Top 50 Canadian Inventions

[redmarvel]

Ok, to be quite frank I don't agree with some items on this list.

If we take credit for a Canadian inventing something while living/working in a foreign country than we can NOT take credit for a foreigner inventing something while living/working in Canada. Yet, this list does...

1. Insulin
2. The Telephone (I disagree with this one for the above reason)
3. The Light Bulb

also on the list a couple of inventions no other country may have heard of:
The Bloody Ceaser and Poutine were both in the top 25.

Truly useful things:
The Electric Wheel Chair, The Robertson Screw (Phillips only invented his afterward), and the Zipper

http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/inventions.html

Which would be your picks and why?

 

[Mr Sparkle]

maple syrup?
is that in there?

 

[Abaddon]

oooh, the Blackberry.

 

[redmarvel]

maple syrup?
is that in there?

Nope, not there.

 

[kane9321]

hockey?

go sharks

 

[redmarvel]

Nope, not Hockey either though the following did:

Basketball
Lacrosse
5 Pin Bowling
Goalie Mask
Birch Bark Canoe
Ski-Doo

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Ok, to be quite frank I don't agree with some items on this list.

If we take credit for a Canadian inventing something while living/working in a foreign country than we can NOT take credit for a foreigner inventing something while living/working in Canada. Yet, this list does...

Canadia lives by it's own rules, Bub.

 

[NHawk19]

Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, and the phone was developed in Boston

 

[CyberFaust]

insulin wasn't canadian
there's a big international case about that one

 

[Morg]

Elisha not on it? Bah!

 

[Immortalfire]

I can only assume this means invented by a Canadian, not in Canada. As basketball was born in Massachusetts.

 

[OliPhoenixFire]

Haha Morg! I know, i know! We should include the many canadian actors and singers that now live in Hollywood or made a big american blockbuster!

Elisha Cuthbert
Kiefer and Donald Sutherland
Rachel McAdams
Celine Dion
Shania Twain
Michael Bublé
Anna Paquin
Shawn Ashmore
Jim Carrey
Mike Myers
Avril Lavigne
Keanu Reeves

Help me out!

 

[redmarvel]

insulin wasn't canadian
there's a big international case about that one

well, this website specifically cites the University of Toronto and Banting & Best as the Discoverers

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldiabetes.htm

Do you have details about this "international case", because I've never heard about it before?

 

[Motown Marvel]

poutine should be number one....and they need to start making that s#!t in america!

 

[OliPhoenixFire]

OMG!!!! Who said poutine? Oh yeah! You're right! Quebec's pride! So fat, but SO good!

 

[CyberFaust]

well, this website specifically cites the University of Toronto and Banting & Best as the Discoverers

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldiabetes.htm

Do you have details about this "international case", because I've never heard about it before?

i'll look it up

 

[Halcohol]

I'm a big fan of the retractable beer case handle.

 

[kane9321]

I'm still thinking about moving to canada

 

[OliPhoenixFire]

I'm still thinking about moving to canada

Go ahead! Its a nice and peaceful place!

 

[redmarvel]

Go ahead! Its a nice and peaceful place!

Maybe in the boondocks, but T.O. is getting to have a bit too much murder and mayhem.

 

[Childlike Wild]

Go ahead! Its a nice and peaceful place!

Nice and peaceful usually equals boring.

Poutine is tasty though.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

Rush. The best thing to come out of Canada.

 

[Canadian Rider]

Nice and peaceful usually equals boring.

Poutine is tasty though.

Uhmmm.... most recent sex survey out said that we were more (amourous) than most places in the Western Hemisphere ... so perhaps boring is not quite accurate. Poutine is not the only tasty thing apparently

 

[Kaboom]

grizzly bears

 

[Roughneck]

The De Lorean