The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
The father of confederation is deadlock.
(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Quebec is the original heart the hardest and deepest kernel the core of first time. All round nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its s...
Canada's national bird is the grouse.
There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
'Old Tomorrow.'
'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?
The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
Showing 81 to 100 of 173 results