Here is the flip side of another thread that has been going on for a while.
What is Canada's gift, greatest or otherwise, to America?
John Peters Humphrey. He was the principle drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that has certainly helped in promulgating human rights around the world, thus making the world relatively safer for all, including US citizens around the world.
From what used to be my hometown, actually.
Lorne Greene, Celine Dion
Canadian bacon and Quebec poutine:smile:
Tits everywhere, not Just the US, are thankful; beats the hell out of whalebone.WonderBra
electric cooking range, paint roller, zipper, hydrofoils, tracer bullets, cardiac pacemaker, snowmobile, plexiglass, Muskol, sonar, standard time zones, chocolate bar, Trivial Pursuit, diesel-electric locomotive, lawn sprinkler, Canada Dry, rye whiskey, table hockey, basketball, WonderBra, Canadarm, alkaline battery...
Yeah, I left out insulin on purpose because it had already been mentioned, and I wasn't sure where the telephone was invented and didn't feel energetic enough to look it up. My memory is that Mr. Bell invented it while in the U.S. and there's some dispute about what nation the credit belongs to. But again, I'd make the same point I did in the thread about U.S. gifts to Canada: none of these are specifically gifts from one nation to another and I can't really think of anything substantive that is. Best I can think of is that both the U.S. and Canada have pretty good neighbours across our common border, and that's not exactly small change, but it's not really a gift either, it's a recognition of our common interests.Telephone has to be right up there.....................and insulin.