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Canadian Icons
« on: January 27, 2004, 21:15:00 »
What icons/institutions/things do you think most identify Canada?  Is it the Timmie‘s coffee mug (like the comercial suggests)?  Is it our hockey teams?  Canadian beer?  The traditional RCMP uniform?

Which are you proudest to identify with?
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2004, 21:28:00 »
‘72 Henderson goal *nods* take that evil russians!
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2004, 21:52:00 »
The mountie.
Celine Dion
Margaret Atwood
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2004, 01:28:00 »
How about fighting men who can do anything with nothing. And do it well!

Up until about 1995 there was the CAR...

Oh, and maple syrup.
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2004, 14:23:00 »
The maple leaf....beavers (the animal)....the wilderness in general...cold and snow...and inefficient government..
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2004, 14:28:00 »
Don Cherry
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2004, 14:48:00 »
igloo?
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2004, 18:00:00 »
This is definately the winner.

 
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2004, 18:42:00 »
The women...
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2004, 19:31:00 »
Don Cherry     :)
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2004, 19:49:00 »
Quote
Originally posted by McG:
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Which are you proudest to identify with? [/qb]
Our soldiers.
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2004, 01:23:00 »
:cdn:    :cdn:    :cdn:    :cdn:    :cdn:    :cdn:    :cdn:  


what more can i say. The most beautiful flag in the world.
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2004, 02:15:00 »
eh
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2004, 12:41:00 »
right now who am I proud to identify with?

PPCLI, 3RCR, and every member of the CF serving at home or abroad.
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2004, 13:08:00 »
bearded clam,beer bellies&no control over are govt.and what it does with are money.......
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2004, 17:09:00 »
Cpl Thompson, re: both your posts - I couldn‘t have said it better myself, (although I do not have the ability to say that I serving with any regiment at the moment, I will soon enough)
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2004, 17:13:00 »
Don Cherry,our flag "The True North Strong And Free".
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2004, 18:09:00 »
Celine Dion?

Come on you could do better than that. I‘d trade her with any U‘all for a roll of used hockey tape.

Billy Bishop
Diefenbaker
Coffe crisp
chips with more than 2-3 flavours
Colour
Honour
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caribou
Newfies
laughing smugly into our sleeves at americans appearing on "Talking with Americans"
Rick Mercer
Socialized medicare
BBQ‘ing in January wearing mukluks and a tuque
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2004, 19:09:00 »
our beer is 5%
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2004, 03:26:00 »
Flying across the Georgia Straight and seeing the Island, after having been abroad for a long time. This is my home and arriving back is the best feeling in the world.

Watching Rick Mercer mess w/ Yanks is fun also  :D
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2004, 08:28:00 »
How about this one............

Marching with the "Old Comrades" on a rainy and windy November 11th, the whole regiment swinging in step, up University Avenue to the cenotaph, knowing that they are "sizing up the youngsters" to see if that are continuing the traditons that have been established in the past 103 years of service?

Or sitting in on a "smoker" at the annual ranges shoot, watching the guys from WW2, who are watching themselves on the screen, as the NFB‘s 16 part newsreel series, "Canada At War" is being shown, and they point out themselves, on the screen, in Italy, France, or Holland? Listening to them tell stories about the things they did to stay alive, and those who "didn‘t make it back home".

That is "Canadian History " right from the men who lived it.
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2004, 15:14:00 »
Poutine!  :)
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #22 on: February 01, 2004, 17:02:00 »
Flying into Ottawa at night for my leave from Bosnia a few weeks ago...I saw something that made me actually have a lump in my throat.

Just to set this up properly I was in theater at that time for 2.5 close to 3 months and was getting a bit used to the local scenery.

-Bombed out houses, burned out cars from years past. Buildings that still have the bullet holes in them, and people STILL live in them.

-Stood at the site where a good friend of mine died in 98. Laid a wreath on his monument for all the guys who knew him for Rememberance Day.

-Drove past the same monument day in and day out for weeks on end...even to go to the airport for my flight home.

Flying into Ottawa I remenised a bit...looking out the window as we made our approach...I saw something....

The Parliment buildings and the Peace Tower with our flag lit up for the world to see...

That is my icon of what Canada is.

Regards
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2004, 20:23:00 »
Come on.  No one has mentioned Pierre Berton,
How about Neil, Geddy & Alex thats right Rush.
or for that matter Triumph, Lighthouse, 5 Man Electrical Band, Ian Thomas, Copperpenny, Some great Canadian Bands.  MY GOD I‘M OLD!!!!!!
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Re: Canadian Icons
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2004, 23:39:00 »
Diefenbaker??  He was the begining of the military budget cuts!
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