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Post subject: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:49 pm
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Happy Canada Day! Canada is a youngster of 150 years, but our Indigenous and explorers like the Vikings go way back, and many communities made this country what it is today.

Recently, I was informed that my kid brother (his passing from brain cancer will be a year ago tomorrow) had just received another one of several special awards from Ottawa for his volunteer contributions to his community and Canada. It was a limited Canada 150 Acrylic award.

We're proud of him because he did it as many others do everyday. Without reward they simply give of themselves to help others.

So on this Canada Day I salute all those who do the same wherever you are.

For others, I wish you many days of celebration with friends and family and Happy Canada Day!

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:21 am
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...and the music ain't too shabby either. :D


Some of my favorite artists hail from the "great white north".

Pat Travers
Kim Mitchell
Rick Emmett
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
April Wine

(many of the artists I absolutely cannot stomach also call Canada home but I'll leave that discussion for another day)

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:46 am
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Neil Young, one of the famous.

And many more well know over the world and unknown on the south of Canada border :(

Oh! I forgot Celine Dion, the Las Vegas queen :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:28 am
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Canada was discovered in the year 1534, by Jacques Cartier.....

http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/d ... artier.htm
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Canada is 483 year old, not 150 ! Another alternative truth :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:37 am
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Here's to another 150 years, happy b-day! :)


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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:30 am
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A great day for Canada. And for it's next 150, and beyond. Image

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:22 am
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Thanks, everyone for the welcoming posts. I agree the music ranges from mediocre to great. I guess we all have our Brittanys and Lil Wayne. :wink:
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Canada was discovered in the year 1534, by Jacques Cartier.....

Canada is 483 year old, not 150 ! Another alternative truth :lol:

For the history buffs:

Leif Erickson's Settlement
Circa 1000 AD:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows

Giovanni da Verrazzano:
In 1524 he was invited but not commissioned by King Francis 1 of France. Verrazzano was the first European explorer of North America including New Brunswick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazzano

Okay, now that's clear as mud just like early cartography and no documentation.

Oh, and then some 10 years later, commissioned by the same King Francis 1 now having some knowledge of the brave earlier discoveries, Jacques Cartier got it right. He brought a flag, dug in, built and mounted a cross, and made a claim while our indigenous watched and welcomed them from a distance. :roll:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

Cartier got New France and Verrazzano got a bridge. :P
How's that for fake news. Whoo boy. :lol:
Perhaps, the reason why Quebec was not founded earlier on was because they, including Cartier, were searching for Asia. If 483 years old seems more reasonable, then so does 1017 years if Leif had his way. More if the original people of this land had their say. The Iroquois gave us the word Kanata for village, settlement, and land. I wonder when Cartier and the Iroquois met if the indigenous greeting was, "Welcome to Kanata". Cartier picked up on that as well. That must be considered too. Ya think?

So in the end, for the most part, we all drink Coke or Pepsi and that's American. LOL. Cartier founded New France, all of them founded Canada, and those that followed created our fair country. IMHO. YMMV.

FSB

They're all good stories though, lots of reasons to celebrate and share, and no matter how one looks to the history books and Canada Day or not have a great one. :D
I forgot to include Celine. :lol:
Bonne fête du Canada tout le monde!

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:57 am
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We write the same thing, Canada don't have 150 years.


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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:25 am
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stratele52 wrote:
We write the same thing, Canada don't have 150 years.

Looks good on a coin, though. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:56 am
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stratele52 wrote:
We write the same thing, Canada don't have 150 years.

Looks good on a coin, though. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:43 pm
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Happy Birthday Canada!

What about these two dates that led into full sovereignty?

Statute of Westminster December 11, 1931

Patriation April 17, 1982

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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:52 pm
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Thank you for posting FSB, Happy Birthday Canada !

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 3:03 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Happy Birthday Canada!

What about these two dates that led into full sovereignty?

Statute of Westminster December 11, 1931

Patriation April 17, 1982

Thanks, for the best wishes, Paul.

Well, those events pretty much fall into line with all the political ballyhoo and reaches for the top position of acceptance that clouds this country's movement going forward. I was there to rub shoulders with vocally patriotic Trois Rivieres Francophones when they put Canada first in Quebec's first referendum with regards to separation. That didn't interrupt my pace of eating yummy pancakes and delicious maple syrup in the sugar bush. :P
I live close to Louis Riel's house. He was called a traitor and a hero because of a historical rebellion, I worked for a professor that was a constitutional advisor for the controversial 1987 Meech Lake Accord proposing Canadian constitutional change, and where a simple wave of a ceremonial feather by Manitoba's politician Elijah Harper kept the agreement from being completed. Newfoundland then followed. The agreement was squashed.

However, Quebec had been the only province to publicly meet for prior amendments to have special interest prerequisites met before even considering a participation in the signing. All Quebecers were not well represented. So even that became contentious.

Canadians in other provinces were unaware of this, and, par for the course, there was no say outside of those in the big house. Referendums for major national issues are a thing of the past north of the border. :?:
So, there were winners and losers and again no consensus. All sides had their issues ramified with federal and provincial participants.

In the end we still have crown land, Queen Lizzie on our money (maybe until the next monarch comes along), and one upmanship folly. We do have a loonie though. Several in fact. :lol:
I'm one of the lucky ones who has personal ties to Quebec, Ontario, BC, Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba with a very large Francophone community, the largest Filipino community in North America, a pilot program for independent Indigenous government, and over 80 ethnic pavilions for an annual festival. So I get it. Unfortunately, others don't.

That's why most agreements will be debated till exhaustion, and the game goes on.

Oh, Canada! Eh?

FSB
Still a great country if I do say so. Especially, since Mrs. FSB ran to the store to supply me with nice home made cold red Canadian originated Caesars before souvlaki on the BBQ. That's plenty of reason to celebrate. :D

If we could rid ourselves of the worst and take the best of both countries . . . Holy Crap! We would be phenomenal. Oh, well - back to the drawing board.

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Post subject: Re: Happy 150th Birthday To and From Canada!
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:15 pm
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Thank you for posting FSB, Happy Birthday Canada !

Thanks, from all of us, Rollie. :D
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Belated Happy Birthday to our great northern neighbor! :)

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