Lines define relationships.
Some lines represent borders that separate countries. When a line is drawn in such a manner as to separate a single piece of land into two distinct political entities, it is usual for two distinct histories, cultures and economies to emerge.
Living as we do in close proximity to the United States, those of us who inhabit Canada’s ‘deep south’ are acutely aware of the meaning of that line drawn between Canada and United States of America.
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Ironically, our proximity and usual ease with which the border between these two great countries can be traversed often leads us to forget — notwithstanding somewhat similar languages — that Canadians live in a much different country than adjoining Americans.
As an aside, when we arrived in Windsor in late summer 1968, after originating in British Columbia followed by a few years in Toronto and Ottawa, we were struck by how ‘Americanized’ Windsor’s side of the border appeared, unlike any other part of Canada with which we were familiar.
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