Hey, you should join fs_watchers! Various Buffy fans (including its founders entrenous88 and ponders_life) hang out there in the winter to discuss skating. It's not a terribly busy comm, but there are occasional good discussions. Have you read entrenous88's Spander on Ice (http://entrenous88.livejournal.com/tag/spander+on+ice)? If not, you should--it's hilarious. All our Buffyverse men, on skates, competing at US Nationals. Hee.
I suspect that typical Canajin's think Newfoundland's been a part of Canada forever, too. Certainly, it confuses the passport office when my mother goes to renew hers--she's not an immigrant, but neither was she born in Canada because Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949. There were two referendums held in the 1940s to decide Newfoundland's fate. The first one had three choices: stay independent (and impoverished), join Canada, and join the US. I believe the vote was evenly split among the three, though joining the US may have come out a little ahead. In any event, a second referendum was held later with only two choices: stay independent or join Canada. Join Canada won by a hair. Many people cried foul and claimed conspiracy theories (the film Secret Nation tells the story of one conspiracy theory), the main jist of which was that Britain didn't want us, the US didn't want us, so a deal was struck and Canada got 'stuck' with us.
I bet that was more than you wanted to know, wasn't it? :-)
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Date: 2007-06-06 01:07 am (UTC)I suspect that typical Canajin's think Newfoundland's been a part of Canada forever, too. Certainly, it confuses the passport office when my mother goes to renew hers--she's not an immigrant, but neither was she born in Canada because Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949. There were two referendums held in the 1940s to decide Newfoundland's fate. The first one had three choices: stay independent (and impoverished), join Canada, and join the US. I believe the vote was evenly split among the three, though joining the US may have come out a little ahead. In any event, a second referendum was held later with only two choices: stay independent or join Canada. Join Canada won by a hair. Many people cried foul and claimed conspiracy theories (the film Secret Nation tells the story of one conspiracy theory), the main jist of which was that Britain didn't want us, the US didn't want us, so a deal was struck and Canada got 'stuck' with us.
I bet that was more than you wanted to know, wasn't it? :-)