If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creatur...
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain hi...
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.
To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.
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.
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.