Re: [Leica] CANADA DAY & USA INDEPENDENCE DAY. :-)

[Rick Dykstra <rdandcb@cybermac.com.au>]

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:59  PM, frank theriault wrote:
>
> July 1, 1867 was when the British North America Act (BNA Act) was 
> passed in
> London, basically setting up the Canadian Parliament, and granting 
> most of
> our rights as a nationhood.  It's the day we were no longer a colony.  
> We
> weren't fully independant, however, as court cases could be appealled 
> from
> the Supreme Court of Canada to England's Privy Council,

We'll here is the land of Queen Elizabeth of Australia, we supposedly 
shook off the colonial shackles in 1901, albeit through a British Act 
of Parliament, which approved a new constitution at the time, written 
by us and for us.  All we need now is a "a head of state who is one of 
us", in place of Queen Lizzie, who's a pretty good Queen if you have to 
have one.  I photographed her two years back, the only Leica shooter in 
a pack of Ns and Cs.  Quite an occasion actually.

Regards, Rick.

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