1. Big deal. We have In-N-Out.
2. Crispy Crunch WAS sold in the USA, but the distributor went bankrupt so what does that tell you?
3. The CFL is propped up by the NFL now so there you go.
4. The game played in 1838 had 14 men on a team, so if that’s baseball you might as well go back to Rounders and say the game’s English.
5. Stolen from the Indians.
6. Stolen from the Europeans.
7. A Canadian, working for Americans in the United States, invented a game with peach baskets, nine men on a side, with passes made by rolling a soccer ball on the floor. An American, Lambert G. Will, added nets, dribbling, and the rest is history.
8. Apple pie goes back to the time of Chaucer.
9. Mr. Rogers is dead so that’s no big deal.
10. Says who?
11. We burned Canada first so there.
12. Shouldn’t brag about having ANY French population.
13. I believe the Canadian provinces were part of the British Empire, in fact there was the Battle of Quebec fought during that conflict. Although that was a victory for the Crown, who lost the war?
14. Never heard of the The Rebellions of 1837 I guess.
15. See number 14.
16. Fleming was Scottish.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company is NOWHERE near the world’s oldest company.
18. Ed Gein could do it faster.
19. So do we.
20. Canada allows cousins to get married, sorry!
Diseased blankets were intentionally given to Indians in Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company to try and kill them all off. No large case of this ever occurred in the US.
If the arrival of the railroads intimidated our Western and Plains Indians they weren't afraid of them for long. Not so in Western Canada. It was estimated that some Western Canadian tribes took more than a decade before they would cross railroad tracks.
Some more Canadian history for them to brag about.
“4. The game played in 1838 had 14 men on a team, so if that’s baseball you might as well go back to Rounders and say the game’s English.”
You might as well, as Baseball is English! :)
It was invented by the English at the end of the 19th century as a gentler alternative to cricket for ladies to play. Jane Austen references it in her 1798 novel ‘Northanger Abbey’ whilst describing her character Catherine Morland:
“It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books.”
;)
Ever had poutine?
9. Mr. Rogers is dead so that’s no big deal.
So is Mr. Dress-Up.
12. Shouldn’t brag about having ANY French population.
Beats Mexicans any day of the week.
In the interest or enjoing a good barroom argument, I gotta bite.
2. So Crisie crunch din’t fly there. Businesses fail all the time.
3. I’ll grant that as the NFL always considered the CFL to be a development league. I still think the CFL rules make for a more interesting game- some of the best moments were due to the fact that a missed field goal is a live ball.
7. Prepared to concede the point, but my understanding of the history was that he invented the game in a high school here in Canada to give the kids an indoor game during the winter.
12. As a French Canadian I do consider it subject to bragging rights. What most people don’t realize is that the Conquest created a unique culture, because the English left us alone and we were cut off from the inflence of France.
14. 1837 was actually pretty interesting- it was a bar fight that secured property rights and led to the birth of a nation. Google “Montgomery’s Tavern”.
16. You are correct that Fleming was Scottish by birth, but his career was made in Canada. Before Standard Time was adopted he built a transconintal railway. What most people (including Canadians) don’t realize is that our cultures are not English/French; they are French and Scottish.
19. Not sure about that one- if you can cite an older company still in business I’ll stand corrected. HBC was started with a Royal Charter signed by Charles II.
20. Busted. FWIW the taboo about cousins is unique to America.