• Jul. 1, 2008
Happy Canada Day!
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!
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Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometres of land.
With only three people per kilometre, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world.
Canada has the ninth biggest economy of the world.
Canada is the world's eighth biggest trader. (as in trade. Not betray.)
Of all the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five.
Since 1980, Canada has, according to United Nations Human Development Index, been considered the country with the highest quality of life for 10 different years.
Currently, it is #4 after Iceland, Norway and Australia.
But really, I don't care about any of this stuff. So, moving along...
Famous Canadians (in no particular order):
- Rick Moranis, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Leonard Cohen, born in Montreal, Quebec
- Neil Young, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Bryan Adams, born in Kingston, Ontario
- Celine Dion, born in Montreal, Quebec
- Nelly Furtado, born in Victoria, British Columbia (I'm like a bird, I want to fly away...)
- Avril Lavigne, born in Belleville, Ontario (HEY YOU! HEY YOU! I don't like your girlfriend.. :P)
- Estella Warren, born in Peterborough, Ontario
- Shania Twain, born in Windsor, Ontario (MAN! I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN! :p :p)
- William Shatner, born in Montreal, Quebec (lol...woot)
- Anna Paquin, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Catherine O'Hara, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Sarah McLachlan, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (your love is better than chocolate... xD)
- Mike Myers, born in Scarborough, Ontario
- Rachel McAdams, born in London, Ontario (not only that, her co-star from The Notebook...
- Ryan Gosling, was also born in London, Ontario (too bad I hate that movie.)
- Eugene Levy, born in Hamilton, Ontario (we share birth towns...lol)
- Kristin Kreuk, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Michael J. Fox, born in Edmonton, Alberta (yay Back To The Future! And Stewart Little. :P)
- Barenaked Ladies (lol): Jim Creeggan, born in Scarborough, Ontario; Kevin Hearn, born in Grimsby, Ontario (wooooooot!! :P); Steven Page, born in Scarborough, Ontario; Ed Robertson, born in Scarborough, Ontario; and Tyler Stewart, born in Toronto, Ontaro.
- Elisha Cuthbert, born in Calgary, Alberta
- Jim Carrey, born in Newmarket, Ontario (aaaaand:)
- Hayden Christensen, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (YES. Darth Vader is a Canadian.)
Canadian Inventions (not in any particular order but generally starting from the most important going to the least):
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)
Insulin (as diabetes treatment) - Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Collip (no first name I suppose.)
Television.
Washing Machine.
Electric Light Bulb.
Frozen Fish - Dr. Archibald G. Huntsman (1926) (it takes Canadian genius to come up with that.)
Basketball - James Naismith (1892)
Lacrosse - Played since the 17th century, but William George Beers set out the standard rules (1860)
Insulation.
Superman - Joe Shuster and Jerome Siegel (1938)
Green plastic garbage bags - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950)
Goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959) (it figures a Canadian should come up with this one.)
Snowblower - Arthur Sicard (1927) (and that too.)
Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings (1942) (Revolutionary! ;])
Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole (I just felt like I needed to put something invented by a girl in here.)
Zipper - Gideon Sundback (1913)
Gingerale.
Ear Piercer.
Baseball glove.
And last but not least...
Helium as a substitute for hydrogen in airships.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg
Happy Canada Day everyone. :p
