Happy Canada Day! Well captured!
Yonnie On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
