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title: "Canada Day Comes Round Again"
description: "Canada Day seems like a long time ago. I've tried to be steadfast in posting the answers to the quiz, but the day job is getting in the way. Read the original quiz Here's the skinny: 1. Arnason..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2005/07/09/canada-day-comes-round-again/
date: 2005-07-09
modified: 2005-07-09
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
---

# Canada Day Comes Round Again

Canada Day seems like a long time ago. I've tried to be steadfast in posting the answers to the quiz, but the day job is getting in the way. (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/happy_canada_day/)

**Here's the skinny: **

**1. Arnason**
"Jerry was fifty years old when his daughters denounced him, as he had always known they would." David Arnason, King Jerry

**2. Brand**
"Marie Ursule woke up this morning knowing what morning it was and that it might be her last." Dionne Brand, at the full and change of the moon, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/full_moon_dionne_brand/)

**3. Davies**
"My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 oíclock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old." Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/in_business_robertson_davies/)

**4. Findley**
"All night long, Hooker Winslowís eyes were open." Timothy Findley, The Last of the Crazy People, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/crazy_i_was_crazy_once_timothy_findley/)

**5. Kroetsch**
"The pizza man."
Robert Kroetsch, The Puppeteer

**6. MacLennan**
"Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec." Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes

**7. MacLeod**
"'Weíll just have to sell him,' I remember my mother saying with finality." Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, ìIn the Fallî

**8. Ondaatje**
"She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance." Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/be_patient_michael_ondaatje/)

**9. Purdy**
"He was going into the house through the woodshed when he heard his name mentioned." Al Purdy, A Splinter in the Heart

**10. Schoemperlen**
"Looking back on it now, I can see there were signs." Diane Schoemperlen, Our Lady of the Lost and Found, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/revelations_of_the_book_diane_schoemperlen/)

**11. Tefs**
"Hank Peterson went into the bedroom of his house one Friday morning about 6:30, carrying a shotgun, and when he came out the lives of everyone in Red Rock had changed forever." Wayne Tefs, Red Rock

**12. Winter**
"Lydia leans back to laugh at something Wilf Jardine says." Michael Winter, This All Happened, (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/somethins_happening_michael_winter/)