History UsefulNotes / Canada

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days Canada's Hundred Days.]] 4 Canadian Divisions fighting and winning against ''47 German divisions.''

* TheBritishEmpire: We were once part of this.
** [[YouFailHistoryForever We still are.]]

** [YouFailHistoryForever We still are.]

* SiblingYinYang: United States is known to be a HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser. Canada is the [[ButtMonkey either ignored/overlooked]] NiceGuy.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Much of our relationship with the United States is this.

** This doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Said by the Prime Minister of Canada.

---> Every once in a while Canada taps the world on its shoulder and says, "Hey, take a look over here. I have a secret to share with you." And the world looks in. But they should know Canada is this good even when nobody is looking.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: What the Canadians forces were during the time of TheWarof1812, despite being a British colony and not Canada yet.

* LetsGetDangerous: Before WorldWarI, Canada was just some British colony overseas. By the end of the war, German soldiers were ''terrified'' of Canadian troops.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: What the Canadians forces were during the time of Warof1812, despite being a British colony and not Canada yet.

* WorldWarI: Where we began to grow TheBeard.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Canada and US. Yes, we bicker and insult each other like there's no tomorrow. But when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellow_Ribbon one]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_caper needs]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion help]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina the]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4V6YF6SA other]] will give it. See the main page for more details.

** Our relationship with Netherlands too. In WorldWarII, Netherlands was invaded by Germany and suffering from

* SiblingYinYang: United States is known to be a HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser. Canada is the polite, [[ButtMonkey either ignored/overlooked]] NiceGuy.

* SiblingYinYang: United States is known to be a HotBlodded BoisterousBruiser. Canada is the polite, [[ButtMonkey either ignored/overlooked]] NiceGuy.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Vancouver 2010 OlympicGames. The fact that we broke the gold medal record for the most gold medals won by any country in the Winter Games when previously, we had never won any gold medals on home soil made it all the more sweeter.

* TheRival: United States.
* SeriousBusiness: We take hockey very serious. Anyone who says otherwise suffers a painful death.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Vancouver 2010 OlympicGames.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Much of our relationship with the United States is.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Curling. Not to mention Canada's captains of said sport, [[BaldOfAwesome Kevin Martin]] and [[HotMom Cheryl Bernard.]]
* SeriousBusiness: We take hockey very serious. Anyone who says otherwise suffers a painful death.

* SeriousBusiness:

-->''"Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays; c'est l'hiver."''\\
--Gilles Vigneault
-->[[spoiler:(Rough Translation: My country isn't a country, it's winter.)]]

-->"Hi... I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader. I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled, and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a President. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'. I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, not policing; diversity, not assimilation; and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch, and it is pronounced ''zed''. Not ''zee'', '''zed'''!! Canada is the second largest landmass, the first nation of hockey, and the best part of North America!!! '''MY NAME IS JOE, AND [[ThisIsSPARTA I! AM! CANADIAN!!!]]''' Thank you."\\
--Joe

We have three CrowningMomentsOfAwesome that fill most Canadians with pride. The first is when we repulsed a United States invasion of Canada in the War of 1812. The second is the battle of Vimy Ridge in WorldWarOne, where the four Canadians divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated in battle together, using tactics by Canadian General Arthur William Currie to capture the ridge from the Germans, an achievement that had eluded the British and French forces. And finally, Game 8, 1972, Canada v. Soviet Union, HENDERSON SCORES BABY. Of course, per usual with any of our achievements, other nations try and drag us down. Americans claim it was mainly British soldiers who burned down the White House, Brits and the French claim Canada only took Vimy Ridge due to support from them, and that the ridge wasn't that important in the Western Front anyways, and the Russians are steadfast in their belief Canada only won the Summit Series Hockey match through cheating.

And recently, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics had filled us Canucks with pride. In both the Montreal and Calgary Olympic games, Canada had failed to win any gold medals in home soil. But here, we won a total of ''fourteen gold medals'', [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the most gold medals ever won by any country]] at the Winter Games. Which meant our national anthem was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heard more than any other country]] in our own country at the Olympics. It began with Alexandre Bilodeau at moguls and ending with the men's hockey team beating United States 3-2 in [[DownToTheLastPlay overtime.]]

* UsefulNotes/IceHockey: our national winter sport. One that we [[SeriousBusiness take very seriously.]]
* Main/TheCommonLaw

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And recently, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics had filled us Canucks with pride. In both the Montreal and Calgary Olympic games, Canada had failed to win any gold medals in home soil. But here, we won a total of ''fourteen gold medals'', [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the most gold medals ever won by any country]] at the Winter Games. Which meant our national anthem was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heard more than any other country]] in our own country at the Olympics. It began with Alexandre Bilodeau at moguls and ending with the men's hockey team beating United States 3-2 in [[TheCaseyEffect overtime.]]

And recently, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics had filled us Canucks with pride. In both the Montreal and Calgary Olympic games, Canada had failed to win any gold medals in home soil. But here, we won a total of ''fourteen gold medals'', [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the most gold medals ever won by any country]] at the Winter Games. Which meant our national anthem was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heard more than any other country]] in our own country at the Olympics. It began with Alexandre Bilodeau at moguls and ending with the men's hockey team beating United States 3-2 in overtime.

* UsefulNotes/IceHockey: our national sport. One that we [[SeriousBusiness take very seriously.]]

-->''"Canada is like a loft apartment over [[{{Eagleland}} a really great party]]. 'Hey! Keep it down in there, [[CanadaEh eh?!']]"''\\
--RobinWilliams, "Live On Broadway"

-->''"Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver."''\\

-->"Hi... I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader. I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled, and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a President. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'. I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, not policing; diversity, not assimilation; and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. A tuque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch, and it is pronounced ''zed'' not ''zee'', '''zed'''!! Canada is the second largest landmass, the first nation of hockey, and the best part of North America!!! '''MY NAME IS JOE, AND [[ThisIsSPARTA I! AM! CANADIAN!!!]]''' Thank you."\\

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqUde5i4KbI Joe's]] explanation of Canada (seen above) sums up what most Canadians see their country as. It is a land of misconceptions, and most Canadians take that in good stride, even using it for self deprecating humor. We're quiet, peaceful and we don't like to make a fuss, though that never stopped us from standing up to [[ThoseWackyNazis evil]] when we were needed. We also get a little stir crazy over Hockey. It's... just so AWESOME.

There aren't many of us. For the second largest country in the world, there are only 35 million Canadians, which compared to other countries is pretty small (The United Kingdom has double the amount of people crammed on that small island). Despite us being few, we historically like to fight with one another for god knows why. The Western provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) like to hate on Central Canada (Ontario and Quebec), the Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) have severe inferiority complexes and resent that they never get any of the good stuff, Newfoundland sort of still collectively wishes they hadn't joined Confederation, while the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Francophones]] in Quebec look poorly upon the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Anglophones]] in the rest of the country. (Basically, each side see the other as AlwaysChaoticEvil, [[GreyAndGrayMorality except its more complicated]].) Every province likes to bash Ontario, and all Canadians who don't live there like to talk about how much Toronto sucks. Why is it like this? Mainly because of our confusing origins and exacerbated regional differences. In many cases, we're also {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}, in that we're always teasing and mocking each other, but when the chips are down and we're in a real crisis, we help each other out.

** Main/{{Montreal}}, the second largest French speaking city in the world after Paris, culturally speaking, Montreal is as close you can get to Paris without actually moving to the real Paris.