Canada 148: What it feels like to be Canadian
To celebrate Canada’s 148th birthday, Maclean’s presents 148 videos of the country’s most incredible people, places and experiences. "What it feels like to be Canadian" will roll out this summer—starting now. Experience some of these first-person videos below, and find the rest of the eye-popping visuals at our #Canada148 hub. We’re adding new videos all summer.
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Pick up HitchBot the hitchhiker
Be a Winnipeg Jets fan
Get tackled by a CFL linebacker
Ice fish in the Yukon
Race in a dragon boat
Climb a 61-m Douglas fir
Be a sled dog in the Yukon
Drive a bobsleigh
Fly fish at Tunkwa Lake, B.C.
Seed canola in Saskatchewan
Watch the sunset on Parliament Hill
Race on a mountain biking course
Attend prayers at a Calgary mosque
Enter the National Gallery’s vaults
Swim with sharks at Ripley’s
Remember veterans on Nov. 11
Be The Raptor
Throw a hammer
Can beer at a craft brewer
Kayak in the Bay of Fundy
Stay at an Ice Hotel
Conduct the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Play pond hockey
Jump into Lake Rosseau on May 24
Roll up the rim
Guard the Stanley Cup
Dance like a ballerina
Perform on Toronto’s streets
Play wheelchair rugby
Kite-ski in the Northwest Territories
Climb Niagara Falls in winter
Drive the Top of the World Highway
Change a seven-metre-high tire
Play box lacrosse
Feed the penguins at the Toronto Zoo
Drive in P.E.I.
Dance in a powwow
Skate in Red Bull’s Crashed Ice
Dance at Ranchman’s bar in Calgary
Be shot putter Dylan Armstrong
Fly over B.C.’s Purcell Mountains
Watch the Barenaked Ladies
Experience the St. Lawrence Market
Sculpt Parliament Hill
Lose to a chess grandmaster
Shuck oysters like a champion
Join the Sourtoe Cocktail Club
Snowmobile in Dawson City
Hang with bison
Examine an early map of Canada
Play Glenn Gould’s piano
Play bicycle polo
Crew a tall ship
Mint coins in Winnipeg
Walk on top of the CN Tower
Be Jennifer Jones’s curling rock
Sing with the Nova Scotia Mass Choir
Raise the flags on Parliament Hill
Be a toddler at the ROM
Race an Olympian sprinter
Be Peter Mansbridge
Play in a steel pan orchestra
Skate the Rideau Canal
Play rec-league soccer
Hear a former GG read a bedtime story
Drive a train on Montreal’s Metro
Play sledge hockey
Take a penalty kick
Fly with the Snowbirds
Harvest oysters in P.E.I.
Ride a zipline
Toss a pizza
Become an honorary Newfoundlander