Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,754
edits
Canada, Eh?: Difference between revisions
m
→Literature, Eh?
mNo edit summary |
|||
Line 96:
* ''How To Be A Canadian,'' by Will and Ian Ferguson, is a novel-length deconstruction, subversion and general send-up of every Canadian stereotype in existence.
* [[The Trolls]] has Aunt Sally both poke fun at and provide true facts about Vancouver. For the record, no one in her stories say 'eh?'.
* After the airliner hijacking at the beginning of [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''Rainbow Six'' is foiled by John Clark and his son-in-law, the plane touches down in Gander, Newfoundland, and the protagonists are met on the tarmac by a "Royal Canadian Air Force" officer. [[Dan Browned|Canada's air forces were not referred to as the "RCAF" between 1968 and 2011.]]
* ''Hollywood's Canada'', by Canuck media legend [[Pierre Burton]], thoroughly and hilariously deconstructs Canada's image in American film (hint: most of the flicks mentioned were marketed as 'cool and refreshing' viewing for hot summer days). Contains, among others in the same vein, this wonderful quote from British actor [[Arthur Treacher]]: "I say, you'd have to be a pretty virile bloke to live there, wouldn't you?"
* ''The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad'' is set in Edmonton, and is notable for having a cast made up largely of black people. Then again, the author is a black Canadian who lives in Edmonton.
| |||