Name one thing that is typically CANADIAN?

One thing? How about several?

To start things off, it was a Canadian who invented what the world refers to as 'Standard Time'. Prior to this brilliant Canuck coming along in 1885 and introducing his idea to the world...all cities set their time in accordance to the sun. At one point North America had over 100 time zones, coast to coast. The mans name was Sanford Flemming....

Also...

The division lines on our roads

The zipper - Gideon Sundback (1913)

Acrylics (Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite)

Basketball - James Naismith (1892)

Dental mirror

Disintegrating plastic

Ear piercer

Electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn (1882)

Electric hand prosthesis for children - Helmut Lukas (1971)

Electrical car (North America's first)

Electric wheelchair - George J. Klein

Five pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan (1909)

Foghorn - Robert Foulis (1854)

Frozen fish - Dr. Archibald G. Huntsman (1926)

Garbage bag (green plastic) - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950s)

Gestalt Photo Mapper - G. Hobrough (1975)

Gingerale - John J. McLaughlin (1904)

Goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959)

Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt (1862)

Hair tonic

heart valve operation (first)

Helicopter trap (for landing on ships)

Helium as a substitute for hydrogen in airships

Hydrofoil boat - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin (1908)

IMAX - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr (1968)

Instant potato flakes - Dr. Edward Asselbegs and the Food research Institute (1962)

Insulation

Insulin (as diabetes treatment) - Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Collip (1921)

Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole

Kerosene - Abraham Gesner (1840)

Machine gun tracer bullet

MacPherson gas mask

Measure for footwear

Muskol

Newtsuit - Phil Nuytten

Newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1838)

Pablum - Drs. Alan Brown, Fred Tisdall, and Theo Drake (1930s)

Pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow

Paint roller - Norman Breakey (1940)

Panoramic camera - John Connon (1887)

Phi (position homing indicator for aircraft)

Pictionary - Rob Angel (1986)

Pizza pizza telephone computer delivery services

portable high chair

Puzz-3D

(A) Question of Scruples - Robert Simpson (1984)

Radar profile recorder - NRC (1947)

Radio compass

Retractable beer carton handle (Tuck-away-handle Beer Carton) - Steve Pasjac (1957)

The rollerskate

Superman - Joe Shuster and Jerome Siegel (1938)

The padded baseball glove

Padded baseball bases

Table hockey - Donald Munro (1930s)

Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)

Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney, John Haney and Scott Abbott (1982)

HELICOPTER FIREFIGHTING BUCKET

FIRST COMMERCIAL JET AIRMAIL

BONE MARROW COMPATIBILITY TEST

PAINT ROLLER

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

BLOODY CAESAR DRINK

HOT WATER PROCESS TO EXTRACT OIL FROM COAL & TAR

INTERCHANGEABLE HEAD SCREWDRIVER

RADIO TRANSMITTED VOICE

FIRST TRANS ATLANTIC VOICE TRANSMISSION

SONAR

WALKIE-TALKIE

I could list thousands more, but copting and pasting is so tyring! LOL

Oh here's a short list of famous Canadian celebs:

Peter Jennings (ABC television news host)

John Roberts (CNN)

Morley Saffer (60 Minutes)

Scott Abbott and Chris Haney (inventors of game "Trivial Pursuit")

Dan Aykroyd (movie actor; Elwood of "The Blues Brothers")

Bryan Adams (musician and songwriter; writer of "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You")

Pamela Anderson (actress on "Baywatch")

Paul Anka (singer and songwriter; writer of song "My Way")

Louise Arbour (Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague)

Margaret Atwood (writer; author of "The Handmaid's Tale")

Fay Wray (actress)

Donovan Bailey (sprinter; 100m Olympic Gold Medalist, 1996)

Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) (rock group; writers of song "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet")

The Band (rock group; performed extensively with Bob Dylan)

Frederick Banting and Charles Best (discoverers of diabetes drug insulin, 1921)

Barenaked Ladies (rock group)

Norman Bethune (medical doctor; hero in Chinese civil war)

Roberta Bondar (space shuttle astronaut)

Kurt Browning (figure skater)

Genevieve Bujold (movie actress)

Raymond Burr (star of "Perry Mason" television show)

James Cameron (director of movie "The Titanic")

John Candy (comedic actor; police officer Burton Mercer of "The Blues Brothers")

Jim Carrey (comedic actor)

Robert Charlebois (French-language singer and songwriter)

John de Chastelain (general; overseer of IRA disarmament)

Hayden Christensen (actor; Skywalker in the later "Star Wars" movies)

Cirque de Soleil (acrobatic circus performers)

Leonard Cohen (poet, singer, and songwriter)

Holly Cole (jazz singer)

Douglas Coupland (writer; author of "Generation X")

H.S.M. Coxeter (world-renowned mathematician; developer of Coxeter groups)

David Cronenberg (movie director; Cannes Jury Prize winner, 1996)

Robertson Davies (author; writer of "Fifth Business")

Romeo Dallaire (general; commander of Rwanda international peacekeeping mission)

Celine Dion (ballad singer)

The Dionne Quintuplets (first ever surviving quintuplets)

Dennis Doherty (musician; founding member of "The Mamas & The Papas")

James Doohan (actor; Scotty of "Star Trek")

Atom Egoyan (movie director; 1998 Academy Award nominee)

Percy Faith (composer and arranger, esp. for movie scores)

J.C. Fields (mathematician; initiator of the Fields Medal)

Sir Sandford Fleming (creator of Universal Standard Time, 1879 & 1884)

Michael J. Fox (television and movie actor; star of "Family Ties" and "Back to the Future")

Northrop Frye (literary critic)

Nelly Furtado (singer and songwriter)

Yousuf Karsh (portrait photographer)

John Kenneth Galbraith (economist; advisor to many U.S. presidents)

Marc Garneau (space shuttle astronaut)

William Gibson (science fiction author; inventor of "cyberpunk" genre)

James Gosling (author of Java computer language)

Glenn Gould (classical piano player)

Lorne Greene (actor; star of television show "Bonanza")

Nancy Greene (skier; 1968 Olympic gold medalist)

Wayne Gretzky (hockey superstar)

Group of Seven (early twentieth century painters)

The Guess Who (rock band; writers of song "American Woman")

Monty Hall (host of television show "Let's Make a Deal")

Paul Haggis (Academy Award-winning director of "Crash")

Phil Hartman (comedian on Saturday Night Live)

Keith Hastings (inventor of Metropolis-Hastings computer algorithm)

Douglas Henning (magician, and advocate of transcendental Meditation)

Gordie Howe (hockey superstar)

MAX Corporation (group of Canadians that invented the IMAX movie format, 1970)

Kenneth Iverson (author of APL computer language)

Norman Jewison (movie director; winner of 1999 Special Academy Award)

Ben Johnson (former world-class sprinter)

Brian Kernighan (co-author of C computer language)

Margot Kidder (actress; Lois Lane of "Superman" movies)

W.P. Kinsella (author of novel "Shoeless Joe", later made into movie "Field of Dreams")

Diana Krall (jazz singer)

Guy LaFleur (hockey superstar)

k.d. lang (rock/country singer and songwriter)

Avril Lavigne (rock singer and songwriter)

Stephen Leacock (humorist writer)

Mario Lemieux (hockey superstar)

Gordon Lightfoot (folk singer and songwriter)

Rich Little (voice impressionist)

Guy Lombardo (big-band leader; 1929-62 performer of "Auld Lang Syne" in New York on New Year's Eve)

Lewis MacKenzie (general; commander of Sarajevo international peacekeeping mission)

Steve MacLean (space station astronaut)

Robert MacNeil (U.S. television news commentator)

Howie Mandel (comedic actor; host of "Deal or No Deal")

Raymond Massey (movie actor; portrayed Abraham Lincoln)

Rachel McAdams (movie actor; Regina of "Mean Girls")

Loreena McKennitt (celtic-style musician)

Sarah McLachlan (rock singer and songwriter; Lilith Fair organiser)

Marshall McLuhan (communication theorist)

David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace)

Deepa Mehta (Academy Award-nominated director of "Water")

Mike Meyers (comedic actor)

Lorne Michaels (creator and producer of "Saturday Night Live")

Joni Mitchell (folk singer and songwriter)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of "Anne of Green Gables") Rick Moranis (comedic actor)

Alanis Morissette (rock singer)

Carrie-Anne Moss(actress; Trinity in "The Matrix" movies)

Anne Murray (pop singer)

James Naismith (inventor of basketball, 1892)

Steve Nash (NBA basketball star)

Leslie Nielsen (comedic movie actor)

Sandra Oh (actress; Dr. Cristina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy")

Michael Ondaatje (author of "The English Patient")

Bobby Orr (hockey superstar)

Julie Payette (space shuttle astronaut)

Lester Pearson (originator of U.N. Peacekeeping Forces; winner of 1957 Nobel Peace Prize)

Matthew Perry (actor; Chandler of T.V. show "Friends")

Oscar Peterson (jazz piano player)

Mary Pickford (early movie actor)

Christopher Plummer (movie actor)

John Polanyi (chemist; winner of 1986 Nobel Prize)

Jason Priestly (television actor on "90210")

Raffi (children's music performer)

Keanu Reeves (movie actor)

Mordecai Richler (author; writer of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz")

Maurice "Rocket" Richard (hockey superstar)

Stan Rogers (folk singer and songwriter)

Greg Rusedski (professional tennis player, now plays for Britain)

Rush (progressive rock / heavy metal group)

Robert J. Sawyer (science fiction author; Nebula and Hugo Award winner)

Myron Scholes (economist; winner of 1997 Nobel prize)

Paul Shaffer (band leader on David Letterman's "Late Night" television show)

The key point is this: If you enter with an Irish or other passport we give you a visa. That means we give you a date by which time you have to leave Canada. Naturally that all goes into the computer and if you haven't left by the date specified it's not a good thing. If you enter as a Canadian you have no restrictions. If you Irish passport is valid you can use it to leave Ireland. When you get to the Primary Inspection Line in Canada present your Irish and expired Canadian passport. If you have any additional documentation supporting your claim to Canadian citizenship that is the time to present it as well (you have your birth certificate, right). You will be sent to Secondary Inspection. Eventually you will be allowed in. You have done nothing wrong since we cannot prevent a Canadian citizen from entering Canada (unless his name is Omar Kadhr). Next time save yourself the hassle and keep your documents up to date because there will be hassle.

Maple Syrup

Pam Anderson

Maple Syrup... Mmmmmmmmmmmm ;0)

The best sport ever....HOCKEY. Oh and letting any tom dic k and harry from the middle east move here so they can leach off of the government and make our country worse, that is 100% Canadian. The government sells out there own people and don't protect them.

Reindeer

Hockey.

RCMP at the Calgary Stampede!

(google, if you must)

A Mountie

Hockey,Eh

And beeer,eh

And geese,

yha,& hows bout'

Paul Schaffer.,

Ohyha,eh,Don't forget Paul!