[LMB] OT: Nine Nations, was Happy Thanksgiving

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:31:18 -0500 (EST), James Nicoll 
<jdnicoll at panix.com> wrote:

 > If you only had said "Atlantic Provinces", I could have
 > pointed out that Newfoundland was once an independent nation
 > and that as a result of its independent history, July 1st, which
 > is a day of celebration in the rest of Canada, is for them a day
 > of mourning, since it is the day the Newfoundland Regiment was
 > annihilated at Beumont-Hamel: of the 801 or so soldiers who
 > marched out into the Somme, 68 reported for duty the next day.

My political mentor Bob Sherwood used to remark occasionally, in re: 
Canadian nationalism, that there were two nations in Canada: Quebec and 
Newfoundland.

 > Even within Ontario, I think Southern Ontario is distinct from
 > the North and East and within S Ontario, nobody would confuse
 > Toronto with Kitchener (I live in an usually ethnically enriched
 > part of Kitchener, which if I recall the census right means that
 > only 87% of us are white).

Kitchener? Now I'm wondering if you know the loose concatenation of 
Julie Czerneda newsgroupies in K-W ... Ruth the Lady o' Muffins, Nicky 
K., Mark L., etc.
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