Year From No.1 Hit
Jimmy Cooks-Drake
Anti-Hero-Taylor Swift2022
The Longest-Serving Canadian Prime Minister Was This Man, Who Was In Office For Over 20 Years
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Made On A Shoestring Budget Of $400,000, This 2004 Jon Heder Film About An Awkward Idaho Teen And His Quirky Friends Became A Sleeper Hit, Grossing Over $46 Million Worldwide And Turning Lines Like “Vote For Pedro” Into Pop Culture Phenomena.
Napoleon Dynamite
This Former Peanut Farmer From Georgia Became The 39th President Of The United States, Brokered The Camp David Accords, And Later Won The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize For His Global Humanitarian Work.
Jimmy Carter
This Stuntman Trained From Age 7 At A Peking Opera School, Doubled For Bruce Lee, And Briefly Dug Ditches In Australia Before Kung Fu Stardom.
Jackie Chan
OMG-Usher
Raise Your Glass-PinkRude Boy-Rihanna
2010
Poutine, Often Referred To As Canada's National Dish, Consists Of French Fries, Gravy, and What Other Ingredient
Cheese Curds
She Became the First Woman In Space On 16 June 1963, Where She Spent 3 Days Orbiting the Earth 48 Times and Is the Only Woman To Have Completed a Solo Space Mission.
This Legendary Television Producer And Writer Created Groundbreaking Sitcoms Like All In The Family, The Jeffersons, And Maude, Using Comedy To Tackle Social And Political Issues In American Life.
Norman Lear
Discovered R&B Via Destiny’s Child And Wrote “Hometown Glory” At 16 About West Norwood, Uploading Demos To MySpace That Caught Label Attention.
Adele
Hey Ya-Outkast
Burn-Usher
Goodies-Ciara2004
This French Explorer Marked The Beginning Of France’s Presence In Canada When He Sailed The St. Lawrence River In The 1530s And Laid The Groundwork For New France
Jacques Cartier
This Global Energy Drink, Launched In Austria In 1987, Was Adapted From A Thai Beverage Originally Popular Among Truck Drivers And Laborers.
Red Bull
This Legendary Comedian And Actor Became Famous For His Rapid-Fire One-Liners, Starred In The “Road To” Films With Bing Crosby, And Spent Decades Entertaining U.S. Troops Around The World.
Bob Hope
As A Teen, She Canvassed For Barry Goldwater And Later Shifted Leftward, Working On Child Welfare At The Children’s Defense Fund And On Migrant Labor Issues For Senator Walter Mondale During Law School.
Hillary Clinton
Abracadabra-Steve Miller Band
Who Can It Be Now-Men At Work
Mickey-Toni BasilThis Highway, Named After a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer, Follows Old Indigenous and Gold Rush Routes and Connects the Yukon To Canada’s Arctic
Dempster Highway
In 1968, An Astronomy Student, A Dental Student, And A Bass Player Formed A Band Called Smile. By 1971, They Had Renamed The Band To This Legendary British Rock Group.
Queen
This Actress From Hollywood’s Golden Age Starred In The Invisible Man In 1933 And Later Earned An Oscar Nomination Playing Old Rose In Titanic More Than Six Decades Later.
Gloria Stuart
Kicked Off His Acting Career With Small Roles While Studying At Harvard, Dropping Out Just Short Of His Degree To Pursue Films Full-Time. He Left Harvard In 1992 For Geronimo: An American Legend
Matt Damon
Dizzy-Tommy Roe
Suspicious Minds-Elvis PresleySugar Sugar-The Archies
1969
This Canadian Province Made History In 1916 By Becoming the First To Grant Women the Right To Vote, Thanks In Part To Activism By Suffragists Like Nellie McClung That Helped Sway Public Opinion
Manitoba
This Hip-Hop Icon Once Tried Out For Bubba In the 1994 Best Picture-Winning Film Forrest Gump, A Role That Eventually Went To Mykelti Williamson.
Tupac Shakur
This Golden Age Actress Appeared In Films Like The Human Comedy And Pride And Prejudice, Was Blacklisted During The Hollywood Red Scare, And Later Became A Prominent Humanitarian And Activist
Marsha Hunt
He Graduated Village Christian School In 1991 And Studied Marine Biology At Community Colleges. He Modeled From Age Two And Appeared In Guest Spots On Who’s the Boss? And The Young and the Restless Throughout The 1980s And ’90s, Pausing Briefly For College
Paul Walker