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Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood The huge advantage…
By George Journal presents some of our favourite quotes on Canada and Canucks – so you might spice up your toasts on Canada Day! Cheers! A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Burton We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong…
John Alexander Macdonald was Canada’s first Prime Minister, a Father of Confederation, and the greatest visionary leader of our fledgling nation state in the mid- to later-1800’s. Canada grew under PM Macdonald’s political acumen, stewardship and unwavering national vision to establish for its people a promising country with unlimited potential. In tribute to Sir…
Reposting…. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued an important statement this day. Here is the media release and links to the pertinent articles. OTTAWA, ON (January 12, 2021): Those who see Canada’s history as little more than a shameful series of mistakes and failures have grown increasingly vocal in calling for the shunning of figures like our…
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By George declared July “Butter Tart Month.” Bite into these new posts this month: Cycling and Butter Tarts REDUX: A Dozen Delectable Photos Bake My Day in St Jacobs Farmers Market The Butter Tart Ice Cream Sandwich Farm Boy’s classic butter tarts Here is the full menu of delectable articles from 2020! Butter Tarts are…
Q: What do you call a sophisticated American?/ A: Canadian. Q: What are the two seasons of weather in Canada? / A: Six months of winter and six months of poor snowmobiling. Q: What does a Canadian say when you step on his foot? / A: “Sorry” Q: How do you empty a swimming pool…
Perhaps the most remarkable comment about Wayne Gretzky came from Lowell Cohn. This American sportswriter once said of “The Great One”: “Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40 mph chess.” For hockey enthusiasts, there should be no need to celebrate the mastery of this superb hockey player. Wayne Gretzky is hockey’s all-time leading point scorer…
1. Giant beavers roamed Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene era, rubbing shoulders with mastodons and mammoths. They were 10 feet in length, including tail just smaller than a MINI Cooper and weighed up to 800 pounds. 2. The modern beaver is the second-largest rodent in the world (the capybara of South America is…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Symbols. For this list By George consulted the following: WatchMojo.com, Yahoo Answers, The Canadian Guide and Canada.com. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are Honourable Mentions: The Bluenose, totem poles, toque, ice…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions. For this list By George consulted the following: CBC’s Greatest Canadian Invention, CBC survey, Yahoo and Thought Company. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are Honourable Mentions: Canoe, jetliner, the pager,…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Songs through the modern times. For this list By George consulted the following: CBC Music, Strong Words, Billboard’s 100 Canadian #1s, Zoomer Magazine and Indie 8. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Foods. For this list By George consulted the following: Hostelworld.com, Readers’ Digest, Yahoo, Canadian Living, and the Taste Atlas. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are the Honourable Mentions: Nova Scotian Lobster…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canucks selected through the years of our Nationhood. For this list By George consulted the following sources: The Pantheon At M.I.T., Insider.com, CBC Greatest Canadian, Amazon’s IMDb.com, Quora.com, TheMagazine.ca, The Canadian Guide (historical figures), Global News 150 birthday selection, and TopTenz….
A few years ago AskMen.com listed the top 10 Canadian icons “that have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.” In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose, beaver, Tim Horton’s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey. In…
Through the past few weeks, the By George Journal conducted a Canadiana contest to select the most-Canadian of symbols. Based on the feedback of our followers, here are the top-three, most-beloved symbols of Canadiana. In reverse order, the top-three selected symbols are: #3 The RCMP #2 The Game of Hockey #1 The Beaver …
Here are the words of the chorus and first couple of verses of the song that first united our land – the song that our soldiers marched to in WWI – establishing forever the maple leaf as an enduring symbol of all that is Canadian. Chorus: The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear, The Maple Leaf…
Have you wondered where the name ‘Canada’ comes from? It’s the Huron-Iroquois word ‘kanata’ which means ‘settlement’ or ‘village.’ Jacques Cartier first heard it in reference to Quebec City, but soon it was used to describe the whole region. Upper Canada Parliamentarian Thomas D’Arcy McGee argued the adoption of Canada as the name for the…
The Niagara Independent, June 25, 2021 — Oh Canada, is there anything left of our country and its history for us to celebrate? Does it not seem that, in reading news headlines, Canadians’ new national sport is self-flagellation? We now live in a country where our nation’s past is being removed from public squares and…
Canada’s Prime Ministers ~ from Sir John A Macdonald to Justin Trudeau 10 Favourite Quotes of Sir John A. Macdonald More Quotes from PM John G. Diefenbaker Federal Election Memes 12 classic political memes (since 2015) Quotes of PM Justin Trudeau Father and Son Trudeau, and Canada Then and Now Did our next…