Foregive my ignorance but what are 'snow capped golden ears'.

Probably Tim Horton's latest creation.

Would they be a.k.a. "Captain Kirks Nipples" by any chance?

I've thinking about this all day and I can't seem to come up with a personal experience that's quintessentially Canadian. I've never seen a Mountie in the red uniform and everything else seems to be a facsimile of somewhere else.

I get cross watching "Location, Location, Location" now - I shout at the tv (yes - sad) - when all those Brit property hunters wander straight into the homes, with their rain-sodden boots. How rude

Its disgusting having to take your shoes off just go into someone's house. Haven't they heard of vacuum cleaners?

Seeing sandwich board thingies covering shrubs ready for winter.

Inflatable snowmen on snow covered lawns.

Chatting in German to a Ugandan East Indian while having a smoke outside a faux British pub in downtown Toronto.

Buying stamps from a govt agency and paying tax to the government on those stamps - the same government you're giving the money to, knowing that someone behind the scenes is recordring monies received for the stamps and recording how much goes in tax and then someone else records monies received as the tax when the money is all going to the government anyway.

I got one. I know I should have mentioned it before but nanny state over-priced booze. Very Canadian.

I don't think you've been here long enough to remember the Liquor Stores where you weren't allowed to see the booze, but had to fill in a little form in pencil and had to hand it to the clerk. Sooner or later the purchase would be handed through a flap from the back, already discretely camouflaged in a brown paper bag.

Now that's Canada.

I picked this up from growing up around farms.....though I noticed it in Finland where they did the same in schools i.e. shoes on in corridors, shoes off in classrooms. Not that I plan on being in school in Canada, but is it the same there?

No I haven't been here that long but I remember reading about that in Saskatchewan, it boggles the mind. I've used lots of libraries using that method but thankfully not liquor shops. It almost makes you want be a teetotaler in protest, but then that'd be giving them what they want.

Oh yes, the Stacks at the Bodleain. I completely forgotten that.