Canada The Unknown Country

“The popular symbol of this naïve, youthful, self-confident Canadianism came to be the cartoon figure of Jack Canuck. Jack was a young, clear-eyed, and a highly muscular personage, whose rolled-up shirt sleeves, stiff-brimmed hat, breeches, and [boots] appeared to suggest a kind of cross between the working clothes of a farmer and the uniform of a trooper in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and whose ingenious and open countenance radiated with honesty, uncorrupted virility, and shining moral purpose. Supposedly, Jack looked forward to the future with radiant assurance. But in actual fact, there was—or there ought to have been, a puzzled frown upon his face. For he had yet to complete the restatement of Canada’s foreign policy…”