- Hey there ! Calling all Canadians . I know there are a lot of us on Gather , so I thought it would fun to find out just how many of us there are. Post your gather name , your town/city and your province . Maybe you can add something that you know is uniquely Canadian !
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Something that is uniquely Canadian....hmmm, our unique dollar coins known as loonies and they carry the picture of a loon, a beautiful bird often located on the many northern lakes of Canada...esp. here in Ontario. I love the cry of a loon as it calls out to it's mate and dives deep into the lakes after fish.
molson beer, the rcmp, largest maple syrup producer in the world,
cheezies, metro, submarine sandwiches, pogos, du maurier cigerattes,
tuque,
maple leafs,
montreal canadians, hockey team
calgary stampede
olympic stadium
La Ronde
McGill University
With a name like mine, I can't hide that I - AM - CANADIAN...
Or should I say Canadien...? ;)
Anyhow... They don't shoot each other here, but they can stab each other pretty damn well! Beer bottles are lethal weapons too...
Here is something typically Canadian: Goods & Services Tax!
Gotta love that G.S.T. - eh?
Ouais, c'est ça... (oops - that is French-Canadian! More than you bargained for!)
They mangle French AND English alike here, really...
Depends if you're in Westmount or Outremont I guess...! ;)
Moved to Toronto because it was warmer..............
Moved to San Antonio, Texas because it DOESN"T SNOW!!
(and there's no GST!)
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There IS a difference between CFL and NFL .............. the fields are different
sizes for one. Warren Moon played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
at one time before he moved to the NFL!
Y'all used to be you all ......... and when I start to say I'm fixin' to do something
....... it's time to go home for a language intervention!!!!!
My only salvation is when we get Canadian music acts like The Clummsy
Lovers or Roger Marin Jr. passing through town so I can remind myself what Canadian sounds like!
Oh, and if Canada HAD actually annexed the Turks and Caicos Islands
(go waaaaaaaay back!) I'd still live in Canada!!
Does any one remember the Friendly Giant??
Book: Anne of Green Gables
TV series: Degrassi
Don't think I am allowed up there any more due to a few indiscretions but I do like Canadian men!!!
I love you is "Je t'aime " for any kind of French .
You might like this article though , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French
When we lived in South Dakota were heard Pierre, SD referred to as "Peer" where as in French it is pronounced "Pee-Air "
Another example is of our nephew Michael , his fathers name is Michael too .We pronounce it Michael for our nephew because he was given an English name , however is father is all French and his name is pronounced "me-shell" or "ma-shell" And of course in English we have the girls name Michelle.
I could give you plenty more examples but I won't right now . Anglicizing is done to many languages.
And I found the answer to my precious question about Acadian.
My step mom is what you would refer to as Creole French aka Redbone aka Coonass. Her mother never learned to speak a bit of English so once my step mom was in school she would bring home her report card and her mother would say "is this good" in french of course. My step mom was very honest with her though, I would have lied like no tomorrow LOL
Where have you seen Dog Sled races?
I am Canadian, or Canadien. I was born and raised in Montreal (in French that's Mohn-real with the "hn" meant to indicate a nasal "n" rather than a hard "n" said with the tongue touching the front of the upper palate). The hockey team there, Carol Roach, is definitely les canadiens (not the Canadians).
I now live in Bancroft, a small rural town in Ontario not far from the famous Algonquin Park. Bancroft is located in the north end of Hastings County, one of the oldest and largest counties in the province (the larger ones are all in the far north end of this province which is many times larger than Texas). People who were born and raised in this area refer to the south end of our county as "out front" rather than "down south".
We Canadians do not say aBOOT for about (I've travelled from coast to coast in Canada, by train Jai S., and never heard a single Canadian say aBOOT, though I've heard many Americans try to imitate Canadians by saying it that way). I think this error arose from the fact that some Americans pronounce the word as aBOWT.
Do you know why the American pioneering icon is a cowboy while the Canadian pioneering icon is a lumberjack? Because in the USA the pioneers were those who settled the wild west, where there was no established law and order, and cowboys rode the herds that ranchers earned their money from and gunfighters carved out their own legends. In Canada, because of the vast rocky expanse we call the Canadian shield, it was not possible to move west by wagon train. Our west had law and order, established by the Mounties, before the settlers arrived -- because the settlers came by train after we built the tracks. Our pioneers were really those who settled the wild lands of Ontario, many of them Loyalists who fled the American War of Independence. Instead of raisng cattle, fortunes here were made by cutting timber and running it down the raging rivers in the spring. The lumberjacks were rough, wild men who lived all winter in lumbering camps called "cambooses", cutting timber and eating beans. When the snow melted and the rivers ran high the logs were floated down the river and pushed through narrow chutes by log-drivers (or roughriders, which is where the name for the now defunct Ottawa Roughriders football team came from).
Like cowboys, lumberjacks were rough, tough men who fought hard, worked hard and drank hard. However, few of them had pistols, so no gunfighters. Right here in Bancroft is where our "wild west" was.
Out in the prairie provinces out west (like Saskatchewan) a roughrider had a different meaning, which is why our other Rough Riders football team has the same name.
Canada and the United States have been friends, neighbours and partners in many ways for generations now. However, in the early years after the American Revolution this was not so. During the war of 1812 (between Britain and America, but most fought in Canada and the US) Canadians attacked Washington, D.C. and burned down the White House! This is the only time in history that the American capital was invaded!
The tallest man-made structure in the world is in Toronto, Canada (it is called the CN Tower). However, new towers now under construction in Asia will soon eclipse it.
Michael J. Fox, Howie Mandel, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Mary Pickford, Alanis Morisette, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Steve Nash, Peter Jennings, Ian Holms (Bilbo Baggins in the LOTR movies among dozens of other roles) and many many more entertainers, athletes and prominent personalities in the USA are Canadians, born and raised.
Julie, "Je t'aime" certainly does mean "I love you", but can also mean "I like you". If you want to really say I love you in the romantic sense, you might want to try: "Je t'adore." It is pronounced just like "adore" in English but with a "T" at the beginning.
Vive le Canada.
Oh, and we do produce good comics...