HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!! CANADA 159 Canada Day Heritage Minute - "We are building a Country" youtu.be/yr2UY4f75kk?...
A Heritage Minute Salute to Canada Day
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Speak out against injustice, repost the just. LGBTQ2 Rights, Pro-Abortion, Indigenous Rights, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press. Show the World how Privileged and Proud I feel to be Canadian.
Great Canadian: Rick Hansen: 3X Paralympics Gold Medalist in Track and Field, Activist and Philanthropist. Man In Motion World Tour, in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair bringing awareness and raise money for the removal of barriers facing people with disabilities. Member-Order of Canada
Great Canadian: Chief Dan George: A Tsleil-Waututh Nation chief, acclaimed author, Academy Award-nominated actor, and Canadian Icon. He is celebrated for breaking barriers for Indigenous representation in media, and delivering profound celebrated speeches on Indigenous culture. #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Dr. Emily Howard Stowe: Canada's 1st female Dr. She founded the Toronto Women's Literary Club, She is a Cornerstone to Women's Suffrage and gaining Equal Voting Rights in Manitoba & Federally. She also successfully lobbied to open up Canadian Universities to women #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Tanya Tagaq An Inuk avant-garde throat singer, author, and activist. She was the first Indigenous artist to win the Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism. She first became widely known in Canada and Internationally for her collaborations with Icelandic Singer Bjork. #CANADA159
CONGRATULATIONS to the CANADIAN MENS NATIONAL TEAM Setting new Concacaf records including most goals by a Concacaf Team at the World Cup All Canada is so proud of how your represented us with true Character #CANADA159 youtu.be/O7qkUHcOcOo?...
Mark Carney gave #CANMNT their flowers after securing a commanding win over Qatar 🫡 #FIFAWorldCup
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6-0 for @canmntofficial.bsky.social ! What a night in Vancouver.
Great Canadian: Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success & helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. One of Canada's greatest songwriters he went to number 1 on the Hot 100 list 5X "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" will live on forever #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Swallowtail Lighthouse (National Historic Site), Isla de Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CANADA #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup)- Puppeteer Partner of Mr. Rogers he came to Canada with Rogers to work on Canadian Television. Ernie stayed in Canada to star in his own Children's Program. He became a Canadian Icon & inspired imaginations of many generations of Canadian Kids. #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Lester B. Pearson: -14th Prime Minister of Canada and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is celebrated for pioneering the first large-scale United Nations peacekeeping force during the 1956 Suez Crisis. His negotiated Suez Peace Plan is the longest lasting Middle Eastern Peace Treaty
Beauty Canada: Torngat Mountains of Labrador, Torngat Mountain National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA
Great Canadian: Dr. Roberta Bondar- The first Canadian woman in space and the first neurologist in space, she spearheaded critical research on the human nervous system. She went on to become head of an International Space Medicine Research Team working with NASA. #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Helmcken Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, CANADA
Great Canadian: Charles "Checker" Tompkins- Métis, WWII Vet, Charles was a Soldier & Code Talker in the Canadian Army, aiding the US Air Force. He translated secret messages from English into the Cree language too disguise the content from enemies Code Talkers were key to winning WWII #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Eva Aariak- An Inuit leader & politician in Nunavut. She worked to promote Inuktitut, including as the first language commissioner of Nunavut. She was the 1st woman & 2nd Premier of Nunavut. In 2021 Aariak was appointed as Canadian Governments Commissioner of Nunavut #CANADA159
Greatest Canadian: Terry Fox: -“I’ve said to people before that I’m going to do my very best to make it, I’m not going to give up. But I might not make it, if I don’t, the Marathon of Hope better continue” Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $1 Billion 4 Cancer Research-Donate Today #CANADA159
The relationship between Canada and France is anchored in our shared values, language, and history. As France prepares to host the G7, I’m here in Paris to meet with President Emmanuel Macron to build on our partnership.
Great Canadian: William (Billy) Bishop- An Heroic Canadian flying ace of WWI. Credited with 72 victories, making him top Canadian & British Empire ace of the war, earning the Victoria Cross During WWII, Bishop was instrumental in setting up & promoting the British Air Training Program #CANADA159
The greatest Canadian Song isn't a massive International Rock hit, written by a Legendary Band like The Tragically Hip or Rush It was a theme song to a small show - "The Littlest Hobo" It don't get more Canadian- Steven Page & Tom Green singing "Maybe Tomorrow" #CANADA159 youtu.be/9p13E41WO4U?...
Tom Green & Steven Page | Maybe Tomorrow (The Littlest Hobo Theme) | Official Music Video
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Great Canadian: Elsie MacGill: World's 1st female Aeronautical Engineer. She directed the production of 10% of all Hawker Hurricane fighter planes headed to the UK during World War II, earning the nickname "Queen of the Hurricanes" She was recognized by the UK for her Service to the Commonwealth
