Regional Board for Canadians

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Jack;  I like the last one best.  After that, any of those four kinda naturel mapleleafs.

Bob;  The last line is "When the chips are down, ya better watch yer step!"  I heard it late at night on the car radio while driving through skatch'wan back in the '80s.  It was better than listening to the futures prices on Hogs & such on the US radio!

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

I like the last one, It's cowboy and I remember the stooks.  We have a painting in out living room that we bought in Saskatchewan from an artist from Saskatoon that shows a field with the stooks and elevators in the background.  He said that he painted it from a scene between Kindersly and Rosetown, Sask.

In Canada, cowboys and stooks go together.  IMHO

Cheers!

[Charlie Bowdre]

Jack , I like the last one . It does capture all that I think the site  means to us

Now if you could only put a lobster trap full of 'sea bugs' somewhere...................

Dutchie

[Russ T Chambers]

Bob;  Can you post the lyrics to The Ballad of Cow Patty?

I'm not Bob, and I can't find the written lyrics to Cow Patty, but if you go the site below, you can repeat it and write them down.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Thanks Rust T; I'll follow that up.

Images, Images??   I'll have to look up my Travels to The Far West. There must be a suitable Horetsky photo Somewhere?  There are those great sketches in THE GREAT ADVENTURE, including the famous photo of Jerry Potts? 

[RattlesnakeJack]

Although I think we may already have a concensus, those of you who haven't "voted" yet for your preference for the proposed Forum Logo please post your views.  This is only one of the many perks of "Charter Membership"!  ... Hmmmm .... on reflection, I actually can't think of any other perks ....         

(Note: I believe we'd still be open to other suggestions, if a real crackerjack idea came along ...)

Check the previous page of this thread ............

I am including the Marshal in this, so he can weigh in on the issue too ... 
Marshal, even if as a non-Canadian you don't feel 'qualified' to express a preference, as webmaster your views on suitability of any or all of the suggestions would be appreciated.  Also, can you advise the maximum size allowable for the logo?  I'm thinking that if we could go up to even 100 or 110 pixels for the larger dimension - which is the height in the case of the current favourite - the detail would improve dramatically ...  Here is the first version I posted (90 pixels high) with two other versions (100 and 110 pixels high) .....

      

[Nine Toe Jim]

Hey Rattlesnake I did like the flag idea but I agree with you on the loss of detail. I also would like to vote for your choice with the cowboy and the wheat field.

[Icebox Bob]

The hat, the horse, the stooks - does it get any better?  Only if we can get a '76 lying across the front of the saddle............

Icebox

[Charlie Bowdre]

all my jokes aside , I like the cowboy and wheat field , It reminds me of the old CP Rail prints  and certainly fits the theme . I see strength , stability , growth and hard work .

dutchie

[Whoop-up Roy]

 A maple leaf with CANADA just looks to much like a Canadian stamp.   My first choice would be the red maple, leaf.  Proberly known world wide and found carved, by Canadians, in the underground tunnels during the first world war.  So who knows how far back in history the maple leaf had been identified with Canada.

[Whoop-up Roy]

Makeing a case for the maple leaf

Well before the coming of the first European settlers, Canada's aboriginal peoples had discovered the food properties of maple sap, which they gathered every spring. According to many historians, the maple leaf began to serve as a Canadian symbol as early as 1700.
In 1834, the first St. Jean Baptiste Society in North America made the maple leaf its emblem.

In 1836, Le Canadien, a newspaper published in Lower Canada, referred to it as a suitable emblem for Canada.

In 1848, the Toronto literary annual The Maple Leaf referred to it as the chosen emblem of Canada. By 1860, the maple leaf was incorporated into the badge of the 100th Regiment (Royal Canadians) and was used extensively in decorations for the visit of the Prince of Wales that year.

Alexander Muir wrote The Maple Leaf Forever as Canada's confederation song in 1867; it was regarded as the national song for several decades. The coats of arms created the next year for Ontario and Quebec both included the maple leaf.

The maple leaf today appears on the penny. However, between 1876 and 1901, it appeared on all Canadian coins. The modern one-cent piece has two maple leaves on a common twig, a design that has gone almost unchanged since 1937.

During the First World War, the maple leaf was included in the badge of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Since 1921, the Royal Arms of Canada have included three maple leaves as a distinctive Canadian emblem. With the proclamation of Canada's new flag in 1965, the maple leaf has become the most-prominent Canadian symbol.

In 1939, at the time of World War II, many Canadian troops used the maple leaf as a distinctive sign, displaying it on regimental badges and Canadian army and naval equipment.

In 1957, the colour of the maple leaves on the arms of Canada was changed from green to red, one of Canada's official colours.

On February 15, 1965, the red maple leaf flag was inaugurated as the National Flag of Canada.

[RattlesnakeJack]

....  I see strength , stability , growth and hard work .

Yeah .... I had even considered using one of the many iconic images of our "national rat" busily trying to deforest the country .... but thought better of it!      

   

[Whoop-up Roy]

  I can think of a couple of reasons  to think the better of it! nother one is that the beaver is the state animal of the State of Oregon, this could have caused some confusion.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Welcome to the camp, Whoop-Up Roy.  Heard you was jinin' up.

[Whoop-up Roy]

Thank you, Sir Charles.  Heard about the new board from from a couple of members.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I heard this on the radio back in the 80s, while driving through Sakatchewan

The Ballad of Cow Patti  Sung by Jim Stafford

From the badlands came the killer, he lived by his knife and the gun.
He'd cut you just for standing, and shoot you if you tried to run.
He was as big as a tree, and did what he pleased, and everything he did was bad.
They said if you was to kill him, it'd only make him mad.

From the goodlands came the cowgirl, Patti was her name.
She was hot on the trail of that killer on a moped she called Flame.
Cause the killer had killed her daddy just for spittin' in the road,
And you only had to kill her daddy once to get that girl p.o.'d.

Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
She rode into town to find the man that killed her daddy!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!

The killer hit town at daybreak, ate the door off the local saloon.
He started to drinkin' and you could tell he was thinkin'
There'd be a showdown soon.
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust, old Flame was buzzin' like a saw.
And the whole town got quiet as a church when the killer stepped out for the draw.

Forty shots rang out. Forty people fell.
Patti and the killer missed each other but they shot the town to hell!
The killer took a step toward Patti, said, "It's time I gunned you down"!
But he slipped in something that was laying in the street
And was shot before he hit the ground.
Yes, the killer slipped and it cost him his life
And Patti said as she raced out of town:
"You got to watch your step, when you know the chips are down."

Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
She rode into town to find the man that killed her daddy!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!

[RattlesnakeJack]

Whoop-Up Roy makes a very good case for the maple leaf figuring in the forum logo - I'm mighty partial to itmyself as a well-recognized symbol of Canada of very long standing ... 

But I do love my "golden west cowboy" too ... so I went back to the drawing board and came up with this (which I hope isn't too big) ... whaddya say?

[Nine Toe Jim]

Rattlesnake.

looking good. How about putting the other half of the leaf on the left hand side of the golden west cowboy. Looking at the Kansas Flag in the regional topics it would seem that a rectangular one would fit if we stretched it a little and shrunk it for the size.

[Whoop-up Roy]

I like Nine toes idea.  Maybe a little more off of the maple leaf that is showing to narrow it up a liitle more, adding the same to the opposite side may do it.  :)So easy to make suggestions when someone else has to do all the work eh! Sorry Rattlesnake

[Charlie Bowdre]

I think it looks a  bit cluttered with both . My opinion only.