This may already be known here, but if not it's in Tonorto -

Make than Toronto - Tonorto is in Italy and had nothing to do with the War of 1812.

Don't mess with Canucks. We'll whip all invaders!

Interesting that you use that word to describe Canadians as I was almost flayed alive when I innocently used the very same word on Axis History forums. According to those people it is as bad as using the N word or calling some one a Nazi.
J

Yup - you'll knock 'em right off their bases and look blasé about it.

Actually . . . isn't that only true AFTER the British invasion?

Jerry - I suspect it's one of those cases where you can use the term if you're in that population, but not as an outsider.

Also, if those responses were (mostly) from Europeans, I wouldn't be surprised if they're more sensitive to such things than most North Americans.

We have the Vancouver 'Canucks'. But don't let any foreigner call us 'Canuck'. It's like Americans being called 'Yankee' by foreigners, or like Afro-North Americans calling each other by the 'N' word , but is totally tabu coming from anyone else.

Actually . . . isn't that only true AFTER the British invasion?

I had in mind the Battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, 1814, near Niagara. British and Canadian forces turned back a US invasion.

I beg to disagree - Canuck is not an insult. In my 60 yrs I have lived in 6 provinces, visited all of them, served in the Canadian Forces, etc. No where have I encountered anyone who took "Canuck" as a insult, unless used in the context of an obviously insulting sentence.
Also, I lived in the USA for 5 yrs and have travelled extensively south of the MDL. Southerners don't like being called Yankees, but they tell me that when travelling abroad they don't take "Are you a Yank" as an insult - it's usually asked inocently.
Equating Canuck with the N word is a way over the top exaggeration, eh!

I was just using that as an example to illustrate that it is OK to use possible derogatory terms WITHIN racial/national groups, and not by outsiders. Plume Latraverse recorded a humourous song in which he refers to himself and other French Quebecers as 'Frogs', but don't let an Anglo call a Quebequois 'Frog' or you'll have a fight on your hands! Anyway, enough of this politically correct/incorrect BS as it is way