Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Happy 141st Birthday Canada!!

The Top 10 Reasons to Love Canada

10. Tim Hortons "Coffee addicts unite! ... Who can resist rolling up the rim?" Yes, we love Tim's coffee, Timbits, Iced Capps frozen cappuccinos, sour cream cake and maple doughnuts -- spelled d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t-s, please, not d-o-n-u-t-s! :)

9. The beautiful Canadian Rocky Mountains, "...still mostly untouched. You can go hiking without running into crowds of people."

8. Fresh water - That includes our lakes to swim and fish in, clean drinking water, rivers, streams and ponds. "The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway are proud parts of our history in discovering the country."

7. Hockey - Included in "Our Game" are CBC's Hockey Night in Canada -- both the show and its former theme song -- as well as national teams: The Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, and Montreal Canadiens, Cheers to our women's teams too. In Canada, hockey is "the sport that brings friends and communities together."

6. Health care - Enough said:)

5. Freedom - We're overwhelmingly grateful for our freedom of speech and religion; for our nation's independence and democracy, and for our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "In Canada, a democratic country, we enjoy the freedom to live our lives pretty much as we choose."

4. Our changing seasons - Canadians enjoy talking about the weather and are often disgruntled by the extreme heat and cold. But the changing of the seasons gives us not only something to talk about, but also to look forward to."

3. The Canadian character - You described Canadians as friendly, polite, generous, warm, open-minded, forgiving, humble, welcoming, caring, curious and honest. "It's the people that make a country great and we have a great country with outstanding people -- young and old."

2. The landscape - Vast, clean, diverse and green -- those are some of the words you used to describe our home and native land. "Whether travelling east to west or west to east, we truly have a beautiful country to be proud of."

1. Multiculturalism "From our people, our landscape, our culture(s), food, etc., the very fabric of Canada is a patchwork quilt, full of colours and textures and richness."

(taken from Homemakers.com)

2 comments:

theAlchemist said...

Considering that you drink Starbucks, prefer if I remember correctly, then I have to give you credit for mentioning only the greatest coffee in the world.

Tim Horton's!

And I believe you are incorrect, from the Tim Horton's website:

Donut

Sorry Missy!

Jen said...

Hey now! I just pulled the info...like I told you earlier I spell it "donuts" too!! :)