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Subject: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 02:04 PM Have a good one, far and wide. Any plans? Keep er True North, eh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: number 6 Date: 30 Jun 09 - 02:15 PM goin' down to Seeley's Cove ! Have a good one and don't let it rain on your parade. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 30 Jun 09 - 02:20 PM I'm getting old. I still call it Dominion Day! But have a Happy Canada Day anyways! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 30 Jun 09 - 02:51 PM To all of you from The Yukon Territory to Prince Edward Island, wish I plan to drink Canada dry, in saluting you tomorrow. I might even start now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: SINSULL Date: 30 Jun 09 - 03:19 PM And some Canadian Club? What is traditional for Canada Day? A mooseburger? A salad served in Sergeant Preston's hat? Or Shatner's wig? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 30 Jun 09 - 03:46 PM Molson Canadian Beaver Tail Crown Royal Buffalo Burg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 30 Jun 09 - 03:48 PM Looking at my previous post I think I went pretty heavy on the CC already. Try again. To all of you from The Yukon Territory to Prince Edward Island, I plan to drink Canada dry in saluting you. There. I think that's what I meant to say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Terry McDonald Date: 30 Jun 09 - 03:50 PM John on the Sunset Coast - 'to Prince Edward Island.' Doesn't Newfoundland count as the most eastern part of Canada? Mind you, to Newfoundlanders 1 July is not a day to celebrate. Think Beaumont Hamel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:08 PM Now, now... the Newfies whats knows the difference knows why they are part of Dominion Day, eh sure? That old shite only comes up on accounta the row with the mainlanders over yer Churchill Falls contract and it was all ta do with the politicians. Never mind saltin dry fish. It's all shockin good eh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: maple_leaf_boy Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:10 PM And some of NS stretches further east than PEI also. The only traditional celebrations I've heard tell of are parades, drinking Canadian beer and fire-works. Personally, I don't celebrate it. I just acknowledge it, because it happened, but it seems pointless to me these days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:19 PM If yer havin beer and fireworks, I'll drop by. I'll even bring a Maple Leaf Flag for ya boy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Mooh Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:19 PM Oh Canada, our homes on native land. I'm working. Keep your stick on the ice. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Terry McDonald Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:21 PM Hi Gnu - shouldn't you have put a 'bye' in there, rather than an 'eh' ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Peace Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:24 PM Backatcha all, and thanks to the Yanks for the good wishes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:24 PM It's all shockin good eh b'y. Terry... "bye"? Yee'd be t'rown in wit da bait fish fer dat eh b'y. <;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: bobad Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:25 PM I'll be splitting and stacking firewood for the winter - doesn't get more Canadian than that, eh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:28 PM Maple? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: bobad Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:31 PM I wish it were maple, mostly ash, elm and soft maple on my land. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: maeve Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:31 PM Maple Leaf flag is ready, maple leaf cookies (made in Canada) are in the kitchen. We're glad to have you as neighbors. maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Terry McDonald Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:47 PM Touche, Gnu! As I typed it, I thought 'that doesn't look right......' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Dorothy Parshall Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:09 PM From Bancroft, "The Most Talented Town in Ontario", Heather Inwood-Montrose's band named Mirabilia performs "Down Home" with special guest John Foreman, live on stage at the York River Millennium Bandshell on Canada Day, July 1st, 2008. What I am missing by being in the great NW. But I will be there in spirit as these dear friends celebrate. Small town Ontario! My second son and family celebrate Canada Day in SE Pennsylvania. Their Maple Leaf flag a gift from my U.S. brother, a flag waving American who flew the Maple Leaf whenever I visited - "bringing that cold weather down" with me! Bobad: be glad you have hard wood of any sort and not the light wood they burn out here. Mind, no minus 40 weather, either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:20 PM Beaumont Hamel! To our brothers and friends on The Rock, Newfoundland! LEST WE FORGET! Wednesday is Canada Day. It is also Memorial Day in this province, honouring the efforts and losses of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916. July 1st is a day always mixed with sadness and joy. Sadness for the fallen. And joy, as we celebrate Canada Day. Both are part of the proud Newfoundland heritage. LEST WE FORGET! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:36 PM To me, it ain't about waving the flag because it's the flag. It's waving the flag in honour of the people who made that flag what it is, of those who stood up for the ideals embodied within the hearts and minds of people who supported and support that flag. Any flag. The Canuck flag was not always The Maple Leaf, but the people always were. Wish I had an RCAF flag for tomorrow morn at 08:35h to fly for my bro... it will be a year he's gone. Thirty three and a half years he stood on guard for thee and me, Flight Sargeant William Burton Owens. I miss him. That's Canada Day for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:38 PM The Royals of NF. Another tear to my eye. WASSAIL you brave Newfoundlanders! Lest we forget, indeed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Peace Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:43 PM And we have Canada Day because of people like him, Gnu. "For anyone who may not understand the Beaumont Hamel reference: "Battle of Beaumont Hamel Casualties: 733 of 801 men in the 1st Newfoundland Regiment were killed or wounded" Battle of the Somme, 1916 July 1 commemorates that day for Newfoundland (and Labrador) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: GUEST,Peace Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:50 PM Best I can do right now, Gnu. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 30 Jun 09 - 06:51 PM gnu I am such a sap when it comes to our military. I can't tell you how much I value the memories shared by loved ones, of those who served this country! Tomorrow, I will raise one to your brother and say "Thank You"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 30 Jun 09 - 07:02 PM I am the same way. Back in 1939, out of three brothers and five sisters in my Dad's family, one lad was underaged and one lass was married. The rest joined up on day one. The dedication and sacrifice was instilled in me eary on... as well as the thanks and respect. Thanks Peace. Okay... I have cried enough for this eve. Let us hear of BBQs and beer and family get togethers! Any gigs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 30 Jun 09 - 09:42 PM HAPPY CANADA DAY TO ONE AND ALL! John on the Sunset Coast: To drink Canada dry is a tall order but if you are paying let me sign on to help! Thanks! P.S. If Shane in Blind River extends the same offer, beware, as he may do it! Slainte, Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 30 Jun 09 - 09:48 PM Terry, not being Canadian, meself, I'm not up on the geography...so I defer. However I did know someone from PEI, so it came to mind as East. He was quite old when I knew him (in California); he was, he said, RCMP during WWII working his way west and eventually came south. He still had a very military/police bearing even in his mid/late eighties. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: meself Date: 30 Jun 09 - 11:27 PM I was once talking to a tourist in Nova Scotia; he was from California, and had just spent a week or so on PEI. Just making conversation, I said, "So what did you think of PEI?" He said, "Well, frankly, I wasn't too impressed. We have the same thing in California". To this day, I don't know quite what to make of that ... ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: maeve Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:30 AM Good morning Canada. Thank you for the friendship of your people, the stoic and heroic protection you've given in the world, and the beauty of the land. Thank you for the generous gift of laughter through the wonderful sense of humor running through the many and varied regions of Canada. Thanks for the Red Green Show. We'll be thinking about folks like gnu's brother, Flight Sargeant William Burton Owens, as we raise the Maple Leaf flag today. Keep your stick on the ice, maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: kendall Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:41 AM Honor and great appreciation to our best neighbor. I don't have a Canadian flag, but I can tell a "Newfie" joke. Does that count? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: topical tom Date: 01 Jul 09 - 09:25 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: CET Date: 01 Jul 09 - 11:38 AM Alas, I will be spending most of my Canada Day alone. I am living in Kingston, Ontario during the week on what the Army calls a "separated posting", meaning that I live in bachelor squalor in an apartment during the week in Kingston, and drive back to Ottawa on Fridays after work. I began Canada Day with a run along the Kingston waterfront, and I expect I will end it watching the fireworks over Lake Ontario from the officers mess of Fort Frontenac, where the very first units of the Canadian regular Army were formed. In the meantime, the sun is shining (for a while, anyway) so I will wander around Kingston, enjoy the weather, and possibly drop in on my favourite coffee shop, the Sleepless Goat. This place bills itself as a worker's cooperative, and is run by a bunch of young persons in black who tend to wear a lot of facial jewellery. Perhaps there will be some music playing somewhere in town. Edmund |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: CET Date: 01 Jul 09 - 11:50 AM It never hurts to be precise. The first units of the Canadian regular army were A Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, from Kingston, and B Battery, from Quebec City. They began service on 20 October 1871. Edmund |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 12:44 PM I have switched back to tennis from the CBC. I do not understand why the commentators feel the need to endlessly fill the TV with their mindless chatter rather than allow me to hear the music and the crowd. And the crap they bring up... today is not the day for airing dirty laundry. Why, I am gonna write a goddamn letter! (Canuck joke) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Rapparee Date: 01 Jul 09 - 12:52 PM Happy Canada Day, Canada. I'd sing a few verses of "the Maple Leaf Forever" or "O Canada" but I'm not up to it. Besides, I don't know the words. So instead I'll post this Tommy Makem song: CANADA MY OWN LAND by Tommy Makem, c.1982 The sun it comes up on the green fields of Newfoundland On Vancouver Island, he sheds his last ray The great Arctic Circle reflects back his glory The wheat-laden plains grow more golden each day Chorus: This is my own land so fertile and beautiful Majestic her mountains, her rivers run free Priviledged the children, who call her their homeland Canada, my own land for ever you'll be Proud are the people who travel your highways The farmer, the teacher, the factory hand The merchant, the miner, the doctor, the fisherman Proud to belong to this beautiful land Chorus Famed is your power and famed is your gentleness Your bounty is endless from sea to shining sea Your arms ever open to help those less fortunate A bright light of freedom to those who would be free Chorus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 01:12 PM Tennis is over on the TV for now so I switched back to the CBC. Some half naked Jerk-du-Soleil doing some kinda gymnastics on a stripper pole type riggin. Don't quite see what that has to do with Canuck cultural heritage, but maybe they couldn't find anyone befitting of the occasion and buddy needed the work. Now it's morose caberet piano music and torch tunes. I'll bet it's that fuckin Harper! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Rapparee Date: 01 Jul 09 - 01:20 PM Celebrate it the old fashioned way: invade the US! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 01:53 PM Noooo... that's water down the Mmissiissiippii (I can never remember, so I just double up on all the letters). But, if ya want the CBC, we can ship it... not the equipment, just the idiots on staff. Dunno what they are yappin about now, I turned the sound way down after the traditional Canuck music started... can't stand heavy metal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: SINSULL Date: 01 Jul 09 - 02:42 PM Watch Red Green for a laugh, gnu. I love to watch the World Poker Tournament but the two announcers are worse than football DJs. YADAYADAYADA. "He shouldn't have played that." "That's what comes from internet poker." Then a star plays the same hand and it's "Brilliant. Sometimes you have to take a chance." I turn off the sound. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 03:35 PM Red Green? I have watched nearly every show and I have all the books. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Rapparee Date: 01 Jul 09 - 03:54 PM Or you can just visit Ottawa. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 04:20 PM Poker with no sound? The sound is a major part of poker! If you know what to say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: number 6 Date: 01 Jul 09 - 05:21 PM Didn't make it down to Seeley's Cove today as planned. Too much fog down along the coast. But ... regardless Happy Canada Day from Saint John, N.B. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 01 Jul 09 - 05:21 PM Sometimes you have to take a chance. Sometimes you say the wrong thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Neil D Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:31 PM Happy Canada Day to my favorite country. I wish I could still go there sans passport. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Charmion Date: 02 Jul 09 - 01:45 PM That passport thing wasn't our idea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: ragdall Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:07 PM My Dad never accepted the switch to the Maple Leaf flag. He kept this small Red Ensign in his parlour until his death -- my contribution to "Happy Dominion Day", yesterday. It's a little discoloured, but much loved. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: topical tom Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:08 PM In our particular area of Quebec very little celebration of Canada Day is observed. There is a parade in Montreal but in most lesser communities, nothing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:15 PM I always spend Canada Day drinking, eating poutine, and watching videos of Don Cherry and the '72 Russia-Canada hockey series. From sunrise to sunset. By the end of the day I am totally incoherent and virtually brain dead, eh? But it's worth it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:20 PM rags... the link does not work for me. In any case, I am appreciative of the fact that Lester got the new flag flying and let The Union Jack off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: ragdall Date: 02 Jul 09 - 05:18 PM In that case, gnu, I'm glad that the link doesn't work for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 02 Jul 09 - 07:17 PM Rags... it's a joke eh? But the link she no go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 05 Jul 09 - 03:28 PM Canucks eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 05 Jul 09 - 06:51 PM "I always spend Canada Day drinking, eating poutine, and watching videos of Don Cherry and the '72 Russia-Canada hockey series." Sounds like a pretty good day! Only thing I would add is a toast to the Vets! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: gnu Date: 05 Jul 09 - 07:12 PM Poutine râpée. Not that crap from La Belle Provice, I hope. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: 3refs Date: 06 Jul 09 - 11:50 AM My Granny, born during Queen Victoria's rein, absolutely despised The Maple Leaf, referring to it as "That Red Rag". Rather unkind words for a practising Anglican! I think if "Mike" had been a Conservative, as opposed to a Liberal, she may have thought differently. Irregardless of Granny's condemnations, I fly The Maple Leaf with pride, but I also fly the "Union Flag" as it was our flag at my birth! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01 From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 07 Jul 09 - 09:54 AM Congratulations, Canada. Enjoy your day. I wish I were there, right now. |
