GURPS Canadian Adventures

[Jovus]

Originally Posted by Davies

Pedantic quibble -- largest non-nuclear man-made explosion ever. I strongly suspect that Krakatau left it in the dust. (And checking my facts, yeah. Four times the Tsar Bomba.)

Yes, though not in quite as much dust as it left, say, Sumatra.

Sorry. I really tried to stop myself, but I just couldn't.

[Mgellis]

This would require a bit of alternate universe tweaking, but how about the Turbot War...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War

What if Canada and Spain had really gotten into a serious conflict over these fishing rights, with naval incidents, spies, assassinations, etc. This kind of low intensity conflict would be perfect for a military/political/espionage campaign.

[quarkstomper]

There's The Pig War of 1859 over the San Juan Islands in Vancouver Sound

[Grouchy Chris]

Originally Posted by quarkstomper

There's The Pig War of 1859 over the San Juan Islands in Vancouver Sound

Vancouver sound? Never heard of it. The San Juans lie between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and and the Strait of Georgia, more or less.

[Forester]

Originally Posted by Grouchy Chris

Vancouver sound? Never heard of it. The San Juans lie between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and and the Strait of Georgia, more or less.

Do you mean the Salish Sea?

How about our own Canadian pirates?

Wow, I didn't know we had so many famous people. Bu I wanted to mention the following three: Bill Miner an american who became a famous Canadian outlaw. Sam Steele, a mountie's mountie. And finally, WW I flying ace Billy Bishop.

[Grouchy Chris]

Originally Posted by Forester

Do you mean the Salish Sea?

Meh, nobody uses that name.

How about our own Canadian pirates?

Wow, I didn't know we had so many famous people. Bu I wanted to mention the following three: Bill Miner an american who became a famous Canadian outlaw. Sam Steele, a mountie's mountie. And finally, WW I flying ace Billy Bishop.

Good point: a series on adventuring in Canada isn't complete without a Who's Who of Canada.

[quarkstomper]

Originally Posted by Grouchy Chris

Vancouver sound? Never heard of it. The San Juans lie between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and and the Strait of Georgia, more or less.

My mistake. I rolled a 15 on my Default roll for Area Knowledge: Northwestern Geography.

But ask me where Lake Buttes des Morts is; that I know.

[quarkstomper]

Here's an interesting guy. He might not count as Canadian, since he was born in what is now Washington State; but the territory wasn't part of the U.S. at that time and his father was a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company. His mother was an Indian princess, the daughter of an important chief of the Chinook tribes around the Columbia River, (whose skull was stolen by an amateur anthropologist, but that's another story).

His name was Ranald MacDonald, and his father wanted him to be a banker. Young Ranald, however, had adventure in his veins. He had heard stories of a group of Japanese fishermen who had been shipwrecked on the coast of the Pacific Northwest by a storm and was struck by the resemblance between the Japanese and his mother's people. He resolved that he would go to Japan himself, which was not an easy feat in 1848; but he managed it, and traveled all over the Pacific.

[Astromancer]

Given that David Cronenberg is the Canadian Horror Auteur, what folklore do you Canadians have that fits well with bio-tech horror?

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Given that David Cronenberg is the Canadian Horror Auteur, what folklore do you Canadians have that fits well with bio-tech horror?

As I said, Canada was the site for British WMD experimentation during World War II. The experiments on Gross Isle were quite irresponsible.

http://www.davidstonehouse.com/artic...et_anthrax.htm

And of course it's true that Canadian regulators quickly approved thalidomide as non-prescription medication and were slow to withdraw it when the problem was revealed.

http://www.thalidomide.ca/the-canadian-tragedy/

Then of course there were the MK-ULTRA experiments carried out on Canadians by Doctor D. Ewen Cameron on behalf of the CIA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA (Go down to "Canadian Experiments).