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Canada Celebrates 1812

harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
Is any other US member somewhat unsettled to see all those advertisements commemorating US defeats during the War of 1812? Vivid reminders that you don't mess with Canadians!
You burn down Toronto and its as if the Furies of Hell have arisen. D.C. in flames! Hey, but what is a city or two between friends.
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    I will need to get out of my closet more. I have seen no such advertisements.image
  • sylsyl Posts: 974 ✭✭✭
    As a US citizen living in Canada (marriage, not choice) and with 31 years in the US military, I find it enlightening to see the 1812 series of commemorative quarters. Once you read about how the War of 1812 started (the US invaded Canada to take over more territory), then you can better understand why the RCM struck 200 year anniversary coinage. It's no different than the US thumping their chests over the War of Independence and how we (as a Yank) expelled the British from US shores. Every US history book, when I was growing up in the 40's thru the 60's, focussed on the British invasion of US territory and sacking DC. That's not how it started ... the US invaded Canada across the Great Lakes and the rag-tag (mostly civilian) Canadians beat them back up North. The British forces struck back along the Eastern US seaboard later in retaliation. Commemorative coinage for any country is just that ... commemorating things that happened in their own country's history... it's nothing to get your knickers in a bind about.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you live in the northern part of the USA or southern part of Canada there is a good chance in a couple of hundred years of history that you have ancestry on either side. Both my wife and I do. In fact my mother-in-law is Canadian, eh?
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK for them to celebrate their side of things.

    But ain't they a year late? image

    Silly Canucks. image

    Yeah, yeah- I know- a lot of the action in the War of 1812 didn't happen in 1812.

    And the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the war officially ended. Makes one appreciate modern communications all the more.

    Hey, if they'd had cellphones and email in 1814, maybe Andy Jackson would never have become a national hero for the U.S.?

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  • << <i>... it's nothing to get your knickers in a bind about. >>



    We don't have "knickers" here in 'Merica!
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  • sylsyl Posts: 974 ✭✭✭
    The 5 coin set has coins dated 2012 & 2013 (anniversary for 1812 & 1813 happenings) ... but it's actually a 9 coin set. There's a nice twonie of the Shannon, and then 4 quarters recognizing individuals ... but the quarters come in both colored and uncolored strikes, so there's 9 in all. It really is a nice looking set and semi-forces people to look up or google what the people really did to be recognized on a coin ... they are not common names, except for Tecumsah. The Canucks are not thumbing their nose at the US .. they are celebrating a huge part of their Canadian history.

    I AM an American and anyone that's over 60 has certainly heard of knickers (my god,man, the New York Knicks are named after their origin) ... I'm sure that most of your parents or grandparents wore them while growing up (you may have yourself and never knew what they were called).
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks Bill.

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  • sylsyl Posts: 974 ✭✭✭
    You're welcome, Don. I have the last one (Laura Secord) for you. I should be in Buffalo in a week or so. B
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    Hey, if they'd had cellphones and email in 1814, maybe Andy Jackson would never have become a national hero for the U.S.? >>



    He is also known by some as the original American ethnic cleanser for his activities during his presidency.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • "they are not common names, except for Tecumsah."


    In Ontario, I think there's good name recognition of General Brock. Many cities have Brock streets, there's a town of 25,000 named Brockville, Brock University in St Catherine's...
    However, I would agree that outside Ontario it's less so. My wife's from Eastern Canada, and the War of 1812 was essentially ignored in her school curriculum.

    Of course, everyone in Canada knows the name Laura Secord, even if many people think she just makes ice cream image

    I'm glad to see these coins circulating - more education is never a bad thing.
  • <<You burn down Toronto and its as if the Furies of Hell have arisen. D.C. in flames! Hey, but what is a city or two between friends.>>

    Actually I think the score is 2 to 1. We burnt Toronto twice.

    Then there is the story of the British officer posted in Washington DC during WWII. He saw a painting of a War of 1812 action. He asked his American counterpart "Who were we fighting then?" The American answered "Each other, that is when you burned Washington"
    The Brit answered "No way! Joan of Arc, maybe. George Washington - never!"
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    Don't mess with the Brits in Canada, that is
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    Brock University is in St Catharine's, Ontario. Weird spelling of the town name, does anybody know why?
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
    Celebrate beating us back in 1812/13 all you want............. I think we've more than made up for it with the number of Lord Stanley's Cups won by us Yanks recently!! LOL!

    - - Daveimage


    P.S. Before anyone gets on my case, it's been FORTY YEARS since my hometown team last won the Cup!!
    4 decades of living clinging to the memory of the old glory days of Shero, Parent, MacLeish, Leach, Clarke, Schultz, and all the other Broad Street Bullies ............
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