Canadians don’t brag, eh?
So What do we Canadians Have to be Proud of?
- Smarties (not sold in the USA )
- Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp (not sold in the USA )
- The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.
- Baseball is Canadian – 1st game June 4, 1838 – Ingersoll, ON
- Lacrosse is Canadian
- Hockey is Canadian
- Basketball is Canadian
- Apple pie is Canadian
- Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers
- Tim Horton’s beats Dunkin’ Donuts
- 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.
- Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany .
- We have the largest English population that neverEver surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER! (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)
- Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.
- 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.
- A Canadian invented Standard Time.
- The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth’s surface and is still around as the world’s oldest company.
- The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. (That’s more information than I need!)
- We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.
- We don’t marry our kin-folk…
- We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone. Also short wave radios which save countless lives each year.
- We have ALL frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
- A Canadian invented Superman.
- We have coloured money.
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands in with mitts on.
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