Happy Canada Day.. Let's Celebrate

Aunt Bea said:
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Are there any special foods that are essential for a Canada Day celebration? 🤔
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We always had cold ham, potato salad, coleslaw or anything that can be barbecued.
Strawberry shortcake, butter tarts , Maple Leaf Cookies , pancakes with Maple Syrup
and of course red and white wine....all essentials in my opinion:ROFLMAO:
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Mizmo said:
We always had cold ham, potato salad, coleslaw or anything that can be barbecued.
Strawberry shortcake, butter tarts , Maple Leaf Cookies , pancakes with Maple Syrup
and of course red and white wine....all essentials in my opinion:ROFLMAO:
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Years ago, we would head for Gananoque and gorge on butter tarts! 🐷🐷🐷
 

🇨🇦 HAPPY CANADA DAY! 🇨🇦

Canada Day, People celebrating with fireworks
 
My paternal grandparents were Canucks. We always spent the entire week celebrating Canada Day and July 4 at their cottage at the lake, called the "Frog Pond."

"We" included all the aunts and uncles and cousins. When the streetcars were gotten rid of in our hometown, Grandpa bought two, towed them to the lake, gutted them and built bunkbeds to accommodate all the cousins. The aunts and uncles took turns sleeping in the bunks and traded off getting to sleep in the second bedroom in the cottage.

There was an icebox and kerosene lamps because we had no electricity, water from a pump because there was no running water, and we had a two-seater outhouse. We caught fish in the lake as soon as it was daylight for Grandma to fry for breakfast, fresh berries picked by all the kids and turned over to Grandma well before noon so she could make pies for dinner. Dinner was at noon.

In the evening? We had a wind-up victrola and lots of old records so we could listen to music and dance. Grandma would save magazines to leave at the lake so we'd have something to read, and she'd take the Milwaukee Journal and the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune down on Sundays. We used the funny papers to make kites.

It was a lot of work, and we thought it was fun. I never did ask Grandma if she thought it was fun.

ETA: I just remembered something about Grandma's kitchen. She had an old wood stove that had a sort of tank behind it for water. The heat from the stove heated up the water. It's what we used to wash dishes. Can you imagine how hot that kitchen must have been when the cooking started at the butt crack of dawn and lasted all day long? Oy!
 
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Michael Z said:
I think there are way more than 3000 lakes. Some estimate that there are over a million if you count the very small lakes.
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  • Canada is often called the "land of 10,000 lakes," but it actually has far more than that, with estimates ranging from 2 million to 3 million.
      • Global Significance:
        Canada holds a significant portion of the world's freshwater reserves.


 
Aunt Bea said:
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Are there any special foods that are essential for a Canada Day celebration? 🤔
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A few that we like.......Nanimo Bars, Butter Tarts, Alberta prime beef steaks ( no additives or steroids allowed ) Nova Scotia Lobster, Poutine ( crispy French fried potatoes, covered with cheddar cheese and a variety of different meat gravies ) Some strong craft beer, like Atomic Monkeys, or Dragon's Breath, both with a ten percent alcohol level. A Jigg's Dinner, a Newfoundland meal of boiled beef, cabbage, potatoes and brewis.

Some of the ethnic choices could include Tiki Masala Butter Chicken, Baclava, Falafal, Hummus, and Samosas. JIM.
 
Canada has the longest shoreline in the world, and we have three Ocean coasts, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. Canada has six time zones, so a quarter of the world's surface is located in Canada. Only Russia is larger than Canada in terms of it's square kilometer size. Canada's national population is now 41 million people, but the population density is very low, at just three people, per square Kilometer of land.

BOTH Quebec and Ontario are bigger than the US State of Texas. Ontario has a square mile area of 415,000 miles, while Quebec has a 595,000 square mile area, and Texas is only 268 ,000 square miles in area. In total Canada has at least TWO MILLION LAKES within the country. This amounts to 15 percent of ALL the fresh water on Earth. JIM.
 
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