http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/631 Comments for "Happy Simcoe Day" en http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/631 <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ColonelSimcoe.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/89/ColonelSimcoe.jpg/180px-ColonelSimcoe.jpg" class="left" /></a>Yes, this holiday has a name, and no, this is not the holiday celebrating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic">innovative sub-compact import sedan</a>, indeed far from it, this Monday coming is the day we are all to remember famous backpacker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graves_Simcoe">John Graves Simcoe</a> by doing the obvious thing:<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">Many Ontarians will celebrate Simcoe Day by heading up to the cottage</cite><br /> <i class="blog-source">[ via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcoe_Day">Wikipedia</a> ]</i></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/mas/dundurn/esimcoe.htm"><img src="http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/mas/dundurn/esim.jpg" class="right" /></a>And true, there <em>should</em> be a holiday to commemorate the lt-colonel JG even if only because he was <strong>the first legislator in the modern world with the political guts to <u>outlaw</u> slavery</strong> but all that considered, if you ask me, we should take a grassroots initiative here to <i>rebrand</i> Simcoe Day to honour spunky master-camper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Simcoe">Lady</a> <a href="http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/puc/puc1.html">Elizabeth</a> <a href="http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b382/showcase/room14/sakina/page3.html">Simcoe</a>, not only the first Euro-aristocrat's wife to <i>voluntarily</i> winter in old Fort York, but in a tent ... <em>with her cat</em> ... and <a href="http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ElizabethSimcoe/main.html">then blog about it</a>. Now <u>that</u> is real <em>Canadian</em>.</p> http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/631#comments History Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:54:19 -0400 garym 631 at http://sbp.teledyn.com