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Canada is almost
unimaginably vast. It stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
the latitude of Rome to beyond the Magnetic North Pole. Its archetypal
landscapes are the Rocky Mountain lakes and peaks, the endless forests and
the prairie wheatfields, but Canada holds landscapes that defy expectations:
rainforest and desert lie close together in the southwest corner of the
country, while in the east a short drive can take you from fjords to lush
orchards. What's more, great tracts of Canada are completely unspoiled -
ninety percent of the country's 28.5 million population lives within 100
miles of the US border.
Like its neighbour to the south, Canada is a spectrum of cultures, a
hotchpotch of immigrant groups who supplanted the continent's many native
peoples. There's a crucial difference, though. Whereas citizens of the
United States are encouraged
to perceive themselves as Americans above all else, Canada's concertedly
multicultural approach has done more to acknowledge the origins of its
people, creating an ethnic mosaic as opposed to America's "melting-pot".
Alongside the French and
British majorities live a host of communities who maintain the traditions of
their homelands - Chinese,
Ukrainians, Portuguese,
Indians, Dutch, Polish, Greek
and Spanish, to name just the
most numerous. For the visitor, the mix that results from the country's
exemplary tolerance is an exhilarating experience, offering such widely
differing environments as Vancouver's
huge Chinatown and the austere religious enclaves of
Manitoba. Canadians themselves, however, are often troubled by the lack
of a clear self-image, tending to emphasize the ways in which they are
different from the US as a means of self-description. The question "What is
a Canadian?" has acquired a new immediacy with the interminable and
acrimonious debate over Québec and its possible
secession, but ultimately there can be no simple characterization of a
people whose country is not so much a single nation as a committee on a
continental scale. Pierre Berton, one of Canada's finest writers, wisely
ducked the issue; Canadians, he quipped, are "people who know how to make
love in a canoe".
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