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As an American I am well aware that we tend to say the most ridiculous things to Canadians, mostly due to our ignorance or Canadian culture. Today I am very interested to hear some of the funniest stories from Canadians who have have strange interactions with Americans. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Once I was in Canadian Tire and a man was screaming at the customer service people because they would not honour his military service for a military discount. The man had handed over a US navy ID and could not understand that Canada was not America. He kept saying how his service kept us free and did not seem to follow that Canada was a separate country. I was crying. I was laughing so hard.😅
Uh yeah, somehow a lot of their military think they have "special status" here. Nope, sorry, not you, not here. 😅
Remind them that, although we've often fought side by side, we have also fought against them in the past...
@@macgyveriii2818 Not since we've actually been a country.
In Canada the snow start early in the autumn and finish further at spring .that all see ya
@@TheDyllswhat freedom are you speaking of? We (Canada) have never been at war (directly) nor have we had to fight for our rights. Only a few of us (flq) were demonized by the federal government.😂😂😂
When I was a kid we drove from BC to California to go to Disneyland. Along the way, people would ask where we were from, so at first my parents would tell them, but nobody had heard of our small town. So they would ask "Where is that?" My parents would say, "It's in British Columbia." Most Americans would respond with, "Where is British Columbia?" (Some would ask if it's in England, some thought South America.) So my parents would say "It's in Canada, it's actually just a short drive north of here." In Anaheim we got a hotel a couple blocks from Disneyland so we walked there from the hotel. Along the way we stopped at a diner for breakfast and the waitress asked where we were from. My parents both sighed, and my mother just said, "Canada." (To get my mother to stop talking is a minor miracle.) The waitress asked, "Where about in Canada?" My mother said, "BC." The waitress asked, "What town?" My mother says, "It's a small town, you wouldn't have heard of it. It's called 'X'." The waitress then says, "Oh, does Jane Smith (name changed) still live on Blah-blah street?" My mother is suddenly shocked and says, "That's our neighbor, three houses up the hill." Then the waitress says, "Oh so you live in the white house with the brown trim under the windows and that big tree in the yard?" Nobody in America knew where Canada was, except this one waitress who knew where our exact house was located.
Wouldn't that be more worrying than ignorance?
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That’s incredible!
It's bad enough that so many Americans don't know what or where Canada is. But at least I thought 98% of them have access to Google.
But do they know what Google is?
I'm not sure what is more sad, Americans lack of knowledge of things outside of America, or their lack of willingness to learn.
The lack of knowledge of their own country is truly sad.
@lancerbiker5263
Ouch.
I'd say the latter.
But I would say that worse still is that they don't value knowledge.
When you see Americans (or other countries' people too) try to just guess right as if the only reason to know something is to get it right when asked. They don't value the knowledge for its own sake. They don't have an interest in knowing and understanding things.
When asked a geography question, for example, a more reasonable person might say, "I don't know African and South American geography too well, but I know European and Asian geography pretty well. I'd like to know a little more about all areas of the world."
The people who don't value knowledge just want to guess right, as if they're trying to win a prize just by being lucky.
On a couple of occasions I have surprised people by knowing something about their country or culture... and they appreciate it.
In general, many Americans are bad global citizens, largely because they don't think of themselves as global citizens at all. Everything outside of their immediate area is just not of interest to them. That's pretty sad.
Lack of willingness to learn, they simply don't care or know anything outside of their own neighborhood
A couple were waiting at the Miami airport for some friends to arrive. The woman notices a family carrying winter coats and boots waiting to board a flight. She says to her husband “I wonder where they’re from?”. “ Go ask them” he says, so she approaches them and asks “excuse me but my husband was wondering where y’all are from.” The father turns to her and in a very proud voice declares “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan”. She goes back to her husband who asks her what they said. “I don’t know” she says, “they don’t speak English”.
That`s a very good one !
😂 Good One!
As a guy from Regina atleast he didn't get slapped
😂😂😂 An oldie but a goodie!
I was in Dar es Salaam Tanzania in 2008 and while at a grocery store an American told me a slightly different version of that joke. I told him he shd be careful. I'm from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!
"Do you have hockey in Canada?" when hockey was INVENTED in Canada is definitely an insult, because Americans seem to assume everything good is because of them.
Americans also believe that their sacred Apple Pie, and Baseball are truly "American " They are both from England ( Apple Pie, 13 century cookbooks ) and "Rounders " was played for centuries long before the USA was even a colony of the United Kingdom.
We also invented basketball.
@@Costume_CO And they use the excuse of "well it was in vented by a Canadian but it was on American soil" and say therefore it's an American invention (which is BS), but we both (all) know that if it were the other way around, it wouldn't matter where in the world an invention of an American was made, they would DEFINITELY still claim it's an American invention.
ya that would piss me off. thats like asking americans if they have football there. so dumb
I was a Canadian snowbird to the USA for ten years We couldn't get any Canadian news on tv and even weather maps ended in the 49th parallel NOTHING was ever pictured north Most of Canada's population and large cities are not that far from the border I once asked an American about their passport and he replied he didn't have one ... he had no wish to travel outside the best country in the world Canadians roll our eyes a lot when in the US 🙄
Yes, I say this all the time it’s like Canada doesn’t even exist. They cut the weather at the border. Or maybe they don’t even realize there is a border. Canada is just a big void.
if you watch US weather news ALOT of the maps when they do show canada show the USA as green with weather cover ( clouds storms sunny etc ) but show canada covered white.... even in SUMMER....
I remember being in DC a few years ago and being told by a member of Congress that over 40% of his fellow members of Congress do not have a passport. Turns out to be true.
Wow. An arrogant Canadian who disparages others. Very poor and inaccurate reflection on Canada.
As a Canadian: I've had a LOT of arguments on CZcams with Americans who insist that they have the best health-care system, education system, political system, culture, etc. They do literally think that America is the best country in the world.
(Irrelevant side note: I would live in any other Western country before I lived in the USA.)
I've never had this experience with anyone from any other country.
Canadian here, I was hiking the Appalachian Trail - at camp one American kid said Canada was just an “annex” to the U.S. and he believed passports weren’t needed and the laws were the same.
He also claimed he went to college. I weep for your dismissal education system. 👎🏼
Our “dismissal” educational state? As long as we can spell dismal, I don’t feel so bad.
wow I've seen a lot of bot/troll accounts on Quora talking about Annexing Canada but to see that one of those accounts is actually a real person is a little depressing
We didn't need passports to cross the border until 2009. My entire childhood and early adulthood, you just needed a drivers license or some other ID. It was pretty casual in the 1980s.
Even today, you don't need a passport to drive over. Only fly.@@louisepitre7429
@@louisepitre7429 but now you need them to get back into the US after being in Canada. Same for Mexico. This is why you need passports now.
An American lady was very upset to learn that Canada celebrate Canada day on the first of July. She actually said that America should be first to celebrate because America was the biggest country in the world. Lots to digest.
True story: waiting for a flight in Toronto, reading the first Harry Potter book, and a woman asked if it was the newest (this was back in 2005). I said no it's the first, "Philosopher's Stone" and she said "No it's called Sorcerer's Stone". I explained that the book was called "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US market and "Philosopher's Stone" in every other English speaking nation, because the publisher felt that if it had "Philosopher" in the title it wouldn't sell as well in America. She had to read parts of my book for herself to realize I was being truthful. And the look on her face when this realization hit was a mixture of shock, confusion, anger, and disbelief. I actually wound up feeling bad...but I managed to get her laughing about it.
Philosopher's stone vs Sorcerer's Stone[ I never knew the reason UNTIL NOW]1,2,2024
In 1971 I was in Florida for the Daytona 500 and stopped for lunch at a restaurant not far from the track. I was 21 and my waitress was an older woman, lets say about 55 or 60. She asked where I was from and when I told her Canada her face turned red. She stood there silent for a short time and then said that she didn't know much about Canada since she was born and raised in Florida. She said that her shift was over soon and would I discuss a few things with her. Out of curiosity I said sure!
We had a 3 hour conversation. She was very nice but asked some dumb questions. I answered her the best I could and in the end she thanked me for giving her a basic education about Canada. She said that, I guess we live in different countries but after all we are very much the same. She laughed and said that at least we both speak English.
After I returned to Canada, we kept in touch for several months until one day her daughter answered the phone and told me her mom had died from cancer a few days before. I was really upset!
She wasn't my perception the typical American, as even though I could have made fun of her stupid questions, I respected her for being open minded and we both learned several things about both of our countries as well as each other.
How things have changed.
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Glad you had a nice relationship with the woman you met.
Back in 1994, my husband and I took our children on a trip to Disney World.
In a restaurant, while cashing a traveler's check, the manager asked we were from while looking at my driver's licence. When I explained we lived in a small city outside of Toronto, He seemed surprised there was some place outside of Toronto. This was also the timeframe of the Blue Jays winning the world series championship.
After a few minutes, trying to organize the food for 6 people, he said "Great. Speak some French for me!"
It wasn't the first time I had been asked and I admit I wasn't being very patient. I asked him if he spoke Spanish and he looked confused and said, "No!"
I tried to explain not everyone in Canada spoke French, the same as not everyone in US spoke Spanish.
He was astonished.
@@noraelliott7304 Most Americans are good people but they are truly ignorant when it comes to Canada. I don't blame them since their country has most everything one could want or need. Why would they want to know anything about another country? I would at least be curious about the rest of the world.
I blame the educational system there for not teaching world history. Some don't even know where Canada is.
The woman that I talked about asked some dumb questions about Canada but not very many. Most of the questions she asked made sense. She wasn't a great looking woman and a little overweight but she had the personality of an angel.
@@wysetech2000 I agree with you about their educational system. It must be very sad. They seem to be very proud of their private schools but I haven't found them are much better taught about history (other than their own, in a limited way), geography and as for anything else, I don't know. I think they must teach business and in military school how to obtain higher rank.
When I said relationship with the woman, I meant in that you had an acquaintance with her that was beyond " Good morning". You said you had periodic contact with her, hence a relationship. Not meaning anything physical.
Hope you have a great day.
My former boss (an American company) didn't want to believe that our laws were any different from theirs. She fired an employee based on American laws. Her mistake cost the company over $100,000. I had informed her, but it seems the Americans know our laws better than we do.
Probably because US citizens would rather have Canadian laws when it comes to employment protection and vacation days.
An American commented that I sounded funny, meaning I had an accent. He then asked where I was from. I challenged him to guess. He started guessing with southern states and I kept saying to no, North of that. He got to Minnesota and I again said more North and he looked puzzled. He then said “there is nothing north of Minnesota.”
Omg. Unbelievable. I thank god every day that I’m Canadian 🙂🇨🇦
I am from the Toronto area and I've met a gentleman at a dinner party in recent times so I asked him if he was from North Carolina or someplace like that because he had a southern drawl. He replied that he is originally from New Brunswick. Go figure.
@@2painful2watchyep we had a cousin by marriage who sounded Texan. He's from Nova Scotia!
NOTHING north of minnesota, like in "that's where stands the edge of the flat earth" 🤣
@@j.n.4806 Hahahahahahahaaaaa!!!
I have a similar story about Americans thinking Canada is part of the U.S. A friend of mine who is Canadian went to Penn State for a research project during the time just prior to U.S. federal election in 2012. They had a voter registration drive going on at the campus. My friend was asked if he was registered to vote yet. He replied that he couldn’t vote in the U.S. because he is Canadian. The two people at the registration table insisted he should register because “Canada is part of the U.S.”. He tried to explain to them that Canada is not part of the U.S. and they just did not want to believe it. Yikes. 😮😮😮
Probably they think that because its north America.
It is true, though. Canada is part of the U.S.
It could be that they heard that Canada is a part of North America (As is Mexico) and because the word "America" is in the name of "North America", they assumed that this must mean it is part of our country as well.
I was talking to a friend of mine last evening. He and his wife are planning on taking a drive from New Brunswick on the east coast and east of Maine. They plan on driving from here, on the coast of the north Atlantic Ocean to the west coast of California and then north to Vancouver city and Vancouver Island. Then east in either the USA or Southern Canada. Total distance would be 15,000 miles or so.
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If you're at a house party in Canada that has hit a lull and gotten boring, just say, "Anybody got any stories about dumb Americans?" and the conversation will explode. We've all got tons of these stories and love to tell them.
Canadians are so stupid in that sense. They love mocking America so much and I think it’s so stupid.
Instant party
That is bad to say to someone,i agree but we are not all the same.
Oh dear.
In this little village, an hour from the border, we met some American tourists on our walk. They said hi to us, and we did the same, but in French. The looks on their faces showed how uncomfortable they were being responded to in a language that wasn't their own. I think that's when they realized they were no longer in the USA.
My best American exchange was the following... I was walking the street window shopping, (mid summer 28C/82F) and a car stopped next to me with a trailer loaded up with 2 snowmobiles and ski gear on the roof. The asked me how much longer till they got where the snow was. I responded that if they drive due north for about 2 days they MAY reach enough snow to use their toys. They looked dumb stuck and stated they were on a day trip and thought all of Canada was a winter wonderland. I mean come on guys you are burning up in the sun, and you expect snow?
Always had that happen to us We gave them directions to the Ice arena and they saw the snow from the Zamboni lol
I've had this conversation with skis on the roof rack in the middle of July. The worst part was the two disappointed looking children in the back seat.
NO SNOW in The Yukon in mid summer. Not sure where you think they may have found any after a two day drive - unless you were in The Yukon and sending them to the North Pole.
Hwy 11/Younge St from Toronto, head north, keep going.
Even driving for 2 days up north, in mid summer, there would be no snow there!!! They would have needed to take a plane to the North Pole!
I would hate to think if I grew up in the USA that I would be this uneducated as to other countries. At least in Canada we are taught geography.
it's not the fault of the kids though it's their education system that teaches them they are the most important country on the planet and they have no need to know anything that extends past their borders. Europe? Africa? Asia? continents what even are those? et al. Also the no child left behind policy holds children back, unfortunately not literally because they move on in the grades never having the proper knowledge to flourish at higher grades like theyre expected.
While you're on the subject, see TV's "Rick Mercer Talks to Americans", where he gets college students, professors, and politicians to comment on fictitious Canadian scenarios - eg. Prime Minister Poutine.
yes, soooo funny!
You're not wrong, it's a great special, but if you're weren't alive or old enough to be aware of Canadian politics in those days, it's gonna sail way over your head in 2023. It's very stuck in the year it was released, like 1999 or 2000 or so.
Yes R.Gray you are so right. It always amazed me that Rick would not talk with just anybody, but would talk with History Professors and Political Studies Professors whom should have known more about their studied academia.
I loved the one where he was trying to get Americans to congratulate Canada on our new National Igloo! 😂
Anyone still not certain WHY Thanksgiving is on different dates in the US vs Canada? It's actually quite simple. The theme of gratitude aside, it's a harvest festival (and pretty much every country that experiences seasons has one of those). We're at a higher latitude on the planet. Our summer is shorter, our winter longer, and the main harvest season comes earlier. That's it.
In Grade 5, we studied US geography with every student also researching a different state US. Years ago, I lived near the US border in central BC. Biking along a major highway connecting US and Canada one hot summer day(90F), a US tourist pulled up and asked where the igloos were…..I responded, drive a 2 miles further north and turn left!!
I bet they were disappointed when they didn't find them!
Yes we learned US geography in grade 5, and I bet today I can still name all of the states with the correct capital cities!!😀
@gudrunhoward1709 He/she was probably confused you weren't using a team of sled dogs. 😂
me too but that is 70 years ago and while I can still do the states, doing all the capitals? Nope! Not anymore but I can do quite a few.@@charlenejackson8432
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
"Canadian" Thanksgiving predates American Thanksgiving by 43 years and celebrates the explorers' safe voyages into the New World. FYI, Asia's seasons are at the same time as US seasons, you’re thinking of Australia and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere.
I’m confused. Canadian thanksgiving is about being grateful for the harvest . American thanksgiving is about the explorers safe voyages into the New World.
@@pauletteraspberry2923 other way around
Both are somewhat correct. The "first" Thanksgiving was a simple sermon admonishing Frobisher's crews to give thanks to God for delivering them to safety in Newfoundland. Over the years, there were Thanksgiving celebrations for safe arrival in New France, the recovery of the Prince of Wales from illness, the end of wars and conflicts, but they weren't held on a regular or annual basis until the 20th century. Our current Thanksgiving was established in 1957 and is considered more like the British and European end of the harvest celebrations.
Right? When he mentioned seasons and Asia I just laughed.
I was dating a guy who was trying out a SUV when it ran out of gas. He used the STAR system to ask for a tow truck driver to bring us some gas. He gave the small village Ontario address. We waited and waited. He phoned back again and the same gal answered and replied that the gas had been delivered. My date said not to me, he repeated the address and as an after thought said Canada. The operator said, Sir I'm sorry we don't deliver to Europe and hung up.
As a Canadian, being asked "do you have hockey in Canada?" feels like provocation, for sure that person wants to stir shit up and throw hands or something.
I had a pearl-clutching moment. A knife to the heart of my country.
Once in Canada I heard an American tourist asking about a flag pole. The pole in question was one of those nautical style ones with rigging and a few flags. She asked if a sailing ship had been buried there, thinking that the pole was a sailing ship's mast but the boat was underground. When it was explained that it was just a flag pole she responded that the USA flag that was on one of the spars should be the top-most flag (and not the Canadian one).
@@2painful2watchRead the first line again ….
Honestly at this point I think I'd just laugh and laugh and laugh.........
I moved to the USA from Canada in 1988 retired and moved back to Canada in 2007. I was a field service engineer and constantly traveled. At least once a year I was asked if they spoke English in Canada
When I was a teenager visiting a small town in central Washington State, a young man asked if I spoke Canada.
Not English or French Canadian.
Canada.
So I asked him, 'Which of the Indigenous languages of Canada did you mean? There are over 90.'
He didn't know how to respond to that; apparently he did not know what indigenous meant.
Ignorant thing #3 I live in a small community on an island off the northcoast of British Columbia, which is a stopover for cruise ships to Alaska. One of the off ship tours included a train trip through some stunning mountains. Upon return to the community, one of the tourists asked the operator if the "Natives were hostile around here". A bit shocked, she told me no and wondered why he said that? He told her it was because of a sign along the railway that he saw while on the trip that read, "Warning, Avalanche area." (not Apache). Good grief!
too funny had very similar in newfoundland with a cruise ship elderly couple... asking where all the wild indians were...
I live in the same place as you Judy😉. Crazy to see someone one here from home🇨🇦
@@yvonnecook8635 how funny is that? It is even a small world on CZcams!
I’ve been on that train ride! Took an Alaskan cruise and then ironically moved to the Yukon a month later. (Now in Toronto)
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When I was 13 or 14 my family took a trip from Saskatchewan to Orlando to see Disneyworld. I was buying something at a gift shop at Disney, and the cashier (she looked mid-40's) made small talk and asked where I was from. I had already been told that Americans are very ignorant about anything outside their borders, so I just said "Canada," knowing she wouldn't know what a Saskatchewan is. She looked blank, then asked me what state it's in. I said Canada is a country just north of USA. She said she had never heard of it.
An American customs service agent asked for my zip code. I said I don't have one because I'm calling from Alberta. She wanted to know which state Alberta is in. I told her that Alberta isn't a city in a state, it's a province in Canada.
Once she got her head wrapped around that and realized that I am in fact Canadian, she asked me to explain what GST meant - so many Canadian customers were upset that they had to pay it on purchases from an American company. So I explained it and said, "tell them to complain to our Prime Minister about it, it's our government's fault, not yours."
Tell them it's a small town in eastern Kentucky. Population approximately 1400. It really exists. Zip code 41519
I am from Québec, and I gave up on trying to explain that I'm a French speaker, but am no French... too complicated apparently!!!
@@daveduchesne3096 Ha, les maudits Anglais. hahaha
That's scary level ignorant.
If Canadians voted, legitimately, in US elections I know at least 2 Presidents who would never have been in office, bot, unfortunately, Republicans.
True story. Someone I know was driving a taxi, picked up an American Oil company executive just off the plane in Calgary on a clear winter day.
The passenger asked,"Who painted that?" Pointed at the Rocky Mountains clearly visible.
Taxi driver said nothing, just opened the door for the passenger and drove.
That executive continued, "Those look so real! Just like the Rockies in Colorado!".
They ARE the Rocky Mountains, seen almost daily from Calgary International Airport before and after landing.
When I was a kid, I was shocked to find out the Rockies weren't just in Canada. 😂
Of course US democrats are so much better. 🙄
I would vote for Trump. Previously, for Reagan. From Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
they are. republicans are fasc*sts@@elemar5
Trump loves the uneducated lol@@lindakeays2864
I was visiting Detroit about 20 years ago to catch some Tigers/Jays games. It was before smartphones and we weren't exactly sure how to get to the Ambassador bridge, so we asked our waitress, if she knew the easiest way to get there. She did not, which wasn't all that surprising. It was the fact that she didn't know it existed and seemingly didn't know that the Country of Canada existed that was absolutely dumbfounding. She thought we were messing with her and was supremely confident that we were making up this whole story about there being a bridge that connected Detroit to another Country. So she calls another one of the waitresses over and is like listen to this story, and explains what we were asking, with the closing line, "have you ever heard anything so stupid in your life?"
We found out that this lady was 62 years old, had lived in Detroit her whole life and yet somehow didn't know that Canada existed. I've thought about this every day since than.
Geez. We share the longest undefended border in the world, and they don't know it? Wow!
We travelled from Ontario down to Walt Disney World in Florida and we stopped in Georgia at a Walmart and as we checked out a cashier lady asked me if "We drove one of them thare snowmobiles? Do ya live in one of them thare igloos?" Trying to explain to her that we had 4 seasons, including summer, and lived in houses just like her and droves car just like her, was something that she just COULD NOT understand.
A long time ago, a car load of Americans stop on the street to ask me where the snow slopes were and how to get there. It was mid-July, a warm and sunny day, which confused me to no end. I really thought they were pulling my leg, but then I noticed the ski equipment tied to the roof rack of the car. With a huge smile, I told them I had some very bad news for them. I went on to explain to them that they would have to stay for at least 5 to 6 months for the snow to arrive or plan a trip to the North Pole, which sadly was rather flat terrain. Open mouthed with blank eyes, they put the car in gear and drive off.
Yup, this happens more often than you’d think lol
@@jenniferhw5332
really? that's very disturbing.
Which direction did they drive?
Wowwwww! Your answer was very clear and it was very well explained. But.... how can a bus full of tourists plan to come here to ski not even doing some basic research first about the actual weather conditions, the ski resorts and so on.... I mean... I can't explain it. It's soooo dumb.
@@cameleonfleuri they were young and innocent 😂👍 ☕️Also it was just regular sedan with a roof rack. Bless their hearts, they thought. Ananda was truly snow year round…it was the early ‘70s.
All these are soo entertaining as someone who lives in Canada. It makes me wondee whay they actually teach in schools there😂😂😂
American politics and history, me thinks. They seem well(-ish) versed in that.
I keep wondering if maps don’t exist, because it seems they never look at one
@@christinamann3640 maps or even a globe would do wonders 😆
All I can tell is it seems to begin and end with "Amarica ****** Yeah!" Or "And that's why we made all the cool stuff"
Oh man, when my Aunt and Uncle went on vacation to Australia, the met some Americans who asked the craziest questions like "Do you get sun in Canada?", "You have shorts and t-shirts on, did you have to order those special?"
Only during daytime hours. The Sun doesn't work the night shift. But if you tell them that, they'd probably claim we have unionized sunlight, or something.
@@Shan_Dalamani
"Do you guys have food in Canada?"
"No we just breath hard, and we get some trace nutrients out of the air. Life is hard in Canada."
US cop in California, couldn't decide if British Columbia drivers license and license plate was from the UK or central America... Would not believe it was Canada for a very long time.
I remember back in the mid 80s when the northern cruise ships started to first come to newfoundland ( you know the ones that want to see ice bergs and whales )... I was working at bowater at the time and the ship off loaded at the mills dock. An older couple walked up to me on the dock and kinda fearfully asked " Where are all the wild indians ? " I replied " Do you mean Inuit ? " they replied " no no the ones in the igloos "... i waited a while and told them " They haven't left the ship yet " They asked if i knew any.. at this point my break was almost over so i told them " Me and my mate Nanook have to hunt wild animals just to survive..."
You would think if your gonna blow several $K on a cruise you would AT LEAST read up on where your going....
Another good one... About 10yrs ago our family did a vacation in Boston... did the sites,,, Cheers Restaurant,,, Dock Fish Market,,, Sam Adams brewery tour,,, day trip to Salem etc.... We also went to the naval yard to tour Ol'Iron sides USS Constitution... In the museum they show a zoomed in area of the NE of the USA... I asked the curator what states were represented by the upper right of the map... The CURATOR ( someone with actual navy experience as a retiree ) proudly said that is the New England states ( Maine, Connecticut, Mass, Vermont etc )... I tried to point out to him that PEI, NS and NB were NOT part of Maine as the map showed... He seemed quite confused as to why i would be saying this... I asked him where canada started... he said its Quebec and Ontario...
perhaps you could read up on grammar.
@@lexdunn4160 Thanks I will do that! It's not every day that I get syntax and format rated in my writing. Your input while correct is wholly unnecessary or wanted.
I live in Ontario and one time, when I was skiing in Quebec, an American asked me where I learned to speak English so well. Ugh...
I also live in Ontario and once not too many years ago, I was shopping in a mall in Buffalo NY. The cashier asked where I was from, and when I told her 'Ontario', she asked where I had learned English so well. I smiled and told her "I learned it on the boat while I was coming over here." She smiled and seemed quite content with my answer.
I was vacationing in Quebec from Ontario years ago. We stopped for some food and saw an American license plate on a car in the parking lot. My BF at the time said "Good morning" to them. They looked perplexed and said "Your English is really good". He said "Thank you, so is yours"!
@@lindalor9284 What your boyfriend said was hilarious.
I worked at very large (national) bank in downtown Vancouver. We had a large number of tourists from all over the world come in to exchange money and cash travellers cheques etc. Because they were tourists I always tried to be extra helpful and friendly often chit chatting while completing their transaction. One day I asked a tourist from Virginia what surprised them the most about Vancouver? They replied, "we were so happy to find out you all speak English." 😱
We don't speak english, we speak canadian...
What did they think we speak?
probably thought we all spoke Francais@@Shan_Dalamani
@@paddington1670 I am a Canadian who currently lives in the USA and I HATE THAT! So many Americans think visiting Toronto would be like visiting Paris and that they would need a French-to-English translator to get along. Broils my blood. So silly!
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I am a 79 year old Canadian in Nova Scotia. When I was a child we used to see cars driving through our town with skis and toboggans strapped to their roof racks in the middle of our summer and the temperatures were in the 80 s F.
I was asked by an American soldier, " Do y'all have the same alphabet up here?"
You could be disingenuous and show them the Inuit symbols, then say "Nope". 😋🤣
@@ninemoonplanet I reminded him that we were both speaking English, therefore would have the same alphabet. Lol! He looked confused. I felt bad for the guy.
Holy shit and this guy is responsible for possibly shooting people. 😳
@@looneygardener Well, except for some of the French letters we use in some words. I don't bother with those online, though. This is the first computer I've had that doesn't automatically assume that me being in Canada means I'm using a French keyboard.
Military attracts the lowest common denominator ALWAYS@@gorosemonde
While waiting in line for the PEI ferry, I struck up a conversation with an American couple making their first visit. They were somewhat apprehensive about their first car ferry ride but to my astonishment the woman asked me if “the Island rocked in the wind”. I was gobsmacked. I answered no but could not believe that anyone could think an island is a raft…
Well, some goofball in the U.S. Congress said that if too many people were put on Guam it would tip over ( what does this idiot think islands are like a boat and just float around the ocean ???) the dumbing down is almost complete.
Wow!!
Par for the course. We have been asked just about any strange things thinkable about our country. Do you have electricity? Do you live in igloos, etc. My wife has told Americans that electric heat melted our homes and lumber was invented to remedy the problem.
Cary: Congress critter Hank Johnson from the state of Georgia once stated during an meeting with Military heads that he was worried the Island of Guam was becoming so populated and top heavy it would tip over. Being a lawyer one would assume he'd have had even the most rudimentary of educations, unless ......... LOL.
Ignorant thing #2 I live in a small community on an island off the northcoast of British Columbia, which is a stopover for cruise ships to Alaska. There are about 50% Indigenous people living in the community. It was heard by one of the tourists as they crossed the street, "Boy, they sure do have a lot of Mexicans living here." Beyond ridiculous.
I used to play a drawing game online and Americans kept saying Alaska whenever I drew a map of Canada right over a map of the US. Nobody ever said Canada or could guess one of the Provinces.
That is the fault of the U.S. education system. Their "world Map" shows the rest of the planet BLACKED OUT except for the 50 states. Alaska is like an island like Hawaii. That is a "classroom" world map. I am guessing world atlases are missing a bunch of pages so the students only know what they see.
Thunder Bay is the largest city in Northern Ontario, a major railway hub & port at the head of Lake Superior. I was born there & lived until I was 6 and moved to London, Ont. We went back often to visit family including my oldest brother & wife who stayed. The did that drive so many times growing up I’ve lost count. We also took the train from Toronto. It’s quite easy to get there but as a kid I called it “trees, rocks & water until you die”. Beautiful scenery if it’s new, incredibly monotonous if it’s not. Even beauty gets boring on a long drive. We also drove often to Nova Scotia where my mom grew up & all her family were.
The funniest was when I was visiting LA and a lady asked if I was "Enjoying the freedom in US"? lol
She probably thought you were a canadian trucker whose bank account was frozen by our tyra. n n ica l gove rnm ent.
Americans seem to have the strangest ideas about their "freedom"...
😂🤣😂🤣. Yet, Canada enjoys more freedoms than Americans.
Us Canadains are more free than Americans lol Free from daily gun crime lol
Given recent events here, she wasn't far off! May rename to the Democratic Republic of Canada.
My wife and I were on a flight from Newark to Ottawa and talking with the flight attendant, we were discussing Newfoundland for some reason. She was American and couldn't believe not only that people lived there but there is actual stores to buy things. True story.
Talking about Newfoundland (alone, is a strange conversation) Nobody talks about Newfies except Newfies.(unless it is a Newfie joke)
@@bunzeebear2973I don't know if I should be offended, or it it's a joke. Are you a Newfie?
It came up because she mentioned P.E.I and was surprised people live there and that's why Newfoundland was brought up.@@bunzeebear2973
@@bunzeebear2973what you got against Newfie’s?
I bet hes an Albertan con. They hate everyone@@NateDoggDeMan
This is not ridiculous just something that I noticed on holiday in Florida many years ago. Whenever I bought something and said thank you, the cashier would say uhuh rather than your welcome or no problem etc. It was still an acknowledgment but something that I really noticed at the time that I never hear from Canadian cashiers.
And sounds pretty rude
I'm in Toronto, and I always get polite acknowledgement of my "thank you" after paying for my purchase. That's too bad.
I've noticed the same several times.
I noticed that in California too. No idea how widespread the "uh-huh" thing is, but I would guess there are plenty of places in the USA where they don't do that.
Someone in Europe once asked me what the climate was like in Canada. I had to explain that Canada has as many climates as the whole of Europe.
I don't think that's too bad. At least they knew you guys were a country
Years ago I worked at a coffee shop that was open 24 hours. We live close to the border so quite often we'd have border guards come in for a coffee run and one night one came in laughing so hard she had tears running down her face. Seems some Americans had just crossed into our country with snow skis on the roof of their car and asked where the best skiing could be found.......this was in August!
Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving 43 years before the Americans. In the middle of July in Northern Ontario, we were enjoying a wonderful warm, summer vacation by Lake Nipissing. A vehicle with skis on the roof pulled up beside me and asked where they could go skiing. The skis were for snow skiing. So I told them to come back in the winter. They thought Canada was snow covered year round.
So SCTV was right when the Canadian Fax Ministry said we invented Thanksgiving. czcams.com/video/jzXt6nwPvXY/video.html
Send them to Laurentian ski club or old Mt Antoine in Mattawa.
It’s a bit rough in summer.
Old North Bay resident from 1970s
To be fair, there ARE some communities up in Northern Ontario on the reserves that are fly-in only, except for a very brief period of the year when the ice highway is open. A lot of them have flights connecting in places like Dryden, or Sioux Lookout.
Same here in Alberta - and probably any of the northern regions of the Provinces, and definitely many places in the Territories. Accessible by float plane only.
My Dad used to be a Bush Pilot who flew a Beaver; we got to visit all the really cool remote places in the north.
Hey Tyler, I worked in the summer(landscaping) in Halifax, cutting grass in a cemetery, that had graves from the Titanic,32c (HOT) watched an American tour bus stop and people getting off the bus, dressed in heavy sweaters, and winter coats!! LOL.👍✌
I worked in Mont Royal Cemetery cutting grass when I was 16, saw only one Titanic grave.
Mount Olivet cemetery Halifax, has over 15 gravesites from titanic but I think Fairview cemeteries has much more sites. I just did a walk around Mount Olivet last year. Also many from the Halifax explosion including Vince Coleman. A hero. You can learn much from visiting and remembering.
So many of these posts remind me of a time my parents drove down to California. At one point, they stopped for gas in Bakersfield, and they noticed the guy pumping their gas struggling to read their license plate. They told him it said Saskatchewan, to which he asked, "Where's that?" They said, "It's in Canada" and he replied, "Oh. How did you get your car across the ocean?" The gas jockey eventually admitted that the only places he knew were Bakersfield and Los Angeles 🤦♂️
And then they ask an Australian if they drove there 😂
When traveling in Oklahoma, a man asked me if we had only dirt roads in Ontario, Canada . I told him no we didn't and I live in Windsor Ontario which is south of Detroit to further shock him.
Fun fact: There are still 75,000 kilometers of unpaved roads in Ontario.
Many county roads are not paved in Ontario, but they are decent gravel and snowplowed better than city streets.
Question: Do you have a 4th of July in Canada?
Answer: Yes! Canada has a 4th of July! It comes between the 3rd of July and 5th of July. Infact, calendars in Canada comes with 31 days for the month of July! We just don't CELEBRATE the 4th of July, or the 3rd of July or the 5th of July. Those days don't mean anything special in Canada. We DO celebrate Canada Day on the 1st of July, though!
You don't have to be American to think we celebrate American holidays. Yesterday I was on the phone to a customer service person in the Philippines. She wished me "Happy Thanksgiving."
You don't have to be American to think we celebrate American holidays. Yesterday I was on the phone to a customer service person in the Philippines. She wished me "Happy Thanksgiving."
When I was a teenager I pumped gas at a gas station for a summer job. One day it was about 85f outside and a car pulled up to the pumps with Arizona plates and a ski rack with skis on it. They didn't say anything, but they really didn't have to either.
hahaha
Some kids in my region were asked by Americans where the ski hills were, and they said a couple of hours drive to the north. This is in the summer with hot & humid weather the same as just across the river in Upstate New York.
Calgary gets those every June, July, August.🤣 Vancouver get skiers arriving in May, June September. Border people constantly get asked where the closest ski resort is. 😅
Around 2013 or 14 I was on a course in the States. During lunch break we went a McDonalds and this little old lady came up to me and asked "Is your prime minister mad at our president?" I had no clue how to respond but good on her for actually knowing we had a prime minster instead of a president
While working in a bank here in Canada, a line-up of American tourists were discussing Canada. One woman asked "Is Canada as big as Texas?" 🙄
We could fit 14 time the State of Texas inside Canada.
I'm pretty sure that Canada is one of the biggest countries in the world by area (second only to Russia). The smallest state (Rhode Island) isn't even as big as the city that I live in (Ottawa).
Edit: never mind, Rhode Island is about 10% bigger than Ottawa (1,096,000 vs. 995,000).
Texas isn't even as big as Ontario
@@schoowoolovesbooboo2170 It would take me about the same amount of time to drive to Florida as it would take me to drive to Manitoba (the province next to mine). (Florida is slighly farther away, though, to be fair.)
@Hollyucinogen greetings from Kingston! I been everywhere from Yarmouth to Tofino. Its a big place we got here!
On vacation in Florida last year a woman asked me where we were from, I told her Ottawa Canada she knew Canada but Ottawa not really, I told her the place with the truckers then she knew where I was talking about.
There were no truckers there, only rightwing TERRORI*TS
Im Canadian , lived in Virginia for a while. Was asked several times if we have electricity and water in Canada. Was asked if i was Irish because of my east coast accent 😂. Was asked if we have cars and live in houses.
How does this level of ignorance even happen? I'm Australian and met an American man when we were holidaying in the Philippines. He also asked if we lived in houses and had roads. He was totally shocked when I answered yes. His poor brain was bursting every day because he was beginning to realise his ignorance about almost everything outside the US.
@@carokat1111LOL. It sounds like you would not have believed his story (the Canadian you just replied to) if it had not also happened to you!).
@@mathematicaleconomist4943 No, I was just pointing out how widespread the ignorance is.
@@carokat1111 OH? OK!
I live just north of Toronto now but years ago, my parents had a retirement home in Clearwater Florida. I used to go down there about once every 2 years or so. I'd take my young daughter with me for a week during March break. The number of times some poor American asked me a silly question was huge. Things like, "Do you have toilets in Canada?, Do you have malls in Canada? Do you have cars in Canada?" That one was great. In the early months of the year, almost half of the cars on the roads in Clearwater have Ontario license plates.Old Canadians leave the cold north to stay warm. But the best question ever asked was, "Where's Canada?" I kid you not! I replied, "Just head north. You can't miss it!"
They'd probably find a way. After all we've got two French islands off the east coast and a half-Danish island in the Arctic.
@@Shan_Dalamaniit’s Canada’s only land border with a European country.
@@janetyeoman1544 Officially. I suppose a case might be made for the Vimy Memorial in France. The ground it's on is officially Canadian territory. I doubt we'd push for it being recognized as any place where Canadians could move to or use as a backdoor entry to France (since you have to enter France to get there anyway).
We were once asked if we had TV in Canada. My husband replied No, but we would drive 5 hours towards the border where our rich friends lived. We would then have tv parties and drive back. The American just nodded and replied that he’d hate that as he really likes tv. He was from South Philly.
My family once went to Florida for spring break. When learning that we were Canadian, someone asked if we had snow year around. When we said, "No,only in the winter." They then asked, "Do you need a special license to drive in it?"
One summer day, I was walking along side of a highway, running from Sudbury to North Bay, and it was about 25 C. A car, with Georgia state license plates, and skis racked on the roof, stopped up ahead of me.
I figured they needed directions ( no GPS or cell phones), so I ran to the passenger side. There was a couple there, and the first question they asked me was “ how far is it so we could ski?”
I was baffled! I said, “ Ski in the summer?”
You can water ski now, but you’ll have to wait 5 months to use those skis!
SMH
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The license one is actually funny. It’s kinda true that driving in snow is dangerous, hence the tires being mandatory. But a special licence? Haha why not.
@@gorosemonde If it kept some of the worst off the road.. maybe not a terrible idea? :D
@gorosemonde I think Vancouverites could use that special license. They don't do very well at winter driving.
there SHOULD be a licence requirement. lol
Nova Scotia is classified as a peninsula, a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
Its crazy how often i see and hear stories of Americans who dont understand that we're completely separate countries and what that even means
On a Canadian political page on FB, I got into an argument with a woman from Vermont who married a Canadian and they now live in Alberta - have lived here for many years, according to her. Yet when I explained some of the reprehensible things the "Freedom Convoy" truckers did in Ottawa during the occupation (honking their truck horns all hours of day and night, harassing people, driving onto the grounds of the National War Memorial, dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (someone's literally buried there, so they danced on a WWI soldier's grave), she kept contradicting me and claimed that "the National War Memorial isn't even in Ottawa."
This woman claims to be a Canadian citizen, but this, along with a number of other ridiculous things she's said about how elections work, how citizenship works, etc. makes me doubt her claim to be a citizen. Oh, and she openly disrespected a Canadian veteran in that conversation, claiming that "it's the American soldiers who fought for my freedom" (she was living in Canada at the time this veteran fought in Afghanistan).
Oh, and she informed me that she'd been to the National War Memorial - in Washington, DC. It sailed over her head when I told her that's not where the CANADIAN National War Memorial is - and in any case, you just don't do the things those truckers did, no matter _whose_ national war memorial you're at.
They arent very bright in Berta. its like Alabama@@Shan_Dalamani
@@bonbonvegabon You might want to rethink your assumptions and your attitude.
1. The name of the province is ALBERTA. Not "Berta."
2. You omitted the apostrophes in two words in your comment.
3. You began a sentence with a lower-case letter and omitted the punctuation at the end.
4. The woman I was referring to is from Vermont and met her husband in Texas. Her husband is Canadian, and one of those anti-science religious evangelists we have too many of here. They're a perfect match of ignorance, bigotry, narcissism, and outright stupidity, and they're proud of it. He's all about "planting churches" and praising the "Freedumb Convoy" - he took part in the one that shut down the border at Coutts. She thinks the convoy "gave us hope" - and she laughed when I told her it put other people's lives and livelihoods at risk (legitimate truckers couldn't cross the international border because convoy trucks were blocking it).
5. I was born and raised in Alberta and still live here. And while there are far too many people who support the sociopaths and grifters who call themselves our current government - even to the point of wanting to separate from Canada - I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.
I am one of the people who is trying to convince others that voting for a political party that wants to keep us separate and ignorant and terrified of sensible things like renewable energy, covid vaccines, and health care that isn't restricted to the wealthy is really NOT a good idea.
@@bonbonvegabon Don't paint everyone with the same brush. We're not all peas in a pod.
2 separate incidents resonate with me. I was asked once by a woman from Washington, D.C. why Canada only had 1 University. I told her we had far more than 1 University in Canada and that Canada was the most educated country in the world. She didn't believe me. Another time, a family from Florida were driving in a RV up to Alaska. They were absolutely astounded that they had to drive through Canada to get to Alaska. I had no words - I just looked at them with my mouth open. I was agog!
Talk to any of the Canadian Border people, they get astonished looks from almost every American heading to Alaska because it takes most of a week driving time.
I heard so many stories about Americans insisting that Alaska was just there, pointing to some place in the Pacific Ocean.
Makes sense if you see what the US map looks like for Hawaii and Alaska. 🙄
@@ninemoonplanet You know I never thought of that. (Map aspect).
Senator Hannigan urged President Polk to seize the West Coast all the way to 54°, 40', 1845. Hence the name of the Canadian group 54 40.
And their battle cry "FIFTY FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT!" That was almost a fight because we refused to give up our land. It wasn't just one senator, a whole bunch of them were agitating for a war.
@@CanadianSmoke "Ocean Pearl" 54-40? Didn't know that......thanks for the info and great band!
I actually understand the Thunder Bay misunderstanding, as a lot of people do make that trip by air. It's a long drive!
I was crossing the continent from British Columbia to New Brunswick decades ago and travelled through the US to see some different terrain. I had engine trouble in Kalamazoo, and the mechanic thought I was from South America, because of my licence plates, and I had taken a rather circuitous route.
Whoah that's a big detour. 🤣
@@ninemoonplanet Not really. It's probably faster, and definitely way cheaper, to drive a few hours south and then take I-90 across. Avoiding driving across Ontario is a big win; 90km speed limits for 20 hours straight will ruin your life.
@@alanj9978My adult child has driven this route several times and they go through the states cause Ontario is a nightmare to drive through
Had the same thing in California British Columbia South America LOL
I've been to the US several times and am disappointed I've never had one of these dumb Americans experiences. Although, I was involved in a discussion on Facebook not too long ago where an American lady didn't believe Australia had its own currency. She believed they used the US dollar. It took quite a bit of effort to convince her otherwise and I'm not sure she was really convinced.
Well, Trump didn't know Canada had it's own currency. He assumed we just used US.
Fellow Aussie here. I've had the same experience. Some people assume the US dollar is used everywhere.
For the old woman who asked if there was hockey in Canada yes there is. We have a weekly show called Hockey Night In Canada and we have floor hockey, field hockey, road hockey, even air hockey(bit of sarcasm there).
For awhile in the '70s you could play kitchen table hockey. A cereal company had a promotion going where each box contained a couple of hockey stick-shaped straws and a small plastic puck. You used the straws to blow the puck around on the table.
Question: Who do YOU celebrate Independence from?
I just answered "from America" and left it at that. 🤣🤣🤣
When I was a young lad in the Air Cadets we visited Fairchild AFB to see the B-52's and get tours of the various simulators and training schools on the base. This was around 1982ish.
My friend and I met some American girls and we were spending time together at the local bowling lanes. During this time we were asked many crazy questions about Canada. The moment that stands out to me is when my friend told the girls that we exchanged our vehicles for dog sleds at the boarder. The poor girls believed every word and their questions were hilarious. At this time neither my friend nor I had ever seen a proper dog sled in action.
These American girls believed that when you hit Canada it was wall to wall snow. The funny thing to us was that Fairchild AFB is only around 400 km by road from Canada and they had no clue about the weather patterns. We were struck by how little they knew about our country and we just chalked it up to the American belief in American exceptionalism. If you believe you already have the best why look elsewhere?
I have heard about that 6 foot wall of snow at the 49th as well.
Incredible.
You can drive to Florida from France. I'm not kidding. Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a French archipelago not far south of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. Residents can take a car with a European French registration, European French licence plates and European French driving Licence on a ferry to Newfoundland, and another ferry to the mainland, and from there drive anywhere in North America. It's exceedingly uncommon. The population of Saint Pierre and Miquelon is only 6000. But I have heard of it happening.
What adds to the stereotypes is that as canadians we are tired of stupid questions so we go along with it and mess with you in the process lol. Bob? Yeah I know Bob, unfortunately he passed last week. 😂😂
That was literally a Milan Canadian commercial. “Office Bob? Yeah, he died.” 😂
I think most Canadians purposely perpetuate the stereotype that we know the same person from Canada. It's hilarious to us.
I've done it!
Recently, in fact! It was "Do you know Robert and Helen Walker in Montreal?"
I live in B.C.
It IS hilarious.😂
Born and raised in Thunder Bay - so I’ll give ya this one.. we’re just so incredibly isolated that most folks wouldn’t drive. You can - and if you’re going anywhere from the east to the west staying in Canada - you will, by necessity, drive to and through Thunder Bay… but we’re 18hrs from Toronto, and 22hrs from Ottawa.. Winnipeg, our closest neighbour is 8hrs away.. and even into the states, Minneapolis is still 6hrs away.. there is no train service, and only rare cruise ships on the lakes - but we have like 20+ daily flights to Toronto and Calgary - so for most travel situations, Thunder Bay is only reasonably reachable by plane.
I am from Toronto. My mom from Thunder Bay. I drive there often. Beautiful drive. Heading there shortly.
One year I was visiting my relatives in Pennsylvania. My youngest cousin had a Volkswagen and needed a replacement part but it was in metric. So she asked me to come down to the mechanics with her. I tried to explain what cms were to the mechanic but he looked at me weird. Then I asked if he had a meter stick? He asked me what that was. And I said it was a large ruler that had cms on one side and inches on the other. He then asked me where I was from and I said Canada. We never did get the part she needed.
Did you also ask him where the washroom was??
I have one to top off all ridiculous things an American has said to me, a Canadian. I was moving from Ontario to Alberta. We (my ex and I) drive through the U.S as it was faster. Going through the Windsor/Detroit tunnel we had the customs officer ask us the usual things.... where are we going, what are we bringing into the country etc.... we told him that we were moving to Alberta for work. He asked us to see our Visas, we told him that we didn't need a visa, because we were going to Alberta. He said "well, you need a work visa if you're going to be working out there". Um.... what? lol. Of course you can't be mean to them as they can deny you entering the country but what an idiot lol. We told him that Alberta is in CANADA not the U.S, we were just using their roads to get there as it's faster. He LEGIT had us turn our car off, went back into his booth, and was looking up where Alberta was. W.T.F 😂
Honestly... I know people tend to think atlases are archaic, but everyone going to the US should take a Rand-McNalley atlas with them to enlighten these folks where everything is. Who knows, they might even thank you...
I’m not sure if it’s still the case but I was taught every state and their capital/population etc. as well as Canada Europe Africa Asia Russia (actually it was the USSR at the time)and South America in like grade 5/6 geography classes. Of course I assumed everyone in North America knew these things…. Until I went to Myrtle Beach and discovered most Americans don’t even recognize the shape of their own state and thought I lived in an igloo! lol.
Same
Yes, in Ontario in the mid 90s, Grade 10 students were expected to label every country on the world map, and every state and the top 20 cites on the US map.
just 15 years ago we were still using text books with USSR in them, lol
Same with me but I was in public school in the 70s might have changed.
Weird, I just made a similar comment.... we didn't touch on Asia though.... not that I remember.
When I was driving long haul 30 years ago, I was at a small truckstop in Idaho and went in to buy something. When I reached into my pocket, which had both Canadian and American money, the clerk only saw the Canadian money as I pulled it out. This clerk immediately said to me that they do not take food stamps..........I have no idea what food stamps look like but this clerk thought that the Canadian cash was just that. That was a wow moment.
Got the surprise of my life one day in Vegas. Went to the bar for a beer,the guy beside me asked where I was from? I was surprised he knew where Vancouver Island was! Turns out his son was drafted to our summer league baseball club. Had a grate chat for an hour!🙂
I just came from the island Two weeks ago Shawnagin lake
@@personincognito3989 lucky you. The Island is always gorgeous
I came to the us at the age of 15 and live in NC. There are still people that think when I go north to visit family in the summer that I will be going to snow and blizzards, people live in igloos and there are penguins. Whenever I come back with any amount of Canadian money it is a very difficult to exchange it. I gave up trying to correct them and laugh at the dumb comments. I was down in GA with some of my wifes family in the country with a Canadian friend sitting around waiting for the BBQ to finish up and he asked if everybody down there had guns. I rolled on the floor at his reaction when about 10 out of 12 pulled out a hand gun including the woman and then gave him a shooting demo and a lesson.
There are Canadians who are foggy about penguins. Earlier this year I went to the local mall. There's a place there that sells stuffed animals, and I wanted to add to my penguin collection. So when I asked a clerk to reach down one of them for me, he said I "must be from the east coast."
I asked why and he said, "Because you like penguins."
I told him no, I'm not from the east coast. Then he said Okay, you must be from the west coast.
This conversation happened at a mall in Central Alberta - I was born here and have always lived here. I told him this, and said I just like penguins, it doesn't have anything to do with where I'm from!
Someone later speculated that maybe he was confusing penguins and puffins.
We can’t stop the people coming here because there are so many CZcamsrs reacting to Canada now. Many from US, Middle East, Australia, and around the world. It seems to be the “in” thing to do now. However, Mr. Bucket is simply the best.
I love that you try to understand Canada, always fun to watch your videos. Cheers from Quebec
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TYLER!!
(It's no celebration of Martin Frobisher's discovery, but you guys are alright too 😂 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇲)
Our daughter worked for an IT company in Canada that was American owned. They got not only Canadian holidays but American holidays off. Pretty good while it lasted.
We live in Toronto and hubbie works for an American company and he gets both holidays from USa and Canada too
That’s okay, Americans are not alone in not knowing CDN Geography, Tyler. My Dutch cousins came over from Holland thinking that during a 3 week stay in CDA they could drive everywhere to visit all their cousins & still have time leftover to actually sit & visit with us all - we live spread out between Gatineau, Que to Ottawa area to Toronto-Brampton-Mississauga areas to Calgary & Vancouver & Victoria & other communities up island on Vancouver Island. 😂
Oups! Ils auraient plutôt eu besoin de 3 mois! Hahaha!!! Les Européens qui viennent ici ne réalisent pas les distances car là-bas, en quelques heures, ils peuvent traverser plusieurs pays alors qu'ici on arrive tout juste à la ville d'à côté ! 😂
Friends from Germany were here for a week and thought they should be able to see Montreal and Halifax, and possibly Calgary!
@@elspethread3468 Ehhhh?!? Pour de vrai ? Ayoye... c'est ... je suis sans mots! Lol!
A friend who worked as a tour guide told me some American tourists expressed shock and confusion about seeing bald eagles in Canada. Yes, normally they are supposed to unzip their eagle suits when flying over the border, and become canada geese.
Well, do they unzip? LoL.
I've had Americans ask me if it was the same Sun and Moon in the sky .
You win.
I'm Québécois and I would argue that most Canadians would indeed be somewhat insulted by a person asking if we have hockey in Canada !! Modern hockey was invented and developped in Montréal !! And the Stanley Cup gets its name after Lord Stanley, a former Governor General of Canada !! The NHL Situation Room (where all games are monitored and reviewed LIVE) as well as the Hockey All of Fame are also located in Toronto !! So yeah, that's kinda insulting when Americans believe they invented everything !! 😉 Great videos BTW !!
I was in the state of Washington with my friend and I was asked if you could rent a bobsled at the border. I asked if they were joking. I couldn't believe that they thought the weather changed at the border.
A friend of mine from Nova Scotia was flying from LA to Hawaii and was talking to the person in the neighboring seat: he was an American physician. When learning she was from NS, the doctor replied that he found it strange that she did not speak with a Spanish accent, as he thought that all South Americans, except those from Brazil, spoke Spanish!
He clearly knew a little more about S America than he did about Canada!
Not really, if he thought Nova Scotia was in South America.
@@noadlorI think he meant to say "little more", not "a little more".
"neighbouring"
I feel like your videos are an elaborate pitch to be the American ambassador to Canada.
Canadian Thanksgiving has some unique origins that separate it from the American holiday, predating the United States Thanksgiving holiday in Plymouth Plantation by 43 years. Canada's holiday was initially created to express thanks for explorers' safe voyages into the New World. So, of course, as usual, Canada was first! And we opened the Confederation Bridge on May 31, 1997 joining Prince Edward Island to the mainland of North America. The Confederation Bridge is a world engineering feat. It connects Prince Edward Island to the mainland over the Northumberland Strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At 12.9 kilometres or 8 miles long it is longest bridge in the world over ice-covered waters. It takes approximately 10 minutes to across. At the highest point, the bridge reaches 60 metres above sea level, which allows large sea vessels, including cruise ships, to navigate under the bridge between its piers.
In 1977 (a year after the Olympic were held in Montréal) i was in Denver Colorado. A teenager asked me how we did manage to go back home after we crossed the boarder. As a teen at the time, i told her that we got out of the bus and depending how fare we lived from the boarder, we could use skis, snowshoes or dog sled to go back home in our igloo. She asked me how could we watch tv in igloos. I answered like if i never heard the word tv before lol I was mean lol
That teenager probably grew up spreading misinformation around because of you 😂
You sound as thick as Americans.
I had a conversation with someone online who knew nothing about Canada. It was in late spring when I told him that I had to be careful when going outside because the polar bears liked to swim in my pool. We live in White Rock B.C., 5 minutes from the border. He did believe me.
A bear in the hot tub, that's believable @@vh5507
I live in Edmonton and when I worked overseas, an American teacher from Boston tried to tell me how to dress fir winter, and I just laughed. He insisted that I needed lined pants and heavy sweaters for the winter, even though the area hardly ever got snow and rarely dropped below freezing. I told him winter there was the same as our spring, and he didn't believe me at all.
Most days I didn't even wear a long sleeve shirt, just a light jacket, and wore a tshirt and shorts from March to November. 😂
Drove over to America to do some Black Friday shopping, someone bumped into me at the store, and I said, sorry. They asked me if I was Canadian…dammit.
I've got two great stories:
1) My great uncle used to drive a Greyhound bus from the ferry terminal in Sidney, BC to downtown Victoria. As you crest the hill on the highway, you can see the Olympic mountain range (which is in Washington state). One of the tourists came to the front of the bus and asked: "Excuse me, sir... are those artificial mountains?" Did he think they were paper mache, just floating in the harbour on pontoons?
2) My dad used to work on the ferries. One day a lady with a thick southern accent approached him and asked: "Can you please seat me on the water side of the boat?" He said "Maam, there's water on all sides of the boat." She persisted: "No, I wish to sit on the water side of the boat!" So he just took her to the closest side and sat her down. We still don't really know what that was all about.
Just put a comment about another mountain range east, the Rocky Mountains. Believe it or not, most Americans refuse to accept "their" Rocky Mountains are in the same range and chain of mountains.
As a Canadian living in a border city, I commuted to work in Detroit daily, Separating Southern Ontario and Michigan is the Detroit River. Each year there is a huge fireworks event that takes place on the River celebrating Canada Day and July 4th. A co-worker once asked me if Canadians could see the fireworks from the Canadian side. I was stunned and couldn’t help myself when I asked her if she thought they put up a gigantic curtain or barrier on the river. She was surprised and didn’t know what to say. I still tell people that story. 😮😮
I have had more than one person (American) ask the same in The Yukon when looking at the St Elias Range.
Actually, what she was asking was a "window seat" so she could have an uninterrupted view of the water. She didn't want to sit in the middle. Not at all an unreasonable request.
@@Lakeshore14Too funny. I grew up in Windsor. There was nothing like that fireworks display. 3 barges. It was the longest ever! Spoiled me! Probably much shorter now. And loved having so much park along the river. My Dad used to confuse Americans by referring to "that great country to the north" Lol.
"Could Canada and America have the same time zones?" hahahahaha AWESOME
yeah, I thought that comment was a tad ignorant.
I recall seeing a news story about silly questions Americans asked our tourism bureau. I only remember two of them, but they were doozies!
"Is north the same direction up there, or is it a little further east?"
"I'd like to rent a cottage on Lake Louise within easy boating distance of the Canadian National Exhibition."
I purchased something from a private U.S. citizen and sent a money order drawn on a U.S. bank, (I live in Canada)imagine my shock when she called that her bank (of America on which the MO was drawn) would not accept it and called her out (loudly) that she was trying to pass a phoney cheque because there are no Bank of America's in Canada!! they had her in such a state she was not ging to ship the item. They told her that there was no bank account number on the 'cheque' and was going to call the police and have her and me 'arrested' it really was a terrible mess. I called the CEO of the Bof A and dressed him down in polite sarcastic Canadian on how do they train their employees.... he was not American.... and took the particulars called the branch..got it straightened out and a week after she received the MO finally got her money without penalty.... (the bank were going to hold back $15 for processing a foreign MO... even tho it was printed on a Bof A money order!!! She said she would never deal with anyone from Canada again... as if it was all my fault....I hope that bank has upped it's education of employees over the last 25 years!!
Why not just use a postal money order in American currency? That's how I did it when I used to order Star Trek fanzines from some people in Minnesota.
@@Shan_Dalamani That is exactly what I did! It was a U.S. MO paid in U,S. $$ and my bank even used Bank of America money orders. the problem was that it came from a Canadian Bank and the tellers were not educated in international banking practices. My bank manager called the bank in Kansas and tried to explain how it worked but they would have none of it, and threatened jail to both of us including him for trying to pass false money orders! Trust me I was gobsmacked by their ignorance.
They do not train their tellers or personnel the way they are trained in Canada... I was a teller many years ago and then it was 2 weeks of study and a month on the 'floor ' with a supervisor breathing down your neck!! (this was almost 20 years ago) Ihop it has improved a lot since!
@@user-rc6sp5fk1n I meant a money order from a post office. I got my money orders through Canada Post, since I could also pick up an International Reply Coupon while I was there (this was in the '80s). I never had any problems with the Americans I was buying stuff from.
Some banks can be remarkably dense, though, if something is outside their normal experience.
It doesn't even need to be a bank - I read some time back that a kid working at a food court place in a mall called security on someone who tried to pay for a drink (pop or juice) with a $2 bill. Even though nobody uses them anymore, they're still legal tender in Canada, and the kid thought it was play money. The mall cop just looked at the $2 bill, shrugged, and said, "What's the problem?"