Happy Canada Day to all you model railroaders from Victoria BC and it is a beautiful sunny day here.
Happy 141st Canada, from Edmonton, AB.
Sid
Yes indeed, a happy Canada Day from sunny and warm Victoria, BC.
Polecat, you going down to see the fireworks tonight?
Happy Canada Day to all you Canadians, from Arizona. A year ago, I was riding my bike at Whistler B. C. Bruce
Sorry I don't know the words to "Oh Canada." I'm good at "God Save the Queen," though. ;D
Gene
If you wanted to sing God Save The Queen we would stop what we were doing to listen.
Don :)
Happy Canada Day, from Colorful Colorado. At 7,000 feet elevation where I live, it is now a comfortable 50 degrees.
My last trip to Canada was over 40 years ago but I remember one incident quite well. One of my associates asked a waitress at a roadside diner near Ottawa: "Hey honey, how about some basted eggs?" She waved a spatula in his face and said "I'll baste you honey". She was laughing all the while, as the guy was already "basted" from a party on the US side. (I was the designated driver).
Yep, a very happy Canada Day to all Canucks from a fellow Commonwealth country (other side of the equator though) :)
Steve
Happy Canada Day!! ;D
I'm on the way back to N.B. on the 10th from Mass. :-*
Let July 1st be Canadian Railroads day as well. Happy day to yesterday! That's when I remodeled my friend's layout, that 7.0 grade was just terrible!
Quote from: SteamGene on July 01, 2008, 08:32:59 PM
Sorry I don't know the words to "Oh Canada." I'm good at "God Save the Queen," though. ;D
Gene
It's OK Gene, most Canadians don't know the words either. :)
They do know the Star Spangled Banner though.
Ah, yes, Dominion Day, 7-1-1867
Here are some other important Canadian dates. Can(ada) you ID them?
1-1-1922
12-1-1922
4-15-1923
5-1-1924
1-1-1947
(My mom was raised in AB)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
A few years ago my wife & I took a Cruise to Canada over the canada day weekend. We got off the ship to shop & sight see, many shops were closed but the ones that stayed open for us made out like bandits.
I also remember when the ship went to leave a Kilt laden man playing
Amazing Grace on the bag pipes. That was the coolest rendition of one of my favorite songs I've ever heard.
Barry
I listened to my new Lenoard Cohen CD today (the recent Capitol release of his 1967 debut album) in hono(u)r of it. I guess I could run up to the Publix and get a Coffe Crisp bar too, so happy that someone has them in Nashville, TN now!
Greetings.
I remember having my first Cadbury Caramello bar while visiting my AB cousins in the 1960's. My taste buds thought they'd died and gone to heaven. A flavor to look forward to every time we'd visit.
Decades later, it became available in the US. A bike ride to the local Fast Fuel & Fajitas vs. a 1500 mile trip for "a taste of Canada".
Unfortunately, we don't get up there quite as often now with the high fuel prices.
Hmm. No answers yet on my Canadain trivia questions? C'mon, Canucks...
(Hint: Actual Canadian historical dates....not my Aunts' and Uncles' birthdays...)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
They do know the Star Spangled Banner though.
All five verses, Roger? Including the violently anti-British one? :D
Gene
Another clue:
Here are some other important Canadian dates. Can(ada) you ID them?
1-1-1922
12-1-1922
4-15-1923
5-1-1924
1-1-1947
Hint #1: Actual Canadian historical dates - not a joke.
Hint #2: All dates have the same thing in common.
Quote from: Joe Satnik on July 04, 2008, 11:31:34 AM
Another clue:
Here are some other important Canadian dates. Can(ada) you ID them?
1-1-1922
12-1-1922
4-15-1923
5-1-1924
1-1-1947
Hint #1: Actual Canadian historical dates - not a joke.
Hint #2: All dates have the same thing in common.
Jan. 01, 1922 Drivers in BC stopped driving on the left and started driving on the right.
Apr. 15, 1923 drivers in Nove Scoria started driving on the right.
May 01, 1924 May Day becomes a holiday in Canada?
Jan. 1, 1947, the Canadian Citizenship Act came into effect and Canadians finally became "Canadian citizens" rather than British Citizens living in Canada.
I thought Canadians and British were still "subjects."
Happy Fourth of July!
Gene
"I thought Canadians and British were still "subjects."
Happy Fourth of July!
Gene"
Canadian and Brits are still "subjects" because Canada is a Consitutional Monarchy, with the Queen as Head of State.
However, prior to Jan. 01, 1947 all Canadians were British Citizens not Canadian Citizens. That's the difference.
Hint 2: All dates have the same thing in common.
Good going Roger, right hand side of the road driving was what I was looking for.
1-1-1922 correct. (BC)
4-15-1923 correct (NS)
Continue, please.
These dates are very important because these provinces became "independent" from British rule: British Left Hand "Rule of the Road", that is.
Hint 3: One of the dates corresponds to a "not quite yet a" province.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Newfoundland became a province of Canada
Don
Thanks, Don for your input.
Just to close this out, I'll match the rest of the dates and provinces. I dug around Google for this info. I found all 5 provinces named at one site, but not all the dates.
The Provinces in the middle of Canada were already right hand side of the road, as much business/travel was with the US. The coastal provinces remained with the British "left hand rule" until the following dates:
Jan. 1, 1922 -- Britsh Columbia
Dec. 1, 1922 -- New Brunswick
Apr. 15, 1923 -- Nova Scotia
May 1, 1924 -- Prince Edward Island
Jan. 1, 1947 -- Newfoundland (became province in 1949)
Here is an interesting read - "The Year of Free Beef"
http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html (http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html)
Scroll a little more than 1/3 of the way down the page.
"The Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (1949)"
(Start Quote)
Article 9(1) of the United Nations' Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (1949)[21] requires each country to have a uniform direction of traffic, i.e. each country may have either left-hand traffic or right-hand traffic, but not both. The exact wording of the article is:
" All vehicular traffic proceeding in the same direction on any road shall keep to the same side of the road, which shall be uniform in each country for all roads. Domestic regulations concerning one-way traffic shall not be affected. "
Before that, a country could have different rules in different parts, for example Canada until the 1920s.
(End Quote)
This from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_on_the_left_or_right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_on_the_left_or_right)
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Quote from: Joe Satnik on July 02, 2008, 05:58:27 PM
Ah, yes, Dominion Day, 7-1-1867
Here are some other important Canadian dates. Can(ada) you ID them?
1-1-1922
12-1-1922
4-15-1923
5-1-1924
1-1-1947
(My mom was raised in AB)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
The first date has no data for any inportant Canadian events in History, according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_in_Canada
Neither the second.
Quote from: Santa Fe buff on July 08, 2008, 05:51:38 PM
Quote from: Joe Satnik on July 02, 2008, 05:58:27 PM
Ah, yes, Dominion Day, 7-1-1867
Here are some other important Canadian dates. Can(ada) you ID them?
1-1-1922
12-1-1922
4-15-1923
5-1-1924
1-1-1947
(My mom was raised in AB)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
The first date has no data for any inportant Canadian events in History, according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_in_Canada
Neither the second.
Santa Fe
Read the posting prior to yours
Dear Santa Fe,
Sometimes you have to dig (Google) a little deeper to find the treasure (answers)...
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik