In 1972 Curnoe began the first of several maps of North America, significant because it expresses his strong anti-Americanism by eliminating the United States entirely, yet naming islands, from Greenland to the obscure Clipperton Island, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean well known to ham radio operators. Through the 1960s, he was aware of the intense debates raging in Canada about the virtues of nationalism versus continentalism or internationalism. Here he makes his own tongue-in-cheek statement about cultural imperialism.