[potsie]

One thing that is interesting is that the "Canadiana" element was there from the get-go. Clearly that was a conscious, collective commitment.

Interestingly it is Sinclair, not Downie, that is mining the vein of Canadiana on the EP. The overtly Canadian "All Canadian Surf Club" and the only slightly less obvious "Last American Exit" are the product of his imagination. The only potential candidate from Downie is the mention of "Cemetery Side Road", which could be in the Ottawa region, or could be a lyrically generic thoroughfare.

And speaking of Last American Exit, it was once prefaced with one of my favourite song introductions: "This is a song about a stretch of pavement, and some lines, yellow, then they got painted over white, then yellow again."