Citations:Canadianness

Noun: "the state or quality of being Canadian"

 * 1987 — Coral Ann Howells, Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s, Methuen & Co. (1987), ISBN 0416376401, page 183:
 * What merges is no fixed definition of either Canadianness or women's writing, but rather an open mesh of fictional responses to the influences that have shaped national and gender awareness in a number of individual writers.
 * 1999 — Eva Mackey, The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada, Routledge (1999), ISBN 0203981308, page 199:
 * As in historical and present-day public discourses of Canadianness, the contradictory construction of Canadian identity paradoxically includes cultural difference, and at the same time constructs a notion of Canadianness in which the real and authoritative Canadian people are defined as white, culturally unmarked and assimilated Canadian-Canadians.
 * 1999 — Paul Robert Magocsi, Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, University of Toronto Press (1999), ISBN 0802029388, page 485:
 * By the eve of the Great War, some Canadians, including many of English birth, were searching for literary and artistic forms that better expressed a sense of Canadianness.
 * 2001 — Jim McKay, Toby Miller, Geoffrey Lawrence, & David Rowe, Globalization and Sport: Playing the World, Sage Publications Ltd (2001), ISBN 9780761959687, page 56:
 * Although a number of internal factors certainly account for Canada's decline in international men's hockey circles, no explanation is complete without considering the supranational forces that have irrevocably reconfigured the 'natural' correspondence between hockey and Canadianness.
 * 2001 — Alexandra Palmer, Couture & Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s, UBC Press (2001), ISBN 0774808268, page 289:
 * Historically, there has been no iconographic form of dress to represent Canada, or Canadianness, despite regional symbols of English-Canadian dress such as Scottish tartans and kilts and Québécois habitant dress, as exemplified by the capote and ceinture fléchée.
 * 2002 — André Loiselle, "The Radically Moderate Canadian Don McKellar's Cinematic Persona", in North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (eds. William Beard & Jerry White), University of Alberta Press (2002), ISBN 0888643985, page 256:
 * McKellar does not merely express his own Canadian identity in his work: he makes the very idea of Canadianness — its association with self-deprecating humour and perverse civility as well as its self-perception as a cultural mosaic — an object of mild-mannered derision.
 * 2007 — David Rayside, "The United States in Comparative Context", The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, University of Chicago Press (2007), ISBN 9780226720005, page 358:
 * Apart from its aboriginal populations, Canada is an immigrant country, but unlike such immigrant societies as the United States and Australia, there was never a strong sense of Canadianness to which newcomers were expected to adapt.
 * 2010 — Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep, Razor Bill (2010), ISBN 9781595142757, unnumbered page:
 * He runs across the ice floor and slides all the way down a narrow hall that leads to the exit, his authentic Canadianness oozing out.