What's a Canuckle?

Canuck: a slang term for Canadians originating in the 19th century, and the name of an intrepid band of hockey players, the Vancouver Canucks

Knuckle: a joint of a finger, which is brought into prominence when the hand is shut.

Definitions of canuckle from urbandictionary.com:

• canuckle - Cool dude of Canadian origin. Loves donuts (especially Tim Horton's), women and ice hockey. Not necessarily all at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt.
  • Man, that dude's a canuckle!
• A witty wise-cracking on-line friend who supplies TH at all the right times.
  • When's that Canuckle gonna get here with my donuts?

About this user

This user is thin-skinned, frustrated by process, writes quickly then leaves and prefers the big picture over small details.

Did You Knows

• 31 May 2007 ...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
• 8 July 2013 ... that a storm on Lucy Island unearthed 5,500-year-old remains of a woman whose DNA has been directly linked to a modern-day descendent, a Tsimshian woman living near Prince Rupert?
• 13 March 2008 ...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferrable vote system?
• 16 September 2007 ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
• 13 May 2010 ... that the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
• 2 April 2014 ... that Insite, North America's first legal supervised injection site for drug users, was opened by the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003?
• 22 April 2011 .. that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
• 2 July 2013 ... that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
• 22 June 2010 ... that a criminal trial began more than six years after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the British Columbia Parliament Buildings ?

Created or (hopefully!) improved

Articles

• Hospital de Jesús Nazareno - where Cortes and Montezuma met
• Portland Hotel Society - opened Insite, North America's first supervised injection site
• Fraser Canyon Hospital
• Lucy Islands - significant BC archelogical site
• Mount Prevost & Mount Tzouhalem - Vancouver Island mountains
• St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
• Providence Health Care (Vancouver) - operators of 7 care facilities in Vancouver
• Ocean Park (Surrey) - a neighbourhood of Surrey, BC
• Ministry of Health (British Columbia)
• Vancouver Magazine
• History of flooding in Canada
• Semiahmoo First Nation
• International Association of Business Communicators

Bios

• Lukin Johnston - journalist who vanished mysteriously 3 days after interviewing Adolf Hitler
• Dr. Brian Day - physician champion for-profit care
• Russell Mills (publisher) - 'expansion' of longtime Ottawa Citizen publisher
• Martin Schechter - Order of BC HIV researcher
• Prab Rai - Vancouver Canuck prospect
• Colin Keith Gray - filmmaker
• Carl Leone - Ontario man convicted of criminal transmission of HIV
• Jean Guyon - a New France pioneer that I had to fight to save from deletion
• Robert Giffard de Moncel - New France pioneer and first doctor in first hospital in North America
• Zacharie Cloutier - New France pioneer
• Geoff Plant - former British Columbia Attorney-General
• Elizabeth Bennett (judge) in BC Rail & Casinogate cases
• Jack Webster - famed BC journalist
• Vincent Covello - risk communications theorist and specialist
• Libor Polášek - a first-round draft pick that broke Canuck fans heart
• Bill Tieleman - pundit
• David D. Schreck - one-time MLA
• Garth Butcher - Vancouver Canuck player

Categories

• Vancouver Sun people
• The Province newspaper people
• People from Port Alberni, British Columbia
• Civil rights history of Canada

Tools

• Count Canuckle's edits: link
• Link to Canuckle's sandbox

Image gallery

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  Copper Island in Shuswap Lake
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  BC Ambulance at Royal Columbian Hospital Emergency department
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  Lucy Island lighthouse (recrop) on home page for DYK
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  An atypical white-furred Vancouver Island Wolf in captivity at the Greater Vancouver Zoo
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  Stuart Island Airpark (foreground) lies on the western shore of Prevost Harbour across from Satellite Island (Washington)
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  BC Ferries MV Coastal Celebration unloading at Swartz Bay ferry terminal
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  South-facing aerial view of Reid Harbour on Stuart Island, Washington in the Strait of Georgia
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  'Infinite Tires' public art by Douglas Coupland in south Vancouver
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  Pere David Deer resting at the Greater Vancouver Zoo
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  East-facing aerial view of Westminster Highway and Canada Line overpass to Brighouse Station in Richmond, British Columbia
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  South-facing aerial view of Saturna Island
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  RCMP visiting Burnaby Hospital
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  East-facing aerial view of Minoru Park
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  North-facing aerial view of Dinsmore Bridge in Richmond, British Columbia connecting Lulu Island with Sea Island
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  An east-facing aerial view of Ladner, British Columbia beyond Duck Island, Barber Island, Gunn Island and Port Guichon in the Fraser River Estuary
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  A container ship loading up at Roberts Bank Superport

Picture of the day

Sojourner is a robotic Mars rover that landed in Ares Vallis, a channel in the Chryse Planitia region, on July 4, 1997. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days). It was the first wheeled vehicle to rove on a planet other than Earth and formed part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. This panoramic photograph is formed of various images of Sojourner taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander, composited into a 360-degree image referred to by NASA as the "presidential" panorama. Since the camera's position was consistent, it is possible to see these images of the rover in the context of the entire landscape.Photograph credit: NASA / JPL

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