Canada in the world -- Canadians abroad; Foreigners in Canada

Impact of Canada on the world

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Spain

1919 "Canadenca strike"

A strike at a Spanish business backed by a Canadian bank ignited the labour unrest that grew to be a general strike in 1919.

The Canadenca strike[1] (Catalan: Vaga de La Canadenca, Spanish: huelga de La Canadiense) was initiated in February 1919 by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) .

It lasted over 44 days and evolved into a general strike that paralyzed much of the industry of Catalonia.

The strike originated at the main electricity company in Barcelona, Riegos y Fuerzas del Ebro, a subsidiary of Barcelona Traction, popularly known as la Canadenca because its major shareholder was the Canadian Bank of Commerce of Toronto.

Spanish Civil War

Norman Bethune

Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion

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Canadians in Britain

Clockwork Orange

Anthlny Burgess's wife was raped by Canadian soldiers during WWII. The assailants were never caught.[?]

This deplorable incident perhaps inspired the rape scene in his book Clockwork Orange.

Scotland

many signs of Canada in Scotland (just asher are many signs of Scotland in Canada)

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Canadians in the U.S.

Jack Kerouac's parents came from Quebec.

Elon Musk's mother was born in Sask. and he spent some of his young adult life in that provoince.

Donald Trump's grandfather made his wealth in northern BC during the Yukon gold rush.

many of the early Hardy Boys novels were written by Canadain Leslie McFarlane.

Superman invented by two Canadians

[etc.]

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Estonia

first prime minister had liveidn Vancouver for many years.

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Famous people who died in Canada

Errol Flynn died in Vancouver 1959. Earlier that same year he had been in Cuba as a journalist interviewing Castro. self-produced the film Cuban Rebel Girls - his girlfriend of the time, of course, plays the film character who falls in the water and gets her shirt wet.

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Canadians in far-away climes in historical literature

in C.S. Forester's book African Queen, Archie, played by Humphrey Bogart in the film of the same name,  was a Canadian.

 in fact the book The Invention of Tradition (editors Hobsbawn and Ranger) states that "in 1880s and 1890s many whites were arriving in southern Africa from Europe, Canada and Australia in work in the mines."

In the Wilbur Smith novel When the Lion Feeds, the main character Sean Courtney befriends Duff Charleywood who, previous to going to South Africa, had worked a miner in Canada.

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Canadian inventions

fitted sheets

A Canadian - an Albertan in fact - invented fitted sheets. St. Albert

Organized time-zones

Sandford Fleming (also a proportionalists electoral reformer)

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