# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![PrimalEnvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@PrimalEnvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrimalEnvy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/61 "2017-01-13T01:25:01Z")
Live in Newfoundland. I’ve been to Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/62 "2017-01-13T11:19:34Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > That was a wise decision. Getting gas and/or lodging can be problematic at night between the Soo and TBay. That was exactly what I thought the next day during the 15 hours from Sault Ste. Marie to Winnipeg. > [@](#): > > [The roads around Gravel River](https://youtu.be/N1OnexKYuO4)(other than the Trans-Canada). Nice! I love tooling around the back areas though I normally go on foot. I just never think to take pictures or videos. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/63 "2017-01-13T11:51:57Z")
Has anyone received their free park pass? Or even got a confirmation e-mail? One spot on the site says 3 days, but elsewhere it says 6 weeks. Given the demand I’m leaving towards the longer time frame. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/64 "2017-01-13T13:50:14Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Has anyone received their free park pass? Or even got a confirmation e-mail? > One spot on the site says 3 days, but elsewhere it says 6 weeks. Given the demand I’m leaving towards the longer time frame. > > Brian I received mine just before Christmas after ordering it December 1st. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/65 "2017-01-13T15:05:14Z")
I’d like to go to national parks this year, but I’m not sure how many parks are accessible to those who don’t like to drive much. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/66 "2017-01-16T20:41:21Z")
I got a email notification for the park pass I ordered on the 11th today (the 16th) Wonder what happened to my previous order? Oh well. Brian ---
**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 16, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/67 "2017-01-16T21:12:23Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’d like to go to national parks this year, but I’m not sure how many parks are accessible to those who don’t like to drive much. The closest one to me is a four hour dive away, or for folks without a car, a three hour, forty minutes drive followed by a five hour walk, or a five hour paddle unless you are wind bound for a few days. We need more national parks. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/68 "2017-01-16T21:34:05Z")
It seems inescapably logical to me that most natural parks of size and note will always be some distance away from where most people live. ---
**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 16, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/69 "2017-01-16T21:36:04Z")
Correction – a five hour paddle from the nearest town, or about three weeks from my place including wind days. ---
**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 16, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/70 "2017-01-16T21:37:07Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It seems inescapably logical to me that most natural parks of size and note will always be some distance away from where most people live. Yup. So create them now for future generations. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/71 "2017-01-18T03:23:07Z")
On the topic of the Sesquicentennial, I was watching Murdoch Mysteries last night, and there was a bit with Constables Crabtree and Harris and a man looking for his missing travel journal. Towards the end, he shows up again, finds a piece of paper which he says is a page from his journal, with a sketch of the CN Tower. He then mentions something about celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday, to the great puzzlement of Crabtree and Harris. Did I miss something possibly explaining this, or is this going to be a developing plot line for future episodes? As a personal Sesquicentennial project, a friend who collects old games plans to play a different game from every year of the past 150. He’s trying for games published in each year, but will likely need to fill some gaps with games which were at least played in that year. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/72 "2017-01-18T04:08:08Z")
The man was Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/73 "2017-01-18T04:55:55Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’d like to go to national parks this year, but I’m not sure how many parks are accessible to those who don’t like to drive much. My wife was excited to get her free park pass in the mail until I noted the distance thing. I suspect we’ll end up going to either Point Pelee or Bruce Peninsula this summer, but probably not both. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/74 "2017-01-18T08:07:02Z")
Pelee is best in the spring – more birds than a Hitchock movie and an Attenborough documentary combined. Bruce is best for hiking in the fall colours. Both are terrific! ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/75 "2017-01-24T20:49:01Z")
Looks like the Poysyn gang is moving East - to Ottawa (of course), since don’t all roads eventually lead there? Kind of exciting to know I will be in the NCR for Canada’s 150th. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/76 "2017-01-24T21:04:08Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Looks like the Poysyn gang is moving East - to Ottawa (of course), since don’t all roads eventually lead there? > > Kind of exciting to know I will be in the NCR for Canada’s 150th. 🙂 Have you been to Ottawa before? It’s not far from me, so I’ve been there many times. ---
**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 24, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/77 "2017-01-24T21:36:18Z")
Welcome! We’ll have to set up a coffee date sometime or better yet, set up an Ottawa Dopefest! Haven’t had one in a while - Leaffan, are you listening? Going to NDHQ? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/78 "2017-01-24T22:02:56Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Have you been to Ottawa before? It’s not far from me, so I’ve been there many times. I have been there on lots of work trips, but not much looking around in terms of what it would be like to _live_ there. ---
**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 24, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/79 "2017-01-24T22:40:21Z")
I thought you did live there, because of previous posts. Weren’t you in lock-down the day of the Cenotaph/Hill shootings? ---
**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 25, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045/80 "2017-01-25T13:35:46Z")
> [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](#): > > Welcome! We’ll have to set up a coffee date sometime or better yet, set up an Ottawa Dopefest! Haven’t had one in a while - Leaffan, are you listening? > > Going to NDHQ? I’m all over it, especially since my job is now back in town, and not Chalk River. Sent from my adequate mobile device using Tapatalk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadadope-2017-celebrating-the-sesquicentennial-and-loving-it/776045.md?page=5)