Citations:unCanadian

English citations of unCanadian

Adjective: "not Canadian; contrary to or inconsistent with Canada or Canadian values and traditions"

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• 1920 — Empire Club Speeches, Volume 17, page 249:

  They have no traditions as you have ; they come from the four corners of the earth and they strike their roots into your soil and they build around a new and unCanadian thought, and their Canada will not be the Canada down here.

• 1974 — Herschel Hardin, A Nation Unaware: The Canadian Economic Culture, J. J. Douglas (1974), page 321:

  British Columbia as a rule has been treated by the culture of Central Canada as somehow exotic and unCanadian, and Alberta as a parochial outback.

• 1988 — The Economist, Volume 309, Issues 7570-7574, page 54:

  An outward show of patriotism is unCanadian.

• 1995 — Adie Nelson & Augie Fleras, Social Problems in Canada: Issues and Challenges, Prentice-Hall Canada (1995), →ISBN, page 262:

  Those with concerns over multiculturalism as somehow "unCanadian" have little to fear.

• 1997 — Alan Davies & Marilyn F. Nefsky, How Silent Were the Churches?: Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (1997), →ISBN, page 69:

  Antisemitism is unCanadian as well as unChristian.

• 1997 — Daylight in the Swamp: Memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney (ed. A. K. Dewdney), Dundurn Press (1997), →ISBN, page 22:

  Winters in southern Ontario seemed distinctly unCanadian.

• 1997 — Aritha Van Herk, "Creating Willem Barentsz; Piloting North", in Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative (ed. John Moss), University of Ottawa Press (1997), →ISBN, page 83:

  It was — how unCanadian — a triumph.

• 2000 — Brian W. Dippie, "Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Culture, and the Canadian Connection", in Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History (eds. Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, & Bill Yeo), University of Calgary Press/University Press of Colorado (2000), →ISBN, page 22:

  One, George Lane Attacked by Wolves […] depicts an actual incident, though its choice of subject matter, with its emphasis on violence and rugged individualism, might seem unCanadian.

• 2003 — Donna Bailey Nurse, What's a Black Critic To Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers, Insomniac Press (2003), →ISBN, page 24:

  Tonight he makes the most unCanadian of admissions: he feels his success is deserved.

• 2007 — Andrea Mandel-Campbell, Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business From the Suds of Global Obscurity, Douglas & McIntyre (2007), →ISBN, page 290:

  It would seem that basing industrial policy on nationality rather than competitiveness is perhaps the most unCanadian thing imaginable.

• 2010 — Marci McDonald, The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, Random House Canada (2010), →ISBN, page 89:

  "Under previous governments a lot of us were branded as bogeymen, as somehow unCanadian for our beliefs," Rogusky told a reporter.