Commemoration of the Great Upheaval

[Daisy]

I have one of those "international" calendars that have holidays from all over the world and its says that on July 28 Canada celebrates this holiday.

What I want to know is: "What is it?" Commemoration of a day of mass binge drinking across the northlands and the subesequent 'upheaval'?

Those Canadians are such a screwy lot... you just never know.

 

[Ronny Shade]

me neither

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

It's a commemoration of the day the enslaved Canadians fought off their Yeti oppressors, and God came down from the Mountain and gave them hockey and put maple syrup on their ham.....


seriously

 

[Tsunulia]

It's a commemoration of the day the enslaved Canadians fought off their Yeti oppressors, and God came down from the Mountain and gave them hockey and put maple syrup on their ham.....

*chants* AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaameeeeeeen

 

[Erzengel]

I remember it was Canada day the other day. I did everything slower.

 

[Norman Osborn]

I have one of those "international" calendars that have holidays from all over the world and its says that on July 28 Canada celebrates this holiday.

What I want to know is: "What is it?" Commemoration of a day of mass binge drinking across the northlands and the subesequent 'upheaval'?

Those Canadians are such a screwy lot... you just never know.

It's actually a relatively new Canadian Holiday....(See Sheila Copps).....2006 may actually be the first year it's being celebrated....it pertains to the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1700's

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

actually if I was forced to guess what it actually was, I'd say it has something to do with a revolt against something unscrupulous that the British did.
Practically every holiday in the Western Hemisphere revolves around commemorating a day when people kicked someone from England's ass...

 

[Norman Osborn]

actually if I was forced to guess what it actually was, I'd say it has something to do with a revolt against something unscrupulous that the British did.
Practically every holiday in the Western Hemisphere revolves around commemorating a day when people kicked someone from England's ass...

Good guess

 

[Daisy]

It's actually a relatively new Canadian Holiday....(See Sheila Copps).....2006 may actually be the first year it's being celebrated....it pertains to the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1700's

But... but... the Acadians were cool?

 

[Daisy]

actually if I was forced to guess what it actually was, I'd say it has something to do with a revolt against something unscrupulous that the British did.
Practically every holiday in the Western Hemisphere revolves around commemorating a day when people kicked someone from England's ass...

Well, that's kind what I figured, but it just sounds funny.

 

[Norman Osborn]

But... but... the Acadians were cool?

Not in the eyes of the British when they refused to swear an oath that would require they bear arms against the French....or something like that....

 

[Daisy]

Not in the eyes of the British when they refused to swear an oath that would require they bear arms against the French....or something like that....

Well that probably had something to do with the Acadians being of French ancestory. Why would Canadians be celebrating this? I mean, aren't celebrations of historical intolerance kind of... oh I don't know... out of fashion these days?

 

[Norman Osborn]

Well that probably had something to do with the Acadians being of French ancestory. Why would Canadians be celebrating this? I mean, aren't celebrations of historical intolerance kind of... oh I don't know... out of fashion these days?

Celebration was the wrong word to use........it's more of a memorial of the Acadian people and how they've impacted Canada.....

Edited to add.....instead of mucking this up due a failing memory.....try this

http://www.pch.gc.ca/newsroom/index_e.cfm?fuseaction=displayDocument&DocIDCd=3N0412

 

[Daisy]

Got it. Commemoration seems like the wrong word to me. That makes it sound like 'honoring'. It's like a memorial to those who were upheaved... not sure that's a word.

That makes far more sense. Thanks.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

their Yeti oppressors,

Lol.
They forced them to churn their butter and stuff. Hahaha

 

[The Amazing Lee]

What is this thing you call Canada?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

It's like a memorial to those who were upheaved...

If I ever got a chance to upheave you I'd memorialize it.
:nonsanely horny:

 

[WeaponZ2]

It's a commemoration of the day the enslaved Canadians fought off their Yeti oppressors, and God came down from the Mountain and gave them hockey and put maple syrup on their ham.....


seriously

Close, but thats in April.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Okay, I'm sobering up now and I'm sorry I said I want to cause the Great Upheaval in Daisy.
lol

 

[Morg]

bah, Canada should have a national holiday to celebrate the birth of Elisha Cuthbert

 

[boywonder13]

I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Upheaval