Paul Anka
Margaret Atwood
Frederick Banting
Barenaked Ladies
Robert Bateman
Alexander Graham Bell
Pierre Berton
Billy Bishop
the Bluenose
Robert Borden
Lenny Breau
General Brock
the amazing Building of the first transcontinental railway (CPR) and the Trans-Canada Highway
Raymond Burr
Butchart Gardens
John Cabot
Morley Callaghan
James Cameron
Canadian astronauts: Hadfield, Bondar, Garneau and the Canad Arm
Guy Carleton
Emily Carr
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Bruce Cockburn
Leonard Cohen
Alex Colville
Company of New France
Confederation
Constitutional Act
Coureurs de Bois
Dieppe
Celine Dion
Dionne Quintuplets
Adam Dollard at Long Sault
Tommy Douglas
Gord Downie
Lief Ericson and the Norsemen
Expo 67
Sandford Fleming
Terry Fox
Northrop Frye
Fur trade
Alexander Galt
Chief Dan George
Glenn Gould
Group of Seven: especially Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, A.Y. Jackson
Gordie Howe
Wayne Gretzky
The Guess Who (Bachman & Cummings)
Halifax Explosion
Rick Hansen
Tim Horton’s
Joseph Howe
Hudson’s Bay Company
Ian and Sylvia Tyson
IMAX
Imperial Conference
Norman Jewison
Karen Kain
Paul Kane
Yousuf Karsh
Moe Kauffman
Henry Kelsey
Kenojuak
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Cornelius Kreighoff
Klondike Gold Rush
Margaret Laurence
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
La Verendrye
Stephen Leacock
Gordon Lightfoot
League of Nations
John A. MacDonald
Alexander Mackenzie
Hugh MacLennan
Jeanne Mance
Jack McClelland
Bob & Doug McKenzie
Marshall McLuhan
Military, Canadian history
Joni Mitchell
Montcalm and Wolfe
Lucy Maude Montgomery
Susanna Moodie
Farley Mowat
Mr. Dressup/Ernie Coombs
Alice Munro
Rex Murphy
Anne Murray
French-Canadian Nationalism
New France
NORAD
North West Company
North-west Passage
L.B. Pearson
Oscar Peterson
Gordon Pinsent
Plains of Abraham
Christopher Plummer
Port Royal
Quebec Act
Queenston Heights
Radisson
Red River Colony
Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard
Mordecai Richler
Louis Riel
R.O.M.
Gabrielle Roy
Buffy Sainte-Marie
St. Lawrence Seaway
Laura Secord
Seigneurial system
Robert Service
Seven Years War
Joey Smallwood
Stratford Festival
Donald Sutherland
David Suzuki
Ken Taylor
Tecumseh
David Thompson
Treaty of Paris
Pierre Trudeau
Regina Tornado
Sir Charles Tupper
George Vancouver
William Van Horne
Gilles Villeneuve
Vimy Ridge
Voyageurs
War of 1812
Wayne and Shuster
Mike Weir
Winnipeg Strike & Flood
Neil Young
To say nothing of our Canadian parents, families, friends, and others who helped us get to where we are today.
Otherwise, this country would still be bugs and bullshit, or part of the States, and have none of the creature comforts we all take for granted every day and everywhere.
I am extremely happy and incredibly proud to celebrate Canada, famous Canadians, famous Canadian events, unique Canadian culture, and being Canadian today! I shall raise a glass to the best that has been and still is Canadian today. Cheers, everybody!
RD