On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, at 04:51 AM, Knarf wrote: > On July 1, 1867 the BNA Act (of the British Parliament) granted the > former colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia > limited independance: the Dominion of Canada was born. > > Until the 1960s our flag was the Red Ensign, a Union Jack on a red field > with the shield of Canada thereon. Even as a kid I thought it was > humiliating.
Living in a land where we still have that sort of humiliation, I envy you! > After considerable debate, in 1965 we adopted the current Red Maple Leaf > flag, which I thought as an eight year old, and still think now, is the > most beautiful flag in the world. I will admit to some bias in that > regard. > > Here in New Toronto we celebrate that anniversary and Canada Day with > this clever trompe d'oeille mural: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/07/fifty-for-flag-happy-canada-day.html?m=1 > > For all it's faults, Canada's a pretty damned good place to live. For all > my criticisms of it, this one day of the year I allow myself a bit of > patriotism. > Good for you! I hope to visit some day. We have friends who have only just returned - they had a great time. Happy Canada Day, guys. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- http://www.fastmail.com - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
