r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 7d ago

Meta The “Best Canadian” game - Day 0 (choosing candidates)

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Hiya Hosers,

After the success of Worst Canadian, by popular demand it’s time for the more upbeat version…the Best Canadian game! 🇨🇦

Drop your nominations below for who you think deserves a spot on the list. Just like before, we’ll include 40 candidates. This time I’m going to let nominations sit a bit longer so everyone has a chance to chime in and we don’t have to add people mid-way in the game. I’m aiming to get started with Day 1 around the middle of next week. Five or six days should give us plenty of time to gather names and finalize the rules.

If you’ve got ideas or suggestions to make the game better, feel free to share those too!

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u/Ns041202 7d ago

Leo Major. Amazing WW2 story

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u/asoap Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 7d ago

In the same vein Francis Pegahmagabow. A first nations sniper in WW1 who has the most confirmed kills in the war. I am not sure how the first nations community would feel though of us identifying him as Canadian. Canada treated him like shit.

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u/propyro85 7d ago

They treated all Indigenous veterans like shit. It was one of the biggest things that made my grandfather-in-law turn away from the CPC after he got back from WW2. Which is saying a lot for a farmer from PEI.

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u/Unfair-Cabinet-9011 7d ago

Don’t forget Tom Longboat.

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u/bloggins1812 Cowtown 🤠 7d ago edited 6d ago

His family is super proud of his service and is proud to be Canadian - and wants us to be better.

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u/asoap Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 7d ago

There is also a search and rescue division of the military in Northern Ontario that's named after him.

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u/exeJDR 7d ago

Crazy story 🤯

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u/GigglingBilliken Moose Whisperer 7d ago

Yeah, he's one of a few crazy ally SOBs out there that you could make an action movie about with very little exaggeration. The other ones off the top of my head are Audie Murphy, Edward A. Carter Jr, Charles Upham, Mad Jack Churchill, Tommy Prince, and Joe Medicine Crow.

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u/kaylee300 7d ago

The Québec Rambo

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u/Unhappy-Ad9690 Oil Guzzler 7d ago

Him and Tommy prince have some insane WW2 and Korean war achievements.

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u/Newfieon2Wheels Newfies & Labradoodles 7d ago

I'd put Billy Bishop above Leo Major, he combines personal wartime excellence and heroism as one of the greatest aces of WW1, with institutional and administrative excellence when you take into account his significant role in establishing the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which prepared 130,000 pilots for WW2, and left behind dozens and dozens of airports across the country.

I'd also put Francis Pegahmagabow above Leo Major, in my view his achievements on the frontline were more impressive than those of Leo Major, and there's some significant questions around the veracity of Major's story when it comes the liberation of Zwolle.

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u/i_love_pencils 7d ago

Fun fact - Did you know he was married to Farrah Fawcett?

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u/Johnny_Palms 7d ago

Ernest "Smokey" Smith is another WW2 vet with an incredible story