HAPPY DOMINION DAY!

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Ben doesn't even live in Canada any more. He's obviously trolling.

[joncha]

What delusion? The reason July 1st is celebrated is because it's July 1st, 1869 - when the United Kingdom established Canada as a Dominion. Hence, Dominion Day.

1867

The fact that it was changed only in 1982 after being celebrated for more than a century as Dominion Day speaks volumes. Changing the brand doesn't change reality.

The name was changed to reflect the new reality. Or would you rather, say, be celebrating Yule or Sol Invictus than Christmas?

[SlowwHand]

"most stupid", not "stupidest".

[Ben Kenobi]

The name was changed to reflect the new reality.

What new reality? It's still the same country.

Or would you rather, say, be celebrating Yule or Sol Invictus than Christmas?

This argument only works if you believe that Canada Day celebrates something different from Dominion Day. They both celebrate the same thing.

And blag. Typed too quickly.

[Ben Kenobi]

So instead of respecting all of Canada's veterans from all wars, as Remembrance Day as it was renamed in the 1930's does, you want to only respect those (who are all dead now) who served in the First World War.

Remembrance day is still Armistice Day in England. If it's good enough for the Queen, its good enough for us.

And if you, as a Marine are offended by the commemoration of Armistice Day, I don't know what to tell you. The cenotaphs list all the military deaths in all the wars. Most, (but not all) date to the first and second world wars. Canada doesn't have a Veteran's Day.

Veteran's Day can be any day, but only Armistice Day can be November 11th.

[Al B. Sure!]

Remembrance day is still Armistice Day in England. If it's good enough for the Queen, its good enough for us.

No it is not. As far as I can tell, the British celebrate Remembrance Sunday instead of Armistice Day. Armistice Day gets two minutes of silence and that may only date to 1995. Remembrance Sunday is the British holiday and has been since 1945, before the Queen. Armistice Day wasn't even a thing between 1945 to 1995.

And if you, as a Marine are offended by the commemoration of Armistice Day, I don't know what to tell you. The cenotaphs list all the military deaths in all the wars. Most, (but not all) date to the first and second world wars. Canada doesn't have a Veteran's Day.

Veteran's Day can be any day, but only Armistice Day can be November 11th.

Canada does have a Veteran's Day. It's called Remembrance Day and it's celebrated on November 11th.

In Canada, Remembrance Day is a public holiday and federal statutory holiday, as well as a statutory holiday in all three territories and in six of the ten provinces (Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec being the exceptions).[8][9][10][11] From 1921 to 1930, the Armistice Day Act provided that Thanksgiving would be observed on Armistice Day, which was fixed by statute on the Monday of the week in which 11 November fell. In 1931, the federal parliament adopted an act to amend the Armistice Day Act, providing that the day should be observed on 11 November and that the day should be known as "Remembrance Day".[12]

The federal department of Veterans Affairs Canada states that the date is of "remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace"; specifically, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all conflicts since then in which members of the Canadian Forces have participated.

[ZEE]

No it is not. As far as I can tell, the British celebrate Remembrance Sunday instead of Armistice Day. Armistice Day gets two minutes of silence and that may only date to 1995. Remembrance Sunday is the British holiday and has been since 1945, before the Queen. Armistice Day wasn't even a thing between 1945 to 1995.



Canada does have a Veteran's Day. It's called Remembrance Day and it's celebrated on November 11th.

This would make a good vocaroo Poast.

[Ben Kenobi]

Canada does have a Veteran's Day. It's called Remembrance Day and it's celebrated on November 11th.

Which is Armistice Day.

Armistice Day gets two minutes of silence and that may only date to 1995.

Uh, no.

http://people.becon.org/~rcl138/milestone.php

It's been the tradition pretty much forever.

There have been several accounts of the origin of the two minute silence, but most agree that it began in South Africa before the end of the 1st World War. In April, 1918, the German offensive on the western front was still in full force, and there was fear, not only for loved ones, but for the outcome of the war. As losses mounted, the Mayor of Capetown, Sir Harry Hands made a general appeal to citizens to observe a special silence. On May 14th, the noon canon sounded, followed by a bugler playing the “Last Post”, and then “Reveille” to signal the end of the silence. This was repeated every day until the Armistice was signed at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918.

A local correspondent described the scene as the town fell quiet, “It was a most solemn and inspiring function, the effect was magical. There was always a great crowd in Adderly Street at midday, but the observance seems even more striking in the less frequented streets.”

A Reuters correspondent in Capetown cabled a description of the event back to London, and from there word spread to Canada and Australia. Within a few weeks reports were being received in London that the silence was being observed in towns across the Commonwealth. At the conclusion of World War I, the two minute silence became the accepted form of remembrance.

I remember them blowing reveille at the Cenotaph services every year, Albie.

[Al B. Sure!]

That article asking Canadians to honor a moment of silence is from 1999, Ben. Own goal

[Ben Kenobi]

That article asking Canadians to honor a moment of silence is from 1999, Ben. Own goal

Do the marines not require literacy? It provides a citation from a source dating back to the First World War, where they did just that.

[Al B. Sure!]

And it said people stopped doing it for decades. Are you illiterate or willfully dishonest?

[Ben Kenobi]

And it said people stopped doing it for decades. Are you illiterate or willfully dishonest?

Your argument was, "it dates back no earlier than 1992", and yet I gave you a citation proving that it was done when the day was first celebrated.

It's a tradition, continues to be the tradition and will go on being the tradition.

You know, Albie, it's ok to admit that you were wrong.

I still don't understand your antipathy for Armistice Day.

[molly bloom]

Yes, I would have been one and a bit.

One what ? The bit we know- a bit stupid because you were only young.

Ben should go **** himself!

I have something else in mind that could do the job...



Horny,horny...

[molly bloom]

What new reality? It's still the same country.

When did Newfoundland join Canada ?

[Al B. Sure!]

Your argument was, "it dates back no earlier than 1992", and yet I gave you a citation proving that it was done when the day was first celebrated.

It's a tradition, continues to be the tradition and will go on being the tradition.

You know, Albie, it's ok to admit that you were wrong.

I still don't understand your antipathy for Armistice Day.

I am on a tablet on a train so I cannot copy and paste or type effectively to show you are wrong and or a dishonest lying turd. The link you postef specfically says thay the moment of silence was common in the 1950s but nowin 1999 the orhanization is asking for that to be revived because canafians wete not doing it.

Firthermore, the same organixation promoting the moment of silence itself specifically descrives the day as the ladt remembrance day, not armistice day, you lyiny piece of excrement who deserves every heap of scorn and misforune he had ever had in his life