London Olympics: The Most Embarrassing Opening Ceremony?

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106. that was insightful of you to move to Canada before Bush!

My attachment to Canada is unusual, too. In the American revolutionary war, a greatx? grandfather was forced to flee to Canada. (Plenty of other ancestors were Patriots to the American cause, but this man was a loyalist.) Giving up his massive holdings in New York state, he was nailed into a wooden crate and ferried out of the colonies to Canada. There, he (and his family when they joined him) were the first white settlers in a part of Ontario, and lived with Indians. Canada was "settled" so much later than the U.S. that they were essentially settlers and then pioneers. Fast forward, past the trek westward, the homesteading on the Saskatchewan prairie and the eventual emigration, some generations later, to the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. in 1922.

Interestingly enough, in 2009 Canada changed its citizenship laws and I became one of those who were granted Canadian citizenship because I was born outside Canada to a Canadian citizen. So I have dual citizenship, and it blows my mind.

What province do you live in?