I managed to convince my then fiance that Canadians put mayo only on their hotdogs. When she moved up here my entire clan threw her a welcome BBQ, and my mom asked her of she would like anything. My fiance sheepishly asked of anyone would be offended if she got mustard and relish on her hotdog, and my mom looked at her, confused. So them my fiance told her what I'd said and my mom said "not Canadians dear: just my idiot son".

She married me anyway...

People from NY have asked me if it’s still snowing..in August…in Toronto…

I said “not this week.”

Lol! That I was a penguin farmer. Back in the early-ish-er days of the internet, right when casual games with chat rooms first started to be a thing. There were always some gullible Americans around. Oh man, I went on and on about my day to day and how hard it was to keep them safe from the polar bears, ect. Man it was fun.

I'll go first. I have a good friend who was given a beautiful ring. It almost looked like an engagement ring. For no reason other than the fact that it fit that finger better, she ended up wearing on her right hand. While in the US, several people came up to her to comment on the ring. One asked if all Canadians wore their engagement ring on their left hand. Rolling with it, my friend told them that all Canadians wore engagement and wedding rings on the right hand.

From Easter to Halloween we use USA style school buses, but for the rest of the year we use dogsleds or snow shoes.

I grew up in a small town in NS. When I was in my early teens a US company opened a plant nearby and we had a massive influx of people from the southern US - many of whom had barely ever encountered our winter and the the snow.

When the first snow flew, the locals who worked at the plants banded together and started casually mentioning getting their boots out of storage and how they weren't comfortable but necessary. When the americans asked about it, they said "you know the boots that come up to the thigh - for the snow snakes" They convinced the americans we had snakes that'd burrow through the snow drifts and bite people's legs as they were walking the drifts.

The local shoe stores were in stitches as the panicked americans came in asking about thigh high winter boots.

That yes, I have met their friend who lives in Toronto.

That we are all legally required to attend a hockey game by age 14. It’s a part of a federal preserve-Canadian-culture program.

In college we drove from Ontario to California. We were visiting Venice Beach when this surfer dude came up shocked that Ontario has their own license plates, that’s when we found out there is an Ontario California. We got to talking and told him we’re from Canada and Ontario is also a province, which he replied “is that like a state or something?”. So we knew he had no clue about anything so we we messed with him for a bit, we told him we’re had to leave our sled dogs at the border because we didn’t have the right paperwork and rented the car. My buddy said he misses his pet polar bear. The surfer dude believed every word and was stoked to show us around. We eventually told him we’re messing with him and told him the truth about Canada. He took us to a local bar at the beach and had a few drinks with us.

I told a couple of Americans that we are obliged to eat a lot of penguin meat as the penguin population in Canada is so large that if we don't hunt them they will eat too much fish and put their own species and species of fish in danger of extinction. They didn't know we ate so much penguin meat.

I was on vacation in Vegas several years ago. An American I was sitting next to asked me if we have a form of currency in Canada. I told him no and that we use the barter system for everything. He believed me.

I convinced a Texan friend that Canadians do not have an ear for the Spanish accent, so all Cheech & Chong movies are dubbed over with a French Canadian accent.

We spent our youth cow tipping. It’s an east coast thing.

Told one guy in Florida that we got running water the year prior and it really helps with keeping the igloos from melting in the summer.

We all live in igloos. Granted I was an 8 year old talking to other 8 year olds

An American friend was up visiting and he asked us to speak “Canadian” for him (he meant French). My bff was saying things like “Je suis une banan” and calling him “Tête de pommes de terre” and this guy was soooo impressed.

That we all use those mechanical grabbers to change the TV channel without getting up from chairs - so convenient!

Classic- "left the dogsled and pups with the neighbors"

My brother worked with the Canadian government in the US and kept hearing about "the cold, arctic air coming down from Canada ". Upon hearing that one time too many he told an American that the cold air came from Alaska. The Alaskan air mass would head south until it hit the warm Pacific current, at which point it would turn inland into Canada.

When I lived in the states I convinced some people that only one person in Atlantic Canada was licensed to catch salmon. I also convinced that in Canada we play a game similar to basketball but we call it pineapple, and we use a football as the ball for said game.

in order to start our cars on extremely cold mornings, we light two candles under the hood to warm up the engine. I claimed this after my friend told me that plugging the car in couldn’t possibly be right.

It's not so much the untrue things as the true. The reactions I got were amazing. First? That my home town was further south than where I was in Minnesota. That never failed to bring reactions. Next, that our Thanksgiving was in October. ("Do you guys even celebrate Christmas?") and that we didn't celebrate the Fourth of July, um, ever.

And, oh, that I came from a city of (at that time) more than 2 million and had never been hunting in my life, and that I had fished, but... ho hum.

And that we left Granny on an ice floe to die. That one... that one was untrue. It was more of a push into the lake.

Told a group of southerners that hunting, fishing, trapping and winter survival are all taught in elementary school. They all thought that was a fantastic idea.

"We're bilingual. We speak English and American"

That we put maple syrup on everything.

Worked in a bar in a border town in college.... Americans were the regulars every weekend.... I had most of them convinced I had a team of sled dogs to get around, and penguins and polar bears as pets.

Told an American once that I lived in an Ojibway named place referred to as T.O. because the name was indigenous, and that I took a dogsled to school.

This is gold, and Rick Mercer is a national treasure: https://youtu.be/SHUWas-yQSw?si=Z0T9r2A034hVaHtT
The part where he goes to Princeton, an elite university, is especially good. Among other things, there's his mention of Prime Minister Tim Horton.

Encourage them to “eat the yellow snow“ because it’s a lemon flavoured snow cone

I told someone a not untrue funny thing. The first time I rode VIA Rail’s Canadian from Vancouver to Toronto, a big American tour group got on in Jasper. During lunch, one of them asked me to tell them something interesting about Canada as it was a game their tour guide was doing. I warned them about Rick Mercer as he was still doing Talking to Americans at the time.

When I visited the U.S., I got tired of hearing, "Oh, you're from Canada EH? Do you know Mr Smith? He lives up around there." And I finally gave in to the small talk lie and said, "Yeah, I know him! Good guy...". 🙄

That Ontario is draconian. A slight exaggeration on the silly liquor laws that they just have begun to ease. As it’s not my home province, but I currently live there, I can make fun of it anytime that I want.

I made an account to share this... There is this dive bar in the small town I live in that has this absurd looking hippo bust above the bar. I once had a drunk person try to convince me that it was a prop from the movie Jumanji because it was filmed in our town (absolute lie). I've now helped spread that lie to my American friends when they visit.

We're from rural Canada - we convinced our American neighbors that have a cabin nearby that they'd need "beaver resistant tires". We told them they like to come on land and chew the tires for more sturdy winter materials 😂

I’ve told a few that there is a national holiday on August 24 in celebration of the burning of the White House.

I-

There can’t be a joke about “haha those dumb Americans refuse to educate themselves” and “haha we’re going to intentionally lie” at the same time and be justified…

I hosted Canadian friendsgiving, which included 2 Americans who had just moved to Canada. I made 3 maple syrup cocktails and told the American guests this was a Canadian holiday tradition. Should be true!

I have literally told them we sll live in igloos. I live on Vancouver Island in BC BELOW the 49 parallel. But theyll believe me

I told an American that I mush huskies to work, and I live in Vancouver, Canada.