Happy Canada Day to my friends up north! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > On July 1, 1867 the BNA Act (of the British Parliament) granted the former > colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia limited > independance: the Dominion of Canada was born. > > Until the 1960s our flag was the Red Ensign, a Union Jack on a red field with > the shield of Canada thereon. Even as a kid I thought it was humiliating. > > After considerable debate, in 1965 we adopted the current Red Maple Leaf > flag, which I thought as an eight year old, and still think now, is the most > beautiful flag in the world. I will admit to some bias in that regard. > > Here in New Toronto we celebrate that anniversary and Canada Day with this > clever trompe d'oeille mural: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/07/fifty-for-flag-happy-canada-day.html?m=1 > > For all it's faults, Canada's a pretty damned good place to live. For all my > criticisms of it, this one day of the year I allow myself a bit of patriotism. > > Happy Canada Day! > > Taken with phone cam, processed and posted from phone. Hope you enjoy. > Comments welcome. > > Cheers, > > frank > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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