Canada Day

[iamlost]

This being Canada Day née Dominion Day 2021 aka the 154th anniversary of forming the Dominion of Canada via the confederation of the British North American colonies of Canada (which were divided into Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia I am having a personal Canadian film fest:

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Breakaway
Goon
Les Boys
La grande séduction
Manufactured Landscapes
Meatballs
Men with Brooms
Our Man in Tehran
Sabah
Strange Brew
The Grey Fox
Up the Yangze

Popcorn time!

[lucy24]

We will not talk about how few of those titles I recognize (including the one that I actually own). But I'm pretty sure Grey Fox was the movie that introduced me to the sublime Richard Farnsworth.

In the course of looking things up in connection with an ebook I worked on a couple of years ago, I learned that Canada's favorite pastime in its early years was rearranging the map. At the time of the book in question (1882), that included the Provisional District of Assiniboia, corresponding to the southern quarter of modern Saskatchewan plus a fair chunk of what is now Alberta; and the Provisional District of Athabasca, which is roughly the northern half of Alberta. I guess it was easier when there was just Ontario and Quebec, while everything else* was undifferentiated NWT.

* Always excepting Labrador and Newfoundland.

[NickMNS]

I learned that Canada's favorite pastime in its early years was rearranging the map.

Why the early years? We're still doing it, Nunavut was just added 1999, and let's no talk about Quebec's aspiration.

[phranque]

Canada's favorite pastime in its early years was rearranging the map

let's not forget their confusion over the ownership of Hans Island [en.wikipedia.org] or the confusion over several border situations with the US [en.wikipedia.org]

[NickMNS]

let's not forget their confusion over the ownership of Hans Island

Yup seems very Canadian, not the island per se, but that a bunch of "Europeans" are fighting over who get's to stake claim of Aboriginal/Inuit lands.

Happy Canada Day!

[lucy24]

Nunavut was just added 1999

But that was just a simple bifurcation of NWT (which, thanks to the creation of Yukon, hasn’t been northwest of anything in years). Although, if the territorial history of Quebec had gone a little differently, Nunavut would include what is now Nunavik.

a bunch of "Europeans" are fighting over who gets to stake claim of Aboriginal/Inuit lands

Remember in 2017 when Norway was talking about giving Finland a mountain? Aside from the utterly bogus constitutional argument that ultimately killed the idea, the biggest opposition came from indigenous Saami who didn't care for the prospect of additional southern tourists.