* 1987 – Shawn Gore, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player

* 1981 – Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian football player

* 1964 – Greg Battle, Canadian football player

* 1959 – Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

Canadian football, on the other hand, begins in the summer, but extends its season through the autumn season and into November.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The facility is 38, 690 meters < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 416, 500 ft < sup > 2 </ sup >), equivalent to 4½ Canadian football fields, and the operating structure is the largest stainless steel building in North America, the size of 14 NHL rinks.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

Canadian football distinguishes three ways of kicking the ball:

A touchdown in Canadian football is often referred to as a " major score " or simply a " major.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

In Canadian Interuniversity Sport football, for the Uteck Bowl, Mitchell Bowl, and Vanier Cup, the same overtime procedure is followed until there is a winner.

* Down ( American football ), in American / Canadian football, a period of time where one play takes place

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer

* 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian

* 1959 – Gail Shea, Canadian politician

* 1974 – Jeff Tymoschuk, Canadian composer

* 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian hockey player

* 1983 – Katie Weatherston, Canadian hockey player

* 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian hockey player

* 1985 – Al Mukadam, Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and actor

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1912 – Frank Dilio, Canadian hockey administrator ( d. 1997 )

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1960 – Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster

* 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian hockey player

* 1970 – Sylvain Bouchard, Canadian speed skater

* 1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist

* 1983 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef ( d. 2012 )

* 1770 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer ( d. 1857 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )