# Canadians **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 27, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625 "2001-03-27T02:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![trickie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@trickie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trickie)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/1 "2001-03-27T02:51:52Z")
Did you know that:Pamela Anderson, Jim Carey, William Shatner, Neil Young, Lorne Green, Michael J. Fox, Peter Jennings, Joni Mitchell, Paul Shafer, Wayne Gretsky, David Sutherland, Shania Twain, Alex Trebec, Mike Meyers, The Guess Who, Celine Dionne, Larry Walker, Stompin Tom Conners, are all Canadians? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/2 "2001-03-27T02:56:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trickie \* > \*\*Did you know that: \…David Sutherland… \ are all Canadians? > \*\* No, but I knew that \*Donald \*Sutherland was. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/3 "2001-03-27T02:57:44Z")
It’s **Donald** Sutherland. Add to that Mack Sennett, Fay Wray, Norma Shearer, Dan Ackroyd, Lorne Michaels, A.E. Van Vogt, Gordon Dickson, Mary Pickford, Glenn Ford, the creator of Superman (I forgot his first name) Shuster, Martin Short ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/4 "2001-03-27T03:09:50Z")
And your question is … ??? Wow, famous people from Canada. Who would’ve thought it? :o ---
**Author:** ![trickie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@trickie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trickie)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/5 "2001-03-27T03:11:36Z")
Excuse me, “Donald”. Also Catherine Ohara, John Candy, Kids in the Hall, Titanic Director John Cameron?, Doug and Bob MacKenzie, Juliette, Mike Weir, Hazel M. Kellington(my first grade teacher) Mike Douglas(I think), more? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/6 "2001-03-27T03:22:28Z")
Can you stop now? Please? Can you go away? You don’t even know the names of the actors who played Bob and Doug Mackenzie and Mike Douglas (the talk show host) and Michael Douglas (the actor) aren’t Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/7 "2001-03-27T03:40:07Z")
Alanis Morisette and Celine Dion. ---
**Author:** ![SpinneZiege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SpinneZiege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinneZiege)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/8 "2001-03-27T03:51:14Z")
You forgot Sarah McLachlan. Ten times better than Alanis and I’m not going to go into how much better she is than Celine. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/9 "2001-03-27T04:00:26Z")
“O Canada, O Canada, how evergreen your branches…” ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/10 "2001-03-27T04:46:25Z")
Methinks you have watched _The Canadian Conspiracy_ one time too often 😛 P.S., forgot to mention Jack Warner and the guy who invented the Robertson screw. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/11 "2001-03-27T04:52:18Z")
Hey, **trickie** , have you been watching Operation Canadian Bacon? What is your question? ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/12 "2001-03-27T12:56:49Z")
Matthew Perry’s (Friends, and that movie where he played Chendler from Friends… What was it? The whole Nine yards?) parents shoip at my wife’s grocery store, here in good ol’ Ottawa… Not really of any importance, but hey…it’s sort of something, if you’re into celebrity gossip. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/13 "2001-03-27T13:50:14Z")
Michael J. Fox took on US Citizenship: [http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39d253b56595.htm](http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39d253b56595.htm) Don’t know if he had to give up the Canadian citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/14 "2001-03-27T14:06:46Z")
IIRC, Alex Trebek also became a US citizen. ---
**Author:** ![jdl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jdl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/15 "2001-03-27T17:54:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AWB \* > \*\*IIRC, Alex Trebek also became a US citizen. \*\* Yeah, but Mr. Dress-up (born in the US) became a Canadian citizen. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians/59625/16 "2001-03-27T19:19:36Z")
This is just too silly.