By now it was mid-July in Canada and surprisingly it was revealing just how hot and sultry its summers could be. For some reason we expected Canada to be a little colder than other countries, I mean we know they get freezing temperatures, snow, and ice rain in the winter, but we anticipated the summers being a bit cooler too. Waking up to balmy temperatures like those we experienced in the Southern hemisphere and a cloudless cerulean sky so bright it gave us a raging attack of the squints as soon as we opened our eyes was a pleasant bonus to living in Canada. As the locals would keep telling…