Happy Canada Day!

[RACooper]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
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.

1660 something... founded as a seminary by Bishop Laval... just finished attending a seminar on the history on education in Canada today...

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by AGDee
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!

Oh yeah. That's the way it was back then, too. I just didn't explain myself very well.

[neonsparkles]

I actually just got back from Windsor last night and I was surprised at how many of the signs, drinks, etc had English and French. It was actually nice though because I realized I actually retained some of my high school french.

And for my first ever visit to Canada I just have to mention how clean everything was! Even the rundown alleys and strip clubs we saw seemed to be cleaner then some I have seen here in America. My only complaint was the people who tried to rip us off on the conversion rate when we used American money... but I guess that was our own fault for not exchanging our money right away.

[MooseGirl]

Originally posted by neonsparkles
I actually just got back from Windsor last night and I was surprised at how many of the signs, drinks, etc had English and French. It was actually nice though because I realized I actually retained some of my high school french.

And for my first ever visit to Canada I just have to mention how clean everything was! Even the rundown alleys and strip clubs we saw seemed to be cleaner then some I have seen here in America. My only complaint was the people who tried to rip us off on the conversion rate when we used American money... but I guess that was our own fault for not exchanging our money right away.

I was in Windsor on teh weekend too. my hometown Yeah, the stores will totally rip you off with the exchange.
most food labels and any "federal" signs have to be bilingual - it's the law.

[AGDee]

Originally posted by neonsparkles
I actually just got back from Windsor last night and I was surprised at how many of the signs, drinks, etc had English and French. It was actually nice though because I realized I actually retained some of my high school french.

And for my first ever visit to Canada I just have to mention how clean everything was! Even the rundown alleys and strip clubs we saw seemed to be cleaner then some I have seen here in America. My only complaint was the people who tried to rip us off on the conversion rate when we used American money... but I guess that was our own fault for not exchanging our money right away.

I went to a Chinese restaurant in Windsor and was quite surprised to see that the fortune in my fortune cookie was in French! I turned it over and there it was in English. I teased my Windsor friends later about taking me to a French Chinese restaurant!