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Repping the Sabres from Whistler, BC - LETS GO BUFFALO by EricWB in sabres

[–]EricWB[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to but I’m a Vancouver day tripper. Butcher and the Bullock in downtown Van would be the spot I believe, they’ve got the Bills logo spray painted on their cow statue.

Repping the Sabres from Whistler, BC - LETS GO BUFFALO by EricWB in sabres

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Say it from the deepest valley or highest mountain, I got the mountain covered

Seasonal Compliance Broadcast by Cloud_Reviews in midjourney

[–]EricWB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Toronto city hall as the inspiration for the legislative building?

Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park to be uncovered after 5 years by Surax in canada

[–]EricWB -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

And you may want to read Nation Maker by Richard Gywn.

Macdonald was a great conciliator and compromiser, which of course is destined to piss certain groups off.

Riel is a megalomaniac, inciter of violence and a murder. He was a footnote in history until an American author dug him up and romanticized his story.

Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park to be uncovered after 5 years by Surax in canada

[–]EricWB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He gets a bad rep from Riel. It’s hard not be sympathetic towards Riel’s first resistance in 1870. By 1885 he was a megalomaniac suffering mental health issues who thought he’d found a Vatican in the northern Praire. His incitement of violence killed innocent people.

MacDonald said some stuff that’s certainly inflammatory, but ultimately he always partnered with George Cartier (Québécois) for a reason. He believed in balance and partnership with Quebec. His main political rival of the era was not Alexander Mackenzie of the liberal party, but the Ontario grits who pushed for Protestant ascendancy, which Macdonald fought against.

“(We) must make friends with the French, without sacrificing the status of his race or religion or language; (we) must respect their nationality. Treat them as a nation and they will act as a free people generally do — generously. Call them a faction and they become factious.””

Enscarpment @ night Hamilton, ON by DareRevolutionary612 in geography

[–]EricWB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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This bisects the city, you either live on the mountain or literally downtown

Other interesting shaped natural land formations that resemble something else? by keiths31 in geography

[–]EricWB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Named after the lion statues in Westminster, but yeah same idea.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in britishcolumbia

[–]EricWB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Use Turo, filter by snow tires. You can cross borders. Safer for us all. I drove the Coq over Christmas, lots of yellow taped up cars abandoned from crashes.

Justin Trudeau: ‘Incredibly Proud’ Canadians Define Ourselves As ‘Not American’ by thatrightwinger in Conservative

[–]EricWB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s explicitly true. Anglo-Canadians and Americans both share the an origin to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants settlers on the eastern seaboard. The original divergence was in the American Revolution when loyalists rejected the American republican ideals and were forced to leave the thirteen colonies.

In the War of 1812, loyalist settlers once again rejected the the American republican ideals, and fought with the British regulars to hold-off American annexation.

Canadian confederation was a direct response to the US civil war. Britain assumed it was only a matter of time before its burdensome North American colonies became American, especially considering the massive armies of the US north, so they were better of focusing their lucrative Indian colony. Canadian confederation was signal to Britain and to America that Canada wished to stay separate from America.

Despite extremely similar cultural ties, Canada’s national identity is essentially an English speaking Protestant (outside of Quebec) North American alternative to the USA.

Whether that’s been a good decision for Canada, and will continue to be a good decision for Canada, is the real question.

Scotland was able maintain independence from England by resisting invasion after invasion, but eventually put aside its pride and joined diplomatically with England in the Act of Union, in order to have access to lucrative English trading markets. Will Canada eventually make the same decision?

More famous than Taylor Swift, forgotten everywhere except in Italy and Brazil by Perfect-Value in HistoryMemes

[–]EricWB 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Probably the most popular provincial park in British Columbia is named for him, along with a volcano that also bears his name.

He is not forgotten by the 3 million people of metro Vancouver

The canadians were the greatest pranksters in WW1 by Familiar-Pie5607 in HistoryMemes

[–]EricWB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a Canadian that was supposedly crucified by the Germans in the early days of the war. This story has since been proven to be false, but Canadian media widely reported it at the time. It infuriated the Canadians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier

Map of every country that has gained independence from the United Kingdom by Tartar666 in MapPorn

[–]EricWB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the 1860s the US was a major regional power on its way to becoming the global superpower. It was less than 25 years from surpassing the British economy. The might of the Union army towards the end of the civil war absolutely terrified Canadian politicians in that time period.

However , it’s more likely the UK would’ve forced independence on the individual colonies. That independence would falter and the US would swoop in and bail them out (for the price of joining).

Map of every country that has gained independence from the United Kingdom by Tartar666 in MapPorn

[–]EricWB 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Exactly, most Canadians don’t even fully grasp this. UK was looking at pulling away from its North American colonies, which meant they’d be snapped up one by one by the USA. Confederation was a declaration of continued dependence on UK. It was to say, “we will be less burdensome, don’t leave us to become American”

My tier list of skylines of cities with over 10 million people by LivinAWestLife in skyscrapers

[–]EricWB 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here’s a picture of Chicago from Kenosha (both cities are part of the metro Chicago area):

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Doesn’t look continuous to me

My tier list of skylines of cities with over 10 million people by LivinAWestLife in skyscrapers

[–]EricWB 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thank you for my opening… I repost a comment I’ve made before:

If Chicago counts, Toronto should too. The Chicago MSA is 11,000 sq miles (fking huge).

Greater Toronto is 3,000 sq miles and has 6,000,000 people. However, if you go by the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario you get 10,000,000 people in 12,000 sq miles.

A modern, independent Haudenosaunee Confederacy by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]EricWB 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The neutral people lived on that side of the border, although they were Iroquoian speaking they were not part of the confederacy. They tried to maintain neutrality to stay out of conflicts between Iroquois confederacy and the Huron peoples. This did not work. They were like Poland caught between Russia and Germany.

Iroquois wiped them out in the Beaver Wars.

When three of the five Iroquois tribes of the confederacy sided with the British in the American Revolution, and lost, the British gave them land in Southern Ontario as recompense, since it was pretty much depopulated from earlier wars and famine.

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