Talk:Canada

From Turtledove

Not sure but i think Canada was conquered by U.S in Guns of the south (So I didn't put the info, please confirm or infrom it) --Redem 18:21, 1 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I don't think Canada was captured in that book, but I'm not positive.

Did Canada really become a country in 1863 in the Southern Victory series? Seems unnaturally early and unrealistic to me. -Baiter

Well From what I saw yes and actually it's more realistic that it's sound as British recongise C.S.A in 1862 thus making them really mad with the U.S so as way to defend there Colonies was to unite them.(and it's merely Four year away from OTL Creation) - Redem

--Flag-- The Flag of the Dominion of Canada is wrong. Marry Promery said that it was a blue banner. The one you have is red.

The part of the article under Southern Victory says the boundary between Canada and the US is the forty-eight parallel. In OTL its the forty-ninth. Is it differnet in the series or is this an error? ML4E 17:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Probably error. TR 00:51, 29 July 2007 (UTC) Yes Mary said that the Canadian flag was mostly blue but we only used it for our navy so I don't see why in this universe we would be using the blue enisgn on land

Well the red ensign that was shown was wrong in a few aspects; as someone said earlier, the ensign used in TL191 seems to be blue, not red. So I would guess that perhaps in TL191 the red and blue ensigns have "reversed" roles as they did in the OTL. Mary mentions remembering the blue banner of the Dominion of Canada flying from a post office, which would have used the ensign designated for government use. Here it was red, there it was probably blue. Also, the ensign used before used the 1927-present coat of arms. During the OTL Great War the Canadian ensign used the original Canadian arms; a shield combining the elements of the original four provinces. The flag I replaced the red ensign with is a blue ensign with the appropriate coat of arms. IC79 00:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canada 125

Completely out of left field, but I learned an interesting piece of trivia today: our recently completed 50 State Commemorative Quarters program was inspired by a similar Canadian program, called Canada 125, which involved a different $1 coin being issued each month of 1992, replacing the loonie with some commemoration of each province. Do you remember that one, ML4E? Turtle Fan 01:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I certainly do, except it was a Canadian quarter each month. Conveniently, there are ten provinces and two territories (at the time, now three) so one could be produced each month. The 125 comes from the fact that 1992 was the 125th anniversary of the creation of the Dominion. ML4E 01:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah, quarters, all right. The article I was reading kept using the shorthand "loonie" for the program and wasn't very clear on why.

Nice quarters? I'm given to understand they're extremely hard to find these days. Turtle Fan 03:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)