If you're visiting during this season, it's in your best interest to book at least several weeks early to ensure hotel availability and decent room rates. Key Events: 1  Formula One: Grand Prix of Canada (June). 2  Montreal International Jazz Festival (June-July).
On October 25, 1865, the legendary SS Republic sank 1,700 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic. With Odysseyâs 2003 discovery of the SS Republic, the shipâs remarkable legacy lives on as her story is chronicled in publications, television documentaries and exhibits.
October 29, 1923 is a fateful date in Turkish history. On that date. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the liberator of his country, proclaimed the Republic of Turkey. The new homogeneous nation-state stood in sharp contrast to the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire out of whose ashes it arose.