Great Things about Canada

From my nifty new book, here are some Canadian inventions:

• the Abdominizer (Somehow I'm not sure how proud we are of this one.)
• air hockey
• antigravity suits
• basketball (Take that NC! Well, the inventor was Canadian, but I think he was on exchange to the US at the time.)
• chocolate bar (Did I mention I ♥ Canada?)
• dental mirror
• documentary film
• five pin bowling (Is this why my US friends have never tried five pin?)
• frozen fish fillets
• Fuller Brush Company
• ginger ale
• plastic garbage bags (We're so practical!)
• goalie mask
• hydrofoil boat
• ice hockey
• Imax movie system
• instant mashed potatoes
• insulin
• Java programming language
• jet ski
• jolly jumper
• lacrosse
• lawn sprinkler
• lightbulb (Apparently Toronto med student Henry Woodward sold a share in the patent to Edison.)
• paint roller
• prosthetic hand
• snowmobile
• snowplough
• snowblower (Okay... no snide comments about the number of "snow" inventions, now!)
• short-wave radio
• square-head "Robertson" screwdriver
• standard time
• superman
• telephone ("Conceived in Canada, born in the US.")
• Trivial Pursuit
• YMCA
• Zamboni