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Old 07-01-2005, 06:49 AM
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Happy Canada Day!

To all my Greek sisters and brothers who live in Canada, or are adopted Canadians...happy Canada Day to you, eh?
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Old 07-01-2005, 09:03 AM
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Old 07-02-2005, 01:01 AM
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Happy Canada Day to my favorite Canadian, eh.
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Old 07-03-2005, 03:31 PM
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Old 07-03-2005, 09:38 PM
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I celebrated my first St. Jean Baptiste Day and Canada Day recently. It is gorgeous here!!!! So much different than SOuth Texas!!!
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Old 07-04-2005, 12:13 AM
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When we lived in Detroit, there was a "Freedom Festival" at Hart Plaza on the riverfront every weekend in the summer.

To me, the greatest one was the co-celebration of July 4 and "Canada Day."

(Although I'm not sure it was called "Canada Day" back then.) Maybe "Dominion Day," or is that another time?
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Old 07-04-2005, 01:13 AM
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Canada stopped being a Dominion in 1967, but the official "Canada Day" designation wasn't used until 1982.
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Old 07-04-2005, 09:44 AM
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When we lived in Detroit, there was a "Freedom Festival" at Hart Plaza on the riverfront every weekend in the summer.

To me, the greatest one was the co-celebration of July 4 and "Canada Day."

(Although I'm not sure it was called "Canada Day" back then.) Maybe "Dominion Day," or is that another time?
The International Freedom Festival still exists at Hart Plaza. It wasn't every weekend though. Th IFF is for about a week, around Canada Day and the 4th. The joint fireworks show is more amazing every year. The other festivals occurred each week.. there would be an Italian festival, a HoeDown (country music), a Jazz fesitval, a Polish festival, etc. Although I know the IFF still happens, you don't hear much about the others, except the Jazz festival. We used to go to all of them when I was a kid. Now I need to research if these others still happen!
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Old 07-04-2005, 10:39 AM
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I celebrated my first St. Jean Baptiste Day and Canada Day recently. It is gorgeous here!!!! So much different than SOuth Texas!!!
St. Jean Baptiste Day is only celbrated in Quebec. And as much as I dislike Quebec, I'll have to agree, Montreal is the oldest city in Canada and also one of the most beautiful cities in Canada.
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Old 07-04-2005, 04:05 PM
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St. Jean Baptiste Day is only celbrated in Quebec. And as much as I dislike Quebec, I'll have to agree, Montreal is the oldest city in Canada and also one of the most beautiful cities in Canada.
Montreal is one of the oldest cities in Canada... officially I think Quebec City currently has that claim - although St. John's Newfoundland is arguing that (they say they are about 100 years older).
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Old 07-04-2005, 04:36 PM
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Montreal is one of the oldest cities in Canada... officially I think Quebec City currently has that claim - although St. John's Newfoundland is arguing that (they say they are about 100 years older).
I stand corrected.

Montreal was founded in 1642, Quebec City in 1608.
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Old 07-04-2005, 04:51 PM
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St. Jean Baptiste Day is only celbrated in Quebec.
I'd like to add that St. Jean-Baptiste is only a holiday in Québec. It is celebrated in most Francophone communities, like Windsor, Sudbury, Pointes-aux-roches, etc.

It's pretty much Québec's "make-up" since they don't have a civic holiday in August.

I love Montréal - def need to get back there some time!
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Old 07-04-2005, 04:56 PM
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I'd like to add that St. Jean-Baptiste is only a holiday in Québec. It is celebrated in most Francophone communities, like Windsor, Sudbury, Pointes-aux-roches, etc....

I stand corrected again. Perhaps I should just shutup.

I didn't realize there was a large French community in Windsor.

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Old 07-04-2005, 05:02 PM
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I stand corrected again. Perhaps I should just shutup.

I didn't realize there was a large French community in Windsor.
Oh no, don't shut up you weren't wrong - I was just adding info

Windsor used to be a lot more French. But yup it's still got some frenchies, as proven by my family reunion yesterday with all the descendants of my great-great-grandparents (French Catholics who had 14 children!)
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Old 07-04-2005, 05:10 PM
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Montreal is one of the oldest cities in Canada... officially I think Quebec City currently has that claim - although St. John's Newfoundland is arguing that (they say they are about 100 years older).
I think Halifax is no Spring Chicken either, although I have no idea when it was founded and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Universite Laval (in Quebec City...well technically Ste. Foy) is the oldest university in Canada...Harvard (another oldster) only has a headstart on it, by something like 70 years. Again...too lazy to look up and confirm the details/facts.
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