Canada

"I've always wanted to see Canada but there's not much to see when you're locked in the trunk."

- Special Agent Fox Mulder

Canada is a country located in the continent of North America and lies north of the continental United States, but southeast of Alaska. Whereas the US is divided into fifty individual states, Canada is divided into ten provinces. They are: Ontario, Qubec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland. Many movies and television programs, even American ones, are filmed in Canada due to the cost effectiveness of acquiring rites and permits from local governments. Many of these projects, such as the popular Fox Network television series The X-Files are filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

How I Met Your Mother
On the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother, the character of Robin Scherbatsky is Canadian. Canada is occasionally shown in flashbacks to her youth and childhood and the series often takes light-hearted shots at Canadian stereotypes, even going so far as to make a few up. One such stereotype is that Canadians are afraid of the dark, so they are careful to make sure that all Canadian eateries and drinking establishments are well-lit.

X-Men
On the 1990s animated television series X-Men, the character of Wolverine originally hailed from the country of Canada. This is in keeping with the character's origins as provided in other material including his appearances in the original X-Men comic books published by Marvel Comics as well as the X-Men feature films and spin-off projects. Canada was only briefly seen in the series, and usually in flashbacks to Wolverine's origin. In the comics, Wolverine was born in the province of Alberta.

Provinces

 * Alberta
 * British Columbia
 * Manitoba
 * New Brunswick
 * Newfoundland
 * Nova Scotia
 * Ontario
 * Prince Edward Island
 * Quebec
 * Saskatchewan

Major cities

 * Calgary (Alberta)
 * Edmonton (Alberta)
 * Saint John (New Brunswick)
 * Halifax (Nova Scotia)
 * Montreal (Quebec)
 * Quebec City (Quebec)
 * Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
 * Toronto (Ontario)
 * Vancouver (British Columbia)
 * Winnipeg (Manitoba)

TV shows that take place in

 * Border, The
 * Degrassi: The Next Generation
 * Forever Knight
 * Godiva's

TV shows that are filmed in

 * Alcatraz
 * Andromeda
 * Godiva's
 * The X-Files

People who were born in

 * A.J. Cook
 * Anna Paquin
 * Artine Brown
 * Benjamin Ayres
 * Carolyn Dunn
 * Carrie-Anne Moss
 * Chandra West
 * Christopher Heyerdahl
 * Cindy Busby
 * Cobie Smulders
 * Conrad Bain
 * Guylaine St-Onge
 * James Cameron
 * James Doohan
 * Jason Priestley
 * Jay Silverheels
 * John Colicos
 * John Dunsworth
 * Jonathan Frid
 * JR Bourne
 * Julia Benson
 * Kaj-Erik Eriksen
 * Kavan Smith
 * Kwesi Ameyaw
 * Linwood Boomer
 * Lucas Bryant
 * Michael Hogan
 * Mercedes McNab
 * Michael J. Fox
 * Michelle Maxwell McLaren
 * Nathan Fillion
 * Paul Soles
 * Richard Donat
 * Saba Homayoon
 * Sara Canning
 * Tamara Taylor
 * Taylor Kitsch
 * William Shatner

People who died in

 * Bernard Cowan
 * Guylaine St-Onge
 * John Colicos
 * Jonathan Frid
 * Vernon Chapman

Notes & Trivia

 * The 1993 telemovie Ordeal in the Arctic was filmed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.


 * With the exception of series star Kevin Sorbo, the majority of the cast of Andromeda are from Canada. On the outtakes clip from the Andromeda: The Complete First Season DVD collection, Sorbo jokingly complains about being surrounded by Canadians.