July 1 - Canada Day

 Posted on July 1, 2021

This is an update of my post published on July 1, 2010:

This national holiday celebrates the day the provinces of Canada united under one government in 1867.

Here's a quick quiz on Canada:

1) What is the capital of Canada?

a. Ottawa 

b. Toronto 

c. Montreal 

2) What are the two official languages of Canada?

3) Who is the head of state of Canada?

4) What is Canada's rank in size, compared to 194 other nations of the world?

a. largest
b. second largest
c. fifth largest 

5) What is Canada's rank in population, compared to 194 other nations of the world?

a. #7
b. #17 

c. #37

6) Name one of Canada's provinces or territories.

7) Name one of Canada's First Nations or other native groups (in other words, the various groups of people whose ancestors lived in the region before European settlers arrived).

Answers below...In the meantime, Canada has some of THE most beautiful landscapes of the world (in my opinion), so...enjoy:

ANSWERS: 

1. a
2. French and English
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. b
5. c
6. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut

7. There are hundreds of correct answers to this question. By definition, the various peoples of the Arctic, the Inuit, are not considered First Nations, but they do qualify as "other native groups."  The Métis are those with mixed ancestry - mixed First Nations, or mixed First Nation with European - and are also excluded from the term "First Nations." Some commonly known First Nations include Mi'kmaq, Tlingit, Cree, Haida, Blackfoot, and Ojibwa. Here is a partial list.

Also on this date:

 

Postal – Postage Day  

 

Worldwide patriotic holidays

Dancer / choreographer Twyla Tharp's birthday

Independence Day in Burundi

Anniversary of the first public zoo in the US

Author George Sand’s birthday 

Emancipation Day in Sint Eustatius

Keti Koti in Suriname

ZIP Code Day

Crown Shyness

Plan ahead:

Check out my Pinterest boards for:

• July holidays

• July birthdays

• Historical anniversaries in July

And here are my Pinterest boards for:

• August holidays

• August birthdays

• Historical anniversaries in August

October 18, 2010

Persons Day – Canada

Women are persons!

That was the big revelation in the court case decided on this day in 1929, and it enabled Canadian women to be treated equally, including being considered qualified for appointment to the Senate.

Canada has been considered a nation rather than a colony of Great Britain since the British North American Act of 1867, which served as the country's first Constitution. (From 1867 to 1975, there have been many BNA Acts, and in 1982 many acts were amended or repealed, and the rest were renamed Constitution Acts.)

For years women were not able to be appointed to the Senate because “qualified persons” in the Constitution were defined as men. Even Canada's Supreme Court unanimously stated that the 1867 law, which was passed when women could neither vote nor run for any office, couldn't possibly have been written with the possibility of women being considered a qualified person. It took an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain to overturn the ruling and state that women were persons!

Emily Murphy, pictured here, spearheaded the movement to include women as qualified persons in Canada.

Want more?

There is a lot of information about women's rights movements (especially historical) in the U.S., but it isn't as easy to find out stuff about women's rights movements all over the world. Here's a website with some interesting looking articles. 

And here is a website with a timeline of women's rights in Canada.