Another of his dirty tricks was the " Canuck letter ", although this was libel of Muskie and not a black propaganda piece.

* Canuck letter

Prior to the New Hampshire primary, the so-called " Canuck letter " was published in the Manchester Union-Leader.

* Canuck letter

Loeb is best remembered nationally for his alleged role in attacking Edmund Muskie through the Union Leader in what is known locally as the Canuck letter, derailing the Maine senator's 1972 presidential bid.

The Canuck letter is an example of one candidate creating a false document and attributing it as coming from another candidate in order to discredit that candidate.

* Canuck letter

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their best-selling book All the President's Men, Clawson bragged about having written the Canuck letter to a friend, Marilyn Berger, who happened to be a Washington Post reporter, whom he had known from his days with the newspaper.

The Canuck letter was a ploy used to try to disrupt the presidential campaign of Edmund Muskie, who was viewed by many senior Republicans as Nixon's most dangerous potential opponent for the 1972 presidential race.

* Canuck letter

Linden became the second Canuck to have his jersey retired, joining former captain Stan Smyl, whose jersey number, 12, was retired in 1991.

Bure finished the season with 110 points in 83 games and became the first Canuck named to the NHL First All-Star Team.

He became a Canuck on January 21, 1977 when he was traded to Vancouver with Larry Goodenough in exchange for Bob Dailey.

On 27 March, he recorded an assist in a 5 – 1 win against the Phoenix Coyotes for his 100th point of the season, becoming the third Canuck to reach the plateau after Pavel Bure and Alexander Mogilny.

Beginning the season 22 points behind Jyrki Lumme and Dennis Kearns for the franchise's all-time point-scoring record for a defenceman, Öhlund surpassed the mark on March 15, 2009, with an assist in a 4 – 2 win against the Colorado Avalanche for his 322nd point as a Canuck.

The following season in 2003 – 04, Linden played in his 897th game and recorded his 674th point as a Canuck to surpass Smyl on both marks.

It would be the first of four consecutive 40-point seasons on the Canuck blueline for McCarthy, who impressed with his powerful point shot and fine outlet passing and was quickly becoming the team's top all-around defender.

The CF-100 Canuck operated under NORAD to protect airspace from Soviet threats such as nuclear-armed bombers during all weather and day / night conditions.

In 1951, during production of the CF-100 Canuck, a design was explored for a revised version with swept wings and tail modifications.

) Captain Canuck had enhanced strength and endurance thanks to being bathed in alien rays during a camping trip.

* Canuck Unlimited Canadians airplane crews who operated in Southeast Asia during World War II

He began the season by scoring his 300th goal as a Canuck during the team's home-opener against the San Jose Sharks on 14 October 2006.

It was during this time that he began to be called Captain Canuck.

Despite this, though, he struggled in the playoffs and earned the ire of Canuck fans when he asked his idol Wayne Gretzky for a game stick immediately following the team's ouster from the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings, an action fans felt symbolized the lack of commitment to winning from a player who scored just 3 goals in 28 playoff games as a Canuck.

His best regular season totals with the Canucks came in the 1989 – 90 season when he scored a team respectable 48 points and was awarded The Canuck's " Most Exciting Player " Award by Canuck fans.

Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss ( Canada ) aircraft operation in Toronto ( opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes ), Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4 ( Can ) Canuck, the Felixstowe F5L flying boat, and the Avro 504.

Though Northguard was published as an independent comic book series and didn't achieve the notoriety of better-known Canadian superheroes like Richard Comely's Captain Canuck or Marvel Comics ' Alpha Flight, it was well received by critics and a core following of fans.

The Captain Canuck: Legacy series will then be published in its entirety as a Graphic Novel ( which will also include additional content ).

During the years 1953 to 1968, it was the home to 413, 427 and 434 Fighter Squadrons which flew F-86 Sabre jets, and 440 Squadron which flew CF-100 Canuck, then the CF-104 Starfighter.

Although the design of the large, jet-powered all-weather interceptor, renamed the CF-100 Canuck, was largely complete by the next year, the factory was not tooled for production until late 1948 due to ongoing repair and maintenance contracts.

The Chinook was developed into the TR. 5 Orenda designed for the CF-100 Canuck, but was also installed in several variants of the Canadair Sabre.

" Her teacher was Anita " Neta " Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 " Canuck " for training.

This was probably the original meaning, though in Canada and other countries, " Canuck " refers to any Canadian.

Johnny Canuck was revived in 1942 by Leo Bachle to defend Canada against the Nazis.

* Operation Canuck was the designated name of a British SAS raid led by a Canadian captain, Buck McDonald in January 1945.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was a forged document as part of the dirty-tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Nixon campaign.

Small scale work on what would become the Velvet Glove started in 1948 at CADRE, and by 1951 the plans were advanced enough to put forth the design as armament on the Avro CF-100 Canuck fighter that was then entering service with the RCAF.

Operation Canuck was an operation of World War II conducted by the Canadian Captain Buck McDonald and a small team of Special Air Service troopers in January, 1945.

Before the season started, captain Trevor Linden willingly relinquished the captaincy to Messier, a move that did not go well with Canuck supporters as Linden was a fan favorite.

The game was organized by Brad May in partnership with the Vancouver Giants, a junior club in the Western Hockey League ( WHL ), and raised funds for Canuck Place, a Vancouver children's hospice sponsored by the Canucks.

He was further honoured in 1996 by the Royal Canadian Mint's release of a commemorative coin, the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck which featured an insert of Janusz Żurakowski.

North Bay's next fighter unit, 445 Squadron, was the first in the world armed with the CF-100 Canuck interceptor.

The company was an important supplier of accessories for jet engines, building the exhaust pipes for the Avro CF-100 Canuck and later becoming the primary maintenance depot for the aircraft.