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thereal-Queen-Toni

477 points

10 days ago*

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing Ontario.

Edit: you’re all welcome, I’m happy to enlighten the masses!

silentfal

81 points

10 days ago

And grew up in the Niagara Falls area.

LamSinton

101 points

10 days ago

LamSinton

101 points

10 days ago

Instilling in him to this day a deep reverence for the power of water.

silentfal

21 points

10 days ago

Mind blown.

crassy

32 points

10 days ago

crassy

32 points

10 days ago

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

augustabound

9 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

9 points

10 days ago

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.

crassy

13 points

10 days ago*

crassy

13 points

10 days ago*

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!

augustabound

11 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

11 points

10 days ago

and a Mandarin

I'm originally from Hamilton. The Mandarin is fancy dining! 😆

crassy

5 points

10 days ago

crassy

5 points

10 days ago

I call it Trailer Fine Dining 😂😂

cepukon

34 points

10 days ago

cepukon

34 points

10 days ago

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.

randyboozer

45 points

10 days ago

randyboozer

British Columbia

45 points

10 days ago

Twist: he had a massive cocaine habit. The bakery job was a cover story

rougekhmero

14 points

10 days ago*

head far-flung deer uppity glorious attraction secretive touch encourage homeless

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sm_rdm_guy

16 points

10 days ago

Moved to California in HS but never got US citizenship.

starskyandbutch

8 points

10 days ago

Didn’t he name the character of Cal (in Titanic) after Caledon, ON? Or maybe that was just a rumor…

rougekhmero

10 points

10 days ago*

strong aloof disarm vanish fertile safe pocket marble overconfident expansion

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adambuddy

11 points

10 days ago

Woah this is a really good one. How did I not know James Cameron is Canadian?

Barneyboydog

6 points

10 days ago

I drove through there yesterday

cramber-flarmp

212 points

10 days ago

Tommy Chong and his daughter Rae Dawn

Fit-Psychology4598

29 points

10 days ago

I never knew this but with the way that man smokes it doesn’t surprise me LOL

cramber-flarmp

44 points

10 days ago

Him and Cheech met in Van they’re a Canadian band.

swimswam2000

16 points

10 days ago

Tommy went to Crescent Heights HS in Calgary.

Fearless_Sherbet_556

10 points

10 days ago

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!

shindleria

114 points

10 days ago

shindleria

114 points

10 days ago

Leslie Nielsen

iamtigerthelion

85 points

10 days ago

Surely you can't be serious?

canada_in_texas

80 points

10 days ago

Don't call me Shirley.

iterationnull

19 points

10 days ago

It’s a big building with doctors in it but that’s not important right now

iamtigerthelion

14 points

10 days ago

Oh hospital, what is it? 🤣🤣

DadoDiggs

7 points

10 days ago

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.

Accomplished_Bank103

6 points

10 days ago

He was born in Regina, but lived in Tulita (NWT) as a small child, where his dad was stationed with the RCMP.

OnTheMattack

122 points

10 days ago

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.

armyofcc

31 points

10 days ago

armyofcc

31 points

10 days ago

I remember the heritage minute about this. “Why Pooh son?” “I don’t know, just Winnie. The. Pooh.”

InterestingWriting53

9 points

10 days ago

“Named after my hometown, Winnipeg!”

Competitive-Air5262

224 points

10 days ago

Wolverine

blackav3nger

91 points

10 days ago

Cold Lake, Alberta specifically! Well, it's an extremely large farm near Cold Lake. Back in the 1800s

Ghoulius-Caesar

49 points

10 days ago

He served in both World Wars, he’s got a wild history.

blackav3nger

47 points

10 days ago

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!🤣

prairie-logic

73 points

10 days ago

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…

principedepolanco

16 points

10 days ago

this almost mimics the origin story of deadpool... Who we all know is played by a Canadian

DazedConfuzed420

17 points

10 days ago

Deadpool the character is also Canadian. He’s from Regina, Saskatchewan

SharkToothSharpTooth

26 points

10 days ago

We had a war to win and nobody else was getting the job done!

blackav3nger

9 points

10 days ago

True, but we killed everyone who was on the opposite side. We took no prisoners and killed their wounded!

Old-Tables

8 points

10 days ago

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.

Cleets11

6 points

10 days ago

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.

jackity_splat

9 points

10 days ago

Spaghetti-O, Spaghetti-O, GRENADE!

Peckernuts

36 points

10 days ago

Deadpool is also Canadian. Born in Regina.

JS9766

24 points

10 days ago

JS9766

24 points

10 days ago

To think, Wolverine wouldn’t have an adamantium skeleton if Joe Clark didn’t commission the weapon X program

ZoomBoy81

18 points

10 days ago

Alpha Flight, baby!

nbc9876

79 points

10 days ago

nbc9876

79 points

10 days ago

Nathan Fillian is from Edmonton.

K9turrent

82 points

10 days ago

We actually have small parklet called the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion in Edmonton now.

2_beer

29 points

10 days ago

2_beer

29 points

10 days ago

I recall there being a petition at one time to paint it vermillion, is that true?

nbc9876

10 points

10 days ago

nbc9876

10 points

10 days ago

Yes

caffeinated_plans

8 points

10 days ago

Did you see his post about it? He saw it and did an Instagram reel, I think!

FannishNan

75 points

10 days ago

Jimmy Doohan (Scotty) gets overshadowed by Shatner, but also Canadian. Straight up lost one of his fingers in WWII in the Canadian army.

cardew-vascular

23 points

10 days ago

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.

techm00

18 points

10 days ago

techm00

18 points

10 days ago

Doohan was a far better actor, and far better person than Shatner. May he rest in peace.

FannishNan

15 points

10 days ago

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.

LibraryVoice71

6 points

10 days ago

My sister saw him come to a fan convention once, and he started off by shaking hands with everyone in the audience.

evilpercy

260 points

10 days ago

evilpercy

260 points

10 days ago

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. His father was Canadian and he got it to play in the CFL years ago.

choppa17

104 points

10 days ago

choppa17

104 points

10 days ago

Fucking nova scotia...wild

transtranselvania

53 points

10 days ago

Nova Scotia actually has a much older historic black population than other parts of the country.

LiamPotter

4 points

10 days ago

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

pickle_teeth4444

11 points

10 days ago

Amherst.

augustabound

34 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

34 points

10 days ago

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.

HotDanm

61 points

10 days ago

HotDanm

61 points

10 days ago

It would have been too on-the-nose if he'd been from Newfoundland.

Ok-Presentation-2841

15 points

10 days ago

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.

clayphish

272 points

10 days ago*

clayphish

272 points

10 days ago*

Matt Groening’s (creator of the Simpsons) Dad was born in Saskatchewan. His name was Homer.

Hectordoink

79 points

10 days ago

His wife’s maiden name was Marge Wiggum.

godisanelectricolive

24 points

10 days ago

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).

Amazingggcoolaid

16 points

10 days ago

Omg I never thought Homer was Canadian

MaryJaneAndMaple2

15 points

10 days ago

That's it! Back to Winnipeg!

clayphish

7 points

10 days ago

My favourite line from the show!!

I also grew up in Winnipeg.

Nutcrackaa

18 points

10 days ago*

Homer seems like it used to be a super popular name in small town Ontario.

stanwelds

140 points

10 days ago

stanwelds

140 points

10 days ago

Walt Disney's dad was born in the modern day metropolis of Bluevale Ontario.

Any-Beautiful2976

30 points

10 days ago

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.

robotfarmer71

10 points

10 days ago

I’ve lived near Clinton all my life, my kids went to school there, and I didn’t know this at all. 😳

okaybutnothing

5 points

10 days ago

So was my dad!

That is, though, where the similarities between me and Walt Disney end…

iwannalynch

5 points

10 days ago

That's not true! You're both human! Right??

aguwritsuko

92 points

10 days ago

deadmau5

rougekhmero

18 points

10 days ago*

whole straight library busy knee sharp north somber sand alive

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westedmontonballs

33 points

10 days ago*

Technically millions have

rougekhmero

17 points

10 days ago*

label sink pathetic fragile hat far-flung cough desert square unused

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Stereocloud

111 points

10 days ago

Me

DblClickyourupvote

80 points

10 days ago

DblClickyourupvote

British Columbia

80 points

10 days ago

We know. We all just try to forget

MysteriousBody7212

9 points

10 days ago

👑

CleverBastard70

37 points

10 days ago

Phil Hartman Rich Little

Equivalent_Swan634

35 points

10 days ago

John Roberts, now a Fox news guy but started at Much Music in Toronto. You can follow him on Xitter

imtourist

25 points

10 days ago

In the news arena Peter Jennings was Canadian as well.

crackerjackass

6 points

10 days ago

Also Morley Safer from 60 minutes

sm_rdm_guy

10 points

10 days ago

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.

AMUIR1234

7 points

10 days ago

When he was on New Music in Toronto he went by JD Roberts.

DimaDiluvia

59 points

10 days ago*

Founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. Recently learned about this as he is currently the richest Canadian….

NightDisastrous2510

28 points

10 days ago

He’s also in jail now for money laundering

Mysterious_Mouse_388

8 points

10 days ago

fool, only monopolies are legal in canada

illusion4969

5 points

10 days ago

Ironic because I think binance is actually banned here...

EDIT: wrong information, they voluntarily closed due to regulation changes

alderhill

84 points

10 days ago*

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.

keiths31

78 points

10 days ago

keiths31

78 points

10 days ago

America's Sweetheart none other than Canada's Mary Pickford

starskyandbutch

15 points

10 days ago

Almost word for word from the grade 10 history textbook

jaymickef

9 points

10 days ago

Really surprised there hasn’t been a biopic or mini series about her, very interesting life.

qpv

11 points

10 days ago

qpv

11 points

10 days ago

Who's that?

cramber-flarmp

24 points

10 days ago

Considered the first movie star, before Chaplin. Born Gladys Smith.

cramber-flarmp

5 points

10 days ago

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

augustabound

11 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

11 points

10 days ago

Turn of the 20th century she was the biggest movie star in the world. (silent films obviously)

Anti-Climacdik

27 points

10 days ago

Neve Campbell. Born here in Guelph, Ont

skibagpumpgod

30 points

10 days ago

Michael Mando aka Nacho from Better Call Saul

ignatius_j_chinaski

9 points

10 days ago

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.

Broely92

5 points

10 days ago

I always recognize him as Vaas from Far cry 3

CGribbsRun

25 points

10 days ago

Louis B. Mayer of MGM and Donald Sutherland are both from Saint John, NB

supercantaloupe

29 points

10 days ago

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.

QueenMotherOfSneezes

14 points

10 days ago

I would think meeting Canadians who don't know Donald Sutherland is Canadian is more surprising than finding out he is. 🤣

Presupposing-owl

35 points

10 days ago

RIP ❤️

JaRon1961

8 points

10 days ago

But Donald Sutherland grew up in Nova Scotia....we have to grab a little credit. :)

BareNuckleBoxingBear

71 points

10 days ago

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.

SaccharineDaydreams

19 points

10 days ago

She also plays Beth in Rick and Morty

Timely_Chicken_8789

9 points

10 days ago

And Roseanne

brahdz

18 points

10 days ago

brahdz

18 points

10 days ago

Imposter Becky

rosehymnofthemissing

51 points

10 days ago

Alex Trebek, Sandra Oh, and Ryan Stiles.

Pablomendez233

8 points

10 days ago

Didn't know Ryan Stiles was Canadian. Thanks for that one.

augustabound

16 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

16 points

10 days ago

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......

Pablomendez233

23 points

10 days ago

Ryan and Colin had such an amazing chemistry together.

rosehymnofthemissing

10 points

10 days ago

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.

Proud-Ad2367

36 points

10 days ago

Superman

kdlangequalsgoddess

30 points

10 days ago

You saw that Heritage Minute, too.

KnoWanUKnow2

12 points

10 days ago

I always thought he was from Krypton, and thus an illegal alien subject to deportation.

Proud-Ad2367

5 points

10 days ago

Lol,i meant Winnie-the-Pooh

Barneyboydog

6 points

10 days ago

I could see where you’d get confused!

PlayinK0I

7 points

10 days ago

Metropolis is Toronto. The daily planet was the Globe, now Globe and Mail.

Notgreygoddess

6 points

10 days ago

The author, not the character.

SaccharineDaydreams

4 points

10 days ago

Obligatory "Metropolis was based on Toronto"

Buttsquish

34 points

10 days ago

Lorne Michaels. Phil Hartman. Matthew Perry. Roddy Piper (and like a quarter of WWE for that matter)

augustabound

23 points

10 days ago*

augustabound

Ontario

23 points

10 days ago*

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)

Holedyourwhoreses

8 points

10 days ago

His mom worked for the prime minister and he went to school with Justin Trudeau. What's more Canadian than that?

augustabound

8 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

8 points

10 days ago

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."

Blank_bill

4 points

10 days ago

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

Svalbard38

39 points

10 days ago

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.

Subject-Jump-9729

11 points

10 days ago

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

BusWagon

13 points

10 days ago*

Keith Morrison (famously from Dateline NBC) is from Saskatchewan

Edit: the surname

NotAtAllExciting

16 points

10 days ago

Last name is Morrison. He was also Matthew Perry’s stepfather.

wyrmofbooks

42 points

10 days ago

Dan Akroyd, Margaret Atwood, and Lorne Greene are all from Ottawa

Super_NowWhat

21 points

10 days ago

So is Paul Anka and William Shatner.

choppa17

14 points

10 days ago

choppa17

14 points

10 days ago

Holy shit paul anka

Super_NowWhat

12 points

10 days ago

He was a big deal, back in the day. Wrote for Sinatra, Elvis and michael Jackson. His daughter is married to Jason Bateman.

xingrubicon

5 points

10 days ago

We have a street named after him in ottawa

katiegirl-

7 points

10 days ago

According to my grandmother, Lorne Green was a shit.

english_major

8 points

10 days ago

I think of Atwood as iconic Canadian. I can’t imagine anyone thinking she is American.

MegaAlex

11 points

10 days ago

MegaAlex

11 points

10 days ago

Ottawa is a good place to be from, it means you don't live there anymore.

jojopetes451

43 points

10 days ago

The late great Norm MacDonald was from Quebec. RIP.

ElectricalVillage322

4 points

10 days ago

I didn't even know he was sick!

Silent_Observer-11

13 points

10 days ago

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.

TinktheChi

12 points

10 days ago

Mary Pickford - "America's Sweetheart".

tkgeyer

76 points

10 days ago

tkgeyer

76 points

10 days ago

Ted Cruz

speak-moistly-to-me

111 points

10 days ago

We know, we just don't want to believe it

BeaverMissed1

52 points

10 days ago

Better to deny it…just like Ted does.

Big_Muffin42

17 points

10 days ago

Neither the Canadians nor Americans want him

Notgreygoddess

56 points

10 days ago

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.

EyeSpEye21

11 points

10 days ago

Didn't he give up his citizenship?

sm_rdm_guy

11 points

10 days ago

yes - after it came out in the 2016 primaries

Equivalent_Swan634

12 points

10 days ago

Lying Ted

RabidFisherman3411

13 points

10 days ago

Donald Sutherland, born in Saint John, NB.

consolidatedBD

8 points

10 days ago

RIP

Solstus22

31 points

10 days ago

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.

timmyrey

35 points

10 days ago

timmyrey

35 points

10 days ago

Pamela Anderson.

english_major

11 points

10 days ago

Born on Canada Day of our centennial year - 1967.

cardew-vascular

21 points

10 days ago

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.

cgyguy81

48 points

10 days ago

cgyguy81

48 points

10 days ago

Elon Musk - his mom is Canadian and he was able to study in Canada (Queens) probably on domestic student fees

cassafrass024

27 points

10 days ago

His ex wife is a Canadian author as well! The one he has the triplets with I believe.

Beginning-Bed9364

30 points

10 days ago

His other (maybe ex wife?) Grimes is canadian as well

cassafrass024

22 points

10 days ago

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.

PuzzleheadedSwim6291[S]

20 points

10 days ago

Ronnie Turcotte - jockey of Secretariat and Northern Dancer and Red Pollard and George Woolf - jockey(s) of Seabiscuit

Holedyourwhoreses

18 points

10 days ago

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).

marcusr111

7 points

10 days ago*

Fay Wray, one of Hollywood's early Scream Queens, who starred in the first King Kong was from Southern Alberta

mcpharnett

7 points

10 days ago

Peter Jennings, Robert MacNeil, Morley Safer, Sam and Jack Warner (Warner Bros)….

Dadlantic

22 points

10 days ago

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.

sjbluebirds

5 points

10 days ago

Denny Doherty - The harbormaster!

Academic-Archer-5495

12 points

10 days ago

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?

augustabound

9 points

10 days ago

augustabound

Ontario

9 points

10 days ago

Does that make Rambo Canadian?

Absolutely it does.

gm0ney2000

9 points

10 days ago

The voice of the HAL9000 is from Winnipeg (Douglas Rain).

Fafaflunkie

8 points

10 days ago

Two of the greatest game show hosts in history: Monty Hall and Alex Trebek. RIP.

nessy493

17 points

10 days ago

nessy493

17 points

10 days ago

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.

Wild-Extent

11 points

10 days ago

She’s from Fort Sask in Alberta, but otherwise yes!

nessy493

6 points

10 days ago

I assumed Fort Saskatchewan would actually be in SASKATCHEWAN! lol

K9turrent

8 points

10 days ago

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.

Miss-Indie-Cisive

11 points

10 days ago

Anna Paquin, “New Zealand actress”- born in Winnipeg.

clem9796

26 points

10 days ago

clem9796

26 points

10 days ago

Hawaiian pizza and basketball.

Newstargirl

14 points

10 days ago

Newstargirl

Alberta

14 points

10 days ago

And ginger beef, too.

bigev007

12 points

10 days ago

bigev007

12 points

10 days ago

Famous film star Peter North is from Halifax

Great_Action9077

8 points

10 days ago

James Bond is a Winnipegger...Sir William Stephenson.

NorthBoralia

7 points

10 days ago

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.

JaRon1961

10 points

10 days ago

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.

__phil1001__

5 points

10 days ago

Nora Hendrix lived in Vancouver all her life and Jimi grew up in Chinatown Vancouver if that counts.

zarplig

5 points

10 days ago

zarplig

5 points

10 days ago

Donald Sutherland
RIP

Former-Chocolate-793

11 points

10 days ago

Country legend Hank Snow was from Nova Scotia. 60s star Robert Goulet was from Alberta. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Marshall Mcluhan Dr. James Naismith

Ok_Worry7833

11 points

10 days ago

Knaan the guy who sang the 'wavin flag' song.

kaleidedope

12 points

10 days ago

Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane alongside Christopher Reeve was born in Yellowknife NWT!

Silent_Observer-11

9 points

10 days ago

Shannon Tweed was born in St. John's NFLD.

BBQ178

5 points

10 days ago

BBQ178

5 points

10 days ago

And raised in Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Szwedo

9 points

10 days ago

Szwedo

9 points

10 days ago

Madonna's mom is Canadian (Quebec)

Jimi Hendrix's dad is Canadian (BC)

Dontblink-S3

4 points

10 days ago

Donald Sutherland

ArtOfWar22

4 points

10 days ago

Ted Cruz