# CanadaDope 2017: Celebrating the Sesquicentennial - "... and loving it!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045 "2017-01-01T14:35:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/41 "2017-01-05T12:23:29Z")
The Constitution of Canada protects the rights of “aboriginal peoples of Canada”, which includes the “Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.” See s 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. [http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-16.html#h-52](http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-16.html#h-52) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/42 "2017-01-05T12:55:17Z")
My mother’s paternal grandmother was Metis. But my understanding, growing up was that Metis meant a mix of First Nation and French. I was very pleased when I learned it was, in fact, NOT only French mixed with First Nation, but other mixes as well. And I never understood why the Metis had to fight so long and hard to be included under the umbrella of 'First Nations". (Considering as my next tattoo, a small Metis flag!) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/43 "2017-01-06T02:41:32Z")
An interesting thing from late last year - I posed for [Kent Monkman](http://www.kentmonkman.com/), who is painting an incredible number of pieces for the sesquicentennial. The series we were posing for that day is to be called ‘Rendezvous’, and it deals with the early spring get-togethers of trappers, traders, First Nations’ people, and barmaids. For many of these people, this spring thaw may have been the first contact they’d had with another human for months, and they were the occasions of much revelry. It was an absolute blast to be in his studio and see how he and the team work! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/44 "2017-01-11T18:05:43Z")
An amusing game, stolen from Facebook… Which of the ten provinces and three territories have you lived in? Which ones have you visited? British Columbia - visited Alberta - lived in Saskatchewan - lived in Manitoba - lived in Ontario - lived in Quebec - visited New Brunswick - visited Prince Edward Island - visited Nova Scotia - visited Newfoundland and Labrador - visited Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut You can set the cut off wherever you like - if it’s just based on length of time, I could be considered to have lived in BC and Quebec as well. I decided it was better to think in terms of ‘Did you get your mail at that address? Change your health card? Change your driver’s license?’, in which case, I was just visiting. Interesting point - between Oct. of 1989 and Oct. of 1990, I visited all ten provinces… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/45 "2017-01-11T18:36:25Z")
British Columbia - visited Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba - visited Ontario - lived in Quebec - visited New Brunswick - visited Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia - visited Newfoundland and Labrador Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/46 "2017-01-11T19:08:41Z")
I’ve visited all the provinces and none of the Territories. I’ve only ever lived in Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/47 "2017-01-11T19:30:05Z")
I’ve lived in Ontario and Alberta, and visited the other eight provinces, plus the NWT. I still have to get to Nunavut and the Yukon. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/48 "2017-01-11T19:41:54Z")
BC - visited Alb - visited Sask - passed through Man - nothing Ont - lived Que - lived NB - passed through NS - visited PEI - visited NFLD/Lb - nothing Oh I’m looking forward to the freak out over Kent Monkman’s work. [Bears of Confederation](http://www.kentmonkman.com/painting/2017/1/9/the-bears-of-confederation) should be good for at least 3 or 4 days of outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/49 "2017-01-11T19:57:01Z")
British Columbia - visited Alberta - lived Saskatchewan - lived Manitoba - lived Ontario - visited Quebec - visited New Brunswick - lived Prince Edward Island - visited Nova Scotia - visited Newfoundland and Labrador - visited Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut I’ve hit all the provinces in one fashion or another but none of the territories. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/50 "2017-01-11T20:05:55Z")
Spotted this in the National Post and found it interesting: “Chilling artifacts from when Canada prepared for nuclear annihilation”: > **[National Post](https://nationalpost.com/category/news/)** > > Read the latest breaking news in Canada and the rest of the world. We bring all of today's top headlines and stories to your fingertips. Seems some Cold War pamphlets, recordings, and suchlike were recently discovered in Edmonton, and they are reminders of when nuclear was was quite possible. I’m old enough to remember those days–I never practiced ducking and covering at school, but I do remember those big sirens–so I found this stuff interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/51 "2017-01-11T20:35:17Z")
British Columbia – visited Alberta - visited Saskatchewan – visited Manitoba – lived in Ontario – lived in Quebec – hatched and lived in New Brunswick – lived in Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia – visited Newfoundland and Labrador Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut – I might have visited it depending on the statutory definition of what is an island 😉 (a friend and I canoed to a rock that had a bit of grass on it and was still surrounded by water in Hudson’s Bay’s James Bay’s Hanna Bay despite it being low tide, but I wouldn’t be surprised if in some years it might have been connected to the mainland at low tide by shifting bottom sand and therefore arguably not be a Nunavut island and instead be a soggy part of Ontario); see [Schedule to Ontario Boundary Act, 1889 which in turn is a schedule to the Constitution Act 1982](http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/constitution/lawreg-loireg/p1t101.html), and [Nunavut Act, 1993, s.3](https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/sc-1993-c-28/latest/sc-1993-c-28.html?resultIndex=1#sec3)) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/52 "2017-01-11T20:44:10Z")
Alberta - visited British Columbia - visited Manitoba - visited New Brunswick - visited Newfoundland & Labrador - visited Nova Scotia - visited Ontario - lived in Prince Edward Island - never been Quebec - lived in Saskatchewan - lived in Northwest Territories - visited Nunavut - never been Yukon - visited So the irony is that I’ve missed Canada’s largest and smallest jurisdictions. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/53 "2017-01-12T00:39:18Z")
British Columbia - Lived (18 yrs) Alberta - lived (30 yrs) Saskatchewan - Visited Manitoba Ontario - Visited (2months) Quebec New Brunswick - visited Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia - visited (couple of months) Newfoundland and Labrador Yukon Territory - Visited North-West Territories Nunavut ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/54 "2017-01-12T01:25:58Z")
British Columbia - visited Alberta - lived in Saskatchewan - visited Manitoba - visited Ontario - lived in Quebec - visited New Brunswick - visited Prince Edward Island - visited Nova Scotia - lived in Newfoundland and Labrador - Nope, not yet. Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut Nothing for any of the territories but I am not a snow loving girl. I am grateful for the bangup celebration everyone is throwing but really, turning 50 is not that big a deal! I’ve always been able to keep careful track of how old Canada is - 100 years older than me (and a couple of months but really what’s the difference at that point) We ordered our parks passes and are looking forward to a few weekend trips this summer. We’re still visiting the States for a week to see the eclipse this year too, and since our nearest point is in Kentucky, to do some bourbon tasting. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/55 "2017-01-12T01:44:35Z")
British Columbia - visited Alberta - visited Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario - lived Quebec - lived New Brunswick - visited Prince Edward Island - visited Nova Scotia - lived Newfoundland and Labrador - visited Yukon Territory North-West Territories Nunavut I have regretted always flying over the prairies on my trips, but drivng/busing through western Ontario is a task I’m not sure I’m up for. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/56 "2017-01-12T13:46:47Z")
I’ve done the Western Ontario drive 3 times. Once I was driving from New Brunswick to Winnipeg after university to live with my parents for a bit before setting myself up. I was by myself and flying by the seat of my pants. I hit Sault Ste. Marie at about 6pm and considered driving a few more hours before calling it quits but decided to stop for the night. It is a good thing I did because I was thinking as I was driving the next day that there was really no place to stop within 2 or 3 hours of Sault St. Marie. The next time was moving from Winnipeg to New Brunswick with my then fiance (now wife). We were caught in a bit of a snowstorm after we left Thunderbay and had to stop at a little motel in Gravel River (google says it is the Gravel River Resort! hahaha) for a night. It was a cozy little place and we enjoyed the break from driving! 😃 The last time was driving a car my grandfather had given me from BC to New Brunswick. My brother was in the car with me from BC to Winnipeg but then I was on my own. That trip was notable as I woke up in a hotel in Montreal to the beginnings of the '98 ice storm. I got out of dodge just in time to miss the most of it. That morning was the slowest I’ve ever seen traffic in Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/57 "2017-01-12T14:15:29Z")
British Columbia - lived Alberta - lived Saskatchewan - lived Manitoba - visited Ontario - lived Quebec - visited New Brunswick - visited Nova Scotia - visited Prince Edward Island - missed my chance Newfoundland/Labrador - visited (the Newfoundland half at least) Yukon - visited Northwest Territories - missed my chance Nunavut - visited I have also done the Ontario to BC portion of The Great Canadian Tour at least three times - three days just to get out of Ontario and a province a day after that! ---
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I’ve only lived in Quebec. I’ve been to Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/59 "2017-01-12T22:18:42Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > I hit Sault Ste. Marie at about 6pm and considered driving a few more hours before calling it quits but decided to stop for the night. It is a good thing I did because I was thinking as I was driving the next day that there was really no place to stop within 2 or 3 hours of Sault St. Marie. That was a wise decision. Getting gas and/or lodging can be problematic at night between the Soo and TBay. > [@Cyros](#): > > We were caught in a bit of a snowstorm after we left Thunderbay and had to stop at a little motel in Gravel River (google says it is the Gravel River Resort! hahaha) for a night. [The roads around Gravel River](https://youtu.be/N1OnexKYuO4)(other than the Trans-Canada). ---
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I’ve lived in Saskatchewan and Ontario, and I’ve never visited Newfoundland nor the territories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045.md?page=4)