What makes you think of Canada?

[Kreskin]

1) All about Vancouver.
2) The Deep Cove and a Mexican Pizza shop close to the see ;-)
3) The Lion's Bay in West Vancouver
4) Yes, yet another thing about Vancouver :-D : the Park!
5) Friendly people : when there, I was feeling home.
6) Large places, happy guys, new concepts, one meaning : Living !

Dan.

Hey D, glad you had an awesome time in Vancouver. You would have loved Expo 86.

 

[pasticcino]

Kreskin, believe me : I could continue listing more... :-D

All was amazing ! And I will be there again either as tourist or as Vancouver citizen.

I remember all about Vancouver. The Granville street and the Island, the Malls (the one in the downtown, the one across the Marine street, the one in South Vancouver), the Def Leppard concert at GM Palace...

And what about the Acquarium ? The Gastown (from Gassy...), the Apple store on the Broadway close to a Toys maxistore...

I am from Rome, a beautiful city. But nothing like Vancouver. You might say "we have got the oldest Colosseum" but we don't live inside it. I think the one you've got in the Downtown is more useful : at least, people meet people and studies all together... :-D

Yes, I remember it all about Vancouver. I will never forget !

 

[Nathaniel]

Well known things even out side the country.

The Good:

Eh (as much as I don't want to admit it)
Tim Hortons
Hockey
Invention and Science
Toronto -> CN Tower -> Street Meat.
Montreal -> Boulevard St. Laurent -> Schwartz's
Calgary -> Stampede -> Oil
B.C. -> Rockeys
Thunder Bay -> Hoito
Niagra Falls
Great nature in general. - Camping, Canoe trips
Labatt Blue (Molson Canadian Isn't Called that else where)
Igloos
polar bears
U of Waterloo
U of Toronto
Maple Syrup
Maple Tree (and leaf)

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The Bad:

A world affairs / policy naivete.
Neutral to a fault
Far to politically correct
No Balls (colloquial)
Under Achievment in capitalistic potential.
"Cheap" - (would always prefer to pay less) (market statistic number one thing consumers look for in canada is price (also demographics like businesses, Gov., and the wealthy. Look at price much closer than U.S. counter parts)

And with the above, less willing to spend money if viewed even somewhat superfluous.

To stuck in socialist cycles and ideals to fix certain things that have real problems.

Have lost our identity to become simply "not american"

 

[Gonzo]

Political Correctness (to a fault)
Too much pride in hockey (when was the last time a Canadian team won the cup?)
Lumber Jacks
The mighty beaver
The majestic loons
Stompin Tom
CBC documentaries on Trudeau and other past leaders. Canada dwells on the past allot.

 

[dekhqonbacha]

canadians

 

[thomaska]

Shania Twain..Good lord you guys got it right with her... :lol:

 

[divar]

Big Maple, Sweet Syrup, Friendly people, Beautiful Scenary, large territory, Environmental protection.

 

[shannon]

Smoked Meat Sandwiches
High Taxes

 

[humanbeing]

-the military barracks down the street from my place

-the government building downtown

-canadian flag

-maple leafs painted on faces

-red and white jackets embroidered with Canada logos and canadian flags

-silly maple leaf-shaped hats

-the song O'Canada

-canadian flag-waving people running around singing O'Canada with maple leafs painted on their faces, whilst sporting silly maple leaf-shaped hats, and red and white jackets embroidered with Canada logos and flags

 

[#juan]

Somebody said there was no Maple trees in western Canada.

As I type this, I'm looking at an eighty foot tall Maple in my front yard. There are Maple trees all over Vancouver Island. These trees may have been transported from the east I don't know, but if they were, they certainly thrive once they are here.

 

[Nuggler]

Moose poop roasting by an open fire
Hookers tearing off their clothes
Stephen Harper being hung from some wire
And folks dressed up like Inu-os.
Everybody knows
Some Hortons and some Molson Ex
Some Canadian Club some Kanada Dry
All the bullcrap up on parlia-ment hill
Z'nuff to make ya wave bye bye.

Don't it just tear ya apart, that song. A true Canadian Song.

Stompin Tom Connors
Ann Murray
Gordon Lightfoot
Hockey night in Kanukistan
The hockey dipshit with the bull terrier
Rick Mercer
Halifax Comedy Hour
Just for Laughs


Rich Little sucks........That's an opinion of his comedy, not what he might actually do.........not that there's anything wrong with that. But he probably doesn't.

:idea:

 

[QueenMaa]

Belle Isles because when I am there I can look right over and see Canada. Also a friend because I have friend who lives in Ontario.

 

[Liz]

soapstone carvings
northern lights
beavers!!
Mounties

 

[Carmoral]

I put this question to my husband, he is from Alberta, and he said the wide open spaces, think thats because he is here in the UK and thinks that we are all squashed together, which might be true seen as yesterday i was having a bath and the next door neighbour kept dipping his sponge in to wash his car!
:3some:

 

[Lieutenant Governor]

Pogey
Texas Mickey
LCBO
Bags of milk
Duplexes
the McDonald arches with the maple leaf in the middle

 

[Gonzo]

Awsome music like;
Sloan
Blue Rodeo
The Inbreds
Barenaked Ladies
The Hip
The Rheostatics
54/40
The Gandharvas
Neil Young
The Band
They Dayglo Abortions
Gordon Lightfoot
Joni Mitchell
Steppenwolf
The Guess Who
BTO

 

[LisNJai]

The Rockies
Kokanee Beer
The Outdoors

 

[SixWheels]

Re: RE: What makes you think of Canada?

those 50's color 35 mm National Film board movies, of the outdoors, forrest and plains, and hunters and innuit.

Your in Canada, color =colour

You're in Canada, color=colour.

:lol:

Anyway, I think of Canada and think of...

Mounties
Bears
Mountains
Lakes
Wide open spaces
Clean air
Happy smiling people
Chirpy accents
Ice hockey
Very big trucks
Lumberjacks
Snow
My friend Eric from Belleville, Ontario.
Maple syrup

 

[lady_hawk_ca]

As a Canadian living abroad, I'm going to say The Rockies, the Maple Leaf, Maple Syrup and the people. BUT to many here in Spain it's - (believe it or not) Quebec, Eskimos, and the coldness...

 

[Liliput]

Your in Canada, color =colour

*laughs* THIS is what I love about Canada

What makes me think of canada:

The flag, shoot I love that thing

Tim's of course, where else can you say I'd like a double-double and they know what you are saying.

Our Armed Forces, I am just really proud of them.

The CBC, its so misguided. Rather like a lost child warning the mall.

Keith's beer, damn skippy

Our colourful money

The word Colour, not strickly ours but still

The word Yogourt, which is ours and works in both languages... how cool is that!

Frenchy's

The smell of seaweed

I have to agree with the others, Maple trees

Eh

being away and hearing someone pronouce the word "about" as "a-boat" My kindred!

and lord heaps more, thinking of Canada is all tied up with thinking of home. They all bleed together.