Canada Day!

[Xil]

it's most wunderbarful time of the year everyone, it's..

CANADA DAY

Meaning it's Canada's birthday.

Here are some Canadian Facts

-The capital of Canada is Ottawa, Ontario.
-We have provinces and territories
-Xil is a Canadian
-We have two official languages
-Several political parties
-National Sports are Lacrosse and Hockey
-*cough*TorontoisthebestpartofCanada*cough*

Now some Famous Canadians!

-Sir John A McDonald
-Chris Hadfield
-Wilder Penfield
-John McCrae
-Coming2atvnearu
-Margaret Atwood
-Robert2100
-Sir Micheal
-Ahoteinrun
-Yoshi
-Kyra
-Nik
-Dyl
-Monique
-Jayjay
-Stephanie
-Ammer

and lastly, some Canadian Inventions(things created by Canadians)!

-ear piercer
-insulin
-pacemaker
-retractable beer carton handle
-Stanley Cup
-Superman
-Trivial Persuit

So, find a Canadian and give them a hug today!

(famous canadians are added as they post here, or if I know you and you happen to live in this super awesome country)

Last edited by Xil on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:26 pm, edited 3 times in total.

[Bno]

YAY FOR CANADADADADADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


*hugs all round*

[_jaye_]

Oooh so that's why my canadian friend got all other canadian friends down to the bar for a party!

Happy Canadian day to those who celebrate it

[Christopher]

Canada is one of those countries that have so little to do with NZ. Somehow I doubt I'll see enormous maple leaves stapled to anyones houses.

[Igg]

Dan, I am going to lay off insulting you for a whole day.

[sir_michael]

Woot! Happy Canada Day!

Also, we have many great animals up here, like the...

Moose
Beaver
Loon
Bear
Squirrel
and the Mongolian Coal-Throwing Monkey... Oh wait, Nevermind.

[Robert]

HAPPY 138th CANADA

Xil, you deffinatly forgot that I'm a famous Canadian

I'm going to the fireworks on Parlement Hill. It will be so fun

[Nikita]

Happy Canada Day!!!
*CANADIAN HUGS*

I plan to go to The Forks tonight for the Canada Day celebrations...some friends want to meet up at some Irish Pub there. lol

Haha yay famous Canadians! <3 Xil

[Robert]

Although Xil gave you a list of famous Canadians, here are a few more.

Avril Lavigne
Pamela Anderson
Romeo Dallaire
Shania Twain
Nelly Furtado
Estella Warren
Sum41
Shannon Tweed
Barenakedladies
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Peter North
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Jennifer Tilly
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen

I also got the Top Ten Mthys About Canadians:

Top Ten Myths About Canada and Canadians



1. We live in igloos. We live in houses, and they are very well built houses.

2. Canadians do not have the same technology as Americans. Canadians have access to the same technology as Americans and the rest of the industrialized world.

3. There is snow everywhere all year long. Anyone who has spent a summer in Vancouver,Toronto, or Montreal will strongly disagree with this.

4. We don't get the same movies Americans do. We get the same movies, on the same day, and our censorship is less severe. Furthermore, the Paramount theater in Montreal is the most attended and most lucrative movie theater in North-America.

5. Canada does not have a film industry. We have a thriving film industry, and many of the syndicated US TV shows, not to mention major studio motion pictures are filmed here. Canada is renowned to have some of the best production crews in the world.

6. Canadians all say "eh" and "aboot". Sure, some of us do, but Canada is a big country with many different people who speak many different languages with different dialects.

7. Everyone in Quebec speaks French. Although a large percentage of the Province's population is Francophone, there is also a large number of Anglophones and Allophones.

8. Canadians have fewer guns than Americans. Canadians have just as many, if not more; we just have fewer murders. If you want stats and figures, see Michael Moore's excellent documentary, Bowling for Columbine.

9. Canada's national sport is Hockey. Not completely true. While Hockey is very popular, and considered our national pastime, our national sport is Lacrosse. Oh, and we invented Baseball too.

***In 1994, the Federal Government introduced Bill C-212 that officially made Hockey Canada’s National Winter Sport and Lacrosse Canada’s National Summer Sport. Thanks Rolly! So the answer is both!***

10. Canadians policemen are all Mounties dressed in red uniforms. Our cops are the same as American cops. The Mounties usually only dress up in red for for special occasions


And I got Ten Famous Inventions:

1.
AM radio
Invented by :
Guglielmo Marconi

2.
IMAX projector and system
Invented by :
Graeme Ferguson,
Roman Kroitor
and Robert Kerr

3.
Telephone
Invented by :
Alexander Graham Bell

4.
Television
Invented by :
Reginald A. Fessenden

5.
Zipper
Invented by :
Gideon Sundback

6.
Music Synthesizer
Invented by:
Hugh LeCaine

7.
Electron microscope
Invented by :
Eli Franklin Burton,
Cecil Hall,
James Hillier,
and Albert Prebus

8.
Trivial Pursuit
Invented by :
Chris Haney
and Scott Abbott

9.
Basketball
Invented by :
James Naismith

10.
Canadarm
Invented by :
Spar Aerospace Ltd


I got all this stuff from http://www.canadians.ca/, not a bad site.

[Dyl]

Happy Birthday Canada!!
Also, early happy birthday for those to the south!
As well as an early happy birthday to me(3rd)!!

I get to watch lots of fireworks and get presents! My favourite time of year...


Yeah, the red for Mounties is the dress uniform (they earn different part of it by passing different things at the training centre in Regina).

I think the Guess Who should be on the famous Canadians list (Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings).

[(*Dranzer*)]

Good for you Canada!
I'll remember Canada when I see Justice League today!

[ahoteinrun]

3. There is snow everywhere all year long. Anyone who has spent a summer in Vancouver,Toronto, or Montreal will strongly disagree with this

Hmm.
Apparently theres snow all year in Alberta, Sask, Winnepeg, the Maritines and in the territories (Ok. So that ones a bit more plausible in some places up north).

Robert Bateman is another rather famous canadian.
Not to mention the Group of Seven painters.
Chris Cran has some wickedly cool art as well! (I've met him, he's a nutball, what a nice guy!)

[Trick]

3.
Telephone
Invented by :
Alexander Graham Bell

Who was Scottish Moved to Canada and became a US citizen, hence him being named as top American/Canadian/Brit...but still Scottish ;P

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian who worked in Canada a little. The inventor of television is harder to pinpoint but it's widely recognised as being John Logie Baird of Scotland. Other people came later with the cathode ray tv but I've never heard mention of Fessenden anywhere, only Farnsworth (US) and Campbell-Swinton (Scottish). The rest of that site is good but they seem a little confused about the inventions, I'm sure there are plenty of Canadian inventions rather than things just invented while the person was in Canada or even if they just worked in Canada at some point

Ahem, anyway.... Happy Canada Day!

[VeraX]

I wanted some beaver meat today, but the local igloo was closed, so I was out of luck.
I'm Canadian, and nothings open eh?

[Yoshi]

Yay Canada Day! :D

...And of course, the CBC/Parliament Hill celebrations are boring, and Vancouver doesn't have fireworks anymore after they cancelled it over the fact that the crowds were considered "too dangerous." I was in one of the largest ones the year before, and I'm still alive and well. Meh.

There's still the 40th flag anniversary and the 25th anthem anniversary though. Cool. And happy centennials to Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Well, at least there's...Live 8 starting tomorrow? Hehe. :P