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irisblue

(32,829 posts)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 10:03 AM Jul 2020

Happy Birthday Canada





Canada Day Wiki--Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, 1867 (then called the British North America Act, 1867), which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada"
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Happy Birthday Canada (Original Post) irisblue Jul 2020 OP
O' Canada! roamer65 Jul 2020 #1
Wish I could live there. femmocrat Jul 2020 #2
Happy Birthday bdamomma Jul 2020 #3
No celebrations': Indigenous communities, leaders share Canada Day frustrations Beringia Jul 2020 #4
Canadian National Anthem - Happy Canada Day Submariner Jul 2020 #5
Hahaha, Hold my beer! Bev54 Jul 2020 #7
We'll still be seeing fireworks anyways!!! donkeypoofed Jul 2020 #6
Am flying their flag with pride........ a kennedy Jul 2020 #8
I love Canada!💙 Cha Jul 2020 #9
If the election is stolen I may be an emigre to Canada. SoonerPride Jul 2020 #10

Beringia

(4,314 posts)
4. No celebrations': Indigenous communities, leaders share Canada Day frustrations
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 10:55 AM
Jul 2020

(Other voices on Canada Day)


https://cfjctoday.com/2020/06/30/no-celebrations-indigenous-communities-leaders-share-canada-day-frustrations/

VANCOUVER — Jess Housty can’t remember the last time Canada Day was celebrated in the Heiltsuk Nation.

Housty lives in the coastal B.C. town of Bella Bella where the Heiltsuk Nation is known for its efforts to help conserve and protect the Great Bear Rainforest.

“I can recall a lot of celebrations here, we’re a community that loves to come together and celebrate things but Canada Day is not one of those things I remember bringing the community together,” she said in an interview.

Canada Day comes this year as Indigenous Peoples absorb reports of confrontations between the police and Aboriginal people, as well as accusations of systemic racism in British Columbia’s health-care system.


Chief Judith Wilson of the Neskonlith Indian Band said she views Canada Day as a chance to better educate others, explaining how she helped organize a skit depicting the writing of a letter in 1910 from Indigenous chiefs to Canada’s seventh prime minister, Sir Wilfred Laurier.

The scene recreated the chiefs of the Secwepemc, Syilx and Nlaka’pamux peoples relaying grievances over their treatment by the federal government. Wilson presented the scene during Canada Day celebrations in Chase, B.C., to show the public the issues Indigenous people have faced.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
6. We'll still be seeing fireworks anyways!!!
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 11:25 AM
Jul 2020

And a virtual celebration online, as well.

We are so proud and lucky that viewership will be yuge.


We are 153 today and lookin' fine !!!!!

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