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Rainfire -> OH CANADA! (Happy Canada Day!) (7/1/2009 5:54:59 AM)
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Here's wishing everyone a happy Canada Day wherever you are. I'll be sure to enjoy a beer for ya. [sm=chug.gif]
And in case anyone is curious, here's what Canada Day is officially about:
Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act of 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.
Commemoration Frequently referred to as "Canada Day" particularly in the popular press,[1][2] the occasion marks the joining of the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867. However, though Canada is regarded as having become a dominion in its own right on that date,[3] the British Parliament at first kept limited rights of political control over the new country, which were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were ended in 1982, when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution. Canada Day thus differs from Independence Day celebrations in some other countries in that it does not commemorate a militant assertion of political self-determination, but rather recognizes one of the major milestones of the long and peaceful political process which formed the modern nation of Canada.
(Yep, this is one of the biggie holidays here, I can hear the neighbours already...) [8|]
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