and where did you exactly immigrate from?

I'm Canadian. I can't profess to being a frequent BDer anymore, but I'm Canadian. I'm from Alberta, actually...

And now that I've just informed the world I'm Canadian (rather than the joke about "Eh" in my location) I should now make some quip about my pet beaver in my igloo...

...Oh. Crud. My beaver's eating through my computer cor...ZXXZXZZZZZZ fXxXixiiiIiii...

*BOOM*

That was a joke.

Sorry buddy, I missed your question.... I'm originally from the beautiful (not) metropolis of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After going back there on vacations last summer I must say, I'm sure glad I moved over here!!!

Defending the red and white
 

hey, I like our igloos! And our polar bears and our snow mobiles for transportation and our year round winters! LOL

I am also from the bare prairies. Nice and flat that's the way I like it. Although vacationing in BC is a plus! Wherever I go though I can't wait too come "home".

so far i count 5 people living in the praries... 3 for which live in Alberta...

Well, the thing is life in the prairies is too Shirely (or should I say Shired?) so it's a natural fit that we like Tolkien's work.

Seriously, summer in Winnipeg is really like The Shire.... nice weather (For the most part) and if the mosquitoes are not bugging you, it's so green and pretty... people working on their lawns, deer jumping around my backyard (although that happens during winters as well) squirrel and other such animals with many children running and biking around.... and during summer, as I'm most likely not going to school, I get my six meals a day! :D

Gil, update that to 5 in prairies, and three in the second biggest Province, great (ya, right, that's why we have to do the stupid literacy test and EQAO testing stuff) Ontario. And to top it all off, all three of us live in the beautiful (more like polluted) city of Sudbury.

Speaking of us three (Wilwa, Wayne and myself) where has that butterfly flown off to? And how did she carry a big, ugly (joking Wayne) Gobiln with her? I'll get to the bottom of this...tomorrow.

Getting back on topic... If we are to have a Canadian convention, why not make it halfway and go to Thunder Bay. Or somewhere in Manitoba?

I think everyone should come down to Newfoundland and have a convention. Or maybe I will have one by myself, as it seems that I am the only Newfoundlander here. :( oh well.

uh yeah, manitoba or Sascatchewan, thunder Bay isn't half way for me

Yes, in Manitoba.... and of course, the only good place to make a convention in MB is Winnnipeg... yes, yes, my precious, Conventionses should be done in Manitoba... (sorry, I haven't gotten over the fact that a friend said that I was "more evil than Gollum"... was that a compliment?)

Although I wouldn't mind travelling somewhere else... but then, I dont have the money to do so.

I'm really broke as well, so, this might be difficult for me to make it, as well as Wilwa and Wayne.

Roadtrip!!!

Just as a side thought, I should be able to accomodate some people at my place this May (I think the 25th or so) but I don't really know you guys and I'm not sure I'd be fine with having a bunch of strangers over at my place... even if it is tolkien loving strangers :p

I guess Canada is just too big to have a "canadian barrowdowner meeting" eh?

hmmm, it doesn't have to be a big personal meeting, we could work out a cyber-meeting on some chatroom?

That'd be easier to accomplish... if anyone knows how MIRC works, we could even get a barrow-downs server I think =P but it'd work as slowly as a cyber-turtle so we might as well use an existing server.

Doesn't the BD have a chat?

it does, but some non downers use it

Wow...we have our own thread?! This is too sweet. I'm from Alberta by the way in case Gil-Galad hasn't mentioned it yet. Not that I know him face to face, but I do know what his face looks like.

It would be lovely to try and have a convention, I think we'll need more people though. Enough that an actual reasonable number will attend, but we Canadians are a shy lot so maybe I'm shooting high.

Start saving up kiddies and maybe in few years our dreams will come true.

I would start saving, but I have band trips to save for not to mention college or university. I would love to meet you all face to face, but I think a Cyber-chat would be just as fun.

A convention in Winterpeg!! then we can all dress up like Aragorns and Eowyns.. with the odd Legolas or Gimli. I've been growing my "Aragorn-hair" and now I'm even growing my "Aragorn beard" (or in other words, I have long hair and now I got lazy and I'm not shaving)

Yet a chat would be fun... if everyone has mIRC (which I think is probably the best program for chatting) we could meet somewhere some day... I should be more or less available next weekend (but take into account that I will NOT be available during the Superbowl)

i still say cyber-chat is better then meeting face to face for now, some of us are probably still in our late-teens and if i know my mother, she wouldn't trust any of you, well maybe Esgal but i have to meet her first face to face

Well perhaps a chat would be fine for now. Then in a couple of years or so we could all get together. I suppose Winnipeg would be the best option (that's going to be quite the car ride for some of us), except for those who are lucky enough to live in Manitoba.

But yeah it would be cool to actually meet some fellow BDers face to face. Don't let my chatty-ness on the downs fool you, I'm quite shy in RL.