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Jul 23rd 2013 | 1:44 am
#31
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From: Nova Scotia
Re: QI
The variable pitch propeller was invented in Canada in 1927 by a bloke by the name of Turnbull.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 2:20 am
#32
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From: SW Ontario
Re: QI
Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, was the first person to patent peanut butter.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 3:47 am
#33
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From: Regina Saskatchewan
Re: QI
While the Caesar salad was invented by a Mexican restaurant owner in Tijuana, the Caesar, (or Bloody Caesar) cocktail was invented in Calgary in 1969. Composed of vodka, clamato juice, hot sauce, worchestershire sauce, celery salt, lime wedge, salted rim and sprig of celery, (I call the lime, salt, and celery options), it is rarely found in the hands of anyone other than Canadians.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 7:29 am
#34
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Re: QI
While the Caesar salad was invented by a Mexican restaurant owner in Tijuana, the Caesar, (or Bloody Caesar) cocktail was invented in Calgary in 1969. Composed of vodka, clamato juice, hot sauce, worchestershire sauce, celery salt, lime wedge, salted rim and sprig of celery, (I call the lime, salt, and celery options), it is rarely found in the hands of anyone other than Canadians.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 7:35 am
#36
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Jul 23rd 2013 | 8:05 am
#37
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I little know fact is that more convicts were transported to Canada than Australia. After the American War of Independence, the UK was forced to transport its convicts to Canada. Unlike Australia, it was usually the less violent crimes that were considered, so it was mostly those convicted of thievery, insanity and sexual deviancy that were forced to settle in the country. After 1867, in a post-confederation era, in an attempt to revise history the Canadian authorities had an explicit policy to downplay the extent of penal transportation to the country. That effort notwithstanding, it is now estimated that now one in seven of Canadians is directly related to a criminal and in Newfoundland, where it was many Irish convicts, it is one in three. Transportation from Britain/Ireland officially ended in 1858 although it had become uncommon several years earlier.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 9:59 am
#38
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I little know fact is that more convicts were transported to Canada than Australia. After the American War of Independence, the UK was forced to transport its convicts to Canada. Unlike Australia, it was usually the less violent crimes that were considered, so it was mostly those convicted of thievery, insanity and sexual deviancy that were forced to settle in the country. After 1867, in a post-confederation era, in an attempt to revise history the Canadian authorities had an explicit policy to downplay the extent of penal transportation to the country. That effort notwithstanding, it is now estimated that now one in seven of Canadians is directly related to a criminal and in Newfoundland, where it was many Irish convicts, it is one in three. Transportation from Britain/Ireland officially ended in 1858 although it had become uncommon several years earlier.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 10:01 am
#39
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The fruit machine was first developed in Canada. Not the "one arm bandit" sort, but rather a cunning device for identifying homosexuals.
"Fruit machine" is a jocular term for a device developed in Canada that was supposed to be able to identify homosexual people, or "fruits". The subjects were made to view pornography, and the device measured the diameter of the pupils of the eyes (pupillary response test), perspiration, and pulse for a supposed erotic response.
The fruit machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military. A substantial number of workers did lose their jobs. Although funding for the "fruit machine" project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on over 9,000 suspected homosexuals.
The fruit machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military. A substantial number of workers did lose their jobs. Although funding for the "fruit machine" project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on over 9,000 suspected homosexuals.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 10:28 am
#40
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Re: QI
Oh, the irony of being denied admissibility on criminal grounds by modern day CIC...
I little know fact is that more convicts were transported to Canada than Australia. After the American War of Independence, the UK was forced to transport its convicts to Canada. Unlike Australia, it was usually the less violent crimes that were considered, so it was mostly those convicted of thievery, insanity and sexual deviancy that were forced to settle in the country. After 1867, in a post-confederation era, in an attempt to revise history the Canadian authorities had an explicit policy to downplay the extent of penal transportation to the country. That effort notwithstanding, it is now estimated that now one in seven of Canadians is directly related to a criminal and in Newfoundland, where it was many Irish convicts, it is one in three. Transportation from Britain/Ireland officially ended in 1858 although it had become uncommon several years earlier.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 11:44 am
#41
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From: Regina Saskatchewan
Re: QI
If the transported criminals were low-level baddies, defaulters, drunks, etc they certainly set the stage for the remittance men of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even though that group was often from the upper classes. I have a story about a remittance man I got direct from an old cowboy and it's a long one, just warning you.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 12:44 pm
#42
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Re: QI
It seems that Canada coincidentally, also transported convicts to Australia.
Jul 23rd 2013 | 1:15 pm
#43
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From: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Re: QI
How absolutely wrong!!! They are wonderful! Every morning I wake up to the joy of a President's Choice Clamato Juice...work means I am forbidden the vodka alas!
Jul 23rd 2013 | 1:42 pm
#44
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I'll drink a Caesar but very rarely. I do however love the virgin Caesar; rocks, celery salt, hot sauce, wooster and fill it with clam. Also, at the club back home lager and clam is a very popular quaff.
Jul 24th 2013 | 8:18 pm
#45
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Swastika is a small mining town dating back to 1908, in Northern Ontario.
As coincidence would have it, Unity "Valkyrie" Mitford, a well known British aristocratic Nazi supporter (and rumored mother to Hitler's secret love child) was conceived in the town, as her family owned business interests (gold mines) there.
During World War II the provincial government sought to change the town's name to Winston in honour of Winston Churchill, but the town refused, insisting that the town had held the name long before the Nazis co-opted the swastika symbol (å).
Residents of Swastika used to tell the story of how the Ontario Department of Highways would erect new signs on the roads at the edge of the town. At night the residents would tear these signs down and put up their own signs proclaiming the town to be "Swastika"
Residents of Swastika used to tell the story of how the Ontario Department of Highways would erect new signs on the roads at the edge of the town. At night the residents would tear these signs down and put up their own signs proclaiming the town to be "Swastika"
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