Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Beaver: Not the Only Clichéd Canadian Symbol

My friend, who works at Heritage Canada, was rather frustrated at the use of the beaver for the PIPWatch toolbar. Because, as she said, there are more clichéd Canadian symbols out there than just the beaver. For example:

The moose
The lumberjack
Igloo (can you imagine? The privacy igloo)
The Bluenose
The Rocky Moutains
Tuques
Hockey, hockey hair, hockey players
The Great White North
Northern Lights
Mounties
The maple leaf

Anyhow, you get the idea. It's hard for me to know whether those PIPWatch people were being deliberately funny when picking the beaver, or just kind of lazy. Post it in comments if you have other fine clichéd Canadian symbols.

4 comments:

Trixie said...

I think the Mountie is copyrighted so there would be licensing issues. I wonder if any of those other suggestions would run into the same problem.

Trixie said...

I think the Mountie is copyrighted so there would be licensing issues. I wonder if any of those other suggestions would run into the same problem.

Trixie said...

Oops. Sorry 'bout the double.

Anonymous said...

trixie means trademarked... not sure if there is any correlatation to debbie does dallas.