What's a good canadian gift?

If I understand you correctly, I’d get dark amber Maple Syrup. Do you mean that the person in question is living in Canada but is not a Canadian?

I received this book as a “damn Yankee” from some Canadians. It is really funny….

@gailcalled, yeah, just someone who’s visiting canada for a while, and is now going back to their country

My daughter lived with a man from Toronto for twenty years. His family had a farm outside the city. We treasured the maple syrup that they made each spring.

Maple Syrup since the season has passed for fresh coho salmon.

I always liked the maple sugar candy, but that goes quick.
Maple Syrup will be around for a while on their breakfast table reminding them of Canada.

Or, if you’re really creative, you could laminate a bright maple leaf and press it between two panes of glass. Then frame that and put a chain on it.

As a person that regularly goes back to China I sympathise with the difficult of finding a uniquely Canadian gift. (What don’t they make in China?!)

In any case yes, anything maple related. I remember going back and they had this ‘simple syrup’ which was disgusting.

We’re also one of the few places in the world with excellent salmon stock. You can get salmon jerky, smoked salmon, or even frozen depending on the situation.

I’ve also seen in tourist stores a commercial variation of fireside’s idea: an actual maple-leaf is plated with a metal and made into a pin. Not terribly cool but could be a nice gift for an aunt/grandma-type.

a moose

Manners?

A maple leaf patch. So they can sew it on their backpacks when they travel.

Loverboy’s Greatest Hits.

@skord – Loverboy is Canadian? The things I learn on Fluther!

@curiouscat I am Canadian, living in the US, and the two things that I have that really prize are a set of cast aluminum measuring spoons, since aluminum is like a Canadian national metal and several pieces of Royal Adderley china in the Maple Leaf Tartan pattern. It has a red and brown plaid, and maple leaves on it. While both these things may sound a little hokey, I’ve had the measuring spoons for 22 years and use them every day, and some of the pieces of china since 1967, when I was 11 (my favorite is the small square dish that I use for change.)

I am an American who lived in Canada for a few years, and I like the native art that I brought home. I have a sweater made out of that buffalo yarn, and a statue of an eskimo carved out of some kind of rock. Cool!

Beer

A fith of canadian whiskey?

Canadian Club is a quintessentially Canadian drink but it’s not really the best and really a poor value with our taxes and distribution system. I have met many a Canadian at the duty-free liquor stores in American airports.

As mentioned above native Canadian art and hockey are also very Canadian but much of it (even the native art) may very well be manufactured elsewhere.

If you’re in downtown Toronto there are 2 places that are known for Canadian stuff that’s not all polar bears and hockey.

fleurjte makes and carries handbags with neat iconic styles, local t-shirts, and other very coolish hipstery stuff that even teens and young adults would wear. All actually made in Toronto and some have Canadian-references but in a non-cheese way.

Fresh Collective carries a number of women’s fashions also made in or around Toronto by local artists. The stuff is a little more “art school” but you can find some neat gems there.

that one movie with all the jokes that Americans don’t get but Canadians do.

@toomuchcoffee911 – Such a movie exists?

I think so… I heard about it somewhere…

Strange Brew

Thank you to all that answered. I just got back from bolivia and was looking for something to send there so this was helpful. Plus I got a really good laugh at all the yankee answers.