Patricia Fortier, Paul Durand receive the guests. Photo A. Duran.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Canada ambassador Patricia Fortier hosted a gathering Wednesday night to mark the 141st anniversary of the founding of her country and the 400 years since the Founding of the City of Quebec, date which also marks the birth of the Canadian State.
Present in the cocktail held in the Las Casas Reales museum, formerly a colonial era edifice, were officials of the Canadian and Dominican governments, diplomats, literati and business leaders, who mingled outdoors in the museum’s Spanish court and gardens.
In her farewell speech the ambassadress spoke about Canada’s strong relations with the Dominican Republic and the resumed negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement.
The diplomat also cited the important humanitarian aid Canadian companies provided for the victims of the tropical storms Noel and Olga in late 2007.
Fortier stressed the importance of the Canadian investment in the country and the many Canadian tourists who come to enjoy the beauty of Dominican landscapes and the warmth of its people, which she said makes visitor feel right at home. “I’ve been here for three years and I have learned so much, even a new language, Dominican.”
Visibly moved, the outgoing Canadian Ambassador also praised the members of her team, especially the General consul Natalia Rarocque, OAS representative Paul Durand, who’s also her husband, and the consul Cathy Hardman, who’ve also concluded their mission.
Canadian companies
Fortier hailed her country’s investments in the country, including the companies Scotia Bank, Barrick Pueblo Viejo and Falconbridge.
The embassy officials Chavaleh Nuesi, of Canada, and Elsa Montalvo, of the Dominican Republic, began the celebration by singing their respective countries’ national anthem.
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Just like those shifty Canucks piggybacking a long weekend on to our great 4th of July celebration before you know it they will start saying a Canuck invented basketball
Written by: Cacique, 3 Jul 2009 8:49 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Lighten up Fred, it was actually the Taino Indians, but hey, you don't hear them complaining...
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a Taino indian with a Canadian Passport and the name James Naismith maybe..... although he did renounce his Canadian citizenship as was required to become an American in those days
Written by: bobrjm, 3 Jul 2009 12:33 PM
From: Canada
A country has to have a birthdate/starting date just like any other and this July 1st happens to be Canada's 142nd not the 141st.
Also this Canadian happens to have been born in the same city as James Naismith, Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
And the whole U.S. happens to celebrate my birthday which is tomorrow the 4th of July.
One thing I did like about my birthday is that during the 5 years I lived in the U.S. I was guarenteed I would not be working on my birthday.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Alomonts, Ontario, Canada.is a hick one horse town but you got a great birthday you hayseed now go to Detroit and get yourself mugged on your birthday ......just kidding ....Go Leafs
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bobrjm please tell us how Canada got its name
Written by: bobrjm, 3 Jul 2009 12:43 PM
From: Canada
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Where Canada's name came from:
When Sir John A. McDonald and his cronies were trying to figure out a new name for our (soon-to-be) great country, someone had a (typically Canadian) idea:
"Let's put all the letters into a hat and draw three of them.
That will be the new name of this place ..."
So they did ...
The first letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "C" eh!?
The second letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "N" eh!?
The third letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "D" eh!?
Written by: bobrjm, 3 Jul 2009 12:56 PM
From: Canada
LOL I like your B.S. Typical :-)
From: Canada
- ALMONT, not Alomont.
- Yes it is a tiny place, but growing with new housing projects just outside Ottawa.
- Obviously, you don't have to come from a 1 million population city to get anywhere in life. A lot of people chose to live outside big cities.
- July 1st is to Canada (Confederation 1867) what July 4th is to USA, what February 27th is to DR.
- Knowledge and common sense prevent stupid comments.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Canada's states are called provinces for a good reason: provincialism. They're strung out laterally across the North American continent like washing on a long line, and the towels never talk to the socks. British Columbia out there on the far side of the Rockies feels zero affinity with Newfoundland out there in the Atlantic, and not a lot more with the other eight provinces.
Meanwhile the three prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as independent of one another as if they were in the Balkans, border on the politically wacky through lack of cultural cross-ventilation and are united only in their contempt for centrally situated Ontario -- cont,
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
-- rich by Canadian standards, and revoltingly smug about it -- whose residents in turn have generally despised their next-door neighbors in francophone Quebec for 200-plus years. The feeling is at least mutual, while the three Maritime Provinces -- New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island -- pine away in geographic and economic isolation, nursing a grudge against all the other provinces on general principles.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Canada's DNA is late-Victorian British, so no wonder Canadians from whatever province regard calling attention to oneself as vulgar or, worse, American. Assimilating will go easier if you abandon vanity, as in good haircuts and fancy European haberdashery, and any worldly success as anything but a grotesque mistake. If life in Canada is cheaper, the money saved by extinguishing the ego is one reason.It must be understood that the appeal of hockey for Canadians extends way beyond a game: it is the only sanctioned outlet for both an otherwise repressed violent streak, and a secret appreciation for grace and beauty that would be deemed an admission of sissyhood if lavished on, say, dance. In brief, hockey equals group therapy.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
if you visit Stock up on warm rainproof clothing because Canadian weather stinks. It rains all the time in British Colombia and Newfoundland. Montreal is so cold in winter that they had to build an underground city to fend off mass frostbite. No wonder TV weathercasters from Seattle to Bangor spend most of their airtime dreading the latest cold front sweeping down from Canada. Most Ontarians and Québécois would be planning to winter in Florida even if the Yanks had just re-elected Vlad the Impaler president.
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
- ALMONT, not Alomont.
- Yes it is a tiny place, but growing with new housing projects just outside Ottawa...............it is still a hick one horse town inhabited by hayseeds except for all the immigrants moving into the new housing projects ....thank you Prince Pierre for ruining a wonderful country ....Go Leafs and thanks for the laughs Bruce only you really get the joke
From: Canada
As a franco-Ontarian, now in Quebec... I must say : at least you read, but don't understand much. Stay wherever you are please!
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
enjoy your stay in Poutinville....Viva Quebec Libre
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
the only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman from Quebec
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
A Canadian is having breakfast, in Paris, one morning (coffee, croissants, bread, butter when a Frenchman, chewing bubble-gum, sits down next to him. The Canadian ignores the Frenchman who, nevertheless, starts a conversation.
Frenchman: 'You Canadian folk eat the whole bread??'
Canadian (in a bad mood): 'Of course.'
Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) 'We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to the Canadians.' The Frenchman has a smirk on his face.
The Canadian listens in silence.
The Frenchman persists: 'Do you eat jelly with the bread??'
Canadian: 'Of Course.'
Frenchman: (cracking his bubble-gum between his teeth and chuckling).
'We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam, and sell the jam to the Canadians.'
After a moment of silence
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The Canadian then asks: 'Do you have sex in France?'
Frenchman: 'Why of course we do', he says with a big smirk.
Canadian: 'And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?'
Frenchman: 'We throw them away, of course.'
Canadian: 'We don't. In Canada, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into bubble-gum, and sell them to France.'
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
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Also this Canadian happens to have been born in the same city as James Naismith, Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
And the whole U.S. happens to celebrate my birthday which is tomorrow the 4th of July.
One thing I did like about my birthday is that during the 5 years I lived in the U.S. I was guarenteed I would not be working on my birthday.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2889
or this one: http://canadaonline.about.com/od/history/a/namecanada.htm
When Sir John A. McDonald and his cronies were trying to figure out a new name for our (soon-to-be) great country, someone had a (typically Canadian) idea:
"Let's put all the letters into a hat and draw three of them.
That will be the new name of this place ..."
So they did ...
The first letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "C" eh!?
The second letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "N" eh!?
The third letter is pulled, and our hero shouts - "D" eh!?
- Yes it is a tiny place, but growing with new housing projects just outside Ottawa.
- Obviously, you don't have to come from a 1 million population city to get anywhere in life. A lot of people chose to live outside big cities.
- July 1st is to Canada (Confederation 1867) what July 4th is to USA, what February 27th is to DR.
- Knowledge and common sense prevent stupid comments.
Meanwhile the three prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as independent of one another as if they were in the Balkans, border on the politically wacky through lack of cultural cross-ventilation and are united only in their contempt for centrally situated Ontario -- cont,
- Yes it is a tiny place, but growing with new housing projects just outside Ottawa...............it is still a hick one horse town inhabited by hayseeds except for all the immigrants moving into the new housing projects ....thank you Prince Pierre for ruining a wonderful country ....Go Leafs and thanks for the laughs Bruce only you really get the joke
A Canadian is having breakfast, in Paris, one morning (coffee, croissants, bread, butter when a Frenchman, chewing bubble-gum, sits down next to him. The Canadian ignores the Frenchman who, nevertheless, starts a conversation.
Frenchman: 'You Canadian folk eat the whole bread??'
Canadian (in a bad mood): 'Of course.'
Frenchman: (after blowing a huge bubble) 'We don't. In France, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to the Canadians.' The Frenchman has a smirk on his face.
The Canadian listens in silence.
The Frenchman persists: 'Do you eat jelly with the bread??'
Canadian: 'Of Course.'
Frenchman: (cracking his bubble-gum between his teeth and chuckling).
'We don't. In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam, and sell the jam to the Canadians.'
After a moment of silence
Frenchman: 'Why of course we do', he says with a big smirk.
Canadian: 'And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?'
Frenchman: 'We throw them away, of course.'
Canadian: 'We don't. In Canada, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into bubble-gum, and sell them to France.'