[LMB] OT: Nine Nations, was Happy Thanksgiving

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:05:36 -0500, "Peter H. Granzeau" 
<pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote:

 > Well, if Quebec is part of Canada, there are at least three
 > large sections (one on either side of Quebec).  I don't know
 > how much the Maritimes differ from each other, but I am sure
 > that Ontario and the western provinces differ greatly.

Southern Ontario, where I live, is a Place Of Its Own wedged in here 
between the lakes, with the country's largest city, most manufacturing, 
and most diverse population. Eastern Ontario is much poorer country 
except for Ottawa, where Marna and Elizabeth etc. live. Northern Ontario 
is still a resource-based economy with scattered small cities separated 
by hundreds of miles of forest and caribou pasture. The West, subdivided 
into the 3 prairie provinces and BC, is farming and resource based.

The Maritimes are a different case ... the fish are going or gone, the 
coal is too difficult to extract anymore and too far from the markets; 
two big companies dominate the agricultural market for potatoes, and 
about all they have left are the population itself ... traditionally 
intelligent and quick to innovate, and makers of music that rocks the 
rest of Canada. Stan Rogers. John Allen Cameron, who died this week. Etc.

 >The Quebeckers, of course, are Something Else Entirely.

As a fellow Franco I of course agree with you there. (The family name 
used to be laFreniere.) Astonishingly, so does Prime Minister Harper. 
His political maneuvering for survival has brought him around to the 
position he and his fellow Reformers rebelled against in the old 
Progressive Conservative Party, 20 years ago.

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