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Mademoiselle Liberte paper craft patriotic kit by ullabenulla
On Canada Day, I think of the United States.
It’s inevitable.
And it’s also very personal.
Our two countries are so very different, yet we both sprang from the womb of Brittania who once indisputably ruled the waves:
Two colonies who grew up and got all independent, as children [...]

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Real Pirates

by Domestik Goddess on May 17, 2007

A friend’s parents were doing some genealogy research into their (very large, slightly shady) family tree and came across this wonderful story. It was published on July 17, 1890, in the St. Andrews Beacon, a long-gone newspaper from the south coast of New Brunswick, Canada:
George Case had a son named Elisha Case whom he dispatched [...]

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