I really miss it, I can tell you. Peter is right that it had a sort of arid, overly sober quality to it (absolutely NOTHING was open on Sunday...), and good restaurants with a variety of foreign cuisine were damned hard to find, unlike today, but in other ways it was just wonderful...because you knew what it was to be Canadian, by God!

My family moved from Southern Ontario to the USA in 1958, when Canada was still undeniably Canada. I came back in 1969. The difference was already very evident, and I have watched the Canada that I knew as a child disappear before my eyes ever since. I love this country, but I can't make out what it has become in the last 5 decades.

I sort of envy the French Canadians, in a way, because their language has allowed them to preserve the vibrancy of their culture. I find them to be very expressive people with a tremendous sense of romance. I get the feeling they have more fun than the English Canadians. ;-) Of course, they always did, didn't they?