“I don't even know what street Canada is on.” KnowsStreetsHumorousCanadaNationalismCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being Great Author:Al Capone
“Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.” CountryPlayerFrontsColdHumorousRainBaseballCanadaHockeyAcidBaseball PlayerImportsHockey PlayerCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being GreatAcid Rain Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.” TryingHumorousDisappearThemeCanadaCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being GreatCanadian History Author:Will Ferguson
“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.” InspirationalWellsImagineHumorousWestCanadaMilkCowsQuebecOntarioMaritimeCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada Day Author:Tommy Douglas
“The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.” DoeStatesFallUnitedKnownUnited StatesTreeHumorousBritainCanadaFlatsLionsBitesEaglesBeaversTesticlesRodentsCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being Great Book:Portrait of Canada Source: Portrait of Canada
“I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.” HomeHumorFunnyPoliticalLeftHumorousCanadaTopicsFolkloreCanada FunnyCanada Being GreatCanadian HistoryBeyond My Control Author:Will Ferguson
“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.” ShouldSelfWholeHumorousCanadaHatsRejectsDelicateStoppingBizarreRoyaltyBudSense Of SelfFrailHarbourNational IdentityCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada DayCanada Being Great Author:Will Ferguson