How much do you know?
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my cousin lives in canada ..... he emigrated there in 1981 with his wife and 2 kids. Theyre in Ontario somewhere. Yes i do know its a big place.
I know there's a place called Moosejaw because some distant relative emmigrated there before I was born. I know that Calgary, Alberta has a 'Stampede'. I know that Quebec is French. I know that Canada has the biggest Island within a lake which has its own lake within the island which also has an island in that lake. I know that moose are very big and have strangely flat antlers. I know that Canada has two land borders and both are with the USA.................. I may think of more.
And the island in the lake is Manitoulin Island ... absolutely great place to visit, a real gem
Bunch of sodding racists , used to go up to Vancouver for long Holiday weekends , ($80 round trip air fare to Seattle and a two hour drive north ) . The last two times I was up there had my rental car vandalized/broke into , each time I filed a report with the local police for a case number for the insurance, I was told it was my own fault , shouldn't have been driving a car with US registration plates , otherwise a nice enough place 
lots of sleazy memories of the old Dufferin Hotel , alas no longer with us , think the public health dept. closed it down
lots of sleazy memories of the old Dufferin Hotel , alas no longer with us , think the public health dept. closed it down
Bunch of sodding racists , used to go up to Vancouver for long Holiday weekends , ($80 round trip air fare to Seattle and a two hour drive north ) . The last two times I was up there had my rental car vandalized/broke into , each time I filed a report with the local police for a case number for the insurance, I was told it was my own fault , shouldn't have been driving a car with US registration plates , otherwise a nice enough place
lots of sleazy memories of the old Dufferin Hotel , alas no longer with us , think the public health dept. closed it down
Know what you mean about the Dufferin .... I used to live on Manitoba st. ... and you must know that the one thing that unites Canada is our dislilke of Americans
... otherwise this is a nice enough place
Eric , upon reflection I owe you an apology for my earlier post about Canadians being racists towards Americans , looking back I can remember from a presonal point what your guys/gals did in late 79 during the hostage situation in Tehran , and I'm sure lots of Americans if they knew more about the events at the time would also acknowledge the debt they owe to Canada , (anyway thats a story for the grandkids ... )
Anyway any county that can produce both Joni Mitchell and Buffy Sainte-Marie must have something going for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00&feature=related
)Anyway any county that can produce both Joni Mitchell and Buffy Sainte-Marie must have something going for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00&feature=related
a couple of more Canadian cultural productions worthy of mention ....two films to be watched back to back while sharing a bottle of Pernod/Richard/Pastis , " the Decline of the American Empire" and "the Barbarian Invasions " , have to say the first time I saw both movies were on Air France trans Atlantic flights but both well worth the rental , and a great introduction to the movies is something by Lenoard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFQg7P5YKw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFQg7P5YKw&feature=related
I stand corrected. I typed it as two words to start with but it didn't look right so I changed it.
And those Naked Gun movies ... what a blast ... and his brother was a Member of Parliament ... and I do believe he was the ship's captain in the first Posiedon Adventure movie .... altho' it wasn't much of a role after he drowned
It would have inhibited his chances of a cameo role in the Poseidon Adventures II that's for sure.
Congratulations ... you know lots ...I know there's a place called Moosejaw because some distant relative emmigrated there before I was born. I know that Calgary, Alberta has a 'Stampede'. I know that Quebec is French. I know that Canada has the biggest Island within a lake which has its own lake within the island which also has an island in that lake. I know that moose are very big and have strangely flat antlers. I know that Canada has two land borders and both are with the USA.................. I may think of more.
Eric , upon reflection I owe you an apology for my earlier post about Canadians being racists towards Americans , looking back I can remember from a presonal point what your guys/gals did in late 79 during the hostage situation in Tehran , and I'm sure lots of Americans if they knew more about the events at the time would also acknowledge the debt they owe to Canada , (anyway thats a story for the grandkids ...
Anyway any county that can produce both Joni Mitchell and Buffy Sainte-Marie must have something going for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00&feature=related
And don't forget 9-11 ... and the thousands of stranded American travellers who ended up at Canadian airports and the many Canadian families who took them into the homes ... so, when the chips are down, we're not all that bad