The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race.

The Queen's Plate was founded in 1860 by Queen Victoria.

Victoria's son-in-law, The Duke of Argyll, while serving as Governor General of Canada, in 1881 toured Ontario with his wife, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, becoming the first royals to attend the Queen's Plate.

The Queen's Plate celebrated its 150th running on June 21, 2009.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram, a prominent distiller from Waterloo, Ontario.

In 2006, Josie Carroll became the first woman trainer to ever win the Queen's Plate.

The future of the Queen's Plate is in doubt.

Nick Eaves, President and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group, announced during the 2012 Queen's Plate post position draw that Woodbine Racetrack may be forced to close in April of 2013 due to the cancellation of slot subsidies by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

Eaves said that if Woodbine is not open, " There won't be a Queen's Plate.

Evolution of Queen's Plate Distances:

After the Belmont, Northern Dancer won Canada's Queen's Plate by seven and a half lengths before tenderness in his left front tendon ended his racing career.

Category: Queen's Plate winners

His dam, Flaming Page, by Bull Page, was a highly successful racemare, winning the 1962 Queen's Plate.

The most famous horse from Canada is generally considered to be Northern Dancer, who after winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Queen's Plate in 1964 went on to become the most successful Thoroughbred sire of the 20th century ; his two-minute-flat Derby was the fastest on record until Secretariat in 1973.

Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, home of the Queen's Plate, Canada's premier Thoroughbred stakes race, and the North America Cup, Canada's premier Standardbred stakes race, is the only race track in North America which stages Thoroughbred and Standardbred ( harness ) meetings on the same day.

* Queen's Plate – Thessalon

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Driving Home

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Steady Growth

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Regal Embrace

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Sound Reason

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Norcliffe

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by L ' Enjoleur

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Amber Herod

* Canada – Queen's Plate – Royal Chocolate

* 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

* Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923, Queen's Indian Defence ( E18 ), 0 – 1 The " Immortal Zugzwang Game " sees Saemisch get tied up in knots.

Category: Queen's Counsel 1597 – 1800

* Reggie Pomfret – An undergraduate at Queen's College

* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )

* Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern ( or H. Kern, 1833 – 1917 ), Dutch linguist and former head of Brahmana College and of Queen's College, Benares

* 1st Battalion The Queen's Westminsters – 11th Battalion KRRC

* 2nd Battalion The Queen's Westminsters – 12th Battalion KRRC

* – The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada ( 1956 – 1966 )

The Underground does not run 24 hours a day ( except at New Year and major public events – such as the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London Olympics in 2012 ) because most lines have only two tracks ( one in each direction ) and therefore need to close at night for cleaning and planned maintenance work.

Hewitt won his first tournament of 2006 ( after a 17 month hiatus from winning a tournament ), when he beat Blake, 6 – 4, 6 – 4, in the final of the Queen's Club Championships.

* Queen's Dock, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, Scotland ( 2004 – 2007 )

* 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

* 1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Bennett served as the Rector of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1935 – 1937, even while he was still prime minister.

* Queen's University – designed and built many calibration sources and the device for deploying sources

* September 11 – The Queen's Messenger is the first melodrama broadcast by Ernst F. W. Alexanderson at W2XAD Schenectady, NY ; Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.

* July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail ( the Queen's bodyguard ) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

* July 9 – Queen's Park F. C., the oldest Association football league team in Scotland, is founded.

* October 16 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, by Rev.

* December 30 – Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway are incorporated in Ireland.

* August 15 – Cardinal de Rohan is called before the court to account for his actions in the Queen's Necklace Affair.

* November 10 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).