My Canada – Page 4 – Teahen Tales

My Canada, 127/150: All tarted up

Butter tarts have become a Canadian “thing” — so much so that Midland, Ontario now hosts an annual Butter Tart Festival.

Glendon, Alberta, where many Ukrainians settled, has erected “The World’s Largest Pyrogy.”

It turns out that a fictional theatre festival has become Canada’s gift to smart serial television.

Theatre does more than entertain: it can provoke, question, criticize, and shake people up.

To those who say Canadian history is dull, I say, yay, verily: Get thee to VideoCabaret.

When you grow up in southern Ontario, you take the festival for granted: that’s where you go for the annual English bus trip to see a play.

The theatre’s mandate has shifted throughout the years. For the first few years, it focused exclusively on Shaw.

In my life, I’ve owned two cottages. Not the kinds with a dock along a lake.