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10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?

couldn't name one, but i'm not sure i could manage 10 american presidents or even 10 british PM's, so...

I can't even name one.

10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Tom Riddle, Draco Malfoy, Gilderoy Lockhart, Dobby, Hagrid, Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, and Viktor Krum.

Oh, wait, that's not what you were asking, was it? Damn, I could've sworn you had just asked me to name 10 unrelated Harry Potter characters.

10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?

Considering that Canada has been relatively insignificant in world history after the Seven Years War, no I can’t.

Sir John A Macdonald, Paul Martin, Jean Chretien (Does he count multiple times because he was in power so long? :P), Brian Mulrooney, Kim Campbell, Pierre Trudeau... and I'm done. :P I can't name 10... I'm a disgrace to our country. Ah well. Canadian history isn't all that interesting anyway.

I'll take a stab at it, without the assistance of any reference texts or googled sources. This means that I'll probably butcher some of the spellings, but here I go:


Lester Pearson
Mackenzie King
Pierre Trudeau
Brian Mulroney
Jean Chrietian
Joe Clark
Kim Cambell
John A. Macdonald
(First name?) Bennet
John Diefenbaker


It probably isn't a good sign that I, a product of the Canadian public education system, had to really struggle for that one.

Okay, lemme see if I still got it.

Chronologically from most recent backwards:

Paul Martin
Jean Chretien
Kim Campbell
Brian Mulroney
John Turner
Joe Clark
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Lester B Pearson
John Diefenbaker
Louis St-Laurent

I can only name one: Jean Chrestean (and I've probably spelt that wrong). Sorry Canadians but we don't learn a lot about you in Australian history classes.

Ha, I'm American. Only time they mentioned Canada was back in 8th grade US History when we learned how slaves escaped the south and escaped all the way to Canada.

I could only manage Martin, Chrétien, Mulroney, Pearson, McDonald, and that's it.

Can you name five Mexican presidents now?

Canada has prime ministers? :eek: I thought it was still a colony of France! Wow, how time flies...go away for four hundred years, and there are all these new countries to memorize! :cool:

Canada has prime ministers? :eek: I thought it was still a colony of France! Wow, how time flies...go away for four hundred years, and there are all these new countries to memorize! :cool:
I wouldn't bother. If you look at them from a certain distance they're all the same.

Lol! good one! :D well, since I'm from India, i really cant name any of them. :( . well, if u want any harry potter names, I'm always there :cool: . anything about it, ask me :D

Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Tom Riddle, Draco Malfoy, Gilderoy Lockhart, Dobby, Hagrid, Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, and Viktor Krum.

Oh, wait, that's not what you were asking, was it? Damn, I could've sworn you had just asked me to name 10 unrelated Harry Potter characters.

After an exhausting study of my canadian history book I discovered that Canada is led by a "1.5 volt battery" which has been guaranteed to remain functional and in power until "3 years after purchase" (is "purchase" some kind of Canadian Apocalyse, or something?). Then, I realized that I have been sick and without sleep for the past 24 hours and was in fact reading the instructions on the pocket watch I bought in Canada.

Bugger.

I wouldn't bother. If you look at them from a certain distance they're all the same.LOL! Yeah, you're right there. How strange...I'm currently hovering 240,000 miles above your planet and it doesn't look like anyone could live there. None of the methane oceans and nitrogen acid needed to live and breathe for all living creatures. And yet -- it's teeming with life!

I now feel sort of sad that I poisoned my predecessor as Supreme Ruler, the architect of the universe, and didn't get to ask him any of the questions I wanted to. Oh well... :p

No, but I can copy and paste from Megaloria's post.

Paul Martin
Jean Chretien
Kim Campbell
Brian Mulroney
John Turner
Joe Clark
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Lester B Pearson
John Diefenbaker
Louis St-Lauren

After an exhausting study of my canadian history book I discovered that Canada is led by a "1.5 volt battery" which has been guaranteed to remain functional and in power until "3 years after purchase" (is "purchase" some kind of Canadian Apocalyse, or something?). Then, I realized that I have been sick and without sleep for the past 24 hours and was in fact reading the instructions on the pocket watch I bought in Canada.

Bugger.

LOL :D

10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?

Laurier
William Lying Mackenzie King
Borden
Chretien
Martin Jr
Campbell
Mulroney
Diefenbaker
Pearson
Trudeau

St. Laurent
Bennett
MacDonald
Tupper
Mackenzie
Meighen
Turner

there are 3 or so more I missed but they are from the years between MacDonald and Laurier think Thompson and Bowes are two of them.

-FYI: I did not look at a history textbook however I am a history teacher by trade. :)

MacDonald, Laurier, Diefenbaker , Borden (was he even one at all?), Trudeau, Mckenzie King, Mulruney, Chretien, Martin... That's all I got. Spelling doesn't count, right?

I'll name the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Not in order.

Sir John A. Macdonald
John Deifenbaker
Robert Borden
Wilfred Laurier
Mackenzy King
Lester Pearson
Pierre Trudeau
Brian Mulroney
Jean Cretien
Paul Martin
Kim Campble

Bah. Only 11. I could've listed all of them about 6 months ago! ^.^

Terrence and Phillip

Ok, so maybe they were just fake Canadians in the South Park movie, but that counts to us Americans.

All of them were named Doug...
















What? ;)

Doug, eh?




Let's form a hockey team.

Terrence and Phillip

Ok, so maybe they were just fake Canadians in the South Park movie, but that counts to us Americans.
Hey, by those rules, I add seven more: Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey, and Mike Myers. Why can't I remember one more? I blame Canada.

...Was Sir Robert Borden one? arrgh, well I'm American and we dont usually learn about Canadian PM's in schools.

I could tell you that the Mexican president is Vicente Fox though....for some reason I am sure of that one. :confused:

I could only manage Martin, Chrйtien, Mulroney, Pearson, McDonald, and that's it.

Can you name five Mexican presidents now?
I'm Russian, I'm not looking that up, I'm trying to list the chaps in sequence (I'll miss someone, that's for sure), and here's my take:

Canada:
McKenzie, Laurier, Borden, King, Meighen, St Laurent, Diefenbaker, Pearson, Trudeau, Clark (Clarke?), Turner, Mulroney, Campbell, Chretien, Martin, Harper (the last one is for the Canadians to decide ;)).

Mexico (I'll mangle some spellings, I'm sure):
Santa Anna, Juarez, Diaz, Madero, Carranza, Obregon, Calles, Cardenas, Aleman Valdez, Diaz Ordaz, Echeverria Alvarez, Lopez Portillo, de la Madrid Urtado, Salinas de Gortari, Cedillo (?), Fox.

Ouch.

Hey, by those rules, I add seven more: Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey, and Mike Myers. Why can't I remember one more? I blame Canada.

Don't forget Bryan Adams and Avril Lavigne :eek:

Nope.

Mexico (I'll mangle some spellings, I'm sure):
Santa Anna, Juarez, Diaz, Madero, Carranza, Obregon, Calles, Cardenas, Aleman Valdez, Diaz Ordaz, Echeverria Alvarez, Lopez Portillo, de la Madrid Urtado, Salinas de Gortari, Cedillo (?), Fox.

That's pretty good. You got almost everyone after Cárdenas, too. And the spelling is not bad.

Actually, you could have just mentioned Santa Anna, since he was president eleven times :-)

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Actually, you could have just mentioned Santa Anna, since he was president eleven times :-)
What a guy! :)

It's much easier to name all Mexican emperors, though.

Canada:
McKenzie, Laurier, Borden, King, Meighen, St Laurent, Diefenbaker, Pearson, Trudeau, Clark (Clarke?), Turner, Mulroney, Campbell, Chretien, Martin, Harper (the last one is for the Canadians to decide ;)).


Harper? HARPER?!

Noooooooooooooooo

10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?

No ... and you can't make me.

Harper? HARPER?!

Noooooooooooooooo
Maybe in 2006? ;)

Don't forget Bryan Adams and Avril Lavigne :eek:

You coulda kept them. :D

now name 50 famous scientists, in alphabetical order,written in either ancient persian or binary code, and what they discovered, in morse code, or by spelling it out by killing people with a weapon of that particular letter.

let's see here:

Harry Stamper
AJ Frost
Grace Stamper
John Rambo
Rocky Balboa
Ivan Drago
Clubber Lang
Apollo Creed
Michael Corleone
Jacques Cretien

10 Canadian PM's without looking in your history textbooks?

Paul Martin, Lester Pearson, Tommy Douglas, Brian Malroney (I think?), Kim Campbell...well, that's five. Not bad, considering I'm not Canadian. :)

i dont know any famous canadian people aprt from avril lavigne and some how i think shes not a prime ministeress

have they even had any female prime ministers?

i dont know any famous canadian people aprt from avril lavigne and some how i think shes not a prime ministeress

have they even had any female prime ministers?
Kim Campbell in 1993. She was an unsuccessful leader, though, and was voted out of office in a wipeout election.

I have no connection to canada save for when my father once went there on business and brought me a shot glass.

John A. McDonald
Diefenbaker
W.L. Mackenzie King
Kim Campbell
Joe Clark
Brian Mulroney
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Paul Martin
Jean Chretien
John Turner

Sir John A MacDonald
Sir Wilfred Laurier
John Diefenbaker
William Lion Mckenzie King
Lester B Pearson
RB Bennett
Joe Clark
Kim Campbell
Brian Mulroney
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Paul Martin
Jean Chretian

Tommy Douglas, while a major player in the Canadian House of Commons, he was never a Prime Minister, even if he was leader of the Social Credit Party, later turned NDP.

What a guy! :)

It's much easier to name all Mexican emperors, though.
'Tis true :D