July 1 is Canada Day!

[musher0]

Hello everyone.

Today is Canada Day. It's our 150th Anniversary.



We're having fun! Wish you were here! Since you can't:
41 Weird Facts That Prove Canada Is A LOT More Interesting Than Previously Thought.

Have a great Canada Day!

[Terry H]

Happy Canada Day musher0 and all other Canadians. Hope you're enjoying the celebrations (and staying dry).

[Eathray]

Happy Canada Day to my northern neighbors!

I am going to BBQ and drink some brew in your honor. Have a great holiday.

P.S.
You folks have been pretty good neighbors over the years. I really don't remember us having too many troubles at all.

[musher0]

Thanks guys!

[bigpup]

And it is not winter!

[rockedge]

Great country...nice people...good neighbors...Happy Canada Day...eh!!

[musher0]

Thanks again, guys!

[anticapitalista]

To those that posted about 'good neighbors' sic

Is the implication that Mexico is not a good neighbour?

[Terry H]

To those that posted about 'good neighbors' sic

Is the implication that Mexico is not a good neighbour?

I sincerely hope that using Canada's celebration to denigrate Mexico wasn't the posters intent.

[musher0]

@anticapitalista

The only land border Canada has with another country is with the USA.

After that, Canada's closest "neighbours", if we can call them that, are
Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Russia, across the Arctic Ocean.

Have a great day!

[Pelo]

With France too ! nos marins partis pêcher la Morue avaient un pied à terre à Saint Pierre.

[bigpup]

To those that posted about 'good neighbors' sic

Is the implication that Mexico is not a good neighbor?

You really felt this was the place to make that statement?
Another, lets make something negative about everything, and always look for the negative!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[musher0]

With France too ! nos marins partis pêcher la Morue avaient un pied à terre à Saint Pierre.

True. I had forgotten that the tiny French island, pardon, archipelago, of
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is off the coast of our province of NewFoundLand-
and-Labrador.

But it's not a land border.

I'm not providing a map because
1) well, it's not technically Canada (Canadians can be bastards, too!)
2) this group of islands is so small you need a microscope to see it
( a magifying glass won't do )
and
3) I can attach neither.
(Flash still hasn't provided that tongue-in-cheek icon, eh?)

[anticapitalista]

@anticapitalista

The only land border Canada has with another country is with the USA.

After that, Canada's closest "neighbours", if we can call them that, are
Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Russia, across the Arctic Ocean.

Have a great day!

I know. The USA has 2 (border) 'neighbours'.

[musher0]

@anticapitalista

The only land border Canada has with another country is with the USA.

After that, Canada's closest "neighbours", if we can call them that, are
Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Russia, across the Arctic Ocean.

Have a great day!

I know. The USA has 2 (border) 'neighbours'.

We have 4 'neighbours' (Canadian spelling, y'know!),
not 3, but 4, as pelo just pointed out.

So we're friendlier! I'm inviting you to come and see for yourself!

BFN.

[musher0]

And before anybody picks it up:

yes Canadians can be friendly and bastards.

Great mystery, that!

[Moose On The Loose]

With France too ! nos marins partis pêcher la Morue avaient un pied à terre à Saint Pierre.

True. I had forgotten that the tiny French island, pardon, archipelago, of
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is off the coast of our province of NewFoundLand-
and-Labrador.

But it's not a land border.

I'm not providing a map because
1) well, it's not technically Canada (Canadians can be bastards, too!)
2) this group of islands is so small you need a microscope to see it
( a magifying glass won't do )
and
3) I can attach neither.
(Flash still hasn't provided that tongue-in-cheek icon, eh?)

During WW2, a hospital room in Toronto Canada was made part of England in case a member of the royal family got born there. Given how people often forget about weird old laws, it may well be still true so that would be another border Canada has.
I got to use a bit of trivia

[musher0]

Hi Moose.

Change that to Dutch, and we have... (drum roll)
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands !!!

Birth and Canada[edit]

The Princess was born in The Ottawa Hospital,[2] Ottawa, Ontario, as the family had been living in Canada since June 1940 after the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany. The maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital in which Princess Margriet was born was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government.[3][4] Making the maternity ward outside of the Canadian domain caused it to be unaffiliated with any jurisdiction and technically international territory. This was done to ensure that the newborn would derive her citizenship from her mother only, thus making her solely Dutch, which could be very important in the case that the child would have been a male, and as such, the heir of Princess Juliana.

It is a common misconception that the Canadian government declared the maternity ward to be Dutch territory. Since Dutch nationality law is based primarily on the principle of jus sanguinis it was not necessary to make the ward Dutch territory for the Princess to become a Dutch citizen. Since Canada followed the rule of jus soli, it was necessary for Canada to disclaim the territory temporarily so that the child would not become a Canadian citizen.

She was named after the marguerite, the flower worn during the war as a symbol of the resistance to Nazi Germany. (See also the book When Canada Was Home, the Story of Dutch Princess Margriet, by Albert VanderMey.)

Princess Margriet was christened at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, on 29 June 1943. Her godparents included Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the United States), Mary of Teck (Queen dowager of the United Kingdom), Princess Märtha of Sweden (Crown Princess of Norway), and Martine Roell (lady-in-waiting to Princess Juliana in Canada).[5]

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_ ... etherlands

The Ottawa Spring Tulip Festival is still held each year in her honor.

[perdido]

My vision of Canada Day would have to include some duct tape, a couple hosers and a mountie. And hockey!
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