# I was told this man on this money is the King of Canada, but I don't know.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470 "2012-06-18T00:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/1 "2012-06-18T00:14:42Z")
[Canadian folkways are so odd, bacon’s not _really_ bacon and so forth, so it’s hard to tell…](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Canadian_Tire_Money.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/2 "2012-06-18T02:18:43Z")
He’s just a pretender. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/3 "2012-06-18T13:53:31Z")
That’s not real money - you can only use that to buy home repair or gardening supplies. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/4 "2012-06-18T13:54:52Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > He’s just a pretender. S’trewth. The real King of Canada is Don Cherry. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/5 "2012-06-18T15:08:41Z")
I understand you can gain Canadian mineral rights in exchange for the debilitating polio virus. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/6 "2012-06-18T15:13:05Z")
Nay, he is the King of Burger. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/7 "2012-06-18T15:20:16Z")
Everybody knows the king of Canada is a Moooooose. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/8 "2012-06-18T15:48:22Z")
Looks like the last king of Scotland to me. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/9 "2012-06-18T17:20:36Z")
Interesting thing about that “Canadian Tire” place. I was in Toronto week before last, and there’s a giant Canadian Tire store downtown, where you can literally buy anything you might ever need in the world except tires. I hear other CT stores do in fact sell tires, but that particular one does not. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/10 "2012-06-18T17:32:34Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Canadian folkways are so odd, bacon’s not _really_ bacon and so forth, so it’s hard to tell…](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Canadian_Tire_Money.jpg) Yes, it’s King Poutine III. The $2 bill has Queen Anne of Green Gables on it and the 50c has images of Princes Terrance and Phillip. The royal family lives in a big castle at the end of the Only Road in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/11 "2012-06-18T18:03:00Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Yes, it’s King Poutine III. The $2 bill has Queen Anne of Green Gables on it and the 50c has images of Princes Terrance and Phillip. The royal family lives in a big castle at the end of the Only Road in Canada. Which end, the BC end or the Nova Scotia end? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/12 "2012-06-18T18:09:10Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Yes, it’s King Poutine III. Mais non, mais non, mon ami! King Poutine III, il est le Roi du Quebec! Vive le Quebec Royale! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/13 "2012-06-18T18:10:20Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > S’trewth. The real King of Canada is Don Cherry. God help us, makes me want to give up my citizenship. Seriously for those that do not know, that money in the picture is Canadian Tire money, basically, discount coupons you receive for paying cash at the stores of the same name and can subsequently use against more purchases. I have no idea who is represented on the bills or if it is even a once living person or not. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/14 "2012-06-18T18:13:34Z")
I think if you have at least $700 of that, you can buy a trailer. I have a feeling that when my grandparents die we are going to find a whole lot of Canadian Tire money laying around. I was in their garage this spring and found a shoebox full of it. I took it into my grandfather and asked why he had a box of Canadian Tire money in the garage and he “wondered where he put it.” Then he went up to his bedroom and pulled out another shoebox full of it. We tried to get him to count it, but he refused. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/15 "2012-06-18T18:30:14Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Yes, it’s King Poutine III. The $2 bill has Queen Anne of Green Gables on it and the 50c has images of Princes Terrance and Phillip. The royal family lives in a big castle at the end of the Only Road in Canada. Don’t forget about the cars with square wheels, as is tradition 😃 **CAPT** ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/16 "2012-06-18T21:51:54Z")
> [@Minnie\_Luna](#): > > I think if you have at least $700 of that, you can buy a trailer. > > I have a feeling that when my grandparents die we are going to find a whole lot of Canadian Tire money laying around. I was in their garage this spring and found a shoebox full of it. I took it into my grandfather and asked why he had a box of Canadian Tire money in the garage and he “wondered where he put it.” Then he went up to his bedroom and pulled out another shoebox full of it. We tried to get him to count it, but he refused. Large farm family I went to school with bought a riding lawn mower with Canadian Tire once. They even put a picture in the newspaper! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/17 "2012-06-19T07:26:49Z")
> [@J-P\_L](#): > > I have no idea who is represented on the bills or if it is even a once living person or not. I’m sad that I know this, but his name is Sandy McTire. He’s certainly not a real person, but he might be based on somebody. He always looked more Scottish than Canadian to me - they should have drawn him wearing a toque. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/18 "2012-06-19T10:04:34Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > Large farm family I went to school with bought a riding lawn mower with Canadian Tire once. They even put a picture in the newspaper! 😃 That seems to be [a popular item with CT money!](http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1025608--with-1-053-in-canadian-tire-money-man-rides-off-with-dream-lawnmower) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/19 "2012-06-19T10:12:32Z")
Pretty sure that’s [Sheogorath.](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:OB-Img-ShrineofSheogorath.JPG) Do not fuck around with him. > **[Lore:Sheogorath - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP)](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Sheogorath)** ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470/20 "2012-06-19T12:08:26Z")
King? Looks more like a Laird. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-told-this-man-on-this-money-is-the-king-of-canada-but-i-dont-know/625470.md?page=2)