Moved to Atlanta, Georgia from Niagara Falls, Ontario just about 10 years ago. Met my husband through work and decided at the time there were more opportunities here. We have made a good living here and enjoy owing our own business just north of Atlanta.
Get home about twice a year and family comes to visit me a couple times of a year so stay stocked up on the Canadian essentials (habitant pea soup, ketchup chips, REAL canadian bacon not ham, and of course TIM'S)
Thank goodness for Directv - get Hockey Night in Canada throughout the season. Love to watch Don Cherry - I don't think there is an American who can compare to him the way he is loved throughout Canada.
Would love to get to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics. The Olympics were always so important growing up, so I'm very excited that Canada is hosting again.
Oh, GO LEAFS!!!!
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I was a professional musician and a member of the viola section of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Around 1981, I had a crisis of conscience about my work, which I was no longer enjoying. To make a long & circuitous story short: while seeking a means to make a living that would still make use of my extensive musical training (B. Mus. in viola performance, U. of Alberta, 1977, etc.), I was advised by a friend to investigate music librarianship. I did, ending up in the masters degree program at the University of Michigan in 1983 -- where I met Marty, the woman and fellow librarian who has been my wife and best friend since 1986 (and who is the reason I remained south of the 49th and ultimately became a dual US/Canadian citizen in 2005).
We had a chance to move back to Canada in 1992, when I was offered the job of music librarian at the Banff Centre, but I turned it down, and that was probably a wise move. Life is good here in Athens, GA, the occasional drought or tornado notwithstanding. I only get back to see family in Edmonton and Calgary once a year, but have made my peace with that. It's harder to visit so infrequently now that my mother is really getting quite old and her health is failing.
I'm the head of music cataloguing at the University of Georgia and have enjoyed an active career as an American music librarian for over 24 years now. My wife is the systems librarian here at UGA, and we enjoy travel with friends to all parts of the US, as well as our forays to Canada. Last year we went with another couple to PEI and Nova Scotia, and they indulged me in my successful hunt for my great-grandparents' grave in Charlottetown. It was my 2nd visit to PEI (the 1st was in 1975 with the National Youth Orchestra under Georg Tintner), and an important pilgrimage for me.
I moved here from Mont Tremblant, QC to marry my wife. We own a leisure based travel agency and are actively building an escorted tour through Quebec this coming September to share what we love so dearly with our best friends and clients. Would love to have more along for sightseeing, dining, golf & spa, so if you're interested, contact us!
Hello, I would like to ask a question of Canadians living in the U.S. I belong to a website where there is people from all over the world, and we have a friendly debate going between the Americans and Canadians as to which Tim Horton's (a.k.a. Timmys) is better . The Americans are saying there is no difference in quality or taste. The Canadians are saying Timmy's in Canada are better in taste and quality. Myself being an American and travel to Canada often, I can see no difference. I realize Tim Horton's are mostly in the Northeast part of the U.S., and would like some unbiased opinions of Canadians that have been to Timmy's in the U.S. & Canada. Thanks!
My name is Leanne, and I am a transplant from New Westminster, BC. Married to an American (that is why I moved). Am 32 with no kids, and two cats - Bailey and Malibu. I love hockey - GO CANUCKS!
I miss a good double double from Timmies, I miss my Old Dutch Salt/Vinegar Chip, and I miss good coolers with vodka in them instead of malt liquor. Ugh!
At the heart of the Six String Nation project is a very special guitar made from 64 different pieces of Canadian culture and heritage including: one of Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddles, the top of Paul Henderson's hockey stick from the '72 series, decking from the Bluenose II, the legendary Golden Spruce of Haida-Gwaii, Louis Riel's schoolhouse and many more representing communities and histories large and small, famous and virtually unknown. The guitar was born Canada Day on Parliament Hill and has been played by everyone from Bruce Cockburn to Feist to Ron Sexsmith to Jane Siberry to Madagascar Slim to Raven Kanatakta to Bob Snider to...
You can learn more about the guitar at www.SixStringNation.com.
We are hoping to make some visits to the U.S. with the guitar and would love Canadians to come out and meet this guitar that is really a part of all of us.
My family left St Norbert, now Winnipeg, in 1970 when I was 12. Dad was born in Detroit but you would never know it from his heavy French accent. His brother worked for Motorola and convinced Dad to come down and settle where the weather was easier on the old bones. In those 36 years since then, everyone went back save for me and my father. I live in San Jose with my wife Sally (married 23 years now), two sons, Jeremy and Marc, and our daughter Marisa. My wife is from Tuscany, Italy. So I studied some Italian which came a little easy being French Canadian and all.
It takes people a little while to figure that I'm from up there. I speak English without a French accent and I speak French like a native Québequois. Thanks to the Internet, I listen and watch French programming from home. I'm rusty with the French but I'm trying to bring it back up to speed.
My last visit to Manitoba was in 2002 for Mom's funeral. It was early November and it snowed almost three inches during the funeral and get together afterwards. so I went outside with my nieces and nephews to have a snowball fight in front of the church (hey, we had too, the snow was wet, a rare thing in Winnipeg), what a riot.
Currently, I'm in school getting some much needed tech skills since I spent the last 21 years as a contractor for the USAF, working with specialized antiquated equipment. One thing though, I had my name flown in space on board the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was on a banner with all of the other launch team members. I also kept a Canadian flag hung up in my office to scare the security forces and get reactions from my coworkers. ;)
There's a candy store in Carmel that sells candy from all over. They had Coffee Crisp and Smarties, but when I saw how much they wanted, $3 each, I walked out. I love those candy bars, but not that much.
Bonjour, Mon fils et moi-même avons rejoints mon mari (Etatsunien) en Septembre de l'année dernière et nous vivons à Pearl River, New York. Quoique le Canada ne soit pas si loin, j'ai parfois le mal du pays. Le bilinguisme de Montréal me manque beaucoup et j'essaye de le recréer en parlant Français avec mon fils et anglais avec mon mari! Je porte avec fierté des T-shirt portant la feuille d'érable, j'ai aussi un petit drapeau canadien sur mon frigo et je visite souvent www.weather.ca pour savoir le temps qu'il fait là-bas et voir les photos webcam du site... Au travail, j'essaye d'être la porte parole du Canada en parlant à mes collègues de tous ce que nous sommes ! Si vous voulez correspondre avec moi (Français ou anglais), vous êtes les bienvenus (es). Have a very sweet Day!
Hello, my name is Joan and I'm from the West Coast of beautiful Newfoundland & Labrador. I moved to Maine about 11 months ago. We live about 1 1/2 hours from the St. Stephen, NB border. I married the love of my life last May in Las Vegas.
Bruce & I met in my home town 3 years ago - love at first sight - and within a year we started the Immigration process (gruelling) and I finally got my Green Card, but I'll never give up my Canadian citizenship!
Life in Maine is lonely. Bruce works crazy swing shifts. But when he's off we love doing things together like kayaking and fishing. He's my best friend. I miss my family and friends, esp my Daughters, 3 Grand Children and my dear 98-year young Dad. We went home last August and again at Christmas.
I find that people are hard to get to know here. I'm used to going out to the mall and bumping into dozens of people to chat to. Here I talk to strangers - LOL - So if there's any Newfoundlanders/Canadians in Maine, I would love to meet or just chat. Please feel free to contact me.
After saying all this I wouldn't trade my Husband for anything. He's a wonderful man and my whole family adores him. My daughter & grandkids gave him the 'DICTIONARY OF NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR' for his birthday last year with a little note saying "Maybe now you'll be able to understand us!" And I know he'd do anything for me as I him. We are very blessed. But I did tell him that my prenup request is that when he retires in 10 years we're moving back to the Rock! He's happy with that. He loves Newfoundland & Labrador.
This is a lovely site. Wish there were more people on it. Gotta get the word out. Thanks for keeping us all in touch. Like I told my husband, "Marry a Newfoundlander, you marry Newfoundland!"
Hi from Stockton. I moved from Sept Iles, Quebec, in 1984 to Colombia, SA. We had to learn English and Spanish. And then 1988 we moved to Stockton, CA - a very nice little town.
My husband and I left Canada with our 3 girls, and spent 4 years in Colombia.
(Since divorced and remarried). I miss Canada everyday, any chance I get I talk abot Canada and what a great country we have. I have visited a few times, and hope to go next year. I love Connect2Canada.
