"Canada Day" or "Dominion Day"

[willbentley]

I still wish people a Happy Dominion Day. It represented, and, to many of us, still represents, Canada's uniquely British North American character, which Turdeau's multicult nonsenses have (possibly irreparably) damaged. But Canada was a more carefree and free country back then.
And before you ask, I wore my Red Ensign T-shirt to the barbeque!

 

[lone wolf]

In my youth I found it odd that a country would celebrate a grocery store. People went to Dominion mainly because of the meat.

I was happy when they changed it to Canada Day

My Mommy explained to me that the maple leaf meant the store was named for the Dominion and not the other way around .... and yeah, it's mainly because of the meat (but Mom never told me THAT part ;-))

 

[WLDB]

I still wish people a Happy Dominion Day. It represented, and, to many of us, still represents, Canada's uniquely British North American character, which Turdeau's multicult nonsenses have (possibly irreparably) damaged. But Canada was a more carefree and free country back then.
And before you ask, I wore my Red Ensign T-shirt to the barbeque!

Yeah things were so much better back then. Just ask the homosexuals who were imprisoned, forcibly sterilized or institutionalized for their orientation, the women who died in back alleys getting abortions, the natives forced into the residential school system, women forced to stay in abusive marriages because there divorce was next to impossible to get, the Japanese with Canadian citizenship who were imprisoned during the war (and who couldn't even vote before that).

Free and carefree all the way.

 

[lone wolf]

Homosexuals forcibly sterilized? What would be the point in that? Do you have a link I can harass?

 

[JLM]

Homosexuals forcibly sterilized? What would be the point in that? Do you have a link I can harass?

When the truth ain't good enough a little drama helps. :lol:

 

[Praxius]

I'd prefer "Dominion Day"..... it makes us sound bad-ass

And for the record:

Use of Canada and Dominion of Canada
Name of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The transition away from the use of Dominion would later be formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act which referred only to Canada; later that year, the national holiday was renamed from Dominion Day to Canada Day. Section 4 of the 1867 BNA Act also declares that:

Unless it is otherwise expressed or implied, the Name Canada shall be taken to mean Canada as constituted under this Act.

and this has been interpreted to mean that the name of the country is simply Canada. No constitutional statute amends this name, and the subsequent Canada Act 1982 does not use the term dominion. However, the Canadian constitution includes the preceding BNA Acts, where the term is used; also, the Canada Act 1982 does not state that Canada is not a dominion.

So we're still technically a Dominion and the term still can be applied.... we just dropped it for the most part.

It's something like how the US calls itself "The United States of America" ~ Where the "America" is a bit redundant.... of course they're of America, they're in North America which is a part of the Americas. They could easily leave their name as "The United States" as I'm not aware of any other nation being called "The United States"

There's the "United Kingdom", but they don't call themselves "The United Kingdom of Europe"

We could keep calling ourselves "The Dominion of Canada" but what's the point. Yes we are... but we don't have to include it all the time.

I've always been in favour of officially shortening it to just, 'Da Day

eh?

as in Happy 'Da Day, eh?!

or hey, how was your 'Da day?

no?

Why not just change the name to something everybody can agree on?

"Cannibis Day"

 

[JLM]

Yeah things were so much better back then. Just ask the homosexuals who were imprisoned, forcibly sterilized or institutionalized for their orientation, the women who died in back alleys getting abortions, the natives forced into the residential school system, women forced to stay in abusive marriages because there divorce was next to impossible to get, the Japanese with Canadian citizenship who were imprisoned during the war (and who couldn't even vote before that).

Free and carefree all the way.

But balanced off by being able to leave home for a week and leave your doors unlocked and your kids could stay out all day and walk home safely after dark and kids could play cowboys and Indians all day with their cap guns and didn't have to worry about the cops shooting them because they couldn't tell if the gun was "real or not" and we could run barefoot and bare from the waist up from May until September without having to worry about contracting some horrible disease. 1959 was the year! :smile:

 

[Praxius]

I still wish people a Happy Dominion Day. It represented, and, to many of us, still represents, Canada's uniquely British North American character, which Turdeau's multicult nonsenses have (possibly irreparably) damaged. But Canada was a more carefree and free country back then.
And before you ask, I wore my Red Ensign T-shirt to the barbeque!

So does this mean we've now entered into the area of Debate similar to whether or not we say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" in order to not offend some people?

Damn this PC crap is going too far..... Send in the Jem'Hadar!! :evil:

But balanced off by being able to leave home for a week and leave your doors unlocked and your kids could stay out all day and walk home safely after dark and kids could play cowboys and Indians all day with their cap guns and didn't have to worry about the cops shooting them because they couldn't tell if the gun was "real or not" and we could run barefoot and bare from the waist up from May until September without having to worry about contracting some horrible disease. 1959 was the year! :smile:

So long as you weren't a minority or gay, sure. ;-)

 

[JLM]

I'd prefer "Dominion Day"..... it makes us sound bad-ass

And for the record:




Why not just change the name to something everybody can agree on?

"Cannibis Day"

There was no dissention when it was "Dominion Day", that I can recall, we just had a screwball in Ottawa who couldn't leave well enough alone.............but then quite often feeble minded people HAVE to go changing things to justify their existance- probably got to thinking "Fuddle Duddle" didn't quite cut it as far as immortalizing himself! :lol:

Just tried to provide a little balance as the previous poster only gave the bad side (which wasn't the case for the majority of people) :smile:

 

[wulfie68]

There's the "United Kingdom", but they don't call themselves "The United Kingdom of Europe"

The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its used in much the same context as the complete name, United States of America

 

[Praxius]

The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its used in much the same context as the complete name, United States of America

Ah, well there you go

..... :-? But what about Scotland?

 

[cranky]

YouTube - ‪I Am Canadian Anthem‬‏

good job. I just have to bump it again.

 

[darkbeaver]

Zioanada celebrates independence it dosn't have. It's slave population parties down on cheap industrial beer and plastic flags. Forkin bank slaves, everyone of us. Watch the world burn, feel the creeping heat, know dispare and defeat, see our children consumned by war and poverty and live in hopeless black depression while the masters stuff themselves with our rotting meat. Fireworks fix all don't they? This isn't Canada anymore Toto.

On a lighter note--Harper wears pantyhose and prances arround in heels and a bra stuffed with kleenex while he leads a parliament of maggots.

 

[wulfie68]

..... :-? But what about Scotland?

Scotland, England and Wales comprise the "United Kingdom of Great Britain" part of the name. In terms of legal international standing, I'm not sure how it all works (I think pretty much treating England, N. Ireland, Scotland and Wales as provinces but I won't swear on it, since I know that Scotland used to mint/print some of its own money)