MAY 22, 26.. MY CANADIAN HERITAGE.. ROAD TRIPS..
Below is a “No Brainer for me” NATIONAL TODAY Holiday..
My mother was born in London, Ontario, Canada. As a child, she moved with her family West to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada where she basically “grew up”. She then moved back to London, Ontario, Canada. She then attended the University of Michigan. She met my father and they were married.
In the early 1940’s she became a “Naturalized United States Citizen”.
My Mother was a Canadian Immigrant..
My mother’s half of my family tree are Canadians.
Canadian Immigrants Day is observed on May 22 every year.
This holiday is meant to celebrate Canadians who immigrated to the United States.
Canadian immigrants form an integral part of many industries across the United States.
To read more just click onto the below link..
https://nationaltoday.com/canadian-immigrants-day/
There you have a bit of my heritage.
Cap
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Patti and I have taken many (as in MANY) Road Trips. The Alaska Highway from Anchorage to Seattle and return. The Dalton Highway from Fairbanks North up the Oil Pipeline Haul Road and back. Across the lower United States from Washington and California across the county to the East Coast and these are only a few examples here in the United States.
While living in West Germany from 1974 to 1978, I did extensive road travel not only on the European Continent but the British Isles as well. Patti and I also travelled by road in the British Isles in 2006.
National Road Trip Day occurs on the Friday before Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) in the U.S.
National Road Trip Day became an official holiday in 2019, thanks to Pilot Flying J, the largest travel center operator in North America.
The road trip has been loved by Americans throughout history.
Below is the link to the NATIONAL TODAY website if you want to read more.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-road-trip-day/
Smiles.
Cap and Patti
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Ah, man! So jealous of your trip on the Dalton! Yes, I traveled parts of it while working on the construction phase of the trans Alaska Pipeline, but not the entire road.
Here’s a grammar question for you. When is an immigrant an emigrant? Likewise, when is it immigration or emigration? And why don’t they both have a double “m”? That last one might be unanswerable without digging into the etymology of the words. Just for fun because I was puzzling over your sentence, “My mother was a Canadian Immigrant.”
PS: Yes, I know the answers, except for the etymology one. Too lazy to look it up.
Yes ! Either beginning in Fairbanks, or beginning at Mile Marker 0 where the Elliot Highway turns to head West for Manley Hot Springs, Patti and I have driven the entire Dalton Highway going North and returning South. We did it on the longest day of the year too. Daylight pretty much all the way both ways. Prior to the trip with Patti when we picked Eryn up in Deadhorse and drove her South to Fairbanks, I had made the entire trip up the Dalton as a passenger with another couple (Jim and Ilene Silver who were visiting in their Mobile Home from Half Moon Bay, California) in June of 1998 when I purchased my Cabin in Manley Hot Springs.
Immigrant is one who comes IN to another country Emigrant is one who EXITS from a country.
Cap and Patti .. We will leave the answer to the double M’s vs single M up to you Gullible. Cap and Patti