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If you had to roll up this map . . . October 1 1969 DOUGLAS MARSHALL
Which Canada would you choose?
THE NATIONAL SCENE
If you had to roll up this map . . .
APART FROM THE addition of Newfoundland, the map of Canada hasn’t changed much during this century.
It has been a mirror of reassurance for a nation never quite certain of its own shape or identity. In moments of intense self-doubt we could always pull out the old atlas, trace the familiar boundaries and say, “Yes, Canada does exist and we look like this.”
Boundaries, however, are merely imaginary lines man has drawn on the surface of the globe, as ephemeral as men themselves. Wars of conquest, shifting loyalties and cultural antipathy have ensured that modern cartographers are seldom unemployed.