Coach House authors write love letters to Canada

Claudia Dey (Stunt), RM Vaughan (Troubled) and Cordelia Strube (Lemon, forthcoming) are among 38 Canadians who share what their country means to them in a Canada Day special from CBC News.

RM Vaughan's contribution just might be the most immediately identifiable with Toronto residents:

'Taking my 23-year-old bilingual niece, who is studying French literature in our native New Brunswick, to a gay pride party in Toronto — a party hosted by a Caribbean-Canadian transgendered dancer, a performance artist dressed in a purple vintage "granny" afghan blanket, and a clutch of suited bank executives. The buffet table was loaded with sushi, ham on rye, and bran muffins (honest), and we got drunk on banana-flavoured hooch. Now, that's a country!'

Browse the gallery of patriots here at http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/canada/2366/.