157th Birthday - Canada Day 2024!!!

Happy Canada Day, Charlie!! Hope it was relaxing! Fireworks aren’t till later…I’ll be sleeping by then. Haha.


jmgruber said:
Happy Canada Day to two great Canadians @Lorien and Sharp & Fiery Sharp & Fiery
There are probably others I have interacted with here but wanted to recognize these two for sure!
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Thank you! I feel blessed to have met you, sir!

5K Qs said:
Charlie and other Porchites of the Canadian persuasion may be interested in this mystery I solved today.

Late this morning, I walked our dog to the vet clinic (3-mile round trip) to pick up a prescription for him. On our way home, we walked past Martin Luther King Jr Park, a couple of blocks from my house, as the swimming pool opened at noon. I heard a familiar song playing over their sound system and saw the lifeguards standing with hands on their hearts as the music played. I was having trouble placing the song, but by the end recognized it as "O, Canada"! I couldn't figure out why they were playing that song to start the day at the pool, and then conjectured that maybe it was like baseball games between Canadian and US teams when both national anthems are played before the game, and maybe at least one lifeguard was Canadian. But they didn't follow up with "The Star-spangled Banner", so my idea seemed wrong. Only when I arrived home did I see a news item online that mentioned that today was Canada Day, and I realized the pool was acknowledging that with the selection of the opening music for today!



Happy Canada Day to all! :thumbsup:🤓:thumbsup:

- GT
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You sure that was a swimming pool? By chance did you find that Canadian dollar in it? Did it have a fountain in the middle? 🤣😂 JK

Happy Canada Day!
 
Happy Canada Day!

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Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian Porch members! 🍁🇨🇦 (It’s July, so hopefully y’all have thawed out by now!) 😁

The first time I went to Canada was with my dad. He was an RV dealer, started out working for his dad, who owned the dealership, then took it over himself when my grandpa died. In addition to all types/sizes of used RVs (we never flew anywhere for vacations when I was a kid 🤣), my dad was a dealer for a brand of van-conversion RVs that were built in Kitchener, Ontario.

My senior year of high school, he won a sales award from the company which included a trip for two to Toronto. The company was sponsoring a car in a Indy car race, which was the big event at the end of the weekend trip. Perhaps because my mom had zero interest in car racing, I got to go.

Now for as long as I’ve been telling this story, I’ve always mentioned that I had turned 18 just a couple weeks before the trip, so while I was 3 years away from legal drinking age in the US, I could (and did) drink in Canada. However, Google is now telling me that the drinking age in Ontario is 19, not 18, and has been since the 70s, so I don’t know. I suppose it was the fact that we were with a large group, and the company was footing the bill everywhere we went, but whatever it was, I enjoyed plenty of Canadian beer and we had a great time. 😁

On the day of the race, we got to go on a tour of the pits, see the car and meet the driver and crew. We had good seats near the finish line, although it was a road course so there was only one stretch of track that we could see, and the cars would zoom by quickly and be gone again in seconds.

They played “O, Canada” before the start of the race, of course, and as it ended, a fly-by consisting of three fighter jets passed overhead. One of the Canadians who worked for the company leaned over to me and said, “That’s the entire Canadian Air Force, eh.” 🤣

I don’t have any Canadian knives, but I did get these two Maple-leaf-shielded beauties from the recent #39 run.

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What is the company name btb01 btb01

It may actually still be in Kitchener. I spend a decade there. 😱
 
Sharp & Fiery said:
What is the company name btb01 btb01

It may actually still be in Kitchener. I spend a decade there. 😱
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Roadtrek. I think they filed for bankruptcy a few years back, and the brand was acquired by another company. A quick Google search says they’re located in Cambridge, ON now, which looks to be very close to Kitchener.
 
Sharp & Fiery said:
You sure that was a swimming pool? By chance did you find that Canadian dollar in it? Did it have a fountain in the middle? 🤣😂 JK
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You wish!! 😁 :thumbsup:

IIRC, that Canadian centennial dollar was a gift from a BF member from Nova Scotia.
(Hey, I knew some Canadians speak English and some speak French, but I never noticed that some must speak Latin, too! ;)🤓)

- GT
 
A belated Happy Canada Day to all our Canucks :) :thumbsup:



This gifted NAHCO is my only made in Canada knife, but I've had a few of the clasp knives made for the Canadian military in WW1, including the early pattern below, with the Keen Kutter stamp.



Charlie, didn't I send you a Keen Kutter WW1 clasp knife many years ago, which I think had the Broad Arrow mark on the marlin spike, like on this IXL?



And this one, by Case, CAME from Charlie :) :thumbsup:



 
Happy Canada Day Charlie! Sorry I'm a little late. I wasn't online much yesterday.
My maple 39 should be here today. A day late and a buck short, story of my life ;)
 
Happy belated Canada Day Charlie waynorth waynorth . The U.S. Navy is dry - no alcohol aboard ship but the Canadian Navy had alcohol aboard their ships. When we had joint exercises off the coast of Canada and the USA and had occasion to go aboard a Canadian ship, it was nice to knock back a dram of liquor in the Mess.
 
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