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Originally posted by widget
Too easy 🙄 :

Tommy Douglas (Premier of Saskatchewan, former New Democratic Party leader, Father of Medicare)
Terry Fox (athlete, activist)
Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister)
Sir Frederick Banting (medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin)
David Suzuki (geneticist, environmentalist, broadcaster, activist)
Lester Bowles Pearson (Prime Minister, fo ...[text shortened]... t in case you don't care to do the research, Don Cherry is Canada's answer to Ronald Reagan 😵
Don Cherry? I hope that loud-mouthed bigot gets beaten to death with a beaver tail.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You're a Canadian. Can you offer up any greater Canadians than the three members of the rock band Rush?
Neil Young.

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Originally posted by widget
Too easy 🙄 :

Tommy Douglas (Premier of Saskatchewan, former New Democratic Party leader, Father of Medicare)
Terry Fox (athlete, activist)
Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister)
Sir Frederick Banting (medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin)
David Suzuki (geneticist, environmentalist, broadcaster, activist)
Lester Bowles Pearson (Prime Minister, fo ...[text shortened]... t in case you don't care to do the research, Don Cherry is Canada's answer to Ronald Reagan 😵
Widge- I would argue that you might want to drop someone off your list in favor of John C. Garand. He was the inventor of the M1 Garand rifle, which George Patton declared to be the greatest weapon ever created in the history of warfare. I believe he was born a Canadian. He lived and worked in America, but I do not recall that he ever changed citizenship.

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Originally posted by darvlay
Don Cherry? I hope that loud-mouthed bigot gets beaten to death with a beaver tail.
Funny, Darv - I always felt that way about Ronald Reagan, too, even before he did his dead-man-walking altzheimer's routine in The White House. 😞 Amazing what they did with animatronics back then!

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You're a Canadaian. Can you offer up any greater Canadians than the three members of the rock band Rush?
Canadians, in the order I thought of them:

Robert Langlands
Leonard Cohen
Glenn Gould
Margaret Atwood
Romeo Dallaire

That should start Darv off.

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Originally posted by darvlay
In case you didn't know, these are the three members of Helix. Or is it BTO? I forget.
you forgot mr. right & mr. wrong from your list.

but remembered to include " ".

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Originally posted by Moldy Crow
Widge- I would argue that you might want to drop someone off your list in favor of John C. Garand.
Wasn't really my list, Moldy - borrowed from the CBC. (Don Cherry makes me squirm... He could pass for an American!) 😉 I would gladly drop D.C. for J.G. Flushing Cherry would be kinder to Canada.

The rest of the list has to stand as is, however, as they all had part-time gigs with ELO 😕

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Originally posted by Howell123
Here is a list of the greatest Americans provided by AOL:

1.Ronald Reegan
2.Abraham Lincoln
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. George Washington
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton
8. Elvis Presley
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why do so many people think that just because someone is/was President of the United States, automatically makes them a great American?

Surely it is too early to judge George Dubya too... History will be the judge, although in my opinion, he has yet to do anything great.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Canadians, in the order I thought of them:

Robert Langlands
Leonard Cohen
Glenn Gould
Margaret Atwood
Romeo Dallaire

That should start Darv off.
My contributions are in the last post on the previous page. Widget also added some good ones too (besides Cherry and the Wayner), including Pearson and Suzuki.

Romeo Dallaire is a great pick.

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Originally posted by darvlay
In case you didn't know, these are the three members of Helix. Or is it BTO? I forget.
We Americans don't know much about Canada, except that it's there.

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Originally posted by wormwood
you forgot mr. right & mr. wrong from your list.

but remembered to include " ".
Ooooooh, good choice! 😉

I think I'll put on "Live and Cuddly" right now!

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Originally posted by Howell123
Here is a list of the greatest Americans provided by AOL:

1.Ronald Reegan

I started a thread arguing for his greatness as a President, and a symbol of our age. But I would never put him on a list of the top 25 greatest Americans.

2.Abraham Lincoln
Conceivable

3. Martin Luther King Jr.
Conceiveable, but would he have accomplished anything if the NAACP and Thurgood Marshall had not already been leading the way. Perhaps, one should look to W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and the others that founded the NAACP first. Nevertheless, MLK is a better choice than most of the others on this list.

4. George Washington
Who can argue with that? Which is all the more reason to question whether Washington's fame is due to personal greatness, or simply a symbol of the timnes in which he lived.

5. Benjamin Franklin
Cotton Mather was almost as much a scientist, and during an era in which reason and inquiry were harder to justify. Still, Franklin was the most Machievellian of the founders, and perhaps deserves recognition. He was also a chess player.

6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton

Both absurd.

8. Elvis Presley
If you are willing to strentch out and put an artist, musician, or entertainer on the list, which I think is a good idea, there are at least two dozen others that belong in front of Elvis: Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, Blind Willie McTell, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, William Faulkner, Jackson Pollock, ... (in no particular order)

9. Oprah Winfrey
Although she does slightly more good than George W., she belongs below him on the list, and he belongs below linton, who belongs below Reagan, who certainly doesn't make the top 25. Although he alone, among these four, might make the top 100.

10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perhaps

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
We Americans don't know much about Canada, except that it's there.
North, cold, lots of moose. There you go. Now you know everything there is to know about our 51st state.

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Originally posted by darvlay
My contributions are in the last post on the previous page. Widget also added some good ones too (besides Cherry and the Wayner), including Pearson and Suzuki.

Romeo Dallaire is a great pick.
Bob and Doug McKenzie ought to top any Canadian's list, eh?

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Neil Young.
Leonard Cohen
Louis Riel