The Canadian X-Files

Welcome to the Canadian X-Files. This page serves as a reference for every time the X-Files have mentioned Canada. Aside from the fact that the X-Files was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the first 5 seasons, many other references to our fine country have popped up throughout the X-Files run. Here for your entertainment are all the references to Canada on the X-Files that I could find along with the episode name and description of the episode.

Note: As most people know the X-Files has moved to Los Angeles. Canadian fans, like myself, can only hope that the producers don't forget the Canadian plot threads that they've developed over the years now that the show has moved to the United States.

The End (Season finale of season 5)
A BOY POSSESSING PSYCHIC POWERS MAY HOLD THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF THE X-FILES.
The Chess competition between the 12-year-old American boy and the Russian grandmaster takes place in Vancouver. As well, Krycek parachutes into Québec to capture the Cigarette Smoking Man who has been hiding out there. On more of a sad note, this episode was the last episode filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Red and The Black (Season 5)
PURSUING A THREAT TO SCULLY, MULDER IS DRAWN INTO A DANGEROUS CONFRONTATION WITH CREATURES WHOSE EXISTENCE COULD EXPOSE THE CONSPIRACY SURROUNDING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
This episode reveals that the Cigarette Smoking Man, presumed dead since the season premier, is actually living in North Hatley, Québec, trying to open a correspondence with his son, Agent Spender.
Emily (Season 5)
SCULLY FIGHTS TO PROTECT A SMALL GIRL FROM THE MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS' DEATHS, WHILE MULDER'S INVESTIGATION INTO WHERE THE GIRL CAME FROM DRAWS HIM INTO A DEADLY CONFRONTATION.
Outside the house where the first Dr. Calderon shape-shifter is killed, Canada Post mailboxes are visible.
Gethesemane (Season finale of season 4)
MULDER AND SCULLY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH WHEN AN ANTHROPOLOGIST DISCOVERS WHAT COULD BE THE FROZEN REMAINS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
The alien body is found in the mountains of the Yukon Territory in Canada.
Momento Mori (Season 4)
WHEN SCULLY IS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER, MULDER HUNTS FOR RESEARCH FILES PERTAINING TO A GROUP OF FEMALE ABDUCTEES WHO ALSO CONTRACTED THE DISEASE.
When Mulder tries to break into the fertility clinic's computer, he has to figure out the password. He notices a snowdome of a pysanka (Ukrainian easter egg) and the word Vegreville. He types in Vegreville for the password and it works. Vegreville is a small Ukrainian town in Alberta, about 100 km east of Edmonton. It's claim to fame is a huge pysanka in the centre of town.
Elegy (Season 4)
THE AGENTS SUSPECT A MENTALLY-DISTURBED MAN IS CONNECTED TO THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL GIRLS WHOSE SPIRITS ATTEMPTED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE LIVING.
When Mulder asked the mental patients if the picture of someone was the killer, they all said yes. Then skully showed them a picture of Jay Leno on the Canadian Edition of TV Guide, and the patients also said that he was the killer as well.
Tempus Fugit (Season 4)
THE AGENTS INVESTIGATE THE APPARENT DOWNING OF A COMMERCIAL JETLINER BY A UFO.
In one scene Mulder is in the parking lot of an upstate New York town and a Vancouver trolley bus goes by his head.
El Mundo Gira (Season 4)
MULDER AND SCULLY FOLLOW A TRAIL OF BODIES LEFT BEHIND BY WHAT COULD BE THE LEGENDARY CHUPACABRA.
In the background for many scenes in this episode is a building with a prominent "Vancouver VIA (rail)" sign.
Terma (Season 4)
A RUSSIAN ASSASSIN IS BROUGHT OUT OF RETIREMENT TO ERASE ALL LINKS TO AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE MYSTERIOUS "BLACK CANCER".
Peskow, the russian assasin, drives the truck to a Canadian oil refinery, where it is destroyed in a fiery explosion.
Herrenvolk (Season premier of season 4)
SCULLY AND MULDER GO UP AGAINST AN INVINCIBLE ALIEN ASSASSIN TO PROTECT A TRAITOR TO THE CONSPIRACY WHO CAN LEAD THEM TO THE TRUTH...AND SAVE THE LIFE OF MULDER'S MOTHER.
In the beginning the telephone repair man pulls up in a Telus van, an Alberta telephone company. The community full of clones of Mulder's sister is in Canada.
Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" (Season 3)
A WRITER'S ATTEMPT TO GET AT THE TRUTH OF AN ALIEN ABDUCTION LEADS HIM INTO A MAZE OF CONFLICTING STORIES, WHERE EVEN SCULLY AND MULDER FIND THEMSELVES DUPED.
A box of Tim Horton's donuts is seen sitting on a table in an interrogation room.
Nisei (Season 3)
ATROCITIES DATING FROM JAPANESE ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II COME TO LIFE AGAIN AS MULDER INVESTIGATES A MYSTERIOUS TAPE CLAIMING TO SHOW AN ACTUAL ALIEN AUTOPSY.
The train Mulder jumps on is en route to Canada.
F. Emasculata (Season 2)
THE OUTBREAK OF A GROTESQUE PLAGUE IN A PRISON TRAPS SCULLY IN THE PATH OF AN EPIDEMIC AS MULDER CHASES ESCAPED FELONS WHO MAY BE CARRYING THE DISEASE INTO SOCIETY.
One of the prisoners tries to take a bus to Toronto.
Dod Kalm (Season 2)
THE AGENTS BECOME STRANDED ABOARD A SHIP WHERE THE HUMAN AGING PROCESS IS GREATLY ACCELERATED.
The survivors of the U.S.S. Ardent are rescued by a Canadian fishing trawler.
Apparently the U.S.S. Ardent was actually a decommisioned Canadian ship, the HMCS Mackenzie, dressed up to look old and decrepid using fake rust etc... (Thanks to Stephen)

Cancer ManCanadian Actors

William B. Davis - Cigarette Smoking Man (Cancer Man)
Nicholas Lea - Krycek
Chris Owens - Young Cancer Man and Agent Spender
Dean Haglund - Langly of the Lone Gunmen
Alex Trebeck - himself in 'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"' (Season 3)
Sarah Sawatsky - Chrissy Giorgio in 'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"'
Sarah Strange - Kimberly in 'Duane Barry' (Season 2)
Benita Ha - Tour guide host in 'The Blessing Way' (Season 3)

Well, those were all the references I could find. If I missed anything don't hesitate to e-mail me at: jarjoli.abode@sympatico.ca

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