We are saying goodbye to June with beautiful weather and starting July with even better weather, including for Canada Day.
Canada and all things Canadian were the focus of the morning. Below is an alphabetical list of Canadian inventions A to Z (with a cheat for X :) )
See below.
Loto 6/49 numbers for June 29th-2011 3-15-23-33-39-47 bonus 41
Encore - 0798162
1 Winner this morning as Carol Ann Legault correctly identified the Countryfied version of "I Kissed A Girl" and winning herself a pair of day passes to the CMT Music Festival in August as well as a McDonald's Summer Fun Pack from our friends at the Sturgeon Falls McDonald's who remind you to get a bigger bang for your buck all Summer with McDonald's Dollar Drink Days.
Monday we the grand prize of a full weekend pass including camping to the CMT Music Festival will be awarded to the first caller through to identify a montage of 5 of those "Countryfied" songs. - after the 8am news.
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Alphabetical list of some Canadian Inventions
Acrylics (Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite) - William Chalmers
Balderdash - Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne (1984)
Basketball - James Naismith (1892)
Canadarm - SPAR and the National Aeronautical Establishment (1981)
Dental mirror
Ear piercer
Electrical car (North America's first)
Electric Car Heater
Electric wheelchair - George J. Klein
Five pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan (1909)
Gingerale - John J. McLaughlin (1904)
Goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959)
Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt (1862)
Heart valve operation (first)
IMAX - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr (1968)
Insulin
Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole
Java Programming Language
Kerosene - Abraham Gesner (1840)
Lacrosse
Muskol
Newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1838)
Pablum - Drs. Alan Brown, Fred Tisdall, and Theo Drake (1930s)
Pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow
Pictionary - Rob Angel (1986)
Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
Question of Scruples - Robert Simpson (1984)
Pasjac (1957) – and we made them big enough so that our mitts would fit
Retractable beer carton handle (Tuck-away-handle Beer Carton) - Steve
Rollerskate
Snowblower - Arthur Sicard (1927)
Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1937)
Snowplow (rotary) - invented by J.W. Elliot (1869), first built by Leslie Brothers (1883)
Standard time - Sir Sanford Fleming (1879)
Stanley Cup - (Canada's Governor-General) Lord Stanley of Preston (1893)
Superman - Joe Shuster and Jerome Siegel (1938)
Table hockey - Donald Munro (1930s)
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)
Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney, John Haney and Scott Abbott (1982)
UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
Variable Pitch Propeller - Wallace Rupert Turnbull (1918)
Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings (1942)
Washing machine
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Yachtzee
Zipper - Gideon Sundback (1913)
Have a great long Canada Day weekend
Steph
