Today is a very special day. It’s Canada’s 145th birthday, commonly known as Canada Day. Canada Day is celebrated on July 1st across the country and marks the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada – that’s the technical explanation, but Canada Day also means fireworks, parades, concerts, festivals, and basically the year’s biggest national party. It’s extra special this year because July 1st falls on a Sunday which means the holiday is moved to Monday, July 2nd which is MY BIRTHDAY!!! Yay me, it’s almost like all the parties will be for me!! LOL
One of our national symbols is the maple leaf which you will find on Canada’s flag, so in honour of my great country’s birthday, I give you the maple leaf!
Happy Birthday Canada, and I hope all of my fellow Canadians have an awesome long weekend!!! Mine started off great at Big Music Fest in Owen Sound, Ontario yesterday, and I will be posting photos in the next few days :).
photos from the loonybin 
Oh Canada! We lived there for 5 years when I was a kid.
Did you love it here? I’m sure you did :). It’s such a beautiful country.
Loved it!!!
🙂
Happy Canada Day – and thanks for the maple leaf!
You are welcome and Happy Canada Day to you too :). I hope your day was as wonderful as mine was! My hubby and I hopped in the car this morning and spent the whole day driving along the shores of Lake Huron photographing lighthouses.
what a lovely way to spend the day — my hubby and I hopped in the car, got a Tim Horton’s frozen lemonade and drove along the shore of Lake Erie – not nearly the adventure you had, but we got out and about – cannot wait to see your lighthouses –I think they are so stately
Your day sounds wonderful too, especially with a Timmy’s lemonade!! 🙂
Happy Birthday to both you and Canada!
Thanks Dan!! 🙂
Yay! Happy Canada day, but more importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 🙂
Thank you! It has been a really busy couple of days (as you will see from all the new photos I have coming up) and I am looking forward to sitting on my deck in the hot sun tomorrow reading a good book :).
I do hope you really enjoyed your special day. 🙂
Still am!! It’s about 28 degrees celcius today and sunny, and I’m relaxing on my deck. Yay!!!
Happy Birthday for tomorrow! Woop woop! 🙂
Thanks Becky! I can’t wait to see what my hubby has planned for dessert tomorrow. Last year it was a totally decadent chocolate brownie cake :). Yummy!!!!
My grandfather lived up in Canada for a time. He had a fishing fleet there, but returned to the US later.
Happy Birthday to you.
Thank you so much :). Where did your grandfather live in Canada?
We think it was in Alberta. I’ve been trying to track down where exactly it was he lived, but no luck. It was in the 1920s.
Have you ever tried checking census records? I have been working on my family tree, and the information available on Canadian census records is incredible.
I use Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and a few other websites, but I haven’t run across his name. I only seen one person around that time living in Alberta with the name Burdett/Burdette and correct birth year, but their first name was wrong. Does Canada have a website that allows you to search its Census?
I’m not sure because I have a full membership to Ancestry, so I just use that. If you don’t have a membership I could look him up for you sometime if you want.
Oh, that would be wonderful!
When you get a chance email me at loonybin@sympatico.ca with his full name, his birth date, his date of death, wife’s name if he was married at the time – basically any information you have about him, and I will check it out. I love doing stuff like that!! I should really be in a research job of some kind LOL.
Next year we’ll be joining in the celebrations with you!!! Happy Canada day & veeeeeeeery happy birthday!!! 😀 **
You will have so much fun!! There are fireworks in many towns and cities and people get really into the celebrations, painting red maple leaves on their faces and wearing Canada t-shirts. As you know, I got my birthday present early (my Canon Rebel T3i), and I put it to good use today. I took tons of photos!!
Happy Birthday to both of you 🙂
Thanks! It was a beautiful Canada Day here – hot and sunny – and tomorrow looks like it’s going to be just as gorgeous for my birthday. Yay!!!