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unusual facts about Canadian, Texas



16th Canadian Ministry

The Sixteenth Canadian Ministry was the third cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Arthur Knight

Arthur George Knight (1886–1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

Bahari

Maziar Bahari, Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and playwright

Battle of Cook's Mills

The Battle of Cook's Mills was the last engagement between U.S. and British armies in the Niagara, and the penultimate engagement (followed by the Battle of Malcolm's Mills) on Canadian soil during the War of 1812.

BOTB

Battle of the Blades, a Canadian television figure skating competition broadcast by CBC.

Camp Topridge

It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate, Harlan Crow, who has substantially restored the buildings and added a number of new ones.

Charles Tatham

Chuck Tatham (Charles "Chuck" Tatham, born 1963), Canadian screenwriter and television producer

Charles Woodward

Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward - (1924 - 1990), Canadian merchant and rancher, grandson of Charles A. Woodward

Chrysotile

The Canadian government continues to draw both domestic and international criticism for its stance on chrysotile, most recently in international meetings about the Rotterdam Convention hearings regarding chrysotile.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Credit Union Central of Canada

It also represents Canadian credit unions internationally through the World Council of Credit Unions.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA was founded in late 1992 through a collaboration between Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then primate of the Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and university student Ronald Alepian.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

Douglas Ferguson

Douglas Ferguson, Canadian numismatist, ANA President 1941-43, whose collection is now in the Currency Museum

Downtown Beaumont

Jefferson County Court house is located in downtown and is a notable Art Deco building.

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Anglo-Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925–97).

Fire and Fame

Fire And Fame is a memoir co-written by Joerg Deisinger, former bassist and founding member of the German hard rock band Bonfire, and Carl Begai, a Canadian writer and music journalist.

Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn, Calgary, a former Canadian town annexed by Calgary in 1961

Freddie King

In 1993 by proclamation from the Texas Governor Ann Richards September 3, 1993, was declared Freddie King Day.

Hans Island

This was never signed; however, Canadian John Munro, at that time Minister for Northern Affairs and Development, and Danish Tom Høyem, at that time Minister for Greenland, agreed, in common interest, to avoid acts that might prejudice future negotiations.

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

Jack Hoogendyk

Hoogendyk was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2002 representing the 61st district, which includes the cities of Portage and Parchment, and the townships of Alamo, Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, Prairie Ronde and Texas.

Jason the Terrible

On September 23, 1994, he teamed with Randy Rudd and defeated Sonny Corleone and Rob Austin to win the Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Championships.

Joe Doerksen

Joseph Daniel Doerksen (born October 9, 1977) is a Canadian mixed martial artist from New Bothwell, Manitoba.

Kevin Perkins

Kevin Perkins is the executive director of the Canadian not-for-profit organization Farm Radio International since May 2006.

KSAT

Krueger Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, United States, home of a magnet program called Krueger School of Applied Technologies (K-SAT)

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

Liberty County Airport

Liberty Municipal Airport in Liberty County, Texas, United States (FAA: T78)

Michael J. Cox

Cox's professional name was a play on actor Michael J. Fox, the mainstream Canadian-American actor whose boyish, preppy persona he shared.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Norman MacKenzie

Norman MacKenzie (lawyer) (1869–1936), Canadian lawyer and arts patron whose collection became the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery

Quiz bowl

SmartAsk – a defunct Canadian high school tournament, began as a spin off of Reach for the Top

Ray Chadwick

Ray is the father of former Canadian Youth International and current US Soccer International Sydney Leroux.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23, 1936, and he grew up in Wink, Texas.

Royal Canadian Air Force Police

Following amalgamation of the three services into the Canadian Forces in 1968, the AFP was merged with the police units of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to become simply the Military Police; under the Canadian Armed Forces Security and Intelligence Branch.

Rudolf Virchow Award

1990 - John O'Neil - The Politics of Patient Dissatisfaction in Cross-Cultural Clinical Encounters: A Canadian Inuit example, Medical Anthropology 3 (4): 325-344.

Simone Gbagbo

In July 2008 she was formally called for questioning by a French investigative judge, examining the April 2004 disappearance and presumed death in Abidjan of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.

Stewart L. Gordon

He has served as an adjudicator for many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, William Kapell, Rosa Ponselle, Virginia Waring and the finals of the Canadian Music Competitions, and Music Teachers National Competitions at the regional and national levels.

T. Texas Tyler

"T-Texas Tyler", a ballad on songwriter and recording artist Bucky Halker's 2008 CD Wisconsin 2.13.63, Volume 2, recalls Tyler's performances in Burley, Idaho in the early 1950s when he struggled with alcohol and drugs and barely made it through his set many nights, but still managed moments of skillful performance.

Tolmiea

The genus was named after the Scottish-Canadian botanist William Fraser Tolmie, while the species name refers to Archibald Menzies, the Scottish naturalist for the Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795).

Transgender inequality

For example, in November 2013, Jeydon Loredo was temporarily excluded from their La Feria Independent School District yearbook in Texas due to sporting a tuxedo that did not meet “community standards.”

West Indian manatee

While this is a regularly occurring species along coastal southern Florida, during summer, this large mammal has even been found as far north as Dennis, Massachusetts and as far west as Texas.

William McNaught

William Kirkpatrick McNaught (1845-1919), Canadian manufacturer and politician

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.

Woman in the Mists

It is written by the Canadian author Farley Mowat, himself a conservationist and author of the book Never Cry Wolf.


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Paducah, Texas

Tom Abraham, a business and civic figure and philanthropist in Canadian, Texas, first worked in Paducah upon his graduation from Texas Tech University in 1932.

Tom Abraham

One of his nephews was Malouf Abraham, Jr., (born 1939), a retired Canadian, Texas, physician who specialized in allergies and is an active patron of the arts.

W. Winfred Moore

Other receiving the same accolade were former State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., of Canadian, Texas, former State Senators Grady Hazlewood, Max Sherman and Teel Bivins, and former Amarillo Mayor and Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.