h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just to keep things orderly, it might be good if suggestions all get posted to a single thread (this one, for example). That way I don't have to keep track of a plethora of single suggestion threads.

Ron Joyce was a partner with Tim Horton in the beginning. Mr. Joyce is alive and well, living in Nova Scotia. The Tim Hortons camps for children is probably the most important ever done completly using revenue from the stores.
The 1st kids camp is located in Maligash, Nova Scotia. Which is near Mr. Joyces hometown of Tatamgouche. Today the are several kids camps located across Canada.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ron Joyce on a few ocasions, through my father who was a friend of his.

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Thanks, Gopedboy.

Your information has been added and your name is on the list of authors.

I believe that the Remembrabce Day quarter is actually the world's first colored CIRCULATING coin. The US has put out a rather tacky American Flag coin which is non-circulating. I've seen the ad for it, ad nauseum, repeatedly over the last few years.

This coin is rather controversial, as the color wears off very easily (Not as controversial as the Twoonie or Toonie*, in which the central brass bit was reported to fall out. However, it turned out that it only fell out if you hit it repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer or other such tool). My personal opinion is that it is also pretty tacky looking, but may actually be worth comething some day if ine has one with the color still on it.

*Or Moonie, as I call it because it has the Queen on one side with a bear behind.

Might be worth explaining that Timbits are almost as popular as donuts, and are bought by the box for children's parties, coffee breaks, meetings, and other such occassions.

Timmy's isn't actually "cross-Canada". There is a dearth of them, as I experienced, in New Brunswick.

Timmy's serves "Oatcakes" in Nova Scotia, which is the only place I have seen them. Oatcakes are a Scottish tradition -- sort of a crunchy baked oatmeal biscuit ("Too sweet", pronounced my mother, a Scot who prefers her oatmel salty).

Timmy's 40th birthday was celebrated this year on May 17th, which was my sister's 40th birthday, too. 2004 was also the birthday of one of Timmys oldest (currently employed) employees, 90 year old Harold Seitz (Clarence, New York).

Camp Day, 2003, raised $5.5 million CDN for the TH Children's Foundation!

The 2000th store opened in the year 2000 (Toronto).

Tim Hortons and Curling.... two Canadian traditions: http://www.curling.ca/championships/brier/
http://www.timhortonscurlingtrials.ca/

The US Division of the company is T.H.D. Donut (Delaware).

Timmy's merged with Wendy's in 1995.

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/wentworth/timhorto.htm
http://www.timhortons.com/en/about/aboutus_history.html
http://www.timhortons.com/en/about/aboutus_bios.html

Other community programs: http://www.timhortons.com/en/community/community_programs.html

Good gravy, Mudhooks! Now I'll actually have to do some work. I might not get to all of it tonight, but I'll get to it. I'll do the "circulating" bit right now and add your name.

Tim's may or may not have been the first place to put cops and donuts together, but when the first shop opened in Hamilton Ontario, cops got free coffee - a policy that continued into the 1980s as far as I know. Originally this was done because one of the founders was a former cop. The practice continued because in many places Tim's was the only place that was open late at night and having the night shift cops come by for coffee was considered a security measure and a way of warding off undesirables

Okay. I've done up Mudhooks' contributions, I think. And yours too Rev.

Now I have to do some real life.

r-e-a-l life.... What's that?....

I spent Friday night at the hospital again. Hence the line of staggering nurses loaded with timbits. That was real life.

Have I mentioned that I'm in a bad mood?

I'm having some trouble with the final sentence of the entry, the bit about THC. Personally, I think it should be simply excised.

Any thoughts?

Firstly for Anhaga: "Pat, pat, pat.... Pat, pat, pat...." (always makes me feel better when my "baby" brother pats my head when I am feeling blue/ill. Howefully, this will help you, too, Anhaga.)

THC: As someone who is bordering on senior citizen status and has frequented Timmy's for a good part of the adult portion of her life, as well as (ahem) "indulged moderately in the benefits of THC", I can say that I have never heard of Timmy's coffee referred to as THC.

I would say remove it....

Thanks, Mudhooks. It's outta there.

Anybody got any more thoughts? Should I send it to Update Forum?

You might want to mention that the other purely Canadian coffee franchise Robin's Donuts.

Robin's, I believe, began in Thunder Bay and were THE coffee chain in Northern Ontario. They tried to make inroads in the rest of Ontario, with limited success. I believe they decided that they should stick to the Northern Ontario market, and eventually most, if not all stores elsewhere closed.

According to this entry, they have 240 stores across Canada
http://www.thebestlinks.com/Robin__27__s_Donuts.html

Opened in Thunder Bay in 1975
Owned by Afton Foods
They don't have their own website.... http://www.aftonfood.com/

About the only photo of a Robin's Donut shop I could find: http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/angedesoleil/

http://www.mylivingtree.com/Jackie/?c=16099

We used to have a few Robin's donuts around here but I can't remember seeing one in ages.

Do you suppose a separate entry about Robin's would be appropriate? Do you suppose it should be written by the person that brought up the place?

There's really not much information available on Robin's, is there? I'm not quite sure how to work it in. And if we start adding donut shops, what will we do about Country Style? http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/358.html

That's another one that used to be the place to go here and now I'm not sure if there are any left.

Oh, look, there's one left in Edmonton: http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/358.html

apparently Country Style is number two in Canada.

I tend to think we should stick to Tim's with this entry but I'm certainly open to discussion. And I'm already thinking about how to work them both in.

Okay, you've convinced me: I've worked both Robin's and Country Style into the entry.

Anything else?