I think it's just within the last year or so he's gone au natural with hair, but it's very striking!
I know sadly little about Canadian history despite growing up not far from the border, but I can't forget the year of independence—we used to travel through Canada annually, and we always ate at a restaurant called 1867.
Year of Confederation. We didn't really get independence. We kind of went, 'hey, Queen Victoria, is it cool if we become a country?" and she said 'yeah, go for it!' and so we did. Well, Upper and Lower Canada did. The rest of Canada didn't decide to join us until later. Newfoundland wouldn't come until 1949, even then they weren't really sure about it.
Canadian history has some very cool moments, but I don't think it gets as much attention since we don't have the same big film industry as other countries to do big movies about it, which is how a lot of history gets passed down these days. I can't even think of any good Canadian history films to check out. Paul Gross did an epic WWI film a little while ago, but I didn't find it very enjoyable. The story was really disjointed and the characters weren't likable. That's the only 'big' film I think of. There have been a few good tv movies and mini-series, but that's it. Mum just read a book called Barkskins by Annie Proulx which follows two families from the settling of Canada into modern times and really enjoyed it, but I haven't read it yet.
The biggest thing I find annoying is how often Canada gets left out of discussion during the world wars. I know we were fighting as part of the British empire, but Canadians captured Vimy Ridge, and Canadians had Juno beach on D-Day and Canadians liberated the Netherlands during WWII, and you'd think we weren't there at all.
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Date: 2017-05-28 10:10 pm (UTC)I know sadly little about Canadian history despite growing up not far from the border, but I can't forget the year of independence—we used to travel through Canada annually, and we always ate at a restaurant called 1867.
Year of Confederation. We didn't really get independence. We kind of went, 'hey, Queen Victoria, is it cool if we become a country?" and she said 'yeah, go for it!' and so we did. Well, Upper and Lower Canada did. The rest of Canada didn't decide to join us until later. Newfoundland wouldn't come until 1949, even then they weren't really sure about it.
Canadian history has some very cool moments, but I don't think it gets as much attention since we don't have the same big film industry as other countries to do big movies about it, which is how a lot of history gets passed down these days. I can't even think of any good Canadian history films to check out. Paul Gross did an epic WWI film a little while ago, but I didn't find it very enjoyable. The story was really disjointed and the characters weren't likable. That's the only 'big' film I think of. There have been a few good tv movies and mini-series, but that's it. Mum just read a book called Barkskins by Annie Proulx which follows two families from the settling of Canada into modern times and really enjoyed it, but I haven't read it yet.
The biggest thing I find annoying is how often Canada gets left out of discussion during the world wars. I know we were fighting as part of the British empire, but Canadians captured Vimy Ridge, and Canadians had Juno beach on D-Day and Canadians liberated the Netherlands during WWII, and you'd think we weren't there at all.