JerryR
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Well done Jim and Kerry When I come to Arlington I will just have had my 27th :mrgreen:
john_kidder said:The parts that came together in 1867 were separate once-colonies called Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Together, they became Canada, although officially it was still called British North America, to distinguish it from the other part. British Columbia joined in 1871, after being promised a railway from the east. The prairie provinces came along in 1905, and Newfoundland in 1949.
July 1 was Confederation Day for years after the original colonies came together in 1867, then changed to Dominion Day when Canada shed the last legal ties to the British government in 1931 or so and became a "dominion" (from [I think?] Ecclesiastes "and he shall have dominion . . . ", and then changed to Canada Day in 1983 when we wrote our own Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms to replace the, guess what, "British North America" Act of 1867.
So Happy Confederation/Dominion/Canada Day, dear Canada.
zplay said:brings to mind all of the great singer-songwriters that have hailed from up there.
Name the week - anytime other than Labour Day (around 30 other musicians gang up here around then) or the weekend of July 12 - local working cowboy competition. Other than that, I'd be just delighted.taabru45 said:a warm friendly and polite invitation to everybody on this board for a week long visit . . . perhaps John Kidders spread in Ashcroft. Wouldn't that be a party?!
Actually, just little old British Columbia all by itself is bigger than Texas. Canada is mostly, as my old man used to say, miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.taabru45 said:Canada is ....even bigger than Texas.
john_kidder said:Canada is mostly, as my old man used to say, miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.
john_kidder said:Name the week - anytime other than Labour Day (around 30 other musicians gang up here around then) or the weekend of July 12 - local working cowboy competition. Other than that, I'd be just delighted.