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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Eat, drink and do Mary...Have a good one Canada...
Stevo
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Ya eh!! What??? I'm missing curling????!!!! Lol
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Climberdude
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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Don't forget the poutine - although I like it better with fries than peas.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Thanks for posting that cool video Tami.
I grew up a few miles from the Hadfields, and as a teen skied with David at our local hill. I had crap skis and remember being a bit envious of his Rossi Stratos.
Garry
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The rels down on the farm in Barrie celebrated by laying in some firewood. WOOT!
It is July so there are only a few more months of hard sledding.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Canada appreciation
Tami
The Bugs
The Unclimbables
Rush
Trailer Park Boys
Rush
The 12 Beers of Christmas
Mt Robson
Rush
Dreams with Shanaya Twain in them
That crack head mayor
Ricky-isms
Bubbles
Cory and Trevor
Tami
Dry white comedians
Also Tommy Chong, Mike Myers, Leslie Nielson and Shatner
Rush
My definition of a boombastic jam
Snow
Conraid Kain
Killer Mammals
The guy who wrote this song
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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Tomorrow will be the 149th anniversary of Confederation - that is, when Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united to become Canada. In 1870 Manitoba joined, and the "Northwest Territories" were added - essentially all of the Prairies and Arctic. In 1871, British Columbia, in 1873 Prince Edward Island, in 1898 Yukon per se, in 1905 Saskatchewan and Alberta, in 1949 Newfoundland and the Labrador, and in 1999 Nunavut.
So next year will be the 150th anniversary. Our centennial in 1967 is still widely and positively remembered - apart from the visit of the boorish de Gaulle. I wonder what next year will bring?
Here's what our noisy neighbours' newspaper has to say about us today: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html?
And, for the most annoying ear worm of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-oRTLIe3I
On a much sadder note, the Battle of the Somme began almost exactly 100 years ago today, very early on July 1st, 2016. The Canadian Corps was heavily involved in that bloody disaster.
Newfoundland was an independent dominion in 1916. On July 1st, 1916, the first day of the battle, 730 of the 801 soldiers in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment went over the top at Beaumont-Hamel. The next day, only 69 men answered the 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Newfoundland_Regiment
It devastated a tiny country - virtually every family lost someone.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Jun 30, 2016 - 08:23pm PT
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Yeah - Canada has it's good points.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jun 30, 2016 - 09:05pm PT
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I do like Canada & Canadians!
Any chance of you folks annexing Idaho & the Pacific Northwest?
We may have to ask a bunch of Califonian Evangelical Republicans, who moved up here, to drive back to California with a wolf in every SUV, but sacrifices do need to be made to unite with Mother Canada.
Idaho also has a lot of nuclear waste & potatos to bring to the table.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2016 - 09:28pm PT
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Fritzi, I suppose yer hoping said annexation would see yer compound's value escalate to
the lofty heights of Hongcouver?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, anders... thanks for sharing all this, thanks
so very much...
we learn so much, here at the taco...
:)
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Well you guys might have annexed BC if we hadn't built a railroad.
Canada will turn 150 next year. Maybe there should be a sushi fest up here.
Would the Muricans travel up here for one of those?
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Well you guys might have annexed BC if we hadn't built a railroad.
Indeed and I found the book very interesting. One evening (it gets dark around 11 pm in Summer there) I climbed up to this, an old loco.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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You Mericans DO remember who won The War of 1812, right?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The same tossers who are gonna save Latvia from Putin? ;-)
Justin just might want to re-think that one, eh?
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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There were no winners in that war.
The natives were the big losers
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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A little ditty I heard somewhere. May not be PC, but seems accurate.
Farewell to Vancouver
(sung to the melody of O Canada. Hum along!)
O Canada, our beautiful homeland,
Rich Asians come to buy it, cash in hand.
With sinking hearts, as home prices rise
Out of reach for you and me,
And when rentals rise far beyond our means
We must eventually flee.
But we must be
Always PC
For we should always love diversity -
O Canada we toast “kenpai” to thee.
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