What the world thinks of Canada

Serbia · Post by **Serbia** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:10 am

High Guard wrote:
luns101 wrote:
High Guard wrote:Canada is great, and believe me I know, I used to live in Michigan, 1 hour drive from Canada.

Dude, how many places have you visited or lived at?

What can I say.... I live to travel. I have lived in Mariupol, Ukraine; Gaylord, MI; North Port, FL; St.Petersburg, FL. As for all the places I been.... this might take a while.... All the continental states, most of Europe, Canada.... basically everywhere except Mexico (planing to go for spring break) and Australia (going next summer)

Why GAYLORD of all places?

High Guard · Post by **High Guard** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:02 am

Serbia wrote:
High Guard wrote:
luns101 wrote:
High Guard wrote:Canada is great, and believe me I know, I used to live in Michigan, 1 hour drive from Canada.

Dude, how many places have you visited or lived at?

What can I say.... I live to travel. I have lived in Mariupol, Ukraine; Gaylord, MI; North Port, FL; St.Petersburg, FL. As for all the places I been.... this might take a while.... All the continental states, most of Europe, Canada.... basically everywhere except Mexico (planing to go for spring break) and Australia (going next summer)

Why GAYLORD of all places?

I know, i know, the name sounds funny and it's in the middle of nowhere, but snowboarding around there is great.

glide · Post by **glide** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:32 am

I've travelled alot as well.....in the navy, and by motorcycle....and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather live. Misconceptions about our country include thinking we're all frickin' french.....only about 30% is french Canadian....and thinking it's cold all the time.....our summers get pretty hot in places like Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, etc. We also have produced some of the top music acts in the world, and have quite a few sports heroes as well. Considering we only have a population of around 30 million, being known as the worlds peacekeepers isn't a bad thing either.......oh.....and we get to say "eh" all we want, cuz it's expected of us.....eh...... :wink:

And although I grew up in Ontario, and Nova Scotia, I now live in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. Snow rarely stays more than a few days in winter here, you can ride year round, and they have flower counting parades in Victoria in February every year. It's also where the U.S. came to replentish their eagle population. I have bamboo growing wild in my backyard, and there are over 20 pubs within 10 miles of my house. Yep....I like bein' Canadian eh.... :-)

Balsiefen · Post by **Balsiefen** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:05 am

glide wrote: being known as the worlds peacekeepers isn't a bad thing either

Eh? i didnt know that

2dimes · Post by **2dimes** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:32 am

You missed a big export Glide.

Comedians, I'm too lazy to list them but there's a ton of them from here.

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:39 am

glide wrote:I've travelled alot as well.....in the navy, and by motorcycle....and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather live. Misconceptions about our country include thinking we're all frickin' french.....only about 30% is french Canadian....and thinking it's cold all the time.....our summers get pretty hot in places like Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, etc. We also have produced some of the top music acts in the world, and have quite a few sports heroes as well. Considering we only have a population of around 30 million, being known as the worlds peacekeepers isn't a bad thing either.......oh.....and we get to say "eh" all we want, cuz it's expected of us.....eh...... And although I grew up in Ontario, and Nova Scotia, I now live in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. Snow rarely stays more than a few days in winter here, you can ride year round, and they have flower counting parades in Victoria in February every year. It's also where the U.S. came to replentish their eagle population. I have bamboo growing wild in my backyard, and there are over 20 pubs within 10 miles of my house. Yep....I like bein' Canadian eh....

amen

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:40 am

2dimes wrote:You missed a big export Glide.

Comedians, I'm too lazy to list them but there's a ton of them from here.

yes lots of comedians...beer...trailer park boys...and wheat! here in canada

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:41 am

hockey players too

jako · Post by **jako** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:50 am

canada is just great, no place imo to live. glide im not that far from u. im in vancouver :lol:

(not on the island). but yeah, lots of great stuff, and lots of nature too, for ur inner environmentalist (though it is dwindling). this year we had record temps in the lower mainland (it was 35 C+ around 100 F). adn i just love it that we can eh eh eh eh eh ehe eh all we want cause we are suppose to ^_^, also big fan of maple syrup (yum)

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:59 am

i love maple syrup eh

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:59 am

we also have mooses and geeses eh

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:00 pm

and oil, and some new diamond mines up north

jako · Post by **jako** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:03 pm

yes, we haev everything u can want, but i have to say our health care though it is the only one availible to everyone, it is failing with the passing of each year, thats y there is going to be a battle to make our public health care more privatized with the aging of the baby boomers

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:10 pm

so how did you come up with the name Canada? well at the beginning one newcomer asked another newcomer "What do you think we should name this country?"
"How about let's say some random letters until we think of a name?"
"Okay I'll start: C"
"Eh?
"N"
"Eh?"
"D"
"Eh?"
"Hey lets call it Canada!"
"Eh?"

EDIT: oh yeah And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead came from Canada

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:53 pm

Ummm That they should take Wyoming! We dont need it they can have it!

jako · Post by **jako** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:26 pm

actually the name "canada" is native american. it was the first natives in canada that came up with it when the dominion of canada was established.

salvadevinemasse · Post by **salvadevinemasse** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:31 pm

jako wrote:actually the name "canada" is native american. it was the first natives in canada that came up with it when the dominion of canada was established.

Thanks for that bit of information. I didn't know that!

jako · Post by **jako** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:35 pm

salvadevinemasse wrote:
jako wrote:actually the name "canada" is native american. it was the first natives in canada that came up with it when the dominion of canada was established.

Thanks for that bit of information. I didn't know that!

my pleasure, i just love to teach people about canada, will make my canadian assimilation plan much easier to carry out :twisted:

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:52 pm

canada means village or something along the lines of that. An explorer(forget who) came to canada and met some native americans and they would say canada and point inland toward their village. The explorers thought that was what they called the land(like a country name) and started to call the new world canada.

Eventually when colonization began the name was dropped.

glide · Post by **glide** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:29 pm

I have a few Native Canadian friends who would probably prefer the term "Native North Americans"............after all.....even Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse both called our country "Mother Canada".......and although the U.S. is often called "America"......in reality..it is "The United States OF America".
Hmmm......now that I think of it, guess that makes us "Canada OF America"eh?
:lol: