Captain Canada
@cptcanada
Speak out against injustice, repost the just. LGBTQ2 Rights, Pro-Abortion, Indigenous Rights, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press. Show the World how Privileged and Proud I feel to be Canadian.
Great Canadian: Frank Calder Nisga’a politician & Chief He led a Supreme Court challenge by the Nisga’a Tribal Council’s called the Calder case. It asserted Aboriginal title exists to traditional territories in Canadian law. Calder was also the 1st Indigenous person to serve in the BC legislature
Beautiful Yukon Five Finger Rapids, North Klondike Highway, Yukon, CANADA
Great Canadian: Donovan Bailey: Bailey was the World’s fastest man in 1996, & the first Canadian to "legally" break the 10-second barrier in the 100-metre sprint. He has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame twice, once as an individual & again as part of the 1996 Olympic relay team
Beautiful Canada: The Uisge Bàn Falls, Uisge Ban Falls Provincial Park, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Great Canada: Did you all know that there are people in Canada right now born in a Foreign Nation, became full Canadian Citizens, yet they have never moved to Canada. NFLD & Labrador My parents & others were born before Confederation 1949, were automatic citizens but many never left the Island
I'm back from another round of treatments and spend some time with my family. But I'm ready to spread the the word on now great a Nation Canada is.
Great Canadian: Rick Hansen: 3X Paralympics Gold Medalist in Track and Field, Activist and Philanthropist. Man In Motion World Tour, in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair bringing awareness and raise money for the removal of barriers facing people with disabilities. Member-Order of Canada
Beauty Canada: Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, CANADA #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: East Blue Lake, Duck Mountain Provincial Park, Manitoba, CANADA #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Chief Dan George: A Tsleil-Waututh Nation chief, acclaimed author, Academy Award-nominated actor, and Canadian Icon. He is celebrated for breaking barriers for Indigenous representation in media, and delivering profound celebrated speeches on Indigenous culture. #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Dr. Emily Howard Stowe: Canada's 1st female Dr. She founded the Toronto Women's Literary Club, She is a Cornerstone to Women's Suffrage and gaining Equal Voting Rights in Manitoba & Federally. She also successfully lobbied to open up Canadian Universities to women #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Tanya Tagaq An Inuk avant-garde throat singer, author, and activist. She was the first Indigenous artist to win the Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism. She first became widely known in Canada and Internationally for her collaborations with Icelandic Singer Bjork. #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success & helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. One of Canada's greatest songwriters he went to number 1 on the Hot 100 list 5X "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" will live on forever #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Swallowtail Lighthouse (National Historic Site), Isla de Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CANADA #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup)- Puppeteer Partner of Mr. Rogers he came to Canada with Rogers to work on Canadian Television. Ernie stayed in Canada to star in his own Children's Program. He became a Canadian Icon & inspired imaginations of many generations of Canadian Kids. #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Athabasca Falls-Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, CANADA #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Lester B. Pearson: -14th Prime Minister of Canada and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is celebrated for pioneering the first large-scale United Nations peacekeeping force during the 1956 Suez Crisis. His negotiated Suez Peace Plan is the longest lasting Middle Eastern Peace Treaty
Beauty Canada: Torngat Mountains of Labrador, Torngat Mountain National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA
Great Canadian: Dr. Roberta Bondar- The first Canadian woman in space and the first neurologist in space, she spearheaded critical research on the human nervous system. She went on to become head of an International Space Medicine Research Team working with NASA. #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Helmcken Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, CANADA
Great Canadian: Charles "Checker" Tompkins- Métis, WWII Vet, Charles was a Soldier & Code Talker in the Canadian Army, aiding the US Air Force. He translated secret messages from English into the Cree language too disguise the content from enemies Code Talkers were key to winning WWII #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Basin Head Provincial Park, Prince Edward Island, CANADA #CANADA159
Great Canadian: Eva Aariak- An Inuit leader & politician in Nunavut. She worked to promote Inuktitut, including as the first language commissioner of Nunavut. She was the 1st woman & 2nd Premier of Nunavut. In 2021 Aariak was appointed as Canadian Governments Commissioner of Nunavut #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Ram Plateau, Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, CANADA #Canada159
Greatest Canadian: Terry Fox: -“I’ve said to people before that I’m going to do my very best to make it, I’m not going to give up. But I might not make it, if I don’t, the Marathon of Hope better continue” Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $1 Billion 4 Cancer Research-Donate Today #CANADA159
Beauty Canada: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Inuktitut, Nunavut, CANADA #CANADA159