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Traditionally it was a celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday. She gave Canada dominion status (a form of independence) so we celebrate her birthday as thanks. There is a party in Ottawa but other than that it's not a huge deal.

In our area there's fireworks. When I lived in London, Ontario the day was a bigger deal. Here it's similar to a Canada Day celebration with less flag waving Patriotism. Victoria Day is also the first day most people plant flowers since it's supposed to be the last frost day for a good chunk of western Canada. Coincidentally it's also usually the first weekend of camping activities since it's the first warm long weekend.

 

We do that on Remembrance Day , Nov 11

 

As does most of the world IIRC

 

Western world

Commonwealth is Remembrance Day / Armistice Day , US is Veterans Day

 

Hey yall I'm planning a drive up that way and leaving East Tennessee at the end of the month for a week trip up there. I plan on going from Knoxville to Cleveland Ohio. Plan on camping most if not all the way. Going through Toledo to Detroit and com in on that side to London then Hamilton to end back in buffalo ny. After that head back home. My questions are I have a 50 LED light bar on top and two rotating lights on my rack do they have to be covered? Next question is mud flaps I have the read ones on do I have to have front ones. We are going to be traveling around Lake Erie are there any must see stops other than the falls? Any good camping spots along the way that would be prime? I have to have bathhouse, shower, and maybe electric. Any ideas please let me know as this is my first time up that way. Thanks and Cheers

 

I don't foresee any problems with the lights, nor the mud flaps; just don't carry a rifle in a rear window rack, and be sure to leave your handguns at home. Your route via Detroit, London, Hamilton, Niagara Falls is all city and the 400 series of 4 lane highways. It's a flat and very boring series of four lane highways with no vistas that bypass all towns. It's kinda hard to camp on concrete and asphalt.

You may wish to follow the north shore of Lake Erie instead. It is way more scenic and also offers Point Pelee National Park, an area that contains some very rare species of wildlife.

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/on/pelee/visit.aspx

You will find more opportunities to experience some of what you want to do in that part of Canada for the short excursion that you are planning.

Bon voyage!

BTW... What's a bathhouse?

 

Meanwhile one of the Montreal food trucks, poutine with bacon and beer sauce
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There must be a resuscitator bolted to the side of that food truck.

 

I had a bacon, spaghetti sauce, gravy, and cheese curd poutine in Montreal. Awesome. I love visiting Quebec. We have a true poutineer here now but nothing beats poutine from a Quebec food truck or Quebec poutineer if you do your asking around for the truly good ones. The locals always know where to go.

 

Real poutine comes from the Gaspe area of Quebec (I've had a meal of it years ago), and is nowhere near what we see served today.

But if you must:

http://www.mtlblog.com/2015/07/the-10-most-heart-attack-inducing-poutines-in-montreal/#

 

I had some good poutine when we've been in Montreal for the F1 race

 

I know some people who would disagree with you from the Ottawa River valley, but I just enjoy good poutine wherever it comes from. Real cheese curds and gravy on refried French fries. Yum.

 

When you realize every restaurant in my small town sells poutine.. and fish n chips. ahhh canada!

 

Real cheese curds? No? Not poutine.

Every place here makes cheese and fries, only one makes poutine.

 

true. Not really known for our poutines. We do have a small resturant "normas" actually named margo's that makes a mean wedges poutine with real curds.

 

Speaking of poutine...is Eskimo pussy really that cold?

 

Eskimos live in Alaska

 

Is that so?

Oh........Ca............Na...............Duhhhhh?

Eskimo
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For other uses, see Eskimo (disambiguation).

The map of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
Eskimo peoples :
* Yupik peoples (Yupik, Siberian Yupik)
* Inuit (Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Kalaallit)

A Greenlandic Inuit man
The Eskimo are the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States), Canada, and Greenland.[1][2][3]

The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are: the Inuit of Canada, Northern Alaska (sub-group "Inupiat"), and Greenland, and the Yupik of Alaska and eastern Siberia. The Yupik comprise speakers of four distinct Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East and the others among people of Western Alaska, Southcentral Alaska and along the Gulf of Alaska coast. A third group, the Aleut, is closely related to the Eskimo and shares a recent, common ("Paleo-Eskimo") ancestor, and a language group (Eskimo-Aleut). The Aleut are also recognized as belonging to the greater Eskimo race, which is distinct from the Native Americans.

While the term "Eskimo" is sometimes considered offensive,[4][5] in its linguistic origins[1] it is not a fundamentally offensive word.[6] Alternative terms such as Inuit-Yupik have been proposed,[7] but none have come into widespread acceptance. In Canada and Greenland, the term "Eskimo" has fallen out of favor as pejorative and has been widely replaced by the term "Inuit", "Alaska Natives", or terms specific to a particular tribe. Under U.S. and Alaskan law, however, as well as the linguistic and cultural traditions of Alaska, "Alaska Natives" refers to all indigenous peoples of Alaska; this includes not only groups such as the Aleut, who share a recent ancestor with the Inuit and Yupik groups, but also the largely unrelated[8] indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and the Dene.

The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982, sections 25[9] and 35[10] recognized the Inuit as a distinctive group of aboriginal peoples in Canada.

 

Inuit

 

The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are: the Inuit of Canada , Northern Alaska (sub-group "Inupiat"), and Greenland, and the Yupik of Alaska and eastern Siberia.

Inuit (pronounced /ˈɪnuːɪt/ or /ˈɪnjuːɪt/; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people"[5]) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.[6] Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is Inuk.[5] The Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo-Aleut family.[7]