Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Happy 14th of July

I'm thinking they would abbolish the 14th huh? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Why ??? A lot of french people do not know the french history.
For them, 14th of july is just a day off, a nice day to have fun, like 31st of december ou "la fête de la musique" !

could you tell me a few words about your Canada day ?

Forget the question about Canada day, it's explained in the topic "Happy Canada Day". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

is this called Bastille Day?

i know a song by RUSH called Bastille Day?......any similarities! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

The thing that i disagree with Canada day is that it is the unification of the upper and lower of Canada...most of the rest of the Canadaian provinces didn't technically exsist yet...There was Rupert's Land - owned by the Hudson Bay Company - which is now present day Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. After they were bought from the Hudson's Bay company - they were renamed Northwest Territories...which is now Northern Canada... ????? I mean my province, didn't even join the conferderation until 1905. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Anyway...if i have not given you enough of a history lesson... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> More eastern stuff... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

yep <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> barta i believe it is.....

RUSH...the band!

Bastille Day....the song!

one of canada's greatest exports!.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Hello Carrie
That appears very complicated, do you mean that the old provinces do not exist anymore or have they just less powers ?
You said that you do not know a lot of things of the french history.
I have to say that i know nothing about the canadian history,
except that Canada had been discovered by Jacques Cartier.

Hello Jurak

"There's no bread, let them eat cake"
Poor people were starving, and Marie Antoinette should have said something like that.
"The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise"
It is an allusion to Louis XVI
"La guillotine will claim her bloody prize" and "See them bow their heads to die" :
How to cut off heads.

I have found the words but i could not hear the music.

The death penalty was abolished in France at the beginning of the years 1980,
and since the guillotine never functioned again.

to bad for DATD <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Kinda confusing yes...
Originally, it was upper and lower Canada, when they united it became conferderation, and that is July 1.

Rupert's Land - originally owned by the Hudson's Bay company, but it was bought by Canada. Rupert's Land when it was bought by Canada, became The Northwest Territory (that is what Canada re-named it) All of this space was present day Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Territories.

Through the years, new provinces were created out of Northwest Territory.

They do excist now, but didn't prior to 1900's (ish) Then they were NWT, and NWT does still excist, but it just much smaller, becasue other provinces got space...

Does that make sence???? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

i wonder who discoverd canada, i'm bad in history/geogrofy/spelling



hmm, i've heard rumours that Leif Ericson descoved it too, true or not?

Some helpful and intresting links...

http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/rlo_1870.html

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2994-e.html

And some maps, that show how it all envolved...

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.1-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.2-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.3-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.4-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.5-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.6-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.7-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.9-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.10-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.11-e.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2101.12-e.html

I live in Edmonton, Alberta <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> (Last map shows it well....)

Faile - now you can see exactly where Vancover is. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Nope - not true.
Jacques Cartier from France did in 1534. He was the first European (besides the Vikings...) on Canadian soil.

Leif Ericsson, the son of Eric the Red, settled in Groenland/Greenland.

hmm...i think perhaps native americans and inuits and such discovered canada.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> since they were there first, anyway. the cave people who crossed over into north america discovered it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

i always thought it was marlon perkins! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I did say he was the first European to land on Canadian soil....

hey <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> i'm a cave people too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

HUH???? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

so you did.... i just like being a little [nocando]head. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

i've been taking a history class this summer, and i learned there is evidence of africans in north america long long before any vikings.... when egypt was in it's prime.