Happy Canada Day! Matt forgot his birthday is today because he binge watched some new anime that came out, and got sucked in.
It happens, but luckily Matt remembered because of the group chat with his Provinces!
Sorry, Ralph, but you might not get that 20$ from Ontario. (Even though you rightfully deserve said 20$)
Ralph is using a night vision pic of his twin brother as his profile pic, and Sask doesn’t like it because he looks like a Cryptid. (Ya know, normal brother BS) I don’t know what Sask’s profile pic is.
Sorry if this looks rushed! My drawing motivation is running low at the moment, plus I slept on my wrist wrong, so it’s not coloured in.
Battle of Alberta Timeline pt. 2: 20th Century: 1900-1919
[ Alberta Story ] [ part 1 ] [ part 2 ] [ part 3 eventually ]
Phew. (again).
So I spent an inordinate amount of time not doing this and that was terrible. It's like not showering, I was so itchy.
Originally I intended to do the 20th century all in one go like the previous timeline, but my focus shifted, my reasons for continuing uh change with the times i guess, and I wanted to be a little bit more focused and thoughtful as I made this.
While I do still intend this as kind of a cheat sheet for myself to reference past decisions I've made, I also don't really envision this as something that is set in stone. It's more of just a milestone, a marker of where my thoughts are at, and I may end up retconning or reimagining parts of it as my understanding changes. There's still a lot I am missing or have glossed over and that's fine, I'll learn to live with it and fill in the gaps as I go in other ways.
Once again, this is something that I could go into depth explaining and elaborating on but to save myself time and energy I will simply point at the ask box and leave it there.
it was the 140th anniversary of Riel's execution this past week and commemorated in Manitoba (the first time a sitting prime minister has ever attended) as well as out here as we are also considered one of the Metis homelands, so I was already thinking about that when I started drawing. This is the gravesite in St. Boniface and the assumption sash (although it's difficult to render in a palette) is modelled after one Riel wore ca. 1860
A long overdue reference list for tumblr for ctcsherry's provinces and territories, around which we based the YouTube I Am Matthewian Project (2009-2013) and which subsequently inspired @project-canada (2013-2017).
Please note: not all the characters received human names while the project was active. Please see my post on human name explanations (and the notes for a couple of characters I missed), I have included the fanon names that I am aware of.)
While I did not create these characters, I was part of the cast/crew of IAMP from the fall of 2009 until the end, so I'm happy to clarify whatever I (or anyone else who was around!) can remember or dig up. I also just want everyone to keep in mind that the Hetalia fandom was a very different place in 2009, and a lot of characterizations do rely on tongue-in-cheek stereotypes. They have been interpreted a lot over the past 15+ years by different people. Take it with a grain of salt!
Rather than link to the IAMP wiki, which has been edited by non-cast/crew members and thus has dubious or non-canon information, I'll link to Sherry's (ctcsherry) original bios for each province. While the 2009 LJ post in Hetanada still exists, the images are not retrievable from there even with the WayBack machine.
Alberta - Ralph Campbell (172cm - 5'8")
British Columbia - Victoria "Van" Cheung (160cm - 5'3")
Manitoba - [ see above post ] (168cm - 5'6")
New Brunswick - Marie McCain (170cm - 5'7")
Newfoundland (and Labrador) - Benjamin O'Reilly (178cm - 5'10" as an adult)
Northwest Territories - [ see above post ]
Nova Scotia - Joel McKenzie (178 cm - 5'10")
Nunavut - Nanook Puqiqnak (~70cm - 2'4")
Ontario - Oliver Stanley (173 cm - 5'8")
Prince Edward Island - Annie Montgomery (145cm - 4'9")
Quebec - Jean Tremblay (175cm - 5'9")
Saskatchewan - [ see above post ] (176cm - 5'9")
Yukon - Kate Sahneuti (158cm - 5'2")
Some other bits:
I don't know if Sherry's height chart still exists anywhere online currently, but I'll put it here for reference as well.
Redrew/Redesigned Regina, (again, don’t worry she’s still short) Girly’s being confronted by Ed about getting her news from Justbins (a garbage company) that is a real screenshot from their page.
If she didn’t want to be confronted, she probably shouldn’t have posted it onto her story….
You’d think for a city that was once the capital of the NWT; back when the Buffalo freely roamed the Earth, Regina wouldn’t be getting her news from a meme page.
Justbins really was voted as best online news by Prairie Dog Magazine back in 2023. CBS Saskatchewan and CTV Regina were ranked 2nd and 3rd. A lot of these news stories are shared via memes…
The reason for the murder queen nickname is because Regina was once a long-time holder of the murder capital of Canada title for several years.
She doesn’t get upset at the nickname because she knows it’s true, and she figures if she calls him Stabmonton or Deadmonton, he has all the rights to call her Murder Queen in return.
Edmonton belongs to @battle-of-alberta / @acetechne (sorry! I just needed something a little silly, plus I needed to practice drawing facial hair, and I didn’t know who else to choose ;w;)
I just needed to draw something a little silly because I needed too…
That's right, the original tribute to Canada 150, Dominion Day, is -finally- back up on YouTube in the ProCan archive channel!
Thanks so much for your patience, I had a lot going on with grad school and moving and retrieving the files and sitting down to put subtitles back on (they may not be synced properly when this posts, but I will go back and fix them as needed when I am able). Enjoy!
