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Date:         Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:22:02 -0400
Reply-To:     Mark Hersh <markhersh@MSN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Hersh <markhersh@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Happy Holidays to our friends in the Great White North

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:21:48 -0700, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


>Thanks Don.  Someone else also caught me up to modern times, Canada Day vs.
>Dominion Day.  Some people just never do get the word...
>
>On 7/2/07, Don Spence <dkspence@telus.net> wrote:
>>
>> Well Loren, that may be because we have called it Canada Day since
>> 1982. But thanks for the thought!!  And belated birthday greetings to
>> you.  Canada celebrated it's 140th. How about you?
>>
>>
>>


Living in the States, I don't have too much occasion to refer to Canada Day
or Dominion Day, but I still call Nov. 11 "Armistice Day" and May
30 "Decoration Day," because I am against the dilution or changing
holidays, especially considering the significance of those two events (WWI
and the American Civil War).  I'm not much for "President's Day" for the
same reasons...


Don, my calendar says that Nov. 11 in Canada is called Remembrance Day.  Is
it for WWI, for military veterans, or pretty much for anyone that has
passed?


Mark Hersh
86 Weekender "Monty"
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