My 150 Greatest (and Favourite) Things about Canada (no particular ranking, other than alphabetically)....
1 1967 (Canada's 100th, Leafs win the Stanley Cup, Expo....)
2 "Eh"
3 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
4 Affordable college and university education (ok, settle down Quebec)
5 Alexander Graham Bell (b. Scotland)
6 Algonquin park
7 All Four seasons
8 Almost every Conn Smythe trophy winner (~95% are Canadian)
9 An anthem that has two languages and are entirely two different songs
10 April Wine
11 Arctic Char
12 Backs of cereal boxes in two languages
13 Banff Naitonal Park
14 Bay of Fundy
15 Beaver tails (yes the pastry)
16 Beavers
17 Bilingualism/le Bilingualisme
18 Blackberry
19 Bob and Doug McKenzie
20 Bruce Trail
21 Butter tarts!
22 Canada Day in Ottawa (or anywhere!)
23 Canada Goose (the animal and the parka)
24 Canada-Russia ‘72 Summit Series
25 Canadian Club rye whiskey
26 Canadian Pacific Railway and the "Last Spike"
27 Canadian spelling
28 CANDU reactor technology
29 Canoes and kayaks (preferably inflatable)
30 Carnaval de Quebec (Quebec)
31 CFL
32 Chateau Frontenac (Quebec)
33 Cirque de Soleil
34 CN Tower
35 Cod tongues
36 Colbie Smulders (hubba hubba)
37 Concept of Standardized Time zones (thanks Sir Sanford Flemming – the travel industry loves you when they push their jet lag and 7 day minimum trips)
38 Confederation Bridge
39 Cottage country
40 Cross Country Skiing
41 Curling
42 Cycling through Eastern Townships
43 Darryl Sittler (hey I met him!)
44 Don Cherry
45 Downhill skiing (Whistler, Mt. Tremblant, Big White, Cypress, Grouse Mountain, Blue Mountain)
46 Drinking a Ceasar
47 East coast lobster dinner…in a church basement in PEI
48 Every province and territory
49 Five dollar note with the kids playing hockey on the back
50 Geddy Lee
51 George street festival (St. John’s)
52 Giant nickel in Sudbury
53 Gordon Korman (author)
54 Gordon Lightfoot
55 Green Saskatchewan Roughrider fans
56 Grey Cup week….in any Canadian city
57 Hockey
58 Hockey Hall of Fame
59 Hockey Night in Canada
60 Hotel de Glace (Quebec)
61 Hudson's Bay Company (the world's oldest incorporated company)
62 Incredible camping!
63 incredible hiking! (Joffre Lakes, Elphin Lakes, Whistler)
64 Insulin (Banting and Best)
65 Jacques Cartier (honorary Canadian)
66 Kitsilano Beach
67 Klondike Gold Rush
68 La Citadelle de Quebec
69 La Francophonie
70 Lacrosse
71 Lake Louise
72 Long and McQuade
73 Manon Rheaume
74 Maple Syrup
75 Maple syrup festival (Elmira)
76 Marcia McMillan (hubba hubba)
77 Member of the Commonwealth and yes, we have a Queen for that
78 Montreal “establishments”
79 Montreal smoked meat
80 Moosehead beer (the last of the Canadian independents)
81 Mountain Equipment Co-Op
82 Mr. Dee
83 Newfoundland accent
84 Niagara falls
85 Northern lights
86 Okanagan wine (LCBO please wake up!)
87 Our banks (great dividend payers)
88 Outdoor skating…on a pond
89 Pacific and Atlalntic Salmon
90 Parliament Hill (although I don't always agree with what goes on there or who is running it)
91 PEI Potatoes
92 Pierre Berton's books
93 Pizza Pizza
94 Plentiful and cheap electricity (until Wynn f$%&ed it all up)
95 Polar Bear viewing in Manitoba
96 Portaging from lake to lake (in Algonquin)
97 Poutine
98 Rideau Canal
99 Roch Carrier
100 Rush
101 Saguenay River Fjord (Quebec)
102 Saint Joseph’s Oratory (Montreal)
103 Samuel de Champlain
104 Santa in the North Pole = Canadian
105 Screeched in (Nfld)
106 Shinny hockey
107 Signal hill, St. John's
108 Silver Dart
109 Sir Alexander Mackenzie
110 Sir Julian Byng (although British), Lady Byng (as in the trophy) and more importantly "Byng's Boys" whom he lead at the battle of Vimy Ridge
111 Skating on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa
112 Snow shoeing
113 Some really really really Great Lakes
114 Sortilege maple whiskey, Pinnacle Ice Cider, Coureurs du Bois maple Irish Cream, Caribou or any booze from Quebec
115 St. Hubert
116 Stanley Cup
117 Stompin' Tom Connors
118 Street hockey
119 Sunsets in Whitehorse
120 Swimming in a lake (cold or not)
121 Swiss Chalet
122 Tecumseh
123 Terry Fox
124 Thanksgiving (and although the Americans may not like to hear it, Sir Martin Frobisher may have held the first in 1578 in Nfld.)
125 The ability to one day be a “Snowbird”
126 The Avro Arrow
127 The Blue nose
128 The Calgary Stampede
129 The Canadian Flag
130 The Group of Seven
131 The names of our change
132 The Rocky Mountains
133 The Tragically Hip
134 The Trailer Park Boys
135 The Trews
136 Tim Horton and the franchises with his name on them (there is only one Tim Horton, but for some reason it is pluralized)
137 Time zones invented by Sir Sanford Flemming
138 Toques and the word “Toque” (I just love saying it)
139 Toronto Argonauts - North America's OLDEST professional sports team
140 Toronto patios (well, anywhere really)
141 Tourtiere
142 Trans Canada Highway (amazing road trips and a lot of nothing)
143 Uranium (yes I said it, we are good at mining it and using it properly)
144 VIA Business class between Toronto and Montreal
145 Vimy ridge
146 Wayne Gretzky (I met him!)
147 We have a Queen (like it or not!)
148 Wheat fields of Saskatchewan
149 Whistler
150 White water rafting near Ottawa (Forrester's Falls)
2 "Eh"
3 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
4 Affordable college and university education (ok, settle down Quebec)
5 Alexander Graham Bell (b. Scotland)
6 Algonquin park
7 All Four seasons
8 Almost every Conn Smythe trophy winner (~95% are Canadian)
9 An anthem that has two languages and are entirely two different songs
10 April Wine
11 Arctic Char
12 Backs of cereal boxes in two languages
13 Banff Naitonal Park
14 Bay of Fundy
15 Beaver tails (yes the pastry)
16 Beavers
17 Bilingualism/le Bilingualisme
18 Blackberry
19 Bob and Doug McKenzie
20 Bruce Trail
21 Butter tarts!
22 Canada Day in Ottawa (or anywhere!)
23 Canada Goose (the animal and the parka)
24 Canada-Russia ‘72 Summit Series
25 Canadian Club rye whiskey
26 Canadian Pacific Railway and the "Last Spike"
27 Canadian spelling
28 CANDU reactor technology
29 Canoes and kayaks (preferably inflatable)
30 Carnaval de Quebec (Quebec)
31 CFL
32 Chateau Frontenac (Quebec)
33 Cirque de Soleil
34 CN Tower
35 Cod tongues
36 Colbie Smulders (hubba hubba)
37 Concept of Standardized Time zones (thanks Sir Sanford Flemming – the travel industry loves you when they push their jet lag and 7 day minimum trips)
38 Confederation Bridge
39 Cottage country
40 Cross Country Skiing
41 Curling
42 Cycling through Eastern Townships
43 Darryl Sittler (hey I met him!)
44 Don Cherry
45 Downhill skiing (Whistler, Mt. Tremblant, Big White, Cypress, Grouse Mountain, Blue Mountain)
46 Drinking a Ceasar
47 East coast lobster dinner…in a church basement in PEI
48 Every province and territory
49 Five dollar note with the kids playing hockey on the back
50 Geddy Lee
51 George street festival (St. John’s)
52 Giant nickel in Sudbury
53 Gordon Korman (author)
54 Gordon Lightfoot
55 Green Saskatchewan Roughrider fans
56 Grey Cup week….in any Canadian city
57 Hockey
58 Hockey Hall of Fame
59 Hockey Night in Canada
60 Hotel de Glace (Quebec)
61 Hudson's Bay Company (the world's oldest incorporated company)
62 Incredible camping!
63 incredible hiking! (Joffre Lakes, Elphin Lakes, Whistler)
64 Insulin (Banting and Best)
65 Jacques Cartier (honorary Canadian)
66 Kitsilano Beach
67 Klondike Gold Rush
68 La Citadelle de Quebec
69 La Francophonie
70 Lacrosse
71 Lake Louise
72 Long and McQuade
73 Manon Rheaume
74 Maple Syrup
75 Maple syrup festival (Elmira)
76 Marcia McMillan (hubba hubba)
77 Member of the Commonwealth and yes, we have a Queen for that
78 Montreal “establishments”
79 Montreal smoked meat
80 Moosehead beer (the last of the Canadian independents)
81 Mountain Equipment Co-Op
82 Mr. Dee
83 Newfoundland accent
84 Niagara falls
85 Northern lights
86 Okanagan wine (LCBO please wake up!)
87 Our banks (great dividend payers)
88 Outdoor skating…on a pond
89 Pacific and Atlalntic Salmon
90 Parliament Hill (although I don't always agree with what goes on there or who is running it)
91 PEI Potatoes
92 Pierre Berton's books
93 Pizza Pizza
94 Plentiful and cheap electricity (until Wynn f$%&ed it all up)
95 Polar Bear viewing in Manitoba
96 Portaging from lake to lake (in Algonquin)
97 Poutine
98 Rideau Canal
99 Roch Carrier
100 Rush
101 Saguenay River Fjord (Quebec)
102 Saint Joseph’s Oratory (Montreal)
103 Samuel de Champlain
104 Santa in the North Pole = Canadian
105 Screeched in (Nfld)
106 Shinny hockey
107 Signal hill, St. John's
108 Silver Dart
109 Sir Alexander Mackenzie
110 Sir Julian Byng (although British), Lady Byng (as in the trophy) and more importantly "Byng's Boys" whom he lead at the battle of Vimy Ridge
111 Skating on the Rideau Canal, Ottawa
112 Snow shoeing
113 Some really really really Great Lakes
114 Sortilege maple whiskey, Pinnacle Ice Cider, Coureurs du Bois maple Irish Cream, Caribou or any booze from Quebec
115 St. Hubert
116 Stanley Cup
117 Stompin' Tom Connors
118 Street hockey
119 Sunsets in Whitehorse
120 Swimming in a lake (cold or not)
121 Swiss Chalet
122 Tecumseh
123 Terry Fox
124 Thanksgiving (and although the Americans may not like to hear it, Sir Martin Frobisher may have held the first in 1578 in Nfld.)
125 The ability to one day be a “Snowbird”
126 The Avro Arrow
127 The Blue nose
128 The Calgary Stampede
129 The Canadian Flag
130 The Group of Seven
131 The names of our change
132 The Rocky Mountains
133 The Tragically Hip
134 The Trailer Park Boys
135 The Trews
136 Tim Horton and the franchises with his name on them (there is only one Tim Horton, but for some reason it is pluralized)
137 Time zones invented by Sir Sanford Flemming
138 Toques and the word “Toque” (I just love saying it)
139 Toronto Argonauts - North America's OLDEST professional sports team
140 Toronto patios (well, anywhere really)
141 Tourtiere
142 Trans Canada Highway (amazing road trips and a lot of nothing)
143 Uranium (yes I said it, we are good at mining it and using it properly)
144 VIA Business class between Toronto and Montreal
145 Vimy ridge
146 Wayne Gretzky (I met him!)
147 We have a Queen (like it or not!)
148 Wheat fields of Saskatchewan
149 Whistler
150 White water rafting near Ottawa (Forrester's Falls)
....and a whole bunch of others I left out.
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