01 Jul What expats miss about Canada on Canada Day

Eleven Canadians living in the United States celebrate Canada Day by telling the New York Times what they miss about Canada. Moneyquote:

We call our dollars loonies because the coin has an image of a loon in flight. Another old bird, the Queen of England, is on the other side of the coin. I remember singing “God Save the Queen” every morning in school. “Long live our noble Queen!” we belted, thousands of us tubby little obedient Canadians. I guess it worked. She’s still alive. (Rick Moranis)

Unlike many of her generation, the late Cape Breton Post writer Eleanor Huntington, who died two years ago at 100, never got too upset about the government’s changing Dominion Day to Canada Day. “I’m just glad they didn’t call it Day Canada,” she wrote.