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CANADIAN CINDERELLA
By Jaduiga Comaszewski
Part I.
Thousands of talented, highly educated Canadians leave the country every year to emigrate to the United States — so we are told frequently by the headlines and articles in the newspapers. Figures are quite often exaggerated, as they include dependents as well as the occupations not necessarily associated with any particular talent. Nevertheless, in addition to scientists, there are many artists leaving Canada individually and mostly for good. Every such departure means much more than a Statistical figure in the files of a young country, painfully forging her own culture. It seems that there are elements in the Canadian cultural climate restraining the development of talent, and not favourable to their coming into prominence. These factors prompt an artist to ask himseif whether his chances would not be greater South of the border — in the States, or in one of the European countries.
The acknowledgment of our own artists is a very slow process in Canada, it is also dependent on the opinion rendered about them abroad. Fifteen years ago, the late N. R. Sandwell remarked in the Massey Report: “The whole evaluation process among Canadians tends to await the result of an evaluation process taking part somewhere else. Recognition by New York or London is an almost indispensable preliminary to recognition by Canadians in literature, science, criticism, music, and many other fields’.
Nathan Cohen wrote on the same subject in the Saturday Review (March, 1956) concluding that Canadians are convinced that all their cultural efforts are of no value until they are discussed abroad.
So the writers go to New York or London, the singers are traditionally attracted by La Scala and more recently the Metropolitan, painters are still impressed by Paris, and more and more by New York. Quite recently we came across an expression “Canadian community in Hollywocd”. Hollywood, in spite of adverse publicity, still attracts not only
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