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Originally Posted by bl4h
Canadians are just idle nothings. thats the way i see em. they just exist. eat shit and die quietly.
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"Idle nothings"...
The most important and prolific inventor the world has ever known came from Canadian ancestry.
Thomas Alva Edison was the last son of Canadian Samuel Edison - (Samuel born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia). The Edison family came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists after the Americans arrested them for treason and sentenced them to death. In effect, if it weren't for the Edison family finding refuge and re-establishing in Canada...the Americans likely would have killed them - thus ending the lineage that eventually produced the inventor Thomas Edison.
The Edison family only moved (back) to the United States after taking part in the unsuccessful MacKenzie Rebellion in the mid 1800s. And
still they faced charges and threats to deport them back to Canada.
Thomas Edison was simply born in America due to political circumstance back in Canada.
Did I merely regurgitate this bit of history from Wikipedia?
No. The Edison family are distant Empire Loyalist ancestors of mine who lived on the north shore of Lake Erie (Vienna, Ontario) back in the day.
"Idle nothings?"
Go fuck yourself.
Have someone read you a fucking history book sometime.
http://www.grandriveruel.ca/Newslett...son_Museum.htm
http://www3.telus.net/st_simons/cr9911.htm
Oh - and those "
idle nothings" built the Avro Arrow, the Canadarm on the space shuttle, invented the telephone, the snowmobile, basketball, IMAX and hockey.