The Farm (Canada) to the government and people of Canada so that future Canadian officials could make use of the area. The Farm has been an official residence since 1955 and is now operated by the National Capital Commission. The Speaker of the Senate of Canada does not have an official residence. Notes: The Farm (Canada) The Farm () is the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada. It is in Gatineau Park in the community of Kingsmere, part of Chelsea, Quebec, Canada, near the country's capital, Ottawa. The residence is so named because of
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. The speech is perhaps the most widely known of all of Frederick Douglass' writings save his autobiographies. Many copies of one section of it, beginning in para. 32, have been circulated online. Due to this and the variant titles given to it in various places, and the fact that it is called a July