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.
Following the attack on Fort Sumter (April 12â13, 1861), former Virginia governor Henry Wise, believing that the secession convention in Richmond would vote to leave the Union on April 17, 1861, urged Governor John Letcher to capture Harpers Ferry and its large store of firearms for the Confederacy.