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• They really need to bring back CanFax, totally unironically I believe it would be a hit show.

• Bummed owwut. Great accent

• Great to hear Gordon Lightfoot at the end. He just passed away yesterday. 5/1/23

• geniuses

• Lol. Setting up bowling pins at Hazelton Lanes.

• @6:47 - If it hadn't been for seeing G & G + F & A via this swell channel, I wouldn't have ever learned of the cultural phenomenon/ambassador that was the late Stompin' Tom Connors - even though that was just a few weeks ago.

  I may be just another Yank, born and raised in Western Washington State, but for the most part, Canada has been a great neighbour, friend, and ally to us for many, many years. I was fortunate to be able to briefly visit parts of it during my youth, from B.C. to Ontario and Quebec, through my participation in school band programs/competitions in the '80s; experiences that remain with me decades later. Had it not been for the call of the Yukon that appealed to my recently-landed Finnish immigrants to the U.S. maternal great-grandparents over a century and a quarter ago, neither I, my sister, nor mother and her siblings, nor my grandmother (who was born at Bear Creek YT, where my great-grandfather first struck his discovery claim along that tributary that it is said he also named) or her siblings would have existed in the forms we have known. My namesake maternal grandfather was born to Finnish immigrants to the U.S. in Wyoming, but as a horseman for his entire life, spent time up in Alberta cowboying as a young man in the early part of the 20th century - so perhaps our family has felt a longer/closer connection to your fair land than many other fellow Americans have.

  As with Garth, Gord, Fiona, and Alice, my great-grandparents didn't come away with much in the way of gold in their pursuit of it - that would be found in far greater quantities through the infinitely more destructive mechanized dredging, long after they headed south from the YT/Alaska for the last time to permanently settle on their farmstead in SW Washington State in 1905 - though they did arrive with a fully-formed family including several children, which held even greater value to my great-grandfather.

  Even as an outsider, I can respect the passion and the pride that Mr. Connors had for his country and his fellow countrymen alike... and he could definitely craft some mighty fine songs, that I've also been binging on as of late. I would certainly see him as a national treasure, of the kind that I wish we had more of now - no matter where we come from.

• “She went out to live with her aunt in Etobicoke”

• Your homework: see The Rowdy Man (real can. film classic with a young gordon pinsent) also 1970 canadian cinema verite, the groundbreaking, Going down the road. the inspiration for Fiona, Gord, Garth Ted and Alice etc. Great seeing Jayne Eastwood who was also in the original film.

• Love this episode. So cool to see yonge st. the way I remember it.

• I live in Toronto and Garth is right. There's roads here and everything.