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None of those. The iconic Canadian product is obviously Maple Syrup. Rye Whiskey possibly in some places as Maple Syrup can be expensive to import.
I was speaking to leading Canadian corporate brands which also produce a product. I just got back from Frankfurt and saw a few CRJs landing at the airport. Seeing a Bombardier plane landing or taking off all over the world is very common. In Bangkok the skytain rail vehicles are made by Bombardier and there are so many other examples... The numbers of global citizens who have travelled on a Bombardier product is staggering and more people have travelled on a those products than consumed Canadian Maple Syrup or Canadian Whiskey.
No disrespect, but that list is highly inaccurate. I'm assuming you got it online and it's one of those "inventions made in X country" lists. They are often spun, regardless of the country being credited, if not flat out wrong. Many of these list the first to successfully market an invention.
Several of those were invented by Americans or other nationalities, sometimes who just happened to be in Canada at the time of it's marketing. The telephone, for example, was made by a Scot who temporarily resided in Nova Scotia before moving to the US and becoming a citizen. The zipper was similarly made by an American(s), but the guy who made it just happened to first market it in Canada, thus it is often confused with being a Canadian invention. The snowmobile was invented in Michigan by an American at least 20 years before more Bombardier's more popular snowmobile, yet Bombardier is listed as the inventor. There are many others there that were also invented by Americans or other nationalities and are on that list.
Now Insulin, THAT was hands down a Canadian discovery, and arguably the Canada's best. It was a really, really, big deal back in those days. It was the first time a Canadian university entered the scientific limelight in a big way, got people really excited about increased independence from the British Empire.
You are being sarcastic, but actually many of them were invented by Americans. The list is wrong.
well your claim is just as extraordinary as his list is potentially so why dont you break down the list item by item and associate it with the actual inventor and country of origin.
Over 95% of all the beer brewed in The USA, Canada and Mexico is made by foreign corporations. Inbev is a Belgian-Brazilian company that owns most of Anheuser Busch. SAB-Miller, a British company that originated in South Africa, makes Coors and Miller, and also bottles most of the Coca Cola in the world. Those companies also own all the popular Canadian and Mexican beer labels, too.
Canada is not too good at grabbing patents and marketing to the world and blowing its horn about it, but there have been some pretty important inventions:
Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
Snowmobile [1922, Armand Bombardier]
BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada]
Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
Land [ca. 1000, Lief Ericson]
OK, so atomic energy and space flight were not American inventions because Teller was Hungarian and Bohr was Danish and Fermi was Italian and Von Braun and Einstein were German, etc etc.
Americans believe that Ford invented the automobile and Eastman invented photography, and Edison invented everything electric,and Fulton invented the steamboat, and Morse invented the telegraph, and Al Gore invented the internet, just out of the blue, completely unaware of any similar work or research that had ever been done by anybody else in the world. The famous American Pastor Weems school-book mythology.
OK, so atomic energy and space flight were not American inventions because Teller was Hungarian and Bohr was Danish and Fermi was Italian and Von Braun and Einstein were German, etc etc.
It's not about ancestry. If someone is born and raised and the bulk of their education is in that country, then they are German, Scottish, whatever, not American.
I would call Fermi Italian as he was born there and was educated at university there.
Einstein was German, not American.
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