Happy Dominion Day ...
I lived in Hamilton, Ontario for two years when I was in Graduate School - and then one more year after Graduation. I met my Wife there, and it was there that we began our Life together.
There is a great statue of critical National importance outside the Hamilton Court House. I used to visit it quite regularly as it was at a key Bus Transfer point in the City.
Upon this Dominion Day, I think it behooves us all to remember just how and why this Country came into being; and that it grew from the soil of sacrifice of the millions who went before us. Upon their toil we owe our all.
Lest We Forget.
posted by Aeneas the Younger @ 6:44 pm
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3 Comments:
Not many people seem to realize, Aeneas, that the United Empire Loyalists didn't just leave the United States. They fled and escaped with little more than their lives and the clothes on their backs!!
We really do need to remember them with thanksgiving on this day, as we celebrate what they did for us all.
A Mari Usque ad Mare (usque ad Mare??)!!!
penny:
You're very correct, and the critical passage in the link is:
"The United Empire Loyalists, believing that a monarchy was better than a republic, and shrinking with abhorrence from a dismemberment of the Empire, were willing, rather than lose the one and endure the other, to bear with temporary injustice. Taking up arms for the King, they passed through all the horrors of civil war and bore what was worse than death, the hatred of their fellow-countrymen, and, when the battle went against them, sought no compromise, but, forsaking every possession excepting their honour, set their faces toward the wilderness of British North America to begin, amid untold hardships, life anew under the flag they revered."
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Happy Dominion Day week-end! I've recovered from my traffic battles of yesterday, driving home from Toronto.
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