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the-most-sublime-fool · 1 year

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I Came to the Secret Springs and Lakes Where Moose Slake Their Thirst, Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1900)

#animals in art #the north #20th century art #vintage illustration #canadiana

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hibiscusbabyboy · 12 days

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Pinup Pixie

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beyondthisdarkhouse · 11 months

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It's fun sometimes to try to explain the Commonwealth to my American friends. One of them talked about her plans for Memorial Day and asked if I had any, before remembering that right, we don't do Memorial Day up here.

I got to tell her that instead, I shit you not, the second-last Monday in May is the day Canada pretends is the monarch's birthday so people can get a long weekend in May. Charles III is a Scorpio? Not in Canada he ain't!

(In double-checking my facts just now, I discovered the caveats that this is only patchily observed as a holiday in the Maritimes, and is not at all Québec, not because they hate fun, but because it's more important to celebrate... rebellion against the Anglos? I love it. Very chic, très cool.)

#canadiana

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arcelian · 8 months

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ok it's firmly back to school season here so I am remembering to ask.

Do other countries have their version of a Canada exercise book or is it just us?

^ this is the version I am most familiar with but there are multiple kinds. The distinguishing features are:

called "Canada exercise book" on the front cover along with a vaguely Canadian design (Canada shape, maple leaf, etc.)

back cover has the conjugation chart for to be/to have and être/avoir

I think sometimes they also have a map of the provinces on the back?

softcover (usually paper but sometimes plastic) and has holes to be put in a 3-ring binder

I cannot overstate how ubiquitous these are. They're cheap and useful and every elementary school uses them. Is this a thing elsewhere or did we just invent it???

#nunnery life #canadiana

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ruedesfillesducalvaire · 5 months

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[Clears throat] Um. Mountie AU, anyone?

Twelve men broke loose in '73 From Milhaven Maximum Security Twelve pictures lined up across the front page Seems the Mounties had a summertime war to wage

(below the cut: more Hip lyrics I associate with this AU)

From Wheat Kings:

Twenty years for nothing, well, that's nothing new Besides, no one's interested in something you didn't do

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Late breaking story on the CBC A nation whispers, "We always knew that he'd go free" They add, "You can't be fond of living in the past, 'Cause if you are, then there's no way that you're gonna last."

From Bobcaygeon:

That night in Toronto With its checkerboard floors Riding on horseback And keeping order restored

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In the middle of that riot Couldn't get you off my mind So I'm at your house this morning Just a little after nine 'Cause it was in Bobcaygeon, where I saw the constellations Reveal themselves one star at a time

#what if. mountie javert #this was one of those things where i had the thought and i was like 'hey it would sure be cool to see art of that'#'wow i can't believe i haven't seen that done before actually'#'aww shit. now i have to do it don't i'#and reader. she did #she did have to do it. because it would not leave her brain otherwise #also this took a long-ass time because i don't know what i'm doing r.i.p.#was sure a crash course in painting with gouache though #also he kinda looks like he has a scar on his cheek. it's actually cause i fucked up the paper. but you know what. we're going with it #javert #les mis fanart #les mis #les miserables #les misérables #les mis au #mountie javert #a sylvie creation #canadiana #quast!vert

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storytellingsiregararchives · 3 months

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The Gut-Twisters

#writeblr #oc #oc aesthetic #1950s #my 50s rebel youth greaser gang #ooh boy #toronto #ontario #canada #vintage canadiana #canadiana #witches #witchcraft #witchcore

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motelpearl · 2 months

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take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool · 9 months

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*jingle jingle sound*

Oh! hey!! Its a Dicky Dee!!

Heres their menu!

#dicky dee #ice cream truck #canadiana #frozen treats #my treat #polls #rb if you vote #lgbtq #lgbt

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the-s-m-experience · 2 months

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I's the b'y that solves the crime. And I's the b'y that prosecutes them.

#comedy #funny #youtube #lol #sketch #funny videos #sketch comedy #acting #law & order #law and order svu #canada #canadian #canadiana #newfoundland and labrador #newfie #parody #canadian comedy

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fieldtomatoes · 7 months

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Schools and communities across Canada are gearing up for the Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research and I’m curious how well known this story/tradition is outside of Canada, specifically in the States.

If you don’t know who Terry Fox is and what he accomplished, this 13 min documentary is a great start:

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#PLEASE reblog #call it an early birthday present which btw I have always loved that my bday falls around the terry fox run :))#corynn.txt #polls #canadiana #Youtube

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countesspetofi · 4 months

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Barrett's Privateers | The Longest Johns | Stan Rogers Cover

#youtube #barrett's privateers #stan rogers #the longest johns #sea shanties #canadiana

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hibiscusbabyboy · 2 months

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Sharing you the inspirations for my recent look ♡

#1950s #1955 #2024 #prepcore #vintage coquette #coquette #coquette aesthetic #true vintage #rockabilly #elvis presley #grease #pinup #vintage canadiana #canadiana #port dover #ontario #canada #coquette fashion

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sybilius · 8 months

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Old Internet Fridays #5: Leah Decter's Founder

Founder by Leah Decter

What’s this?

What’s this website?

This is the portfolio website of multi-media Canadian artist Leah Decter. Her art "social-spatial dynamics of settler colonial contexts and consider the ethics of being-in-relation in spaces of Indigenous sovereignty" (from her About).

This specific link is to a video/performance piece in collaboration with Cheryl L’Hirondelle. In it, Decter fills a canoe bucket by bucket with water, while L’Hirondelle sings "Kitaskihkanaw" -- a Cree song inspired by Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"

Okay, how did you find it?

I had the notion to find some interesting works from a university webpage. Professors and grad students tend to be the type of people given some hosting space who have the free time to use it for something or other (I say this as an ex-PhD student). Decter is a research chair at NSCAD, so after getting her name from the NSCAD site, I went digging for her portfolio.

How’s it doing on Internet Archive?

12 saves, so doing solidly enough! One disappointing but not at all surprising factoid is that the Vimeo video (https://player.vimeo.com/video/234082488/) is unsaved. What's more, it doesn't seem to be possible for Internet Archive to save it. So while I think the ideal experience of this art piece is probably in one of those projector rooms in a gallery where you feel a contemplative peace and thoughtful discomfort wash over you on a fairly uncomfortable bench...you should enjoy it now, with this post, in case the video ever goes away.

What delighted you the most?

It's so simple, it's the whole video (plus the wonderful music) --but my god, the idea of bailing in a canoe until it sinks. Wow.

Honestly, as someone who canoes, is white/settler Canadian, and thinks of the canoe both earnestly and with some complexity as a powerful Canadian symbol: this was so clever. I was rapt waiting for it to go down. Great piece. Really excellent commentary. I encourage people both to watch and read the artist statement.

#old internet fridays #canadiana

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pwhl-mybeloved · 1 month

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