Happy Canada's 150th Birthday!!!

[Coolwater]

Yay Mathy and ~mj~ ! Who else are among our Royal Canadians?

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada-150.html

[Coolwater]

Cool things they do in Canada:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-scie...e-whale-heart/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...useums-canada/

[Perfect Warrior]

I'm Canadian (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

As soon it was legal to do so people were firing off private fireworks. From the direction of the golf course, to my hearing. Fireworks around 10pm yesterday, too. (Witch by city ordinance was actually not legal. It has to be a statutory holiday that allows fireworks for it to be within city limits.)

[Saber Dog]

Happy Birthday Canada!

My ancestor's cousin once invaded you.

[mathpiglet]

Thank you. I don't think we look a day over 101.

[Coolwater]

Oh, I'd forgotten: my great grandmother was from Ontario!

[mathpiglet]

Oh, I'd forgotten: my great grandmother was from Ontario!

How wonderful for your great grandmother.

[Perfect Warrior]

& my grandfather was from the states. He was working for a custom combining operation whose route covered both countries, fell in love with one of the farmer's daughters and stayed. The border (& immigration) isn't that easy these days. Canada & the States sure did swap citizenry back & forth like that a century ago.

[mathpiglet]

& my grandfather was from the states. He was working for a custom combining operation whose route covered both countries, fell in love with one of the farmer's daughters and stayed. The border (& immigration) isn't that easy these days. Canada & the States sure did swap citizenry back & forth like that a century ago.

People probably weren't exactly sure where the border was and wandered back and forth at will.

[Coolwater]

Even the governments weren't too sure.

[Perfect Warrior]

Something about the mountains to the west messing up the surveying equipment? (The rockies' gravitational force not being accounted for.) In the border treaty there's a line about as surveyed at a certain date.

[Coolwater]

Sorry, Mathy. The video says you won't be happy with this.

[Perfect Warrior]

& it doesn't even mention that incident where a tropical island asked Canada to annex them and the USA threw a fit. (Apparently the resultant International waters would have thrown a crimp in their style.)

I remember once on another board some members were fretting about forest fires and were posting maps. I found it strange how they stopped right at the International border and checked the fires on a Canadian site- and yup, they did indeed stop there. So what that video calls a 'no touching zone' actually does some good.

[Coolwater]

I remember once on another board some members were fretting about forest fires and were posting maps. I found it strange how they stopped right at the International border and checked the fires on a Canadian site- and yup, they did indeed stop there. So what that video calls a 'no touching zone' actually does some good.
That is so awesome!