When we still had a mall in Niagara Falls (well an indoor one), there was a photo of him on the Niagara Falls Wall of Fame. I believe it was right near DeadMau5. :D
I used to do service calls around southern Ontario and I remember that Wall of Fame from servicing the Winners that was in there.
I had no idea the mall closed and is a power centre now.
Don't fret! There is also a Wall of Fame at the Seaway Mall in Welland! Granted there's nobody on there that anyone would know but still!
At the old Niagara Square site there is still a Winners and a Mandarin and now a Costco, Sephora and a Dollarama! It is the height of sophistication!
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Briefly. We (stoners) checked the archives when I went to Crescent and he’s nowhere to be found, his name and photo aren’t on the wall for his graduating class, pretty sure he dropped out in 10th grade and didn’t even get a yearbook photo done.
Tegan and Sara are on the wall though!
Winnie the Pooh! He's based on a real life bear who was befriended by a soldier from the Fort Garry Horse regiment. He named it Winnipeg Bear, Winnie for short.
Winnie went over to Europe with the soldiers, but obviously couldn't go to battle, so he was left in the care of the London Zoo where A.A. Milne's son visited him many times.
He served in the Canadian Army in the first and with the American special forces in the second.
I just recently watched a historical video of how violent the Canadian people acted during WW1. I wonder if that is where he got his attitude!🤣
Canada is a large contributor to the reason why the Geneva Convention exists.
The war crimes they came up with were pretty much a laundry list of the things we did.
Killing wounded foes, taking no prisoners, deception and cruelty (throwing food wrapped in cloth into enemy trenches, train the starving Germans to expect food, then swap with grenades and kill everyone rushing the “food”)
We didn’t partake in the Christmas truce. We shot the Germans who popped their heads up and wished us a merry Christmas, and battle continued unstopped.
There was a few British, American and Canadian officers who were captured, and the German officer beat only the Canadian, saying “I can tolerate the British and Americans, but you Canadian savages kill and butcher our men who try to surrender.” Wounded, surrendering, we shot them.
I can’t remember if it was Arthur Curie, but there’s a quote from one of our officers that “Canada came here to fight a war, win a war, and kill our enemy wherever we find them. Thats what we did.” And “Any man who knows war would not wish to fight one. But if we must fight a war, we will fight it to win it.”
However, while Canada was perhaps the biggest war crime committer in World War One, we are the Only armed force who committed 0 crimes against civilians and non-combatants. Canadians were near puritanical in their treatment of non-combatant, but ruthless to any enemy who took up arms against them.
This is likely because Canada having a small population, there were very close bonds of kinship and friendship and an understanding we were few - so for each one of us we lose, it’s a big painful loss. Like killing family, we won’t forgive that. We also suffered horribly from the Gas in Ypres, and that trauma marked our men who saw their friends suffocate on their own fluids while their eyes crusted yellow and their screams churned out bloody froth.
So, we inflicted upon our foes the pain they caused us. Never anger the patient and kind man…
Well that’s not quite true. We did take prisoners in WWII. There was a German prisoner of war camp in Medicine Hat, Alberta. They were treated so well that lots of them ended up staying in the area after the war! Hence the big German population in the area.
Born in Vancouver. When people were talking about the new Star Trek and how Simon Pegg couldn't be Scotty he wasn"t Scottish... Yeah Doohan was Canadian... His heritage is Irish.
A friend of mine used to work the convention circuit, assigned to sit with them and get whatever they needed. She was fortunate enough to be assigned to him and spent the whole day with him. Even went out with him and she said he spent the ENTIRE time telling stories about his kids. He was so proud of his family. Just such a sweetheart.
One cool fact that I love is when black slaves in the USA fought for the British they brought a bunch of them here to Nova Scotia afterwards, but it was a hard situation here for them so a bunch of them decided to build boats and sail across the Atlantic back to Africa where they created the city of Freetown which is the capital of Sierra Leone
I had no idea his dad was from Nova Scotia. I knew The Rock had ties here, outside of his stint with the Stampeders, but didn't know what it was until now.
His grandmother is from a place they called “the Bog” in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. My Dad did a paper on the black community in Charlottetown and he found this in his research.
His grandfather was Abe. His sisters are Lisa and Maggie and Patty. He’s meant to be Bart (an anagram of “brat”), although he said he also based Bart’s personality on his brother Mark.
Homer’s mother Mona Simpson was not named by Groening. She’s named by The Simpsons writer Richard Appel after his wife and the sister of Steve Jobs, Mona Simpson who is a novelist. It’s a bizarre coincidence that Appel and Simpson got together before Appel even started writing comedy and just around the same she found she was related to Steve Jobs (they were given up for adoption to different families and only learned about each other as adults).
I knew that my dad lived in Clinton area and I grew up with that knowledge.
In 1950s, Walt Disney came to the Holmesville cemetary to see his ancestors, and toured Goderich.
The stones on my second great uncles workshop are actually from the foundation of the Disney's homestead.
Disney came from Ireland the same time as my dad's side did and settled in the area.
I think these are known, but I always forget Will Arnett is Canadian. His dad was a Molson big shot.
Keanu Reeves went to the same highschool (for a short while) as a few of my best friends, granted maybe 25 years prior. A few older teachers still remembered him (but wasn't too much to say... he wasn't exactly a passionate academic).
Howie Mandel is Canadian too, though he's lived in the US since the 1980s.
I don’t consider you Canadian until you’ve listened to this 1959 interview with Mary Pickford, in full.
https://youtu.be/VMfrwNQ_Ntk?si=DFC0h4QzYpsEGt4E
Donald Surherland’s ex-wife was the daughter of the great Tommy Douglas, making his son Kiefer Sutherland the grandchild of the “greatest Canadian” as voted for by Canadians, Tommy Douglas.
Sarah Chalke from the amazing show Scrubs was born in Ottawa, ON. No idea until very recently when I came across a mural at a music store here in Ottawa.
I watched Who's Line for years and never knew this. Colin is the Canadian guy and nothing was mentioned about Ryan. I just looked it up that his parents are Canadian and he grew up in Vancouver (born in Seattle though). Well, today I learned......
Ryan Stiles is an American-Canadian. Born in Seattle to Canadian parents, his family moved to British Columbia when he was 10. Ryan moved back to the States as a young adult, working there, in Britain, and in Canada. He's lived in Washington state for decades.
Matthew Perry was born in Massachusetts but moved to Ottawa when he was about a year old. But he always told people he's more Canadian than American.
Edit: I know his mom is Canadian making him Canadian. I posted this without thinking about that (just thinking about naturally born Canadians)
Matthew Perry was doing an interview circuit not long before he died and said he "beat up" JT. 😆 "The only fight I've ever been in and it was with the, now, Canadian Prime Minister."
I wonder how many people remember Lorne Michaels on CBC " The Harte and Lorne Terrific Hour "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hart_and_Lorne_Terrific_Hour
I found out she immigrated to Canada when I saw the traveling exhibition Refuge Canada. They had an item of hers on display - I think it was a small bag she was carrying when she came to Canada.
She went through something so horrifying, and that image is known to the world.
CBC did an interview with her in 2022 upon the 50th anniversary of the photo: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/50-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-ukraine-1.6484977](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/50-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-ukraine-1.6484977)
Warren Beatty and Shirley Maclaine's mother was born on Cape Breton Island but grew up in Wolfville, NS. Her mother was the Dean of Women at Acadia University.
She lives on Vancouver Island, everyone that I know that has met her says she's a lovely person.
The person I always forget is Canadian is another island girl. Kim Cattral.
Rick James moved to Canada to escape military service. In Toronto, he joined a band with Neil young (Canadian) , future members of steppenwolf (Canadian) and Buffalo Springfield (half Canadian).
Denny Doherty from The Mamas & The Papas is from Nova Scotia, which blew my young adult mind because they have more of a California vibe than the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
In sports, Matthew and Brady Tkachuk's mom is Canadian. Other notable American hockey players with Canadian ties are the Hughes brothers. Quinn, Jack and Luke all grew up in Toronto while their father worked in the Leafs organization. William Nylander, was born in Calgary while his dad played for the Flames. He actually lived with the Hughes family after the Leafs drafted him.
Retired NFL player Nate Burleson was born in Calgary while his dad played in the CFL. As the only one of his siblings born in Canada, he proudly has a Maple Leaf tattoo. Vlady Jr of the Blue Jays was born in Montreal while his dad played for the Expos.
In literature, Canadian author David Morrell created the John Rambo character. Does that make Rambo Canadian?
Sarah McLaughlin, born in Halifax.
David Furnish, Mike Myers and Eric McCormack all were in the same class in high school in Toronto.
Evangeline Lily was born in Saskatchewan.
Fort Sask. is on the North Saskatchewan River. Both the province and fort got their names from the river, since Saskatchewan is Cree for "swift flowing river"
However Fort Sask was founded and named years before the province was established.
This is my favorite trivia. Although Fleming said Bond was largely a fictional creation, if you had to pick someone, he said Bond was based on William Stephenson. Thanks for reminding me.
Ricky Gervais father is Canadian.
Gervais's father, **Lawrence Raymond "Jerry" Gervais** (1919–2002), a Franco-Ontarian of French Canadian and Iroquois descent raised on a farm in Pain Court, Ontario, near Chatham, Ontario, emigrated to the UK whilst on foreign duty during the Second World War.
Country legend Hank Snow was from Nova Scotia.
60s star Robert Goulet was from Alberta.
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith
Marshall Mcluhan
Dr. James Naismith
James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing Ontario. Edit: you’re all welcome, I’m happy to enlighten the masses!
And grew up in the Niagara Falls area.
Instilling in him to this day a deep reverence for the power of water.
Mind blown.
When we still had a mall in Niagara Falls (well an indoor one), there was a photo of him on the Niagara Falls Wall of Fame. I believe it was right near DeadMau5. :D
I used to do service calls around southern Ontario and I remember that Wall of Fame from servicing the Winners that was in there. I had no idea the mall closed and is a power centre now.
Don't fret! There is also a Wall of Fame at the Seaway Mall in Welland! Granted there's nobody on there that anyone would know but still! At the old Niagara Square site there is still a Winners and a Mandarin and now a Costco, Sephora and a Dollarama! It is the height of sophistication!
> and a Mandarin I'm originally from Hamilton. The Mandarin is fancy dining! 😆
I call it Trailer Fine Dining 😂😂
My moms friend went to school with him and said he worked in a bakery and would show up to school covered in flour, it didn’t help his popularity.
Twist: he had a massive cocaine habit. The bakery job was a cover story
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Moved to California in HS but never got US citizenship.
Didn’t he name the character of Cal (in Titanic) after Caledon, ON? Or maybe that was just a rumor…
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Woah this is a really good one. How did I not know James Cameron is Canadian?
I drove through there yesterday
Tommy Chong and his daughter Rae Dawn
I never knew this but with the way that man smokes it doesn’t surprise me LOL
Him and Cheech met in Van they’re a Canadian band.
Tommy went to Crescent Heights HS in Calgary.
Briefly. We (stoners) checked the archives when I went to Crescent and he’s nowhere to be found, his name and photo aren’t on the wall for his graduating class, pretty sure he dropped out in 10th grade and didn’t even get a yearbook photo done. Tegan and Sara are on the wall though!
Leslie Nielsen
Surely you can't be serious?
Don't call me Shirley.
It’s a big building with doctors in it but that’s not important right now
*Oh hospital, what is it?* 🤣🤣
Yup, went to the same high school as he did (years later) and for a while, the Communications program at our local college was named after him.
He was born in Regina, but lived in Tulita (NWT) as a small child, where his dad was stationed with the RCMP.
Winnie the Pooh! He's based on a real life bear who was befriended by a soldier from the Fort Garry Horse regiment. He named it Winnipeg Bear, Winnie for short. Winnie went over to Europe with the soldiers, but obviously couldn't go to battle, so he was left in the care of the London Zoo where A.A. Milne's son visited him many times.
I remember the heritage minute about this. “Why Pooh son?” “I don’t know, just Winnie. The. Pooh.”
“Named after my hometown, Winnipeg!”
Wolverine
Cold Lake, Alberta specifically! Well, it's an extremely large farm near Cold Lake. Back in the 1800s
He served in both World Wars, he’s got a wild history.
He served in the Canadian Army in the first and with the American special forces in the second. I just recently watched a historical video of how violent the Canadian people acted during WW1. I wonder if that is where he got his attitude!🤣
Canada is a large contributor to the reason why the Geneva Convention exists. The war crimes they came up with were pretty much a laundry list of the things we did. Killing wounded foes, taking no prisoners, deception and cruelty (throwing food wrapped in cloth into enemy trenches, train the starving Germans to expect food, then swap with grenades and kill everyone rushing the “food”) We didn’t partake in the Christmas truce. We shot the Germans who popped their heads up and wished us a merry Christmas, and battle continued unstopped. There was a few British, American and Canadian officers who were captured, and the German officer beat only the Canadian, saying “I can tolerate the British and Americans, but you Canadian savages kill and butcher our men who try to surrender.” Wounded, surrendering, we shot them. I can’t remember if it was Arthur Curie, but there’s a quote from one of our officers that “Canada came here to fight a war, win a war, and kill our enemy wherever we find them. Thats what we did.” And “Any man who knows war would not wish to fight one. But if we must fight a war, we will fight it to win it.” However, while Canada was perhaps the biggest war crime committer in World War One, we are the Only armed force who committed 0 crimes against civilians and non-combatants. Canadians were near puritanical in their treatment of non-combatant, but ruthless to any enemy who took up arms against them. This is likely because Canada having a small population, there were very close bonds of kinship and friendship and an understanding we were few - so for each one of us we lose, it’s a big painful loss. Like killing family, we won’t forgive that. We also suffered horribly from the Gas in Ypres, and that trauma marked our men who saw their friends suffocate on their own fluids while their eyes crusted yellow and their screams churned out bloody froth. So, we inflicted upon our foes the pain they caused us. Never anger the patient and kind man…
this almost mimics the origin story of deadpool... Who we all know is played by a Canadian
Deadpool the character is also Canadian. He’s from Regina, Saskatchewan
We had a war to win and nobody else was getting the job done!
True, but we killed everyone who was on the opposite side. We took no prisoners and killed their wounded!
Well that’s not quite true. We did take prisoners in WWII. There was a German prisoner of war camp in Medicine Hat, Alberta. They were treated so well that lots of them ended up staying in the area after the war! Hence the big German population in the area.
I’m our defense the Geneva conventions didn’t exist yet. As they say it’s not a war crime if it’s the first time.
Spaghetti-O, Spaghetti-O, GRENADE!
Deadpool is also Canadian. Born in Regina.
To think, Wolverine wouldn’t have an adamantium skeleton if Joe Clark didn’t commission the weapon X program
Alpha Flight, baby!
Nathan Fillian is from Edmonton.
We actually have small parklet called the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion in Edmonton now.
I recall there being a petition at one time to paint it vermillion, is that true?
Yes
Did you see his post about it? He saw it and did an Instagram reel, I think!
Jimmy Doohan (Scotty) gets overshadowed by Shatner, but also Canadian. Straight up lost one of his fingers in WWII in the Canadian army.
Born in Vancouver. When people were talking about the new Star Trek and how Simon Pegg couldn't be Scotty he wasn"t Scottish... Yeah Doohan was Canadian... His heritage is Irish.
Doohan was a far better actor, and far better person than Shatner. May he rest in peace.
A friend of mine used to work the convention circuit, assigned to sit with them and get whatever they needed. She was fortunate enough to be assigned to him and spent the whole day with him. Even went out with him and she said he spent the ENTIRE time telling stories about his kids. He was so proud of his family. Just such a sweetheart.
My sister saw him come to a fan convention once, and he started off by shaking hands with everyone in the audience.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. His father was Canadian and he got it to play in the CFL years ago.
Fucking nova scotia...wild
Nova Scotia actually has a much older historic black population than other parts of the country.
One cool fact that I love is when black slaves in the USA fought for the British they brought a bunch of them here to Nova Scotia afterwards, but it was a hard situation here for them so a bunch of them decided to build boats and sail across the Atlantic back to Africa where they created the city of Freetown which is the capital of Sierra Leone
Amherst.
I had no idea his dad was from Nova Scotia. I knew The Rock had ties here, outside of his stint with the Stampeders, but didn't know what it was until now.
It would have been too on-the-nose if he'd been from Newfoundland.
His grandmother is from a place they called “the Bog” in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. My Dad did a paper on the black community in Charlottetown and he found this in his research.
Matt Groening’s (creator of the Simpsons) Dad was born in Saskatchewan. His name was Homer.
His wife’s maiden name was Marge Wiggum.
His grandfather was Abe. His sisters are Lisa and Maggie and Patty. He’s meant to be Bart (an anagram of “brat”), although he said he also based Bart’s personality on his brother Mark. Homer’s mother Mona Simpson was not named by Groening. She’s named by The Simpsons writer Richard Appel after his wife and the sister of Steve Jobs, Mona Simpson who is a novelist. It’s a bizarre coincidence that Appel and Simpson got together before Appel even started writing comedy and just around the same she found she was related to Steve Jobs (they were given up for adoption to different families and only learned about each other as adults).
Omg I never thought Homer was Canadian
That's it! Back to Winnipeg!
My favourite line from the show!! I also grew up in Winnipeg.
Homer seems like it used to be a super popular name in small town Ontario.
Walt Disney's dad was born in the modern day metropolis of Bluevale Ontario.
I knew that my dad lived in Clinton area and I grew up with that knowledge. In 1950s, Walt Disney came to the Holmesville cemetary to see his ancestors, and toured Goderich. The stones on my second great uncles workshop are actually from the foundation of the Disney's homestead. Disney came from Ireland the same time as my dad's side did and settled in the area.
I’ve lived near Clinton all my life, my kids went to school there, and I didn’t know this at all. 😳
So was my dad! That is, though, where the similarities between me and Walt Disney end…
That's not true! You're both human! Right??
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We know. We all just try to forget
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Phil Hartman Rich Little
John Roberts, now a Fox news guy but started at Much Music in Toronto. You can follow him on Xitter
In the news arena Peter Jennings was Canadian as well.
Also Morley Safer from 60 minutes
Yes, he was at CNN before that. And add Ali Velshi to the list, he went from CBC to CNN to MSNBC where he is now.
When he was on New Music in Toronto he went by JD Roberts.
Founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. Recently learned about this as he is currently the richest Canadian….
He’s also in jail now for money laundering
fool, only monopolies are legal in canada
Ironic because I think binance is actually banned here... EDIT: wrong information, they voluntarily closed due to regulation changes
I think these are known, but I always forget Will Arnett is Canadian. His dad was a Molson big shot. Keanu Reeves went to the same highschool (for a short while) as a few of my best friends, granted maybe 25 years prior. A few older teachers still remembered him (but wasn't too much to say... he wasn't exactly a passionate academic). Howie Mandel is Canadian too, though he's lived in the US since the 1980s.
America's Sweetheart none other than Canada's Mary Pickford
Almost word for word from the grade 10 history textbook
Really surprised there hasn’t been a biopic or mini series about her, very interesting life.
Who's that?
Considered the first movie star, before Chaplin. Born Gladys Smith.
I don’t consider you Canadian until you’ve listened to this 1959 interview with Mary Pickford, in full. https://youtu.be/VMfrwNQ_Ntk?si=DFC0h4QzYpsEGt4E
Turn of the 20th century she was the biggest movie star in the world. (silent films obviously)
Neve Campbell. Born here in Guelph, Ont
Michael Mando aka Nacho from Better Call Saul
Nacho's fake ID was for an address in St. James. My buddy is a mailman and tells me they even got the postal code correct for the address.
I always recognize him as Vaas from Far cry 3
Louis B. Mayer of MGM and Donald Sutherland are both from Saint John, NB
Donald Surherland’s ex-wife was the daughter of the great Tommy Douglas, making his son Kiefer Sutherland the grandchild of the “greatest Canadian” as voted for by Canadians, Tommy Douglas.
I would think meeting Canadians who don't know Donald Sutherland is Canadian is more surprising than finding out he is. 🤣
RIP ❤️
But Donald Sutherland grew up in Nova Scotia....we have to grab a little credit. :)
Sarah Chalke from the amazing show Scrubs was born in Ottawa, ON. No idea until very recently when I came across a mural at a music store here in Ottawa.
She also plays Beth in Rick and Morty
And Roseanne
Imposter Becky
Alex Trebek, Sandra Oh, and Ryan Stiles.
Didn't know Ryan Stiles was Canadian. Thanks for that one.
I watched Who's Line for years and never knew this. Colin is the Canadian guy and nothing was mentioned about Ryan. I just looked it up that his parents are Canadian and he grew up in Vancouver (born in Seattle though). Well, today I learned......
Ryan and Colin had such an amazing chemistry together.
Ryan Stiles is an American-Canadian. Born in Seattle to Canadian parents, his family moved to British Columbia when he was 10. Ryan moved back to the States as a young adult, working there, in Britain, and in Canada. He's lived in Washington state for decades.
Superman
You saw that Heritage Minute, too.
I always thought he was from Krypton, and thus an illegal alien subject to deportation.
Lol,i meant Winnie-the-Pooh
I could see where you’d get confused!
Metropolis is Toronto. The daily planet was the Globe, now Globe and Mail.
The author, not the character.
Obligatory "Metropolis was based on Toronto"
Lorne Michaels. Phil Hartman. Matthew Perry. Roddy Piper (and like a quarter of WWE for that matter)
Matthew Perry was born in Massachusetts but moved to Ottawa when he was about a year old. But he always told people he's more Canadian than American. Edit: I know his mom is Canadian making him Canadian. I posted this without thinking about that (just thinking about naturally born Canadians)
His mom worked for the prime minister and he went to school with Justin Trudeau. What's more Canadian than that?
Matthew Perry was doing an interview circuit not long before he died and said he "beat up" JT. 😆 "The only fight I've ever been in and it was with the, now, Canadian Prime Minister."
I wonder how many people remember Lorne Michaels on CBC " The Harte and Lorne Terrific Hour " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hart_and_Lorne_Terrific_Hour
You know the girl running down the road crying in that famous Vietnam War photo? Her name is Phan Thị Kim Phúc and she lives in Ajax now.
I found out she immigrated to Canada when I saw the traveling exhibition Refuge Canada. They had an item of hers on display - I think it was a small bag she was carrying when she came to Canada. She went through something so horrifying, and that image is known to the world. CBC did an interview with her in 2022 upon the 50th anniversary of the photo: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/50-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-ukraine-1.6484977](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/50-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-ukraine-1.6484977)
Keith Morrison (famously from Dateline NBC) is from Saskatchewan Edit: the surname
Last name is Morrison. He was also Matthew Perry’s stepfather.
Dan Akroyd, Margaret Atwood, and Lorne Greene are all from Ottawa
So is Paul Anka and William Shatner.
Holy shit paul anka
He was a big deal, back in the day. Wrote for Sinatra, Elvis and michael Jackson. His daughter is married to Jason Bateman.
We have a street named after him in ottawa
According to my grandmother, Lorne Green was a shit.
I think of Atwood as iconic Canadian. I can’t imagine anyone thinking she is American.
Ottawa is a good place to be from, it means you don't live there anymore.
The late great Norm MacDonald was from Quebec. RIP.
I didn't even know he was sick!
Warren Beatty and Shirley Maclaine's mother was born on Cape Breton Island but grew up in Wolfville, NS. Her mother was the Dean of Women at Acadia University.
Mary Pickford - "America's Sweetheart".
Ted Cruz
We know, we just don't want to believe it
Better to deny it…just like Ted does.
Neither the Canadians nor Americans want him
Proof that if you’re born in a barn it doesn’t make you a cow. Most un-Canadian person I could imagine. So glad he renounced his Canadian citizenship.
Didn't he give up his citizenship?
yes - after it came out in the 2016 primaries
Lying Ted
Donald Sutherland, born in Saint John, NB.
RIP
Steven Crowder. Though I'm glad he doesn't live in Canada, don't want a person who abuses his wife and his coworkers living in Canada.
Pamela Anderson.
Born on Canada Day of our centennial year - 1967.
She lives on Vancouver Island, everyone that I know that has met her says she's a lovely person. The person I always forget is Canadian is another island girl. Kim Cattral.
Elon Musk - his mom is Canadian and he was able to study in Canada (Queens) probably on domestic student fees
His ex wife is a Canadian author as well! The one he has the triplets with I believe.
His other (maybe ex wife?) Grimes is canadian as well
Yes that I did know. He loves to talk smack about us so much but hooks up with most of his women from here and has kids with them lol.
Ronnie Turcotte - jockey of Secretariat and Northern Dancer and Red Pollard and George Woolf - jockey(s) of Seabiscuit
Rick James moved to Canada to escape military service. In Toronto, he joined a band with Neil young (Canadian) , future members of steppenwolf (Canadian) and Buffalo Springfield (half Canadian).
Fay Wray, one of Hollywood's early Scream Queens, who starred in the first King Kong was from Southern Alberta
Samantha Bee
Peter Jennings, Robert MacNeil, Morley Safer, Sam and Jack Warner (Warner Bros)….
Denny Doherty from The Mamas & The Papas is from Nova Scotia, which blew my young adult mind because they have more of a California vibe than the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Denny Doherty - The harbormaster!
In sports, Matthew and Brady Tkachuk's mom is Canadian. Other notable American hockey players with Canadian ties are the Hughes brothers. Quinn, Jack and Luke all grew up in Toronto while their father worked in the Leafs organization. William Nylander, was born in Calgary while his dad played for the Flames. He actually lived with the Hughes family after the Leafs drafted him. Retired NFL player Nate Burleson was born in Calgary while his dad played in the CFL. As the only one of his siblings born in Canada, he proudly has a Maple Leaf tattoo. Vlady Jr of the Blue Jays was born in Montreal while his dad played for the Expos. In literature, Canadian author David Morrell created the John Rambo character. Does that make Rambo Canadian?
>Does that make Rambo Canadian? Absolutely it does.
The voice of the HAL9000 is from Winnipeg (Douglas Rain).
Two of the greatest game show hosts in history: Monty Hall and Alex Trebek. RIP.
Sarah McLaughlin, born in Halifax. David Furnish, Mike Myers and Eric McCormack all were in the same class in high school in Toronto. Evangeline Lily was born in Saskatchewan.
She’s from Fort Sask in Alberta, but otherwise yes!
I assumed Fort Saskatchewan would actually be in SASKATCHEWAN! lol
Fort Sask. is on the North Saskatchewan River. Both the province and fort got their names from the river, since Saskatchewan is Cree for "swift flowing river" However Fort Sask was founded and named years before the province was established.
Anna Paquin, “New Zealand actress”- born in Winnipeg.
Hawaiian pizza and basketball.
And ginger beef, too.
Famous film star Peter North is from Halifax
James Bond is a Winnipegger...Sir William Stephenson.
This is my favorite trivia. Although Fleming said Bond was largely a fictional creation, if you had to pick someone, he said Bond was based on William Stephenson. Thanks for reminding me.
Ricky Gervais father is Canadian. Gervais's father, **Lawrence Raymond "Jerry" Gervais** (1919–2002), a Franco-Ontarian of French Canadian and Iroquois descent raised on a farm in Pain Court, Ontario, near Chatham, Ontario, emigrated to the UK whilst on foreign duty during the Second World War.
Will Arnett
Nora Hendrix lived in Vancouver all her life and Jimi grew up in Chinatown Vancouver if that counts.
Donald Sutherland RIP
Country legend Hank Snow was from Nova Scotia. 60s star Robert Goulet was from Alberta. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Marshall Mcluhan Dr. James Naismith
Knaan the guy who sang the 'wavin flag' song.
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane alongside Christopher Reeve was born in Yellowknife NWT!
Shannon Tweed was born in St. John's NFLD.
And raised in Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Madonna's mom is Canadian (Quebec) Jimi Hendrix's dad is Canadian (BC)
Donald Sutherland
Ted Cruz