<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SusanV: I think from Canada.<hr></blockquote><p>From Timmins, Ont., a small, Northern Ontario mining town. Should you ever read a Canadian newspaper you would find out her real first name is "Canada's own" as in Canada's own Shania Twain." It seems like there is some kind of federal law that requires newspapers to tag on "Canada's own" to any entertainer who makes it big in the U.S. Some on the list include Lorne Greene, Paul Anka and Rich Little (for you oldsters), Anne Murray, John Candy, The Guess Who, Dan Akroyd, Ferguson Jenkins, Peter Jennings, Andre the Giant, Celine Dion and Cirque de Soleil. I think it is a lingering resentment from the time Canada's own Mary Pickford became "America's Sweetheart."
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