Canuckle

Canuck: a slang term for Canadians originating in the 19th century, and the name of an intrepid band of hockey players, the Vancouver Canucks

Knuckle: a joint of a finger, which is brought into prominence when the hand is shut.

Definitions of canuckle from urbandictionary.com:

• canuckle - Cool dude of Canadian origin. Loves donuts (especially Tim Horton's), women and ice hockey. Not necessarily all at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt.
  • Man, that dude's a canuckle!
• A witty wise-cracking on-line friend who supplies TH at all the right times.
  • When's that Canuckle gonna get here with my donuts?

This user is thin-skinned, frustrated by process, writes quickly then leaves and prefers the big picture over small details.

• 31 May 2007 ...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
• 8 July 2013 ... that a storm on Lucy Island unearthed 5,500-year-old remains of a woman whose DNA has been directly linked to a modern-day descendent, a Tsimshian woman living near Prince Rupert?
• 13 March 2008 ...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferrable vote system?
• 16 September 2007 ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
• 13 May 2010 ... that the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
• 2 April 2014 ... that Insite, North America's first legal supervised injection site for drug users, was opened by the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003?
• 22 April 2011 .. that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
• 2 July 2013 ... that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
• 22 June 2010 ... that a criminal trial began more than six years after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the British Columbia Parliament Buildings ?

• Hospital de Jesús Nazareno - where Cortes and Montezuma met
• Portland Hotel Society - opened Insite, North America's first supervised injection site
• Fraser Canyon Hospital
• Lucy Islands - significant BC archelogical site
• Mount Prevost & Mount Tzouhalem - Vancouver Island mountains
• St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
• Providence Health Care (Vancouver) - operators of 7 care facilities in Vancouver
• Ocean Park (Surrey) - a neighbourhood of Surrey, BC
• Ministry of Health (British Columbia)
• Vancouver Magazine
• History of flooding in Canada
• Semiahmoo First Nation
• International Association of Business Communicators

• Lukin Johnston - journalist who vanished mysteriously 3 days after interviewing Adolf Hitler
• Dr. Brian Day - physician champion for-profit care
• Russell Mills (publisher) - 'expansion' of longtime Ottawa Citizen publisher
• Martin Schechter - Order of BC HIV researcher
• Prab Rai - Vancouver Canuck prospect
• Colin Keith Gray - filmmaker
• Carl Leone - Ontario man convicted of criminal transmission of HIV
• Jean Guyon - a New France pioneer that I had to fight to save from deletion
• Robert Giffard de Moncel - New France pioneer and first doctor in first hospital in North America
• Zacharie Cloutier - New France pioneer
• Geoff Plant - former British Columbia Attorney-General
• Elizabeth Bennett (judge) in BC Rail & Casinogate cases
• Jack Webster - famed BC journalist
• Vincent Covello - risk communications theorist and specialist
• Libor Polášek - a first-round draft pick that broke Canuck fans heart
• Bill Tieleman - pundit
• David D. Schreck - one-time MLA
• Garth Butcher - Vancouver Canuck player

• Vancouver Sun people
• The Province newspaper people
• People from Port Alberni, British Columbia
• Civil rights history of Canada

• Count Canuckle's edits: link
• Link to Canuckle's sandbox

•  
  Copper Island in Shuswap Lake
•  
  BC Ambulance at Royal Columbian Hospital Emergency department
•  
  Lucy Island lighthouse (recrop) on home page for DYK
•  
  An atypical white-furred Vancouver Island Wolf in captivity at the Greater Vancouver Zoo
•  
  Stuart Island Airpark (foreground) lies on the western shore of Prevost Harbour across from Satellite Island (Washington)
•  
  BC Ferries MV Coastal Celebration unloading at Swartz Bay ferry terminal
•  
  South-facing aerial view of Reid Harbour on Stuart Island, Washington in the Strait of Georgia
•  
  'Infinite Tires' public art by Douglas Coupland in south Vancouver
•  
  Pere David Deer resting at the Greater Vancouver Zoo
•  
  East-facing aerial view of Westminster Highway and Canada Line overpass to Brighouse Station in Richmond, British Columbia
•  
  South-facing aerial view of Saturna Island
•  
  RCMP visiting Burnaby Hospital
•  
  East-facing aerial view of Minoru Park
•  
  North-facing aerial view of Dinsmore Bridge in Richmond, British Columbia connecting Lulu Island with Sea Island
•  
  An east-facing aerial view of Ladner, British Columbia beyond Duck Island, Barber Island, Gunn Island and Port Guichon in the Fraser River Estuary
•  
  A container ship loading up at Roberts Bank Superport