Happy Independence Day, you Yanks!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

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.

Hey Neighbors,

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

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
... and may you keep on evolving ...

... and that goes for you to MA ......




..I just couldn't resist..... .......................

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
... and that goes for you to MA ......
..I just couldn't resist..... .......................

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

[Bob Potter]

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

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

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

Bob Potter

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



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.

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
... and that goes for you to MA ......
..I just couldn't resist..... .......................

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

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

To my Southern neighbors and Relatives ...

Karmen