Canadian inventions: myths vs. reality 

We didn't do the moon? :(

Canadians faked the moon landing. :/

What about the zipper?

Don't forget the lungs! We can barely breathe without those things. Where would we be without Canada?

one of if not the best moons out there

I don't know how he does it

@@StevieQ Canadian.

It's Jimmy Carter's personal favorite

All he said is total crap. Don't be fooled by this "JJ". You can read my comment with the REAL facts

​@@DiabloOutdoors😂

What culture is Hawaiian pizza? Yes.

Using canada's logic, pineapple pizza is actually a Greek invention.

@@tombstone5860 They entered Canadian borders at some point. Canadian (ever stop at Pearson airport on a flight? Canada owns you)

You'd be amazed how many Hawaiians don't know (or maybe just don't like to admit) that pineapples are in fact originally native to Central America (especially in what's now Honduras, Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico) and weren't grown in Hawaii until the British introduced them there.

@troodon1096 Hawaii is one of the largest exporter of pineapples though so I don't blame them for not knowing that.

Real talk. I'm an American. I was born in America. I live in America. My ancestors are from Eastern Europe and the Middle East-- no British, French, or otherwise Western European ancestry. I lived in Canada for a couple of years when I was a teenager, before permanently returning to the USA. I am sure that if I ever do anything notable in my life, somehow it will be attributed to Canada. JJ is one of the most honest Canadian media personalities that I've seen

I'm Korean-American, the closest personal connection I have to Canada is that some of my Korean relatives live in Canada and in turn my Grandfather lived there during his final years. I'm sure if/when I do something important for the world, Canadians will claim me quicker than Koreans would.

theyre almost as bad as the greeks

@@michaele1654actually what we do rightfully claim is the rights to also be known as Americans. Please remember your a U.S. Citizen as America goes from Chile to Canada. Many in South America get rather touchy about this!

​@@michaelreid8857 No need to correct me. Words can have multiple definitions. You're from the continent America, which makes you an American in one sense. I'm from the United States of America, which makes me an American in the other sense. I mean it is confusing that the word "America" can be applied to both the country USA and the continent containing the USA, which is why I say "US Resident" in formal contexts. I figured that, since I was writing a RU-vid Comment, people would understand what I meant. And I've met enough Canadians to know that South Americans are not the only ones who get touchy about this.

It should also be noted that the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903 did not use a catapult to take off. They only started using one for certain flights in late 1904 because they moved to a new testing location where the conditions were less favorable. A catapult allowed them to takeoff in a shorter distance and in a wider range of weather conditions, but they were not dependent on it.

And they named my Cartier watch after him.

Such claims get even weirder when they repeat the line about a catapult not being a motor. 14-bis used a catapult that was charged by a rope pulled by a donkey, and the original Wright Flyer didn't use a catapult, but instead relied on high windspeeds. Later variations on the plane did use a catapult, but by 1905 they had bought a large enough motor that didnt need a catapult or a high windspeed. This plane was able to take off under it's own power in the exact style that you would expect any reasonable definition of an airplane to do. 14-bis did have an important innovation though, it added wheels, which the Wright Brothers didn't use, despite being experts in bicycles and had no doubt been familiar with the concept of wheels.

@@joemiller947 The reason the original Wright Flyer did have wheels was that Kitty Hawk, which is where they were doing their tests at the time, is on the beach and therefore covered in sand. Wheels would have gotten caught up in the sand, so they had it run along a rail.

Most I've learned in a RU-vid comment thread in ever

It's easier to do that with Greece since they have their own language and culture which is entirely distinct from most of the places they emigrate to. Between Canada and America it's much harder to draw the line because the intermingling is omnipresent.

As a 4th generation Greek American, we have no problem attributing our successes to a global "Greek" identity. Indeed, we would do anything for the mother country... except live there.

I too have watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding

This is so comically true. Always telling a story and then “oh and by the way, you know he was Greek”

Naw our ancestors invented everything 😂

Who occupied Norway in WWII?

​@@DugrozReports Germany. Before becoming a part of the allied forces, Norway, as well as the rest of the Scandinavian peninsula was part of the axis powers

Blame Greece! The guy who invented it was of Greek ancestry.

best to break off your relations to italy, then. they put all kinds of shit on pizza over there!

Yeah, a Greek guy “invented” it in Canada using the name of a U.S. state!… Is there anything that Canadians invented 100%?… I have my doubts!

@@aheat3036 As far as I know, American Cheese was invented by a Canadian (James Kraft) in his home province of Ontario. He would end up taking this invention to the USA where it was popularized, but the inventing happened by a Canadian in Canada.

Canadian Tropicalesque Pizza

Why does he say award winning?

@@ishanagarwal766 Because one of his videos _is_ actually award winning, so he says it about other videos as self effacing humor.

At 11:37

I was literally thinking this watching the video. J.J.'s use of them accentuates the video and are used at just the right moments and aren't over stated.

Yes! Esp. the 8-bit sounds here and there.

Agreed

A creation that also came from their experience as children of Jewish immigrants from europe. With superman being a stand in for immigrants

Me too, I was surprised when the peanut butter section didn't include any mention of him! Adam Ragusea has a good video about him.

@@anne1596 I was surprised JJ didn’t mention Carver too, it also caught me by surprised when he moved on with no mention of the Incan peanut paste.

I don’t think this section was done well

I also grew up in the south and we learned (correctly) that carver invented almost every other peanut thing but not peanut butter

Geroge Washington Carver worked for University of Iowa at the time he made an almost peanut butter like substance of a thick peanut oil, but it was not peanut butter.

as in Canada is more of a subset of American culture. Frankly if you included Canada in the wider American culture, Southern culture would probably be more different from the general American culture than Canadian culture would be

@@AW-zk5qb I totally agree.

Well we all do live in the America's. I think it's funny when I hear ppl saying American instead of united states. Canada and the US are both in the America's lol. Just sayin.

@@rockobeam2706 I try to say US-American when I’m online but it’s a hard habit to break.

So many of inventors of the synth! You could probably claim Alexander Bell (a Canadian) invented it! And what about electronic instruments without keyboards like the Theremin? And what about Louis and Bebe Barron setting breadboards and tubes on fire to make the Forbidden Planet soundtrack.

@@Bacopa68 The Theremin was created by a Russian (later Soviet) inventor called Leon Theremin (the French version of Lev Sergeyevich Termen, as he was of partly French descent). Incidentally, he is also credited for having create a listening device dubbed "The Thing", a microphone placed inside a wooden plaque of the American Great Seal, which was to be placed in the main office of the US Embassy in Moscow.

We created superman

@@Bacopa68 Bell was Scottish, not Canadian. At least if they want to keep their logic consistent.

care to point out who this "one guy" is? and these instruments were? it's not dr. Moog, certainly ...

I would disagree, JJ often portrays us as a bunch of anti American snobs that cry for our own identity but most of our identity comes from spending 100+ years as a British dominion. People like JJ are just annoying because he forms this false narrative that we all hate America (we don’t) and that we’re only different from America because we hate them which is just bogus. We’re different from America because less than one human life ago we were literally Britain.

⁠@@gavinrivington4918To be honest, as an American who has lived in Canada for the last 5 years, I disagree with you. I don’t think that Canadians all hate America or hate Americans, but I do think that you guys can tend to have a superiority complex. Whenever it comes up in conversation that I’m from the states, people very often respond with something along the lines of “well you must feel lucky to get to live in Canada now” and just this general sense of snobbery. And not just towards the US, I work with immigrants from all over the world, and we all kind of agree that Canadians can have a tend to really think highly of themselves and their country, almost to a somewhat delusional level. You guys kind of have this hyper patriotic mentality that seems pretty deeply engrained to the point that a lot of the times I think you don’t even realize it, but it honestly can come off as a little bit snobby and obnoxious. And don’t get me wrong, Americans definitely can be the same way especially in certain parts. However, I do feel like there’s a bit more of a stigma towards that kind of attitude in the states, and people tend to question America’s supposed greatness more than Canadians do. That’s just my two cents, having lived in Canada and interacting with Canadians as well as other immigrants on a daily basis!

@@Dreadlock1227 I’m sorry to hear that, if you don’t mind me asking what part of Canada do you live in? I’m in the maritimes and that’s not very common here we very much identify and accept the influence of American culture in us and don’t tend to think of ourselves as better than anyone but then again maybe I’m just not seeing it, I’m only wondering because if you’re living in the west coast or close to like Alberta and Ontario is also an exception, I know that attitude is a lot lore common in those regions because we ourselves talk about the snobbery “people out west” at times.

What is Caesar's census?

@@JJMcCullough Biblical thing. The romans were doing a census of their territory and required all men to return to the city of their birth for accounting - that's why Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem in the story of the Nativity.

@@kimarous Census of Quirinius. Quirinius wasn't a Caesar but was a governor of Judea. It doesn't actually match up when people think Jesus was born but records were scarce back then. Historians point out that requiring people go back to the hometowns of their ancestors for a census has no historical basis in fact and is also completely illogical (what's the point of counting people in a place who don't live there?). It's actually a pretty serious counterpoint to the accuracy of the new testament. That said that is a good reference and shows that you have a lot of cultural literacy.

@@seanicus100 This is just false. Recent archeological findings have detailed a similar "return home" census in Egypt in AD 104. Plus, the Bible notes Quirinius as governor of Syria, not Judea. Judea was ruled by Herod the Great at the time. Both of these claims are archaeologically confirmed as well, by the way. We also have recently discovered some coinage that indicates that there were either 2 different "Quirinius"s that governed Syria in close succession or 1 Quirinius who governed it 2 separate times. Either way, there was a Quirinius governing Syria during Herod the Great's reign.

​@@jake2011rt Quirinius was governor of Judea _after_ most of Judea was absorbed into the Empire proper (it was split between Herod's sons and sister after his death and then his son in Jerusalem abdicated; it's complicated). And the census was a real thing, but it happened many years after Jesus would have been born. And Jesus was in the Galilee, which was still technically an independent country not subject to said census.

Yes! He is as Canadian as Donald Hings is British.

It was probably that Heritage Minutes short film that perpetuated Superman being a Canadian creation. It portrays it as if Joe Shuster did everything, completely ignoring Jerry Siegel's involvement. And that he had spent most of his life as a US citizen by then.

In a philosophical sense it is, since Objectivism is basically just a spiteful inversion of Soviet-style Communism, presented in a literary format inspired by hackneyed socialist polemics from the 1930s.

As if being Canadian was their entire personally and was the explanation for everything they ever did lol.

@@HOTD108_ Instead I would say that it was in response to being immersed in a different environment where contributions of their country aren't recognized.

@@HOTD108_ except it doesn't imply that at all, does it?

It is a biological imperative. Absolutely

btw, did you know that JJ is Canadian?

You’d think so and yet here we are

Insulin comes to mind right away. I'm sure there are more than the 20 items picked by an advertisement firm. I would imagine they were looking for a specific quirky/fun theme for the add

@@JJMcCullough tbf that could be worth a video no? If you were to pick your own symbols of canadian pride what would your list look like?

All the best inventions are American, British and/or German!

Sure. They invented asbestos. I wonder why that wasn't on the list.

He did not

I was gonna say the same thing. He didn't invent it but some people sure wanna claim it

No peanut butter but a lot of stuff using peanuts. My favorite was a plastic like material made from shells used in some molded goods. Never caught on.

@@myselfremade Yeah, this urge that canadians feel to claim inventions for themselves extend to all people groups, including african americans. I'm more sympathetic to african americans here...always the underdogs, meanwhile Canadians just have this culture of resentment and jealousy of the US. That said it's an understandable mistake to make anyways since he came up with a lot of food products involving peanuts. The first food product that people think of involving peanuts is...peanut butter.

There's an American Dad episode about exactly this topic involving George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln, the "Illuminutty", and Peanut Butter AKA "Negro Love Spread". (Or something like that I haven't seen it in a while)

get an education!!!!!

The US claims a lot of inventions that came from Canada and other countries.

Such as?

Oh this is ironic. If I had a dollar for every time an American claimed something was invented by them when I'm reality it was born outside their country I'd be filthy rich

Sandi Toksvig Danish-British writer

at least you danes have trolls and lego lmao

​@John Irving, the funny thing about Sandy, is that she's almost completely unknown here in Denmark. But she makes it like her thing to be Danish. I know her because I watch QI, but that show haven't been shown on Danish TV.

@@Aoderic Just like Katherine Ryan

@@01habesha you mean she's virtually unknown in Canada? I would guess so.

Actually there were several ex-Avro engineers from Canada who assisted this program while working for NASA.

I'm surprised Insulin wasn't mentioned, one of the stronger Canadian inventions.

They picked things that are not as common or important because it's meant to be a funny attention-grabbing ad, not a history lesson.

@@StevieQ Some are. Football, basketball, and garbage bags don't really fit that aesthetic.

Germany also claims the invention of the telephone because of Philipp Reis.

​@@wesleybush8646 Invented in Brantford Ontario, patented in New York.

is he Korean by ethnicity? I am ethnically Chinese and have canadian citizenship. Therefore I am both

@@mapofthesoultagme7143 Sure but in the case of a shooter ,claiming that they're Korean is disingenuous. It's explicitly leaving out the fact they're also American.

@@billygoatgruff3536 he was a US Citizen, most of the inventor mentioned in the video were still Canadian citizens when they made their inventions

The Heritage Minute can't be wrong. :)

Didn't major population centres use the sun to set the time before portable clocks were prevalent? That would give many different times locally.

I mean. That's what people did. Each major town used its solar noon as the definition of its time. Flemming wasn't the first to come up with the idea, and it seems like he was the first to actually manage to get it instiuted. Also, it's silly to call him a "Canadian inventor". He was scottish, and so it'd be best to call it a Scottish-Canadian invention if you were to call it an invention.

Not dubious. Fact.

it was because of the railroads and crashes. they needed a standardized time system for safety.

My dad was from St. Louis. I think he pronounced the name of the state "Mizurrah", though.

@@IronCurtaiNYC Some people ironically say "misery" here. lol

Well but the Sandwich is British and the Hamburger as well as the Hot Dog are German…

@@Tobi-ln9xr Well, the Hillel predates the Sandwich and originated in the Middle East…

"the Lou is the birthplace of peanut butter" - (someone want to tell St. Louis of all the double entendres in that phrase?)🤣🤣🤣🤣

I thought an Italian painter come up with the idea of a helicopter but he didn't have a motor he only drew it.

I can respect that logic. But often times inventors who move to countries like the United States were able to invent what they did was because of the opportunities they didn't have in their birth country. In a situation like that, can you honestly say it's a shared between countries?

​@@tombstone5860I would say yes, as the original country that person is from provided the mind, and the other country provided the resources

​@@tombstone5860 I wouldnt call it a "shared invention" if we use basketball for example a Canadian invented the sport in another country you can get away with saying . "A canadian invented" you can also get away with saying "invented in America" both are simultaniously true.

Nobody claims Canada invented polymer bank notes. It was widely recognized that the idea was adopted from Oz.

I wonder who says that Canadians invented those notes? Many Canadians saw them in Australia first. Same thing with Cancer warnings on cigarette labels lol.

Im Canadian and literally no one claims that

Y do jews have german surnames don't jews come from Palestine originally?

I was always suprised that neither version of Sandler's song mentioned great Canadian Geddy Lee. Even the name "Geddy" is derived from the way his Yiddish-speaking mother said "Gary" There's almost no way someone born in her primarily German speaking part of Poland could ever master both alveolar approximate "r" sounds found in North American dialects.

@@OGrandomunknownperson Ashkenazi Jews tend to have German(ic) or Slavic surnames because they have been in Europe for centuries and the names changed over time to reflect the culture and language they were in. These are the Jews most common in the West, so that's the stereotype. Sephardic Jews, on the other hand, are Middle Eastern and North African, and have names reminiscent of those parts of the world. They're less common in Western countries, though.

I totally get why he was bothered by it. Most people would be in that kind of situation. For one thing, believing a myth and finding out that it's wrong and you were duped can sting but beyond that, having representation is a thing that basically all groups gravitate towards in one form or another, particularly in the modern day in and particularly particularly in North America. It gives a sense of belonging and unification. The difference in your Rabbi's case is that groups of people that have been historically vilified or underrepresented like Jews (or people of colour, queer people, disabled people, you name it) don't just use it as a rallying point to demonstrate their value to themselves but also to larger society as a whole and how their people and their culture contributed to it. It's a statement of belonging.

@@OGrandomunknownperson there is a language (Yiddish) where phrases like Oy Vey that are written in Hebrew but made up of German words that was commonly spoken by Azekanazi Jews

Even more ironic is that pineapples are not even originally native to Hawaii.

Canada is a country built upon immigration. A lot of our citizens weren't born here

*dominant

Yes

And besides , he's American.

Hes actually not that great of a guy he's good in terms of a celebrity but I'm from where Dave is from and we love to see Dave come back but he hates the place and won't really talk to fans no will he sign anything unless for like auction for like charities but a very closed off and not open individual

I always had the assumption it was more of a hometown thing. Like when they say "birthplace of basketball" they mean birthplace of the inventor, not the game.

I learned that French fries are misnamed. Really, they are french fries. If you cut the potato the long way, that is a french cut. So originally, they were called french-cut fries. That soon got shortened to french fries. Nothing to do with France at all. So what do we call it when the potato is cut the short way? Belgian fries? Nah. Dutch fries? Yeah, that sounds good. Long fries are french, short fries are dutch.

Oddly, they didn't mention Justin Bieber, either...

The country of Canada didn’t invent basketball!… The country of USA did!

James Naismith, a Canadian citizen, working in the US invented Basketball in the 1890s, he didn't become a US citizen untill 1925...

Emphasis on award-winning! :D

What is the history of the zipper?

@@JJMcCullough swedish inventor, the classic large metal locking teeth design was him. However what with him inventing it in america after being hired by a company i guess that makes it an american invention though following your logic in the video.

@@JJMcCullough All I remember from that poster is that it was “invented” in St. Catherine’s, ON. According to your accursed Wikipedia, the zipper is the product of several other patents and improvements, eventually leading to a Swedish born American named Gideon Sundback. He improved upon what was out there and invented a machine that could make zippers. He eventually became the president of a zipper factory in St. Catherine’s, but never actually lived there and did none of his inventing there.

The bigger frustration for me is North Carolina's attempt to appropriate them. While the first flight occurred there, the Wright brothers were Ohioans who wholly designed the plane in Ohio.

@@jake2011rt True. They went to Kitty Hawk for the wind. After 1903, the Wrights never returned to Kitty Hawk.

@@jake2011rt At the end of the day its still America though.

That is not exactly what happened

@@JJMcCullough Well now you peaked my curiosity! You have to do a short or something on that. LOL

@@mbogucki1 *piqued

@@evanpower9585 peaked*

@Safwaan Peeked?

My only guess as to why it wasn't mentioned in the commercial was that insulin is so expensive in the US that reminding diabetic Americans that their life-saving medicine which is out of reach was also made in Canada would be like pouring salt on a wound…more literally in this case.

Australia actually claims it too. But like you said, it was a team of different people researching it that contributed to the final product.

Like most modern discoveries the people who get the nod with the Nobel Prize seem to get the credit like with Watson and Crick for DNA and Banting and McCleod for insulin.

@@ifeeltiredsleepy Like Bell and the telephone and pretty much all inventions.

😂 Canadians are so sweet but they really do have an inferiority complex

Wow! That one never made it to Texas. We always thought of a po boy as fried oysters in a partially hollowed out roll. Of course, this was in the seventies when oysters were poor people food and we paved dirt roads with oyster shells. Also, I'm in a site that does not understand biscuits and gravy. I have tried to explain that the it's scones with béchamel sauce, but the béchamel is made with grease in the pan you fried the breakfast sausage in and has the sausage put back into the sauce. Finally some French people came in and defended the gravy by saying all southern cream gravies are related to French sauces. Of course, people in the northern US are mystified by cream gravy. I once made some spicy pounded and battered pork cutlets similar to CFS one time up in NYC and when I got to the cream gravy stage after the meat was done they thought I was working magic. They wanted me to do more magic, so the next week I made butterbeans with a pork bone, cornbread, and pepper vinegar. I had trouble finding pepper vinegar in NYC. Finally went to a soul food restaurant that made their own pepper vinegar from unripe tabascos shipped in from North Carolina. They sold me a jar of green tabasco for $2. Since I had the vinegar, and a lemon, I decided to make a mix of Swiss chard and mustard greens as a side dish. Again, these New Yorkers thought it was magic. I did not even get into the economics of the South I learned from my grandparents and explain that the majority of black people and plenty of white people did not eat that much meat even if they raised meat animals.

They're probably not related. They neither share a language, border or frequently traded/visited the other. It does sound delicious though.

​@@Bacopa68 New Yorker here, I agree that gravy really isn't common here. The South has more African and French influence on food and the North has more Italian and Slavic/ or Jewish influence. I want to try real Southern food, I've had good recreations but not the real thing. In my region though, (Western NY, North of NYC) we do have meat based sauces, specifically meat hot sauce. It's beef and tomato based with garlic, onion, oil and various spices. Usually we serve it over burgers or white hots (A type of sausage) w/ macaroni or potato salad. Because we're close to the Northern border, we have some Canadian influences and it's not uncommon to find Canadian money or flags here.

Film, not video.

Isn't this a bit different? England and Scotland are part of the same country at least, unlike Canada and the US.

@@jackyex Well in some ways, Scotland and England are actually less similair to each other than Canada and the US, but that's subjective

​@@swanstarr1441 How so?

And left when he was six years old.