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Friends of the Library The Friends of the Library reorganized in September of 2013, adding to their purpose of supporting the library as needed they are taking on the task of providing entertaining and educational programs for the community.stihl 380 backpack leaf blower KidX Club Presents: Hearts & Craftsvera bradley laptop backpack very berry paisley Spread the love with creative hand-made gifts.pedaltrain backpack 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMbackpack p1999 What’s New & Upcomingosprey orb backpack

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If you add “eh” to the end of that statement, you can turn it into a question that will require a friendly reply from the person you are talking to. For example…”It is very nice day out today eh?” To which the other person will reply “Yes it is.” See how easy it is? Now before coming to Canada, you can practice your use of the word “eh” and fit right in once you get here.By far the silliest word for currency on the planet. When our one-dollar coin came out in the early nineties. Nobody really knew what to call it. You can’t exactly call it a dollar-bill any more, and a dollar coin just didn’t roll off of the tongue. So obviously a Loonie would be the next choice right?  Ok, I am kidding, it doesn’t make sense at all. That is until you see the coin. It has a picture of a Loon on it. So naturally we all decided to call it a Loonie. And of course when the two-dollar coin came out with a picture of a Polar Bear on it we called it a Bearie or a Polie right? Get your travel guide by Lonely PlanetI went my entire childhood and a large portion of my adult life not realizing that this was a word only used in Canada.

I watched Bob and Doug Mackenzie as a kid wearing their tuques telling each other to “Take Off Eh” and never thought anything of it. Then I started traveling and made statements like “Its cold tonight, I should have brought my tuque” People looked at me like I was from another planet. It is simple a tuque is a knitted hat used to keep the head warm. The Edge from U2 often wears a tuque and Jacques Cousteau always wore a tuque. Buy your own Canadian tuque on Amazon. Get a copy of Bob and Doug Mackenzie’s Take Off Featuring Great Canadian Rocker Geddy Lee of Rush.When I first started to travel the world. I was surprised to see the word Toilet used so much. In Canada we call it a washroom. To us, toilet sounds a bit vulgar. I don’t think that I have ever heard the term washroom anywhere else except for Canada. They use bathroom, and restroom, I have seen water closet, the loo… But I never see washroom. I think I will keep using washroom.Ok, I could do an entire post on how Tim Hortons has shaped our coffee drinking as a nation.

Mediocre coffee that we are all mysteriously addicted to. We have even opened a Tim Hortons in Afghanistan for our troops overseas. “I am going to Timmies to grab a box of timbits and a large Double Double.” That is what you say when leave the house to order an assortment of tasty doughnut centres and an oversized cup of coffee with 2 creams and 2 sugars at Tim Horton Doughnuts. Tim Hortons by the way was founded by hockey legend Tim Horton. We love our hockey almost as much as we love our Timmies.One of my favourite phrases that is uniquely Canadian. This is our phrase we use when we go to buy beer. I am going to get a 2-4 of Canadian at the Beer Store. Yes, we buy our beer at the Beer store in Canada and a box of 24 beers is simply shortened to the words “two four.” Our favourite holiday is Queen Victoria’s Birthday on May 24th. Not because it is the Queens birthday. It is because it is a holiday to celebrate our great Canadian Beer. We all call it May 2-4 Weekend, because that is exactly what we do.

Grab a 2-4 of beer and go to the cottage to work on our “Molson Muscle.” A Molson Muscle is our endearing term for the beer bellies we have developed over years of drinking Molson Canadian Beer. I had heard this word as a child. Being born in Alberta, Canada my parents often talked about Chinooks blowing in and how nice it was. I had no idea what this meant until I was older. It is quite amazing actually. I learned today on the CBC that it is an Inuit word for “The snow that melts.” What a Chinook is, is a warm wind that comes over the mountain in the dead of winter and instantly melts the snow and raises the temperature. It is needed because Alberta can be extremely cold. My mom and dad love to tell the story of a pair of boots that my grandmother sent to them to keep warm in the winter. Well, my dad wore them out on one cattle drive and it was so cold that his boots cracked right open and shattered. They didn’t have gortex then. And that is why everyone wore leather my friends.

Canadians call our Candy Bars Chocolate Bars and I like it. That is what they are made out of. Chocolate, therefore they should be called chocolate bars. I rest my case. A very typical Canadian chocolate bar is a coffee crisp. We have a commercial where the announcer asks, “How do you like your coffee?” Naturally, we like it crisp.Here’s a fast fact. Canada has its own version of M&M. We call them Smarties and we like to eat the red ones last.This is what we Canadians call our Backpack or Rucksack. To us it is a knapsack. All through my school years I would pack my Knapsack with my schoolbooks. When I first started traveling 10 years ago, I said to myself, “Well, I better buy a new Knapsack to carry everything.” I now use the term Backpack more often but I haven’t been able to say the term Rucksack, it is just odd to me. I really miss my knapsack days.No, we don’t say aboot. If I hear one more person say “Oh your Canadian, do you go oot and aboot?” I’m going to sock it to em.