1979 Trivial Pursuit

Chris Haney, a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for the Canadian Press invented Trivial Pursuit in 45 minutes.

1978 Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull

Sounds of granola days past ~

Heavy horses

Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
On octobers day, towards evening
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough
Salt on a deep chest, seasoning
Last of the line at an honest days toil
Turning the deep sod under
Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone
Flies at the nostrils plunder.

The suffolk, the clydesdale, the percheron vie
With the shire on his feathers floating
Hauling soft timber into the dusk
To bed on a warm straw coating.

Heavy horses, move the land under me
Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free
Now youre down to the few
And theres no work to do
The tractors on its way.

Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
To keep the old line going.
And well stand you abreast at the back of the woods
Behind the young trees growing
To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
Youre eighteen hands at the shoulder

And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
And the nights are seen to draw colder
Theyll beg for your strength, your gentle power
Your noble grace and your bearing
And youll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
In the wake of the deep plough, sharing.

Standing like tanks on the brow of the hill
Up into the cold wind facing
In stiff battle harness, chained to the world
Against the low sun racing
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A heavy horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather.

Bring a song for the evening
Clean brass to flash the dawn
Across these acres glistening
Like dew on a carpet lawn
In these dark towns folk lie sleeping
As the heavy horses thunder by
To wake the dying city
With the living horsemans cry

At once the old hands quicken ---
Bring pick and wisp and curry comb ---
Thrill to the sound of all
The heavy horses coming home.

Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
On octobers day, towards evening
Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough
Salt on a deep chest, seasoning
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A heavy horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather.

Heavy horses, move the land under me
Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free
Now youre down to the few
And theres no work to do
The tractors on its way.

1977 Live from the Met

Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met make their American television debuts in which Pavarotti sings Che gelida manina from La Boheme.

1976 Eaton's last catalogue

14 January, 1976 Eaton’s announces that the 1976 spring-summer catalogue will be the last. My mother weighed parcels and calculated the postage in Moncton’s catalogue department. I remember the transformation that took place in her when she was first hired. She came alive.

1975 On the nickel

The beaver becomes an official symbol of Canada.

1974 Women in the RCMP

On May 23, 1974 RCMP Commissioner M.J. Nadon made an announcement that the RCMP would begin accepting applications from women for regular police duties.

See her? She's just behind the man.

1973 Henry Morgentaler

A Quebec jury does not convict 

Morgentaler for performing abortions.