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Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

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Maria Mitchell

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

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