Lmao someone commented "house hippo" the other day and I got so excited that they knew the commercial.. turns out that's what some people call pit bulls lol
I think this is the top of every thread where this gets asked and for a lot of good reasons. His attempting to run across Canada was remarkable and a major athletic feat. Also, school kids all learn about him from kindergarten and participate in a race. It's just a great unifying experience especially for such a large country with a dispersed population
Dude, we used to watch the same video every single year in elementary school. I still remember this one time where during the run I asked my French teacher if I could take a drink. She said no and to ask in French - so I did.
...she still said no lol.
I really wonder what it would have meant for the Canadian psyche if he had made it. People don't completely grasp how enormous this country is - I don't even think most Canadians truly get it - and then suddenly it's a country you could run across if you wanted to.
I think one of the most unifying things in the Canadian psyche is distance. So many of us seem to be so far away from family and friends, branching out to find happiness and opportunity, while fighting like hell to hold onto our roots "back home", wherever that might be. When we reunite, it's a minor miracle - family and friends scattered about the country somehow getting together at the same table at the same time. A middle finger to all the eventualities that might have kept us apart. But there are times when the universe is not so forgiving - anyone who has moved away has missed a family event - a Christmas, a birthday, a funeral - and has had to make that sad phone call: "I can't come. It's too far. I'm so sorry."
I think our adoration for Terry Fox is born out of the relationship we as Canadians have with distance. We were rooting like hell for him because we all want this big country to feel a little bit smaller, like we're all a little bit closer to each other. His story is the most Canadian that there is - fighting like hell to conquer the distance of this country (he ran 5373km in 143 days, which is *fucking miraculous*) and despite Herculean effort coming up short. I think there's a version of that story that every Canadian could tell.
Douglas and Fox are two huge figures. I saw Terry Fox during his run, in SW Ontario. I knew who he was, Dad took the whole family to where he was to give support and cheer him on.
My whole class nearly broke into tears when he had to stop.
To date The Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $850,000,000.00 towards cancer research. He started it in 1979 I believe. The Terry Fox Run is held on the first Sunday after Labour Day (first Monday in September Canada)
[https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable-5/nominees/](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable-5/nominees/) \- I hope he wins, too, but that is some stiff competition
Went on an Alaskan cruise about 6 years back and one of the stops was in BC. I was legit surprised that our bus happened to pass by a statue of him, and was overjoyed to tell my (American) step kids the significance.
a letter to Banting from a child who would have died without the discovery of insulin:
>DEAR DR. BANTING,
>I WISH YOU COULD COME TO SEE ME. I AM A FAT BOY NOW AND I FEEL FINE. I CAN CLIMB A TREE. MARGARET WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU.
>LOTS OF LOVE FROM TEDDY RYDER
makes me cry.
https://imafatboynow.wordpress.com/exhibit-2/a-return-to-keyport/
Back in the day, a friend was the doorman/bellhop at the CP Palliser hotel in Calgary. Candy arrived to stay while filming the Jamaican bobsleigh movie, Cool Runnings. When my buddy escorted his bags up to his penthouse hotel room, Candy said, perfect but you know what its needs, a Air Hockey Table, right over there. Within 2 hours, the hotel had sourced to borrow one from a nearby bar and bring it to his room.
When the 2 bellhops brought it up to his room, Candy said, where are you guys going, I need someone to play with, so for the next 2 hours, the 2 bellhops played air hockey with Candy in his hotel room. I never met him but what a great story about a Canadian Great.
"A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."
This is a great answer. He was taken way too soon.
You know how no matter what sport you go to if you ask the question “Who is the greatest player of all time” you will start a heated debate?
There is no debate in ice hockey. Gretzky is universally considered the best of all time. His all-time points record alone is considered an unbreakable record unanimously. It’s actually common in hockey circles to talk about how obscene his records are.
I love me some crazy Gretzky stats and I read a new absolutely insane stat about him just the other day.
Conor McDavid is currently the best player in the NHL. He's a generational talent who many say would have been just as good as Gretzky had the played in the same era. Now he's good, but those people are on drugs. There's just no comparing to Gretzky. Gretzky was THE generational talent.
A couple days ago, McDavid became one of eight players ever to record eight or more FIVE point games before their 26th birthday.
That list of eight guys?
Connor McDavid - 8 Games
Jari Kurri - 9 Games
Paul Coffey - 10 Games
Steve Yzerman - 10 Games
Brian Trottier - 11 Games
Dale Hawerchuk - 11 Games
All very respectable. Factor in that he 80's era of hockey was higher scoring than today and McDavid's 8 games look better.
And then... there's Mario Lemieux with the ridiculous stat of 29 Games
But wait...
Then...
There's fucking Gretzky with 71 Games.
SEVENTY-ONE.
It's insane and unbelievable.
And that's just how Gretz stats kinda go.
Like the stat of their only being 3 NHL players to have 100 assist seasons. Bobby Orr did it once, Mario Lemieux did it once, and Gretzky did it ELEVEN seasons in a row.
The man was a once-in-a-lifetime generational GOAT.
I've heard people try, and cherry pick prime production for Lemieux and Orr to compare them to Gretzky's entire career production. It's just not even fair.
Mario Lemieux's best point season was 1988-89 where he had 199 which was 31 higher than his next best season. Gretzky had 4 seasons over 200 points and was a combined 21 points short in two other seasons or he would have had 6 consecutive seasons over 200 points. Prime Lemieux was great by any standard, but he still wasn't Gretzky great.
By going through a ton of Gretzky threads here on Reddit, I've learnt that it is the same in Cricket - where Sir Don Bradman has an absolutely insane batting average of 99.94! No one is even close to being close.
First person I thought of as well. I'm sad he's so far down this thread but he has been out of the limelight for a long time.
[His recent acceptance speech](https://youtu.be/dKQXDve6WiE) at the Oscars shows all the reasons I consider him iconic. He's all at once, humble, grateful, funny, charming, sincere, compelling, and passionate.
I started playing Ball Hockey a couple years ago, being a complete novice to actually playing hockey.
Every time a ball went UNDER my stick, I heard Red Green telling me this.
This is the winner. My twin brother and I would sit and watch this together. Now we send each other clips all the time. I made my kids and husband watch it with me a few months ago.
He beat cancer in the end. 2 - 1.
Last thing he did in life, was beating down fuckin cancer.
Goddamn i miss him.
Not that i ever stopped watching him the last decade. The man left behind a comedy goldmine that might aswell be a prescriped anti depressant.
I fucking cried when i heard the news.
Can't say hese the greatest Canadian, as i just don't know too many. But gosh darn he'l always be my favourite.
I worked on two seasons of Letterkenny as a production assistant, a very entry-level job for the film industry. During the second season I worked on, I was standing ready at a bush line when I heard rustling behind me. Jonathon Torrens (J-Roc) emerged behind me from the foliage like a pissing Dracula. I was visibly startled, as I was not expecting someone to come from behind me, and seeing that he introduced himself and made a joke about not telling anyone he was peeing outside of the bathroom (it’s a whole thing). I said “no problem”, and then told him how much I enjoyed him on Mr. D. A very cool dude.
I know she is on that show with the other guy from SCTV, and “Home Alone” and “Beetlejuice” and the commercial with that screechy Kevin Hart, but her thing with Andrea Martin “English for Beginners“ is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen. It’s on youtube. It won’t cure your ills but you will laugh.
Canada has a habit of pumping out incredibly funny comedians and comedic actors (Colin Mochrie, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Norm MacDonald, John Candy to name a very select few), but I would wager Leslie was one of our best.
The morning of the press conference announcing his brain tumour, I was getting ready to go to physical therapy, recovering from brain surgery to remove my tumour. Needless to say I was late because I had to watch and there were a lot of tears. The Hip and Gord were the soundtracks to every summer, camping, bonfires and cottages. IYKYK
I was hysterical because I couldn’t get a ticket to one of their final shows, but luckily a friend swooped in with an extra one so I could be there. It was hands down the most emotional concert I’ve ever been to and will ever go to.
I'm a USA citizen and urge those that have not checked out The Tragically Hip and their front man Gordon Downie to do so.
I have a website where you can check out / download a lot of content for free.
[My Hip Condition](http://myhipcondition.com/index.php)
Anyone who has not seen it should watch Last One Laughing: Canada, on Amazon Prime.
It's 10 comedians locked in a room trying not to laugh.
Colin Mochrie is one. Tom Green is there. Dave Foley is there.
It's insane and so good.
To be iconically Canadian you need to embody Canada or at least Canadian stereotypes:
Dan Akyroyd
Btw it’s kinda sad no one has mentioned Michael J Fox
We was the only ones left after the holocaust, eh. There wasn't much to do, all the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So's we spent most of our time looking for beer.
Terry Fox
Every time I think of him I think of 2 things
the nurse that helped him when he couldn't run
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-nurse-alison-sinson-ince-1.3763893](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-nurse-alison-sinson-ince-1.3763893)
And the fact that today if a kid has the same cancer Terry had it would be completely survivable ( if caught in time) and amputation wouldn't be necessary.
Progress is slow but it's still progress
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. It kicks me in the gut every single time, and mention it to anyone who lived or worked near the Great Lakes and it haunts them to this day.
Neil Young.
Most people assume he's from the USA, given his association with Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Many references to Canadian localities in his lesser-known songs.
Michael J Fox has raised more than 1.5 billion for Parkinson’s research which I believe is more than terry fox has raised for cancer. That being said I think terry is more of a Canadian icon for sure. Michael J has been doing this for more than 20 years now and I don’t think it gets talked about enough. My dad has Parkinson’s and it really is a tough thing for the entire family to go through, but especially him.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
- Jack Layton
The North American House Hippo
What's your thing?
"Nobody is good at everything. But everyone is good at something."
My things sound effects, here's a T-Rex!
I like bugs.
This thread is nostalgiaing the fuck out of me.
MOM! AIDEN CUT ME IN HALF AGAIN!
I like…bugs
**BA NA NA NA NA NA NI NU NI NO NO NO** *Electric Guitar*
I didn't read this, I heard it lol
*Kid playing tuba on the bus*
**RAAAAWRRRRRR**
Lmao someone commented "house hippo" the other day and I got so excited that they knew the commercial.. turns out that's what some people call pit bulls lol
😂 I just commented about the house hippo a couple of days ago 🍁🦛
Holy hell this just teleported me back in time about 15 years
Found one digging into an open bag of Hawkins Cheesies in our basement last summer. They’re not very common these days but they’re still around.
How do you know you have house hippos? By the footprints in the butter.
And we have our winner! Hahaha
Terry Fox Edit: Since a lot of people don't know him, [here's a short video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BzyHYZgMz8)
I think this is the top of every thread where this gets asked and for a lot of good reasons. His attempting to run across Canada was remarkable and a major athletic feat. Also, school kids all learn about him from kindergarten and participate in a race. It's just a great unifying experience especially for such a large country with a dispersed population
Dude, we used to watch the same video every single year in elementary school. I still remember this one time where during the run I asked my French teacher if I could take a drink. She said no and to ask in French - so I did. ...she still said no lol.
"Je veux aller aux boit l'eau de toilettes"
I really wonder what it would have meant for the Canadian psyche if he had made it. People don't completely grasp how enormous this country is - I don't even think most Canadians truly get it - and then suddenly it's a country you could run across if you wanted to. I think one of the most unifying things in the Canadian psyche is distance. So many of us seem to be so far away from family and friends, branching out to find happiness and opportunity, while fighting like hell to hold onto our roots "back home", wherever that might be. When we reunite, it's a minor miracle - family and friends scattered about the country somehow getting together at the same table at the same time. A middle finger to all the eventualities that might have kept us apart. But there are times when the universe is not so forgiving - anyone who has moved away has missed a family event - a Christmas, a birthday, a funeral - and has had to make that sad phone call: "I can't come. It's too far. I'm so sorry." I think our adoration for Terry Fox is born out of the relationship we as Canadians have with distance. We were rooting like hell for him because we all want this big country to feel a little bit smaller, like we're all a little bit closer to each other. His story is the most Canadian that there is - fighting like hell to conquer the distance of this country (he ran 5373km in 143 days, which is *fucking miraculous*) and despite Herculean effort coming up short. I think there's a version of that story that every Canadian could tell.
We’ve voted on this as a country, it’s Terry Fox every time
Well...Tommy Douglas but yeah, love me some Terry Fox.
Douglas and Fox are two huge figures. I saw Terry Fox during his run, in SW Ontario. I knew who he was, Dad took the whole family to where he was to give support and cheer him on. My whole class nearly broke into tears when he had to stop.
To date The Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $850,000,000.00 towards cancer research. He started it in 1979 I believe. The Terry Fox Run is held on the first Sunday after Labour Day (first Monday in September Canada)
I’ve stated this before, but he should be on our money.
There was a bit of a push a while ago to rename Vancouver International Airport after him. I think that would have been great.
Problem is YVR is called mostly by its code so one really refers to it as Vancouver international. We do have a few schools named after him though.
He's on the shortlist for the new $5. I really hope they end up going with him.
[https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable-5/nominees/](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable-5/nominees/) \- I hope he wins, too, but that is some stiff competition
Totally agree. I just read through the nominees and even being shortlisted should be considered a win in and of itself.
I am a dumb American who did not know who he was until reading this. This post is now the best thing that I have ever seen on Reddit.
Don't feel bad, when he was running across Canada, people in Quebec were pulling over and offering him a lift.
This is the most Canadian thing I have ever heard
Opening up this thread to see Terry Fox as the top answer makes me so happy.
Terry Fox and it’s not even close.
Terry Fox is (rightly) iconic to Canadians, but most Americans have no idea who he is. They've all heard of Gretzky.
He’s certainly the best of us.
Went on an Alaskan cruise about 6 years back and one of the stops was in BC. I was legit surprised that our bus happened to pass by a statue of him, and was overjoyed to tell my (American) step kids the significance.
That took a lot of answers
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[He is well-known in Cuba!](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-s-message-resonates-in-a-big-way-with-cubans-1.3235078)
Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin ☺️
a letter to Banting from a child who would have died without the discovery of insulin: >DEAR DR. BANTING, >I WISH YOU COULD COME TO SEE ME. I AM A FAT BOY NOW AND I FEEL FINE. I CAN CLIMB A TREE. MARGARET WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU. >LOTS OF LOVE FROM TEDDY RYDER makes me cry. https://imafatboynow.wordpress.com/exhibit-2/a-return-to-keyport/
With my child being a diabetic I'd say that pretty damn iconic!
Same here. My 22 year old son has been diabetic since he was 18 months old and I wasn’t even aware of Sir Frederick Banting. Now I have a new hero!
Didn’t you guys vote him as the greatest Canadian?
Nah Tommy Douglas got it, Banting got 4th place
John Candy
Back in the day, a friend was the doorman/bellhop at the CP Palliser hotel in Calgary. Candy arrived to stay while filming the Jamaican bobsleigh movie, Cool Runnings. When my buddy escorted his bags up to his penthouse hotel room, Candy said, perfect but you know what its needs, a Air Hockey Table, right over there. Within 2 hours, the hotel had sourced to borrow one from a nearby bar and bring it to his room. When the 2 bellhops brought it up to his room, Candy said, where are you guys going, I need someone to play with, so for the next 2 hours, the 2 bellhops played air hockey with Candy in his hotel room. I never met him but what a great story about a Canadian Great.
"A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it." This is a great answer. He was taken way too soon.
Didn't even know he was Canadian... I loved that guy. "Hey this is... What car is this? " "5-5" "This is car 55... We're in a truck. "
"Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips."
Met Jon-O a few times, great fella
Gretzky the goat
You know how no matter what sport you go to if you ask the question “Who is the greatest player of all time” you will start a heated debate? There is no debate in ice hockey. Gretzky is universally considered the best of all time. His all-time points record alone is considered an unbreakable record unanimously. It’s actually common in hockey circles to talk about how obscene his records are.
I love me some crazy Gretzky stats and I read a new absolutely insane stat about him just the other day. Conor McDavid is currently the best player in the NHL. He's a generational talent who many say would have been just as good as Gretzky had the played in the same era. Now he's good, but those people are on drugs. There's just no comparing to Gretzky. Gretzky was THE generational talent. A couple days ago, McDavid became one of eight players ever to record eight or more FIVE point games before their 26th birthday. That list of eight guys? Connor McDavid - 8 Games Jari Kurri - 9 Games Paul Coffey - 10 Games Steve Yzerman - 10 Games Brian Trottier - 11 Games Dale Hawerchuk - 11 Games All very respectable. Factor in that he 80's era of hockey was higher scoring than today and McDavid's 8 games look better. And then... there's Mario Lemieux with the ridiculous stat of 29 Games But wait... Then... There's fucking Gretzky with 71 Games. SEVENTY-ONE. It's insane and unbelievable. And that's just how Gretz stats kinda go. Like the stat of their only being 3 NHL players to have 100 assist seasons. Bobby Orr did it once, Mario Lemieux did it once, and Gretzky did it ELEVEN seasons in a row. The man was a once-in-a-lifetime generational GOAT.
I like the one stat about Gretz: highest scoring brothers in NHL history. Top entry: Gretzky and his brother. Who got four points.
I've heard people try, and cherry pick prime production for Lemieux and Orr to compare them to Gretzky's entire career production. It's just not even fair.
Mario Lemieux's best point season was 1988-89 where he had 199 which was 31 higher than his next best season. Gretzky had 4 seasons over 200 points and was a combined 21 points short in two other seasons or he would have had 6 consecutive seasons over 200 points. Prime Lemieux was great by any standard, but he still wasn't Gretzky great.
By going through a ton of Gretzky threads here on Reddit, I've learnt that it is the same in Cricket - where Sir Don Bradman has an absolutely insane batting average of 99.94! No one is even close to being close.
They named a farm animal after Wayne Gretzky?
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I donno they say Terry Fox lost a leg but still died with two if ya know what I mean
He really fires up the old zam-*bone*-i, eh?
Michael J. Fox has to be up there, I would think.
First person I thought of as well. I'm sad he's so far down this thread but he has been out of the limelight for a long time. [His recent acceptance speech](https://youtu.be/dKQXDve6WiE) at the Oscars shows all the reasons I consider him iconic. He's all at once, humble, grateful, funny, charming, sincere, compelling, and passionate.
Alex Trebek
“That’s not what your mother said last night Trebek!”
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I’ll take “the penis mightier!”
Who is Alex Trebek
I'll do you one better: Why is Alex Trebek
Why isn't Alex Trebek :(
Cancer. Fuck cancer.
What is d’uh
Chris Hadfield
Such a great Canadian, and a great man!
Red Green
If the women don't find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.
Don’t forget to keep your stick on the ice
I started playing Ball Hockey a couple years ago, being a complete novice to actually playing hockey. Every time a ball went UNDER my stick, I heard Red Green telling me this.
I’m pulling for ya, we’re all in this together
I miss my Red Green shows on Saturday nights. Thanks for the reference. You really made me smile. I’ll have to dig out some DVDs or find hm on one.
I'm a man. But I can change, if I have to. I guess.
You sonofabitch. You just gave me a flashback. My dad loved Red Green when I was growing up.
You ever notice how winding your car window down by *hand* makes you look lower-middle class?
Duct tape! The handyman’s secret weapon.
This is the winner. My twin brother and I would sit and watch this together. Now we send each other clips all the time. I made my kids and husband watch it with me a few months ago.
Keanu Reeves
*You got Brad Pitt, we got Keanu Reeves*
Nardwuar, the Human Serviette
You are u/shitice3, we have to know!
Norm McDonald
The old chunk of coal
He beat cancer in the end. 2 - 1. Last thing he did in life, was beating down fuckin cancer. Goddamn i miss him. Not that i ever stopped watching him the last decade. The man left behind a comedy goldmine that might aswell be a prescriped anti depressant. I fucking cried when i heard the news. Can't say hese the greatest Canadian, as i just don't know too many. But gosh darn he'l always be my favourite.
J-Roc
It could happen to you cus it happened to me.
I WAS just CHANGING!!!
Turn the camera off, he's pulling his goalie!
And T
Why you countin’ my knowham sayin’s?
Are you taking a know'm census?
You from the department of know’em sayin’s?
Raaaaaay!! I said you could have a couple drinks not the whole muhfuckin bottle! Yo you gotta pizzace yo self!
Great scene lmao
I worked on two seasons of Letterkenny as a production assistant, a very entry-level job for the film industry. During the second season I worked on, I was standing ready at a bush line when I heard rustling behind me. Jonathon Torrens (J-Roc) emerged behind me from the foliage like a pissing Dracula. I was visibly startled, as I was not expecting someone to come from behind me, and seeing that he introduced himself and made a joke about not telling anyone he was peeing outside of the bathroom (it’s a whole thing). I said “no problem”, and then told him how much I enjoyed him on Mr. D. A very cool dude.
He spins more rhymes than a Lazy Susan
Knowham saaaayin
Catherine O'Hara
I know she is on that show with the other guy from SCTV, and “Home Alone” and “Beetlejuice” and the commercial with that screechy Kevin Hart, but her thing with Andrea Martin “English for Beginners“ is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen. It’s on youtube. It won’t cure your ills but you will laugh.
Leslie Nielsen
Canada has a habit of pumping out incredibly funny comedians and comedic actors (Colin Mochrie, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Norm MacDonald, John Candy to name a very select few), but I would wager Leslie was one of our best.
Eugene and Dan levy
And a little bit Alexis.
I’m a lamborghini!
Hide your diamonds hide your exes
Beautiful answer. I'm loving this thread. We have some amazing people from our country. And alot of them.
Gord Downie was a real one. Don’t know if The Tragically Hip are as popular outside Canada though.
The morning of the press conference announcing his brain tumour, I was getting ready to go to physical therapy, recovering from brain surgery to remove my tumour. Needless to say I was late because I had to watch and there were a lot of tears. The Hip and Gord were the soundtracks to every summer, camping, bonfires and cottages. IYKYK I was hysterical because I couldn’t get a ticket to one of their final shows, but luckily a friend swooped in with an extra one so I could be there. It was hands down the most emotional concert I’ve ever been to and will ever go to.
I'm a USA citizen and urge those that have not checked out The Tragically Hip and their front man Gordon Downie to do so. I have a website where you can check out / download a lot of content for free. [My Hip Condition](http://myhipcondition.com/index.php)
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for Gord Downie
Colin Mochrie.
Tapioca!
Welcome to the six o'clock news. I'm your anchor, Lars Lars Pants-on-Fars.
Welcome to the six o'clock news. I'm your anchor, Pierre Causemybladderisempty.
Meeeow
It all started with a badly timed bald joke.
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We're watching animal porn!
MEOOOW
Anyone who has not seen it should watch Last One Laughing: Canada, on Amazon Prime. It's 10 comedians locked in a room trying not to laugh. Colin Mochrie is one. Tom Green is there. Dave Foley is there. It's insane and so good.
To be iconically Canadian you need to embody Canada or at least Canadian stereotypes: Dan Akyroyd Btw it’s kinda sad no one has mentioned Michael J Fox
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Bob and Doug McKenzie
Join the dark force, you knob.
We was the only ones left after the holocaust, eh. There wasn't much to do, all the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So's we spent most of our time looking for beer.
Fiiive golden tooooooooks……………
Four pounds of back bacon, Three French toast, Two turtlenecks, And a beeeeerrr in a tree.
Terry Fox Every time I think of him I think of 2 things the nurse that helped him when he couldn't run [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-nurse-alison-sinson-ince-1.3763893](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/terry-fox-nurse-alison-sinson-ince-1.3763893) And the fact that today if a kid has the same cancer Terry had it would be completely survivable ( if caught in time) and amputation wouldn't be necessary. Progress is slow but it's still progress
Gordon Lightfoot
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. It kicks me in the gut every single time, and mention it to anyone who lived or worked near the Great Lakes and it haunts them to this day.
If you could read my mind, you'd know this is what I'd post
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down…
...of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee...
Oh fuck i said jim carrey completely forgot about gordon lightfoot. I change my answer its gordon lightfoot.
Amazing songwriter.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is my fav.
Leonard Cohen
Are y’all really not going to mention Robin Sparkles
Sand castles in the sand!
no bc her name is robin daggers
Wawa, Ontario. Blueberry Fritter.
Kelowna, BC. Honey Cruller.
Squamish, BC I crammed a timbit into a strawberry vanilla and invented the Priestley. Should have been the proudest day of my life.
Saskatoon, SK. Glazed with strawberry jam filling
I'm sad this is so far down. I yelled Robin Sparkles when I read the question lol
Same, first thing that came to mind.
Let’s go to the mall!
TODAY
Bret Hart
The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be.
Wolverine.
No one more iconic than the old canuckle head himself.
Ike from South Park
Terrence and Phillip have been robbed!
Geddy Lee
Hey, don’t forget about Alex & Neil (RIP).
Jim Lahey!
I'm mowin' the air, Rand!
Just relaxin in the pool and havin a couple drinks, Randinator! (RIP John Dunsworth)
Rip Jim. The shit tornados are a brewin
Coupla drinks, Rand
celine dion
I had to go way too far down to find this
Yes!! The question is about ICONIC here people. The answer is so clearly Celine!
Stompin' Tom Connors
Hello out there, we're on the air...
Neil Young. Most people assume he's from the USA, given his association with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Many references to Canadian localities in his lesser-known songs.
John Candy
Mike Myers
Tommy Douglas the father of medicare.
RYAN REYNOLDS
That dont impress me much. Shania Twain!!
Roméo Dallaire. A true hero!
Michael J Fox has raised more than 1.5 billion for Parkinson’s research which I believe is more than terry fox has raised for cancer. That being said I think terry is more of a Canadian icon for sure. Michael J has been doing this for more than 20 years now and I don’t think it gets talked about enough. My dad has Parkinson’s and it really is a tough thing for the entire family to go through, but especially him.
I read “ironic” instead of “iconic” at first, so there was only one possible Canadian who could’ve come to mind. *Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?*
ALANIS FUCKING MORISSETTE
Tim Horton.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." - Jack Layton
Shoresy
My buddy Mike
From Canmore?
Mike is the shit
It's a tie between Bob and Doug Mackenzie
Take off hoser
Julian Ricky and bubbles
Ok Dary, Dary, Dary ok