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First of the month, first of July and HAPPY CANADA DAY! In case you hadn't figured out by now, I have this amazing love affair with Canada. Don't remember exactly when it started, but I can give you the below: Top Reasons I <3 Canada (in no particular order): * Montreal, Quebec, French Canada (I studied French in school from age 12 on up. I don't know if it's because Canada was closer than France, but part of my studies always included French Canada. Quebec seemed like such a marvelous place). * Mounties. (Please, as if that needs an explanation)! * California. (Yeah, you read correctly. When I was 19, I spent a month in California and met some girls from Vancouver, which at the time, sounded like such an exotic place. They, in turn, thought the same about me. In fact, both of them really thought I lived on a ranch and rode my horse to school. In college. In San Antonio. The 8th largest city in the US. Ah well, I was equally as ignorant, but happily learned). * Charles deLint (From the first book I read Greenmantle, I knew that if I could just get to Canada, to Ottowa and Tamsin House, i could step through those magical doors and find myself somewhere fabulous). * Tanya Huff (Henry Fitzroy, werewolves, and Vicky Nelson. Toronto. Need I say more)? * Niagara Falls (When I was 13, I was on a school field trip - the geography & history clubs - to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. I remember 2 things vividly. Going to Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum and the really really cute bus driver. WHAT? I was thirteen!!). * Coureurs de bois (Romantic explorers. Enough said). * Great Big Sea (because their music is so freaking fabulous). * Vancouver. (I absolutely fell in love with this city when I visited last year). * William Shatner (No, really. He was the first actor that I learned was Canadian-- in a show I was fannish about, that is. I'm sure there were tons more, but he was the reason I came to notice...) * The Canadian 37..25..43 - oh, hell, the number keeps changing (all those great character actors that appear in numerous shows filmed in Vancouver & Toronto...which brings us to...) * Callum Keith Rennie, Paul Gross and c'mon: Due South, of course. (That show had *everything* cool about Canada). On that note and without further ado (drumroll and bagpipes, please)...Comment below and tell my one thing you think is fabulous, cool or brilliant about our neighbour to the north and one of you few, you lucky few, you band of (ahem, never mind)...will win an advanced copy of my newest book (out in November), Blood Kin, third in the Blood Lines series and takes place primarily in Vancouver, BC. Winner will be chosen via random number generator. Good Luck et bonne chance, mes amis! ETA: If you don't have a LiveJournal or Open ID account, please comment anonymously, but leave your first name and some way to ID you if you should win ("Pam" alone won't work, but "Pam D" would). THANKS! Tags: book contest, canada
Spirits:  Canadian
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| From: (Anonymous) |
Date: July 2nd, 2009 05:10 am (UTC) |
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Well as a Canadian, & having been from coast to coast, & as a hat tip to a poster up-thread, have been to the Green Gables house on PEI.
I also lived in a cave on Rustico Island, off PEI, & watched the total eclipse there.
I was a migrant worker picking tobacco, apples, tomatoes, in southern Ontario.
As a place to establish an overall foundation of character, Canada cannot be beat.
And if you ever think of killing a Canadian, make sure you know what a Canadian is.
A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German,
Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African,
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab,
Pakistani, or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Metis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one
of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's
religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu,
or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan
. The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each
of them chooses. Whether they have a religion or no religion, each
Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to
armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of
the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, which recognize the right of each person to the
pursuit of happiness.
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every
other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in
return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the
best books, the best music, the best food, the best services, and the
best minds.
But they also welcome the least - the oppressed, the outcast, and the
rejected.
These are the people who built Canada . You can try to kill a Canadian
if you must as other bloodthirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in
doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour. This is
because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place.
They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who
holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.
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