When looking for people and events that help define Canadian cultural identity there is a fairly predictable list of exemplars that we tend to reference – Prime Minister John A. Macdonald and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Sir Frederick Banting and the discovery of penicillin, Paul Henderson’s winning goal against the Soviets in the Summit Series of hockey, and, of course, Terry Fox running his Marathon of Hope. One may also want to speak of artists who have helped to shape Canadian consciousness – from Emily Carr to Gordon Lightfoot, from Lucy Maud Montgomery to Pierre Berton. Upon his passing this past month, these lists must surely expand to include the name of Gord Downie, and rightly so.
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