Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Jan 11th is a special birthday

It's not mine, but it's still special. Oddly, the only time that Canadians ever got his birthday off - IOW, a holiday - was 1967. We didn't have to go to school in the middle of a blizzard.

For anyone who doesn't recognize this guy, he was a Scottish immigrant who travelled with his family to Upper Canada (Ontario). Sadly, he decided to become a lawyer, and spoke funny, and to add insult to injury, became a politician (quelle surprise!). He was involved with the creation of a confederation, the Dominion of Canada.

Becoming a dominion changed the status of several regions of Canada. No longer would the colonies be called colonies - except by the British and most of the rest of the world. What was formerly Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada (Upper and Lower) became the Dominion of Canada.

The original four provinces were Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. Others joined, with the latest territory, Nunavut, in 1999. Nunavut separated from the North West Territories in a bloodless, peaceful maneuver which means, as of 2011, we now have 10 provinces and three territories.


It's ma birthday!

Here's the late Stompin' Tom Connors and K.D. Lang singing another Canada song called...CANADA (quelle surprise, encore...) And yes, this song is an embarrassment to us.