Vast majority of Canada Day events to be virtual during pandemic

Happy Canada Day fellow Canadians as we celebrate Canada's 153rd Birthday. 

Had my Pancake Breakfast with Maple Syrup, Egg Frittata and fried potatoes.  

@Mitwah posted:

Had my Pancake Breakfast with Maple Syrup, Egg Frittata and fried potatoes.  

Sounds good.

No congratulation from Americans as yet.  

Some folks are meeting up at Eldorado Park, Brampton for family picnic. Gotta practice Social distancing. No Alcohol. 

See you there Ramaji. 

@Mitwah posted:

Some folks are meeting up at Eldorado Park, Brampton for family picnic. Gotta practice Social distancing. No Alcohol. 

See you there Ramaji. 

Did dem Brampton Guyanese name de park Eldorado. 

@Tola posted:

Did dem Brampton Guyanese name de park Eldorado. 

The camp was established as Kinderland, a children's camp, in 1925 by the pro-Bolshevik Jewish Women's Labour League, the women's auxiliary of the Jewish Labour League Mutual Benefit Society.^[1] They leased some property at Eldorado Mills along the Credit River, initially owned by the Canadian National Railway. In 1936 the League attempted to purchase about 103 acres (0.42 km²) of the property. The CNR was openly resistant to selling to Jewish organizations, posting vicious anti-Semitic signs at the entrance to discourage the land purchase. However, the property was acquired through an individual not directly linked to the League and then transferred to them. The camp was referred to as a "Worker's Children Camp" and promoted Jewish culture and radical leftist and socialist political ideals. Jewish folklore, the Yiddish language, music, folk art and dance were studied at the camp.

The United Jewish Peoples' Order (UJPO) was founded in 1945 through a merger of the Labour League and other radical Jewish organizations and has operated and managed the camp ever since. When purchased the camp contained a merry-go-round and a meeting hall from the early years of Eldorado Park. Initially only tents were used for the campers. Later permanent frame cottages clad in insulbrick or clapboard were constructed. In the 1940s the UJPO built a band shell, boathouse, swimming pool and two bridges over the Credit River.

Canadian Communist Party leader Tim Buck was a frequent speaker at the camp, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police monitored activities and goings-on there from time to time through the late 1940s and 1950s. The Mounties were known to 'stake out' the park entrance, recording license plate numbers of those entering for public events.^[2]

At its peak in the 1930s to 1950s, Camp Kinderland served up to 300 children each summer.^[1] The camp later became a popular destination for working-class, urban Jews.^[3] The children's camp remained in operation as an overnight camp until 1962 and as a day camp until 1971. A family-oriented adult campground that was used mostly on weekends and holidays developed adjacent to the children's camp that, at its peak, contained some 90 cottages as well as room for tents. In the 1970s the present Eldorado Park was established when a portion of Camp Naivelt was sold to the City of Brampton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Naivelt

Thanks Mits, quite a history.  Since the name El Dorado comes from South America, me wonder whether Eldorado Mills might have a link to SA. Like Omai mines. 

One of our streets is named after the 1830s British Prime Minister William Gladstone, who had a sugar cane plantation at Vreed-en-hoop,  with slaves. He was also the first plantation manager given permission by the British government, to take Indian Indenture  Labourers to Guyana on five year contracts.

So far an island in BC, park and school names in our town were changed to Canada's First Nation names and a group is also trying to change the name of Gladstone Drive, to a native band name.    

@Tola posted:

Did dem Brampton Guyanese name de park Eldorado. 

How cute!

@Ramakant-P posted:

How cute!

Since the Park is in your back yard, I thought you had something to do  with the name. Lot's of Pujas are being done there. 

Cheers. 

@Mitwah posted:

Since the Park is in your back yard, I thought you had something to do  with the name. Lot's of Pujas are being done there. 

Cheers. 

No! That part of Brampton was for the English People.  Pakis settle in Bramalea, Brampton.