I can't help but get the feeling that this guy is a real life Hap Shaughnessy.
From the "Red Green Show" Wikipedia page:
"Hap Shaughnessy (Gordon Pinsent) is the water-taxi captain of Possum Lake, but he is much better known at Possum Lodge for his self-aggrandizing tall tales. In virtually every appearance he makes on the show, he makes a ridiculous claim to have been a significant person in history, or to have accomplished some incredible feat. Nobody else on the show believes him, but he will go to great lengths to tell his stories anyway. For example, he has claimed that he invented basketball while working undercover for the CIA, that he owns a hat that belonged to Santa Claus himself, that he owns a glove that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, that he once filled in for Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, and that he even fought a whale for "ten, twenty months." In one episode, it is hinted that he lies about his past because he has a poor self-image."
Also: [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3qRq4EnHE[/youtube]