I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
What are these guys? He whisperedCanadians, Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. Excuse me?Uh, no offense, Percy said. That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live...
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin...
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have...
Scenery here in Canada is by the mile whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur vastn...
The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercant...
Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
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