What has Canada done for the world...?

[lightspeed]

Don't forget Java programming language, Plexiglas, Cardiac Pacemaker, Paint Roller, Walkie Talkie and (as evidenced by this thread) everyone's favourite....Trivial Pursuit.

 

[Svend]

Not to rain on your post, but exporting death is not something I personally want to be well known for as a Canadian, especially when flashing my passport.

Suppose a Canadian sniper had humanely taken out Hitler with one bullet in 1939 and saved millions of lives, wouldn't this be good thing - even honourable?

 

[maxweber]

Everbody's a..

Canadians burnt down the original White House in the war of 1812

Well, you have to expect that. It's what happens when you put an art critic in charge of a squad of armed men.

MW

 

[PHNINE]

Velcro

 

[Svend]

The finest beaver and seal pelts come from Canada, we are the best at cruelly tearing off the skins of freshly killed little animals.

 

[maxweber]

not on

Suppose a Canadian sniper had humanely taken out Hitler with one bullet in 1939 and saved millions of lives, wouldn't this be good thing - even honourable?

Not on. Getting him to wear the antlers just wouldn't have worked.

MW

 

[someone]

Curling?

OTB

Nope. That's one of Scotland's contributions.

 

[basketcase]

The Blackberry.

Is this about the negative things? If I'm away from work, I want to be away from work!

 

[onthebottom]

We build countries, not destroy them. There hasn't been a real war so far worth the fight in this Century. Please note: Canada stands alone as the one country with common sense and morality enough to stay out of the blood bath you and yours (means the moron and the two stooges you call the administration) created in Iraq.

The issue now, is how to extracate from Afghanistan. I never pictured Canada as riding shotgun for the heroin trade...somehow...

Anyway..comeon up and put the skates on OTB...something i'd REALLY look forward to...on my lake...

Great job on Rwanda.........

OTB

 

[woolf]

Great job on Rwanda.........

OTB

Thanks, but if the UN and the US hadn't abandoned us there .... we (and by "we" I mean Canadian General Romeo Dallaire) actually had to defy orders from the UN, and work around US attempts to sabotage the mission ... we could have done a much better job and more than just a few lives could have been spared.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

And how did I miss it. Delta Wing Design and Technology.

If it wasn't for Diefenbaker, Canadians would have been the first in space, and we would still be putting satellites into orbit from the Avro Arrow.

It all worked out nicely for the U.S. though as many of the Arrow engineers were enlisted into the NASA space program.

 

[LancsLad]

A neighbour at my cottage, also a Brit, was brought over from A.V. Roe to work on the Arrow. He was high up and when it was scrapped and the "cone of silence fell" he got a NASA job.

Clearly I am an ardent Tory but I will never forgive Dief for caving to the Yanks on that one. Little old Canada put both the Yanks and the Ruskies to shame with that design.

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

Clearly I am an ardent Tory but I will never forgive Dief for caving to the Yanks on that one. Little old Canada put both the Yanks and the Ruskies to shame with that design.

That's the problem with aligning yourself to a particular side of the political spectrum.............sooner or later, the dumbass is on your side

 

[papasmerf]

That's the problem with aligning yourself to a particular side of the political spectrum.............sooner or later, the dumbass is on your side

Could be worse

Could be Woody

 

[Mcluhan]

Coined term 'Global Village'

 

[clowny]

Canada? we contributed to the world :

Alan Thicke
Wayne and Schuster
Stompin Tom Connors
Rita McNeil
Ed the Sock
Barenaked Ladies

i mean come on, where would the world be without those guys????? That's classic cultural superstars

 

[Papi Chulo]

Canadians burnt down the original White House in the war of 1812

I think you mean the British burned it down. There were no Canadians in 1811 as Canada was not a country, but a British colony



Canadian Inventions and Discoveries


http://www.canada4life.ca/invent.php

* Actar 911 CPR Dummy - Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault, and Jonathan Vinden

* Anti-gravity suit - Dr. Wilbur R. Franks

* Automatic lubricators - Elijah McCoy

* Avro Arrow - Royal Canadian Air Force

* Balderdash - Laura Robinson and aul Toyne

* Basketball - Dr. James A. Naismith

* Birchbark canoe - Canada's Natives

* Chocolate bar - James K. Ganong

* Cobalt bomb - University of Saskatchewan and Eldorado Mining and Refining

* Cystic fibrosis gene - Lap-Chee Tsui

* Electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn

* Electric wheelchair - George J. Klein

* Electron microscope - The University of Toronto

* Explosives and vapour detector - Dr. Lorne Elias

* Five-pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan

* Football goalpost with single base - Jim Trimble

* Fuller brush - Alfred C. Fuller

* Ginger ale - John J. McLaughlin

* Green garbage bag - Harry Wasylyk

* Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt

* Hydrofoil boat - Casey Baldwin and Alexander Graham Bell

* Ice hockey - Members of the Royal Canadian Rifles

* Imax film format - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr

* Instant food - Dr. Edward Asselbergs

* Insulin - Frederick Banting

* Java - James Gosling

* Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole

* Kayak - Canada's Natives

* Kerosene - Dr. Abraham Gesner

* Lacrosse - Canada's Natives

* Laser sailboat - Bruce Kirby, Ian Bruce, and Hans Fogh

* Light bulb - Henry Woodward (later sold the patent to Thomas Edison)

* McIntosh apple - John McIntosh

* Mobile blood-transfusion service - Norman Bethune

* Newsprint - Charles Fenerty

* Pablum - Doctors T.G.H. Drake, Alan Brown, and Frederick F. Tisdall

* Pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow

* Paint roller - Norman Breakey

* Panoramic camera - John Cannon

* Pictionary - Rob Angel

* Retractable beer case handle - Steve Pasjac

* Robertson Screwdriver - Peter Lymburner Robertson

* Snow blower - Arthur Sicard

* Snow shoes - Canada's Natives

* Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier

* Speed of sound - Dr. George Wong

* Standard time - Sandford Fleming

* Stanley Cup - Lord Stanley of Preston

* Steam foghorn - Robert Foulis

* Stol aircraft - de Havilland Canada

* Superman - Joe Shuster

* Synchronized swimming - The Canadian Royal Lifesaving Society

* Table hockey - Donald Munro

* Telegraph - Frederic Newton Gesborne

* Tipi - Canada's Natives

* Tobaggan - Canada's Natives

* Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney and Scott Abbott

* Variable pitch propeller - Wallace Rupert Turnbull

* Velcro - George de Mestral

* Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings

* Yachtzee - Edwin S. Lowe

* Zipper - Gideon Sundback

 

[hunter001]

Another web site .

http://durtydan.paintballresource.org/www.durtydan.com/ddcc/canaccom.html

 

[Cobster]

Don't forget Java programming language, Plexiglas, Cardiac Pacemaker, Paint Roller, Walkie Talkie and (as evidenced by this thread) everyone's favourite....Trivial Pursuit.

Just thought I'd check in on the thread, which was going great.
Didn't know Java was Canadian programming? wow...
Shit no kidding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling
Nice, people better appreciate the internet and our great Canadian Gosling.
His blog http://blogs.sun.com/jag/

 

[K Douglas]

Clamato - Bloody Caesar
Insulin
Ice Hockey
the Parka - high fashion now just check the runways
and of course Super Dave Osborne.