Reply #7: A few things. [View All]

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Refuge to the Indian tribes, I take to mean this: <http://www.thehistorynet.com/we/blsittingbullandthemounties/> when Indians from Little Big Horn, most notably Sitting Bull came "Across the Medicine Line"

Great Britian declared war on Germany Sept 3/39.
Canada declared war on Germany Sept 10/39.

At the end of WWII Canada had the 3rd largest navy in the world.

A vital time for the eventual development of Canada was the end of the American Revolution when many United Empire Loyalists (Tories in the US) came north. My Family were members of the King's Royal Regiment of New York, had lived in upstste New York, forced out and property conficated for the crime of fightoing on the losing side, moved to eastern Ontario and took up land near Kingston. It was theis influx of settlers that gave what is now Canada the population base to prevent US takeover in the War of 1812.

Red ensign

The Canadian Red Ensign was replaced by the red and white maple leaf flag on February 15, 1965.

Complete details here:
<http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/df5_e.cfm>

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