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Canada Waits For Christmas – December 10th
Posted on December 10, 2022 Leave a Comment
The most fun aspect of posting this Canadian-culture Advent calendar is discovering all the fantastic Canadian art I never knew existed. When I entered the search term “pond hockey Canadian” I was thrilled when Richard De Wolfe‘s art images appeared. “Please be Canadian, Richard De Wolfe!” I wished as I went to his website. He […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 9th
Posted on December 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
Welcome (back) to my Advent calendar of Canadian art and culture. I’m glad you’re here. Today I found Maud Lewis, a Nova Scotia folk artist, crammed in behind a flimsy cardboard door. She was born in Yarmouth, NS in the early 1900s and lived until 1970. She died in Marshalltown, NS where she had lived […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 8th
Posted on December 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Limelight” is an awesome Canadian song by the progressive rock band Rush. It was first released on the 1981 album Moving Pictures. (Rush’s Geddy Lee’s vocals were featured on Bob & Doug McKenzie’s song “Take Off” and the two hosers were mightily impressed.) “All the world’s indeed a stageAnd we are merely playersPerformers and portrayersEach […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 7th
Posted on December 9, 2022 2 Comments
Sometimes when you had one of those cardboard Advent calendars as a child, you got busy and didn’t open one of the doors until the following day. This is exactly what’s happening here. Here are Bob & Doug McKenzie and Geddy Lee from Rush performing “Take Off.” Bob (Rick Moranis) and Doug (Dave Thomas) were […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 6th
Posted on December 6, 2022 1 Comment
Love, love, love this oil painting on canvas called “Toboganning Under the Stars” by British Columbia painter Peter Shostak. This artist was raised in north-eastern Alberta and I grew up in the northwest of that province. That might also explain why this painting speaks to me. I feel like I’ve been there! Peter Shostak taught […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 5th
Posted on December 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
I can’t believe it’s snowing again today. In the backyard, there are already snow heaps that are three feet tall. Where are we going to put all this snow that keeps falling? On the upside, the temperature is up to -20 degrees Celsius. Behind today’s Canadian-culture Advent calendar door is a tremendous rendition of Neil […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 4th
Posted on December 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
What Canadian cultural treasure will reveal itself first from behind the tiny cardboard door of the calendar today? Please let it be rock’n’roll… It is! It is rock’n’roll! The Tragically Hip‘s song “Thompson Girl” from their most awesome album Phantom Power was released in 1998. According to Wikipedia, it won the 1999 Juno Awards for […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 3rd
Posted on December 3, 2022 Leave a Comment
Hello there! As I write this, the sky outside my Saturday-morning window is a sunny blue and the wind is not howling. How nice! A bluejay has commandeered the bird feeder and is hustling all the sparrows away. He’ll need to leave some time and the sparrows, watching from afar, will take the opportunity to […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 2nd
Posted on December 2, 2022 4 Comments
This is Day 2 of my Advent calendar celebrating Canadian art and culture. Canadian or not, thanks for dropping by! – Lori This morning, the lower left corner of my PC’s monitor says -28 degrees Celsius and, again today, the school buses aren’t running. I was going to go volunteer to read with the younger […]
Canada Waits For Christmas – December 1st
Posted on December 1, 2022 4 Comments
Canada Waits For Christmas is my Advent calendar series celebrating cold Canadian culture and giving a shout-out to those artists and influencers from north of the 49th parallel. Got an idea for the “calendar”? Share it with me in the comments. As I write this, the temperature is -25 degrees Celsius, the snow is piled […]
Lori Knutson 