Canada Travel Guide

Fully unified only since 1949, and still plagued by the Québec imbroglio, Canada is a country of intertwining histories rather than a single national evolution. Not only does each of its provinces maintain a high degree of autonomy, but each grouping of native peoples can claim a heritage that cannot be fully integrated into the story of white Canada. Such a complex mosaic militates against generalization - although Canadians themselves continue to grapple with the nature of their own identity - but nonetheless what follows attempts to identify key events and themes