From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T01:58:20+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: It's that time of year again ...

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That's okay.  I am always happy to answer Canada questions to our American 
brothers.

Canada, like the US, used to be a British colony.  On July 1, 1867, four 
British colonies -- now the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick 
and Nova Scotia -- were unified into one country.

One cool thing about Canadian history is that it became a sovereign nation 
without having to have a war of independence.  It was done purely out of 
public will.

After July 1, 1867, the other British colonies started to join the 
Dominion one by one.  The 5th province to join was Manitoba, I think the 
6th was British Columbia.  The last province to join (Newfoundland) only 
did so 54 years ago (1949).  Canada is a young nation indeed.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:46:00AM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > Canada was born on July 1st.
> > Happy Birthday Canada!!
> 
> I saw that "Canada Day" on my calendar yesterday; what is it?  The
> anniversary of ... what, becoming a sovereign nation (what was it prior to
> that)?
> 
> 
> Apologies for my US-centric ignorance of our northern neighbors.
> 
> 

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