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David Dunlap, who often writes about The Times’s history, sent along a clipping about one of the paper’s earliest efforts to increase the number of readers in Canada. On June 15, 1929, The Little Times, the in-house publication back then, reported that The Times had started flying copies of the paper to Montreal for newsstand sale the next day.

The planes landed in Montreal at 11:30 a.m. and were whisked downtown “by a special truck with a flag that gave it the right of way over other vehicles.” (I wish I had one of those when I’m stuck in Montreal traffic while on assignment.)

The Little Times reported that paper’s Montreal representative said “the papers were ‘quite warm’ when they reached him and leaving it to be imagined whether this was due to the presses or the speed of the trip.”

Today, my copy is trucked to Ottawa from a satellite printing plant in Buffalo.

Raising Voices

Mr. Smith has a special Canada Day request:

We’d like to hear you sing “O Canada” to mark Canada’s 150th birthday. Please post on Instagram, with the hashtag #MyOCanada, a video of you singing the anthem in any language, style or setting you like, with or without accompaniment. Since you can post only one minute of video to Instagram, sing the first verse and use your caption to tell us what the words mean to you. (Don’t forget to include the hashtag #MyOCanada.) As you can see in this video, we asked Canadian cast members of the Broadway musical “Come From Away” to sing a version so you have an idea of what we’re looking for. We thought they did a pretty good job.

Trans-Canada

We keep a running tally of our Canada coverage here. Below are some of the other Canada-related stories from the past week

—Robert Campeau, the real estate tycoon who made a fortune with cheap houses in Ottawa’s suburbs, loaded up on debt to create a department store empire that included Bloomingdale’s and then saw his company spectacularly fail, has died at 93.

—Eighty years after his early death, the hockey world hasn’t forgotten Howie Morenz.

—Kellie Leitch lost her bid to lead the Conservatives. But she’s again ignited debate and provoked criticism for suggesting that an episode of domestic violence indicates that Canada’s refugee program may be a danger.