Analysis – Anything for a party, but the idea Canada was born 150 years ago is absurd: Don Pittis – CBC

Indigenous people were active economically centuries before Confederation

Jun 26, 2017

Poor Bobby Gimby.

The man with the Pied Piper horn chased by children singing his 1967 Centennial anthem CANADA worked like a trooper to squeeze “Confederation” into the song in both English and French. Now the word has been almost forgotten.

Instead, headlines repeatedly refer to Canada’s birthday on July 1.

Choosing a country’s moment of birth is inevitably political. And clearly no country is born fully formed. But whether economically or politically, there are historians who say the 1867 date is tenuous and maybe even arbitrary.

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