Find My Country

Welcome to you all, and welcome to my home online for the next three months.

Canada is a vast country. Containing territory between the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans, we form the world’s second largest country. However, almost 75% of our population is concentrated along the US border, leaving us ignorant about the vast uninhabited mass of the nation between that and our northern reaches. Perhaps this is why we Canadians take much of our country for granted. This can have embarassing consequences. Without a core basis of knowledge about the nation we call home, we Canadians cannot expect to hold onto a nation with enough natural resources to power the world into the next century.

Without appreciating our cultural and linguistic uniqueness, Canada cannot be united in the face of the challenges of the 21st century. To this end, Find My Country features translations into 5 languages. Not only English and French, but languages spoken by many of the new immigrants to our nation – and many old immigrants who we have a tendancy to forget about when it is convenient. Canada does not subscribe to the “Melting Pot” that our neighbours to the South embrace; Multiculturalism means that we embrace the diversity that all cultures bring, keeping the best of what they have and leaving the negative behind. What greater thing can someone bring than their language, the essence of their culture? By embracing languages, rather than fearing them, we hope that we can overcome some of the ignorance we hold to this day. Although I cannot promise that every article can be translated into every language, it is my sincere hope that we can help bridge the divide between all Canadians, so that we can all learn to appreciate the nation that I hold so dear.

Find My Country is also for our foreign friends who want to come to this great land to visit. The Maestro and I plan on visiting a lot of great Canadian tourist attractions, both big and small, so you can better plan your holidays. We are not associated with any tourist company, nor do we have any relation to a commercial tourist company – so you can expect us to be honest about what we see.

We plan to have a schedule of our stops. If you think there is a place we have to visit, or want us to check out your town, feel free to post in our message board. If you see us, and manage to snap a picture, we will have a sightings page. If you think you can bring more people to visit our site, or want an interview, drop us a line through the “About Us” page.