Canada Day celebrated on July 1st marks the unification of Canada New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867.
Known earlier as Dominion Day it got its current name in 1982.
It’s a day of national pride observed with flag-raising parades and various patriotic events.
The day shines a light on Canada’s unity diversity and strength.
Canadians show their spirit by wearing red and white participating in festivities and reflecting on what it means to be Canadian.
Let’s get started with the Canada Day quotes.
Canada Day Quotes
We should all promise to keep our country clean and green. Happy Canada Day 2023 everyone. ~ Unknown.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. ~ Robin Williams.
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. ~ Kim Campbell
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country – but not with blanks. ~ Farley Mowat.
I always thought of this as God’s country. ~ Jack Granatstein
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~ Pierre Trudeau
Canadians don’t have a very big political lever, we’re nice guys. ~ Paul Henderson
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes. ~ Tommy Douglas
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. ~ Marshall McLuhan
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. ~ Marshall McLuhan
I don’t even know what street Canada is on. ~ Al Capone.
Inspiring Canada Day Quotes
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future. ~ Lester B. Pearson
The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine. ~ Roy MacGregor.
Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, “oh, that song”, and then said again, “that song”, and that was all she said. ~ Gordon Lightfoot
We’ll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. ~ Andy Barrie
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. ~ John Diefenbaker
On this Canada Day, let us all come together and enjoy to the fullest. Happy Canada Day to all my loved ones and their families. ~ Unknown
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear. ~ Will Ferguson
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. ~ Jane Fonda
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour. ~ Mike Myers
If living without an identity is an art then Canada is the greatest artist! Happy Canada Day to all. ~ Unknown
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat. ~ Will Ferguson
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A. ~ John Maynard Keynes
I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us. ~ Desmond Tutu.
Quotes about Canada Day
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. ~ Pierre Berton
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. ~ Winston Churchill
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. ~ Pierre Trudeau
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. ~ Emily Carr
The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend… and sometimes we’d like to give them such a smack! ~ Rick Mercer
Canada is raw and it is the best thing about this country. We should all celebrate this day and enjoy it. Happy Canada Day everyone. ~ Unknown
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North. ~ Peter Jennings
I’m not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons. ~ John Turner
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. ~ Winston Churchill
Canada is the greatest nation in this country. ~ Allan A. Lamport
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. ~ Margaret Atwood
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she’s something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. ~ Emily Carr
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. ~ Tommy Douglas.
Best Canada Day Quotes
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada. ~ Pierre Trudeau
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world. ~ John Diefenbaker
I’ve been to Canada, and I’ve always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. ~ Jon Stewart
It seems that Canada’s historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. ~ Kevin Myers
Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That’s what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains. ~ Richard Patrick
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better. ~ Will Ferguson
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. ~ June Callwood
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. ~ Shiv Khera
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. ~ Marshall McLuhan.
We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. ~ Bob Rae.
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die. ~ Pierre Trudeau.
