frequently say that Canada is “British ” or “French, ” and British visitors dub Canada “American”; neither assessment is correct. Explaining Canada has taxed the ingenuity of Canadian newsmen, educators, historians, writers and politicians. Three quotations seem particularly relevant in providing a...
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| Summary: | frequently say that Canada is “British ” or “French, ” and British visitors dub Canada “American”; neither assessment is correct. Explaining Canada has taxed the ingenuity of Canadian newsmen, educators, historians, writers and politicians. Three quotations seem particularly relevant in providing a background in which to set this short discussion of some Canadian cooperative projects. In addition, a list of sources for further research is appended. Hugh MacLennan, one of the best-known names in Canadian literature, declares of Canada: “I value this country precisely because it is too subtle an organism for anyone to make an ‘image ’ of it-unless an artist of the Picasso school went to paint a perfectly coherent face turned inside out and outside in and looking in three directions at once.”’ William Lewis Morton, author of many historical works, summarizes in The Candian Identity: Canada exists in America by the operation of geography, the needs of imperial strategy, the development of an historical tradition, and the conscious will of the Canadian people. It is not, more than other states, an historical accident or an artificial creation. It is an attempt to develop in a particular North American environment a civilization European in origin and American in evolution. Certain factors in its history and circumstances give a distinctive character to the development and existence of Canada. It is an attempt to maintain a modern nation-state, with an industrialized economy using a high technology, on a semi-continental scale, in a climate ranging from north temperate to arctic. It is an endeavour to allow two cultures to flourish in one political nationality. It is, finally, an effort to |
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