Confession: I’m in love…with a Province.
The affair began during my undergraduate career at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Many McGill students came to the English language university from the nearest English-speaking Province: Ontario. They were all bright, interesting, and diverse–without exception, every friend I made from Ontario was either born outside of Canada, or had parents who were. So by moving to Canada, I learned more than I ever thought I would about Croatia, South Africa, Spain, Germany, and South Korea.
This was no anomaly. As you will see in these pages (“On the Up”), Ontario is home to people from across the globe – more than 100 languages can be heard on the streets of the largest city, Toronto, and half of all the city’s residents were born outside of Canada. (You can’t blame them for moving to Ontario’s capital — this year, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked ...
