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Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« on: July 01, 2008, 12:41:27 PM »
Is this the 141st?  My how time flies when you are having fun!

Greetings to all Canucks, and our condolences to all you other folks.  You all have great countries, but I find MINE is the best for ME!

We'll forget about that regretable "tax revolt" that you Yanks indulged in awhile back.  Maybe you'll see the light and return to the fold?
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2008, 03:27:53 PM »
A recent study found the average Canadian walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study found Canadians drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means, on average, Canadians get about 41 miles to the gallon.


 

Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be Canadian, doesn't it??!!


 



 

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2008, 04:06:35 PM »
Happy Dominion Day to you too, Sir Charles!



(Good thing I don't drink that much beer .... cause I likely don't walk anywhere near that far per annum ....   ;) )

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2008, 08:18:14 AM »
And according the the latest issue of Maclean's Magazine, we are wealthier and healthier, we work less and live longer.  And we're way more, um, romantic than our US Pards and Pardettes.  8) ::)

We went to the Canada (Dominion) Day parade at Spruce View, AB.  Spruce View is just a small Hamlet and there were more people in the parade than actually live there.  People come from all over to watch it.  It was so long that the front end of the parade caught up with itself and had to wait for the tail end to go by.

The parade was led by a scarlet coated Mountie, of course. :) :)
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2008, 10:22:39 AM »
Just realized something .... the "new" maple leaf flag adopted in 1965 has been our national flag for significantly longer (43 years, now) than any of the versions of the Red Ensign which preceded it! 
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2008, 12:18:08 PM »
At the time, my impression of the old Red Ensign was of a flag enshrined in history.  I didn't know it had changed so often.

Despite all the anguish in 1965, the new one has worn well!
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2008, 01:13:02 PM »
I show my age, I guess, in being rather sentimentally attached to the old Red Ensign, having been born under the 1922 version, and growing up with it and the slightly altered 1957 version.

In fact, the 1922 version was the first one which was officially our national flag, though as you can see a much earlier version came into semi-official use the year following Confederation, and continued with changes thereafter.  A study of the above images will explain the 1868 through 1907 variations.  Canada had no official Coat of Arms until 1921/22, so the crest in the fly of the earlier Ensigns was to be the crest from the Great Seal of Canada - which was made up of the Arms of the constituent Provinces of Confederation. 
Thus:
- the 1868 version has only the Arms of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
- the 1870 version includes the Arms of Manitoba.
- the 1873 version adds the Arms of Prince Edward Island and British Columbia (earliest).
- the 1896 version incorporates the altered Arms of Briitish Columbia.
- the 1901 version has the surmounting crown changed to the King's Crown, following the death of Victoria.
- the 1907 version adds the Arms of Saskatchewan and Alberta, formed and admitted to Confederation on 1905. (The delay resulted because Alberta dragged its feet awhile before adopting a Provincial Coat of Arms.  This, of course, was the Canadian Red Ensign through the Great War .....)

Needless to say, the crest was getting quite "cluttered" .... so, following WWI, steps were taken to design and adopt an official Canadian Coat of Arms, and it is the crest from that which thereafter has appeared on the Ensign.  The 1957 changes involved alteration of the symbol denoting Ireland to an Irish harp (from the rather incorrect Celtic harp previously used), and changing the colour of the three cojoined maple leaves (on a white field) from green to red - likely because the official colours of Canada had long been red and white .....

Ironically, such an arrangement of maple leaves does not occur naturally .... which is one reason why the present flag with its single leaf, won out over the proposals which retained the tri-leaf configuration .....

I would dearly love to acquire an affordable Ensign in one of the 19th Century configurations .... preferably the 1873 version, being the one in use at the time of the 1885 North West Rebellion, etc.  However, in fact the official flag flown in Canada during that time-frame was the second "Royal Union Flag" (ofter erroneously called the Union Jack .... which technically refers only to the version flown on a Naval vessel) and that is certainly an easy flag to acquire for re-enacting purposes; indeed, it hasn't changed since 1 January 1801!
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2008, 01:29:39 PM »
I have times where I get a little bit cranky about the direction of the Dominion, however be that as it may, I am still a patriotic git.  Either way though, I much prefer Old Red...its got a style and panache not matched by the current one.
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2008, 03:25:02 PM »
Welcome to Chinook Country, Russian.  Sorry to hear about your NWMP Carbine woes.
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2008, 05:20:35 PM »
Thank you Sir Charles, and no worries, I compensated by getting the Uberti '76  :D So the 'instant gratification' part of my personality is satisfied.  Will see how things come back from repair.

I don't think we have ever had the pleasure of shooting together, do you participate anywhere in AB Sir Charles?
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2008, 07:00:02 PM »
It looks like I too should be flying the 1922 version if we get to "own" the one in place when we were born... ;D  with maple leafs in summer green and the only version with the profile of a lady.  ;)

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2009, 11:53:42 AM »
Well;  Time does fly!  It is now our 142d anniversary of Confederation.  Slightly less for all but the first provinces.

Happy Dominion Day!
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2010, 06:16:10 PM »
My how time flies!  It is now the 143d anniversary of Dominion Day aka Canada Day.

The Queen is in Canada and our Governpr General is in China.

Most of us are at the Lake, or some such summery location, hoisting a few CANADIANs.

"Molson Canadian", that is! 
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2010, 10:52:13 PM »
 :D  Happy Dominion Day!!  :D

Just got an email from my daughter who is enjoying the day in Cupids, Newfoundland which is celebrating the 400th anniversary of that settlement. My great great great great grandfather settled there in the 1770's.

They would have been flying 'His Majesty's Jack' honouring King George III of the House of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain.   
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2010, 11:44:00 PM »
Happy Canada Day ...

Dominion Day sounds so .... intimidating.

 I find it intriquing that there is such a lively discussion regarding a rouge Naval Officer .... :-)

and highly laudable that this same thread has been used for what, three years running? 2008, 2009, and 2010!

I believe we can all attest to the Recycling efforts of our northern Brethern!

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2010, 12:35:36 AM »
Happy Canada Day to my neighbors North of the Border. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2010, 06:39:20 PM »
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Those who are no longer ignorant of History may relive it,
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With apologies to George Santayana & W. S. Churchill

"As Mark Twain once put it, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2011, 09:20:14 AM »
Happy Dominion Day, Pards;

It is now the 144th anniversary of Confederation. A milestone in the realization of The Canadian Dream. Last week, June 24, 1497 St. John The Baptist's Day) was the 514th anniversary of John Cabots landing on Canada's shore.

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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2011, 10:36:48 AM »
As a s'kid, I grew up singing "The Maple Leaf Forever"; alas, too politically incorrect for today. I remember being opposed to retention of the Red Ensign at the time of the debate. I was too nationalistic at the time. The position of the Legion was that it was the flag flying over all the Canadians buried in foreign soil.
As a serving soldier, I was torn ..... now another generation of Canucks comes home draped in the Maple Leaf ....... ;>(

At any rate - God continue to guide us and may we be an icon amongst nations for just laws, fair courts and rational politicians who can see beyond the next election. If not, may we see the resurrection of Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont and other 'patriots'. Their spirit still abides and will - as long as we own the guns!
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Re: Canada Day (fka "Dominion Day") Greetings
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2011, 03:44:18 PM »
Heartfelt "Period Correct" Dominion Day Greetings ....





.... from one who was "playing the part" just last weekend ....

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