Marie Tremblay's/Hws Quebec's( @purple-iris oc)the snowy owl pet 🦉 in real life
This photo of my is from my yesterday's trip to Tado Ivanausko Zoologijos Muziejus(Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum)in my home city Kaunas, Lithuania 🇱🇹
(not all of these are mine but I can't tell you which ones because I have a terrible memory)
-Ottawa will randomly stick herself into lockers, cupboards and other small spaces just to see if she'll fit.
-Quebec is older than Ontario.
-Officially Quebec and Ontario are older than Canada. (This was for an old headcanon I had before there was actually canon evidence to disprove this that Canada actually represented a united Canada comprised of Upper and Lower Canada, or modern-day Ontario and Quebec. The only reason this is still here is because I think they just say this so they don't have to go through the whole complicated thing of how somehow Canada (the personification) was around long before the British even noticed the lands up North, and yet somehow Quebec (the representative) still exists.)
Hey Cal! Question for you. What do you think about the Shaw family's recent donation to the Glenbow museum?
sometimes I try to answer current event asks in a timely manner and sometimes I wait 8-12 months because i got distracted I am Following the Story and Waiting for Developments cough cough cough
this announcement about the $35 mil donation was made in January 2022 and followed up in the spring with government funding committed for renovation. The Glenbow’s main building is in the process of transforming into the JR Centre for Arts and Culture.
I graduated a couple years ago from a museum studies program so I know a little bit about admission and funding models in Canada - they’re quite different from Europe and the US because about a third of the funding comes from government, which is usually much less than in Europe and much more than in the States. It is very typical to have free admission to major museums in NYC or in the UK, but basically unheard of in Canada until now. Of course, Calgary would be the city to do it due to having the most billionaires per capita in the country and a history of generous private arts funding.
(This also probably means that the Glenbow is actually being talked about in Museum Studies in a context other than the infamous Spirit Sings exhibition scandal in 1988, but I’m no longer a student nor am I currently working in museums so I don’t know exactly how that discussion is going)
(not all of these are mine but I can't tell you which ones because I have a terrible memory)
-Quebec will break into Ontario's house when drunk just to fight. Seriously. He'll go all the way from Quebec to Toronto just to fight.
-Ontario has a strong paternal instinct.
-Both Quebec and Ontario have been a schoolteacher at some point, Quebec teaching french and art, Ontario teaching geography and math. Coincidentally, Quebec hates doing math and Ontario doesn't like doing art.