Top 150 Canadian Things In Canada

Canada is turning 150 years old. We all LOVE this country. There is no debate about that. Over the past several days we have made a list of the 150 Most Canadian Things In Canada. Here they are, in no particular order.

– Wearing a toque under a hockey helmet
– Naniamo bars
– Wayne Gretzky
– Gord Downie/Tragically Hip
– Helping someone get their car out of a snowbank
– Missing School for a Snow Day
– Tim Hortons
– Rush
– Poutine
– Maple syrup

– Skiing in Jeans
– Anne Murray
– Wearing shorts when there is snow on the ground
– Ceasers
– Milk in a bag
– Canadian Tire Money
– Heritage Minutes
– Michael J Fox
– “Dont Put It In Your Mouth” song
– Yelling ‘Car’ while playing street hockey

– All Dressed Chips
– Block Heaters
– Ketchup Chips
– Terry Fox
– The Robertson Screw
– Hawkins Cheesies
– That time the CFL had two Roughrider teams
– Wearing a touque in the summer
– Timbits
– Bob and Doug McKenzie

– John Candy
– “Eh”
– Saying sorry for things you arent sorry for
– Fred Penner
– The RCMP
– Block heater extension cord wrapped around side mirror
– driving in a convertible (top down) when its +5
– The Loonie & Toonie
– Degrassi
– Beachcombers

– Blue Rodeo
– Kids In The Hall
– Neil Young
– Smarties
– Canadian Bacon
– Shoveling the driveway 4 times in a single day
– The Grey Cup
– Butter Tarts
– Banff and Jasper
– Kraft Dinner

– Canadian Tuxedo
– Molson
– Swiss Chalet Sauce
– Screaming at a ref for a missed offside
– Turning the heat and Air Conditioning on during the same day
– Canoeing
– BTO
– Roll Up The Rim
– Speaking limited French
– The Brier/Scotties

– Pronouncing it ‘Zed’
– keeping the ‘U’ in words like Colour and Honour
– The Hudson Bay Company
– Bryan Adams
– Trailer Park Boys
– This Hour Has 22 Minutes
– Alan Thicke
– Learning how to portage a canoe
– Tom Cochrane
– Thanksgiving in October

– The Metric system
– Feeling bad about how loud scraping the window is at 5am
– Driving the kids to hockey at 6am/playing beer league at 11pm
– The Guess Who
– “Newfie Steak” aka Fried Bologna
– Using ‘the Canadian freezer’ at a house party (keeping beer on the deck)
– Mike Myers
– Keeping the snow tires on 8 months a year
– Proudly bragging that we invented basketball
– Chris Hadfield

– Having your neighbour snowblow your driveway
– OgoPogo
– Making fun of Saskatchewan for calling it a bunnyhug
– Gordon Lightfoot
– Debating whether its called a cabin or a cottage
– Camping on May-Long whether its snowing or not
– Referring to Toronto as the centre of the universe
– Doing a shot of Screech
– Having 2 national sports
– Leonard Cohen

– 2 national languages
– Having a pair of indoor shoes at school
– Vinegar on fries
– Loverboy
– Complaining about how Much Music doenst play much music
– Having an embarrassingly bad mens soccer team
– Barenaked Ladies
– Putting on your hockey equipment at home before going to the arena
– That time a guy drove a Zamboni through a Tim’s drive thru
– Police stopping traffic to help geese/ducks cross a road

– Wheat Kings
– Putting plastic bags in boots to keep feet dry
– The strings attached to mittens
– Free Health Care
– Looking out your window at 11pm and its still light out
– A picture of the queen hanging in a hockey rink
– Every city claiming “Dont like the weather? Wait 15 minutes”
– 12 hours coverage of the NHL trade deadline
– The Golden Goal
– Red Green

– Drinking a slurpee when its -20 outside
– The Canadian Fitness test
– Maple Taffy….that thing where you boil Maple Syrup and pour it on snow
– Calling it a ‘Chesterfield’
– Windshield washer fluid that is good to -45
– The Canadian Tire family that nobody liked
– Everyone knows what Paul Henderson did in 1972
– Talking down to Americans about their weak beer
– We know who won the war of 1812. We know.
– We invented the Walkie-Talkie. You’re welcome, earth.

– Going out sleddin’
– Joe Carter’s home run
– Having the biggest mall in North America…WITH the worlds biggest parking lot
– We don’t waste our time with pennies anymore
– The Confederation Bridge
– Wolverine is Canadian. Bet you didnt know that.
– The town of Mundare has a giant sausage statue
– The Olympics in 1976, 1988 and 2010.
– The worlds longest coastline
– The largest hockey stick in the world is in Duncan BC

– Hawaiian Pizza was actually invented in Canada.
– The two most handsome Ryan’s on earth. Gosling & Reynolds
– Talking about how much nicer the Canadian side of Niagara Falls is
– The Battle of Vimy Ridge
– Pilsner
– Shania Twain
– Drying wet boots & mitts on the heat register
– Kicking the block of ice out of your wheel well
– Talking about how lame the Calgary Stampede is….but going anyway
– The Toonie Bar at a wedding

HAPPY CANADA DAY!
– Bryce