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Article: Montreal visit is a walk in the park.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 9, 2001
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MONTREAL _ Canadians never tire of insisting that Canada is not the United States.
It is a completely different country, they repeat. They point to the 49th parallel and say, "See, there's the border." And who can say they are wrong?
But let's be frank here. Most of the time in most Canadian places, it's pretty hard to spot the Canadian differentness.
Toronto easily could be a U.S. city. After all, the locals speak English, drive on the right, work in big glass-and-steel office buildings, glide around on in-line skates, drink lattes at Starbucks and say things like "Way cool." If it were not for the Torontonians' compulsive tidiness and a ...