Happy Birthday Canada!

Lucretia Borgia

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Jul 1, 2020, 8:13:42 AM7/1/20

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This is has got to be the strangest birthday yet since 1967.
Certainly the strangest year for my province NS.

Bruce

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Jul 1, 2020, 8:17:47 AM7/1/20

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How old are you now, my child?

Gary

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Jul 1, 2020, 10:14:02 AM7/1/20

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Lucretia Borgia wrote:
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> This is has got to be the strangest birthday yet since 1967.
> Certainly the strangest year for my province NS.

Why is that?

Lucretia Borgia

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Jul 1, 2020, 12:29:26 PM7/1/20

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Since we came in 1967 it has always been a joyous day but Covid has
changed that this year.

My province suffered a mass murder (guy was completely out to lunch
and the police have many questions to answer as a neighbour reported
him for being brutal to his SO and having weapons piled up) Killed 23
before he was through.

Three NSians killed in the helicopter crash off Greece.

A woman pilot died when her 'plane crashed after a bird strike on
takeoff.

Ed Pawlowski

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Jul 1, 2020, 4:23:21 PM7/1/20

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Fun explanation of Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBs7J1pVFWs

dsi1

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Jul 1, 2020, 5:20:13 PM7/1/20

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Canadians are like people from an alternate universe that look like you or I. Well, they probably look more like you than I anyway. Hardie-har-har!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TcuPpgmoNo

Silvar Beitel

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Jul 1, 2020, 5:20:38 PM7/1/20

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On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 4:23:21 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> Fun explanation of Canada.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBs7J1pVFWs

That was great. Thanks.

--
Silvar Beitel
(honorary Canadian)

GM

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Jul 2, 2020, 11:03:47 AM7/2/20

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Lucretia Borgia wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:11:29 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:
>
> >Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> >>
> >> This is has got to be the strangest birthday yet since 1967.
> >> Certainly the strangest year for my province NS.
> >
> >Why is that?
>
> Since we came in 1967 it has always been a joyous day but Covid has
> changed that this year.

Ah, Canada in 1967, our family did a road trip to visit Expo '67, and then to Quebec City...great memories...!!!

--
Best
Greg

Ed Pawlowski

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Jul 2, 2020, 1:34:10 PM7/2/20

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We were there in 1966 and they were still building. It was ad-libbed
when our original plan did not work out. Lake George NY, Montreal,
Bangor Maine, Provincetown, MA.

I forget how much money I had, about $150, so we went $75 north and
turned around.

GM

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Jul 2, 2020, 2:03:45 PM7/2/20

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We bought a new '67 Plymouth Fury III sedan - with AIR CONDITIONING! - for the trip, medium green in color. Very snazzy to us, and it would be several years before we got a/c for the house...

An affluent couple my parents were friends with bought a new Chyrsler Imperial for their Expo '67 roadtrip and I remember my parents going on about how they spent an extravagent $600.00!!! for their trip, about $4700 in today's money...IIRC we budgeted $300 for ten days, a goodly sum then.

It was a fun trip, we returned from Canada down through Vermont and then west home...a stop at Niagara Falls, natch. Dad was anxious to get home to tend to his garden, so we drove straight through from Utica NY to home in Illinois...

The only bad thing was how appallingingly nasty the Québécois were to us when we'd stop and ask for directions, in one case they deliberately gave us the wrong directions...also at a Chinese resto outside of Montreal the owners charged us for rice with our modest chow mein meal, lol.

I was obssessed with the Soviet Union/communism at the time, and the biggest treat at Expo was visiting the Soviet Pavilion...I remembered armed guards atop the Cuban Pavilion (the Cubans had received threats to blow up the building), and the Czech Pavilion had enourmous lines to enter, so no Cuban and Czech "experiences"...taking the train/monorail around the grounds was great, too.

Ah, those old road trips...the new Interstates were making travel much easier, and to stay at a new Holiday Inn was a very cool thing to do, sheer luxury compared to some of the moldy old tourist cabins that were still about...

The graphics, etc. for the "Man And His World" Expo '67 were very modern, and 50+ years later they remain so. 1967 was Canada's centenary, and they introduced the new maple leaf flag...it was the grooviest thing in the world to be Canadian.

--
Best
Greg

Dave Smith

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Jul 2, 2020, 2:34:29 PM7/2/20

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Montreal is a nice city and a bargain for tourists. My son lived there
for ten years so we made several trips up to visit him. Hotels and
restaurants were always relatively cheap.

Ed Pawlowski

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Jul 2, 2020, 3:44:54 PM7/2/20

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On 7/2/2020 2:03 PM, GM wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> On 7/2/2020 11:03 AM, GM wrote:
>>> Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:11:29 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is has got to be the strangest birthday yet since 1967.
>>>>>> Certainly the strangest year for my province NS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is that?
>>>>
>>>> Since we came in 1967 it has always been a joyous day but Covid has
>>>> changed that this year.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, Canada in 1967, our family did a road trip to visit Expo '67, and then to Quebec City...great memories...!!!
>>>
>>
>> We were there in 1966 and they were still building. It was ad-libbed
>> when our original plan did not work out. Lake George NY, Montreal,
>> Bangor Maine, Provincetown, MA.
>>
>> I forget how much money I had, about $150, so we went $75 north and
>> turned around.
>
>
> We bought a new '67 Plymouth Fury III sedan - with AIR CONDITIONING! - for the trip, medium green in color. Very snazzy to us, and it would be several years before we got a/c for the house...
>

That was a snazzy car in its day. I had a '62 Corvair Monza but it had
an AM/FM radio. Our honeymoon in May got cut short due to bad weather
so we took this trip in September.

We started out going to the Lake George Inn but had a problem when we
got there. Room was not ready and when it finally was, it was no very
clean so we left and ended up in Phillipsburg Canada. Next morning,
Montreal. Back to the US, across VT to Bangor, ME. Wife had read a
couple of stories based in Bangor and had this vision of a quaint New
England town. It was just another mid sized town.

When we got to Provincetown, MA the motel was an outrageous $18 for the
night.

bruce2...@gmail.com

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Jul 2, 2020, 3:59:53 PM7/2/20

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Lucretia Borgia wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:11:29 -0400, Gary <g.m...@att.net> wrote:
>
> >Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> >>
> >> This is has got to be the strangest birthday yet since 1967.
> >> Certainly the strangest year for my province NS.
> >
> >Why is that?
>
> Since we came in 1967 it has always been a joyous day but Covid has
> changed that this year.

I was born two years later. What's the traditional din din? Is it also outdoor grilling and apple pie like here in the states?

Lucretia Borgia

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Jul 2, 2020, 5:49:03 PM7/2/20

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We went to Expo '67, kids loved every minute.