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A bright red, but not all that well hidden, piece of Canada remains intact on a remote island off Indonesia’s coast.

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Travel blogger J.M. Cressman, along with his fiancée, stumbled upon the Canadian Beer Fridge depicted in the Molson Canadian ads, which aired during the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

The ads tell the story of Ryan and Phil from Ottawa, who travel to visit their friend Morgan in the Gili Islands. They bring with them a satellite hook-up, to watch Team Canada games, and a red fridge marked with a white maple leaf supposedly filled with Molson’s 625-millilitre “victory bottles”. The ad shows them trudging through wilderness, across rivers, and along a beach before reaching their friend, who is ecstatic about their arrival.

Cressman and fiancée were vacationing in Gili Air, one of the three islands of an archipelago just off the northwestern tip of Lombok, Indonesia. The islands sit along a Bali backpacking trail especially popular with European tourists. Cressman says it was a Danish couple on their own “self-guided” pub-crawl who told them about the forgotten piece of Canadiana.

“When he found out I was Canadian, he immediately asked, ‘Do you know Morgan? He’s famous in Canada!”