{"id":5793,"date":"2010-02-19T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2010-02-08T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:10:58","slug":"canadians-you-didnt-know-were-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/canadians-you-didnt-know-were-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians You Didn&#8217;t Know Were Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Canadians.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Victor-Garber.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Victor-Garber.jpg?resize=243%2C157&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Everyone knows Dan Ackroyd and Michael J. Fox. And perhaps you knew that Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey were Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know aboot Eric McCormack, of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1988315\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Will and Grace<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>?<\/em><\/strong> And Matthew Perry of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|243975\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Friends<\/em><\/strong><\/a>? And Victor Garber of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|215513\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Alias<\/em><\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|918928\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Field of Dreams<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|127484\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Shoeless Joe<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by W.P. Kinsella, who is, you guessed it, not from Iowa, but from Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ellen Page of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2046124\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Juno<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2230098\" target=\"_blank\">Whip It<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Michael Cera, also of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2046124\" target=\"_blank\">Juno<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, and the late, great <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|946232\" target=\"_blank\">Arrested Development<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>and , the king of the world himself, James Cameron, director of the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1004418\" target=\"_blank\">Titanic<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2238549\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows Dan Ackroyd and Michael J. Fox. And perhaps you knew that Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey were Canadian. But did you know aboot Eric McCormack, of Will and Grace? And Matthew Perry of Friends? And Victor Garber of Alias? Our very own Field of Dreams is based on<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/canadians-you-didnt-know-were-canadian\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[1018,1055],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-canada","tag-canadians"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1vr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}