I'll be celebrating Carbon Tax day, satying home today so I can afford to drive to work.

I was thinking the Battle of the Somme... but I guess that didn't have a glorious outcome and so we slap Newfoundland in the face every year celebrating Canada Day on the same day they celebrate Memorial Day. I think it was very underhanded for Canada to chose July 1st as the day to celebrate our nations birthday if it is to include Newfoundland.

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On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, 801 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment rose from the British trenches and went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel, nine kilometres north of Albert in France. The next day, only 69 men answered the regimental roll call: 255 were dead, 386 were wounded, and 91 were listed as missing. Every officer who had gone over the top was either wounded or dead.

On the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army (57,470 casualties, 19,240 dead) at the opening of the largest battle (over one million casualties) of the war, Newfoundland had also suffered its gravest military loss. To this day, Beaumont-Hamel remains the most significant single military action fought by Newfoundlanders, and it marked a turning point in the history and culture of the island. Some historians have suggested that tiny Newfoundland never fully recovered from the loss of so many of its male population; similar hardships were faced by the regiment at Gallipoli as well.

Newfoundlanders today mark the date of July 1 not just as Canada Day, but also as Memorial Day.

I submitted Bob.

In the early 1990's the civil service of Canada and the government (sic) thought it was time to give the NWT a real name. So they made a mistake and let the people up there in on submitting and picking a name. The overwhelming favorite was Bob.

The elite didn't like the peoples choice and cancelled the whole thing. The elite said "We are not amused." That defined Canada for me.

Canada is ours to struggling and fight for and live in, but the paper pushers have their resumes to consider above all else, and that comes first. Imagine you are an Important Paper Pusher attending an Important Conference, and the doorman announces to your peers that the man from Bob is here!

That one didn't get past the elite, not in Canada eh!

They forgot..... Eh?

"I think it was very underhanded for Canada to chose July 1st as the day to celebrate our nations birthday if it is to include Newfoundland."

If you were really a history buff you would realize that Dominion Day came first ....

July 1st was establishes as a holiday by statute in 1879.

http://www.pch.gc.ca/PROGS/CPSC-CCSP/JFA-HA/canada_e.cfm

Go blame the Brits for sending Newfoundlanders, who they should have know would be joining Canada more than 3 decades later, to battle on that day.

According to reports on the internet, they fly the BRITISH flag at half mast that day.

Here is one thing written in Newfoundland about Memorial day.

http://freenewfoundlandlabrador.blogspot.com/2008/06/july-1-memorial-day-in-newfoundland-and.html

In particular I found the story of Lieutenant Gardner who has the distinction of being the only known allied serviceman to receive the German Iron Cross during WWI rather moving.

There was bravery many times over in my mind!

I guess to me I must admit that that Newfoundlander displayes with abundance what it means to be not only a Newfoundlander but a Canadian!

Thanks eagleone for setting the actions in motion this morning to help me find that story.

:-)

eh?

Canada is Adanac BC spelled backwards. That is the sole amount of effort that went into naming the Country.

Canada is a great Country, however it suffers from a huge inferiority complex, and is always looking for the reason it exists. We in fact have lost our way and are now run by a bunch of Politicians who pass legislation willy nilly, and quite often dont even know what they passed. The City of Prince

The passing of the booster seats for kids 9 years and under or until they are a minimum of 4ft 9in tall is just one example. It comes into effect to-day, and you can rest assured that half of the British Columbians effected dont know about it.


Are we going to arrest all these Mothers whos havent got, cant afford, or are not aware of this new law on Canada Day. Are the police going to haul these kids out of the car and measure them to ensure that they are under 4ft 9in tall, and then fine the parents $109.00 for non compliance. Will they check the kids for ID go ensure that they are under 9 years of age. Since when do kids have to carry picture ID., Do the Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles all have to buy booster seats if they take these kids for a ride, or is the seat passed along to others and then not available at home when needed.

The Government states that Booster seats are available from $30.00 to $250.00 the average cost being somewhere in the area of $150.00. Anybody who sees a seat for sale for $30.00 let me know.

I suspect that the Police will enforce this law, the same way they do the Helmet law. That is with warnings, and nothing else.

Wow there is a buck to be made down in Vancouver.....selling Booster seats...lots of short people down south....Hmm maybe someone in govenment seen a easy way to make a buck.....

Newfoundland, like BC, joined Canada without overwhelming enthusiasm.

We were promised a railway, and the Dominion government's assumption of the Crown Colony's debt. It took threats of seccession to finally get the railway. The train arrived 14 years late, and then it stopped short of the agreed on terminus of Victoria, with ferry service instead of the promised fixed link to the mainland.

And then the cost of shipping goods east, from BC, was higher than shipping goods west, to BC. We learned the hard way about the "con" in Confederation.

Ottawa assumed the colonial debt, (it was said that the only thing the original colonies of Canada had in common were their debts to Baring Bros. Bank!), but it didn't take the new "Province" long to get back in hock again. Where it's been increasingly ever since, (though WAC Bennett transferred a lot of it to 'contingent liabilities', a very clever accounting technique now badly abused by his successors.)

As for good old Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony, she lost her full independence (gained in 1931), when the new Dominion couldn't meet its bond repayments, and the international credit that had been fueling its economy was cut off.

A financial Commission was installed by the British government (akin to a 'receivership'), who commenced to wring the repayments out of Newfoundlanders by, among other things, giving Imperial Oil Ltd. (Rockefeller/Rothschild controlled) a petroleum distribution monopoly on "the Rock". Newfies have a lot of things besides the bravery of the Royal Nfld, Reg't. to remember on their Memorial Day.

Soredible... my theory is that Governor George Seymor, the colonial governor of BC who opposed joining confederation for reasons that held legitimate through time... I figure he was offed with the run of the mill poison to ensure his removal from the scene.

I figure its was John A Macdonald that organized it, and at the same time John A was angling London to have Musgrave (a John A henchman) appointed as BC's next colonial governor to ensure through what ever means BC joins confederation. With a province (colony) of huge riches and few people it was easy for Musgrave to buy everyone and all using his position of power... to buy his way, or strong arm anyone that got in the way. That set things in motion cumulating in a fascinating BC legislative debate on the subject, which was a great historic gift to the people of BC IMO (everyone should read), for the intent of the perspective of the BC legislature at the time....

Now some of this could be a little off, because its just recollection on my part... like the names might be spelt wrong? ;)

Interesting the Imperial Oil thing. I hadn't heard about that before, but it sounds typical of the way the British Empire was managed by the Rothschilds banking empire.