An Americans guide to Canada: Canadianisms
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EH IS CANADIAN, EH?: USAGE, FUNCTIONS AND THE IDENTITY CRISIS OF EH
By Kailin Wright copyright 2006 We have all heard of the interjection “eh” as in “I am Canadian, eh?” but what does it really mean and is it uniquely Canadian? Linguists debate over whether eh is peculiar to Canada. The 1970s saw a handful of essays on eh as a Canadian interjection. More recently, linguists such as Gaelan De Wolf […]
» Read moreHistoric Happenings ‘History of Hamilton’ excerpt from Wikipedia.org
What was happening in Hamilton Ontario in 1906-1918? International Harvester Company plant and waterfront in Hamilton c. 1907 Hamilton had a momentous year in 1906: local boy Billy Sherring won an Olympic gold medal at Athens for the marathon.[20] The Amalgamated Transit Union struck against the HSR in a bitter labour dispute. The working class voters of Hamilton East, sympathetic […]
» Read moreHistory of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
When Calls the Heart has given us an appreciation for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Here is some information about the history of the men in red we admire. Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Born out of a need for a national police force to implement the law in Canada’s newly acquired western territories, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has evolved […]
» Read moreCBC Piling on the Imports
Friday, May 29, 2015 By Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press To read full article, see http://www.thestarphoenix.com/mobile/story.html?id=11092239 Daniel Lissing poses for a photo on the set of When Calls the Heart, which CBC has picked up for the summer. Photographed by: Eike Schroter, Canadian Press, The Canadian Press CBC-TV is turning to British, Australian and U.S. series to bolster its […]
» Read moreInternational Stars Excited to Adopt Iconic Canadian Uniform in New Series on RCMP Life
By Jonathan Dekel, Postmedia News May 13, 2014, Calgary Herald (excerpts, see link at bottom for full article) Growing up in the Australian resort town of Bondi Beach, Daniel Lissing had his first impression of Canada in the form of an older woman. . . . Nearly two decades later, Lissing’s work brought him to that mystical, far-off land. On […]
» Read moreWhen Calls the Heart’s Royal Australian Mountie
by Jonathan Deckel Canada, May 5, 2014 Growing up in the Australian resort town of Bondi Beach, Daniel Lissing’s first taste of Canada came in the form of an older woman . . . Link to article
» Read more‘When Calls the Heart’ a Canadian Coming of Age Story
Eleni Armenakis, April 16, 2014 12:00:48 AM As a novel, When Calls The Heart was meant to inspire—and that’s exactly what the Hallmark Original, making its debut on the Super Channel on Wednesday, sets out to do. Set in Canada and filmed in Langley, B.C., the frontier story follows a socialite and new teacher to the rough town of Coal […]
» Read moreTV Series ‘When Calls the Heart’ Part of Period-Piece Resurgence
Heartwarming family drama set in fictional B.C. town By: Bill Brioux The Canadian Press, Published on Sun Dec 08 2013 LANGLEY, B.C.—About 45 minutes south of Vancouver, on a farm field surrounded by vineyards, sits a village from another century. The place is called Coal Valley, a fictional frontier town built this fall for the series When Calls the Heart. […]
» Read moreMichael Landon Jr.’s Little House in the Great Northwest
British Columbia has stood in for all kinds of places on film and TV. Up next: Langley stands in for Coal Valley, in the “great northwest.” When Calls the Heart, which premieres in Canada next week, was inspired by Alberta writer Janette Oke’s bestselling novels. In the TV series, set in 1910, a young upper-crust teacher (Erin Krakow) receives her […]
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