Following on with our penchant for all things Canadian, this post is a continuation of a collection of verses displayed here on August 10, 2020 (national anthems #1) and August 10, 2021 (national anthems #2).
previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).
(national anthems #1): Canadian spellings, speech borrowings, Canadian weather, Toronto/Buffalonian.
(national anthems #2): compassionate use, overwintering waterfowl, seniors hockey, joual, Canadian moose.
Kim Jong Un's visit
snow-biota
Canadian Thanksgiving
Haida Gwaii
prairie home.
Kim Jong Un, third successive member of his family's ruling dynasty, became leader of North Korea in 2011. He has since garnered world attention by his blustering role in his country's programs to develop missiles and nuclear weapons; the latter are widely known informally as 'nukes'.
In the northern Canadian territories (Northwest Territory, Nunavut and the Yukon), the soil is poor in organic components and prone to salinity and permafrost. Cucumbers, known informally as cukes, must be imported into the Yukon from crops grown further south. The reader may well agree that these territories should remain nuke-free as well as cuke-free.
Authors' Note:
coyote: wolf-like wild dog, with range recently extended into southern parts of Canada, and into Carolina coastal communities; a member of the canid family, as are dogs and wolves
cuanto: Spanish for 'how much?’
Pierre (PEER): town named by French explorers, capital of the U.S. state of South Dakota, located due west of Toronto (2,100 km or 1,330 miles by highway).
In the United States, nicknames (official or unofficial) for individual states are important for aspects such as vehicle licensing plaques, sports team designation and political bloviation. Geographic features and indigenous plants and animals may be so used, as in South Dakota, 'the coyote state’, and South Carolina, 'the palmetto state’.
Authors' Note:
Acadia (uh-KAY-dee-yuh, as here, or uh-KAY-dyuh) or l'Acadie: (French), name given in colonial times to the region corresponding to today's Atlantic Canada (the Maritime provinces)
tofurkey: a vegetarian substitute for turkey made from tofu
Action de grâce (ak-syon-duh-GRAS): literally action of grace; name derived from continental France for a harvest festival
habitants: French colonial settlers, a term honored in the title of Montreal's professional hockey team
Thanksgiving Day, or Action de grâce, is a statutory holiday in the majority of Canadian provinces and territories, observed on the second Monday of October.
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