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Tag: I am Canadian
Happy National Aboriginal Day
Today marks the 20th anniversary of National Aboriginal Day, which was first established in 1996 by the governor general at the time, Romeo LeBlanc. National Aboriginal Day is held every year on June 21 to coincide with the summer solstice, a day that holds cultural significance in many aboriginal cultures.
The day also falls at a time of year when many First Nations, Inuit and Metis people celebrate their heritage.
National Aboriginal Day is meant not only to acknowledge Canada’s First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, but to recognize their shared history – good and bad – with the rest of Canada.
Festival Québécois à Pully
Ça toffe!
Our home and native land
Original artist: Jennifer Adomeit
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Animal Symbols
BC: Spirit Bear
Alberta: Big Horn Sheep
Saskatchewan: White-Tailed Deer
Manitoba: Bison
Ontario: Common Loon
Quebec: Snowy Owl
New Brunswick: Black Capped Chickadee
Nova Scotia: Osprey
Prince Edward Island: Blue Jay
Newfoundland: Caribou (the islands are represented by a salmon tail)
Yukon: Raven
Northwest Territories: Polar Bear
Nunavut: Canadian Inuit Dog
Canada, ya done good
This’ll be a good step forward to restoring your international credibility.
Bye bye, Canada
Vacation’s over. Time to get back to reality, the normal routine. We had a great time, better honestly that I had expected. A huge thank you to my family, who hosted the Bean on sleepovers, so that Katy and I could have some date time. A huge thank you to my wifey, who entertained the Bean while I got my shiny new tattoo.
Now it’s time to pay the bills :D
Happy (belated) Canada day
It’s been over 10 years since I had the 1st of July off ☺
Happy naked Canada day
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Sunday morning breakfast
Buttermilk pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon… all smothered in maple syrup (the good shit, too!)
In Flanders Fields
A statue honouring “In Flanders Fields” poet and Guelph, Ontario native son Lieut.-Col. John McCrae was unveiled today in Ottawa to mark the 100th anniversary of the poem. It was written on May 3, 1915 amid the plethora of poppies and graves that sprouted after the Second Battle of Ypres near Flanders, Belgium.
Lest We Forget.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.