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Originally Posted by Mueti
Well of course. I guess what I was surprised at was just that it's named "Canada Day" which sounded somewhat international to me.
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It used to be called Confederation Day (I seem to recall when I was a kid it was called that, and NO that wasn't in 1867
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it's a celebration of Canada's birthday rather than a celebration of throwing off some yoke, Britain had a number of colonies in British North America that they integrated into the Dominon of Canada, in order to resist further United States' encroachment into the continent in opposition to US' Manifest Destiny (and that's straight out of my public school education).
[ And speaking of Empires, Canada was a loyal member of the British Empire for a long time, we still have "Victoria Day" (used to be called "Empire Day") in celebration of Queen Victoria, under her reign the Empire was at its zenith...]