shitidiot Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 whos your favorit canadain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyB Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Neil Young came in 14th place! The second highest musician on the list, next to Stompin' Tom Connors coming in at 13th place. Come on are you serious? Neil Young came in second to Stompin' "F#%king" Tom Connors, that's insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Maybe it's because Neil hasn't lived here since the 60s / 70s, and Stompin' Tom is still playing at the Horseshoe... I dunno.As far as musicians go, Neil is leaps and bounds ahead of Tom, but as far as Canadian goes, there's no contest; Stompin' Tom has it locked down.AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 The Top 10 list is now posted:http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/I'm told the top 50 will be up soon.- M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 two people on that list are from browntown! that's because we are all awesome in browntown! hahahahaha (yeah right) but my favourite canadian is margaret atwood. she is one cool, twisted, smart, vegetarian environmentalist author! she's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elemeno Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 [color:"purple"]My favorite Canadian of all time has to be Celine Dion. She is such an inspiration. ***Shutter*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 who are the 2 browntowners on the list? I only see Gretzky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Browntowners like to believe that Alexander Graham Bell is from there, even though he's really from Scotland (and didn't he actually invent the telephone in the U.S.?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Fernand Lachance Click here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 If they'd used Celine's real image she probably wouldn't have received a vote: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bald guy in a blanket Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I just went through the list at the CBC.Does anyone even come close to Terry Fox?Read his history on that page.Can anyone be "greater" than that?Don Cherry?He's a good guy but Fox is a fu©kin superhero by comparison.Just a thought...Jef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalacePrincess Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 my favourite (half)canadian: i'm also really proud of all the comedians canada has given the world, and it's an honour to share a nationality with wayne gretzky, karen kain, terry fox, neil young, all the greats! oh, and my mom, too. the everyday normal people here are my favourites too... i like how canada is known as a laid back and happy place full of polite (beer drinkin' & pot smokin') hoseheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 On the creators of insulin: "In a selfless move, the quartet decided not to seek a patent for their life-saving serum, a move that surely cost them a fortune. Instead, they sold the rights to their formulation to U of T for $1 as a means of ensuring that insulin could be affordably manufactured for years to come." Wow. If only the rest of them did the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 alexander graham bell had a house in brantford and one in new england. he was born in scotland but moved to canada early in life. he worked on the phone in both of his houses but the first call was made from boston massachusetts. his house in brantford is at the top of my favourite hiking trail by the river. nothing beats doing mushrooms in tutela heights with the ghosts of the inventor of the telephone and pauline johnson, a great native poet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Apparently he beat another phone inventor to the patent office by two hours. Seems like everybody was working on the telephone back then. Word is his competitors phone was much more like ours is today than Bell's was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 "Does anyone even come close to Terry Fox?" No And its a fu©king crying shame that Don Cherry is on the top 10 list. Anyone that voted for him should be embarrased beyond belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Terry Fox should be #1. No one comes close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Neil Young came in 14th place! The second highest musician on the list, next to Stompin' Tom Connors coming in at 13th place. Come on are you serious? Neil Young came in second to Stompin' "F#%king" Tom Connors, that's insane! Tom is a patriot. Neil doesn't believe in borders. He's said so on many occassions. He chooses to live in the States and raises millions of charity dollars for American causes every year. He's more American than Canadian. The same can't be said for Stompin' Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Large Marge Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 He's no red-nosed Johnny-A, but he did get us through WW2, introduced old-age pensions, (un)employment insurance, commissioned the Alaska Highway an appointed Canada's first female senator... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Regardless of what you think of Don Cherry's induction, it's still great to see two Kingston boys in the Top 10. Not bad for a small city eh Canada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I feel ill. Don Cherry makes the list before Louis Real?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!??!?!?!!??!!?! Honestly, what the fu©k is wrong with this picture? What the fu©k has DON fu©king CHERRY ever done except bitch about sports and tell other people how to behave???? I'm ashamed of Don Cherry. No wonder Americans think we're hosers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Although my nomination was for Terry Fox, I think Banting, Douglas, Trudeau all certainly deserve consideration. Dr. Banting and his team alleviated the suffering of millions the world over with the discovery of insulin - remember that a disease we think of today as largely a nuisance for most people who have it was a life-threatening disease for many. Terry Fox was as likely to have lost his leg to diabetes as cancer a generation or two earlier. Tommy Douglas spearheaded arguably the single most distinctive aspect of living in Canada (at least as opposed to living in the US) in universal Medicare. And Trudeau, whatever you think of his politics, was arguably our first and perhaps only truly recognizable "world" leader (many folks around the world STILL think he's the PM!) and brought home the Constitution. I love Terry Fox, he was my hero as a kid and still is and I will probably still vote for him, but those three I think did more in the long run to change the world as we know it, at least in this country. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how things play out with this. - M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitidiot Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 i thought there sould have been more women. like Agnes Macphail Margaret Laurence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitidiot Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 what about Robertson Davies "I know flattery when I hear it; but I do not often hear it" or Robert Service in public school when ever i got in trouble are vice principle would make us write out the cremation of Sam McGee. i wrote out that poem 100 time before high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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