Things That Are Canadian 🇨🇦

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• Poutine: A meal of french fries and cheese served with gravy.
• Bannock: A type of flat bread.
• Butter Tart: A small Canadian pastry made of sugar, butter, syrup and egg.
• Montreal Style Bagels: A bagel that is handmade and wood-fired.
• Saskatoon Berry Pie: A pie with a saskatoon berry filling. Commonly served with vanilla ice cream.
• Beavertails: A snack made of fried dough. Also known as pizza fritte, scones, elephant ears, fried bread and fry dough.
• Split Pea Soup: A soup made from dried peas.
• Maple Taffy: Also known as maple toffee, sugar on snow, leather aprons and candy on the snow. A candy made by boiling maple sap past the point where it would become maple syrup, but not up until it would become butter or sugar.
• Ketchup Chips: Potato chips that have a tomato sauce flavouring.
• Nanaimo Bars: A no-bake dessert bar made of a wafer, nuts, coconut, custard icing and chocolate ganache.
• Pouding Chomeur: Also known as poor man’s pudding. A sweet treat made during the Great Depression by women factory workers. Made from cake batter and caramel or hot syrup.
• Pierogi: Dumplings that can be either sweet or savoury. Commonly filled with potato, sauerkraut, mushrooms or fruits.
• Maple Syrup: Syrup made from the sap of maple trees.
• Boiled Fiddleheads: Fiddleheads are the fronds of a young fern and can be eaten as a vegetable.
• Bakeapple Pie: Pies made with cloudberries.
• Dulse Crisps: Chips made from dried dulse seaweed.
• Candy Apple: Also known as toffee apples. Made by covering an apple with a sugar candy coating.
• Cinnamon Bun: Also known as cinnamon swirl, cinnamon Danish or cinnamon snail. A bun made of dough rolled with cinnamon, sugar and sometimes raisins.
• Date Square: A dessert bar made of oatmeal and dates.
• Figgy Duff: Also known as a raisin duff. A bag pudding made with raisins, breadcrumbs, brown sugar, flour, spices and molasses.
• Flapper Pie: A custard vanilla pie with meringue and sometimes whipped cream. Also known as wafer pie.
• Thunder Bay Persians: Also known as a Persian roll or a Pershing. A fried pastry or sweet roll. Can be covered with sugar, glaze or cinammon sugar.
• Sugar Pie: Dough topped with brown sugar or beet sugar and then baked.
• Bridge Mix: Also known as Grand Slam mix. A mix of fruits, nuts and chocolate.
• Coffee Crisp: A Canadian chocolate bar with layers of coffee candy and vanilla wafer.
• Caramilk: A chocolate bar filled with caramel.
• Big Turk: A chocolate bar filled with dark Turkish delight.
• Cherry Blossom: A chocolate filled with maraschino cherry, cherry syrup, coconut and peanut.
• Glosette: Chocolate-covered raisins.
• Red River Cereal: A porridge made with wheat, rye and flaxseeds.
• Shreddies: A Canadian breakfast cereal made of shredded wheat.
• Nabob Coffee: A brand of Canadian coffee.
• Tim Hortons: A fast food chain that serves doughnuts, fast food and coffee. Canada’s largest fast food chain.
• Canada Dry: A brand of soft drinks mostly known for its ginger ale.
• Honey Dill Sauce: A sauce made from dill, mayonnaise and honey. Often used for sweet potato fries.
• London Fog: A hot beverage made from Earl Grey tea, vanilla syrup and milk.
• Spruce Beer: A drink that is spruce-flavoured and can be alcoholic or not.
• Cream Ale: A dry light beer with a higher alcohol content than average beer.
• Ice Cider: Also known as apple icewine. A fermented drink made from frozen apples.
• Giant Jos Louis Cake: A Canadian sweet made of a cream filling sandwiched with two chocolate cakes and covered with chocolate.
• Blueberry Grunt: A dessert that is similar to cobber but is steamed rather than baked. Consists of stewed fruit covered in biscuits and cooked in a cast iron skillet.
• Newfoundland Snowballs: Soft chocolate fudge balls that are rolled in coconut and oatmeal.
• Wood Bison: Also known as a mountain bison. A type of mammal with a shoulder hump, horns and a curly woollen coat.
• Moose: Also called elk. Large mammals in the deer family known for their large antlers that are shaped like upturned hands.
• Gray Wolf: A canine related to dogs, coyotes and jackals. They have a dark grey coat and tend to live in colder areas.
• Red Fox: The largest fox subspecies. A fox with a red coat that mostly feeds on small rodents.
• Beaver: Large rodents that are semiaquatic. Known for their large, flat tails and for building dams.
• Lynx: A medium-sized wildcat with a short tail, fluffy caot and reflective eyes.
• Bobcat: A medium-sized cat that is native to Canada, North America and Mexixo. They have a spotted coat and has been hunted for their fur.
• Cougar: A large cat that is also known as a panther, mountain lion, puma and catamount.
• Black Bear: An omnivorous bear species that usually lives in forests.
• Grizzly Bear: Large brown bears that can weigh from 130-360 kilos.
• Polar Bear: Large white bears that live in the Arctic.
• Caribou: Also known as reindeer. A type of deer with large, branched antlers and a thick pelt.
• Arctic Fox: Also known as the white fox, snow fox and polar fox. A small white fox that lives in Arctic regions.
• Beluga Whale: Also known as the sea canary, white whale and melonhead. A cetacean that lives in the Arctic and is consistently found in a pale grey-white colour.
• Harp Seal: Also known as the saddleback seal or Greenland seal. A type of seal without ears (aka a true seal) that lies in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
• Muskox: A hoofed mammal with a thick, shaggy coat and horns.
• Common Loon: Also known as the great northern diver. A family of birds that look like ducks, but with different patterns and colouring.
• Canada Goose: A large wild goose with a grey body and black head and neck.
• Puffin: Small seabirds with an orange beak and feet. Their colouring is otherwise similar to a penguins’.
• Bald Eagle: A bird of prey with a white head, yellow beak and brownish-grey body. A symbol of freedom in America.
• Great Blue Heron: A large wading bird that lives in wetlands.
• Harbour Seal: Also known as the common seal. A true seal that lives in marine coastlines and are brown and silvery-white in colour.
• Collared Pika: A small, asocial mammal that doesn’t hibernate.
• Wolverine: Also known as the glutton, carcajou and the quickhatch. A carnivore known for its ferocity and strength.
• Ermine: Also known as a stoat or short-tailed weasel. A small mammal with a white belly and otherwise brown body.
• Pine Marten: Also known as the baum marten or sweet marten. A small animal that looks similar to a weasel.
• Prairie Dog: Herbivorous rodents that live in grasslands. A type of ground squirrel with brown fur.
• Monarch Butterfly: A butterfly also known as the common tiger, wanderer, milkweed and black veined brown. A butterfly with bright yellow-orange wings and black veining.
• Bighorn Sheep: A type of sheep with large, curled horns that can grow so large they can weigh up to 14kg.
• Grey Jay: Also known as the Canada jay, camp robber or whisky jack. A songbird that lives in forests and has pale grey underparts and darker grey wings.
• Walrus: A large marine mammal with long tusks.
• Bison: Large mammals with horns, a back hump and coarse brown fur.
• Sugar Maple: A flowering plant related to lychee and soapberry. Native to eastern Canada and grows in hardwood forests.
• Paper Birch: Also known as white birch and canoe birch. A type of birch tree that grows in North America and is comparatively short-lived. It has thin white bark that peels off the trunk in layers.
• White Pine: A pine tree that grows fluffy looking tufts of green needles.
• Douglas Fir: An evergreen conifer tree that is also known as the Douglas spruce, Comlunbian pine and the Oregon pine. It isn’t actually a true fir, spruce or pine.
• Coneflower: A flower that has downturned petals.
• Marsh Marigold: Also known as kingcup. A smallish plant that grows bright yellow flowers and is part of the buttercup family.
• Yarrow: Also known as common yarrow. A plant that grows clusters of small white flowers and grows in the Northern Hemisphere. Considered a common weed.
• Primrose: A flower that is commonly pressed for oil that is used for medicine and cosmetics.
• Ice Hockey: A contact winter team sport that is played in a rink on ice skates. Involves each team trying to score the most goals by getting the puck into a goal.
• Lacrosse: A team sport played with a lacrosse stick and ball. It has origins in Aboriginal Canada.
• Soccer: One of the most popular sports in the world. Also known as football. A team sport where you use footwork to try and score more goals than the other team.
• Gridiron Football: Also known as North American football or just football. A team sport played in the US and Canada.
• Basketball: A popular team sport played with an orange ball. The aim is to score more points by throwing the ball into a hoop.
• Baseball: A team sport involving a field, bat and bases.
• Curling: A sport where players slide stones across a sheet of ice toward a target.
• Rugby League: Also known as league, rugby, football or footy. A contact sport played by two teams where the aim is to kick the ball through a set of goalposts.
• Cricket: A game played with two teams on a field with a wicket on each end. Involves trying to hit a ball out of the grasp of the other team so you can run between wickets and score more points.
• Boxing: A combat sport played with two people who are usually wearing protective equipment. The focus is on punching and striking with no kicking.
• Niagara Falls: Three waterfalls on the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.
• Banff National Park: The oldest national park in Canada (est. 1885). Found in the Rocky Mountains near Calgary.
• Rocky Mountains: Also known as the Rockies. A major mountain range in North America.
• Lake Louise: A glacial lake in Banff National Park. Named after Princess Louise.
• Icefields Parkway: A scenic road that stretches 230km across the Canadian Rockies.
• Toronto’s CN Tower: A communications and observation tower made of concrete. In the downtown core of Toronto.
• Old Quebec: A historic neighbourhood in Quebec.
• Whistler: A resort town in the sourthern Pacific Ranges of Canada.
• Ottowa’s Parliament Hill: A building that houses the Canadian National War Memorial.
• Peace Tower: Also called the Tower of Victory and Peace. A clock and bell tower in the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ontario.
• Cabot Tower: A tower on Signal Hill, in Newfoundland and Labrador. Built to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Newfoundland.
• Old Montreal: A historic neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec.
• Vancouver Island: An island in the northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. The largest and most populated island in the west coast of the Americas.
• Bay of Fundy: A bay in between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Has the highest tidal range in the world.
• Cape Scott Provincial Park: A park that stretches from Shushartie around Cape Scott towards San Josef Bay.
• Qualicum Beach: A town in Vancouver Island. The natural environment makes it a popular tourist destination.
• Parksville: A city in Vancouver Island. Known for large sandy beaches and its annual sandcastle building competition.
• St. John’s: The largest city and capital of Newfoundland and Labrador. Also the oldest city in Canada.
• Tofino: A town in Vancouver Island. A popular tourist destination for surfers, bird watchers, campers and hikers.
• Butchart Gardens: A collection of floral gardens in British Columbia, Canada. A National Historic Site of Canada that receives more than a million visits annually.
• Okanagan Valley: Also known as the Okanagan Country. A region in British Columbia known for lakeshore communities and dry landscapes.
• Gros Morne National Park: A world heritage site and Canadian national park in Newfoundland.
• The Yukon: Previously known as Yukon Terriroty. The smallest of Canada’s three territories.
• Pyramid Lake: A lake in Jasper National Park that is shaped like a kidney.
• Moraine Lake: A glacial lake in Banff National Park. Found in the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
• Perce Rock: An enormous and sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
• Mount Logan: The tallest mountain in Canada and the second-tallest peak in all of North America.
• The Grotto: Officially called the National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother. A Catholic outdoor shrine in Portland.
• Montmorency Falls: A large waterfall in Quebec.
• Prince Edward Island: The smallest of Canada’s thirteen territories and provinces.
• Mont-Tremblant: A city in the Laurentian Mountains. Famous for its ski resort and race track.
• Archie (search engine): An engine that indexes FTP archives and lets users easily identify certain files.
• Film Colorization: The process of adding colour to monochromatic video.
• IMAX movie system: A system of high resolution cameras, projectors and theatres known for huge screens, stadium seating and tall aspect ratios.
• Java (programming language): An object-oriented programming language that is general purpose.
• 56k Modem: A device that converts data from digital to a transmissible medium.
• Computerised Braille: A software that translates script into braille and sends it to a braille embosser.
• Gramophone: Also known as a phonograph or record player. A machine that records and reproduces sound.
• Pager: Also known as a pocket bell or beeper. A wireless communication device that sends and receives messages.
• Quartz Clock: A timepiece that uses quartz crystals to regulate an electronic oscillator. More accurate than mechanical timepieces.
• Walkie-Talkie: Also known as a handheld transceiver. A portable radio that can send and receive audio messages.
• Rotary Snowplow: A piece of equipment that removes snow by using a set of circular blades to cut through snow.
• Snow Blower: Also known as a snow thrower. A machine that blows snow away from areas.
• Steam-powered Foghorn: A device that warns vehicles away from hazards like coastlines or other boats. Similar to a lighthouse, but uses sound instead of light.
• Sonar: Short for Sound Navigation and Ranging. A process that uses sound to measure and navigate distances.
• Alkaline Battery: A battery that uses the reaction between zinc metal and manganese dioxide to produce energy.
• Ebola Vaccine: A vaccine developed to prevent Ebola.
• Insulin: A hormone used as a medication that treats high blood glucose in diabetics.
• CPR Mannequin: A mannequin used by students to help them practice the CPR process.
• Trivial Pursuit: A Canadian board game that involves trivia knowledge and pop culture questions.
• Electric Wheelchair: A wheelchair with an electric motor.
• Garbage Bag: Also known as a big bag, rubbish bag and bin liner. A plastic bag that collects waste in bins, making it easier to dispose of rubbish.
• Peanut Butter: A thick spread made from crushed peanuts and sometimes salt and sugar.
• Wonderbra: An underwire pushup bra that became popular in the 1990s.
• Pacemaker: A device that helps to regulate a patient’s heartbeat.
• Kerosene: Also known as paraffin or lamp oil. A petroleum derived liquid used as fuel.
• Odometer: Also known as an odograph. Measures the distance that a vehicle has travelled.
• Snowmobile: Also known as a motor sled, skimobile and snowmachine. A motorised vehicle for travelling quickly over snow.
• Degrassi: A Canadian teen drama show created in 1979.
• Keanu Reeves: A celebrity best known for his roles in The Matrix and John Wick.
• Shawn Mendes: A Canadian singer-songwriter who started gaining popularity in 2013.
• Shay Mitchell: A model, actress and entrepreneur who starred in the show Pretty Little Liars.
• Ryan Gosling: An actor best known for his roles in The Notebook and Crazy Stupid Love.
• Ryan Reynolds: A comedic actor known for his role as Deadpool.
• Celine Dion: A singer whose most famous song was the theme song for the movie Titanic.
• Alessia Cara: A singer-songwriter known for her song “Here”.
• Justin Bieber: A singer who was discovered on YouTube by Usher.
• Alanis Morissette: A singer-songwriter and actress with a mezzo-soprano voice.
• Michael Cera: A producer, actor, singer-songwriter and comedian. Best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Juno and Scott Pilgrim.
• Mike Myers: An actor and comedian who played Austin Powers and was the voice actor for Shrek.
• Shania Twain: A singer-songwriter who has sold over a million records and is considered the “Queen of Country Pop”.
• Sandra Oh: A Canadian-American actress best known for her role as Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy.
• Rachel McAdams: An actress who played Regina George in Mean Girls and the leading actress in The Notebook.
• Seth Rogen: A writer, actor, comedian and filmmaker.
• Pamela Anderson: An actress, model and author. Best known for her roles in Home Improvement and Baywatch. Has also been featured in Playboy.
• Michael Buble: A singer-songwriter and record producer.
• Avril Lavigne: A singer-songwriter and actress. Best known for her songs “Complicated” and “Sk8ter Boi”.
• Cobie Smulders: An actress best known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky for the show How I Met Your Mother.
• Michael J. Fox: A retired actor, film producer, author and activist. Best known for his role as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy.
• Jim Carrey: A comedian, actor, writer and producer. Known for his facial expressions and slapstick.
• Carly Rae Jepsen: A singer-songwriter and actress who competed in the fifth season of Canadian Idol.
• Elisha Cuthbert: An actress and model who played Carol-Anne in Love Actually.
• Evangeline Lily: An actress and author known for her role as Kate Austen in Lost. Has also starred in The Hobbit film series and in the Ant-Man movies.
• Hayden Christensen: A producer and actor who played Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader in the Star Wars prequels.
• Neve Campbell: An acress who starred in the Scream franchise.
• Bryan Adams: A composer, record producer, photographer, singer and philanthropist.
• Sarah Chalke: An actress and model best known for her role as Elliot in the show Scrubs.
• Leonard Cohen: A poet, singer-songwriter and novelist who wrote about politics, depression, relationships and religion.
• Nelly Furtado: A singer who released “Promiscuous Girl”, “Maneater” and “Like a Bird”.
• Carrie-Anne Moss: An actress best known as Trinity from the Matrix series.
• Elliot Page: An actor and producer who starred in Hard Candy, Juno and Umbrella Academy.
• Wolverine (Marvel): A fictional superhero and member of the X-Men.
• Deadpool: A fictional character created by Marvel with the abilities of regeneration and superior physical ability.
• Captain Canuck: A comic book superhero who patrolled Canada.
• Scott Pilgrim: A graphic novel series by Byran Lee O’Malley that has since been made into a movie.
• Alpha Flight: A fictional team of Canadian superheroes.
• Guardian (Marvel): Also known as Weapon Alpha and Vindicator. A fictional superhero published by Marvel.
• Winnie Harlow: A Jamaican-Canadian model and spokesperson for vitiligo who gained popularity after competing in America’s Next Top Model.
• Kim Cattrall: An actress best known for playing Samantha Jones in Sex and the City.
• Emily VanCamp: An actress who starred in the series Revenge and also plays Sharon Carter/Agent 13 in the MCU films.
• Matthew Perry: The actor who played Chandler Bing for the show Friends.
• Aurora James: A creative director, fashion designer and activist.
• K. D. Lang: A singer-songwriter, actress and activist for animal rights, gay rights and human rights.

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