‘O Canada’: This Online Page Shares Memes About Life In Canada That Sum Up The Country Perfectly
Welcome to the Facebook page that features two of my favorite (and probably yours too!) things: Canada and memes. Join them together and you have pure entertainment dipped in maple syrup, mixed with a bunch of people notorious for being too nice for this world and wrapped in cultural quirks that only happen here.
“Funny Canadian Memes” is a corner of Facebook with more than 120k followers who provide Canada aficionados with their daily dose of humor.
Below we wrapped up some of the funniest Canadian memes, so scroll down and upvote your favorite ones. Also, shout out to our beloved Canadians out there, if you find these memes relatable, please hit us up in the comments!
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To find out more about the Canadian lifestyle and its quirks, Bored Panda spoke with Casie Stewart, a Canadian award-winning content creator who has been documenting her life since 2005 via her blog ‘This is My Life.’ Her social entrepreneurship and dedication to social media won her 2016 Voice Pioneer at the Canadian Screen Awards by The Canadian Academy of Cinema & Television. Today, Casie is represented by the National Speakers Bureau of Canada.
Casie told Bored Panda that Canadian humor is pretty sarcastic and light-hearted. “We like to make jokes and it's true, we say 'sorry' a lot,” she said. “I grew up in Canada and I absolutely love living here. We have a great quality of life! My home is Toronto and my favorite city in Canada,” Casie told us.
Buddy planted larch trees in the Douglas Fir forest to create a smiley face. It returns each fall and makes a happy showing
When asked about her favourite Canadian cultural quirks, Casie said that one funny thing is “that ‘yeah, no’ means no, and ‘yeah, no for sure’ means yes,” she laughed. “We also spell things a bit different here than in the USA, ex honour, humour, and favourite all have a U,” Casie added.
The weather is also a big thing when it comes to Canadian life. “In Canada, we have 4 distinct seasons so we get to experience a really hot summer, beautiful Autumn colours (and fashion!), then a cold snowy winter, plus the spring where everything comes back to life,” she explained.
It took me, an American, WAY too long to realize they are referring to hockey. I thought Canada had some kind of awesome bloodbath gladiator deathmatch sport that I didn't know about.
Deer are dumber than a box of hammers and will jump directly in front of your car when they weren't even near the road to begin with.
Canadian women are on another level. Picture: Hugo Lorini
Sure they're not Geordie lasses? Oh, hang on, they're wearing too many clothes...
Driving unplowed curvy hilly backroads going home at midnight with snow deep enough on the road that it sweeps over the front of your car and over the windshield in an endless opaque wave, with the side window open so you can actually see anything, in near whiteout snowfall and well below freezing temperature, all while driving fast enough to keep your momentum to get over the hills, but slow enough not to drive off the road into a ditch, and knowing that if you mess up and get stuck, there probably won't be another vehicle along for hours and you're in for a real long walk. Yeah, real winter in the country is fun.
same thing at the beach in Australia if you eat hot potato chips and the seagulls notice.
That's actually pretty accurate, except that the Facebook part should read "We know you bought a toaster yesterday. Here are some 20 ads for toaster ovens if you wished to buy 5 more"
The transport trucks in Ontario are notorious for anything before 10 am. You learn not to follow close as an entire car made of snow could come off their roof in 1 go
Go to Costco for bread, leave Costco with a 5' tall fully articulated skeleton named Billy Bones.
Middle pole suggests that there's an umbrella - at least it will not be snowing on the table anymore.
This! The feeling of satisfaction and job well done the first time my then 8 yo shovelled the patio while I was drinking my coffee inside.
I've lived in Southern California all of my life. I don't know what seasons are. I've SEEN snow, but I've never lived snow or lived seasons. I wonder what it's like :(
In Florida I much prefer winter. It's the 1 day a year that I don't instantly sweat through my underwear when I step out of the door.
Technically American, as a friend would say and she was from Uruguay. South America, American. People from USA have appropriated that term!
Shouldn't Quebec be the Louisiana of Canada? Proud French speaking people who hate everyone else doing weird stuff and eating weird things.
Somewhere in Ontario probably. A lot of old houses in Waterloo look like that.
1. Crazy Carpets are the best, and 2. I almost got killed by mine so many times.
We're celebrating the fact that we haven't become extinct yet
House hippo! Anyone else remember the YTV PJs and those puppets? Used to anticipate Ed's Fromage every Christmas on Much Music. Watching back now, that sock really wasn't that funny. Not sure if Video On Trial was any better. Maybe a little. Avril Lavigne... She was was one of those music artists who had closet fans cos I sure didn't hear a lot of people raving about her first song. Sk8r Boi (however the heck she spelled it) was her saving grace. But the media trying to label her as punk rock and a "punk princess" probably killed it for some people who might've otherwise given her a chance. We knew who the queen of punk was, Bif Naked. But mainstream punk was heavily scrutinized. Even The Offspring was taken as a joke after their Americana album. AYAOTD was the best show. That intro was eerie enough. Book fairs were fun to look at all the school stuff you know you're parents were too poor to get you. But still fun circling your wish list. Oh, and Speaker's Corner was like Tiktok but better.
9AM Tokyo time is 10PM Quebec time. I'm surprised he waited that long.
The American one sounds like something someone could get sucker punched for saying.
Two team captains. Everyone throws their hockey sticks in messy pile. Captains pick the stick and the owner is on that team.
We used to buy wine at night and called it "Cuvée Dépanneur"...ah, youthful folly. 😏
My grandmother made me a pair of those and I'm wearing them right now.
Nah, I lived in a large city at one point. My husband, desperate for food because I wouldn't let anyone in the kitchen while I was cooking, went out for food on Christmas day. Apparently found an open one and came back nearly an hour later looking like he'd seen the end of the world.
This is true in other countries as well. In fact, this is a picture of Claremore, OK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremore,_Oklahoma).
Sooooo from this I've learned it's very cold, and expensive... and geese are a nuisance?
Yup, pretty much. Geese are insanely protective of their nests and territory… they will not hesitate to attack. Our summers are nice but this winter is expected to be a particularly brutal one. Expensive has been a recent thing for the most part… thanks COVID. Hey though, free health care and it is a beautiful country.
Load More Replies...Grew up on the border, and this holds true for many in the US. Ah, I'm nostalgic for my childhood now. But not the frostbite that one time. ;-P
I grew up near the Mexican border on the U.S. side. When I think of the border, I immediately think of the one the U.S. shares with Mexico. How interesting.
Load More Replies...My ex is from Canada and I wish i could live there with him. Shame I made some poor choices and now I'm stuck in England with no future... ex is currently travelling in vietnam then NZ. A year working in Oz...i wish i had the courage. I'd have traveled anywhere with him. Be careful what you settle for. The advertisement of "life" isn't worth it or anywhere near fun. See the world, learn and experience, life is for living. Don't be like me because you value tradition. Do.what.you.want! :-D
No offense meant, but I think a psychiatrist would have a lot of fun analyzing that message. Lots of intermixed complex emotions and repression.
Load More Replies...First! The number of repeats in this thread is extreme. But topic/pics/etc great
They forgot to post this (ice canoeing as traditional extreme sport here in Quebec) Ice-canoei...a9179c.jpg
The australia one is correct, as an australian SUCK IT UP AND DEAL WITH THE HEAT
While some of these are hilarious, how anyone with even a partially functioning brain could think there are mountains in Saskatchewan, defies belief. I did lol - literally - at some of these. There are many more out there I’m sure. After being raised in the UK until my teens, living in Winterpeg for years and now living in ND via Chicago, my heart is Canadian. Love Canada and her people!
I'm a Nigeria ive heard so much of Canada is one of my favourite places to visit
Snow, yes that very uniquely Canadian experience. You certainly don't see that stuff in any other country in the world.
I would love to see more posts on how others deal with winter and add to list of how to enjoy such beautiful season. Fondue and mulled wine in many parts of Europe, etc.
Load More Replies...Want to conserve paper? Write a list of countries that didn't commit genocide
Load More Replies...Don't mix-up ALL OF Canada with the Roman Catholics, thank you. Like Andy Frobig said above: Want to conserve paper? Write a list of countries that didn't commit genocide.
Load More Replies...Sooooo from this I've learned it's very cold, and expensive... and geese are a nuisance?
Yup, pretty much. Geese are insanely protective of their nests and territory… they will not hesitate to attack. Our summers are nice but this winter is expected to be a particularly brutal one. Expensive has been a recent thing for the most part… thanks COVID. Hey though, free health care and it is a beautiful country.
Load More Replies...Grew up on the border, and this holds true for many in the US. Ah, I'm nostalgic for my childhood now. But not the frostbite that one time. ;-P
I grew up near the Mexican border on the U.S. side. When I think of the border, I immediately think of the one the U.S. shares with Mexico. How interesting.
Load More Replies...My ex is from Canada and I wish i could live there with him. Shame I made some poor choices and now I'm stuck in England with no future... ex is currently travelling in vietnam then NZ. A year working in Oz...i wish i had the courage. I'd have traveled anywhere with him. Be careful what you settle for. The advertisement of "life" isn't worth it or anywhere near fun. See the world, learn and experience, life is for living. Don't be like me because you value tradition. Do.what.you.want! :-D
No offense meant, but I think a psychiatrist would have a lot of fun analyzing that message. Lots of intermixed complex emotions and repression.
Load More Replies...First! The number of repeats in this thread is extreme. But topic/pics/etc great
They forgot to post this (ice canoeing as traditional extreme sport here in Quebec) Ice-canoei...a9179c.jpg
The australia one is correct, as an australian SUCK IT UP AND DEAL WITH THE HEAT
While some of these are hilarious, how anyone with even a partially functioning brain could think there are mountains in Saskatchewan, defies belief. I did lol - literally - at some of these. There are many more out there I’m sure. After being raised in the UK until my teens, living in Winterpeg for years and now living in ND via Chicago, my heart is Canadian. Love Canada and her people!
I'm a Nigeria ive heard so much of Canada is one of my favourite places to visit
Snow, yes that very uniquely Canadian experience. You certainly don't see that stuff in any other country in the world.
I would love to see more posts on how others deal with winter and add to list of how to enjoy such beautiful season. Fondue and mulled wine in many parts of Europe, etc.
Load More Replies...Want to conserve paper? Write a list of countries that didn't commit genocide
Load More Replies...Don't mix-up ALL OF Canada with the Roman Catholics, thank you. Like Andy Frobig said above: Want to conserve paper? Write a list of countries that didn't commit genocide.
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