>>463355Other things Americans think are American but are actually Canadian:
>BasketballInvented by Canadian James Naismith
>Footbal (handegg)Invented in cooperation between Harva4d and Canada's McGill uni, the Canadians devised the system of downs that seperate foitball from similar Euro sports
>Probably baseball (it's debatable)Contemporary newspapers report a game of baseball, pkayed on a diamond and dustinct from rounders or cricket, played in Ontario 1 year before it was "invented" by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown.
>HockeyModern hockey is a Canadian game, today the best predictor of a teams liklihood to win the Stanley Cup is the amount of Canadians on the roster. Last years winner the Kings had 15 out 23 men on roster born in Canada.
>LacrosseModern lacrosse is a Canadian game, the idea of which came from natives
>M1 GarandThe first standard issue semi-auto called "the greatest battle instrument ever devised" by General Patton, was invented by French Canadian John Garand.
>The lunar landing module that put men on the moonThe designs were by Ontario native Owen Maynard, he also served as Chief Engineer. The Eagle module landing gear was also built by Canadian firm Heroux-Devtek
>Victory on D-Day5 beaches on D-Day, the Americans at Utah and Omaha, the Brits at Sword and Gold, the Canadians at Juno. Despite fighting at Juno being either the worst and best defended by the Germans or the 2nd worst after Omaha (a lot of the troble there came from Americans inability to use landing craft) only the Canadians made it all the way inland and met their designated goals on schedule. After this they went and liberated the Dutch which Brits and Americans had been unable to do.
We also invented motor scooters, synthetic insulin, and cardiac pacemakers so we are actually keeping our porky diabetic neighbors alive and mobile.
