I do remember seeing this one in school, https://youtu.be/xYmcN12M97o
though I had no idea who Buster Keaton was at the time, nor his importance in film history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle-to-the-Sea

Also very Canadian. The book was written by an American. I never knew that.

“Dear Mr. H’Eaton….”!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyDsF-Gp3o&t=49s

The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier. This is awesome Canadian nostalgia even to a native Torontonian.

I have mentioned on this site that a friend of mind has a son who has recently entered the army [infantry].

A few years ago we were at their house and mucking about on YouTube and I mentioned having watched that video again at a distance of many years since first seeing it.

My friend’s son, seeing it for the first time, concluded it was “the most Canadian thing ever”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

I see a commenter has expressed the same sentiment.

Listening to it now.

Canadiana Bonus points- song written by Wade Hemsworth and sung by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

I hear it ambled around for a while, I forget the time of day, then possibly treed itself. Ended up treed, one way or another. There were newspaper photos.

We speculated on how it had gotten so far into the urban environment and by what route. Ottawa does have some more or less quasi-natural avenues cutting through it from the rural zone but not so many right to that spot. Coyotes, foxes, and so on turn up in the city core. Bears, not so often.

It might have swum the Ottawa river from Gatineau, the much less built up Quebec city on the other side. Bears are a highly effective amphibious weapons system.

The serious ones he mentions, but also the cartoon ones, like the Log-driver’s Waltz, Blackfly, Spence’s Republic, and Cordell Baker’s The Cat Came Back and The Big Snit.

The Treadwell tape certainly did exist, as I have heard an excerpt, and yes,it is every bit as bad as you imagine, especially since his girlfriend was also killed by the bear.

“..Frankly, up until the advent of the rifled gun, the bear was the apex predator nearly anywhere people went.”

Even after! Polar Bears still haven’t internalized the message that they are no longer at the top. They remain the only predator that will actively and deliberately stalk and kill a human, treating it as normal prey (which for such a long time, we were).

Also, I have yet to see that film The Grizzly Man about Timothy Treadwell. I gather the never released, possibly destroyed audio track of his moment of death was among the most horrifying sounds ever heard to those few who listened to it. I can only imagine.