Happy Independence Day, you Yanks!
 

To all our 'murricun friends here, have a great day! You've earned it over the two and a quarter centuries of a remarkable socio-political evolution.

:cheers:

Smae here ...
 

Hey Neighbors,

Enjoy your Day ... and may you keep on evolving ...

:smoker: :cheers: :drunk:

Re: Smae here ...
 

... and that goes for you to MA :yappy: ...... :p




..I just couldn't resist..... :devil: .......................:D

Re: Re: Smae here ...
 

:idea: Gotta think about you awhile HBMO ... :smoker: :idea: :yappy:

Thanks to all in the Snowy North
 

As one whose roots go deep in the US, and as someone who tries to teach our history to the occasionally unwilling, I am pleased when our achievements are recognized, as our media seems to have an entirely different focus.

One of my great-great-grandfathers came from Lundy's Lane where he was for forty-one years caretaker of the Drummond Hill cemetery. He crossed into New York to enlist in the Union Army in the Civil War. He returned and died and was buried there.

I tell my students that an important foundation of Canadian history was made by the United Empire Loyalists, so we are closer than some might want us to be.

You seem to have celebrated Dominion Day on the 1st, haven't you? I lift my mug to you.

Bob Potter:cheers:

Re: Thanks to all in the Snowy North
 

We did indeed, Mr. Potter, so the offering is returned in kind.

:drunk:

My father's side (on his father's side) came up to Ontario from New York state in 1786, so I doubly appreciate your reference to the UEL! We are indeed more closely related than our poiliticised media would have us believe. I celebrate both our shared backgrounds and our differences.

Have a very good day, my friend.

Re: Re: Smae here ...
 

My Dearest Grampa Hairy-Beast ... I sincerely think that we BOTH are in need of an EVOLUTION-REVOLUTION :confused: ??? :devil: :D

Meanwhile, back to the point of the start of this thread, Independence Day and our own Canadian Dominion Day ... they both have meaning to me and my family ...

We've truly come a long way baby ... yet we're still ... "New" at being "country-s" if we can still remember how old we are :D

To my Southern neighbors and Relatives ... :cheers:

Karmen