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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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08-10-2002, 11:03 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
I love how much we all have in common, but I am facinated with the differences in our "cultures'. For instance, Donna, (AKA GoofyMom) mentioned 5 pin bowling, as oppossed to our 10 pin bowling. What other differences are there that you have noticed? I am not familour with what holidays we have in common, (except the biggies, like Christmas). Do you have something simular to Thanksgiving? I hope I do not offend with this question, but, living so close as we do, I find our differences fun to discover!
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08-10-2002, 11:41 AM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
DebiDebiDebi This is a good thread please let us know I [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] love hearing of diffrent culters and how they ard celabrated and stuff.I whant to know too please.
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08-10-2002, 01:23 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Hi,
Lets see if I can think of a few that we have.
Our Thanksgiving is the second weekend in October which I believe is your Columbus Day.
The third weekend in May is Victoria Day (a week before Memorial Day)
July 1st is Canada Day - Just before your Nation's Birthday.
One of our provinces even has a Family Day in February I believe - not us though...
First weekend in August is a Civic Holiday. Really just another day off for the working person in my opinion.
Labor Day in September is the same as of course Easter and Christmas.
We do have 10 pin bowling too. I didn't realize the US didn't have 5 pin. It is easier for kids as the balls are quiet small. Went to many a Birthday Bowling Party.
Unfortunately our dollar doesn't convert well to US so our trips to WDW cost a lot but it certainly will not stop me from going. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I'll see if I can think of a few more things and will post later. Good question.
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08-10-2002, 09:48 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Heidi,
I know one thing that is different between the Canadians in British Columbia and Nova Scotia?sp,and the United States; when I was in Canada on vacation as a whole the people were at lot nicer and friendlier than the people in the U.S. I don't know if it was because I was a tourist or not but they were sure nice. I also love your Cows ice cream. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I don't mean to say that everyone in the U.S. is nasty but the people in Canada are great.
Travlin Gal, Colorado Jan [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-10-2002, 10:47 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Thanks Jan,
I've always try and welcome people I know are visiting - and we get a lot of Americans in BC.
But I have found lots of Americans to be friendly too. Especially when at Disney. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I've met some great people (not to mention all the ones on these boards). I think every country has their share of good and well not so good people. Think you notice more when you are visiting somewhere and have time to really look around and see the people.
I was thinking of the holidays again and realized in the US, you have a lot more days like Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Flag Day... I think we got ripped off in the holiday department! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] From New Years to Easter, we don't have one holiday!!!
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08-11-2002, 12:15 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
[img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] Well isn't Canadian Thanksgiving somewhere about our Colubmus Day celebration?
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08-11-2002, 12:26 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Don't know Bert & Sully, that is why I am asking! Hope we here from the folks UP North on this one!
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08-11-2002, 01:08 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
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Posts: 34,137
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Boy, I'll second that "ripped off" motion. It's a very long time from New Years to Easter - in the dead of winter in Winterpeg - er I mean Winnipeg. ICK. That's a nasty thought on a pleasant Aug. afternoon.
In a different thread I had to ask what Black Friday was. I had no idea it was the busiest shopping day in the U.S.
There are so many similarities, and yet so many differences. I say holidays, where an American would say vacation - as in "our WDW holiday". I guess that's my British ancestry coming out. Heidi covered the differences in our Holidays (meaning days off of work, not vacation - everybody confused yet?) Alberta is the province with the long weekend in February. Lucky ducks.
Things I've run across are: if you order French Fries or chips in a Canadian restaurant, you'll likely receive the same thing - fries. I've noticed that lately I will pronounce the words "out" and "about" a little bit closer to the "Canadian accent" - oot, and aboot. But that's only since I moved East to Manitoba from Saskatchewan. It seems to be more pronounced the further East you travel.
Oh, here's a fact you probably know. Canadian beer is 5% alcohol. Isn't American beer around 3 or 4%?
I think another difference is that we have Boxing Day. It's the day after Christmas. Now it's basically a day off for office people and a nightmare for retail workers because it's just a huge sale day. As a child though, I remember it being the day that we picked through our old toys that we would no longer play with due to our new Christmas toys. Then we would donate them to less fortunate children. Mom would pick a tin of food for each of us and we would
wrap them up with white tissue paper and take them to church. They would also be donated to the less fortunate people.
Another, very important difference (said with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek) is our football. We have 3 down football, longer and wider fields, and larger footballs. I love the CFL, but am learning to appreciate NFL.
Um, what else? November 11th is Remembrance Day. It's supposed to be a day off, but some businesses try to push it and open after noon.
We say the British "zed" rather than the American "zee".
Oh, there's probably other subtle differences, and it's pretty cool when you discover them. Except for iced tea. That difference was not appreciated by me when I discovered it 
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08-11-2002, 10:55 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Great responses! Love learning "aboot" my neighbors to the North!
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08-11-2002, 11:27 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Ok Donna spill the tea [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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08-11-2002, 02:30 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Quote:
Originally posted by Bert & Sully:
Ok Donna spill the tea [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Well, I nearly spit out the tea!! I was about 12 years old when I learned there are different types of iced tea. I wasn't expecting to get cold tea. We're used to sweeter iced tea. Like almost tea flavoured kool-aid. Now that I'm "mature", I don't mind it so much if I'm expecting it, but it still doesn't taste "right" [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] And I'm positive it works the other way too. I can't imagine what someone would think if they ordered iced tea expecting cold tea and they got the sweet Canadian version! |
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08-11-2002, 02:34 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah gotcha [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ! - Well I had the reverse experience when I first moved down here (to the South). I was used to Iced tea with no sweetener no nuthin'......DH and I went somewhere fast for lunch and I'd wanted some iced tea and didn't know enough to say "UNSWEETENED PLEASE"!!!! - Southerners are notorious for their sweet tea.......I think you'd really enjoy it given your last post though [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] !!
Debi, I'm glad you started this thread because it's fun to read.......and realize similarities and differences [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] .
We are thinking about a trip up(?out?) your way in the next few years. Keith's parents were out there about ten years ago and loved it.
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08-11-2002, 02:39 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
Sweet Tea [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] . I can't tell you how many times I have asked if the iced tea is sweetened and have been told no, only to get a mouthful of some sugary sweet substance. This is especially true in the south, where it seems all you can get is "Sweet Tea". Give me my tea unsweetened, very strong and with lots of lemon.
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08-11-2002, 04:37 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
[img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I'm with you Margo [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] !
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08-11-2002, 06:27 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: To All My Canadian Passporter Friends
For those of you who like to know cultural differences, there is a book written for doing business with other cultures titled, "Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands" by Morrison, Conaway, and Borden. It's how to do business in sixty countries. Really interesting considering how culturally diverse we've become.
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