37 Replies to “Happy 146th Birthday, Canada!”

  1. I wonder where those Mounties who carried that flag in that ceremony are now.
    High River, Alberta, maybe?

  2. SDA readers, visitors & Posters to SDA this is … FYI
    For what it is worth on this Canada Day…. VICTORIA DAY or if you will,,,,DOMINION DAY ………
    I AM Joe Molnar my home is Woodstock, Ontario and TODAY Salute Catherine “Kate” McMillan and her “Small Dead Animals” conservative voiced BLOG as a “MIRACLE” in Canada!
    Having declared that FACT to the world, I am adding a TIM HORTONS franchised Coffee shop in Woodstock Norwich Avenue at the HWY #401 cutoff) owned by Leslie F, (last name withheld) to miracle status NOW1
    Leslie F, has in her possession 10 four leafed clovers (from my magic four leafed cloverpatch) encased in wallet sized laminated plastic and will give those to any person who quite simply ask Leslie for one.
    Leslie is a beautiful person and raises many thousands of dollars for local charities and a Hospice as a good corporate owner.
    So SDA readers, if you are travelling HWY 401 between Toronto and LOndon or Windsor/ Detroit, why not stop in at Norwich Avenue and get a wallet sized four leafed clOver encased in laminated plastic.
    And should you get a rare one with a “Saskatoon” berry leaf included, Then expect your SEX life to dramatically improve within hours!!
    Make today a Dominion Day truly unforgettable, TIM HORTONS HWY 401 A2 THE NORICH AVENUE CUTOFF!
    I AM
    JOE MOLNAR

  3. Happy Birthday to the fine neighbor north of the 49th parallel! Thank you for giving us, among others, Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot, Stephen Harper, and Kate McMillan!!

  4. God bless Canada and God bless the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, who fought and died for freedom at Beaumont-Hamel on this day in 1916.

  5. God bless Canada and God bless the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, who fought and died for freedom at Beaumont-Hamel on this day in 1916.

  7. Happy Canada Day and God bless SDA and Co.
    Many lonely nights….
    With Union thugs chasing me all over town, trying to pick fights.
    The RCMP finally caught a break in a case and went full on APB (all cars converge)
    A certain spoiled rich kid is going to feel very alone getting his hoop (poop pipe) stretched down south.
    Thanks for giving me the courage to “stick to my guns”
    Love.
    Dale Wright (aka dwright)

  10. Happy Dominion Day to the country that ended my grandfather’s 1926 Search For A Peaceful Land and my wife’s grandfather’s 1923 fresh safe start in Lost Dreams, New Beginnings.
    Thank you Canada!

  11. God bless Canada and God bless all of the men and women who risked or gave their lives in two great wars to keep our country strong and free. Oh yes, and let’s not forget great gratitude to all of our military men and women and their families who stand on guard for our freedoms!

  13. Happy Dominion Day to all and sundry! Get out and do something Canadian, if you are one you know what. to do
    Get out of that wet tent, put some McLean and McLean on the blaster (not too loud the campsite has noise restrictions) crack a locally made brew from the cooler, Spark up a Bandi Sweet cigar and foil-bake the pickerel you caught last night in the fire with some PEI home fires on the Coleman 😉
    PS – On our 100th birthday the CBC was busy playing the Bobby Gimby Canada song (he won some sort of media contest to win to achieve this honor) However at the same time (1967)there was another true Canadian Gentleman with a song to celebrate the country he loved and to which he had been in every province, territory and city on foot and rail. Stompin Tom’s Expo song –
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJnwXuXfiI

  14. Gordon Lightfoot’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy is a real antidote to Bobby Gimby’s sickeningly maudlin and unmusical CA-NA-DA. 1967, under PET, was the beginning of Canada’s treacherous slide into socialism and less-than-mediocrity.
    PM Harper and his government, God bless them, are doing everything in their power to turn this wreck around … but it takes time and lots and lots and lots of patience. They’re looking at the long game, not a whack of home runs in the first, second, or third innings.

  15. Happy dominion day to all my fellow canadian patriots! #albertastrong #yycfloods
    Thank you for the out pouring of help thoughts n prayers from across this country and yes even around the world!

  16. Dominion Day celebrations are on the way!
    Joe Molner, you live in the birthplace of a Great Canadian – Joseph W. Boyle – born, ironically, in 1867. Independent, Strong and Free describes Joe Boyle. Do you know of this incredible Canadian Man?
    http://www.woodstock.library.on.ca/index.php/articles-a-research/local-history/special-collections.html
    Joe Boyle knew Robert Service and I believe that Robert Service was speaking of Joe Boyle when he penned “The Law of The Yukon”
    http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-law-of-the-yukon/
    Dominion Day is a day to celebrate people of Joe’s ilk IMO. I cannot even imagine what would have happened to the Northwest Mounted Police had they attempted to grab Joe’s guns when the Yukon River flooded! Times change…still we have finally elected a fine PM and we have reason to celebrate, IMO. I will never call July 1st canada day since such a term is grammatically incorrect (and therefore an insult to the nation) and it reminds me of PM turdo who changed the name of our National holiday, Turdo did not choose to make Canada possessive in the name – he was stupid and illiterate or he was slurring Canada. Canada is a country, not a day.

  17. batb,in 1967,Canada still had L.B.Pearson as PM, Trudeau was elected the following Spring, so we can’t blame the treacly “Ca-na-duh” on Trudeau.
    Have a great Canada Day/Dominion Day if you prefer. It’s hot as hell here as the bikinis are out in force.

  18. Will hoist a drink or two, John A. MacDonald would approve…
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st St. Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  19. I am one proud Canadian Conservative that will NEVER refer to July 1 as Dominion Day. Why you ask? The reason is simple. Canada was founded as a Confederation. Confederation means that the Provinces got together and formed a pact of mutual benefit. They, the provinces, agreed to set up another layer of government that would serve them on the international stage and help resolve inter-provincial issues. Trudeau and his fellow travelers tried to usurp this arrangement by increasing Federal jurisdiction which led to the near break up of Canada. PM Harper has reversed that trend and Canada is now the top rated country in the world. What has this to do with Dominion? Well the idea that the Federal government has Dominion was held by Trudeau. The idea that Canada is made up of 10 provinces and 3 territories working together for mutual protection and benefit is PM Harper’s. I agree with PM Harper.

  20. Hi Joe,
    Actually, it has more to do with God’s Dominion and not any person or country.
    Leonard Tilley, one of the fathers, suggested ‘dominion’: (Psalm 72). ‘He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.’ The Fathers said it was intended to give dignity to the federation. Dominion is still in the 1982 Constitution and “Dominion of Canada” is still the official name.
    It is and was the Liberal elites and progressives that wanted to keep the French happy by distorting the meaning of Dominion. They wanted to remove the phoney thought that it was England having dominion over Canada.
    Thus, on Friday, July 9th, 1982, the lies of 13 Trudeau Liberals (8 short of a quorum) at 4:00 o’clock on the last day of Parliament before summer recess, assassinated Dominion Day.
    Therefore, Happy Dominion Day!

  21. “When I look around me, I can’t believe what I see – it seems as though this country has lost its will to live. The economy is lousy, we barely have an army, but we can still stand proudly… ’cause Canada’s really big.”

  23. don morris: ” … we can’t blame the treacly “Ca-na-duh” on Trudeau.”
    I actually wasn’t blaming CA-NA-DA on PET but was lumping both the Librano$’ socialist agenda for Canada and Gimby’s gawd-awful song together, both misfortunes for Canada! I did, however, get the year of PET’s ascendancy wrong, 🙁 , although he was in the wings in 1967! 😉

  24. My mother thought Trudeau was a homely guy with bad acne. That and a draft dodger to boot.

  26. A very nice hot Dominion day here in S. Central BC. Have finished my hospital rounds and now get to relax for the rest of the day. Trying to decide if I leave my air conditioned man cave and wander on down to the park which, unfortunately, doesn’t have any beer being sold there but usually has good bands on Dominion day. A civilized country should have cold beer available in parks whenever the temperature exceeds 90 F. Last 4th of July I spent in the US noticed that everyone was drinking beer in public but that doesn’t happen in Canada.

  27. Happy Dominion of Canada Day, everyone.
    Let’s all enjoy a drink and remind ourselves that despite Canada’s faults (ie- Trudeau), we still live in a beautiful land.
    And our stuff is here.

  28. Every July 1, Dominion Day, I drive 2 hours to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and participate in the annual 5K Moose Jawg road race. After the race the volunteers put on a wonderful breakfast and awards ceremony. What wonderful way to celebrate. I wouldn’t miss it. Saskatchewan is so green with all the rain and with a great economy finally.

  29. Lets pray this Nation lasts the next 47 years, to 200. As a free Nation of individuals continuing this grand tradition of Many types of democracy. Under one flag in 10 Provinces, plus three territories.
    God Bless Canada , past & future.

  30. Canada like Russia has a pretty good national anthem but both nations have changed the lyrics…..the Russians had good reason,(the end of communism) Canada not so much (the beginnings of communism).

  31. Let me stick my oar in about Bobby Gimby’s Ca-na-da song. In 1967 I was serving in the Canadian Army in northern Germany. Those days we had no direct connection with Canada except short wave for news or entertainment and our local radio station provided under contract by the CBC did its best (when the CBC still supported us) to be our contact with home other than mail.
    We had all heard of Expo and the contest to find a centennial song. The winner, selected by a committee, was some atrocious piece of crap that started with “Hey friend, Say Friend, Come on over” and then went downhill. I first heard Gimby’s work in a concert in May or June 1967. There were severan thousand Canucks, many of whom had no seen home in several years, at a concert featuring Gordie Tapp, Toomy Hunter, Ginette Reno and a large supporting cast. When they started “Ca-na-da’ we went nuts and everybody joined in singing. It may not have been great music, but it was all we had and we loved it.
    And on the personal side, as the most junior Captain in the First Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, I had the honour of commanding the saluting troop that fire the hundred gun salue in Fort York near Soest on July 1st 1967.

  32. I hope you all had a great Canada Day!
    Three cheers from Texas, the greatest state in the US.
    Also, my lovely Canadian girlfriend is on her trek down here, starting today. I can’t wait to see her.
    Cheers to all my good friends in the great country called Canada.
    The fool formerly known as Texas. 🙂

  33. Brian in Kemptville, I’m glad you like CA-NA-DA and can completely understand why it meant/means so much to you. Context is everything. Minus any other inspirational and patriotic song to mark our Centennial, I can understand why military personnel far away from home would like it.
    Pax! And, thank you for your service to Canada.

  35. I can only hope and pray that Canadians in the very near future will have the guts and common-sense that my parents’ generation did.
    Lord knows the ball has been dropped.

  36. Brian, good for you and thanks. Your comment made me recall 1967 in that I think I carried our regimental colors in a parade in some town in the Niagara area just about every week that summer. In Port Colburne it rained cats and dogs. Of course every parade was finished off with a cold one or two. We capped the summer with a Trooping of the Color in Ft. George. I also think I recall that the official Tattoo did a presentation in Ft. George.
    Seems like the other day. Sigh!

  37. Ken
    I got back to my hometown – Ridgeway, halfway between Fort Erie and Port Colborne – on about July 26th, but don’t recall any parades. Mind you, I was making up for lost time in the pubs in Crystal Beach before I headed west for Shilo at the end of August. I managed to see the Tattoo in the CNE stadium and to fit in a trip to Expo as well. Back then, the mood in the country was that we could do anything. Too bad the fools that did their best to turn us into dependents of the welfare state came into their own with one short year.

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