JULY 4:

 1648 Hillsdale Ontario Jesuit friar Antoine Daniel killed when Iroquois break peace and attack Huron villages of St. Joseph II and St. Michel in Huronia.

1696 Montreal Quebec Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 embarks from Montreal in a canoe flotilla with 2,150 men to travel up the St. Lawrence to Fort Frontenac and mount a new attack on the Iroquois.

1886 Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta Poundmaker dies at the home of his foster father, Chief Crowfoot, after spending a year in jail at Stony Mountain; former chief of the Cree band that held Fort Battleford under siege and defeated the troops of Col. W.D. Otter at Cut Knife Hill in southern Saskatchewan.
 

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