CANADIANA, part #3

 

previous posted poems (part#1) 

Canadian spelling

speech borrowings

Canadian moose

Canadian weather

Torontonian / Buffalonian

compassionate use

overwintering waterfowl

seniors' hockey

previous posted poems (part#2)

Kim Jong Un's visit
snow-biota

Thanksgiving, Canadian

Haida Gwaii

joual

prairie home

Mounties

Canadian raising (linguistics)

CURRENT CONTENTS: 

Nanaimo bars

Founding cultures (Canadian origins)

Crept and leapt

Dontinental unification -- 'fifty-first'

Newfoundland potato famine (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

Other related sagas -- Canada ("national verse")

                                         --  Chemainus, B.C. ("exotic destinations")

Authors' Note:   We have the good fortune in Canada, in some instances, of choosing either standard British grammar or the American version thereof. In the US, the commonly employed past tenses are "creeped" and "leaped"; these would alter the rhyming of the poem's second and fourth lines. A US-compatible version of this poem is also in the works, and can be found HERE (link under construction).

(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

CANADA ("National verse")

(Note that the four verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

CHEMAINUS ("Exotic destinations")

(Note that the six verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

Trent-Severn (Ontario nostalgia)

Great Lakes (Ontario nostalgia)

Franglais (savoir-faire)

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