What are some things that are "canadian?"?

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cyrenaica

The Bluenose
The Polar Bear
Poutine
The Avro Aero
Hockey
Lacrosse
Steve Nash
Wayne Gretzky
The Lucky Loonie
The Twonie
Maple Syrup
Basketball
Red Rose Tea
Molson's (I can throw Coors in here too since the administrative offices of MolsonCoors is in Montreal and not Golden, Colorado)
Tim Hortons
Canadian Tire
Loblaws
Dominion
The CN Tower
Whistler-Blackcombe
Banff
The Alberta Tar Sands
Voiseys Bay
Hibernia
Rush
The Tragically Hip
Anne Murray
Paul Anka
Alex Trebek
Yonge Street (The Longest Street in the world)
Chantal Petitclerc
Thanksgiving in October
Boxing Day
Banking across borders (We never had the Glass-Steagall act)
Louis Riel
Pierre Trudeau
The North Pole
The Longest Unprotected border in the world

Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy

Some things that are really cool and unique in or about Canada:

Canadian Food like:
- Timbits (we will not tell you what they are, if you don't know!).
- Scrunchins (ditto)
- Bokkepootjes (ditto) ('borrowed' from the Dutch)
- Bugger-in-a-bag (ditto)
- Quebec yellow pea soup
- Montreal smoked meat and real Montreal bagels
- Maple syrup pie
- Nanaimo bars (we made 'em first)
- Butter tarts
- Date squares
- Pablum
- Crispy Crunch bars
- Smarties
- McIntosh toffee bars
- Red Rose tea (Only in Canada ....Pity!)
- Newfie screech ..!
- and of course, Poutine (see below)

Lacrosse is Canadian.
Hockey is Canadian.
Basketball is Canadian.
The size of Canadian footballs and football fields and, one less down.
Ogopogo is Canadian (Ogopogo, a distant and less-famous relative of the Loch Ness Monster, is said to sill live in Lake Okanagan, B.C.)
Molson's (beer) is Canadian. Stronger too!
The biggest flags ever seen at the Olympic closing ceremonies were Canadian (twice...and the second one was smuggled in against a rule that was made because of the first one).
Way better beer commercials here.
Much Music kicks MTV's butt.
Tim Horton's kicks Dunkin Donut's butt.
Maple Syrup kicks Mrs. Butterworth's butt (I don't know about Aunt Jemima).
In the war of 1812 we burned the White house and most of Washington.
Our "Civil war" was led by a drunken, and possibly insane William Lyon McKenzie.
Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little less than an hour.
The only person arrested and hanged after our civil war was an American mercenary who slept in and missed the whole fight, showing up just in time to get caught.
The Hudson Bay company once owned 1/11th of the Earth's surface.
The average dog sled team can kill and devour a grown human in less than three minutes.
We don't have much of a taste for powdered bear testicles, but we know who does, and we're willing to sell them.
We wear socks (black ones, if possible) with our sandals.
We knew plaid flannel was cool way before Seattle did.
We can out-drink most Americans.
We don't often marry our kinfolk.
The light bulb was actually invented by a Canadian. (Henry Woodward patented it in 1874). The patent was bought by some obscure American named Edison who improved upon the design and took credit for inventing it.
Other Canadian inventions include: the jolly jumper, duct tape, insulin, walkie talkies, roller skates, Superman, air-conditioned vehicles, acrylics, standard time (and daylight saving time), the paint-roller, the radio compass, snowmobiles, jet skis, improved zippers, and the handles on cardboard beer cases, etc.,etc., etc. (there are thousands more!)

You know you're Canadian if :

You stand in "line-ups" or "queues" (in Victoria, BC) at the movie, not lines.
You're not offended by the term, "Homo Milk".
You understand the sentence, "Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my
BOWL OF POUTINE" !
You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.
You drink pop, not soda.
You had a Prime Minister who wasn't fluent in either of the official languages (English & French).
You know what it means to be 'on the pogey'.
You know that a mickey and 2-4's mean "Party at thecamp, eh?!"
You can drink legally while still a teen in some provinces.
You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.
You don't know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap place to travel with very good cigars (and no Americans!).
When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it, instead of telling them to stay out of it.
You're not sure if the leader of your nation has EVER had sex and you don't WANT to know if he has!
You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.
You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
You know what a Robertson screwdriver is.
You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
You know that Mounties "don't always look like that."
You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly."
You know that the Friendly Giant isn't a vegetable product line.
You know that Casey and Finnegan are not a Celtic musical group.
You drive with your headlights on during the day (since 1989, all new cars have been fitted with "daytime running lights").
You participated in "Participaction."
You have an Inuit carving by your bedside with the rationale, "What's good enough protection for the Prime Minister is good enough for me."
You wonder why there isn't a 5 dollar coin yet.
Like any international assasin/terrorist/spy in the world, you possess a Canadian Passport.
You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, color. etc.
You know the French equivalents of "free", "prize", and "no sugar added", thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.
You are excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.
You make a mental note to talk about it at work the next day.
You can do all the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-doo" opus.
You can eat more than one maple sugar candy without feeling nauseous.
You were mad at the CBC when "The Beachcombers" were taken off the air.
You know who "Relic" is/was.
You know what a touque is and you own one and often wear it.
You have heard of ... and have some cherished momento of Bob and Doug McKenzie.
You still sing the "Great White North" theme song with pride ... "coo-ooh-coocoo-coo-ooh-coocoo".
You know Toronto is NOT a province.
You never miss "Coach's Corner" during Hockey Night in Canada.
Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favourite food groups.
If you live in some of the colder Canadian provinces, your car has a cord and plug sticking out of the grill ... it's a block heater for those sub-zero (in Celsius) days.
You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
The mosquitoes have landing lights.
You have more kilometres on your snow blower than your car.
You have 10 favourite recipes for moose meat.
Canadian Tire Store on any Saturday is busier than most toy stores at Christmas.
You live in a house that has no front step, yet the door is one meter above the ground.
You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with frozen snow and slush.
You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.
At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.
Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof.
You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
You head South to go to your cottage.
You frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the bears won't prowl on your deck.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper now that there are no more dollar bills.
The major parish fund-raiser isn't bingo, it's sausage making.
You find -40C a little chilly.

TransgÃ©nico

Snow in your driveway for 6 months.
Happiness when temperature goes up to -25 CÂ° in winter.
Bears breaking in your shack.
Beavers chewing on your deck.
Cougars yelling at night.
Mosquitoes by millions during the very short summer.
Woodticks.
etc

SingingBlondie

Pamela Anderson. But only the natural parts. Take away the hair bleach and the implants and you've got a canadian.

Tony C

"Mounties"

JFC I No

Rush
Alanis Morrisette
Labatt's
Canadian Club
The Great White North
Molson
Gil Villenueve
Paul Tracy
Patrick Carpentier
Jacques Villenueve
Alex Tagliani
Toronto
Montreal
Edmonton
Vancouver
The Great Slave Lake

Canadian Raven

Hockey

Rockvillerich

Cool hats, Aye, like this one I got in Quebec Aye, The Trailer Park Boys Aye, Royal mounted police Aye, Second City TV, Nu-fees, Aye, NHL, legal pot, Terrance and Phillip, I love Canadians! Aye.

Demun

Canadian Bacon and British Columbia Buds

candleinthewind7579

Canadian Royal Mounted Police (horseback)

kt_nelson1

I've never met a Canadian backpacker without the Canadian flag patch on their bag...so I'd say love for their country is pretty Canadian. That's a great thing to have.

piercing integrity

Hmm... what do you mean by that?

Canada is Canadian. I am a proud Canadian. Canada's provinces are Canadian... and the list goes on endlessly. Just like maple syrup. Hockey. And something I'm so very proud of Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Stay Safe. - Maryam

nikkimccarty

Maple syrup, maple leaf, hockey...

Janis G

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5 Pin Bowling A truly Canadian sport invented by T.E. Ryan of Toronto in 1909[
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Wilson invented the production process in 1892
Acetylene Buoy Invented by Thomas L. Wilson in 1904
Agrifoam Crop Cold Protector Co-invented in 1967 by D. Siminovitch & J. W. Butler
Analytical Plotter 3D map-making system invented by Uno Vilho Helava in 1957
Andromonon Three-wheeled vehicle invented in 1851 by Thomas Turnbull
Anti-Gravity Suit Invented by Wilbur Rounding Franks in 1941, a suit for high altitude jet pilots
Automatic Foghorn The first steam foghorn was invented by Robert Foulis in 1859
Automatic Machinery Lubricator One of the many inventions invented by Elijah McCoy
Automatic Postal Sorter In 1957, Maurice Levy invented a postal sorter that could handle 200,000 letters an hour
Basketball Invented by James Naismith in 1891
Bone Marrow Compatibility Test Invented by Barbara Bain in 1960
Bromine A process to extract was invented by Herbert Henry Dow in 1890
Calcium Carbide Thomas Leopold Willson invented a process for Calcium Carbide in 1892
Canada Dry Ginger Ale Invented in 1907 by John A. McLaughlin
Chocolate Nut Bar Arthur Ganong made the first nickel bar in 1910
Computerized Braille Invented by Roland Galarneau in 1972
Creed Telegraph System Fredrick Creed invented a way to convert Morse Code to text in 1900
Compound Steam Engine Invented by Benjamin Franklin Tibbetts in 1842
CPR Mannequin invented by Dianne Croteau in 1989
Electric Car Heater Thomas Ahearn invented the first electric car heater in 1890
Electric Cooking Range Thomas Ahearn invented the first in 1882
Electric Light Bulb Henry Woodward invented an electric light bulb in 1874 and sold the patent to Thomas Edison
Electron Microscope Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier, Albert Prebus co-invented the electron microscope in 1937
Electric Organ Morse Robb of Belleville, Ontario, patented the world's first electric organ in 1928
Electric Streetcar John Joseph Wright invented an electric streetcar in 1883 and last but not least , I remember listening to the radio when I was little the weekly show about the Canadian Royal Mounted Police.

Dave

Alex Trebek and Mike Meyers. Oh, and most Dodge Trucks that have a VIN number which begins with "2".

Trick69

Bacon! Yumm

pacific_crush

snowshoes, tuques, inukshuks, maple leafs, maple syrup, lacrosse???, hockey, SNOW! lol =)

turtle

bacon, ham, geese, hockey, eh?,

Canadian Ken

Canadian Geese.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Igloos.
Eating Koolaid dry out of the package with a wet finger.
Inuit Carvings.
Hudson Bay blanket.
Hedge Hog Chocolates.
Laura Secord.
Poutine.
Smoked salmon.
Cod Tongue.
The Loonie
The Toonie

countpetez

Hockey, maple syrup, lacrosse, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who, Polar Bears, Oopiks, ...just for a start..

the_fatmanwalksalone

The most common saying I picked up when i lived there were 'That's awesome', 'That's deadly' and 'That's retarded'. I also discovered perogies (although I know they don't originate in Canada) and got to eat a lot of maple syrup (yum!)

RED M

Labat's Blue, Moosehead, Molson's beer.

auntiegrav

Peace.
Hockey.
American movie stars.
The natural gas keeping the northern U.S. from freezing in the winter.

fatsausage

Ice Hockey - each team member is given a long stick and they proceed to assault each other using the big sticks until everyone is in Hospital. Great Fun.

JohannaBach

Tim Hortons coffee is my favourite thing about Canada.