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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2013 - 02:46pm PT
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Who are the American candidates for the Honorary Canadian List?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 14, 2013 - 02:48pm PT
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I worked as a wetback up there. Does that qualify me?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 02:51pm PT
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Malemute, the guy has an honest face!
As a Bermingham, I shall hide my own!
Ashes and sack cloth for the rest of the hour, in the corner.
Blunder from down under.
I told ya, I confess it again, that I'm an edumacated American citizen--didn't I?
I'll never trust a Canadian meem agin, is what, too.
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matisse
climber
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Nov 14, 2013 - 04:19pm PT
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at the risk of pointing out the obvious:
We don't have Canadian Bacon in Canada. Just like they don't have french fries in France.
jes saying.
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Nov 14, 2013 - 04:57pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
Who are the American candidates for the Honorary Canadian List?
PM anyone with a Napoleon complex.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
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Is it Goatboy we can see on the little picture in the background?
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Nov 14, 2013 - 05:07pm PT
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No, my Scottish hair lip is thicker than the smugness and cigarette smoke in Montreal.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2013 - 05:11pm PT
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If you're Scottish... no doubt... lol... there's some Scottish Canadians on the list too...
Edited: Dirtbag - Margot's now on the list.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 14, 2013 - 05:14pm PT
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Margot kidder
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Nov 14, 2013 - 06:29pm PT
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Might i also add the one the only, the raddest of the rad, the Prince of Powder, the Sultan of the Slopes, the best skier ever(IMO) Shane McConkey RIP.
Everyone around the world who has ever put on a pair of sticks and screamed their way downhill should know the name. He progressed skiing farther than anyone I've ever heard of and had the most fun while doing it. Definitely a once in a lifetime star of the sport.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 06:32pm PT
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Tami DeKidder.
Ha!
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BBA
climber
OF
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Nov 14, 2013 - 08:15pm PT
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How about Kenneth Harris Francis 'Casey' Jones, artist and archeolgist
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Cliff Chadderton - President of The War Amps and decorated World War 2 veteran.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2013 - 04:30pm PT
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The suggestions of Stewart, Gary, Whitemeat, BBA and Synchronicity are added - that is: Cliff Chadderton, Jon Vickers, Pass The Pitons Pete (the guy in the perplexing dilemma where once he starts rotating...), Kenneth Harris Francis "Casey" Jones and Shane McConkey.
Updated list of famous Canadians:
ACTORS
Dan Akroyd
Pamela Anderson
Adam Beach
John Candy
Michael J. Fox
Chief Dan George
Graham Greene
Lorne Greene
Monty Hall
Rich Little
Howie Mandel
Mike Meyers
Raymond Massey
Leslie Nielsen
Mary Pickford
Gordon Pinsent
Christopher Plummer
Keanu Reeves
William Shatner
Martin Short
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Jennifer Tilly
Alex Trebek
Shannon Tweed
Margot Kidder
ATHLETES
Gordie Howe, hockey
Lori Bowden triathlete
Sarah Burke, freestyle skier
Chandra Crawford, cross country skier
Terry Fox, humanitarian and athlete
Bernie Geoffrion, hockey
Wayne Gretzky, hockey
Alex Harvey, cross country skier
Ferguson Jenkins, baseball
Herman 'Jackrabbit' Johansen cross-country skier
Ben Johnson, sprinter
Devon Kershaw cross country skier
Mario Lemieux, hockey
Mark Messier, hockey
New Canadian Air Force, skiers
Bobby Orr, hockey
Ross Rebagliati, snowboarder
Peter Reid, triathlete
Maurice Richard, hockey
Mike Richards, hockey
Patrick Roy, hockey
Carol Vadnais, hockey
Bobbie Hull, hockey
Jacques Villeneuve, race car driver
Larry Walker, baseball
Hayley Wickenheiser, hockey
Steve Nash, basketball
Danielle Lawrie, softball pitcher
Clara Hughes, speed skating and cycling
Russ Courtenal, hockey
Sideny Crosby, hockey
Steve Stamkos, hockey
Roberto Luongo, hoceky
Jarome Iginla, hockey
Shane McConkey, skier and basejumper
AUTHORS
Margareth Atwood
Pierre Berton
Douglas Coupland
Robertson Davies
William Gibson (usa)
Malcolm Gladwell (uk)
Grey Owl (england)
Irving Layton, poet
Marshall McLuhan
Farley Mowat
Alice Munro
Peter C. Newman (austria)
Al Purdy, poet
Robert W Service (england)
Alice Munroe
John McCrae
Shirley Douglas
BEER ETC
Cutthroat Pale Ale
Hermann's, Spyhopper
La Fin Du Monde
Molson Beer, used to be Canadian
Canadian Club Classic
Wiser's whiskey
CLIMBERS
Jim Baldwin
Jack Turner
Hugh Burton
Steve Sutton
Peter Croft
John Clarke
Sonnie Trotter
Will Stanhope
Barry Blanchard
Will Gadd
Pass The Pitons Pete (the guy in the perplexing dilemma where once he starts rotating...), climber
COMEDIANS
Jim Carrey
Tommy Chong
The Kids In The Hall, comedy group
Bob and Doug McKenzie
Rick Mercer
Matthew Perry (usa)
Seth Rogen
Steve Smith, Red Green
ENTERTAINMENT
James Cameron, film director
David Cronenberg, film director
Cirque de Soleil, circus
Hanson Brothers, hockey film
Wab Kinew, rapper and CBC host
Norman McLaren (scotland), director/film animator
James Randi, magician and sceptic
Bill Reid, artist
Jack Warner, warner bros
The Naked News, TV newscast
Trailer Park Boys, TV series
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ACTIVISTS
Maude Barlow
Roderick Haig-Brown(english), angler, author, conservationist
Rafe Mair, political commentator
Alexandra Morton (usa)
Percy Schmeiser
David Suzuki
Andrew J. Weaver
ICONS
Bluenose clipper
Hudsons Bay Company
Maple Leaf flag
Poutine
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
MUSICIANS
Jann Arden
Barenaked Ladies
Bryan Adams
Paul Anka
Justin Bieber
Chilliwack
Tom Cochrane
Bruce Cockburn
Leonard Cohen
Stompin' Tom Connors
The Band
Cowboy Junkies
Celine Dion
Doug & the Slugs
Raymond Dudley, pianist
Glenn Gould, pianist
Guess Who
Jeff Healey
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Diana Krall
K D Lang
Avril Lavigne
Gordon Lightfoot
Natalie MacMaster
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Joni Mitchell
Alanis Morissette
Anne Murray
Northern Lights
RUSH
Steppenwolf (canadian/american)
Tragically Hip
Shania Twain
Ian and Sylvia Tyson
Neil Young
Joel 'deadmau5' Zimmerman
Sarah Slean
Buffy St. Marie
Jon Vickers, tenor
NOBEL WINNERS
Sidney Altman, Chemistry 1989
Frederick Banting Physiology/Medicine, 1923
Saul Bellow, Literature 1976
Willard Boyle, Physics 2009
Bertram Brockhouse, Physics 1994
William Giauque, Chemistry 1949
Gerhard Herzberg (germany), Chemistry 1971
David Hubel, Physiology/Medicine 1981
Charles Huggins, Physiology/Medicine 1966
Rudolph Marcus, Chemistry 1992
Robert Mundell, Economics 1999
Lester Pearson, Peace 1957
John Polányi (germany), Chemistry 1986
Myron Scholes, Economics 1997
Ralph Steinman, Physiology/Medicine 2011
Michael Smith (uk), Chemistry 1993
Henry Taube, Chemistry 1983
Richard Taylor, Physics 1990
William Vickrey, Economics 1996
Alice Munro, Literature 2013
POLITICIANS
John A. Macdonald (scotland)
Tommy Douglas, father of socialized medicine in Canada
Paul Heleyer
Jack Layton, leader of NDP
Rene Levesque, separatist
Pierre Trudeau, prime minister
Lord Stanley
Mayann E. Francis
Cliff Chadderton
SCIENTISTS ETC
Alexander Graham Bell (scotland), inventor
Norman Bethune, physician
J.C. Fields, mathematician
Sandford Fleming (scotland), standard time
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
William Osler, known as the worlds first modern physician
Steven Pinker, psychologist
UNCLASSIFIED
Alexander Mackenzie (scotland), explorer
Anne of Green Gables, novel
Billy Bishop, WW1 Pilot
Samuel Champlain (france), explorer
Don Cherry, local color
Tim Horton, hockey & restaurant
Peter Jennings, journalist
James Naismith, inventor of basketball
Peter Skene Ogden, explorer
Laura Secord, war heroine
William Stephenson, inspiration for James Bond
Margaret Trudeau
Canadian Navy Auxiliary Geese
Kenneth Harris Francis "Casey" Jones, archeologist
HONORARY CANADIANS
Jonas Salk, science
HEROSTRATICALLY FAMOUS CANADIANS
Rob Ford of Toronto, candidate for being the bastard offspring of Jim Lahey and Randy
Ted Cruz, Canuck Texan who shut down the US of America
Bongy
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Among Nobel Prize winners, add Alice Munro (won the Nobel this year, long overdue).
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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No effin way you get to claim "Roald Amundsen, explorer", but you can count Ted(edit) Cruz twice instead.
The Gjoa ended up in San Francisco for chissake, and he sledded across Alaska to get the news out about what he had accomplished. Granted, we didn't have the brains to appreciate the importance of the Gjoa, but still.
Thank for Joni and Young, by the way. Edit: and my mother in law. Really. She's now gone, but she was a good one, born in Winnipeg then lived in Kelowna.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Hey Marlow - Add yourself to the list of honorary Canadians. Actually, feel free to add your entire nation to the list - Norway should be an inspiration to the rest of the world in the manner by which it treats its citizens.
It's a shame that the f*#kwit that runs Canada at present is such an arsehole.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2013 - 02:09am PT
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Tricouni: Alice Munroe is added
Darwin: Amundsen has been excluded
Stewart: I hope Canadians are solid enough not to be smitten by some of the aliens they have chosen as their leaders.
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