February 1 In 1958, James Gladstone, an Alberta Blood Indian, became Canada’s first aboriginal senator. In 2020, Ontario’s Saugeen Ojibway Nation overwhelmingly rejected a proposed underground storage facility for nuclear waste near Lake Huron, likely bringing an end to the multibillion-dollar, politically fraught project that had been years in the making. February 2 In 2016, NDP candidate Melanie Mark became the first indigenous woman elected to the British Columbia legislature after winning a byelection in the party stronghold of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. February 3 In 1843, pioneer railway executive William Cornelius Van Horne was born in Chelsea, Ill. Named general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882, Van Horne supervised completion of Canada’s first nation-wide railway. He became CPR president in 1888, and was knighted six years later. Van Horne…
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