Because I was raised in a border city, being Canadian rather than American was an early, clearly made distinction. This distinction did not suggest Canadian superiority, at least in my family, but pride in British and French traditions and geographic differences. Like a lot of Windsorites, I learned that while most of the US begins south of the Canadian border, in our part of the world the City of Detroit sits on our northern horizon, the American city’s spectacular display of light at night casting diamonds up and down the Detroit River separating our two countries. I don’t know why, but I liked this anomaly and learned to relate to most places through their north-south axis.
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