## Metadata - Author: [[Paul Theroux]] - Full Title: What Americans Get Wrong about Canada - Category: #articles - URL: https://thewalrus.ca/what-americans-get-wrong-about-canada/ - Saved: 2026-10-04 ## Highlights > And there are those who dismiss Canada as “America’s Hat”—a big fur hat sitting askew on top of the incurious noggin of the United States, indistinct and bulky and baffling. Apart from iconic poster views of snowfields, or rocky mountains, great plains, tundra, or grasslands, Canada’s landscape is too vast to sum up, its population without an identifiable face, its politics so nebulous and British in form as to be undefinable, its economy a mystery, its weather punitive, as in another American jibe, “Canada has two seasons—winter and August.” ^h27564668