What have the Canadians ever done 4 us

Subject: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:33 PM

We've given the world:

The foghorn
insulin
Red Rose Tea
Canadian Bacon
Joni Mitchell
the variable speed propeller
velcro
Walter Pedgeon
Walt Disney's parents
Canadian Club whiskey
John Candy

I'll leave the rest up to everyone else.

And we where the ones who won the war ( II I think) !!

sIx

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:40 PM

You also gave us Rick Fielding, Peter Jennings, William Shatner, Giselle McKenzie, Gordon Lightfoot, Ann Murray and Stan Rogers.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: PoppaGator
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:40 PM

Danny Ackroyd
Neil Young
Peter Jennings

and of course

who could forget

(especially Little Hawk):

SHATNER!!!!!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:44 PM

kd lang

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 08:14 PM

Little Hawk.
Bruce Murdoch.
Lake Louise.
Nunavat.
Robert Service.
Mackenzie King.
Uranium.
The Great Slave Lake.
Baffin Island.
Newfoundland.
The Yukon.
Yellowknife.
Chateau Frontenac.
Metis.
The Ross rifle.
Louis Riel.
The Mounties.
Sergeant Preston & Yukon King.
Sam Steele.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 08:20 PM

Let us not forget Red Green, either.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 08:40 PM

Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens, Big Bill Wurburnik - snooker players

Several long ballads about General Wolfe (always a good point to go out and have a wee in the folk club evening - after all its hard to get bothered about what happened to him after all this time. (Full bladders over the entire legth of England thank you profoundly for that)

Mordecai Richler - great author

Oh yeh and Leonard Cohen - he was one of yours wasn't he?

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 08:59 PM

And Dave Horrigan, blues-harp bender extraordinaire!!

A

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:01 PM

Mordecai Richler - absolutely !!

Lenny Cohen is a Canadian.

Here's a couple of others:

The Littlest Hobo

Lenny Breau - ok, we didn't give the world Mr. Breau. But he did live here in his formidable years.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:01 PM

Just checking to see if Stan Rogers was on this list. :)

Oh, some damn fine hockey!

All you Canadian 'catters.

Teresa

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:30 PM

..given us another odd accent to laugh at

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:31 PM

Leo Clarke, Fred Hall, and Robert Shankland
Mary Ann Shadd
Telephone
Lester Pearson
Pierre Berton
The zipper
Laurence J Peter
Margaret Laurence
Electron Microscope
Leslie Nielson
Television
Mcintosh apple
Oscar Peterson
Electric Light Bulb
Alice Munro
Pacemaker for the heart
Paul Kane
Newsprint
Margaret Atwood
Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven
John Kenneth Galbraith
Robert Munsch
Basketball
Margaret Newton

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Peace
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:34 PM

OK, the first line is three guys who deserve mention. Their story is very interesting for people anywhere.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:35 PM

Maple syrup and a broken heart.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:47 PM

We kept Quebec.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:52 PM

The Lumberjack Song...and the Mounties..Ake

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Once Famous
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:53 PM

Canadian bacon
Very cold winter weather that moves south
hoser humor/the McKenzie Brothers
fake American movie sites

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:58 PM

Farley Mowat.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:58 PM

fake American movies sites ... good one MG !!

The Mackenzie Bros. .. ever see the Trailer Park Boys ?

Some more:

Louis B. Mayer

Dr. Norman Bethune

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: beetle cat
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 09:59 PM

Affordable higher education!!!!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Mooh
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:00 PM

Grit Laskin
Linda Manzer
Marc Beneteau
Sheldon Schwartz
Alan Beardsell
Oliver Apitius
Fabrizio Alberico
Ted Thompson

and much lesser company like me.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Biskit
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:02 PM

The Kids in the Hall!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:07 PM

Oh, one of my favorite Galbraith quotes: "capitalism is man exploiting man. Communism is just the opposite."

Wayne Johnston (novelist)

joey Smallwood (well kinda sorta) ;);)

The cBC, a very nice alternative to ... well, to things like Fox.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:07 PM

To the best of my knowlege, the only thing Canada has ever done for the rest of the continent is show us a better way to run a country. But then, you guys are all polite. So it can't happen here, eh?

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:10 PM

Oh, how could I forget: Wilf Carter, AKA Montana Slim.

Teresa

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:15 PM

The CBC ..... most definately!

Hank Snow

Robertson Davies

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:19 PM

Theresa ..... how would an American know of Joey Smallwood ??

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:32 PM

A Canadaphile, I am. :)

CBC and reading Johnston's _Colony of Unrequited Dreams_ :)

I had a boyfriend who had lived in Canada for years. :)

Some of my best friends .... ah never mind. :D

Teresa

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: pdq
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:36 PM

This is a music site and not one mention of Ian Tyson!!!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:37 PM

... or Sylvia !!!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Azizi
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:41 PM

Canada- in 19th century was THE Beulah land, a beacon of hope for enslaved African Americans and a safe haven for fugitive African American people.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 10:45 PM

The light and hope at the end of the Underground Railroad!

A proud moment in Canadian Heritage

Appreciate you for mentioning this Azizi !!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 11:38 PM

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Ronnie Hawkins

Most of "The Band"

Gordon Lightfoot

Jean-Claude Larrivee (and all those other great luthiers above)

Marie-Lynn Hammond

Bruce Cockburn

James Keelaghan

Connie Kaldor

Eileen McGann

Resdan :-)

Ian & Sylvia Tyson AGAIN! Geez...

Universal Medicare

A reputedly socialist party with really nice, ordinary, middle-class people who don't have horns growing out of their heads or anything... :-) (It's called the NDP.)

A 4 party $ySStem instead of that fecking 2 party $ySStem, south of the border...twice as much BS for your vote! :-)

Lorne Greene (sigh...)

Leslie Nielsen (bigger sigh...)

King William the Shatner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   But you already knew that.

And Martin, if you have not seen "Trailer Park Boys", then you have not really lived. I kid you not. See it! You will enjoy it.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: number 6
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:05 AM

Resdan ?!?!?!? LOL

How in the hell did ya ever remember that ?!?!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:12 AM

The Vancouver Morrismen.

Sorry, but I love Morris, and when I was in Vancouver bC I found a cassette. I don't think I have it anymore, either, darn it.

And we almost got to a Canadian World Series at one point. ...

Teresa

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:20 AM

"Resdan! It's only available in Canada!" Old TV ad.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:25 AM

When we develop the multiple-orgasm pill for men, hey, we'll have BRAGGING rights.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:49 AM

I'm glad to see Lorne Greene mentioned. Also John Roberts on CBS news is a former Canada AM host. Has anyone seen Corner Gas or North of 60? Oh, and Tom Jackson too. Mike

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Teresa
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 12:53 AM

Yes, I've gotten some of Corner Gas on my computer, though I'm in the States. Love it.

Teresa

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: LadyJean
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 01:07 AM

I seem to be in a minority, but I like the Quebecquois. I worked for a Quebecqouis many years ago. He edited the Heritage Broadcast Institute Newsletter, a monthly devoted to ethnic broadcasting. I wrote most of it, as Monsieur Kopp didn't write English very well. He was pleaasant to work for. He alwasy stopped to talk with my mother, who was very proud of her French, while I tried, in vain, to pry our standard poodle's nose out of his crotch.

I meet Qubequois at the S.C.A's annual Pensic War, now and again. When I speak French to them, they understand me, and they're very nice about it. French people aren't nearly as tolerant. J'adore les Quebecqouis.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 02:12 AM

Catibana!

see this quote from 2004:

"It began as the Toronto Caribbean community's salute to Canada's Centennial year. Now in its second millennium, its fifth decade and its 37th year, the Caribana™ Festival is one of North America's greatest celebrations, attracting an estimated million participants annually. Rooted in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, it has become an international festival where you might experience Jamaican reggae, Brazilian samba or African djembe rhythms alongside Latin salsa, Haitian zouk or urban sounds, all blended with calypso and soca vibes."
http://www.caribana.com


More than a million people attend this festival. My daughter loves it so much, she's gone 3 years in a row. When she's there, she waves the USA AND the Barbados flags {my maternal grandparents' home}.

This is on my to-do list of Carnivals to experience!

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 02:17 AM

The people of Quebec have as much 'relation' to the people of France as the Newfoundlanders do to Ireland. It's there but it ain't, if ya know what I mean.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 03:25 AM

Gawd bless Canada for Leonard Cohen, and for not inventing Rap "music"

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: dianavan
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 03:42 AM

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

and...

water, wood, electricity and fish

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 03:47 AM

Do not pick on the Canadians , they have it tough, very tough ...they live next door to USA.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST,daylia
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 07:27 AM

Maybe that's how Canada produces people like Terry Fox?

Other notables are David Suzuki (scientist, activist, broadcaster), Margaret Laurence (author), Glenn Gould (classical pianist), Rick Hansen (athlete), Wayne Gretsky (The Great One), Pierre Elliot Trudeau (oh fuddle-duddle!), Dr Frederick Banting (discoverer of insulin), Gordon Lightfoot, Karen Kain (prima ballerina), and Dr Henry Morgantaler (but let's not get TOO violent over it).

I like to remember Elijah Harper too - the Cree-Ojibway MP who (temporarily) waylaid Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's plans to destroy Canada by silently holding up an eagle feather in the Manitoba legislature, refusing to ratify the Meech Lake Accord in the early 90's

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 08:42 AM

Elijah Harper, yes! And Tommy Douglas. The world and Canada needs more like them.

Mendleson Joe, Mainline,

Thousands of military men and women during wars fought elsewhere, like my Dad. Thousands of peacekeepers in disputes elsewhere but home.

Numerous hockey heroes who could battle to near death on skates and share a beer afterwards.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 09:24 AM

Add: The Seaway and A Man Called Interpid to this lot....

Canadian Inventions
Only a small percentage of the great inventions invented by Canadian inventors are listed below.
5 Pin Bowling ...a truly Canadian sport invented by T.E. Ryan of Toronto in 1909

Able Walker ...the walker was patented by Norm Rolston in 1986

Access Bar ...patented food bar designed to help burn fat by Dr Larry Wang

Air-Conditioned Railway Coach ...invented by Henry Ruttan in 1858

Abdominizer ...the infomercial exercise darling invented by Dennis Colonello in 1984

AC Radio Tube ..invented by Edward Samuels Rogers in 1925

Acetylene ...Thomas L. 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 ...a 3d map making system invented by Uno Vilho Helava in 1957

Andromonon ...a 3 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, the "Real 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 ...in 1892, Thomas Leopold Willson invented a process for Calcium Carbide

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 ..in 1900, Fredrick Creed invented a way to convert Morse Code to text

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 the 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 - Invented by John Joseph Wright in 1883

Fathometer ...An early form of sonar invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1919

Film Colourization ...invented by Wilson Markle in 1983

Garbage Bag ...(polyethylene) invented by Harry Wasylyk in 1950

Goalie Mask ...invented by Jaques Plante in 1960

Gramophone ...co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell & Emile Berliner in 1889

Green Ink ...currency or greenbacks ink invented by Thomas Sterry Hunt in 1862

Half-tone Engraving ...co-invented by Georges Edouard Desbarats & William Augustus Leggo in 1869

Heart Pacemaker ...invented by Dr. John A. Hopps in 1950

Hydrofoil Boats ...co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell, & Casey Baldwin in 1908

IMax Movie System ...co-invented in 1968 by Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr

Instant Mashed Potatoes ...dehydrated potato flakes were invented by Edward A. Asselbergs, in 1962

Insulin Process ...Fredrick Banting, J. J. Macleod, Charles Best and Collip invented the process for insulin in 1922

JAVA ...a programming language invented by James Gosling in 1994

Jetliner ...the first jetliner was designed by James Floyd in 1949

Jolly Jumper ...a baby's delight invented by Olivia Poole in 1959

Kerosene ...invented by Doctor Abraham Gesner in 1846

Lawn Sprinkler ...another invention made by the Real McCoy

Light Bulb Leads ..leads made of nickel & iron alloy were invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1892

Marquis Wheat ...invented by Sir Charles E. Saunders in 1908

Mcintosh Apple ...invented by John McIntosh in 1796

Music Synthesizer ...invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945

Newsprint ...invented by Charles Fenerty in 1838

Odometer ...invented by Samuel McKeen in 1854

Paint Roller ...invented by Norman Breakey of Toronto in 1940

Plexiglas ...(Polymerized Methyl Methacrylate) invented by William Chalmers in 1931

Polypump Liquid Dispenser ...Harold Humphrey made pumpable liquid hand soap possible in 1972

Portable Film Developing System ...invented by Arthur Williams McCurdy in 1890, but he foolishly sold the patent to George Eastman in 1903

Potato Digger ...invented by Alexander Anderson in 1856

Process to Extract Helium from Natural Gas ...invented by Sir John Cunningham McLennan in 1915

Prosthetic Hand ...an electric prosthetic invented by Helmut Lucas in 1971

Quartz Clock ...Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock

R-Theta Navigation System ...invented by J.E.G. Wright in 1958

Radio-Transmitted Voice ...invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1904

Railway Car Brake ...invented by George B. Dorey in 1913

Railway Sleeper Car ...invented by Samuel Sharp in 1857

Robertson Screw ...invented by Peter L. Robertson in 1908

Rotary Blow Molding Machine ...this plastic bottle maker was invented by Gustave Côté in 1966

Rotary Railroad Snowplow ...invented by J.E. Elliott in 1869

Rubber Shoe Heels ...Elijah McCoy patented an important iimprovement to rubber heels in 1879

Safety Paint ...a high reflectivity paint invented by Neil Harpham in 1974

Screw Propeller ...a ship's propeller invented by John Patch in 1833

Silicon Chip Blood Analyzer ...invented by Imants Lauks in 1986

SlickLicker ...made for cleaning oil spills, patented by Richard Sewell in 1970

Snowblower ...invented by Arthur Sicard in 1925

Snowmobile ...invented by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in 1922

Standard Time ...invented by Sir Sanford Fleming in 1878

Stereo-orthography Map Making System ...invented by T.J. Blachut, Stanley Collins in 1965

Superphosphate Fertilizer ...invented by Thomas L. Wilson in 1896

Synthetic Sucrose ...invented by Dr. Raymond Lemieux in 1953

Television ...Reginald A. Fessenden patented a television system in 1927

Television Camera ...invented by F. C. P. Henroteau in 1934

Telephone ..invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

Telephone Handset ...invented by Cyril Duquet in 1878

Tone-to-Pulse Converter ...invented by Michael Cowpland in 1974

Trivial Pursuit ...invented on December 15, 1979 by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott

Tuck-Away-Handle Beer Carton ...invented by Steve Pasjac in 1957

Undersea Telegraph Cable ...invented by Fredrick Newton Gisborne in 1857

UV-degradable Plastics ...invented by Dr. James Guillet in 1971

Variable Pitch Aircraft Propeller ...invented by Walter Rupert Turnbull in 1922

Walkie-Talkie ...invented by Donald L. Hings in 1942

Wireless Radio ...invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1900

Wirephoto ...Edward Samuels Rogers invented the first in 1925

Zipper ...invented by Gideon Sundback in 1913

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 09:51 AM

Well, with respect, living next to the USA is just fine. We seem to have been good neighbours. Mostly, other than some regional linguistic variations to do with the English language and the differences in the political structues, one would be hard-pressed to show many differences between the people who live along the borders.
Year back near the Que/NY border, a friend's dog got a faceful of porcupine quills. (We had been deer hunting.) We popped the dog the jeep, got to a phone and called the nearest vet--who happened to be in the US. We crossed the border on the promise we actually were going to the vet's. and that we'd be departing ASAP. At the vet's, we had to explain that we had about $7 between us because we'd been hunting, etc. The vet looked at Mister--the dog. "Lots of quills there." We asked how much he charged. He replied $1 a quill and proceeded to sedate the dog--shepherd/collie cross--and yank the things out. He was quite laconic. Then he mentioned that he had a hobby. We asked what kind? His answer? "I raise porcupines." Ends up he charged us $7. Good thing the dog didn't bite him. Mister was a nasty sonuvabitch.

Anyway, other than the political crap that flies back and forth between Washington and Ottawa, the people of the countries get along really well.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: What have the Canadians ever done 4 us
From: Den
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 10:25 AM

Little Hawk, Ronnie Hawkins is actually American born in Huntsville, Arkansas. The world's largest fiddle.