ArenaNet:International cultural references/Canada

Hmm well some Canadian references I can think of offhand (other than the Poutine which is darn tasty) would maybe be a reference to Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans" series. It makes Canadians feel a little bit better about being next door to such a powerhouse when we hear Average Joe American say things like "Congratulations, Canada, for finally legalizing toothpaste!" Not an exact quote but it's real close. A miniature Moose or Beaver would be awesome. A reference to the Bluenose schooner, maple syrup, anything from Strange Brew, frozen food, Canadian bacon, or burning down prominent enemy buildings during times of war. Our "Monopoly" money where each bill is a different colour. Perhaps some Inuksuk and/or totem poles out around some zones, NPC's that actually explain what they mean, and some cape emblem designs more clearly Inuit & First Nations inspired. Obastable 15:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe something along the lines of the snake in Monkey Island 3? &mdash;Ebany  Salmonderiel  21:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Im sorry if this sounds racist but i would like to see for canada an NPC that ends ever sentence with "aye", that'd be funny, i.e "Go find Master Togo Aye, and get the crazy Purplish shining object Aye, Good Luck aye" :P Crazy 08:03, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I think you mean "eh". And the funny thing is, we do say it. A LOT. Eh? :D Kokuou 21:10, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd love to see some refrences to cold Canadian winters, something like a refrence to the far off land of Canadia, and it's hard cold winters. :) Hoki could also be mentioned. :D [[Image:UserDrago-sig.gif]]  Drago  23:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Have a mention in Ascalon City of how the Wintersday Tradition of the Norn is to put metal blades on their feet, slide around on a slick surface of ice with a wooden scythe and using the "blade" to try to get an Onyx Gemstone to the other side of the rink. And, at random times they stop playing the game and brawl with each other for a while. --Valentein 00:12, 23 November
 * Cute idea! :) -- Gaile [[Image:User gaile_2.png| ]] 20:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * ha ha ha i love that idea, very nice port to guild wars style aswell :) 10 Points Crazy 01:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hahaaaa would love a minigame like that this year for wintersday along with snowball arenas :) -Warior kronos 02:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it would be pretty cool to have a fighting tournement, similar to the Bison one, where it is pvp and teams of 4 or so using a skills template that is all the same (i.e. like during snowball fights), where the 4 players have to battle through 4 different teams, each having to win a round beforehand to reach a chest at the end that would drop a gold offhand item that was req 9 for primary attributes, +30hp, "Survival of the Fittest" inscription. It would be an excellent reference to the Stanley Cup playoffs. It could also be programmed that it only drops upon the first completion of it, and subsequent times it could drop alcohol (like a spoof on Molson's Canadian - Rurik's Ascalonian, D'Alessio's Krytan could be a joke about Frank D'Angelo's beer commercials featuring retired hockey greats like Phil Esposito), or food - any kind of food, potato chips if you want to take a stab at Mark Messier and the contest with Lays potato chips he has during the playoffs, or something silly like that. Just a random thought I had reading that old comment. LunchboxOctober 00:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

How about naming a minor dragon boss Ogopogo after the legendary lake monster of lake Okanagan (FF IV already did it) or a consumable like the Beaver Tail pastry PS Hockey mini game would rock.SirFranz 04:05, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * They could officially name "Drakkar" Ogopogo XD. --Curse You [[Image:User Curse You sig icon.png|Curse You]] (talk|contribs) 02:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Damn, so hard to come up with stuff when Canada has so little culture really...well, we got a lot of culture, but it's not our own. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  17:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Some notable people or fiction from or about Canada.

--SirFranz 00:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Politicians
 * Tommy_Douglas founder of universal health care in Canada.
 * Louis Riel founder of the Provence of Manitoba, hanged for treason.
 * John A. Macdonald first Prime Minister of Canada, notorious drinking problem.
 * William Lyon Mackenzie King Prime Minister of Canada, noted for his communing with spirits.
 * Scientists
 * David SuzukiHe is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, The_Nature_of_Things
 * Frederick Banting Co-discovered insulin and helped develop early G-suit's, worn by aviators and astronauts who are subject to high levels of acceleration or G-force
 * Fiction/Actors
 * Ann of Green Gables set in the Provence of Price Edward Island. Its also big in Japan.
 * William Shatner played Captain Kirk on Star Trek (The Original Series)
 * Lynn_Johnston well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse.
 * Wolverine/Logan fictional Canadian created by marvel comics.
 * Other
 * Terry Fox was a Canadian cancer treatment activist. He is considered one of Canada's greatest heroes and is celebrated internationally every September as people participate in the Terry Fox Run, the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research.
 * Here are some random facts about Canada.

All of them are true according to Wikipedia. Enjoy. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  04:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) We have the largest production facility for Smarties.
 * 2) We invented Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp.
 * 3) The size of our football fields, one less down, and bigger balls.
 * 4) Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON
 * 5) Lacrosse is Canadian
 * 6) Hockey is Canadian
 * 7) Basketball is Canadian
 * 8) Apple pie is Canadian
 * 9) Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers
 * 10) Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts
 * 11) In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...Past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington .. We got bored.. Because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure.
 * 12) Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
 * 13) We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER.
 * 14) Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an hour.
 * 15) The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary,who slept in and missed the whole thing...but showed up just in time to get caught.
 * 16) A Canadian invented Standard Time.
 * 17) The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.
 * 18) The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
 * 19) We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
 * 20) We don't marry our kin-folk.
 * 21) We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone. And, short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
 * 22) We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
 * 23) A Canadian invented Superman.
 * 24) We have coloured money.
 * 25) Our beer advertisements kick ass
 * 26) The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada !!
 * 27) And we don't bomb our allies. Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.
 * 28) Some of the best comedians are Canadian
 * I'd like to make some corrections, largely using Wikipedia.
 * Apple pie's country of origin is unknown, but pre-dates the discovery of the Americas.
 * The Zipper, Jet Ski and Zamboni were American inventions.
 * Velcro was a Swiss invention.
 * Penicillin was discovered by a Scottish scientist (Alexander Fleming) in England.
 * While it would be nice if some of those things were Canadian, they aren't. --Curse You [[Image:User Curse You sig icon.png|Curse You]] (talk|contribs) 00:22, 11 July 2009 (UTC)


 * 1. Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
 * 2. Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
 * 3. Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
 * 4. Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan]
 * 5. Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
 * 6. Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
 * 7. Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
 * 8. Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
 * 9. Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
 * 10. Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
 * 11. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
 * 12. Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
 * 13. Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell]
 * 14. Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC]
 * 15. Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming]
 * 16. Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
 * 17. Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier]
 * 18. BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
 * 19. Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
 * 20. Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples]
 * 21. Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
 * 22. Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack]
 * 23. UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
 * 24. Instant Replay [1955, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada]
 * 25. Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante]
 * 26. Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders]
 * 27. Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall]
 * 28. Lacrosse [First Peoples]
 * 29. Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn]
 * 30. Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis]
 * 31. Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
 * 32. Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
 * 33. Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
 * 34. Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
 * 35. WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy]
 * 36. Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp]
 * 37. Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
 * 38. Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
 * 39. Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs]
 * 40. Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias]
 * 41. Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
 * 42. Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
 * 43. Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein]
 * 44. CPR Mannequin: “ACTAR 911” [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault]
 * 45. G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks]
 * 46. Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove]
 * 47. Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy]
 * 48. Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson]
 * 49. Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte]
 * 50. Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons]

http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/ The zipper is a technicality since we improved the design, and made the modern one. So reinvented.Dominator Matrix  02:20, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Quebec
For Quebec references, I'd like to see one of the chefs offer a poutine or two chefs getting involved in the tourtière/meat pie debate. Another good reference would be to the only movie who beat Titanic on release week-end : "Les Boys". Also a Jean Chrétien look alike, or one that talks like him, mixing french and english words to make something as delightful as the classic (supposedly said to the pope): "May I kiss your bague?" (bague being a ring in French) - Zahra 23:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)