Happy Canada Day!!!
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Canada Day: a day celebrating a country so innovative that it created a day called Canada Day.
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
Happy Canada Day! I spent last year's Canada Day in Canada drinking Canada Dry Ginger Ale. It was pretty cool.
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Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Happy moving day!
No, wait, that's the wrong one...
(Happy Canada day all!)
No, wait, that's the wrong one...
(Happy Canada day all!)
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Well. It originates from the seigneurial period, when seigneurs (lords) had the power to evict farmers whenever they wanted. To combat eviction that would leave families destitute and in teh snow, the lords were banned from evicting families before the snow had melted. This was written into law, and the law evolved to cover rental leases, with a lease term for yearly lease starting on May 1st.
Later on, because this meant all the kids in the province moving in the middle of school year, we abolished the mandatory term for yearly leases, but also lengthened all lease for that year two months to put the end term out of school year territory.
The reason people have kept with the old lease is just plain simplicity. Tennants and landlord who had yearly lease going that ended on July 1st renewed them for another years. Because so many leases were ending then, this is also the time of the year when both offer and demand reached peaks, so lots of new leases were signed to start on July 1st because, that was when people (whose old lease had ended on July 1st) needed new ones.
And while there is an increasing number of people with yearly leases that begin or end on another date, the cycle has gone on and on - July 1st is when both offer (due to people leaving their old places at the end of their lease) and demand (due to people having left their old places needing new ones) are at their highest, so naturally the time of the year when most leases tend to be signed.
All joking about moving day aside, though, to me, I've never done moving day on July 1st, and I've celebrated Canada day a few times, mostly while in Ottawa (which I'm not this year). But mostly, for me, July 1st is the day before my birthday
Later on, because this meant all the kids in the province moving in the middle of school year, we abolished the mandatory term for yearly leases, but also lengthened all lease for that year two months to put the end term out of school year territory.
The reason people have kept with the old lease is just plain simplicity. Tennants and landlord who had yearly lease going that ended on July 1st renewed them for another years. Because so many leases were ending then, this is also the time of the year when both offer and demand reached peaks, so lots of new leases were signed to start on July 1st because, that was when people (whose old lease had ended on July 1st) needed new ones.
And while there is an increasing number of people with yearly leases that begin or end on another date, the cycle has gone on and on - July 1st is when both offer (due to people leaving their old places at the end of their lease) and demand (due to people having left their old places needing new ones) are at their highest, so naturally the time of the year when most leases tend to be signed.
All joking about moving day aside, though, to me, I've never done moving day on July 1st, and I've celebrated Canada day a few times, mostly while in Ottawa (which I'm not this year). But mostly, for me, July 1st is the day before my birthday
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Bonne fête, Canada! Hope your blue spell clears up soon so you can get back to Peace, Order, and Good Government. 
P.S. Happy Birthday Kan'! I coulda made a separate thread, but I'm on to your liaisons with Captain2..!
P.S. Happy Birthday Kan'! I coulda made a separate thread, but I'm on to your liaisons with Captain2..!
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Happy Canada day!
I spent the long weekend in a cottage on Lake Huron, with 2 other friends, drinking beers, playing Cards against Humanity, eating bbq, relaxing on the beach, reading, tanning, etc.
It was a nice break from the same old.. but by the end of it all, we were too lazied out to head down to the beach (a 3 minute climb down a bunch of stairs) to see the fireworks last night. Ah well! Happy Canada day!.. that was
I spent the long weekend in a cottage on Lake Huron, with 2 other friends, drinking beers, playing Cards against Humanity, eating bbq, relaxing on the beach, reading, tanning, etc.
It was a nice break from the same old.. but by the end of it all, we were too lazied out to head down to the beach (a 3 minute climb down a bunch of stairs) to see the fireworks last night. Ah well! Happy Canada day!.. that was
Did you happen to catch the flap about the Best Buy flyers? The Quebec version did not go down well in English Canada at all.
Anyway, belated thanks to the OP. I did nothing to celebrate, other than indulging in a sugar cookie with red and white icing. We had a horrible heat wave here, which made it far too hot to consider doing anything but try to breathe and make sure the cats had enough water to drink.
Besides, the regular Folk Festival grounds are still being repaired after the flood, so normal celebrations didn't happen this year.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
I caught the flap, read the CBC article, and didn't I notice a suspiciously familiar avatar (and a user title referencing both Red Deer and cats) among the comments?
That avatar and user title being a huge part of why I came here to wish people happy moving day
(I can honestly say I've celebrated Canada Day more often than moving day in my lifetime!).
That avatar and user title being a huge part of why I came here to wish people happy moving day
(I can honestly say I've celebrated Canada Day more often than moving day in my lifetime!).
azzaman333
meh
Is it just me or does Canada Day sound pretty corny?
You found me out!I caught the flap, read the CBC article, and didn't I notice a suspiciously familiar avatar (and a user title referencing both Red Deer and cats) among the comments?
That avatar and user title being a huge part of why I came here to wish people happy moving day
(I can honestly say I've celebrated Canada Day more often than moving day in my lifetime!).
Yes, that was me.
And I was rather upset, since Canada Day is important to me. As more than a few commenters pointed out, we could just imagine the outrage if such a thing were to happen in the even-more-patriotic US.I don't often comment on the CBC boards since they're not very user-friendly (at least they wouldn't work for me without my having to use Internet Exploder instead of Firefox). But maybe with the changes they made recently, I'll post more.
(and you know I do try to remember to wish you Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day
)It used to be called Dominion Day, and a lot of the older seniors and more avid monarchists still call it that. I recall that it took me several years to get used to the change.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Yes, yes you do
TBH I don't think you're ever going to get Canada day as a huge patriotic fervor thing in Quebec. Not due to separatism, nor due to Moving Day - but simply due to the fact that outside the biggest cities with strong non-francophone population, the resources just aren't there to celebrate two major holidays one week apart, in francophone areas that have to pick one of the two, the St Jean is going to win 9 times out of 10, simply on account of having much deeper cultural and historical roots.
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