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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3525500" data-attributes="member: 7883">I'm from Ottawa, Canada, myself.  Lived quite a while in Montreal as well.My favourite moment?  There are so many....the Avro Arrow (the creation, not the destruction), Vimy Ridge, Romeo D'Allaire's attempts to save life in Rwanda, the Habs' Stanley Cup victory back in the 90's...I could keep going.  There are many others as well.....the whole thing in the War of 1812 with keeping from being conquered by the U.S., and in turn setting the White House on fire was pretty cool.  Nothing against our friends down south, but I'm glad we won that war <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Being French Canadian (though *not* a sovereignist), I'd say the Battle of Abraham was a low point.  But it's in the past, and I happen to like a united Canada, so....dem's da breaks.A neat personal moment was dining in "Aux Anciennes Canadiens", a restaurant in the old part of Quebec City....the building itself was created in 1675, which makes it one of the older stone buildings left in our entire country.  I found *that* a pretty neat connection to history.  And the food was pretty sweet also <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Banshee</blockquote>

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