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Old 8th Jan 2020, 15:46
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India Four Two
 
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The locals sing "O Canada!" and there is no muttering, it's belted out just as loudly as those singing the "Congreve Rocket" song, but without the hand-on-the-heart thing! Incidentally, I have just discovered after nearly 50 years of being in Canada, that the song was originally commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint Jean Bapiste Day celebrations. The original lyrics were in French; an English translation was published in 1906. That is a rather ironic history.

Your last sentence made me check to see if Greenland was part of North America - it had never occurred to me before. According to Wikipedia, it is, so that must be true.

Here's a wider view, which will narrow the location down to two provinces and one territory:




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