Calling All Canadians!

[Arnwyn]

Winnipeg, MB.

Favorite moment? Tough to choose just one. Vimy Ridge, helping to liberate Europe in WW2 years before the Americans, telling the U.S. to take a hike re: Iraq, and burning down the White House in 1812 are all goodies. (But poking fun at the old Alliance party's policies with the name change to "Doris" is pretty classic.)

 

[A2Z]

I'm in Windsor Ontario. And I'd be happy as a clam if someone else from here would post. I need another player for my Dark Sun game.

 

[Man-thing]

Canadian, eh?

I'm from Markinch, Saskatchewan.

 

[mikebr99]

Hello All,

I'm Mike, from the County.

I work in Kingston... great city.

Most of my favourite Canadian moments revolve around "Talking to Americans" by Rick Mercier... And Hockey!!!

But those historcial points, others have noted are good also.


Mike

 

[Chun-tzu]

I'm Canadian, and proud of it! Raised in Toronto, have spent the past six years here in the United States for grad school, and returning to Canada in a couple weeks (woohoo!!).

I guess my favorite moment in Canadian history would be the creation of Superman by two Canadians.

 

[Red Baron]

London, Ontario, checking in.

(Fiery Dragon Productions, based in Toronto, is as Canadian as Canadian gets, BTW.)

Rather than pointing to any specific moment as being a favourite, I'll just say that I make it one of my life's pleasures to be able to point out famous people who are actually Canadian, even though everyone (read: folks from the U.S.) assumes they're U.S. citizens. (I mean beyond the obvious ones like Jim Carrey, Alanis Morisette, and William Shatner...)

 

[Iuz]

I'm from Edmonton, I've always been from Edmonton.

Favorite moment from history? That's hard.

In terms of pride its got to be the women's hockey final in 2002 Olymplics.

In terms of humour I pick the reaction of the Quebec government when a group of towns announced they would seperate from Quebec if Quebec seperated from Canada.

If you want a moment that actually is history (in the normal sense of the word) - I think the war of 1812 takes the cake.

 

[Michael Tree]

Rather than pointing to any specific moment as being a favourite, I'll just say that I make it one of my life's pleasures to be able to point out famous people who are actually Canadian, even though everyone (read: folks from the U.S.) assumes they're U.S. citizens. (I mean beyond the obvious ones like Jim Carrey, Alanis Morisette, and William Shatner...)

Yeah, that's always fun.

I just thought of a couple other fun bits from Canadian political history:
- The election press release labeling Dalton McGuinty "an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet."
- Pierre Trudeau flipping the bird to a bunch of constituents at the side of his train.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Canadian born and bred in Belleville Ontario before moving to London for my schooling at university. Met my now wife here and just bought our first home a few weeks ago!

Proudest moment has to be Tommy Douglas spearheading the socialization of our medical system. Given my medical history I, literally, would not be alive today without Mr Douglas.

 

[HellHound]

MikeBr99 - my mother in law lives in Bloomfield (just down the road from Picton). We visit fairly regularly. We should meet for Slickers Ice Cream some day when we are in town.