Importance
"The Hockey Sweater" represents the lives of the many Canadians that are raised in rural parts of Quebec and the rest of Canada. It also represents the significance of the overwhelmingly popular Canadian pastime of ice hockey.
Carrier wrote « Nous vivions en trois lieux : l’école, l’église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire. » ("We lived in three places - the school, the church and the skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink.") This line is on the back of the $5 bill on the 2001 series of Canadian banknotes. Of the line it was said :
In writing one line, one simple quote, Roch Carrier summed up our entire country, our culture, our history, our people. He is Canada. There are some things that are simply Canadian, that belong to us and us alone. That is Roch Carrier."
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