Discussions

1. Smarties, Nestlé's largest production facility for Smarties is in Canada, where Nestle has been manufacturing products since 1918.  
 
 
 
2. Crispy Crunch, and Coffee Cris. They were first marketed in 1938 by Rowntree’s Canadian branch. They are presently marketed by Nestlé Canada.  
The bar is a combination of coffee cream, cookie wafers and milk chocolate coating. It does contain a small amount of coffee, although much of its coffee taste comes from flavouring.  
 
 
 
3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.  
 
 
 
4. Baseball is Canadian – The First game was played on June 4th 1838 at Ingersoll, Ontario.  
 
 
 
5. Lacrosse is Canadian: it was first played as early as the 12th Century A.D.  
 
 
6. Hockey is Canadian. The first organization actually dealing with the administration and development of the sport was the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC), which was organized on the 8th of December 1886.  
 
 
 
7. Basketball is Canadian. The roots of basketball are firmly embedded in Canada. In 1891 the game was invented by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian who hailed from Almonte, Ontario  
 
 
 
8. Apple pie is Canadian  
 
 
 
9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers  
 
 
 
10. Tim Horton’s beats Dunkin' Donuts  
 
 
 
11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back past their White House. Then we burned it, and most of Washington. We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and partied........ Go figure.  
 
 
 
12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.  
 
13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER.  
(We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)  
 
 
 
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar at Portage la Prairie, and lasted a little over an hour.  
 
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary: he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.  
 
 
 
16. A Canadian invented Standard Time. Scottish Canadian, Sir Sandford Fleming in 1878, invented it.  
Sir Sandford Fleming was born in Kirkaldy Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1845 at the age of seventeen.  
Sir Sandford Fleming first worked as a surveyor and later became a railway engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.  
 
 
 
17. The Hudson’s Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.  
 
 
 
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.  
 
 
 
19. We know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo. (Some of us do)  
 
 
 
20. We don't marry our kin-folk (ok, well maybe except for northern Ontario).  
 
 
 
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone. Also short wave radios that save countless lives each year.  
 
 
 
22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.  
 
 
 
23. A Canadian invented Superman. Superman is a comic book superhero, originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and now published by DC Comics  
 
 
 
24. We have coloured money both paper and coin.  
 
 
 
25. Our beer advertisements kick ass. (Incidentally...so does our beer)  
 
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!  
 
 
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.  
 
 
 
OOOoohhhhh..... Canada!!  
 
Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.