Sistermadly,
Granted I've only been greek for a year for awhile I did feel a bit outside of the loop w/ the whole frat/sorority thing being a huge deal in the states but not so much w/ Canada. Anyway AOII has done an awesome job to help Canadian chapters feel as much a part of the group as American chapters (we get our badge for straight currency exchange...yay!). An alumna (Shala Berry - I guess a bunch of you may know who she is) wrote an awesome article in To Dragma (the AOII magazine) so here's a link to it if you're interested in reading it!
http://www.alphaomicronpi.org/conten...agmaframe.html
Its in the Summer 2002 issue, article is called "oh Canada"