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Aug 27, 2024
On this day, Aug. 27, in history:
In 1612, landing in his ship The Discovery, Captain Thomas Button became the first European to winter in Manitoba.
In 1758, Fort Frontenac, now Kingston, Ont., was captured and destroyed by the British. The site of the present city was picked by LaSalle in 1673, and the explorer was named commandant of the French camp. Later, the site was occupied by United Empire Loyalists from New York state and renamed Kingston. It later became the chief naval base of Ontario.
