"The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

"The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

Cannuck

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#601

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

The United Empire Loyalists into what is now the Maritimes and Louisiana. Where will you flee to ?

Nowhere. It’ll never happen

Cannuck

No Party Affiliation

#602

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Hoid

United Empire Loyalists into Louisiana?
Are you possibly referring to the Acadian french?

Stick to things you know about..like prairie seniors

Hoid

#603

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

What at the time was Louisiana , the French sold them back .

Well we're even

Neither one of us knows wtf you're talking about.

Curious Cdn

Conservative

#604

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

The United Empire Loyalists into what is now the Maritimes and Louisiana. Where will you flee to ?

The Cajuns are U.E.L.s?

AHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I've wondered from time-to-time if you're an American. It sure explains your dismal knowledge of this country.

pgs

Free Thinker

#605

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Curious Cdn

The Cajuns are U.E.L.s?

AHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I've wondered from time-to-time if you're an American. It sure explains your dismal knowledge of this country.

Really tell me your version of the American Revolution and the dispersal of the population in its aftermath ?

pgs

Free Thinker

#606

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

Really tell me your version of the American Revolution and the dispersal of the population in its aftermath ?

And while at it explain the Canadian population and ethnic distribution in the 1770’s and well at it explain where the borders between our present countries were drawn .

Curious Cdn

Conservative

#607

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

Really tell me your version of the American Revolution and the dispersal of the population in its aftermath ?

The Acadians were long gone by the time of the American Revolution. The Acadian Expulsion was carried between 1755 and 1764 during the Seven Years War (what you Yanks call the French Indian war in spite of it happening all over the World)

Let's see if you can guess when the American Revolution happened .... and, oh by the way, how Acadia and New France were never a part of "Louisiana".

Curious Cdn

Conservative

#608

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

And while at it explain the Canadian population and ethnic distribution in the 1770’s and well at it explain where the borders between our present countries were drawn .

No my Mother's family has been here a very long time. I have UEL ancestors from both New York and Pennsylvania who settled on the Niagara peninsula around 1780. They are still there on the same land.

Cannuck

No Party Affiliation

#609

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by pgs

Really tell me your version of the American Revolution and the dispersal of the population in its aftermath ?

All those that wished to remain loyal to the Brittish monarch took off to French controlled Louisiana.....obviously.

Serryah

Free Thinker

#610

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck

All those that wished to remain loyal to the Brittish monarch took off to French controlled Louisiana.....obviously.

Funny, I thought a whole shyte ton of them came to New Brunswick, specifically Saint John since they promote a festival of Loyalists ever year...

Guess that's not a truth...

/s

Curious Cdn

Conservative

#611

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Serryah

Funny, I thought a whole shyte ton of them came to New Brunswick, specifically Saint John since they promote a festival of Loyalists ever year...
Guess that's not a truth...
/s

The Acadians were not part of that. Some of them made their way back to Acadia after their expulsion but they sure weren't Loyalists.

The Loyalists landed in New Brunswick, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, in Prince Edward County in what is now Ontario and in the Niagara region around what is now called Niagara-on-the-Lake.

You should also include all of the Iroquois re-settlents ... Six Nations being the biggest.

Cannuck

No Party Affiliation

#612

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

My old man is from the New Richmond Kweebeck area. My kin folk founded the place after leaving Richmond Virginia

Curious Cdn

Conservative

#613

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck

My old man is from the New Richmond Kweebeck area. My kin folk founded the place after leaving Richmond Virginia

I know it well.

Twin_Moose

Conservative

#614

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

6 days ago

If only Central Canada were like Sask. we wouldn't be so deep in debt.

Saskatchewan projects $37M surplus, NDP calls for running deficit

Hopefully Ford turns Ont. around it will be embarrassing for the West to foreclose on the Central Provinces

Ron in Regina

Free Thinker

#615

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

5 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Serryah

While getting gas today there was a vehicle parked also partaking. Someone else at the pumps asked where they were from. "Alberta," they said.

"Oh, so you're moving here?"

"Actually we're moving back, we used to live here. Long drive."

Which got me thinking... if Alberta is so wonderful, why do so many who leave the poor ass Maritimes to go out there to work, come back here to live?

It doesn't make sense to me. Sure it's more expensive to live out there but the jobs are better, things are wonderful (according to some westerners I hear) so... why move back here?

Just a curiosity really.

I was born in Regina. I've worked exploration decades ago in the Ring & Fontas Fields (on a map, it's where AB & BC & NWT meet, right on that T) and have lived in Calgary and Red Deer, but my Family was back on the southern prairies. I came home. I'm assuming that's the reason most people do what you're inquiring about above. Conversely, my girl was born in BC and grew up in the Yukon, spent her 'teens in Northern Sask, and here we are both in Regina. We are both home.

Back in the '80's when I moved West, the city with the most Saskatchewan born residents residing in it wasn't Regina or Saskatoon, but was Calgary. This might explain some of the political ties between SK & AB for some on the outside looking in.

B00Mer

No Party Affiliation

#616

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

5 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck

My old man is from the New Richmond Kweebeck area. My kin folk founded the place after leaving Richmond Virginia

Another BULLSHIT Lie from Cannuck.. of course..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Richmond,_Quebec

"The first European settlers arrived from Scotland in 1755. The first arrivals were the Duthie brothers, George and John Duthie and their families. Their descendants still reside in the area today. It is one of the very few remaining municipalities on the Gaspé which still has a relatively large English-speaking population. It was originally a centre of farming, logging, and shipbuilding."

Ron in Regina

Free Thinker

#617

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

4 days ago

Quote: Originally Posted by Tecumsehsbones

Almost as cute as you judging who can and cannot pass a bar exam without ever having seen, much less taken, a bar exam, or spoken to someone who has, except possibly trying to get you off a drunk-driving or wife-beating charge.

I don't pretend to know what's involved with the Bar Exam in US Jurisdictions, but when a Friend & Relative was going through the process up here, I was one of his sounding-boards. He had a list of 300 questions (all not related to the law) to run through in order to challenge the way a person reasons their way through debate. Mind bending questions. Here's one I recall decades later:

"If you're in a convertible (& why a convertible? I've no idea) traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on your headlights, what happens?"

Questions you'd have to think your way through, and bounce off those around you, and debate, and preform thought experiments with variables to come up with what you believe is the right answer to the original question. The answer to the above question came down to the word "at" in reasoning out what would happen at "just below" and then circling back to "at"....or what if the headlights where already on before reaching the speed of light as opposed to turning them on at the speed of light, etc...??

I have much respect for most Lawyers. I couldn't do it as I just can drink enough. Not enough tolerance for alcohol.

Twin_Moose

Conservative

#618

Re: "The west wants out": Separatist sentiments growing in Alberta

1 hour ago

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