# Happy Birthday, Saskatchewan! (& Alberta too!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697 "2005-09-02T03:48:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 2, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/1 "2005-09-02T03:48:52Z")
Today’s the centennial of two of Canada’s provinces: Saskatchewan and Alberta, which both entered Confederation on September 1, 1905. It’s been a wild ride over the past century - here’s to many more! 😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂😛🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/2 "2005-09-02T03:53:04Z")
Are there any big celebrations planned? I think I recall HM popping over for a visit earlier in the year. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/3 "2005-09-02T04:00:44Z")
Happy Birthday, us! It is extremely disconcerting to watch the local news, and have the newscasters all happily telling us about the 100th birthday celebrations, then have some New Orleans coverage. The festivities definitely feel a bit hollow. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/4 "2005-09-02T04:27:56Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Are there any big celebrations planned? I think I recall HM popping over for a visit earlier in the year. Yes, HM unveiled a new statue of herself on her favourite horse, [Burmese](http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/18/royal-visit-050518.html), which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gave to her many years ago. (If you’ve seen pictures of her riding for the Trooping of the Colours, Burmese was normally her mount.) Alberta had a big party today; Saskatchewan is celebrating on the upcoming long weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/5 "2005-09-02T07:56:19Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > Saskatchewan is celebrating on the upcoming long weekend. Have fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/6 "2005-09-02T14:06:54Z")
Place must be run by a buncha commies, celebrating on Labour Day like that. 😛 ---
**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:** [September 4, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/7 "2005-09-04T03:22:07Z")
There was apparently a video of the huge birthday cake getting lit up indoors and going horribly wrong here in Calgary - complete with firemen putting out the cake and everything. My husband says he saw it on Big Boys or Nearly Good or somewhere last week, but I can’t find it now - has anybody seen this? Got a link? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/8 "2005-09-04T03:23:50Z")
_nose in the air_ Hmmmph. I kid! I kid! 😃 A very happy birthday to you, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and many more! _pops champagne cork, sings aloud to the Arrogant Worm’s “Last Saskatchewan Pirate”_ ---
**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:** [September 4, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/9 "2005-09-04T03:36:16Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > There was apparently a video of the huge birthday cake getting lit up indoors and going horribly wrong here in Calgary - complete with firemen putting out the cake and everything. My husband says he saw it on Big Boys or Nearly Good or somewhere last week, but I can’t find it now - has anybody seen this? Got a link? I saw it on the news. What a hoot! Worthy of Bob & Doug, and Red and his lodge brothers. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/10 "2005-09-04T03:45:10Z")
[video](http://www.cfcn.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/B/20050901/cakemishap?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&slug=cakemishap&date=20050901&archive=CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=home&subnav=fullstory) ---
**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:** [September 4, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/11 "2005-09-04T03:55:32Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > (If you’ve seen pictures of her riding for the Trooping of the Colours, Burmese was normally her mount.) So much for Philip. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/12 "2005-09-04T04:03:20Z")
Oh, that’s too funny. And hardly anybody injured by the huge birthday cake, too - only a little smoke inhalation. (World record, indeed - best idea, poorly executed.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/13 "2005-09-05T05:13:41Z")
Them was some nifty fireworks. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/14 "2005-09-05T05:16:20Z")
agreed - but coulda done without the sappy voice-over… ---
**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:** [September 5, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/15 "2005-09-05T05:26:59Z")
And even more important than the fireworks: Riders 45 - Bombers 26 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/16 "2005-09-05T05:30:15Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > agreed - but coulda done without the sappy voice-over… Can’t disagree there. A few bits of it I didn’t mind, but most of it was wince-inducingly trite. I was disappointed in the “custom” shells that were supposed to look like prairie lilies, too. Partly because I’m not even sure which ones they were. But, nitpicking aside, far and away the best display ever seen in Saskatoon. I missed the game. Did they tauntingly mime banjo-picking again? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/17 "2005-09-05T05:46:27Z")
Nope - just called out “West - wooood” every time he came on. He missed one FG for a rouge. But oddly, neither side was trying for FGs. The first half, neither team got into range, and the second half both sides kept scoring TDs on their drives - truly, it was a Classic. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-saskatchewan-alberta-too/319697/18 "2005-09-05T05:48:12Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Can’t disagree there. A few bits of it I didn’t mind, but most of it was wince-inducingly trite. I was disappointed in the “custom” shells that were supposed to look like prairie lilies, too. Partly because I’m not even sure which ones they were. But, nitpicking aside, far and away the best display ever seen in Saskatoon. > > I missed the game. Did they tauntingly mime banjo-picking again? The ones that looked like hearts were very cool though.