Father of Canada

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or canada:

    That reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father Ruffian,
    that Vanity in years.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)