* 1987 – Shawn Gore, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player

* 1981 – Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian football player

* 1964 – Greg Battle, Canadian football player

* 1959 – Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

Canadian football, on the other hand, begins in the summer, but extends its season through the autumn season and into November.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The facility is 38, 690 meters < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 416, 500 ft < sup > 2 </ sup >), equivalent to 4½ Canadian football fields, and the operating structure is the largest stainless steel building in North America, the size of 14 NHL rinks.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

Canadian football distinguishes three ways of kicking the ball:

A touchdown in Canadian football is often referred to as a " major score " or simply a " major.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

In Canadian Interuniversity Sport football, for the Uteck Bowl, Mitchell Bowl, and Vanier Cup, the same overtime procedure is followed until there is a winner.

* Down ( American football ), in American / Canadian football, a period of time where one play takes place

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

The Canadian children's TV series The Big Comfy Couch used a version of the song in the episode " Backwards ".

* The song is used to humorous effect in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon as ill-informed Americans prepare for an invasion by Canada.

In June 2000, she donated $ 40 million to the Hamilton Community Foundation to be used largely in improvement of Hamilton-area health facilities, an act that represented one of the single largest charitable donations in Canadian history.

A contemporary reference for formal Canadian spelling is the spelling used for Hansard transcripts of the Parliament of Canada ( see The Canadian Style in Further reading below ).

It is still used in this form by the British Territorial Army, and the Royal Canadian Armour Corps of the Canadian Army.

It is used on Canadian postmarks as a bilingual form of the month.

Because rye was once a standard ingredient in Canadian whisky, the terms " rye whisky " and " Canadian whisky " are often used interchangeably in Canada.

Thus, much of the spirits used in making a Canadian whisky, prior to aging, may have less grain-derived flavour than typical single malts or U. S. " straight " whiskeys.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey, like Canadian whisky, must be aged for at least three years in oak ( new or used, charred or uncharred, at the discretion of the producer ).

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal used the Nova 1200 for channel playout automation up until the late 80's.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

This tuning was used by the jazz player Red Mitchell and is increasingly used by classical players, notably the Canadian bassist Joel Quarrington.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

Each league used a different approach: Canadian football, which adopted the forward pass and the end zones in 1929 ( far later than the Americans ), merely appended 20-to 25-yard end zones to the ends of the existing 110-yard field, leaving the goal posts on the goal line and creating a much larger field of play.

* Manitoba Buffalo, a Canadian rugby union team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba

The forward pass is one of main distinguishers between gridiron football ( American football and Canadian football ) in which the play is legal and widespread, and rugby football ( union and league ) from which the North American games evolved, in which the play is illegal.

The UPEI Panthers have nine teams playing in the Atlantic University Sport ( AUS ) and the Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ), including men's and women's ice hockey, soccer, basketball, as well as women's field hockey and rugby union and co-ed swimming.

* Canadian Rugby Championship, a rugby union tournament

The most popular sports in Canadian high schools are ice hockey, rugby, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, football, baseball, basketball, track and field athletics, and volleyball.

* Garett Hickling ( born 1970 ), Canadian wheelchair rugby player

* 23 November — representatives of Harvard Crimson, Yale Bulldogs, Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions meet at the Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardise a new code of rules based on the Canadian rugby game first introduced to Harvard by Canada's McGill University in 1874.

Category: Canadian rugby union players

Coming from an athletic family, his father played rugby with the Canadian national team.

* Calgary Mavericks, a Canadian rugby union team from Calgary, Alberta, Canada

" Piffles " Taylor, a First World War fighter pilot and postwar lawyer who played and coached rugby union and football in the city, and subsequently served as president of the Regina Roughriders ( forerunner of the Saskatchewan Roughriders ), the Canadian Rugby Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union.

* Jared Barker ( born 1975 ), Canadian rugby player

Like Canadian football and ice hockey in Vancouver, full of Asian immigrants, Auckland is finding itself increasingly marginalised on sports traditionally identified with New Zealand culture, such as rugby and netball, because of high immigrant numbers from countries with little tradition of such sports.

* Media scrum ( chiefly Canadian ), similar to a rugby scrum, occurs when public figures, such as politicians, are surrounded by a group of journalists and are asked questions in an impromptu or loosely organized manner

The word " scrummage " is a modification of " scrimmage " ( the form of the word previously used in rugby and still used in American and Canadian football ), which in turn derives from or is a reflex of " skirmish ".

The modern rugby union scrummage and ruck, the rugby league play-the-ball ( also referred to as a " ruck "), and the American football snap and scrimmage ( later adopted by Canadian football ) were all derivatives of the early scrummage, and responsive in different ways to problems encountered in the way the rules regarding it were written and administered.

* Gareth Rees ( rugby player ) ( born 1967 ), Canadian rugby union player

An interception or pick is a move in many forms of football, including Canadian and American football, as well as rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football and Gaelic football, which involves a pass, either by foot or hand, being caught by an opposition player, who usually gains possession for his team.

The Molinex Trophy is awarded annually to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's rugby union champions.

Category: Canadian rugby union competitions

As in Australia, where Australian Rules Football took hold ; and Ireland, where Gaelic Football is played ; while in New Zealand rugby holds greater popularity ; Canadian football usurped Association Football.