appointed Baron Haussmann to oversee large-scale renovations of Paris", "group": "Cultural", "description": " Early nineteenth-century Paris was \u201ca city in crisis, packed with haphazard networks of narrows streets darkened by high, often crumbling buildings, seriously overpopulated and increasingly unsanitary\u201d (Edmondson 123).\n Between 1853 and 1870, Haussmann modernized the water and sewage systems, expanded the use of gaslight, replaced the city\u2019s small, circuitous streets with wide boulevards, removed the slums from the city centre, and expanded the amount of green space in the city. ", "startDate": "1853", "community": "Paris", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "France", "latitude": 48.85661, "longitude": 2.352222, "latLng": "48.856614,2.3522219" }, { "compiler": "Paisley Mann", "label": "Display of Electricity along the Avenue de l\u2019Opéra and the Magasins du Louvre for the Paris Exhibition", "group": "Cultural", "description": "As a part of the 1878 Paris Exhibition, the new Jablochkoff electric lamp debuted on the streets of Paris, providing an opportunity for the world to experience the new light.", "startDate": "1878", "community": "Paris", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "France", "latitude": 48.85661, "longitude": 2.352222, "latLng": "48.856614,2.3522219" }, { "compiler": "Dayna McLeod", "label": "Meow Mix launch party flyer", "group": "Cultural", "description": "The first Meow Mix, \"a night for bent girls and their buddies\" at Yoda Den (256 Roy East) in Montreal. With D.J. Pie, no cover.\n", "startDate": "1997-02-02", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Paisley Mann", "label": "Paris hosted the Paris Electrical Exhibition", "group": "Cultural", "description": "The Electrical Exhibition coincided with the International Congress of Electricians and brought together a large number of scientists and inventors. However, it also was open to the public and showcased new technologies, applications, and inventions. Like previous World's Fairs, the Electrical Exhibition allowed people to interact with the exhibits, and newspapers from foreign countries also described the exhibits for their readers", "startDate": "1881", "community": "Paris", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "France", "latitude": 48.85661, "longitude": 2.352222, "latLng": "48.856614,2.3522219" }, { "compiler": "Dayna McLeod", "label": "Bob Loblaw", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Bob Loblaw (AKA Skidmore who resides in Bali) performs a monologue at the 10th anniversary of Meow Mix, \"a night for bent girls and their buddies.\" This Meow Mix featured a Cabaret with a dance party afterwards at the Sala Rossa (4848 St Laurent Boulevard) in Montreal.", "startDate": "2007-09-12", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Dayna McLeod", "label": "Lapine-moi (Rabbit-I), Nathalie Claude, 2005", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Quebec actress and theatre artist Nathalie Claude performs Lapine-moi (Rabbit-I)<\/i> from her series, The Madness Trilogy<\/i> at Meow Mix, \"a night for bent girls and their buddies\" at the Sala Rossa in Montreal.\n", "startDate": "2005-12-19", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Dayna McLeod", "label": "Backstage with Miriam Ginestier, 2008", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Miriam Ginestier, the organizer of Meow Mix which is \"a night for bent girls and their buddies,\"takes a picture backstage of performers getting ready for the Cabaret at the Sala Rossa in Montreal.", "startDate": "2008-07-05", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Paisley Mann", "label": "Eiffel Tower opened at 1889 World's Fair", "group": "Cultural", "description": "The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair. Construction began two years earlier, but it opened in time for the Fair, which took place 100 years after the French Revolution. The Eiffel Tower is a\n300-metre iron tower that was lit with electricity at night during the World's Fair. ", "startDate": "1889", "community": "Paris", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "France", "latitude": 48.85661, "longitude": 2.352222, "latLng": "48.856614,2.3522219" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Wet Dreams", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> Clements, Marie Humber.
\nCompany:<\/b> Tamahnous Productions\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> Studio 16
\nOpening date: <\/b>1995/11/11
\nClosing date: <\/b>
\nFestival/Season: <\/b>
\nPublisher:
", "startDate": "1995-11-11", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Paula Johanson", "label": "Birth of author Muriel Wylie Blanchet", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Birth of Canadian author Muriel Wylie Blanchet.", "startDate": "1891-05-02", "community": "Montreal", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.50867, "longitude": -73.554, "latLng": "45.5086699,-73.5539925" }, { "compiler": "Verena Kick", "label": "Victoria Edelweiß Club", "group": "Cultural", "description": "That's where Germans meet in Victoria!", "startDate": "2014-04-07", "community": "Victoria", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.42842, "longitude": -123.366, "latLng": "48.4284207,-123.3656444" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Queer Foetus", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> Hortie, Reed
\nCompany:<\/b> PLaying God Players
\nTheatre space:<\/b>
\nOpening date: <\/b>1996
\nClosing date: <\/b>
\nFestival/Season: <\/b> Vancouver Fringe
\nPublisher:
", "startDate": "1996", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Bronwen Masemann", "label": "Milwaukee Public Library asks for donations of books for soldiers overseas", "group": "Social", "description": "In the February 1918 Library Log newsletter, the library asks the public to donate books on many subjects to the American Library Association Library War Service Board. The books will be sent overseas to military libraries Europe and in the US. A soldier who received a package containing books and candy is quoted: \u201cIf you ever done good to a man you done good to me, but please don\u2019t waste no more space for eats. Just send the books.\u201d", "startDate": "1918-02-01", "community": "Milwaukee", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 43.0389, "longitude": -87.9065, "latLng": "43.0389025,-87.9064736" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Tiger's Heart", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> Brenna, Kit.
\nCompany:<\/b> Frederic Wood Theatre Productions\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> unknown
\nOpening date: <\/b> 1996/01/26
\nClosing date: <\/b> unknown
\nFestival/Season: <\/b>
\nPublisher:
", "startDate": "1996-01-26", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Tale of Teeka", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> Bouchard, Michel, Marc.
\nCompany:<\/b> Green Thumb Theatre\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> Vancouver East Cultural Centre
\nOpening date: <\/b> unknown
\nClosing date: <\/b> unknown
\nFestival/Season: <\/b> n/a
\nPublisher: Talon Books
\n", "startDate": "1995", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Paula Johanson", "label": "Bought Little House", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Blanchet and her husband bought a house on Curteis Point, near Sidney and Victoria BC, where she was to live for the rest of her life. The house was originally named Clovelly, but they called it Little House.", "startDate": "1922-06-06", "community": "Sidney", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.65024, "longitude": -123.399, "latLng": "48.6502411,-123.399005" }, { "compiler": "Cameron Butt", "label": "Shakespeare's baptism", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Shakespeare was baptized.", "startDate": "1564-04-26", "community": "Stratford-upon-Avon", "adminDiv": "Warwickshire", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 52.19173, "longitude": -1.7083, "latLng": "52.19173,-1.708298" }, { "compiler": "Chelsea Miya", "label": "Pauline Johnson performs at the Toronto Art School Gallery", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Pauline Johnson's poetry performance at the Toronto Art School Gallery on January 16, 1892 effectively launched her 15-year stage career.", "startDate": "1892-01-16", "community": "Toronto Art School Gallery", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65741, "longitude": -79.3792, "latLng": "43.6574089,-79.379201" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Salad days", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> Bateman, David
\nCompany:<\/b> Out West Performance Society\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> Grunt Gallery
\nOpening date: <\/b> 1996/07/18
\nClosing date: <\/b> 1996/07/26
\nFestival/Season: <\/b>
", "startDate": "1996-07-18", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.26123,-123.114" }, { "compiler": "Claire Battershill", "label": "Hogarth Press Founded", "group": "Literary", "description": "The Hogarth Press, an important modernist literary publishing house, was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. ", "startDate": "1917", "community": "Bloomsbury", "adminDiv": "London", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.51918, "longitude": -0.12408, "latLng": "51.5191842,-0.1240828" }, { "compiler": "Paula Johanson", "label": "Book Release", "group": "Literary", "description": "Release of Blanchet's only book, The Curve of Time<\/i>, from Blackwood Publishing in Edinburgh UK.", "startDate": "1961-01-07", "community": "Edinburgh", "adminDiv": "Scotland", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 55.95325, "longitude": -3.18827, "latLng": "55.953252,-3.188267" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Fetch!", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> \n Chepovetsky, Dmitri., Liesl Lafferty
\nCompany:<\/b> Kitchen Table Collective\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> Station Street Arts Centre
\nOpening date: <\/b> 1995
\nClosing date: <\/b>
\nFestival/Season: <\/b> Men's Fest
\nPublisher:
", "startDate": "1995", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Tony Berto", "label": "Fetch!(revised)", "group": "Literary", "description": "Author:<\/b> \n Chepovetsky, Dmitri., Liesl Lafferty
\nCompany:<\/b> Kitchen Table Collective\\t
\nTheatre space:<\/b> Arts Club Revue Theatre
\nOpening date: <\/b> 1996/04/17
\nClosing date: <\/b> unknown
\nFestival/Season: <\/b>
\nPublisher:
", "startDate": "1996-04-17", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.261226,-123.1139268" }, { "compiler": "Paula Johanson", "label": "Death of author M. Wylie Blanchet", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Death of Canadian author Muriel Wylie Blanchet, at her home Little House, while typing a sequel to her book.", "startDate": "1961-09-22", "community": "Sidney", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.65024, "longitude": -123.399, "latLng": "48.6502411,-123.399005" }, { "compiler": "Nathalie Cooke", "label": "La cuisinière canadienne", "group": "Cultural", "description": "First French-language Canadian Cookbook", "startDate": "1840", "community": "Quebec", "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 46.80328, "longitude": -71.2428, "latLng": "46.8032826,-71.242796" }, { "compiler": "Nathalie Cooke", "label": "Frugal Housewife's Manual", "group": "Cultural", "description": "First English-Language Canadian Cookbook", "startDate": "1840", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.653226,-79.3831843" }, { "compiler": "Nathalie Cooke", "label": "Female Emigrant's Guide", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Arguably first Canadian cookbook written by Canadian for a Canadian audience", "startDate": "1854", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.653226,-79.3831843" }, { "compiler": "Nathalie Cooke", "label": "The Home Cook Book", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Most popular and influential of early Canadian cookbooks", "startDate": "1877", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.653226,-79.3831843" }, { "compiler": "Nathalie Cooke", "label": "The Cook Not Mad", "group": "Cultural", "description": "An American Cookbook published in Kingston", "startDate": "1831", "community": "Kingston", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 44.23117, "longitude": -76.486, "latLng": "44.2311717,-76.4859544" }, { "compiler": "Sarah Robbins", "label": "Missionary Nellie Arnott leaves for her posting in Portuguese West Africa", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Nellie Arnott, missionary to Portuguese West Africa, sponsored by the Women's Board of Missions of the Interior of the Congregational Church, US, leaves Boston to travel to her posting by way of stops in England and Portugal. She travels with a missionary couple (Rev and Mrs. Sanders) who are returning to the station in Kamundongo after a furlough in the US.", "startDate": "1905-04-25", "community": "Boston", "adminDiv": "Massachusetts", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 42.35843, "longitude": -71.0598, "latLng": "42.3584308,-71.0597732" }, { "compiler": "Sarah Robbins", "label": "arrival of missionary Nellie Arnott at her station", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Nellie Arnott reaches Kamundongo Station in the highlands of Angola (then Portuguese West Africa), where she will serve as a teacher focused on providing education for young girls, in their native language, while seeking to define her own complex position as a US missionary working in a colony governed by a European colonial power", "startDate": "1905-08-08", "community": "Camundongo", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Angola", "latitude": -11.55, "longitude": 23.18333, "latLng": "-11.55,23.18333" }, { "compiler": "Sarah Robbins", "label": "Missionary teacher Nellie Arnott arrives back in Boston for a furlough from work in Africa", "group": "Biographical", "description": "In spring 1912, Arnott left Portuguese West Africa and traveled to Cape Town and surrounding areas to visit \"model\" schools for girls there. She planned to raise money from US supporters during a furlough visit to the US. Stopping in several African ports after her school visits over several weeks, she journeyed through central Europe and back to England before taking a ship back to Boston, arriving over 7 years after her departure in 1905. ", "startDate": "1912-08-22", "community": "Boston", "adminDiv": "Massachusetts", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 42.35843, "longitude": -71.0598, "latLng": "42.3584308,-71.0597732" }, { "compiler": "Tyler Fox", "label": "Computerized Bulletin Board System Created", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Computerized Bulletin Board System was created in 1978. It allowed users to dial into a central system and leave messages for other users. It is an early example of an online \"forum.\"", "startDate": "1978-02-16", "community": "Chicago", "adminDiv": "Illinois", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 41.87811, "longitude": -87.6298, "latLng": "41.8781136,-87.6297982" }, { "compiler": "Tyler Fox", "label": "Talkomatic Created", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Talkomatic was the first mulit-user online chat system. It was developed Doug Brown and David R. Woolley at the University of Illinois.", "startDate": "1973", "community": "University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign", "adminDiv": "Illinois", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 40.10195, "longitude": -88.2272, "latLng": "40.1019523,-88.2271615" }, { "compiler": "Tyler Fox", "label": "IRC Created", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Internet Relay Chat is a real-time chat system installed on a local computer that transmits messages to a server. ", "startDate": "1988-08", "community": "University of Oulu", "adminDiv": "Oulu", "province": null, "country": "Finland", "latitude": 65.05906, "longitude": 25.4664, "latLng": "65.0590607,25.4663976" }, { "compiler": "Ethan Reed", "label": "Ethan's First Ingestion", "group": "Biographical", "description": "I ingested a document of my own into CWRC for the first time - Edgar Allan Poe's The Philosophy of Composition", "startDate": "2014-06-04", "community": "Victoria", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.42842, "longitude": -123.366, "latLng": "48.42842,-123.366" }, { "compiler": "Ethan Reed", "label": "Publication of Manhattan Transfer", "group": "Bibliographical", "description": "John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer first published - this is important given it's early position in Dos Passos's career, as well as how soon after it was translated into Spanish by his friend Jose Robles.", "startDate": "1925", "community": "New York", "adminDiv": "New York", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 40.70563, "longitude": -73.978, "latLng": "40.70563,-73.978" }, { "compiler": "Ethan Reed", "label": "Translation of Manhattan Transfer", "group": "Bibliographical", "description": "Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer was translated by his friend Jose Robles into Spanish, the only Spanish translation of the text used even today. Jose Robles would be purged by Stalinist forces in Spain within a decade.", "startDate": "1929", "community": "Madrid", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.41678, "longitude": -3.70379, "latLng": "40.41678,-3.70379" }, { "compiler": "Ethan Reed", "label": "Death of Jose Robles", "group": "Biographical", "description": "When Dos Passos returned to Madrid in April, 1937, Robles had already been kidnapped from his home and killed. Robles spoke Russian as well as Spanish and English and was assigned as an attache to a Russian official during the war. The details of his death are still murky. Even with Dos Passos's help, it took Robles's family years to acquire an official death certificate. This event marked the beginning of Dos Passos's turn to conservative politics and writing.", "startDate": "1937-04", "community": "Madrid", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Spain", "latitude": 40.41678, "longitude": -3.70379, "latLng": "40.41678,-3.70379" }, { "compiler": "Kathryn Holland", "label": "Feminist 'Mud March'", "group": "Political", "description": "About three thousand marchers took to the streets of London for the first major suffrage parade in London, known as the 'Mud March.' Jane Strachey, as Vice-President of National Union of Women\u2019s Suffrage Societies, was one of three leaders. Philippa Strachey and Ray Costelloe Strachey, Jane\u2019s daughter and daughter-in-law respectively, also participated in the event.", "startDate": "1907-02-07", "community": "London", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Kathryn Holland", "label": "Dorothy Bussy becomes a war correspondent for feminist journal.", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Dorothy Strachey Bussy published \u201cA Letter from France,\u201d a piece about conditions in the country at the start of the Great War, in The Englishwoman. Bussy\u2019s mother Jane Strachey was a co-founder of the journal, which was a feminist, non-partisan cultural review.", "startDate": "1914-08", "community": "Roquebrune-cap-Martin", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "France", "latitude": 43.75781, "longitude": 7.473754, "latLng": "43.75781,7.473754" }, { "compiler": "Kathryn Holland", "label": "Major texts by and about Stracheys are published", "group": "Literary", "description": "Virginia Woolf, who was closely involved with the Strachey family throughout her life, wrote \u201cLady Strachey,\u201d an obituary for Jane Strachey published in the Nation & Athenaeum. Ray Strachey published The Cause: A Short History of the Women\u2019s Movement in Great Britain, which assesses the feminist work of several Victorian and modern feminist generations. The Cause became a key source for Woolf\u2019s A Room of One\u2019s Own, published by the Hogarth Press in 1929.", "startDate": "1928", "community": "London", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Claire Battershill", "label": "Sale of the Hogarth Press to Chatto & Windus", "group": "Literary", "description": "Chatto & Windus purchased the Hogarth Press from John Lehmann and Leonard Woolf. The imprint continued under Chatto's direction, but this date marks the end of the Press's existence as an independent publisher. ", "startDate": "1946", "community": "Bloomsbury", "adminDiv": "London", "province": null, "country": "London", "latitude": 51.51918, "longitude": -0.12408, "latLng": "51.51918,-0.12408" }, { "compiler": "Claire Battershill", "label": "Hogarth Press Relaunch", "group": "Literary", "description": "After a fallow period, the Hogarth Press was relaunched in 2012 as a new imprint of \"contemporary, character-rich fiction\" under the Crown Publishing Group in the UK and the US. ", "startDate": "2012", "community": "Bloomsbury", "adminDiv": "London", "province": null, "country": "England", "latitude": 51.51918, "longitude": -0.12408, "latLng": "51.51918,-0.12408" }, { "compiler": "Kathryn Holland", "label": "Virginia Woolf publishes Three Guineas.", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Virginia Woolf publishes Three Guineas with the Hogarth Press. Her second major feminist book, it is in dialogue with such texts as Ray Strachey\u2019s Careers and Openings for Women (1935).\n", "startDate": "1938", "community": "London", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Kathryn Holland", "label": "Dorothy Bussy publishes Olivia", "group": "Literary", "description": "Dorothy Bussy\u2019s novella, Olivia, is published in Britain by the Hogarth Press. Her book is dedicated \u201cTo the Beloved Memory of V.W.\u201d and the narrative contains intertextual links to Virginia Woolf\u2019s fiction about women\u2019s erotic lives.", "startDate": "1949", "community": "London", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Jenny Wong-Welch", "label": "National Center For Professional & Research Ethics", "group": "Social", "description": "

Collaborative project to create a portal for a community that supports resources for those studying, conveying and practicing research and professional ethics.Typee<\/i> is first published.", "startDate": "1846", "community": "New York", "adminDiv": "New York", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 40.70563, "longitude": -73.978, "latLng": "40.70563,-73.978" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Typee is Revised", "group": "Literary", "description": "Herman Melville's Typee<\/i> is revised.", "startDate": "1892", "community": "New York", "adminDiv": "New York", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 40.70563, "longitude": -73.978, "latLng": "40.70563,-73.978" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Typee Manuscript Discovered", "group": "Literary", "description": "A manuscript of Melville's Typee<\/i> is discovered. The manuscript contains important revisions and notes.", "startDate": "1983", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 37.09024, "longitude": -95.712891, "latLng": "37.09024,-95.712891" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Fluid Edition of The Typee Available Online", "group": "Literary", "description": "Typee<\/i> is reproduced electronically as a fluid text . This edition accounts for multiple editions and revisions.", "startDate": "2006", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 37.09024, "longitude": -95.712891, "latLng": "37.09024,-95.712891" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Yellow Nineties Project Initiated", "group": "Literary", "description": "The Yellow Nineties <\/i> project is initiated under the name 1890s Online <\/i>. ", "startDate": "2005", "community": null, "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 51.253775, "longitude": -85.3232139, "latLng": "51.253775,-85.3232139" }, { "compiler": "Verena Kick", "label": "Women's rights to vote", "group": "Political", "description": "It is just an event in Canadian history for this project.", "startDate": "1918-05-28", "community": "Ottawa", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 45.4215296, "longitude": -75.6971931, "latLng": "45.4215296,-75.6971931" }, { "compiler": "Justin Kerk", "label": "Apple II computer released", "group": "Cultural", "description": "The Apple II was many people's first exposure to computing in homes and schools, and its tinkerer-friendly design encouraged a flood of compatible software from third parties, including many early and important works in electronic literature and computer gaming. Emulation of Apple II software in a web browser is featured in the Historical Software Collection at the Internet Archive<\/a>, which I have been involved in the technical side of.", "startDate": "1977-06-10", "community": "Cupertino", "adminDiv": "California", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 37.3229978, "longitude": -122.0321823, "latLng": "37.3229978,-122.0321823" }, { "compiler": "Justin Kerk", "label": "Akalabeth initial release", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Initial release of the computer game Akalabeth for the Apple II, one of the first computer role-playing games and the first major game by Richard Garriott, later famous as the creator of the Ultima series under the pen name \"Lord British\".\n\nAkalabeth is now playable in emulated form at the Historical Software Collection.<\/a>", "startDate": "1979", "community": "Clear Lake City", "adminDiv": "Texas", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 29.555, "longitude": -95.115, "latLng": "29.555,-95.115" }, { "compiler": "Justin Kerk", "label": "Mystery House release", "group": "Cultural", "description": "Mystery House, released for the Apple II computer, was one of the first adventure games to incorporate graphics to provide a more immersive experience. It was developed by the husband and wife team of Ken and Roberta Williams, notable as women are often underrepresented in the field of game development.\n\nMystery House is now playable in a web browser through the Historical Software Collection.<\/a>", "startDate": "1980", "community": "Simi Valley", "adminDiv": "California", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 34.26945, "longitude": -118.781, "latLng": "34.26945,-118.781" }, { "compiler": "Bronwen Masemann", "label": "Establishment of Free Traveling Libraries in Wisconsin", "group": "Social", "description": "Lutie Stearns of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission establishes a system of free traveling libraries in Wisconsin. Stearns travels throughout the state (sometimes by sleigh) establishing portable libraries, kept in wooden boxes in public places. The library at SLIS UW-Madison holds a significant collection of published material related to the program. More information available in this 1897 pamphlet <\/a>.", "startDate": "1896-05-01", "community": "Madison", "adminDiv": "Wisconsin", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 43.07305, "longitude": -89.4012, "latLng": "43.07305,-89.4012" }, { "compiler": "Bronwen Masemann", "label": "First Carnegie Library in Wisconsin - Kellogg Public Library in Green Bay, WI", "group": "Cultural", "description": "The Kellogg Public Library, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was the first library in the state to receive a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Eventually over 60 Carnegie libraries were built in the state, many of which are still standing. The SLIS Library holds an extensive collection of postcards depicting these libraries and others as well as a collection of architectural blueprints and photographs which are important for library and architectural historians. ", "startDate": "1901-02-13", "community": "Green Bay", "adminDiv": "Wisconsin", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 44.51916, "longitude": -88.0198, "latLng": "44.51916,-88.0198" }, { "compiler": "Andre de Avillez", "label": "Birth of K.W.F. Schlegel", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel is born in Hanover", "startDate": "1772-03-10", "community": "Hanover", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Germany", "latitude": 52.37589, "longitude": 9.73201, "latLng": "52.37589,9.73201" }, { "compiler": "Cameron Butt", "label": "Tom Connors Earns Nickname", "group": "Cultural", "description": "On Canada's 100th birthday, July 1, 1967, Boyd MacDonald introduced Tom Connors as \"Stompin\" Tom Connors at the King George Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario.", "startDate": "1967-07-01", "community": "Peterborough", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": null, "country": "Canada", "latitude": 44.30906, "longitude": -78.3197, "latLng": "44.30906,-78.3197" }, { "compiler": "Andre de Avillez", "label": "Founding of Athenaeum Journal", "group": "Literary", "description": "Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm Schlegel found the Athenaeum Journal, in which some of the most significant expressions of German Romanticism will be published in the form of fragments.", "startDate": "1798", "community": "Jena", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Germany", "latitude": 50.92705, "longitude": 11.58924, "latLng": "50.92705,11.58924" }, { "compiler": "Andre de Avillez", "label": "On Incomprehensibility", "group": "Literary", "description": "Publication of the 6th and last volume of Athenaeum, which includes Friedrich Schlegel's essay \"On Incomprehensibility,\" perhaps the most clearest and most direct set of reflections on the genre of Romantic Fragments", "startDate": "1800", "community": "Jena", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Germany", "latitude": 50.92705, "longitude": 11.58924, "latLng": "50.92705,11.58924" }, { "compiler": "Cameron Butt", "label": "Don Cherry Plays his only NHL game", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Don Cherry plays his only NHL game, for the Boston Bruins.", "startDate": "1954", "community": "Boston", "adminDiv": "Massachusetts", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 42.35843, "longitude": -71.0598, "latLng": "42.35843,-71.0598" }, { "compiler": "Justin Kerk", "label": "Apple IIe discontinued", "group": "Cultural", "description": "From this point, the Apple II line is no longer manufactured. Access to any of the huge variety of content created for the Apple II platform now requires either the acquisition and maintenance of aging secondhand hardware, or emulation.", "startDate": "1993-11", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": null, "latitude": null, "longitude": null, "latLng": null }, { "compiler": "Andre de Avillez", "label": "death of K.W.F. Schlegel", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Death of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, in Dresden.", "startDate": "1829-01-12", "community": "Dresden", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Germany", "latitude": 51.0504088, "longitude": 13.7372621, "latLng": "51.0504088,13.7372621" }, { "compiler": "Andre de Avillez", "label": "moves to Dresden", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Friedrich Schlegel moves to Dresden in order to give a series of lectures on the philosophy of language", "startDate": "1828", "community": "Dresden", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Germany", "latitude": 51.0504088, "longitude": 13.7372621, "latLng": "51.0504088,13.7372621" }, { "compiler": "Chelsea Miya", "label": "Pauline Johnson is born", "group": "Biographical", "description": "

The youngest of four children, Pauline Johnson was born on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, just outside of modern-day Brantford. Although her mother was an Englishwoman, Pauline Johnson was a hereditary member of the Mohawk tribe. Her father Chief George Henry Martin Johnson was a Six Nations Chief. George Johnson built Chiefswood mansion on the bank of Grand River, where Pauline Johnson spent much of her childhood. <\/p>", "startDate": "1861-03-10", "community": "Brantford", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.1393867, "longitude": -80.2644254, "latLng": "43.1393867,-80.2644254" }, { "compiler": "Chelsea Miya", "label": "Pauline Johnson died", "group": "Biographical", "description": "

Pauline Johnson died of breast cancer on March 7, 1913, just days before her 52nd birthday. Thousands of people gathered to pay their respects, and her funeral procession down George Street was the largest the city had ever seen. As per her last wishes, Pauline Johnson's ashes were interned in Stanley Park.<\/p>\n\n", "startDate": "1913-03-07", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.26123,-123.114" }, { "compiler": "Chelsea Miya", "label": "The White Wampum is published", "group": "Literary", "description": "The White Wampum<\/i> was Pauline Johnson's first collection of poems. Prior to this, she had published her poetry in periodicals. The White Wampum<\/i> was originally published in 1895 by Copp Clark in London, England. Today, it continues to be one of the top-selling book of poems by a Canadian author.", "startDate": "1895", "community": "London", "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Sara Jeannette Duncan is born.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Sara Jeannette Duncan is born in Brantford, Ontario, the eldest daughter of 13 children born to Charles and Jane Duncan.", "startDate": "1861-12-22", "community": "Brantford", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.13939, "longitude": -80.2644, "latLng": "43.13939,-80.2644" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Sara Jeannette Duncan begins her world tour.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Sara Jeannette Duncan and Lily Lewis left Ottawa to begin their trip around the world \"the wrong way,\" a journey Duncan would later use as the basis of A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves (1890). ", "startDate": "1888", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.65323,-79.3832" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Sara Jeannette Duncan marries Everard Cotes.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Sara Jeannette Duncan marries Everard Cotes in Calcutta, India. Duncan had met Cotes on her world tour. She left Calcutta and continued her trip home to Canada before returning to India for her wedding.", "startDate": "1890-12-06", "community": "Calcutta", "adminDiv": "Bengal", "province": null, "country": "India", "latitude": 22.572646, "longitude": 88.363895, "latLng": "22.572646,88.363895" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Sara Jeannette Duncan dies.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Sara Jeannette Duncan dies of pneumonia in her garden in Ashtead, Surrey, England.", "startDate": "1922-06-22", "community": "Ashtead", "adminDiv": "Surrey", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.310684, "longitude": -0.296968, "latLng": "51.310684,-0.296968" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Sara Jeannette Duncan publishes The Imperialist", "group": "Bibliographical", "description": "Sara Jeannette Duncan publishes The Imperialist<\/i>, her only novel set in Canada.", "startDate": "1904", "community": "New York", "adminDiv": "New York", "province": null, "country": "United States", "latitude": 40.70563, "longitude": -73.978, "latLng": "40.70563,-73.978" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Dorothea Palmer Acquitted", "group": "Social", "description": "Dorothea Palmer was acquitted of charges regarding birth control educational material, leading to more information being available in Canada.\n\n\n", "startDate": "1937-03-17", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Canada", "latitude": 56.13037, "longitude": -106.347, "latLng": "56.13037,-106.347" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "First Governor-General's Literary Awards", "group": "Literary", "description": "The First Governor-General\u2019s Literary Awards were presented to authors of books published in 1936. Although the Awards created prestige for Canadian writers, they were not accompanied by an honorarium.", "startDate": "1937", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Canada", "latitude": 56.13037, "longitude": -106.347, "latLng": "56.13037,-106.347" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Susanna Moodie immigrates to Canada.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Susanna Moodie leaves Edinburgh for Canada with her husband, Dunbar Moodie, to take possession of the farm they had purchased near Coburg, Ontario.", "startDate": "1832-07-01", "community": "Edinburgh", "adminDiv": "Scotland", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 55.95325, "longitude": -3.18827, "latLng": "55.95325,-3.18827" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Canada Reduces Admissions of Jewish Immigrants", "group": "Political", "description": "Canada\u2019s plan to admit 10,000 Jewish immigrants from Europe was reduced to 2500 admissions due to widespread anti-Semitism coupled with ignorance about the extremism of Nazi ideology and the impending Holocaust.", "startDate": "1938-12-01", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Canada", "latitude": 56.13037, "longitude": -106.347, "latLng": "56.13037,-106.347" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Women in Quebec Won Right to Vote", "group": "Political", "description": "Women in Quebec won the right to vote and to run for positions in the provincial legislature.", "startDate": "1940-04-25", "community": null, "adminDiv": "Québec", "province": "Québec", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 52.93992, "longitude": -73.5491, "latLng": "52.93992,-73.5491" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Publication of Roughing It in the Bush", "group": "Bibliographical", "description": "

Susanna Moodie's first book, Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada<\/i>, is published in London. The text was a compilation of articles written by Susanna and her husband, Dunbar Moodie, with poetry by Susanna. <\/p>\n

These articles had, for the most part, been previously published in the and the Victoria Magazine<\/i>, which the Moodies edited in Belleville, Ontario, in 1847-48.<\/p>", "startDate": "1852", "community": "London", "adminDiv": "England", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Susanna Moodie is born.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "Susanna Strickland is born near Bungay, Suffolk, England. All four of the Strickland sisters would become authors; Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland collaborated on a number of historical works, inncluding The Lives of the Queens of England<\/i>; and Catherine Parr Traill, who also immigrated to Canada in 1832, is most famous for The Backwoods of Canada<\/i>, as well as producing Canada's first novel for children, Canadian Crusoes<\/i>.", "startDate": "1803-12-06", "community": "Bungay", "adminDiv": "Suffolk", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 52.45546, "longitude": 1.443976, "latLng": "52.45546,1.443976" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Catherine Parr Traill immigrates to Canada.", "group": "Biographical", "description": "In the same year as her sister Susanna, who had married Dunbar Moodie, Catherine Parr Strickland married Moodie's friend, Thomas Traill. The two couples immigrate to Canada in 1832, although not together. The Traills settled in Peterborough , Ontario, 60 km from the Moodie's farm near Cobourg.", "startDate": "1832", "community": "Peterborough", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 44.30906, "longitude": -78.3197, "latLng": "44.30906,-78.3197" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "Birth of Pauline Johnson", "group": "Literary", "description": "Pauline Johnson was born at the family home, Chiefswood, on the Six Nations Reserve.", "startDate": "1861-03-10", "community": "Brantford", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.13939, "longitude": -80.2644, "latLng": "43.13939,-80.2644" }, { "compiler": "Karyn Huenemann", "label": "Canadian Crusoes is published", "group": "Bibliographical", "description": "

Catherine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains<\/i>, the first Canadian novel for children, is published in London, England. The novel was subsequently published as Lost in the Backwoods<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Canadian Crusoes<\/i> is an interesting tale, including (perhaps problematically) a successful romantic relationship between a white boy and a native girl.", "startDate": "1852", "community": "London", "adminDiv": "England", "province": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "latitude": 51.50852, "longitude": -0.12549, "latLng": "51.50852,-0.12549" }, { "compiler": "Lindsey Bannister", "label": "Wartime Election Act", "group": "Political", "description": "Canada introduced the Wartime Election Act which allowed military nurses and women related to servicemen to vote in federal elections. At the same time, male Canadians born in enemy countries and conscientious objectors lost their vote.", "startDate": "1917-09-06", "community": null, "adminDiv": null, "province": null, "country": "Canada", "latitude": 56.13037, "longitude": -106.347, "latLng": "56.13037,-106.347" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "North West Rebellion", "group": "Political", "description": "The North West Rebellion led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (of the Métis), and Poundmaker and Big Bear (of the Cree tribe), was fought in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pauline Johnson treated the conflict in her dramatic monologue, \"A Cry from an Indian Wife\" between the surrender of Poundmaker on 26 May and the hanging of Louis Riel on 16 November.", "startDate": "1885-03-26", "community": null, "adminDiv": "Saskatchewan", "province": "Saskatchewan", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 52.93992, "longitude": -106.451, "latLng": "52.93992,-106.451" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "\"The Song My Paddle Sings\"", "group": "Literary", "description": "Pauline Johnson first published her best-known poem, \"The Song My Paddle Sings\", in Saturday Night<\/i> magazine. Thousands of Canadian schoolchildren have been tortured by this poem, which Johnson herself parodied in her later years.", "startDate": "1892-02-27", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.65323,-79.3832" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "Flint and Feather<\/i>", "group": "Literary", "description": "Pauline Johnson's Flint and Feather<\/i>, a collection of poetry, was published.", "startDate": "1912-12", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.65323,-79.3832" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "Premiere of Atwood's Pauline", "group": "Cultural", "description": "

Margaret Atwood debuted as a librettist when the opera Pauline<\/>, based on the life of Pauline Johnson, was performed by City Opera Vancouver, starring Rose-Ellen Nichols.<\/p>", "startDate": "2014-05-23", "community": "Vancouver", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 49.26123, "longitude": -123.114, "latLng": "49.26123,-123.114" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "Canadian Born<\/i>", "group": "Literary", "description": "Pauline Johnson published a collection of poems, Canadian Born<\/i>.", "startDate": "1903", "community": "Toronto", "adminDiv": "Ontario", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 43.65323, "longitude": -79.3832, "latLng": "43.65323,-79.3832" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "Meeting of Pauline Johnson and Nellie McClung", "group": "Cultural", "description": "During a tour of Manitoba, Pauline Johnson met Canadian suffragist Nellie McClung, and they became close friends.", "startDate": "1894", "community": null, "adminDiv": "Manitoba", "province": "Manitoba", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 53.76086, "longitude": -98.8139, "latLng": "53.76086,-98.8139" }, { "compiler": "Susan Brown", "label": "CWRCshop class", "group": "Social", "description": "The participants in the Collaborative Online Scholarship: Principles and Practices CWRCshop at DHSI2014 proved themselves exemplary collaborators under difficult circumstances.", "startDate": "2014-06-06", "community": "Victoria", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.42842, "longitude": -123.366, "latLng": "48.42842,-123.366" }, { "compiler": "Cameron Butt", "label": "CWRCshop Dinner", "group": "Social", "description": "CWRCshop participants were invited to have dinner together and collaboratively demolish some Thai food. ", "startDate": "2014-06-05", "community": "Victoria", "adminDiv": "British Columbia", "province": "British Columbia", "country": "Canada", "latitude": 48.42842, "longitude": -123.366, "latLng": "48.42842,-123.366" } ]}