Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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A Canadian may be compared to a Coco-Cola, very refreshing, well liked, but belonging essentially to the Americans. Americans think Canadians are like Santa Claus, always giving but never asking for anything in return. A jolly old man with reindeer away up in the north. However, I think Canadians are like fish; made up of many different species living in beautiful surroundings but repeatedly being caught by the same bait, filleted and de-spined. Canadians are the people, who, when in Europe, find it necessary to drape the Canadian flag over their bodies to distin- guish themselves from Ameri- cans. A fur- trapper, a fisher- man, a farmer, a down to earth, hard-working, nose to the grindstone type; this was Canadian! This was also American, Scot- tish, Russian. . . Canadians are like John Wayne, just huge but no one ' s afraid of the size because they know there ' s a big heart beneath that overpower- ing exterior. Canadians are like rubber ducks, they squeak when stepped on, but keep smiling. Canadians are the ones wearing Buy Canadian buttons and walking around in Stars and Stripes shoes. Canadians are that large body of agreeables between the capitalists to the south and communists to the north. Canadian identity and the problem of pollution give me the same gnawing feeling in my stomach. It ' s a question of duration. Canadians are all ' Doubting Thomases ' . We ' ll wait until the Americans troop into Canada, lower our flag and raise the Stars and Stripes before We ' ll believe we ' re being invaded. Rebecca Shields