Happy Canada Day!!

[WhiskeyGirl]

I just wanted to start another thread for us Canucks and say Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians on July 1st!!! Hope you have a safe and happy holiday!! :)


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Let the partying begin!!

[Jenn060306]

Happy Canada Day!

I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend!
Stay safe!!!

[MOB Karen]

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[cowboysbride]

Happy Canada Day
to all my
Canadian girls
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[countrygirl]

Happy Canada Day girls. I just learned that there was a canada day yesterday. Thanks Shawna.

[MOB Karen]

Happy Canada Day girls. I just learned that there was a canada day yesterday. Thanks Shawna.

I did too. What is Canada Day?

[countrygirl]

I did too. What is Canada Day?

Apparently it is thier version of our Independance Day. It's celebrated on July 1, I think she said.

[MOB Karen]

Apparently it is thier version of our Independance Day. It's celebrated on July 1, I think she said.

Cool, I never knew that. See how educational it is to be a member of Onewed. LOL!!

[countrygirl]

Cool, I never knew that. See how educational it is to be a member of Onewed. LOL!!

Yep, and beeng that I groo up in the Az skool sistum, sumetymz I neeed sum edge-u-ma-kay-ting.

[CindySue]

Yep, and beeng that I groo up in the Az skool sistum, sumetymz I neeed sum edge-u-ma-kay-ting.
I will write letters like that sometimes.....it irritates the cr@p out of Brian!!!!

To Shawna, Shawna, Jenn and the new girls!
Happy Canada Day!!!!

[WhiskeyGirl]

I did too. What is Canada Day?

This is what I found to answer your question.

Canada Day celebrates the creation of the dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867, uniting three British territories — the Province of Canada (southern Ontario and southern Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick — into a federation. (See Canadian Confederation.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg/180px-Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg)
Canada Day on Wellington Street, in front of the Château Laurier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Laurier), in Ottawa


The holiday itself was formally established in 1879 and was originally called Dominion Day, making reference to the term "dominion," which was first used to describe a political union within the British Empire for Canada, at a time when the British government was hesitant to adopt the name proposed by the Fathers of Confederation: Kingdom of Canada. The name was changed to Canada Day on 27 October 1982, largely harking of the adoption of the earlier Canada Act 1982.
On Dominion Day 1923, the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 went into effect. Until the act was repealed in 1947, many Chinese-Canadians referred to July 1 as "Humiliation Day" and refused to celebrate Canada's birthday.
Quebec also has Moving Day on 1 July, due to the fact that most leases there begin and end on that day, with many people changing residences. Federalist Quebec residents who oppose the popular Sovreigntist campaign for an independent Québec joke that Moving Day is scheduled to ensure Quebecers are too busy moving house to celebrate Canada Day.

[MOB Karen]

This is what I found to answer your question.

Canada Day celebrates the creation of the dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867, uniting three British territories — the Province of Canada (southern Ontario and southern Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick — into a federation. (See Canadian Confederation.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg/180px-Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg)http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canada_Day_2000_Wellington.jpg)
Canada Day on Wellington Street, in front of the Château Laurier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Laurier), in Ottawa


The holiday itself was formally established in 1879 and was originally called Dominion Day, making reference to the term "dominion," which was first used to describe a political union within the British Empire for Canada, at a time when the British government was hesitant to adopt the name proposed by the Fathers of Confederation: Kingdom of Canada. The name was changed to Canada Day on 27 October 1982, largely harking of the adoption of the earlier Canada Act 1982.
On Dominion Day 1923, the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 went into effect. Until the act was repealed in 1947, many Chinese-Canadians referred to July 1 as "Humiliation Day" and refused to celebrate Canada's birthday.
Quebec also has Moving Day on 1 July, due to the fact that most leases there begin and end on that day, with many people changing residences. Federalist Quebec residents who oppose the popular Sovreigntist campaign for an independent Québec joke that Moving Day is scheduled to ensure Quebecers are too busy moving house to celebrate Canada Day.

Thanks for the info. Seems like Quebecers (sorry, don't know the official word), are kind of like rebels in Canada.

[WhiskeyGirl]

Thanks for the info. Seems like Quebecers (sorry, don't know the official word), are kind of like rebels in Canada.

Lol...ummm yes some of them! They have tried to seperate from canada on at least one occasion that comes to mind. But NOT all Quebecers are that way and some of them actually like Canada. I'm not completely sure what the whole story is as it happened when I was young and I didn't pay attention. (lol)