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.
By April 1939, the Seversky Aircraft Corporation had lost $550,000, and Seversky was forced out of the company he had founded. The board, led by financier Paul Moore, voted W. Wallace Kellett to replace him as president, and in September 1939, the company was reorganized as the Republic Aviation Corporation.