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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
Murph #248014 02/20/09 03:58 PM
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In Peterborough we have the Peterborough lift locks which are the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, and pretty darn cool to see. We also have the Peterborough Petes OHL team (that I worked for) that has turned out a lot of excellent NHL hockey players, a few of which were good friends of mine from high school.


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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
Adrian #248036 02/20/09 05:35 PM
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Gotta mention the best fishing in the world too. In Ontario, we are blessed with the most lakes on the planet

As long as you go north of Sudbury.

The best fishing I ever had was around Lynn Lake Manitoba. I used to 'trawl' a wet fly behind a canoe late at night to catch trout. The lake was just teaming with them.


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fredk #248037 02/20/09 05:37 PM
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Never tried fishing out that way before, but northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan get some monster pike, that's for sure.


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Adrian #248039 02/20/09 05:44 PM
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Great Northerns. The easist fish in the world to catch. Find one in the shallows, drop a hook in front of its snout. Bam! Looks impressive in a picture though.

One of the Girls in our camp caught a huge lake trout that summer. It measured almost 4' tip to tail.


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fredk #248041 02/20/09 05:53 PM
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Chemong Lake is an amazing lake for fishing. I was fishing off the dock one day when I was a kid and Bob Izumi trolled by when I was a little kid, I even gave him some tips on the best fishing spots in the bay near my parents house and he actually took my advice \:\) .


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fredk #248043 02/20/09 05:55 PM
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I guy I used to work with, actually his buddy, had part of his calf muscle torn off by a muskie when he was swimming at his cottage as a child. There was an incident last year in Georgian bay where a small girl was paddling in the water, and a muskie started circling her/chasing her. Thankfully, her father heard her screaming and grabbed her before the muskie attacked. I've seen a few large muskie where I go fishing for smallies, you see them following some of the loons around esp the chicks. Muskie get bigger than pike but, from my experience anyway, I find pike to be more aggressive(not necessarily more dangerous).


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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
Adrian #248049 02/20/09 06:50 PM
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I'll tell you one thing Canada is not great for: those frickin' geese!

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Ya_basta #248050 02/20/09 06:54 PM
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Those lift locks are pretty cool!

I remember reading about the physics of lift locks in the past. They only need to engineer them to lift the weight of the water when full to the brim. Because any boat displaces its weight in water, the total weight of the system never changes.

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Hate the geese, make a mess all over beaches and waterfronts, kind of ruins the experience.


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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
jakewash #248064 02/20/09 07:44 PM
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What makes Canada so great, a few people come to mind (you may know some of them, and be supprised by others).

A.G. Bell
Howie Mandle
Micheal J. Fox
Donald Southerland
Dan Aykroyd
Matthew Perry
Alan Thicke
Alex Trebek
Keanu Reeves
Paul Shaffer
Martin Short
Jason Priestly
Leslie Nielsen
Rick Moranis (AKA Dark Helmet)
Mike Meyers
Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battle Star Galatica)
Monty Hall
Guy Lombardo (from my home town, London, Ontario)
Rachel McAdams (nuff said)
John Candy
Joni Mitchell
Jim Carrey
Celine Dion (It's true, you guys in the US can keep her, it's OK, we don't mind)
Shania Twain (unlike Celine, we don't want to give Shania away)
James Cameron (Titanic, True Lies, Aliens, etc)
Peter Jennings(ABC)
John Roberts (CNN)
Kim Kattrall
Bryan Adams
Barenaked ladies (only a Canadain could come up with that name).
Rush
Triumph
The Guess Who
Loverboy
Paul Anka
Micheal Buble
William Shattner
Christopher Plumber
Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve (F1 drivers)
Neil Young

And ofcoarse

Wayne Gretzky


People like these make me proud to where the MapleLeaf on my jacket.

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