User:Canuckle
Canuckle
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What's a Canuckle?[edit]
Canuck: a slang term for Canadians originating in the 19th century, and the name of an intrepid band of hockey players, the Vancouver Canucks
Knuckle: a joint of a finger, which is brought into prominence when the hand is shut.
Definitions of canuckle from urbandictionary.com:
- canuckle - Cool dude of Canadian origin. Loves donuts (especially Tim Horton's), women and ice hockey. Not necessarily all at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt.
- Man, that dude's a canuckle!
- A witty wise-cracking on-line friend who supplies TH at all the right times.
- When's that Canuckle gonna get here with my donuts?
About this user[edit]
This user is thin-skinned, frustrated by process, writes quickly then leaves and prefers the big picture over small details.
Did You Knows[edit]
- 31 May 2007 ...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
- 8 July 2013 ... that a storm on Lucy Island unearthed 5,500-year-old remains of a woman whose DNA has been directly linked to a modern-day descendent, a Tsimshian woman living near Prince Rupert?
- 13 March 2008 ...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferrable vote system?
- 16 September 2007 ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
- 13 May 2010 ... that the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
- 2 April 2014 ... that Insite, North America's first legal supervised injection site for drug users, was opened by the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003?
- 22 April 2011 .. that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
- 2 July 2013 ... that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
- 22 June 2010 ... that a criminal trial began more than six years after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the British Columbia Parliament Buildings ?
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Articles[edit]
- Hospital de Jesús Nazareno - where Cortes and Montezuma met
- Portland Hotel Society - opened Insite, North America's first supervised injection site
- Fraser Canyon Hospital
- Lucy Islands - significant BC archelogical site
- Mount Prevost & Mount Tzouhalem - Vancouver Island mountains
- St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
- Providence Health Care (Vancouver) - operators of 7 care facilities in Vancouver
- Ocean Park (Surrey) - a neighbourhood of Surrey, BC
- Ministry of Health (British Columbia)
- Vancouver Magazine
- History of flooding in Canada
- Semiahmoo First Nation
- International Association of Business Communicators
Bios[edit]
- Lukin Johnston - journalist who vanished mysteriously 3 days after interviewing Adolf Hitler
- Dr. Brian Day - physician champion for-profit care
- Russell Mills (publisher) - 'expansion' of longtime Ottawa Citizen publisher
- Martin Schechter - Order of BC HIV researcher
- Prab Rai - Vancouver Canuck prospect
- Colin Keith Gray - filmmaker
- Carl Leone - Ontario man convicted of criminal transmission of HIV
- Jean Guyon - a New France pioneer that I had to fight to save from deletion
- Robert Giffard de Moncel - New France pioneer and first doctor in first hospital in North America
- Zacharie Cloutier - New France pioneer
- Geoff Plant - former British Columbia Attorney-General
- Elizabeth Bennett (judge) in BC Rail & Casinogate cases
- Jack Webster - famed BC journalist
- Vincent Covello - risk communications theorist and specialist
- Libor Polášek - a first-round draft pick that broke Canuck fans heart
- Bill Tieleman - pundit
- David D. Schreck - one-time MLA
- Garth Butcher - Vancouver Canuck player
Categories[edit]
- Vancouver Sun people
- The Province newspaper people
- People from Port Alberni, British Columbia
- Civil rights history of Canada
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Image gallery[edit]
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Copper Island in Shuswap Lake -
BC Ambulance at Royal Columbian Hospital Emergency department -
Lucy Island lighthouse (recrop) on home page for DYK -
An atypical white-furred Vancouver Island Wolf in captivity at the Greater Vancouver Zoo -
Stuart Island Airpark (foreground) lies on the western shore of Prevost Harbour across from Satellite Island (Washington) -
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South-facing aerial view of Reid Harbour on Stuart Island, Washington in the Strait of Georgia -
'Infinite Tires' public art by Douglas Coupland in south Vancouver -
Pere David Deer resting at the Greater Vancouver Zoo -
East-facing aerial view of Westminster Highway and Canada Line overpass to Brighouse Station in Richmond, British Columbia -
South-facing aerial view of Saturna Island -
RCMP visiting Burnaby Hospital -
East-facing aerial view of Minoru Park -
North-facing aerial view of Dinsmore Bridge in Richmond, British Columbia connecting Lulu Island with Sea Island -
An east-facing aerial view of Ladner, British Columbia beyond Duck Island, Barber Island, Gunn Island and Port Guichon in the Fraser River Estuary -
A container ship loading up at Roberts Bank Superport
The Rokeby Venus is a painting by Diego Velázquez which was completed between 1647 and 1651. It depicts the Roman goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by her son Cupid. The painting is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Since 1906 it has been in the National Gallery in London.Painting: Diego Velázquez