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  CanadianCulture.com - Canada's Supportive Network and Resource Directory - Canadian People working together!
It has always filled me with such joy and happiness to be able to be among my fellow countrymen, singing the national anthem and talking about friends and family that we have had to leave behind.
Knowing that on that day you are joining millions of Canadians around the globe to celebrate means a great deal.
Views expressed on Canadian Culture does not reflect the views of Canadian Culture nor does our site endorese them, we provide Canadians a place to share their opinions.
www.canadianculture.com   (1354 words)

  
  Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the north of this region is the broad Canadian Shield, an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age, thinly soiled, rich in minerals, and dotted with lakes and rivers—over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada.
The Canadian Maritimes protrude eastward from the southern coasts of Quebec.
The use of the maple leaf as a Canadian symbol dates back to the early 18th century, and is depicted on its current and previous flags, the penny, and on the coat of arms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canada   (5527 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Canadian culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One matter of contention in the effort to study Canadian culture rests in the fact of Canada's bilingualism; there is little reason to question the distinct identity of the English- and French-speaking peoples of Canada.
Canadian TV stations usually fill their prime times with US shows, often running at the same time as they are broadcast in the US.
Canadian television, especially supported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is the home of a variety of locally-produced shows.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-culture   (1037 words)

  
 CANADA: A CULTURAL PROFILE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Canadians have long sought a way to verbalize their identity, and often define themselves more by what they are not, rather than by what they are.
Canadians also stress the individual's responsibility to the community at large, and are concerned that everyone enjoy a comparable quality of life.
Canadians have a monochronic sense of time in that they see time linearly and divide their life into scheduled segments.
www.relojournal.com /nov96/culture.htm   (745 words)

  
 Philosophy and culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Canadians are often said to be masters of compromise; that is a way of saying they often manage to bring thesis and antithesis to synthesis.
The Canadian case between 1950 and 1995 requires an examination of Canadian cultural psychology and, especially, the tradition of alienation in the country.
Canadians inside and outside of the corporate class participate in the tradition, though the corporate class is more readily drawn to it and uses the power of communication it commands to increase the number of participants among ordinary Canadians.
www.ola.bc.ca /online/cf/module-2/phil.html   (14099 words)

  
 Culture Clash: Canadian Healthcare: Falsehoods & Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Canadians live longer, have a lower infant mortality rate than the USA and in specific issues such as liver and kidney transplants have a higher success rate than Americans.
Canadian healthcare is probably great, but that is irrelevant: the fact that coercive force would be utilized in the collection of taxes to fund an involuntary government program is inherently diametrically opposed to the tenents of classical liberalism.
Thus a credit card or lackthereof, in Canadian Culture, is not something we consider to be acceptable where health and welfare of our citizens is concerned.
www.culturesclash.com /culture_clash/2004/07/canadian_health.html   (2084 words)

  
 Canadian History & Culture Links
The Canadian Film Centre is the Norman Jewison inspired and endowed centre for training and promotion of the film industry in Canada.
Adbusters is a Canadian magazine with a guerilla attitude towards challenging the images used by the advertising industry to manipulate our psyches and our pursestrings.
Canadians who have made significant contributions to their nation and to the world.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/canadian_history_culture   (3350 words)

  
 Explore Canadian Culture @ Culture.ca — Explorez la culture canadienne @ Culture.ca
Cette culture qui contribue à définir ce que nous sommes en tant que Canadiens et en tant que citoyens du monde.
Culture.ca introduces visitors to the strong and vibrant presence of Canadian culture online, a presence that continues to define what Canada is to Canadians and to the world.
This collaborative site is primarily funded by Canadian Culture Online (CCO) and realized with the support and collaboration of dozens of Canadian non-profit and corporate partners.
www.culture.ca   (231 words)

  
 Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
The first undergraduate Canadian Studies programme was established at Mount Allison University in 1969 with an endowment from Edgar and Dorothy Davidson of Montreal; the first director was George F.G. Stanley (1907-2002), a distinguished historian and author, and designer of the country's maple leaf flag.
Anita Cannon's Canadian Government Information on the Internet is a comprehensive gateway to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal government Web sites, while Iza Laponce's Canadian Politics on the Internet and Bibliography of Canadian Politics and Society provide invaluable access to a wide spectrum of electronic and print sources in the field.
However, these forces are also serving to keep Canadian Studies a vibrant discipline, both at home and abroad, and are providing Canadian writers, artists, academics, journalists, and foreign observers with abundant opportunities for discourse on the evolving nature of this still enigmatic northern land.
www.iccs-ciec.ca /blackwell.html   (8517 words)

  
 About the Canadian Culture Online Branch
The Canadian Culture Online Branch helps organize Canadian cultural content to make it easier to find among the millions of sites available on the Internet, notably through the creation of Culture.ca, Canada's cultural gateway.
Canadian Culture Online actively supports the development of French-language content for the Internet, partnerships between the public and the private sectors for the creation and delivery of content, and projects that focus on the needs of young Canadians.
The Canadian Culture Online Policy group works with the program group, other sectors of the Department, other government departments and agencies, and private sector stakeholders to develop policies, strategies and programs that serve the online needs of Canadians.
www.pch.gc.ca /progs/pcce-ccop/about_e.cfm   (861 words)

  
 Read a Peace Report- Birth of Canadian Culture of Peace Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
CCOP has committed to contribute to the World Report on the Culture of Peace to be presented to the United Nations in June 2005.
The first national culture of peace programmes were those supported by the UNESCO Culture of Peace Programme, for which I was the initial consultant in 1992.
If you wish to start a new discussion topic on this article, please copy the title of this article which is Birth of Canadian Culture of Peace Program and its number which is 210 and enter this information along with your discussion question and a brief text on the new topic form.
cpnn-usa.org /cgi-bin/read/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=210   (559 words)

  
 Canadian Culture from go2wo
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (Hamilton International Airport) - non-profit organization which acquires, documents, preserves and maintains a complete collection of aircraft flown by Canadians and the Canadian military services from the beginning of World War II to the present and the artifacts, books, periodicals and manuals relating to these aircraft
Canadian Authors Association (CAA) (Campbellford, ON) - promotes the recognition of Canadian writers and their works, fosters and develops a climate favourable to the creative arts, and administers the Canadian Writers' Foundation, the only registered charity that grants continued financial assistance to Canada's finest writers in times of financial distress
Canadian Poetry Association (Toronto) - promotes the reading, writing, publishing and preservation of poetry in Canada through the individual efforts of members, promotes communication among poets, publishers and the general public, and encourages leadership and participation from members and to encourage the formation and development of autonomous local chapters
www.go2wo.com /canada/culture.htm   (691 words)

  
 TAKE ONE: Mondo Canuck: a Canadian pop culture odyssey
Nearly half the chapters are devoted to Canadian film and television, acknowledging the enormous influence Canadians have had on the dumbing down of North American humour.
Pere and Dymond compile lists of the coolest English Canadian movies in a chapter on Goin' Down the Road ("Life is a Highway to Hell") and the same for French Canadians films in a chapter on Mon oncle Antoine ("Fade to Black").
Ghostbusters is as much Canadian as it is American and speaks volumes for what we can achieve outside the narrow confines of officially sanctioned Canadian culture.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_14_5/ai_30178351   (815 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Indeed, the publication of Barometer Rising marked the beginning of a distinct Canadian literature written to appeal to an international audience.
His exploration of the impact of Calvinism both on the individual and on social life stimulated widespread interest much beyond the Canadian border.
Each Man’s Son (1951) describes the escape of a Cape Breton youth from a life in the mines and draws upon MacLennan’s experience and knowledge of Nova Scotia.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/238-239.htm   (727 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Culture Shock!: Canada (Culture Shock! Country Guides)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I had hoped it would have delved greater into the social/family culture and more on their views of American or contrasts of other cultures than the brief page it offered.
He is Canadian and we have been married 2 years, the same amount of time he has been living here in the U.S. We are in the middle of my immigration to Canada process and I wanted a quick history of and info about what will be my new country.
Culture Shock, Canada I found to be a very useful book which gave me an excellent background to Canada.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155868087X?v=glance   (1322 words)

  
 Canadian art and culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Painting and sculpture by Canadian artists in a figurative style inspired by surrealism and pop art.
Catriona Jeffries Gallery focuses on the current manifestations of post conceptual art practices in Vancouver as well as the origins of conceptualism in Vancouver.
David Brougham is an award winning Canadian artist who works primarily in Watercolours and was one of three Canadian artists chosen to represent Canada at the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy.
www.zeroland.co.nz /canada.html   (227 words)

  
 NIH: Bingo Culture
As Wentworth Sutton has noted in another article, "Canadian" culture is popularly considered to consist of beer, bingo, and donut shops.
In a recent article of my own I demonstrated however that donuts are a foundation not of some spurious Canadian national culture but of English Canadian "culture." As I noted, donuts are the perfect symbol for English Canada — bland, cold, too sweet for their own good, and empty at the core.
Instead of a master of ceremonies the Canadian establishment has a caller whose function is that of a supervisor.
www.newimprovedhead.com /bingo.htm   (880 words)

  
 Canadian History & Culture
Canadians, let's celebrate the exciting variety of people and events that have created the nation where we live and grow today.
Canadians can be a bit more objective about the U.S. Constitution, knowing it was a good model both for things to avoid and for things to emulate.
A recent drive through summer storms reminded me of a typical Canadian cultural experience that happened when I was younger and thought I knew.
www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/canadian_history_culture   (478 words)

  
 Woonsocket, Rhode Island - My Home Town - French Canadian Culture
Rhode Island's connection to France and French culture dates to 1524 when French explorer Giovanni de Verrazano explored the area around Block Island and Newport.
After the English defeated the French in the French-Indian War in 1763, "'la survivance" - the perpetuation of French language and culture - became a major priority for the French population in the new world.
Woonsocket had its first contact with French culture in the late eighteenth century when the Ballous and Tourtellots, French Huguenot families, settled in the area.
www.woonsocket.org /french.html   (618 words)

  
 Embassy Washington :: Arts, Culture and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Canada has a vibrant culture that is flourishing not only on the domestic stage, but in the United States and internationally.
Canadian Heritage - Strengthening and celebrating Canadian culture and identity
The Canadian Museum of Civilization - The National Museum of Human History which promotes understanding between the various cultural groups that form Canadian society
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /can-am/washington/arts/default-en.asp   (400 words)

  
 Canadian Culture: Basic Information About People in Canada
Canadians come from many different racial and religious backgrounds.
It is not usually considered objectionable to lightly touch someone on the shoulder or elbow during a discussion.
Most Canadians take pride in the fact that all people deserve the same rights and respect, regardless of their gender, race, religion, or cultural background.
www.vec.ca /english/2/culture.cfm   (330 words)

  
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When you subscribe to Canadian Culture, you are helping us reach our goals by helping Canadians work together to make our country better.
It is our effort to keep you informed on latest events.
Canadian Culture Copyright © 1997 - 2007 All rights reserved.
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 Civilization.ca - Online resources for Canadian heritage
This list focuses on educational Internet resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in the disciplines covered by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: archaeology, ethnology, history (including military history and postal history), and folk culture.
Other resources are also included if they are considered to provide a larger context for understanding Canada, its history, and the multicultural backgrounds of Canadians.
The inclusion of a link in the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation's web site does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation.
www.civilization.ca /orch/www00_e.html   (172 words)

  
 Canadian culture test
Both are English Canadian; there is a separate Québecois culture test.
Hockey is the sport of passion and (if you're male) you know almost every Canadian player in the NHL and what team they play for.
You also know baseball, basketball, and both American and Canadian football (which has 10 extra yards on the field; unfortunately, the CFL has been something of a disaster).
www.zompist.com /canada.html   (2862 words)

  
 Canadian Arts & Culture Forum
This is the most extensive list of Canadian links, but the scene is always changing, so please emailus if you have a site to add to our list.
Canadian Artists on the Web Artist Merike Lugus maintains this site, which she says is "the largest list of Canadian painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers & installation artists" who show their work on the web
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Education, research, and information centre based at Simon Fraser University
www.compuserve.ca /cpeh/forums/arts/artslinks.html   (568 words)

  
 Debbie-not-Deborah's Slant on Canadian Culture
Some say that Canadians suffer from a kind of cultural 'identity crisis'.
The fact is, we Canadians don't really think about culture very much.
The Canadian Language: Words we invented---If you're Canadian, then you'd better sit on a 'chesterfield'!
www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/3826/canadianculture.html   (266 words)

  
 Canadian Culture Help and Information
The historical significance of the Canadian Heritage Horse.
An examination of what it means to have a Canadian identity, or to experience Canadian Culture.
Here is where you can feel free to express and exchange your opinions, ideas, and thoughts regarding all things pertaining to Canadian Culture.
www.bellaonline.com /site/canadianculture   (102 words)

  
 Images Canada: picturing Canadian culture
Images Canada -- the gateway to images of Canadian events, people, places and things!
Search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada.
Follow an Image Trail or browse through the Photo Essays for search ideas.
www.imagescanada.ca /index-e.html   (60 words)

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