{"id":120,"date":"2006-07-03T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","slug":"what-is-essentially-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Essentially Canadian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/mrdressup2.jpg\" height=\"115\" width=\"88\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"mrdressup2\" title=\"mrdressup2\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Toronto Star had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/canadian\">a great feature<\/a> over the holiday weekend. They came up with top-ten lists of Canadian books and films, but also things like architecture and children&#8217;s entertainment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not usually a huge fans of lists like these and the choices they made definitely fall on the safe side. Still, it&#8217;s a great starting point. I&#8217;ve printed these off to give out to my students this fall in my Intro to Canadian Culture class.  It&#8217;s important they know who Mr. Dressup was, if you ask me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s their list of ten essential Canadian books:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), by Stephen Leacock<br \/>\n<br \/>The Tin Flute\/Bonheur d&#8217;occasion (1945), by Gabrielle Roy<br \/>\n<br \/>Po\u00c3\u00a9sies compl\u00c3\u00a8tes (1952), \u00c3\u2030mile Nelligan<br \/>\n<br \/>The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), Hugh MacLennan<br \/>\n<br \/>Beautiful Losers (1966), Leonard Cohen<br \/>\n<br \/>The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n<br \/>Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Alice Munro<br \/>\n<br \/>Obasan (1981), Joy Kogawa<br \/>\n<br \/>In the Skin of a Lion (1987), Michael Ondaatje<br \/>\n<br \/>Green Grass, Running Water (1993), Thomas King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star had a great feature over the holiday weekend. They came up with top-ten lists of Canadian books and films, but also things like architecture and children&#8217;s entertainment. I&#8217;m not usually a huge fans of lists like these and the choices they made definitely fall on the safe side. Still, it&#8217;s a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}