Richard H., here's some Canadian quotes for your browsing pleasure:

"The Eskimo have 52 names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."   
                - Margaret Atwood, Can. writer

"How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"
                - Jacques Plante, Can. hockey player

"All pro athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity."
                - Geordie Howe, another hockey player

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
                - Sir William Osler, Can. physician

"In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."
                - Stuart Keate, Ca. newspaperman

"Pity the poor creatures in warmer countries where the seasons never change. Where summer is eternal and they never know the pain of waiting and the joy at last when summer comes."
                - Ray Guy, Can. columnist

"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she is something sublime you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of."
                - Emily Carr, Can. painter and writer

"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe."
                - Pierre Berton, Can. writer and broadcaster

"Canadians are malevolently informed about the United States, while Americans are benevolently uninformed about Canada."
                - Merrill Denison, Can. writer

"Recipe for loon soup - DO NOT MAKE LOON SOUP."
             - from 'The Eskimo Cookbook'

"There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause."
               - W.A. Deacon, Can. writer

"Love is indeed not a state that we are 'in' or 'out' of. It comes as a gift when we risk ourselves, our whole selves."
               - Penelope Washburn, Can. theologian

Cheers, daylia