Canada – Mike Myers

I didn’t know anything about jazz, but Oscar Peterson was Canadian, so I bought it, and, by the way, loved it, even though at the time I was exclusively into rock. The Sam in Sam the Record Man was Sam Sniderman. A Canadian hero who simply asked the question, “Why not from Canada?” And this question was spreading like wildfire in Canada. Even to the point of product promotions. The Canadian subsidiary of the yUp company had a promotion called Rock Caps.

At the bottom of every specially marked can of yUp, there was the name and face of a Canadian rock band member. The bands were Lighthouse, the Guess Who, April Wine, Crowbar, and Edward Bear. My brothers, Peter and Paul, and I were obsessed. We found ourselves rummaging through the garbage, looking for yUp cans. Our hands were bloodied because of how hard it is to cut open the bottom of a pop can. We ran the risk of tetanus and other opportunistic infections, but in the end, we got Don DiNovo, the violinist of the rock band Lighthouse, and our collection was complete.

We were looking inward, claiming and naming Canadian bands. Joni and Neil were already in the States planting the flag, but now it felt like their U.S. residency was less of an exile and more of a beachhead for these new Canadian recording artists. Similarly, Shell gas stations in Canada offered com¬ memorative medallions featuring the prime ministers of Canada. The goal was to collect all (at that time) fifteen prime ministers. My favourite prime minister was Charles Tupper. The only thing I knew about Tupper was that he had giant Brooklyn-style mutton chops.

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“I only lived in Canada from 1963 until 1983, a mere twenty years. I have now lived outside of Canada for thirty-three years. I have indelible memories of my Canadian life, and since my departure I have been doing my best to keep track of my beloved country. My Canadian-ness affects every aspect of my being. My American friends once accused me of enjoying being Canadian. Guilty as charged.” Mike Myers, from the Introduction MIKE MYERS, the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time, has often made winking allusions to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work—but now he turns the spotlight on full-beam.

Canada is Mike Myers’s insightful, frequently hilarious, and wholly subjective analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians, and what being Canadian has always meant to him. It is both a memoir of a Canadian at home and abroad, and a wildly autobiographical inves¬ tigation of a nation. A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explain Canada from within and without. His literary debut brings his love of Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride.

nation [ney-shuAn] noun 1. An aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, speaking the same language 2. A people of a particular territory, conscious ofits unity to possess its own government Canadian [kuh-ney-dee-uhn] noun 1. A native or inhabitant of Canada 2. Mike Myers Mike Myers Canada Doubleday Canada copyright © 2016 Mike Myers All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior v written consent of the publisher—or in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing agency—is an infringement of the copyright law.

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