My parents did me a huge favour in the summer of 1984, just before I entered the seventh grade, even though they might not have realized it… Read more “Canada 1984: Rising and Following John Allan Cameron”

I will always be jealous of my wife Cathy because she got to see one of the biggest moments in the history of space travel – the… Read more “Canada 1984: Marc Garneau – A Spaceman Came Travelling”

This blog post is special for two reasons: It’s the first to feature an interview that I carried out specifically for Canada Through My Eye, and it’s… Read more “Canada 1983: From Nova Scotia to Fraggle Rock”

1984 saw the launch of two major contributors to the pop-culture sensibilities of Generation-X Canadians, a 24-hour music channel and a daily music-video series on the nation’s… Read more “Canada 1984: Postcards from Samantha Taylor”

By the spring of 1983, as I approached the end of the fifth grade, I knew that most of my favourite TV shows were Canadian, and I… Read more “Canada 1983: Signed, The President of the CBC”

I had no idea what was to come as the family car headed up Nova Scotia’s Sunrise Trail on the last weekend of June, 1983. I knew… Read more “Canada 1983: What’s a Pugwash?”

As I began my twelfth year in the fall of 1983, my Canadian comedic antennae had received some direction from a year’s worth of Wayne and Shuster… Read more “Canada 1983: The General, The CBLA, and Me”

I had nearly eleven years of living in a bilingual Acadian community under my belt by the time I entered the sixth grade in September of 1983.… Read more “Canada 1983: Meeting (and Missing) “Miss Jane””