The Canadians playfully re-imagines one of the most revered photobooks of the twentieth century, Robert Frank's The Americans. Its source is the print archive of The Globe and Mail, over 20,000 prints donated to the newly formed Canadian Institute of Photography at the National Gallery of Canada, from which eighty photographs were selected. These functionary press pictures, made to illustrate news stories such as the state of the roads after a severe winter, a politician on the campaign trail or the opening of a new laundromat, held no pretensions to art, yet together they describe Canadian culture in a time of transformation. The book opens with an insightful and irreverent introduction by Douglas Coupland.