User:Canuckle

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 ?

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