Canadian English on Apple products
In Mac OS X 10.6:
- Open up System Preferences
- Choose the Language and Text Preference Pane
- Choose the Text tab
- For Spelling, choose Canadian English
Alternatively the instructions for 10.5 and earlier still works as well:
In Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier it's not very obvious:
- Open up a Cocoa application such as TextEdit, Pages, etc.
- Control/Right Click on some text and choose "Show Spelling and Grammar"
- At the bottom there will be a selection of dictionaries - change it to Canadian English
This will only affect applications that use the OS X Dictionary. (eg. Safari, but not Firefox)
System Preferences > Language and Text > Text Tab
There is a spelling popup on the right that says "Spelling" where you can select the dictionary. There is a Canadian English option available. (Snow Leopard tested.)
On my system, I use "Automatic by Language" as the setting, and Canadian English in the language bar, and get the proper spelling for colour/labour etc. in spell checks (cheques, if you're talking about money. HEHEHE.)
Edit: As for iWork, you have to make sure the proper language is selected in your styles. In Pages, for instance, there is a "Canadian English" setting in the text panel, under the "More" tab.
Edit #2 OK, so you don't use Snow Leopard (if your system can handle it, get it! $30 is a bargain.) Here's another option.
Install cocoaspell and a canadian english dictionary is available on the aspell ftp site.