A Part Of Our Heritage - Canada

[manateeofdoom]

That poor guy no one listened too.

[GentleCrimson]

Assholes, changing history since forever.

[KYRAN141]

Damit i would have thrown my war lance right into the chest of the first guy that set foot on my peoples land thats how Cree warriors do it (im a plains cree native)

[myrddinistheshit]

@KYRAN141 i know they killed my son this way when he lost his way while beeing in a boat

[popFORfresh]

"What did he say? He said this nation is called: 'Maple Syrup loving Hockey nuts' "

[popFORfresh]

Canada > The United Provinces of Canada

[dogribgamer]

Its kinda funny how our country was named after a misunderstanding

[Balian49]

lol these are so funny in a way. Canada Post is trolling our history.

[yuka2nao]

i saw this the other day on tv, good to know that they're still playing these heritage moments :'D

[MyByakuran]

is this true? i gotta know!!!!!

[MajBlood]

Cariter was a douche lol. But there were worse.

[MegaOrwell1984]

So that's how we got our name. It's like the historical equivalent of google translate or babble fish, not very reliable but it saves time.

[jmbtake6]

Why did they ask the priest to translate and not like... the translator guy... wtf

[canuckleful]

@jmbtake6 Ah, the French *shrugs*

[johnwattsrocks]

Teehee.

[Cnd1867]

Kanata is also a neighbourhood in Ottawa!

[Mehtaphorical]

@Cnd1867 It's named after that village.

[scmarenger]

I like how the natives speak their own language but the French explorers have to speak english. That part of our socalled heritage happened long before the English came...

[nitori1134]

Canada is the original village people

[enyart91]

reddit, viruses, etc etc etc

[Xcoming2]

weren't the Europeans suppose to kill them...i'm only just saying.

[pythag123]

Humbling that Canadian's kept the name, helps remind us that we founded this place almost entirely in ignorance.

[walkertexasranger33]

natives fought each other for generations and even fought the starving europeans who were trying to adapt to the new climate. treaties were made and then french and english with their coinciding natives fought each other for centuries. natives got overun in the east and then the americans finished them in the west. who gives A FLYING FUCK. the world would be a pile of shit without the advancements of north america

[Vedelminashigo]

@walkertexasranger33

LOL U MADADA

[deb0n]

Canada, what does it mean??

Oh it means take their land. Trust me it does.

[kevie88]

I kept waiting for them to scream: ATTTAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePlatypusCode]

I wouldn't take these videos for 100% accuracy. These are merely to give you the gist of events.

[1988scottcarey]

were all canadians who gives a fuck...

[sdgdsgs]

"no, I think what they're trying to say is take all our land, bring us disease, treat us like shit and get us all addicted to liquor"

[amundyeus]

@sdgdsgs You left out sex... why???

[DarthSchwartz]

then we gave them fire water lol

[downey935]

see what can happen when someone has their self righteous head stuck up their ass??

Love these heritage moments

[smelllflower]

walmart is american ya dick

[BorderReporter]

@smelllflower It's a little sad that you seem to think this is a selling point for Americans.

[jesusmohammedskripps]

Goodbye first nation's culture and language and welcome to foreign rule forever

[supressorgrid]

America is the United States. the rest of you need to come up with a new name cause America is ours. Maybe Canada can be called Almost America and Mexico can be called Third world America.

[scarstripes9]

@supressorgrid you keeep thinking that asshole

[Lambstf]

Derp.

[Ian74263]

They've missed out on a lot of Atlantic Canadian Heritage moments.

Examples:

1. 1772 - Paul Revere took his degree in Freemasonry in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

2. 1773 - Thomas Edison's grandfather was the town planner in Digby, Nova Scotia.

3. 1783 - 10,000 people were evacuated to North America's 4th largest city, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 1783.

4. 1786 - First North American documentation of a UFO sighting in New Minas, Nova Scotia.

5. 1780s - 3,000 Black loyalists come to Nova Scotia.

[LianeandAmy]

what language is that?

[itsmabus]

@IDStatic actually America is not a continent as it contains two continents, North America and South America.

[DeadRoadSeven]

@itsmabus actually America is ONE continent and North and South belong to the same landmass. It as been separated by the Panama Canal which is a man-made structure, allowing ships to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to get around South America. Before the Panama Canal, one could go from Alaska to Patagonia without having to cross any river.

[itsmabus]

@DeadRoadSeven Go back to geography class, they are considered two continents. Land mass != continent.

[DeadRoadSeven]

@itsmabus I don't think you understood what I wrote. It is ONE and only ONE landmass, from Canadian arctic to Patagonia. Copy-pasted from Wikipedia : "The mainland of the Americas is the longest north-to-south landmass on Earth. At its longest, it stretches roughly 14,000 kilometres, (just under 8700 miles) from the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada to Cape Froward in Chilean Patagonia.". HUMANS dug the separation between the two of them, so it remains a single landmass, hence one continent.

[johanoh]

@DeadRoadSeven by that definition, you cann call asia, africa and europe one continent.

[DeadRoadSeven]

@johanoh which you can, indeed. It's called Afro-Eurasia.

[slickslicer]

Last second: MIDLAND!

[MiggaMike]

cmon you know they wouldnt make a heritage moment of throwing all the natives in residential school, or paying people for native scalps, or the genocide against the beo'thuks

[VWYL900802]

this looks too happy. what about the 100 years war, or the assimilation camps and the tortures and the discriminations?

[blckbooty]

i LOVED this heritage moment.... its just halirious that this amazing nation was named.... after a fucking fake-translator prick LMAO. i love the guy at the back "um excuse me...." hahaha. i wonder if he felt bad afterwords that everyone was jus calln it that but he knew better oOo

[chlojo4]

I remember this from when I was in public school.

[8skmo8]

FTW!

[8skmo8]

Hell yeah!

Now every Canadian knows that when you smell burnt toast that bad shit is about to go down!.

[jacobleb420]

I always thought that the Wannabe translator looks like the Quaker Oats guy.

It's funny that they had never seen or talked to Indians, yet this Quaker Oats clown thinks he can instantly translate and understand a language he has never heard before. The other probably believed him because he sounded confident. But then there's that one guy who actually knew, but of course no one listened to him! LOL

[RosesAdventures]

I would, but only 18, have to finish high school, and art school. Then moving to a country that has a back bone, and isn't America's bitch.

[Darcksaac]

LOL Our country was named by a translation mistake and latter founded by a drunk Scot. XD

[RosesAdventures]

I've seen them all, and learned a lot.

But have laughed at most of them.

[Medication4You12]

yessss

[RosesAdventures]

@sweiland75 simmer man, I think these are funny, and I'm from Canada too.

[rexerexer66]

Well thats how "CANADA" got its name from the Iroqio and Huroon word Kannat meaning villiage

[Shanethefilmmaker]

the funny thing about it is the minute the natives learned english and looked back at the whole "Kanata meaning Canada" thing, they probably said "that's not what we said, we said village"

[sibode]

What AMAZING acting.

[mogwai142]

I think the Indian Chief is played by Guy Provencher. I work at a retirement home and he lives there.

[RosesAdventures]

win.

[hunterways]

that ignorant bastard? lol...

[icm1970]

Ah, this one has always been my favourite of them all.

[peekstar]

catholics man...taking words and twisting their meaning to mean something completely different :P haha

[LegendWindReturns]

Love these,they bring me back to when I was younger and they always used to come on. This one and the one with all the fish were the ones I liked the most

[elSethro]

makes me proud to be canadian

[DuracellEnergizer]

Damned lazy-tongued Frenchmen can't even pronounce "Kanata" properly!

BOO!

[Fmaack]

Then the Europeans murdered them all, burned down the village and put up a Wal-Mart.

[Bloodbirdy]

DAMN IT, I'm native and go to that very same wal-mart....damn them and their affordable prices.

[LegendaryPegCity]

LMAO!!!

[ThunderIzking]

@Bloodbirdy  I herd you causin Lol

[IDStatic]

@Fmaack In fact, wal-mart is founded by someone from USA so your sentence is pointless.

[Fmaack]

@IDStatic Still funny. You have to admit. Where do you think Americans came from?

[IDStatic]

@Fmaack Canada and USA are 2 different country. America is a continent. This video relate the history of Canada. QED

[IDStatic]

@Fmaack Anyway, Zellers should be more appropriate than Wallmart as it's belongs to the Hudson Bay, a fur trade company in this period (17th century).

[CareBearCountdown]

@Fmaack Isn't Wal-Mart american? If they put up a Dollarama...that'd be more accurate.

[Fmaack]

@CareBearCountdown Okay, Europeans came to Canada, killed 95% of the natives and opened Eaton's. 300 years later the Europeans from the United States came up to Canada and opened up WalMarts and killed Eaton's. But that doesn't sound as poetic.

[dafunnyrezdawg]

No.. he meant " go home! but first bring your women to my tent" its over there, look" haha!

[Kwaszk]

Those Mohawks just got sloppy. You gotta kill those white men when they come ashore, otherwise they just keep a-coming.

-white guy

[Bloodbirdy]

We tried that but someone had the great the idea of going to Tim Hortons for a coffee break and too late, they kept coming.

[peekstar]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[HisCanadianStory]

Yeah,

Its unfortunate that the reality is there was a masacar

[RobSteez]

kean-canadakon? sounds like the little indian is lysol drunk and slurrying his words.

[crazychrista21]

LOL so true. What a know it all dick though.

[Kinaya1]

No really, ya'll had to WATCH THESE IN SCHOOL????

Seriously, I'm not Canadian - I just heard about this and had to check it out - TOTAL culture shock.

[thefinewino]

Even if we didn't have to see them in school they were a running gag with kids everywhere. I would always hear "Doctor, I smell burnt toast!" or "Patrick....Patrick O'Neill", or "Now the people will know we were here" around school. We wrote those lines into our drama class performances. lol.

[peekstar]

hahah we always recited those lines too in grade school... lol love it. "johnson sir, molly johnson"

[SCRulerShinoda]

aw man lucky

I wish we did

[xnechix]

fucking white man

" no i think i know what he's saying"

you don't know shit

[NathanPathan]

that dude wasnt white that was saying that.... he was from the kung fu

[kylejones7]

this is the saddest part of our history... i'm down for renaming it british north america

[DH2020]

I believe he was pointing towards an outhouse when he said Canada..... excuse me I have to go Canada now.

[messinwithit]

btw, lol @ kaguth, good 1 :)

[messinwithit]

my geography teacher made us watch these

[Ferrio67]

When i clicked on this, I asked myself, "Okay, is this the original?"

It's not. The priest's voice has been dubbed.

In the original, the priest sounded even more like former Prime Minister Tredeau then in this one.  I guess the CBC thought it more of an insult to him, and changed it.

[kylejones7]

still the same commercial

[pabloplato]

whoots! i'm so glad these are on youtube, i loved these! :)

[cycimian]

kayguth had the funniest response, Im from Canada and i know how to get my face slaped or nose broken in at least 5 launguages, not to mention international hand Gestures,

[mrtyles]

this commercial is hilarious

[mrtyles]

this commercial is hilarious

[kaguth]

It would be funny if Canada meant "Fuck Off!!!"

"Beg your Pardon Sir but I think he's telling us to fuck off"

[mayebella]

LMAO

[kylejones7]

lol

[SniperViper1000]

That would be funny... It's all like

"Where are you from..."

"CANADA!"

WHOA! Ok.. Dude chill just chill.

[Bloodbirdy]

I fell off my chair laughing so hard!

[peekstar]

haha this commercial just implies that the original european settlers were idiots

[KenGS333]

no, it really implies that Canada got its name because of some senile elder couldn't express himself properly...

[peekstar]

no the european dude was just presumptuous. he presumed to know what the elder was saying. and for that we lived in a country that's called 'the village over there' hahaha

[KenGS333]

Maybe he was saying "come to our brothel and sleep with one of our young boys".

The Iroquois were known to have engaged in pederasty ("man-boy love") and many men dressed as women. I'm sure one day when the gays take over we'll see a Part of Our Heritage about that one...

[XantinovaX]

LMAO you have a good point

[PhoenixRaine]

even us indians think this commercial is funny lol. 5 stars

[JohnnyH1982]

lol five stars just cause its so damned funny

[Shogun777]

5 stars baby