“All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood.”

  • ferretfacefrankburns@lemmy.ca
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    It also denies that Canada was a terminus for the underground railroad and that Canadians welcomed many escaped slaves before the American Civil War. There are literally thousands of black Canadians who are descendants of those escaped slaves.