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Mrs. DeltAlum returned just today from Toronto.
When we lived in Detroit, it was really fun during the first week of July when Windsor and Detroit celebrated the Canadian/American Freedom Festival at the riverfront.
Question? Was Canada Day orginally called Dominion Day? I seem to remember that, but it was over twenty years ago.
In any event, I used to love to watch CBC's coverage -- especially one year when it was several hours long, and had segments from all over the country. Toward the end of the coverage, a Metropolitan Opera star (who I guess was named an honorary Canadian), sang Oh Canada on Parliament Hill with fireworks going off all around -- which I thought was a really neat finale -- until it was followed by a single piper playing Amazing Grace.
Amazing was a good word for it.
And I've loved Oh Canada since the first time I heard it! A great anthem!
Happy Birthday, Canada!
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Last edited by DeltAlum; 06-30-2003 at 11:30 PM.
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