Happy to be Canadian

Each week I share a short original story about life in rural Canada. There are moments of nostalgia and other times when you will be wondering what will happen next. Some episodes are poignant, some are funny, others are insightful. All are short. With episodes under 10 minutes, you have just enough time to finish your coffee or tea while you enjoy a memorable story.

Happy to be Canadian is a arts podcast hosted by Susanne Spence Wilkins, with 73 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Susanne Spence Wilkins hosts Happy to be Canadian, a arts show with 73 episodes published.

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  Happy to be Canadian

  Dad Dreams - Episode 73

  Sep 25, 20266 min

  Send us Fan Mail Susanne had a dream about her dad the other night. It was a night or so after he would have celebrated his 93rd birthday had he lived through a devastating bout of pneumonia almost two years ago. They were driving home from some unknown location when they stopped to buy pizza to take home for supper. Find out what happened, because her dad was not a pizza guy. If you would like to receive my weekly Saturday morning email that contains my original stories, Canadian book recommendation, new barn quilt design and a recipe or cycling route (depending on the season), sign up here . Follow me on Facebook and Instagram My website to join in our barn quilt painting experiences is www.crazy8barn.com

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  Line Up for School - Episode 72

  Sep 18, 202610 min

  Send us Fan Mail There are some students that can’t wait for school to begin and others dread it. Those feelings are shaped over years of experience, good and bad and indifferent. Susanne has a memory of her earliest days in grade one, whether it was the first day of school she cannot say, but join her and the three other little grade one students as the navigate the terror and the relief of that day. If you would like to receive my weekly Saturday morning email that contains my original stories, Canadian book recommendation, new barn quilt design and a recipe or cycling route (depending on the season), sign up here . Follow me on Facebook and Instagram My website to join in our barn quilt painting experiences is www.crazy8barn.com

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  Cats Make History

  Sep 11, 202611 min

  Send us Fan Mail Susanne and Manfred go on a road trip to research the life of a manager of the rail in Brockville in 1870. Seeing as much of the city, was important. Today, things have changed. Tourists and locals now walk the rail tunnel as coloured lights illuminate the brick-stone and blasted-stone walls. A cute, miniature electric train engine pulls little, multi-coloured railroad cars where belching steam engines used to haul loads of logs and lumber. Depending on where he lived, this historic man may have walked by their house-turned-hotel on his way to the station. History comes to life as they wander through this town that is different, but oh so similar to their home. Please join them on this adventure. If you would like to receive my weekly Saturday morning email that contains my original stories, Canadian book recommendation, new barn quilt design and a recipe or cycling route (depending on the season), sign up here . Follow me on Facebook and Instagram My website to join in our barn quilt painting experiences is www.crazy8barn.com

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  The Relentless Pursuit of Buttertarts - Episode 70

  Sep 4, 202610 minS2

  Send us Fan Mail It was in summer of 2019 that Susanne started to wonder, just how many tarts her staff at the Crazy 8 Barn had sold since starting to make them in the fall of 2013. She scoured through seven years of month end reports and realized they had made 32,000 tarts. Production had started at a few dozen in the first year, more than a thousand in the second year and then their reputation for the "best buttertarts in the world" exploded. At that point in 2019 she estimated that it would be close, but wondered could they sell their 50,000th tart by the end of the year? Join her and her former café staff has they struggle to maintain their strength and determination to reach a big, buttertart goal. What could be more Canadian? If you would like to receive my weekly Saturday morning email that contains my original stories, Canadian book recommendation, new barn quilt design and a recipe or cycling route (depending on the season), sign up here . Follow me on Facebook and Instagram My website to join in our barn quilt painting experiences is www.crazy8barn.com

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  Happy to be Canadian

  Repeating the News Beat of Municipal Politics - Episode 69

  Aug 29, 20269 min

  Send us Fan Mail Susanne started covering municipal politics when she turned 19 years old. Her college professor asked if she would accept a full-time position at a small weekly newspaper a few weeks before her fellow students started their co-op placements. He promised her straight A’s in all classes if she would agree to go early. What followed was quite an education in old-time newspaper reporting and municipal politics. If you would like to receive my weekly Saturday morning email that contains my original stories, Canadian book recommendation, new barn quilt design and a recipe or cycling route (depending on the season), sign up here . Follow me on Facebook and Instagram My website to join in our barn quilt painting experiences is www.crazy8barn.com

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