January 8 In 1966, The Drum, the first newspaper of its kind in the Arctic, began publishing in English, Inuit and Kutchin January 9 In 1949, marathon runner Tom Longboat died on the Ohsweken reserve near Brantford, Ont. He was 61. Longboat won the 1907 Boston Marathon and went on to a successful professional running career. During the First World War, he served as a dispatch runner in France. January 10 In 2002, James Bartleman, a member of the Minjikanig First Nation, became the first native lieutenant-governor of Ontario. In 2012, four of five people aboard a Keystone Air Service plane were killed in a fiery landing at the North Spirit Lake First Nation, around 400 kilometres north of Dryden, Ont. January 11 In 2022, a 101-year-old Metis war veteran…
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