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Canadians Play The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is an exciting, futuristic, powerful movie, released in March, 2012. The movie is based on the best selling novel by Suzanne Collins, in which the nation of Panem has been separated into twelve functional nation-states called districts. The districts are controlled in the Capitol, a fortress city. Capitol is where the wealthy [...]
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Trivia EH? Pablum
Pablum was invented in 1930 by three doctors and a nutritionist, all from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, along with co-inventor Harry H. Engel, of Mead Johnson & Company. The name Pablum is based on the Latin word pabulum, meaning “food” or “fodder”. Another product developed by the co-inventors of Pablum, a year [...]
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History of Pablum
Goo goo ga ga … whoops, sorry, we were just talking baby talk. Actually, that’s not so far off the subject of this article! Though acquired by H. J. Heinz Company in 2005, from the time of its invention to that point, Pablum was largely an all-Canadian venture. The only exception to the list of [...]
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Trivia EH? Canadian Club
It’s true: Canadian Club was first invented and marketed by American distiller Hiram Walker. For various reasons, he moved across the border, and a little later, began to market his famous whisky. Maturation — the amount of time alcoholic spirits spend aging — helped Mr. Walker’s sales, and later, sales of the sons who inherited [...]
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Canadian Club
This is not an article about that exclusive place called The Canadian Club, which can be found on Bay Street in Toronto, among other cities and streets. This article is about whisky! One of the most recognizable drinks in the world didn’t start out in Canada. And while it’s still created in Windsor, Ontario, the [...]
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Dave Nichol and President’s Choice
Question: when is something bigger than a store or brand, but small enough to take home and enjoy? Answer: when it’s President’s Choice! Talk about an iconic Canadian company… Do you remember Dave Nichol? Now there’s an interesting man. He’s a Canadian Product Marketing expert, and currently the CEO of Dave Nichol & Associates. You [...]
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Trivia Eh? Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, born a Scot, was knighted by King George III in 1802 for his achievements in exploration (founding of the Northwest Passage). Mackenzie was married twice, though it’s difficult to find detail concerning his first wife, thought to be a Metis. He was 48 when he married his second wife, Geddes, who was [...]
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Canuck Quotes: Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Of his famous journey — in a birch bark canoe – Mackenzie wrote: “this favourite project of my own ambition.” A fur trader’s canoe was no ordinary vessel. He spoke highly of his own, which he variously described in the following ways: “At the same time she was so light, that two men could carry [...]
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Sir Alexander Mackenzie — knighted in 1802 by King George III (as Knight Bachelor) for achievements in exploration — was born in 1762 in Stornoway. Stornoway is on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. One of his greatest, grandest explorations and claims to fame was that his east to west crossing [...]
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Life After Death
A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other if there is sex after death. Their biggest fear was that there was no after life at all. After a long life together, the husband was the first to die. True to his word, he made the first contact: [...]
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:D ty for project help!!!
wtf? 
No wonder she has chocolate named after her :O Amazing