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Hudson's Bay Company and Hudson's Bay Blankets

[From Wikipedia:] The Hudson's Bay Company (French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson), abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the more common shorter name as its legal moniker.

It was once the de facto government in parts of North America before European-based colonies and nation states existed. It was at one time the largest landowner in the world, with Rupert's Land being a large part of North America. From its longtime headquarters at York Factory on Hudson Bay, it controlled the fur trade throughout much of British-controlled North America for several centuries, undertaking early exploration. Its traders and trappers forged early relationships with many groups of First Nations/Native Americans and its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

In the late 19th century, its vast territory became the largest component in the newly formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner. With the decline of the fur trade, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling vital goods to settlers in the Canadian West. Today the company is best known for its department stores throughout Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company Archives are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The company is owned by Hudson's Bay Trading Company, the retail arm of American private equity firm NRDC Equity Partners, which also owns a high-end department store chain in the U.S., Lord & Taylor.

[Surprise! Canada's icon is owned by Americans.]

One of the commodities that was much in demand for hundreds of years is the Hudson's Bay blanket, a heavy wool blanket with colourful stripes that was very useful during the long Canadian winter. They are still manufactured today.

Niagara Falls

There are actually two Niagara Falls, as the international border runs between them. The Horsehoe Falls (shown here) are in Canada, and the other, smaller falls, are called "American Falls".

Dairy Queen Blizzard

Served upside down and without a lid, and if it drips, you get your money back.

Smarties

Smarties are available in many countries around the world, but not in the USA. M&Ms are a similar product, manufactured in the US, and sold in Canada, and the main competitor to Smarties, so Nestle came up with a catchy advertising jingle that every kid in Canada knows by heart.

[From Wikipedia:] The words for the Canadian advertising jingle from the 1970s until the mid-1990s was:

When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast?
Eat those candy-coated chocolates, but tell me when I ask,
when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?

This jingle was set to the tune of Nick Jonas and Ernest Hare's "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)".

Another version of the lyrics is:

When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
Do you dive right in the middle, do you catch them on a pass?
Do you eat them on your ice cream? Smarties are a blast!
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?

This was the theme of many commercials by Nestle's, poking fun at M&Ms because they had no red ones, due to their use of Red Dye #2, which was deemed cancerous. Rather than using another food colouring, M&Ms dropped red altogether.

Crispy Crunch

[From Wikipedia:] Crispy Crunch is a hard chocolate bar with a crispy peanut flake inside that is now made by Cadbury. Crispy Crunch is sold in Canada.

Crispy Crunches were sold in the United States for a brief time in the 1990s by the food distribution arm of Pro Set, the collectible card company. Pro Set went bankrupt, resulting in Crispy Crunch no longer being available in the United States.

A lower-calorie version of Crispy Crunch was available for a limited time in the mid-1990s. The original manufacturers, Neilson, sold all their chocolate brands to Cadbury in 1996, though packaging continued to feature the Neilson logo for a few years. Since Cadbury began manufacturing of the chocolate bar, the recipe has changed in that it is less salty and more sweet as it has a more of the crunchy topaz coloured candy coating around the centre.

Pea Meal Bacon

Called "Canadian Bacon" in the USA, this bacon has very little fat and is actually coated with corn meal, not pea meal.

Very tasty, and usually sliced thick in Canada, but thin in the USA.

MacDonald's Export A

Export A brand of cigarette tobacco is known for its high quality and great taste.

Inukshuk

Totem Poles

Dominion, Loblaws, Loebs, and IGA

Bick's Pickles

Canada Trust

Eaton's and Simpson's

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Beaver Lumber

Zeller's

CCM

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Mister Dressup

Mr. Dressup was a Canadian children's television series which was produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1967 to 1996. (The title was also presented as Mr. Dress Up or Mr. Dress-Up in media and spin-off merchandise.)

The series starred Ernie Coombs (an American who later became a Canadian citizen) as Mr. Dressup, a character who had started on the earlier series Butternut Square. The show aired every weekday morning, and each day Mr. Dressup would lead children through a series of songs, stories, arts, crafts and imagination games, with the help of his friends Casey and Finnegan, a child and a dog who lived in a treehouse in the back yard. Judith Lawrence was the puppeteer who brought Casey and Finnegan, along with other occasional puppet visitors like Alligator Al and Aunt Bird, to life. While Casey is often thought to be a boy, the puppet's gender was never officially stated. However, in at least one episode, Mr. Dressup can be heard referring to Casey as "he". The reason behind this was so that children of either sex could identify with the puppet.

The set for the show included the inside of Mr. Dressup's house, with scenes shot in the living room, kitchen, and a kind of play room that included the Tickle Trunk (where costumes used in make-believe skits were stored) and a long counter where Casey and Finnegan often appeared. Sometimes, the action moved outside to Casey and Finnegan's treehouse.

Mr. Dressup's most famous segment featured his Tickle Trunk, from which he would get a costume. It might be an animal costume, or a policeman's or fireman's uniform, or some other outfit in which he could dress up and play whatever role was suggested by the costume. Occasionally, the Tickle Trunk would not open, in which case Mr. Dressup sang a song which ended in him tickling the lock, hence its name. The trunk appeared to be magic as it always had the right costumes, in the right sizes, neatly folded at the top of the piles of costumes. Occasionally Mr. Dressup would need to make an accessory for his costume, such as a hat, which would lead to a craft.

Mr. Dressup would usually create some kind of drawing or craft and sing a song with the puppets, such as "Down by the Bay". On occasion, Mr. Dressup would also read a book or show a short documentary to the audience. The films were usually silent and Mr. Dressup would narrate in order to explain events. He would frequently draw pictures on his drawing board to either tell a short story or to play a game with one of his visitors. He would frequently encourage children to try the craft at home or to sing along with the songs.

In later years, Judith Lawrence chose to retire from the show. Rather than cast a new puppeteer in the roles of Casey and Finnegan a team of new puppeteers were brought in, including Karen Valleau (Chester the Crow), Nina Keogh (Truffles), Jani Lauzon (Granny), Cheryl Wagner, and later, Ruth Danziger (Annie), Jim Parker (Alex) and Bob Dermer (Lorenzo the Raccoon). The new characters would visit Mr. Dressup, and over time, became the lead characters, as Casey and Finnegan appeared less and less in the show until they quit appearing altogether. This was done gradually so children wouldn't notice the absence of Lawrence's beloved Casey and Finnegan characters upon her retirement. When Casey and Finnegan stopped appearing on the show it was explained on screen that Casey and Finnegan were now attending kindergarten. With the addition of new characters, new sets were also added including the community centre and the trading post.

The final episode of Mr. Dressup was taped on February 14, 1996. Coombs spent most of the next few years touring college campuses giving talks about his time on the show (his target audience being students who grew up with his series), before he died of a stroke on September 18, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario at the age of 73.

Rebroadcasts of the series continued for a decade after it ended, until the CBC announced that it was taking Mr. Dressup out of its weekday morning lineup and moving it to Sunday mornings effective July 3, 2006. The final repeat telecast aired on September 3, 2006. The CBC plans on continuing to release select episodes on DVD.

Due to the long run of the series, several generations of Canadian children, as well as kids growing up in northern regions of the United States which received the CBC signal, grew up watching Mr. Dressup and his adventures. Ernie Coombs and the character of Mr. Dressup have become strong Canadian icons and a part of Canadian pop culture.

source: Wikipedia

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Canadian Movie and Musical Artists

The Guess Who, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Alannis Morisette, William Shatner, Pamela Anderson, Paul Anka, Dan Aykroyd, Geneviève Bujold, Raymond Burr, Jim Carrey, Jeff Douglas, Marie Dressler, Katherine DeMille, David Cronenberg, Megan Follows, Glenn Ford, Graham Greene (Canadian native Indian actor, not the British writer of the same name), Michael J. Fox, Brendan Fraser, Michael Hogan, William Hope, Eugene Levy, Rich Little, Avril Lavigne, Margot Kidder, James McGowan, Mike Myers, Leslie Nielsen, Catherine O'Hara, Rick Moranis, Raymond Massey, Gordon Pinsent, Keanu Reeves, Ann Rutherford, Fiona Reid, Christopher Plummer, Jason Priestley, Martin Short, Jay Silverheels, Jaclyn A. Smith, Al Waxman, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Margaret Trudeau, John Wildman, Fay Wray, Guy Lombardo, Oscar Peterson, Hank Snow, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Glenn Gould, Gordon Lightfoot, Tommy Hunter, Wilf Carter, Leonard Cohen, Ian and Sylvia, Anne Murray, Bruce Cockburn, The Tragically Hip, Bryan Adams, and hundreds more.

Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada (often abbreviated Hockey Night or HNIC) is a television broadcast of National Hockey League games in Canada, produced by CBC Sports. Hockey Night has consistently been among the highest-rated programs on Canadian television, and is the world's oldest sports-related television program still on the air. The intermission highlight on HNIC is "Coach's Corner", a segment featuring Don Cherry and Ron MacLean.

source: Wikipedia

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