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Approximately 1,000 Irish American Fenian insurgents invaded Canada from Buffalo, N.Y., and engaged 840 Canadian militia volunteers at the Battle of Ridgeway. June 2, 1866.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: The charge of the Fenians (wearing green uniforms) under Colonel John O’Neill at the Battle of Ridgeway, near Niagara, Canada West, on June 2, 1866. In reality, the Fenians had their own green flags but wore a very mixed bag of Union and Confederate uniforms (if they still had them, or parts of…

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"'PAT' CALLED POLICE 'QUEER', SAYS BENCH," Toronto Star. August 17, 1933. Page 3. ---- Two Irishmen Bound Over to Keep Peace for Six Months ==== "It's a rather queer Irishman that has to call a constable to help him in a fight," mused Magistrate Patterson, in women's court to-day, when two natives of Belfast appeared before her.

John Cowan was accused of engaging in a private Donnybrook with John Smith. Cowan pleaded not guilty to assault.

"I've got three children," said Cowan, "and this man told my wife I was going with another woman. When I denied it he called my wife a liar. Then he struck me and I returned the blow. He ran to get a constable."

Both parties were bound over to keep the peace for six months. Woman Bound Over Three generations appeared in court when Mrs. May Mundy was charged with assaulting her 73-year-old mother, Mrs. Eva Broad. With her Mrs. Mundy brought her month-old baby.

Mrs. Broad swore she had been choked and hit by her daughter.

"Sickness made her cranky and irritable," said Mrs. Mundy. "One day she came down to the kitchen and used horrible language and scratched me. I grabbed her by the shoulders. I did not hit her."

Mr. Mundy then took the box to corroborate his wife's evidence.

Mrs. Mundy was convicted of common assault and bound over on a sum of $200 to keep the peace.

"THIRTY SPEEDERS ANSWER SUMMONS," Toronto Star. August 17, 1933. Page 3. ---- Majority Decide to Settle Out of Court --- Most of the 30 speeders listed on the county police court docket to-day settled out of court.

Pleading guilty, Hugh Jones was assessed $10 and costs. The reckless driving charge against James Gibb following an accident, when a bicyclist was hurt, was withdrawn.

W. Dismanno was fined $10 fordriving without an operator's license.

[trulycertain]

On Dragon Age & Accents

(My unhelpful tuppence, as an English player.)

One small thing I wish had come up in Veilguard from previous games: the accent worldbuilding. It wasn't always consistent - DA:O only seemed to care about country or race, anyone non-human being generically North American and anyone human being mostly RP English unless they were Antivan; for regional accents, they seemed to purely use them for effect or go with VAs' natural ones. (There are about two bandit NPCs who seem to have badly-done Midlands English accents purely because they're not meant to be very bright; thanks, love Canadians reinforcing that stereotype. Anders being Lancashire seems to be pure coincidence because of his voice actor - you rarely ever hear the accent in any consistent way in other NPCs, and it's completely ignored in his very Southern DA2 recast.)

But by DA2, there seemed to be definite trends: Free Marches could be RP English or North American depending where you came from; dwarves tended to sound North American but there were exceptions for some people raised on the surface; elves tended to be either Welsh or Irish, which matches the "very old culture with a linguistically completely different root from Trade/English". Starkhaven is most definitely Scots.

And then DAI! DAI, my love.

DAI kept DA2's trends, while finally giving us more complexity and regional accents, albeit limitedly (and still with some inconsistencies). Finally, we have a (vaguely Germanic) Nevarran accent! And Miranda Raison did such careful work constructing it! The Avvar, Ferelden's mountain folk, sound Northern English. I'd hazard a guess that several sound Yorkshire, actually - this matches the whole "the Orlesians got up there less" lore in real terms; Northern England and Scotland, particularly Yorkshire, was under Viking rule longer than the South, which became Norman-conquered earlier, and there are subtle dialectal differences to this day. (Similar thing happened with the Celts and Romans, and the Avvar are blatantly Celtic and Pictish). There's a reason that RP ("neutral posh") English is Southern, from the seats of power. Cullen's from Honnleath, somewhere smaller and less Orlesianified, and while it's softened by the character's travel and the VA's own posher bents, there are moments the Northern English accent gets leaned into, a little similarity with the Avvar. It's a coincidence but it works so well, lore-wise. Sera's VA sounds... Derbyshire? I think? which is Midlands/Northern border and sounds more than Northern enough to keep a consistent Fereldan sound. And in terms of NPCs? A lot of Fereldan NPCs suddenly start turning up Northern, albeit less broad in their accents! Have a listen round the Crossroads. I remember Gaider mentioning Dorian wasn't originally meant to be Indian, they sealed it for sure when they cast Ramon Tikaram, at which point everyone went, "Yup, let's run with it", cast his dad accordingly, and Gaider figured that Dorian was either part of a pretty big migrant population (which, other than the Dorian Gray reference, the fact his name roughly means "from across the sea" also makes sense), or quite a lot of Tevene folk natively were. Considering Tevinter started as essentially "mage Rome" and morphed into, even according to the writers themselves, "mage Byzantium" and it's very close to Seheron, which I feel is North Africa/Middle East influenced - Tevene folk being akin to folk of Turkish, Middle Eastern, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Bengali backgrounds makes a ton of sense.

It is... exceedingly rare to hear working-class British accents in fantasy series at all (unless Brits make them, and then we're still often peasants or generic NPC #2, a la Origins). It is even rarer to have a fantasy series bother to keep immigrant accents and show the moulding of them through the generations. And I can only think of one other video game that has consciously cast British Asian actors, that's how rare it is even in games that supposedly care about representation - despite the fact that Asian folk make up something like 30% of our population.

Now: would I like some more background on why some accents in the Marches sound British and some don't? Yup! Would I have liked to have more regions in the elves' Irish accents and the dwarves' NA? Yup! But do those really matter? Nope! They would have been lovely icing on the cake, but the underlying cake was great. The plot didn't need it. It didn't have to be perfect, and the filtering of British culture through Canadians, and strategic anachronism? Those are things I love about Dragon Age. I loved how much they seemed to be trying and how much they were thinking about the lore. And I loved hearing a "British accent" that finally made sense to me, not played into the long attempts by toffs to stamp out everything North of London or outside England.

And then Veilguard sort of... forgot about it most of it? Adored that we could play as a Geordie! I really, really love them continuing pointed casting of folk with British Asian ancestry for several Tevinters (*waves lovingly at elek and neve*). But then... uh... look! Working-class Tevene people with generic Mancunian accents! To show they're working-class! That's fantastic progress... for Origins. But lore-wise, by DATV we've already shown that Manchester and Northern English accents live... *points at Ferelden* somewhere over there. We're back to "Tevinters mostly sound like generically evil English folk", as in DAO and bits of 2, which, sure, Dorian doesn't contradict - but then why not have everyone sound Southern, like him? Or add a different tint to it? And no, I am not saying everyone should put on bad "ethnic" accents, and I do appreciate the number of American, English and Mediterranean accents in Tevinter showing a very Roman "you're a citizen of the Imperium but you might have been born in one of its several countries" - but…

Gideon Emery's slight Afrikaans tint made a ton of sense with Fenris and what part of Tevinter he was meant to be from, even if it was unintentional; Jennifer Hale's take on Krem was going for English but came out more Aussie to my ear. Something like those could have been really interesting. But that also means that, including Fenris, we've now had several slaves with an accent that reads... quite posh, to English ears. Same with Neve, who is supposedly proudly from the shithole part of Minrathous, but she and several others have very RP "posh" accents (while others like Tarquin and Elek are Mancunian). Now, not everyone picks up their local accent! I am one of those people! I ended up cursedly plummy for a long time! But... we had hints through the series that Tevinter class markers would be very different from Fereldans', but they're now the same, for some reason?

Add that to the fact that they didn't want to make even one VA suffer through doing the Nevarran accent... See, it makes total sense for Emmrich, who's a posh professor who's done a lot of international study and would probably have learned Common as a second language with a very generic, "neutral" accent; he also was very concerned about appearances with his class background and trained himself not to give much away. And I'm sure the Mourn Watch has international students. But no Nevarran NPCs sound pointedly Nevarran? Not a one? Kal Sharok has hints of something interesting going on but it's rare, and the Anderfels is just... full of sad English and American-sounding people. Rivain is supposedly Caribbean and there are a bunch of actors of Caribbean descent they could've cast, but we only have one NPC sound even slightly so? That's when it stops being "Trade is taught with a neutral accent and there are a lot of Fereldan immigrants and slaves in Tevinter" and starts feeling handwavey.

Basically: I wouldn't mind if we'd gone with most fantasy games' "Eh, we cast broadly based on sound, stereotype or none of the above"; I'm very happy to just go with it. However, DAI told me to pay vague attention because the accents meant something. Then DATV has heel-turned and is telling me "Nah, go with it" the way Origins did. My ears are... confused, to say the least. And we're back to "'working-class' has one accent, and characters with something to say who aren't cast as stereotypically plucky underdogs are all Southern and posh", which just... makes me really sad. I don't hear people who sound like me, my family, or my friends growing up, in Dragon Age anymore. I did hear they had a different voice director in DATV, so maybe it's that?

[rebornrosess]

happy hozier day to all those who celebrate

[abd-illustrates]

i wanted you to know that years ago i was watching one of your rwby oc redraw speedpaints, and my grandma kept wondering where your accent was from because it sounded so unusual LOL

sdgfhjfds honestly ur grandma is so valid for that

[mangokabuto]

Some dance + real-world-equivalent-ethnicity headcannons :)

Some more little bits i be thinking abt for those who want more dance content: (under the cut)

Usopp with his salsa fundamentals and luffy with his vague memories of samba end up, at some point, coming up with their own much more chaotic combo of the two. They r spinning around so fast its insane. Luffy is about to launch them into the sun. They're having a great time.

Sanji being absolutely miffed when the only other ppl on the crew who know how to couple's dance with him are Usopp and Luffy. He gets over it ofc, being able to actually dance with another person quickly overwhelms the "I wanted to tango with a beautiful lady" grief

Sanji being able to help Usopp re-learn salsa and them bonding over their moms abt it 🥲Luffy is a lost cause tho he's not learning shit /j

BaroqueWorks Robin and Bon Clay bonding over ballet Q_Q

Brook inventing the most INSANE new dips/twirls/transitions because he no longer has muscles or skin or whatever in the way

Also I firmly believe Usopp listens & dances to anything made by Spice, Mr. Killa, and Yung Bredda, but he refuses to let the crew know this. He's not embarrassed or anything he's just fairly sure Sanji would have a heart attack and die if he heard the lyrics

Sanji listens & dances to Rodrigo y Gabriela he's in love with their story

Zoro is one of those freaks who has no desire to listen to music at all but he won't turn it off if it's on, yk?

As made obvious above I think Usopp and Sanji are the 1st and 2nd most versatile dancers, but neither of them dance more Often than Franky

If i had to rank them based on how often/readily they will dance its....in the order I placed the pictures, with chopper between brook and nami. Luffy is only so low cause he'd usually rather be eating, and brook cause he'd rather be playing, and zoro cause he'd rather be drinking/napping

Robin will readily dance with you if you ask her but she's not going to initiate

If you love dance like i do and want to see some specific choreographers/dances i had in mind while drawing these, that will be the rest of this bullet list!

Sanji is doing Derek Hough's little solo bit from his pasodoble choreo on dancing with the stars. look it up it is so peak

Dancing with the star (chopper <3)

In my head Usopp is perfectly capable of dancing any choreography by Latrice Kabamba (west african steps), Tricia Miranda (dancehall), or Yeifren Mata (mostly male solo salsa)

For Franky I think some old way choreos by Nastya Batrachenko or Dashaun Wesley (he mostly does fem now but he has good old way stuff) r good

[thefugitivesaint]

James McMullan, ''The Push Pin Graphic'', 2004 Source

[the-moons-toasty-ace]

Was at the grocery store and saw a certain brand of soap and it made me think of if Johnny and Simon had to spend time in Canada and buy a bar of Soap. Simon, thinking he was a comedian, bought a certain brand just to piss Johnny off.

Soap, from the bathroom: Uhm, Simon! There's something weird in the bathroom!

Ghost (knowing full well what it is): Really? What is it?

Soap, holding up a box of Irish Spring soap: An' what the hell do ya think you're playin' at then?

Ghost: I haven't a clue what you're talking about, Johnny.

*Meanwhile in the common room.*

Gaz: Captain, do you hear that screaming?

Price: Don't mind it, Gaz. Ghost just bought some toiletries.

Gaz: I don't see why-

Price: He said it was for the leprechaun.

Gaz: Oh.

[handweavers]

i'd become one of those white irish diaspora who act like being irish makes them not white and super oppressed and racialized even though they live in the USA/Canada in the 21st century

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[askjumblr]

How are Canada or Ireland like for Jews? More specifically, trans Jews?

Thanks for re-wording anon!

[quotidianish]

More antics of the blu mercs! Didn’t expect such a warm reception to these silly little headcanons at first, and I’m working up the motivation to finish the rest of the team (failing)

some sillies..

[newhampshireofficial]

Due to high amounts of French Canadian and Irish immigrants, New Hampshire is 26% Catholic, making it the 11th most Catholic state in the U.S.

[pagan-stitches]

It’s a wrap!

Last week I wrote that February 1st (St. Brigid Day) through February 6th (Feast Day of Saint Dorothea) would be akin to a Holy Week for me. A week pulling together practices from my Gaelic , Slavic, and even French-Canadian ancestors.

And what a busy, wonderful week it has been. As I begin writing this it’s about 2 hours ‘til sunset on the Feast Day of Dorothea. For folk purposes, I consider evening the beginning of a new day. So only 2 hours left of what I’m considering the prelude to my devotional year.

Drowning Morana has been the beginning of my devotional year as her effigy travels with me upon the altar through the wheel of the year. Her costume changes, as her aspect and purpose do, but she is the one constant. So, of course, her death and rebirth is an end and a beginning.

Hromnice (Candlemas) has been a sweet end to the year. A day to make candles and mark the half way point of winter. But this year. Oh, this year it feels like a quiet beginning. A quickening if you will, heralding her rebirth.

The week began with near freezing temperatures and it is ending with frogs peeping in the woods at night. I spotted the first Spring Beauty this morning and the daffodils are budding.

I wrote in another article that I was contemplating drowning Morana early this year. I want to pay attention to the rhythm of the seasons rather than boxes on a calendar. I’m considering moving the event to the first daffodil in the yard or the first blooming of the neighbor’s Bradford pears—whichever comes first. Which means it’s probably near time to release my pastry birds . . . .

Here is a photo round up of my Holy Week, this preamble of the new devotional year:

A written invitation welcoming “Brede” into the home originally recorded on the Isle of Man in the 18th century.

A bit of ribín Bride that was left outside on Brigid night for the Saint to bless.

An Irish bannock for Brigid Night

This year’s hromnička (Thunder candle), consecrated at the creek on Candlemas.

Candles made at Candlemas

Crepes for Candlemas breakfast, picked up from the French Canadian side of the family.

And

Buns were blessed in church in past Czech folk tradition on the feast day of St. Blaise and said to protect against sore throats and throat diseases. I made buchty in honor of the Saint.

A source from Zjnomo said that in the past on St. Blaise’s Day the priest would put the hromnička under parishioners’ throats and say a blessing to protect against sore throats and rotten teeth!

On Saint Agatha’s Day water, salt, and bread were blessed and then used in various protective bits of folk magic.

On Saint Dorothea’s day it was once common in Czechia for villagers to put on Dorothy plays celebrating her life with a core group of characters including an executioner, Dorothea, the King and Čert (the Czech folk devil).

[itisiives]

Well, one of the countries is taking a larger lead in this poll than I expected, so here's a new one:

[winterwrites23]

Was thinking about our conversation earlier about Nova Scotia and wanted to show you your flag in case you hadn’t see it, cause it is very very inspired by the flag of Scotland. Nova Scotia also has its own dialect of Gaelic, Canadian Gaelic!

Yesss, Nova Scotia has such a cool flag! I wish Québec's flag had a badass lion instead of the 'fleur de lys' xD