In the literary arena, forthright Jewish author Mordecai Richler comments dryly on “being raised in a country where there were only isolated voices of civilization, here a poet, there a professor, and, between, thousands of miles of wheat and indifference” (1970, 22). The French and the British fought each other, decisively in 1760, over access to this wilderness and its lucrative waterways, creating a legacy that has deeply marked the entire history of this country. These lands were rich in furs coveted by the wealthy in early seventeenth-century Europe. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Maritimes (the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick), through the hillsides of central Canada (Québec and Ontario), across the wide Prairies (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta), to the Pacific Coast (British Columbia). “Canada does not have a regional identity, but rather a series of regional identities,” Donald Savoie wrote in 2018 in The Globe and Mail, a major national daily newspaper.
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