Canadian identity: windshield scraping

Self-tutoring about Canadian identity: the tutor comments…

My wife is from Northern Ontario, and arrived here possibly around age 8. I’m from the Maritimes, and arrived on the west coast at age 16. We both know winter.

Recently I’ve shown my sons how to scrape ice from the windshield: neither knew how. They held the scraper almost parallel with the surface.

Of course, an easterner probably knows to put some angle behind the window scraper so it can bite the ice. I demonstrated, then my son tried the technique.

“Good,” I said: “now you look like a Canadian.”

The west coast is amazing and beautiful, but somehow you might not get the full “Canadian experience” unless you’ve lived somewhere east of the Rockies.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.