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Mad Man From Azkaban
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Re: Happy Holiday...North
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Originally Posted by thecowboy
Please tell me the "source" for that is something other than yourself.
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It's from Wiki-P(of course)! Sound like a more important event then Domino Day besides they should have renamed it in '47 to Chinese Checker Day to make appeasement to the Chinese immigrants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day
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As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast (1958), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (1958), the first colour television transmission in Canada (1966), the inauguration of the Order of Canada (1967), and the establishment of "O Canada" as the country's national anthem (1980). Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 – shortly after which the province of Newfoundland and Labrador recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle[8][9] – and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 – leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations, until the act was repealed in 1947.[10]
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