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This Canadian hockey player started one of Canada's most successful coffee chains.
Who is Tim Horton?
This red apple, developed by its namesake, was invented in 1811. Also the name of a family of PCs designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Inc.
What is Macintosh Apple?
He was an athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
Who was Terry Fox/Terence Stanley Fox?
Created in 1950, this disposable bag used to contain solid waste can be attributed to Canadians Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen and Frank Plomp
What is a Garbage Bag?
This actor gained wider recognition in 2004 with a leading role in the commercially successful romance The Notebook. He is also the image for "Hey Girl..." memes.
Who is Ryan Gosling?
This hockey team was the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup.
What is Montreal Canadiens?
Named after a Canadian city, this is a distinctive variety of handmade and wood-fired baked bagel.
What is Montreal Bagel?
French-Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
This is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. First North American microscope of this kind was created in 1938 at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus.
What is an Electron Microscope?
He is an actor, comedian, author, film producer and activist with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s. He starred in the Back to the Future trilogy in which he portrayed Marty McFly.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
This Jamaican-Canadian athlete won three World Championships in the 100 meter sprint and the 4 x 100-meter relay and two gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games.
Who is Donovan Bailey?
In 1904, John J. McLaughlin, a pharmacist and chemist created this carbonated beverage which gained popularity as a mixer during prohibition as it helped mask the flavour of homemade liquour.
What is Canada Dry Ginger Ale?
She came to Canada as a refugee from Haiti in 1968, and later became the first Black Canadian to become the Governor General of Canada from 2005-2010.
Who is Michaëlle Jean?
Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn filed patent in 1892 for this integrated electrical heating device to cook and bake.
What is an Electric Oven?
This actress is known for her roles as Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2005–2014) and Eve Polastri in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–present).
Who is Sadra Oh?
This Canadian, who moved to the United States, invented the game of basketball.
Who was James Naismith?
Patented in 1962 by Canadian scientist Edward A. Asselbergs, these are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk.
What are Instant Mashed Potatoes?
Best known as the former lieutenant governor of Ontario. He was the first person from a visible minority to take on the role, and the first black member of parliament in Canadian history.
Who was Lincoln Alexander?
Also known as a motor sled, ski-doo, and snowscooter, this is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. In 1911 a 24 year old, Harold J. Kalenze, patented the Vehicle Propeller in Manitoba, Canada.
What is a Snowmobile?
She is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005)
Who is Deepa Mehta?
These twin sisters from Gwich’in First Nation were members of Team Canada’s first Olympic women’s cross-country ski team. Between them, the sisters won 79 medals at the national championships, including 48 national titles.
Shirley and Sharon Firth
Now a generic term for edible varieties of rapeseed oil in North America and Australia, this oil's name was originally trademarked by Rapeseed Association of Canada as a condensation of Canada, oil, and low acid.
What is Canola oil?
In 1990, he achieved national fame for his refusal to accept the Meech Lake Accord, a constitutional amendment package negotiated to gain Quebec's acceptance of the Constitution Act, 1982. He was displeased that the Accord had been negotiated in 1987 without the input of Canada's First Nations.
Who was Elijah Harper?
This is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. In 1937 Donald Hings created this portable radio signaling system for his employer.
What is a Walkie-Talkie?
Born in England, she is a Canadian freelance writer, journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker of Pakistani origin. She created the CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Who is Zarqa Nawaz?