What makes you think of Canada?

Gonna try to make a continuous list (1,2,3,...n) of things, food, etc. that reminds us of Canada. Each item can be refuted if found to be doubtful so as to justify the real answer.

I'll start.

1. -eh? -hey?
2. twoonie

Player's Light Cigarettes

As much as I absolutely love living on the Island, I still admit that the Rockies make me think of Canada ... those crazy ass ragged mountains with year round snow. I grew up in them in the interior so maybe that's why.

The other thing is clean, cold, freshwater lakes. We have so many of them. Lucky us!!

Maple Syrup!

Did you know that in the boutique at the House of Commons, you can buy 375 mL bottles of syrup, hand-picked by the Hon. Peter Milliken himself? I'm not kidding. The "House of Commons' Speaker's Choice Maple Syrup," for $19.99, at the House of Commons Boutique.

It makes me laugh, because it's depressingly sad.

Edit Corrected a typo.

ARCTIC BLASTS!

I would have to say when you think of Canada.

Maple Syrup,

Hockey,

and Lumberjacks.

12. French or the Quebecois
13. Tim Hortons
14. Bay (Hudson Bay shopping centre)
15. Maple leaf

It has to be maple leaf, of course. But maple leaves are only available on the eastern side of Canada, and none to be found from the central towards the western side of Canada. How unfortunate!

There are tonnes of maple leaf trees in the England and they never stop reminding me of Canada every day.

Hands down...

Every late August when the B.C. MacIntosh Apples get to my home town.....That first bite and I am home again.... The first time they are on the shelves the grocery guy tells me "they're here"...and I eat one on the way to the car....can't even wait.

My mouth waters every time I think of them.

Have a stock of em right now......I wish I could get them year round...but it's kinda neat waiting for them too....they are more "precious" that way.

du MAURIER smokes. Or the cigarette packs with the pictures

mountians
the ocean(s)
lakes
grizzly bears
cougars
bobcats
* the canadian lynx *

POUTINE!!! Oh, how I miss it!

1 being cold

Yikes! I have forgotten the most important thang... dang!
I miss Poutine dearly too...

Bob and Doug-- Take off eh.....

Niagara Falls

Maples

Great Lakes

Tobogganing

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I would say winter but I am not so sure here in Alberta recently.

Also, it should include our valued and unique first nations cultures but thanks to Canada's great racism to them this doesn't seem to make it in these lists very often.

Oh ya, and hockey!

Acadians
Zellars
Canadian Tire
Tooneys (sorry the States have a Looney!)
Cat Ferries
No BUSH

Tim Hortons.

That stylized half a maple leaf on the tail of Air Canada's planes, and Tim Horton's coffee and donuts.

I once spent some time in Egypt on a professional assignment, and the place was so totally foreign and incomprehensible to me (alien is not too strong a word)--I knew no Arabic, couldn't speak, write, or read, a word of it--that I had a low level of distress and anxiety the whole time I was there. I have post-graduate degrees, an IQ measured at well into 3 digits, but in Egypt I was functionally illiterate, which is a humbling and salutary experience. I couldn't read street signs or newspapers, couldn't understand tv and radio broadcasts, I couldn't even speak to people in the street. I was able to do the job I'd been sent to do only because the Egyptians I was working with were multilingual, but I felt personally lost and alone and ignorant the whole time.

I flew Lufthansa from Cairo to Frankfurt to get home. When I was waiting in the airport at Frankfurt for the flight that'd take me back to Canada, I saw the Air Canada 747 pull up to the departure gate for loading, and I saw that big red and white half a maple leaf pattern on the tail, and I choked up. "I'm really going home now," I thought, an idea that for a month had had a curious quality of unreality about it. I landed in Calgary many hours later, and while waiting there for the last connection to Regina and home, I encountered a Tim Horton's in the Calgary airport. I hadn't had any good trashy food for so long... I sucked up two of Tim's biggest coffees and three big fat chocolate-covered donuts, and then by gawd I knew I was home.

There just ain't no place like home.

I brought some maple syrup the other day and it's gorgeous, never had it before. depreived childhood I think!!

Ski Doos and toques

Bombadiers
Rappie Pie
Acadie
Grand Derangement (The Band)
Acadian Flag du Nord
Maple Leaf
Blue Jays
Alexander Keith
Molson
LaBatt
Montreal
Toronto

One of my daughters on a visit to relatives slept through the Border check, the Revenue Canada Customs Lady remarked nobody kidnaps two sets of twins, so when Charlotte woke up from her slumber, she couldn't believe that we were at Uncle Len's house outside Windsor, ON. Charlene pointed out the Tim Horton's down the street, The Canadian Post office, and of course the Flag! Charlene pointed out that none of this was to be found in then "ClintonLand"!!!!!!

<Snipped ... Exact same rant posted in at least 7 other threads. Cosmo

You people are embarrassing. No wonder I think public education sucks.

1) Rough (but great) hockey players
2) Beutiful nature
3) Darn expensive syrup

unhappy with your education, jay?

yea, it is not the public school system that causes most of the problems. It is the lacking of culture in canada!

It was in response to the previous poster...


I do think the education system needs some work though.

Hocky, Tim Hortons, CBC, Red Green. When I lived in Victoria it was the beauty of the Island and the wonders of BC.. My favorite sight in Canada was "Rodger's Pass" in the middle of winter. In Manitoba it has to be the friendly people. I noticed when I lived there there was a provincial saying "You betch cah". In the Maritimes it's all about the sea, and family and friends.

Freedom. The country was a haven for escaped slaves and later, for those would not take part in the war in vietnam.

Onions... from visits to Grandma in Portage. I never thought to see mounds of onions on the ground.

Deer... bounding through the blooming canola fields in a late afternoon spot of sunlight.

The sky... Montana, the Big Sky Country, is guilty of false advertising when compared to Canada.

A fishhouse in the states is a place in the South to purchase fried fish, slaw, and hushpuppies. In Manitoba, a fishhouse is a place to clean and ice the catch and is a sure location to find the fiercest mosquitos (Dawson Bay, Manitoba).