You know you're in Canada when...

[Dreadbelly]

Our money, has toonies, we're all up here spending loonies, and through this cartoony, we're invading your brewskies...

Sorry. Really bad attempt here. Some of you might know the source.

[Rampant Lion]

Love the big Oiler's logo in the rink! Go Oilers!

Dreadbelly, Tiny Toons?

[macwilkin]

...you remember Vimy Ridge, Dieppe and the siege of Hong Kong.

Regards,

Todd

[MacWage]

Now, back to original post:

OK we've all been complaining about the cold and snow(except for a couple of Xmarkers from Alberta). I just received these pics today in an email titled "You know you're in Canada when..." It's from a neighbourhood in Sylvain Lake in Alberta.
Clicketypop enabled for Mr. dial-up Dread

I REALLY like that idea. Too bad it's not cold enough (regularly) nor can I skate (odd non-parallel feet isues).
I have to keep my stuff miniature (O-Guage layout based).
(I am actually planning an Omni-based arena to have the Atlanta Flames playing the Thrashers- My layout, My rules!)

I didn't know they made Zamboni attatchments for riding tractors . . .
Now, to repaint the John Deere into Olier's colors . . .

[Colin]

I grew up beside Arnie Asham (anyone that has curled will know that name), and he always had a rink in his back yard for us kids to play hockey or curl. Of course we also had a outdoor hockey rink right out front of our place.

Great memories, but I have no interest in living in Winterpeg again. This past weekend, I went for a nice hike in my nice green forrest in a sweater.

[Rampant Lion]

When I was a kid we had neighbors on one side of us that was a nice couple (about the same age as my grandparents). Mr. Wood(who insisted my brother and I call him "Uncle Don" worked for the City of Wetaskiwin(my home town) and was kind enough to get the city to create a skating rink in the field behind our row of townhouses. Nothing fancy with boards, just banked snow and ice, but it was great. I know a few kids learned to skate there. Oh yes, the memories.

[starbkjrus]

Well first off there's Brown's line, Kipling (To IKEA), Islington, Parkside, Lakeshore (As the name suggests), Jamison, (Gets you to the CNE) Spadina (Gets you to the CN Tower and The Rogers Centre Sky Dome), Young and York (To the downtown core and Bay street), Jarvis(Downtown, DVP (gets you back north to the 401 then the 416 to Ottawa for the worlds largest rink!!) and then the end of the Gardiner. Queen runs parallel with the Gardiner.
However you can get onto the Gardiner from The QEW (Queen Elizabeths' Way)
That's what I remember from my last commute. tongue in cheek whilst wearing a toque....cheers just a razzin ya mate!!

Actually you're right. When we were last in Toronto we were staying with friends at their new (to them) house we had not been to yet. (Off Queen but out near the beaches). It was Lake Shore Blvd. with all the exits. Our directions brought us down the 427 to the Gardiner and then said get off on Lakeshore. They should have said go to the END of the Gardiner where it puts you on Lake Shore. We knew better than to get off in Etobicoke but we still ended up having to cross most of downtown at rush hour on Lake Shore. Passing expressway exit after expressway exit. Arghhh.

[KiltedKnight]

Kilted Knight, I spent three months back in '71 guiding groups of kids through the boundry waters canoe area. I too kept looking for the painted line that would tell me when we crossed into Canada.
So, no, your not dense, just lost.

"Nope, I can't say that I've ever been lost...I've been a mite confused for a month or two but I've never been lost". (Brian Keith in "The Mountain Men")

Chris.

[SnakeEyes]

...you remember Vimy Ridge, Dieppe and the siege of Hong Kong.

Regards,

Todd

Thank you for that. Serious.

[LordKiltClad]

My dad grew up in Sudbury, Ontario. I have all kinds of his stories he would tell my sister and I. Mainly about how the snow would build up against the row houses, and how he and my uncle would climb out the hatch in the roof, slide down the snow (the best part of it all he remembers) and then dig back to the front door of the house.

Of course there is always the "I walked up hill both ways in the snow to get to school, fighting off wolves as we went". There is actually some truth to that. Since looking at Sudbury topographical maps, there was a large hill between his school and home. So he literally walked up hill halfway to school, and halfway home. Funny how it comes out though. Still not sure about the wolves.