[kwoldtimer]

To me "Canadian Gothic" in literature would be about the seething passions hidden behind the repressed, respectable façade of our Presbyterian character. Madness, murder and mayhem are sure to result. At least that's my impression of how it plays out (in literature and sometimes in life) in Southern Ontario. All very Victorian and romantic. Sound about right? Canadian neo-Gothic architecture seems to capture it quite well in stone - as if buildings that look like they should be home to hunchbacks and crazed German princes somehow compensate for our staid day-to-day.