Your city's greatest ambassadors

[matt602]

Originally Posted by Hali87

The Trailer Park Boys

Best city ambassadors right there, fuckin way she goes boys.

[Hali87]

I think they win this thread to be honest, although they don't actually refer to Halifax in the show very often, everyone knows where they're from.

There's also Ellen Page (who actually got her start on TPB), Joel Plaskett, Classified, Sidney Crosby, Brad Marchand and Nathan MacKinnon. I could go deeper but I think the point of this thread has been missed when each city gets a list of 20+ people that "I bet you didn't know lived in [city x]!"

But, there's also these guys

and this "guy"


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[TorontoDrew]

I'd say the Trailer Park Boys are more representative of the province as a whole, and Sunnydale of course.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by esquire

I don't know about Nygard... I think archiseek summed it up best when he described him as Winnipeg's very own Bond villain...

He's an ambassador for Swedish NAMBLA in the Bahamas.

[MonkeyRonin]

Drake, Rob Ford, and the Ikea Monkey.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Hali87

I think they win this thread to be honest, although they don't actually refer to Halifax in the show very often, everyone knows where they're from.

There's also Ellen Page (who actually got her start on TPB), Joel Plaskett, Classified, Sidney Crosby, Brad Marchand and Nathan MacKinnon. I could go deeper but I think the point of this thread has been missed when each city gets a list of 20+ people that "I bet you didn't know lived in [city x]!"

But, there's also these guys

They could mention it and we just don't know.

I didn't know some of these folks were even Canadian but look them up and usually you can find a few quotes praising the city they're attributed to.

I don't have the time or interest to check them all - but they could be ambassadors.

I could list 100 that are from here or have been here who praised it. Basically anyone who has ever been interviewed by a journalist not based here.

[SignalHillHiker]

One of the CFA ones I most love. Now, every performing musician goes on at length about how much they enjoy the city they're performing in - that's too common to really consider them ambassadors, especially since they never mention that city anywhere else.

But the Lawnya Vawnya Festival crowd - the mainland Canadians who perform here at The Ship... quite a few of them are proper ambassadors for St. John's.

My favourite, just because I love his music, is Winnipeg's Matt Epp. He's here all the time, and even writes songs about here:

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[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

So in response to the original post, is this for ambassadors still alive, or ones both past and present?

Maybe we could accept people who past on recently (past decade or two) like Stompin' Tom for St. John's (I think SignalHillHiker mentioned him on page 1). I don't want to hear Sir John A. for Kingston and Sir George Brown for TO.

[Architype]

^ Stompin Tom was an ambassador for P E I.
St. John's has lots of ambassadors presently working for the CBC.

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

And a francophone. Her parents are Haitian immigrants. She studied in french until university.

Originally Posted by Acajack

Correct.

They just seem really keen on emphasizing that they're from Montreal. Perhaps for those reasons...

The funny thing is that the two Butler brothers were raised as Mormons in suburban Houston. Quite the eclectic collection of members.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by esquire

Winnipeg:

Monty Hall
Chris Jericho
Nia Vardalos
Chantal Kreviazuk
Burton Cummings
John K. Samson of The Weakerthans
Guy Maddin

Neil Young has written about Winnipeg....but you have to include Burton Cummings for this photo alone.

[Surrealplaces]

In a way this thread is kinda depressing. I've looked through the long lists of celebrities from Canadian cities and so many...in fact the vast majority have moved on to the US, and some to Europe. I guess it's the nature of the beast.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I'd say the Trailer Park Boys are more representative of the province as a whole, and Sunnydale of course.

The fictitious trailer park from the show is set somewhere on the outskirts of Dartmouth. The setting is very much Halifax's working-class suburbs and, erm, is probably closer to reality than many people not from the region realize. It would have a pretty different flavour if it were about other parts of the province.

This is a tangent, but I have noticed that certain places are often thought to be good stand-ins for entire provinces or regions when in reality they are just one part. People not from Ontario overwhelmingly think it is all like Toronto or that Ontario and Toronto are essentially the same thing. Atlantic Canada seems to be schizophrenically represented as either Halifax or a fishing village, and frequently violates expectations one way or the other as a result.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

In a way this thread is kinda depressing. I've looked through the long lists of celebrities from Canadian cities and so many...in fact the vast majority have moved on to the US, and some to Europe. I guess it's the nature of the beast.

What I find about it is that about half the people mentioned on the thread I've never even heard of.

And I consider myself above-average for such things (knowing Canadian celebrities).

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by Acajack

What I find about it is that about half the people mentioned on the thread I've never even heard of.

And I consider myself above-average for such things (knowing Canadian celebrities).

That's because those are the ones that stayed in Canada

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

That's because those are the ones that stayed in Canada

Don't get me started!

[Acajack]

I thought of this guy when I first read this thread.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...xton-1.2773514

25,000-30,000 tourists a year in a tiny town no one had heard of before.

Everyone in Quebec knows this town because of this guy, who is a household name.

[memememe76]

I think an "Ambassador" is someone who is associated/connected to that city.

Just mention Vancouver. For British Columbians, I think Trevor Linden would be our Ambassador. For Canadians, I think someone like Douglas Coupland would work--he's known as a Canadian but with a west coast aesthetic. For those outside the country, I think someone like Chip Wilson or David Sazuki would fit.

[Hali87]

Megan Leslie is another one I'd add for Halifax. In addition to being an outspoken and popular MP, she's also fairly representative of "the kind of person you'd meet in Halifax". The same goes for Peter MacKay to some degree, although he's from the New Glasgow area.

[PhilippeMtl]

Leonard Cohen

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