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Revelling in our wide open attitudes

CANADA Day, We
used to call it some-
thing else, what was
it? CO

Oh yes, L remember,
Queen Victoria's .
Birthday, and the pring:
pal of the school would
gather us all cogether
and expound on haw

‘hicky we were,

The lucky part, as far
as we kids were con
cerned, was that we gota
day off school — we
used to yell it out “..and
if we don’t get a holiday
we'll all run away,”
Remember}

All very well ina eli:
mate like this one, but iu’
the-North the snow was
still taking its time to
melt, and mud was ram-
pant, but we didn’t have
much in the way of cele-
bration in my town any-
way,

The Old Sweats would

. gather on the Court
" House steps and the

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Mayor would make a
speech and they might
even take a stab at
marching along George
Street with a drum going
rat-a-tat-tat before they
headed for the Legion
and some warming liq-
wiels,

We didn’t really think
about the background of

the day off, it was part of

the deal, that’s all, We
were safe in our sober
conscientious country, in
danger only of being
bored to death,

The wide expanses
provided good farmland
and limitless possibilities
for making a brand new
world, but it also made

Intagling and geting to
know your neighbor
rather ditticutt,

Now Canada has
grown up and has
become a very attractive
living place for the
tumberless people
in the world who
have never known
the relief of elbow
room for every
bady, We no
longer rely much
on the guidance
and support Of our so-
called Mother Country,

We're a tremendous
mix: there must amongst
us be some of every cul-
ture on the map. And a
lor of them are here with

us beeatse af the turmoil

they were glad to leave
behind them,

So Canada has
hecome a polyglot, of
colors and (iiths and

“ We're a tremendous
mix: there must amongst
us be some of every cul-
ture on the map.”

intentions, and we have
replaced the celebration
of the long gone Queen
with Canada Day —
singing our country’s
virtues rather than those
of the remote monarch.

Paradise Valley

When [was a child in
the North, i die early
‘Tiventles, the few people
on the firms in our area
were mostly from
Sweden and Norway,
familiar with the
sort OF Winters
we endured,
doing their best
to make a decent
home and bring
up their kids to
do better than
they had,

- They were all hard
working and
indomitable, and at our
Christmas concerts, the
only time in the year that

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