# CanaDopers - Happy Canada Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155 "2010-07-01T03:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/21 "2010-07-01T13:37:42Z")
And Happy First Day of the Financial Year to a lot of the rest of us! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/22 "2010-07-01T15:01:25Z")
Hot dogs and candy at the Canada Day celebrations at the waterfront, where, as happens every year, we’ll watch scores of new citizens take their oath of citizenship. That’s as Canadian as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/23 "2010-07-01T15:06:15Z")
To all my Canadian Doper friends… **HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/24 "2010-07-01T15:11:21Z")
I’ll have to settle for “wave to the people on the other side of the Niagara River”, because traffic back and forth was getting bad today. But perhaps this weekend we’ll celebrate alongside thousands of Canadians in the time-hono(u)red tradition of “going to IKEA to buy flat-pack furniture.” ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/25 "2010-07-01T15:12:20Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > My first Canada Day in Canada! Going to Granville Island, Vancouver, for lunch. Otherwise, nothing special. Planning to completely ignore July 4th (my old country). Unfortunately I’m at work and about as far away from my home in Vancouver as is possible while still staying in Canada, or I’d take you out for a beer, fellow immigrant from down south. Maybe in August? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/26 "2010-07-01T15:17:01Z")
Boo. I’m at work.☹ ---
**Author:** ![seanchai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@seanchai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seanchai)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/27 "2010-07-01T15:26:42Z")
My regular day off work. Many celebrations slated to happen here in Winnipeg, from the aforementioned festivities at the Mint (a five minute drive away), to happenings at The Forks (more like ten minutes), to a Big Blowout at Assiniboine Park (20+ minutes). The weather people are forecasting 27C weather with some rain some time soon. It just seems like a good day to waste time on the 'puter and then doing some housework. Two weeks til holiday time! an seanchai ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/28 "2010-07-01T15:31:21Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Unfortunately I’m at work and about as far away from my home in Vancouver as is possible while still staying in Canada, or I’d take you out for a beer, fellow immigrant from down south. Maybe in August? Sounds good to me! I keep getting warnings that Vancouver is like a ghost town in August, with all the natives fleeing to their cabins in the hinterland, but I suspect they still sell beer (now with HST!\*). \*Actually lowers the price on alcohol by a fraction. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/29 "2010-07-01T15:33:20Z")
We’re going to the park to meet some other moms and kidlets for play and a picnic. The girls (almost 4) will hopefully play, and the boys (almost 1) will sit on a blanket and grunt, hurr and bang stuff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/30 "2010-07-01T15:34:09Z")
To our neighbors to the north … Happy Canada Day, eh! [\*O Canada … (especially the spectator at one minute in.) \*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meLpuF9UMvk) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/31 "2010-07-01T16:16:45Z")
Oh, and forgot one notable event that is always part of our Canada Day: the 21 gun salute in front of the Lege at noon - we won’t be going, but it always rattles our windows, since we live close to Wascana. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/32 "2010-07-01T16:29:17Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > To our neighbors to the north … > > Happy Canada Day, eh! I can’t believe it took 30 posts to get the first “eh” in. Now all we need is backbacon and beer before page two for a trifecta. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/33 "2010-07-01T17:14:41Z")
Enjoy your back bacon and beer, eh? 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/34 "2010-07-01T17:24:57Z")
Watching our national anthem was lovely; I would love to see our athletes and fans singing like the Mexicans do for their anthem - wow! They’re so passionate about it! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/35 "2010-07-01T17:58:10Z")
Canada has a lovely anthem. Much better than ours. (We really should have gone for _America The Beautiful_.) ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/36 "2010-07-03T00:33:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Canada has a lovely anthem. Much better than ours. (We really should have gone for _America The Beautiful_.) I thought we would be better off with _The Maple Leaf Forever_, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155/37 "2010-07-03T02:19:50Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > We’re all waiting with bated breath to see if the team has learnt to count to 12 yet… [sob] Well, I guess we know the answer to that now, eh?! :smack: At least it worked out okay… eventually. Leads to an interesting trivia question: has any CFL team in history ever had too-many-men penalties called against them in consecutive games before now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-happy-canada-day/545155.md?page=1)