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Fun fact: on the Ottawa river, there is one side where you can drink booze on your boat, and one side where you can't. And when you are spotted drinking on the Ontarian side, you get told to go on the Québec side
So if the boat is floating down the middle of the river everyone goes to one side. I have visions of another Mary Rose...
Québec home of the free.
@@alfred_musset 😂😂
@@alfred_musset Oh, oh. Quebec, le maison libre.
@@wendigo53 *La maison libre
Here’s another fact. Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia still has a population of Gaelic speakers. It also has Acadians which are east coast French speakers with their own unique culture.
So in parts of the island there are signs with translations in Gaelic, French, and English all together.
There are more acadians in New Brunswick!
There are also signs in Cape Breton with Mikmaq also on them!
Another very interesting fact I learned about Cape Breton Island is that there is a non-negligeable and long lasting political movement over there advocating for the island to become a separate province from Nova Scotia, and their simple arguments kind of make a lot of sense to me : if Prince Edward Island is a province, why couldn't CBI be? since the 2 islands are of similar sizes in terms of surface area and population, plus CBI being significantly more important historically speaking than the other, plus being relatively distinct from mainland Nova Scotia, plus seemingly being vastly underdeveloped and underfunded compared to maindland Nova Scotia and especially Halifax where almost all the attention might go...
@@PasteurizedLettuce there are also more Acadians in Louisiana - they are called Cajuns there.
they teach gaelic in high schools in nova scotia too
Quick correction: British Columbia was technically named after the Columbia River.
But where did the Columbia river get its name from 🤔
@@MoreGeography idk and I live here lol
@Evan Rogers Columbia comes from Columbus, whether that's the South amerigo vespucci country Columbia, the U.S. capitol district of columbia, or the river columbia. So yep.
If the province would be named after a river, it would be the Fraser because it's the most important river in BC
@@joshjones6072 South American country, Colombia*
So Canada actually has TWO provincial capitals named after Victoria! As you've noted, there's Victoria in British Columbia but Regina in Saskatchewan is ALSO named after her! Regina was named by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, wife of Governor-General of Canada (from 1878 to 1883) John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll. She was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, and thus she decided to name it after her mother. Before it was called Regina, the place was called Wascana or "Buffalo bones" in Cree. The Saskatchewan Legislative Building there is quite nice. They thought Saskatchewan would eventually be the most important and populated province, so they built a grand building to reflect their dream. Of course...it didn’t work out that way
Also, Ottawa is just on the Ontario side, not Québec. The city on the Québec side is called Gatineau! But yeah, the reason Ottawa was chosen as the Canadian capital by Victoria in 1857 was because of defensible location between Québec and Ontario, the two provinces that made it up at the time.
Why do I find you in every comment section
Interesting comment. The second paragraph even more intriguing.
If the location of the city of Ottawa was chosen for defensibility purpose from an American incursion, why the federal capital wasn't erected on the Quebec side, by the Northern shore of the Ottawa river, making it more defensible that way?
I thought Queen Vicky threw a dart on a map of Canada, and it landed on Ottawa. That is why Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
@@loloflac2667 Upper and lower Canada, as in relation to the flow of the St-Laurence river, not the latitute of the territories.
The Capital moved around a bit, but it was in Montreal for a number of years, until an angry mob burned it down. Between Quebec and Ontario was more of a neutral ground too!
Ottawa is actually 100% in Ontario, the other part of it is gatineau wich is a mostly french-speaking city in Quebec that's often confused in Ottawa, it's still a part of the national capital region but not a part of Ottawa itself, the part with the canadian museum of history on Ile de Hull at 13:21 is actually in gatineau, basiccly, on Quevec's side it's Gatineau and on Ontario's side it's Ottawa.
Poutine is not a bastardization of "pudding" (although a pudding can in fact be savory rather than sweet, it's simply something boiled in a bag if you wanna go with the meaning the word held in antiquity). It's older Quebecois slang for a "mess". According to legend, it was invented in 1957 by one Fernand Lachance, a restauranteur whom upon mixing said fries, gravy and cheese curds, exclaimed to his customer who had requested the combination "c'est une maudit poutine"- meaning, "it is a damned mess". Thus, poutine was born. Allegedly.
u r a pudding
There is a strong theory that poutine was adopted from New Jersey. For decades (even till today but to a lesser extent) the Jersey Shore was a popular vacation destination for Quebecois. A unique staple in the famed diners of NJ was and stsill is something called "Disco Fries", dating back to the 70's when people out disco dancing would go after hours to a diner and would want something salty and savory and greasy, pure comfort food. Disco Fries are French fries with gravy and cheese. The cheese is typically either American or mozzarella. Poutine is basically the same dish. And to your point, it IS a "mess" so the naming convention makes sense but the origin of the dish appears to be NJ diner-style Disco Fries.
Savoury puddings are nice too yes!
For the record, the exact geographic centre of Canada is indeed just a few kilometres (20-30) east of Winnipeg. There's a marker and everything. So the intuition that Manitoba feels like the centre of Canada is spot-on.
British Columbia is known colloquially as BC. Alberta is indeed our “cowboy province”. Home of oil fields, ranches and rodeos.
Saskatchewan imo is thought of more because they have not 1 but 2 major cities. Winnipeg, Manitoba is known for being pretty rough around the edges and there’s not much else in the rest of the province. Ontario is split between southern Ontario and northern Ontario. They’re kinda like 2 different worlds and the border is somewhere in cottage country, which is like the provinces Lake District. Generally speaking, the more north and east you go, the more French Quebec becomes. The maritimes are amazing and underrated provinces are amazing and home to our friendliest residence. Meeting someone from PEI is like a video game achievement cause they’re obviously ain’t a lot of them. I actually lived in Nunavut for a year and it is entirely cut off from the rest of the country and pretty much only accessible by air. It’s immensely beautiful and is like a whole different country. Northwest Territories is pretty cool and is connected by road. It’s like Nunavut but they have roads. Yukon is known as the last frontier of Canada as it was the site of a lot of gold mining back in the day.
Did this man just say KelAwna💀
The border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador is based on the watershed! Rivers that flow into the Atlantic = NL, rivers that flow into Hudson Bay = QC
Logical borders be logical
makes you wonder why they haven't make the border completely following that reasoning, why they decided to put the border at the limit of the watersheds from up North-West to South-West but then, going downstream at the Romaine river until the 52nd parallel and foolishly following that straight line until somewhere before the the 57th meridian then straight line again southward... why is there always some British guy alarming the officials "we need at least one straight line upthere"?
I'm from Qubec and I didn't know that.
They followed the watershed round to the south then gave up halfway and just went for a straight line. Quebec sees fit to be a dick about it and claims the watershed border all the way along.
For a "second channel, don't care" type attitude, the effort keeps going up! We even have transition cards now!!
Yeah but I'm not the 'transition' was that smooth. And were those jingles some kind of provincial anthem?
@@rogink It was music from a video game (Breath of the Wild)😅😅
I'm British, living in Toronto for 2 years, and recently visited Saskatchewan - in winter. I was pleasantly surprised by how beautiful the South Saskatchewan River is near Saskatoon, and honestly, how British feeling Regina was. It's definitely an undiscovered gem of Canada.
As a South sask resident, as long as you don't come in a cold snap your generally gonna be a-ok for weather, glad you liked saskatchewan tho!
Brit here too, lived in/around Ottawa for 25 years
My wife and daughter were in Sask with me last September, both loved it, oddly had better weather than Ontario at the time.
as a resident of saskatoon i agree
Hmmm born raised and living in Regina, never noticed we seemed British 😂 we do have 1 of 2 fountains that were formerly in Trafalgar Square in London.
Your next video should be about the 12 "Kantons" in Luxembourg. Would be really, really interesting if you could explain them to me, us and the world 😉
Hilarious comment!
would love to see a video on the 47 districts of Tajikistan
Unironically, agree.
@@Weirzy that could actually be interesting
I live in Saskatchewan, and we do have our own local cultures and music scene etc, but they are quite small and everybody seems to know everybody in their respective scene. I love to hear toycat talk about my home province. We don't get a lot of coverage over here
Anywhere with a place called Moosejaw gets extra brownie points.
just wait until you hear about Eyebrow, Saskatchewan
In the video, it seems the main features of the province are a highway and railway crossing it!😂.
@@rogink why stop there...the joke among my friends is how close Saskatchewan is to Australia for fucked up town names...Piapot, elbow...my wife and kids make a game of calling out the retarded town names as we drive through the cultural void between Brandon and Medicine Hat...
8:15 Actually, we have milk in bags in Québec too, but yeah, I know it's not in all of Canada. Not entirely sure it's just Ontario and Québec though. Might be.
The borders in the East make a lot of sense when you consider those are the oldest provinces, so you can imagine there's more history there than just "haha straight lines go brrr" like we see in the West, and also, they didn't use to stretch all the way up North. As for Ottawa being on the border, that's kind of by design : After the Canadian parliament burned in Montréal, they decided to build it somewhere else, and they decided to build it in a town that's on the Ottawa river, which is basically the border between the two most populated provinces of the country (also probably relevant the two provinces each have a majority of speakers of one of the two official languages).
it's eastern canada that has em. nova scotia, new brunswick, pei etc sell milk bags
I'm from Qubec to and I confirm we have bagged milk, but you can still buy "normal milk"
In the late '70s and early '80s we had milk in bags in Vancouver, but I don't see it anymore. ?
The idea behind the 19 yo drinking age is that a lot of 18 year olds are still in their last year of high school. By bumping the age by one year, very few high school students can legally drink.
Note, I say "legally"!
That makes sense were I am in Australia it's 18 but we used to finish the yr u turn 17 until some guy decided to change the age upstart school so some kids turn 18 during the last yr at school
In high-school it was quite common to just give an older student some cash and they would get you a bottle of whiskey for the weekend
@@gatergates8813yup, or in my case my dad told me to go raid the liquor cabinet for something nobody was drinking at around 16
the Kelowna pronunciation was something else
You missed a fun fact. Nunavut shares a land border with Europe. (Denmark)
I was gonna comment this as well, its based on a small island between Nunavut and Greenland. Its definitely a fun story to learn about.
One of the coolest land disputes between two countries until it got settled last year. Canada would assert its claim by leaving a bottle of maple syrup. Denmark would leave a bottle of schnapps.
*Shares a border with a mainly European country. The border itself is well within North America, approximately 2 000 km away from Europe
The reason for the trans-Canada highway being multiple numbers is because it is still technically a provincial highway, so that's why in some provinces have different numbers for the Trans-Canada highway.
Also other note about the Trans-Canada highway is that in Winnipeg it splits into two and the 2nd branch called the "Yellowhead Highway" (Highway number 16 in all the provinces it goes through (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia)) goes through Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Prince George, and ends at a more northern part of the British Columbian coast.
Yes, there are no real federal highways in Canada like there are in the USA.
@@matthewgasparin7000 Well, kinda… in order to receive federal funding and be designated as an interstate highway a certain set of design standards must be met… BUT the states still own and maintain their own portions of the interstates… so there is a federal designation but no federal ownership… like Canada - but I get your point
@@terag8151 Canada is somewhat similar. I know for facts that the federal government funds important links like PEI bridge or Champlain bridge in Montreal. They also financially help provinces for public transit projects and probably fund part of the "transcan" too.
@@Boby9333 the pei bridge and stuff like that is actually due to the original negotiations for confederation. All of the provinces outside of Ontario and Quebec made infrastructure demands prior to joining, basically the federal government is obligated to maintain certain connections as part of the deal. Building and maintaining the bridge to PEI was their demand.
@@JHMJ6 Yeah, quite a few of Montreal south shore links are either fully or partially paid & owned by the federal government
PEI is famous for Confederation Conference in Charlottetown where it was decided to form Canada, also Anne of Green Gables, lobsters, Malpeque oysters, golf courses, warm water beaches, red soil.
Milk in bags isn't only Ontario we have it here in PEI as well. Pretty sure it's a thing anywhere in Canada or it used to be more wide-spread. French is spoken all across Canada with the least in BC, Alberta, and Newfoundland (more in Labrador). Nova Scotia Bluenose schooner, Sable Island ponies, Cape Breton fiddles, Gaelic, has the largest population Mi'Kmaq reserve (Eskasoni) in Atlantic Canada.
We had milk in bags in Vancouver, but I haven't seen it like that for ages now.
We had milk in bags for a few years in Saskatchewan. They tried them after milk in glass bottles was discontinued but we eventually went to cartons and jugs. I think that was in the late 70s and early 80s. I remember not liking the bags. Lots of people saved their old glass bottles, poured the milk from the bag into them and then covered the top with tin foil.
As a Canadian, I appreciate this video cuz it’s cool to learn stuff you should probably already know 😅
Also I always love how BC and Alberta are shaped just like California and Nevada
Holy shit I never noticed that lol
I'd just like to say, while yes, Quebec and New Brunswick have French as an official language, lots of people in very eastern Ontario are bilingual.
Also, I lived in Nova Scotia for a while and I remember in school being told Nova Scotia looks like a lobster claw.
Also parts of northern Ontario are majority francophone. Hearst, ON is 96% francophone for example, and there are high proportions of French speakers in Kapuskasing, Timmins, etc.
There are (small) pockets of exclusively Francophones throughout the rest of the country as well, but Ontario definitely has a larger Francophone population than mentioned in the video.
Yes, there are large Francophone communities all over Canada. I attended what was then known as Faculté Saint-Jean, the French Campus in Edmonton, AB, which serves Western Canadian Francophones.
there’s also Franco ontarians, mostly up north near sudbury & sault ste-Marie. Pretty strong French speaking minority in ontario
In some parts of Northern Ontario it's a French speaking majority
Also francophones in Manitoba and Nova Scotia
Like New Hampshire (and it'snever talked about) entire towns can be French . In my Ontario Pinewood was French, while Stratton (which doesn't even IEXIST any more) is English speaknig.
The Vancouver region used to have a Francophone district called Maillardville. The place and street names remain French, but I don't know if it's otherwise any more French than the rest of the Lower Mainland.
Merci mille fois. Moi, je suis des États-Unis mais je connais le Canada quelque peu. 1) Flin Flon is split between Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Ottawa is not split; while some government buildings are in Gatineau, that side of the river is in the nation (AKA the province) of Québec. 2) The national anthem of Canada was written in French in Québec; a variety of interpretations and translations into English have been available over the years. 3) Winnipeg, the former "Second City" of Canada, has a French quarter, Saint Boniface, The Peg used to be the center of the futures markets for the country and was for a long time the headquarters city of Hudson's Bay Company. 4) The USA invaded Upper Canada in the War of 1812 and burned the capital city of York (today's Toronto). The retribution of the burning of Washington was under the command of Britain but many Canadians are rather proud that THEY burned down the White House. 5) Canadian postal codes alternate numbers and upper-case letters. Not all letters have been used to start codes but one code is unique and admired worldwide. Santa's postal code is H0H 0H0. Really. 6) One quirk of Canadian geography is something schoolkids in the USA often learn: If you go due south from Detroit the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada. In fact, it's the city of Windsor. 7) The Halifax Explosion was not during peacetime - you correctly stated it was in 1917, during World War I. 8) When you get to Saskatchewan, you could go to Moose Jaw to visit "Mac the Moose,: the world's largest moose. 9) Although the USA and Canada still have border disputes, it was Denmark that had the longest and perhaps most civilized dispute in the Whiskey War about Hans Island (AKA Tartupaluk, Hans Ø, Île Hans). 10) Newfoundland and Labrador became part of Canada in 1949. 11) Canada has a border with France as well as Denmark, albeit only maritime. The territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon is just off the coast of the island of Newfoundland.
Pas complètement correcte avec Flin Flon. It's much like Ottawa/Gatineau, only a river isn't the separating point, only about 200 people live on the Saskatchewan side, vs 5000 in MB, it's kinda like a suburb of Creighton, SK which is like a 5 min drive, or 15 by bike. When those residents dial 911, the services come from Creighton, not Flin Flon, MB.
Also, during the War of 1812, Canadians/British burned the White House and parts of Washington now known as DC.
can confirm you have at least 1 prince edward island fan (me). I used to live in NB, and a fun language fact is that there's something called "Chiac" which is spoken by some Canadians. It essentially sounds like switching between French and English every second word. For example, you might hear "J'ai crossé la street".
New Brunswicker here born and raised! Saint John specifically. We do have bagged milk east of Ontario! Just not west of it. Good getting the fact about us being the only bilingual province, as even locals rarely know that fact! East coasters in general have a reputation; even among Canadians, for being able to drink, work hard, and almost being too nice/polite to strangers. We generally rank among the poorest provinces by most metrics; however, cost of living here has always been very low until the last few years. Hell, 5 years ago you could buy a 4bed/2bath house on a 2 acre lot for under 100k CAD if you didn't mind it being a little older.
We are a very industrial blue collar province, though most young people(at least half of the people I've grown up with) move out west for better opportunities. An oil company named Irving is regarded as "owning the province" because of their monopoly on most of the industry here, and their refinery has been the backbone of my city since it open in the 60's. Our shipbuilding yard closed in 2003, making us more reliant on them. This day in age, they pay next to nothing in taxes because they simply hold the threat of leaving the province. The size of their lumber division alone is a great example of their provincial power; simply look around satellite view of New Brunswick between the cities. You'll be hard pressed to find and large area of forest that's not a park, swampland, or logged. I'm far from an environmentalist, but what they have done to the province is objectively gross. They also conveniently own every news outlet in the province.
Canadaland did a pretty good podcast summarizing the whole situation and it explains it pretty well if anyone is interested in a rabbit hole!
I assume the 'bagged milk' idea is to reduce waste - transfer it to a rigid container at home? As I'm sure you will know - and also Toycat, I'm sure - Brunswick is an anglicism of the German city of Braunschweig. As the Berlin wall was collapsing I travelled to West Berlin from West Germany and our train went through the city overnight. Minutes later we had East German border guards demanding our passports in the middle of the night. Very scary!
I'm not sure about Toycat's maths though - 90% speak English and 45% speak French!
New Brunswick along with Manitoba are the forgotten provinces. BC mountains, Alberta beef and oil, Sask wheat, Ontario is the big one with Toronto, Quebec is the French one, PEI is potatoes, Nova Scotia has harbors and ships, Newfoundland has the Newfies. Only thing Manitoba is perhaps known for is the Mounties. The territories are mostly forgotten too.
Jesus, you’re right. Basically all the land is logged, that’s pretty bad
@@ciqme sorta. If you go anywhere north of miramichi its straight forest on the highways lol
Nice man orginally an NBer you nailed it!! Near SJ too!!!
We do tend to skip letters in "Toronto" but not exactly how you said it. Usually it's the second T that's left out, something close to "Tuhronno", or even "Churonno". Also milk comes in bags in most provinces east of Ontario. Also shocked Waterloo got mentioned LMAO I go to uni there.
A Non-Newfoundlander who says Newfoundland correctly!
I’ve heard people say it “New Finland”, and as a islander my whole life, it pains to hear it said so wrongly.
I don’t even know why this is the hill I die on, the Newfoundland dialect makes everything sound weird (this is as a person who actually speaks proper newfinese)
fun fact: the north of ontario is really french, in fact my town is 95% french speaking!
The Halifax explosion is the largest human-caused non-nuclear explosion. Also it’s the reason Boston gets a Christmas Tree from NS every year (and probably why there are so many Nova Scotia tourism ads in Mass)
For reference, it would take about 250 MOAB's to equal the explosive power of the Halifax Explosion
But it wasn’t peacetime.😊
Not even the M.O.A.B could come close to the Halifax explosion
As a Canadian with British heritage (my Mom moved to Canada with her family from Stafford when she was 11), I found this video quite amusing -- like listening to one of my British cousins trying to explain Canada :) You got it mostly right too. Good job!
Love the British Columbia flag and it has some neat symbolism! The wavy blue and white lines represent the province's location between the Pacific and the Rockies, the Union Jack represents its British heritage, the crown inside the Union Jack represents it becoming a Crown colony and achieving responsible government, and the huge sun refers to the provincial motto Splendor Sine Occasu (splendour without diminishment) suggesting that the sun never sets (on the British Empire). The flag was adopted in 1960 but was based upon the provincial arms adopted in 1906.
And it's Northwest TERRITORIES, not Northwest Territory! Historically the area was called North-Western Territory between 1670 and 1870 before it was divided into different territories such as Northwest Territories. When Northwest Territories entered the Canadian Confederation in 1870, it was made up of it and Nunavut. Nunavut would separate itself to form its own territory in 1999 after the Inuits voted overwhelmingly for it because of a cultural gap between them and the Athabaskan-speaking peoples of Northwest Territories. So even though Nunavut left, it's still called Northwest Territories, but they have considered changing the name briefly in 1996...until pranksters hijacked the process so that BOB would be the winner
I see you everywhere
As a Canadian, here's a quick fun or maybe not so fun fact about Alberta-Saskatchewan-Manitoba:
The 3 provinces have the highest crime if the developed world (discluding the territories), with Thompson in Manitoba having a crime rate of 43k/100k. Even with major cities, Edmonton and Winnipeg still have worse crime than American counterparts such as Detroit and Baltimore; although Calgary is surprisingly good for crime. Some of the worst from these provinces include: Wetaskiwin, Thompson, Lloydminster, North Battleford, Selkirk, Portage-la-Prairie, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Prince Albert, etc etc etc
Main reasons for this?
The drug trade going through the provinces, effects of Residential Schools on the indigenous population, and how remote a lot of cities in each province can get
and before any of yall talk about how I'm some Ontario person getting stuff incorrect, I have been living in Alberta since 2016 and before that I lived in Nova Scotia
Yeah I’m situated in Edmonton and it’s pretty difficult hearing about the crimes we get sometimes. I’m lucky to be in a safe neighbourhood but going out late at night can still be scary.
Can thank the natives for that one
@Cnek That's astonishing, because where I live in California the crime rate (all crimes in a year, divided by total population, multiplied by 100k) is 213/100k. 43k/100k seems hard to deal with. I have a friend near Toronto who's told me similar things. More detectives needed?
Thanks, that was really informative and well-paced 🙂
Prince Edward Island is probably most famous for Ann of Green Gables.
Also for ruining any maps we had to colour in geography
I wanna see a JJ Mccullough reaction to this
We also have milk in bags in Quebec but I feel like it’s becoming less and less popular overtime
Edit : Poutine is not a dessert, it’s a meal you will find on almost every restaurant menu and it can be prepared in almost every way imaginable, but not as dessert
He didn't say poutine was a dessert. He said pudding was a dessert and it would be weird to have poutine for dessert
@@OntarioTrafficMan Thanks for correcting me I was really confused about why he was calling poutine a dessert but it seems I misunderstood his speech
Yukon was big in the gold rush. There are still full abandoned towns there.
In 2007, it was free to cross the bridge to PEI, but cost money ($54CA?) to escape it.
Nothing sounds more German than Saskatchewan. You know you’re a German person if you’re from Saskatchewan. I also know this from experience, I personally have been to Saskatchewan and visited some of my German relatives there. A lot of people with Fleiss as their last name.
the name Saskatchewan originates from an indigenous language, a Cree word. not a German one.
@@Hyphessobrycon thank you for correcting me on this. I was unsure what the name Saskatchewan originated from.
Apparently Final Fantasy VI takes place in Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island is where you use Surf in Johto.
Bro this is a Balkan moment outside of the balkans
Thank you for actually pronouncing Newfoundland properly. Very impressive for a non-Canadian to get this
Poutine coming from the word "pudding" is a theory from an American dictionary. It means mess in French.
French is not restricted to Québec and New Brunswick. There are also a lot of francophone communities in Ontario, as well as other provinces.
Fun fact about Gander, Newfoundland
During the 2001 Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Planes were ordered to stop flying over the USA and most of them had to land in Gander Airport.
The community banded together and helped all the hundreds of stranded people
Fun fact about Yukon:
A seasonal flight operated by German carrier Condor flys here usually every summer. Apparently German people like the Canadian wilderness
Other fun facts: the town of Delhi is actually pronounced "Dell-High". Cambridge is part of Waterloo. And we also have a town called Paris.
Never understood this. A street in Guelph too. India may or may not disagree
@@ffpinc we just have weird names for all sorts of things. Lemme give you a real life example.
My family drove out to "SASKATOON" to my dad. Took us 3 days. We drove up to "TOBERMORY", took the "CHICHIMON FAIRY" across Georgian Bay to the "MANITOULIN Islands"... and we made to the town of "WAWA" the first day. Second day we stopped at a hotel in Winnipeg off a street named "NIAKWA ROAD". And third day we made it to where my dad was in "ASSINIBOIA".
All those places are telling me they're spelt incorrectly... they are not😂 never questioned our names for anything since that trip lmao
Edit* he was in Assiniboia then we drove up to Saskatoon.
@@Ryan-bq5qh understandable, my comment is more about pronunciation than spelling.
@@Ryan-bq5qh There are some cool placenames in Canada, but IMHO nothing tops Medicine Hat!
@@robertcartwright4374 or Tuktayuktuk lol
About the large Anticosti Island belonging to Quebec, well it is geographically closer to the "Côte-Nord" region, geologically and culturally linked to it too I think, plus the "Gaspé" peninsula you noted is also part of the province of Quebec which is the second closest continental point from it, so it only makes sense that Anticosti remain in that province.
And speaking of "Gaspésie", I think it is fair to question its belonging to Quebec, same for the "Îles de la Madelaine" which are closer to all the Maritimes provinces than to Gaspesia :
During the New France era, all the Maritimes area was part of the colony of "Acadie", and I believe the Magdalen Islands and Gaspesia were part of it although almost non-developed by the French then. When Acadia was annexed by the British Empire, dismantled and "French" Acadians deported, some of them relocated to those islands and that peninsula. I guess that, when the "British" Canada you are more familiar with now started to take form, they figure it would be better to merge the Magdalen Islands with Quebec since it was overwhelmingly French speaking, and for Gaspesia, it was more mixed at some point but on a geopolitical standpoint I guess they wanted both shores of the Saint-Lawrence river even down to the estuary to belong to the same province, plus Gaspé being of outmost importance for "French" Canadians historically speaking ...
Plus all of Labrador should obviously be merged with the province of Quebec, no doubt about it ;) ...
Erratum : seems the Anticosti Island is geologically part of the Appalachian moutains system, aligned with Gaspesia and Newfoundland, rather than the Laurentian geological formation on the Northern shores of the Saint-Lawrence river and gulf. We learn something new everyday... but anyway, it is still closer to the "Côte-Nord"
There are also 200 people living on Anitcosti and they all are Québécois. If anything Acadia should join Québec and not Gapsésie that should join Acadia, since while historically it would have been great, today it would just favor assimilation of Gaspésie to English. Acadians should defenitely create their own province so that one day they can legally join Québec or just be their own country. Otherwise they'll assimilate totally. They have a 40% assimilation rate right now :/
Also yes, while it’s not in the center, Winnipeg is the “heart” of Canada. Downtown Winnipeg used to be a really popular place, trains circled back up there, and then travelled to other places
Loved your video! I'm from the original capital of British Columbia (before the Province of Vancouver Island amalgamated with BC). It's a suburb of Vancouver called New Westminster.
I laugh when I write my address, which is Royal Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia. Doesn't get much more British sounding than that
Howdy Neighbour!
Holy shit! I used to live on Royal Ave. in New Westminster!
Hey there neighbour!
@@robertcartwright4374 Are you in New West also?
@@calumashleymcdonough8955 oh yes!
Milk does come in bags in other areas, just isn't as common elsewhere. And for odd accents, try Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. They're seen as quite unusual even to other Canadians. I'll also note that Nova Scotia is the home to the only recognized dialect of Gaelic outside of the UK and Ireland. Nova Scotia and PEI both have red sand, basically the Northumberland Strait between them has a lot of iron. It's lovely, and the red clay is nice, but will stain white clothes.
NB is actually Bilingual mainly because of the Acadians who migrated from France in the 1700s and managed to stay put after the British tried to force them to Lousiana and turn them into Cajuns.
The acadians did not migrate in the 1700s - they actually got expelled in the 1750s, and had already been there relatively isolated and trading and interacting with mikmaq people for well over a century
The British also didn’t force them to Louisiana, they just expelled them and some of them ended up in Louisiana after the Spanish colonial authorities in Louisiana took them in, over which time that group of acadians gradually became known as Cajuns
@@PasteurizedLettuce Yes the Acadians were deported by the british, their property was stolen and many died. You can read the beautiful poem "Evangeline" write in english by Henry W. Longfellow on this subject.
Maybe you didn't pay attention in history class or you weren't taught the subject, I know it was glossed over when I was in school: the Acadians had been in what is now called Nova Scotia since the 1600s. Starting in 1755 and continuing through the 1760s the British deported them in large numbers in what amounts to ethnic cleansing. 30% of them died in the process. The deportees were variously shipped to the Caribbean, some to England, and some to France. The Spanish then offered to resettle them in Louisiana, were they eventually mixed with the local creole creating the Cajun culture. The name Cajun comes from the Acadian pronunciation of "Acadien" which sounded like cah-djien. Eventually some were able to return, but they had to settle in New Brunswick because the British barred them from returning to their homes in what was now called Nova Scotia and where the British had replaced them with British Protestants.
@@PasteurizedLettuce it was unfortunate they aligned with the only natives without guns. didn't end well for either one.
Everyone's sharing fun facts - so here's mine! The 'longitudinal Centre of Canada' is in fact maybe 30min east of Winnipeg! But you're right.. Northwestern Ontario is more west than east.. there's a bridge at Nipigon where any traffic coming from anywhere in Western Canada to anywhere in Eastern Canada MUST cross - there is literally no other land option than this bridge in Nipigon; just east of Thunder Bay. --- So, the geographical East-West centre of Canada, yes, is close to Winnipeg - but the cultural split, I'd say, is just a little east of Thunder Bay at Nipion!
Also. Yay! You mentioned Thunder Bay! That's me hometown!
BC resident here; I died at the pronunciation of Kelowna
Some corrections and amendments:
Most people go to Churchill, Manitoba to see polar bears, not Ontario.
Besides London, Ontario there is also a Paris, Ontario.
Ottawa is only in Ontario. Gatineau is across the river and is a separate city in Quebec. Together they are part of the National Capital Region but each city follows the laws of their province and is not a separate legal entity like Washington, DC in the USA.
Gander is still an important airport, see the musical Come From Away.
Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province that was a separate country (dominion) and we fought in World War 1 as one of the British Dominions. Labrador's borders are based on the watershed a decision made by the UK Privy Council.
About New Brunswick being bilingual, it's because the maritime provinces used to be a french colony, Acadie. It was ceded to Great Britain in 1713 with the Treaty of Utrecht (50 years before what is now Québec was ceded). A lot of Acadians were deported and replaced with british settlers, making the maritimes predominantly anglophone, but the Acadian population in New Brunswick remained significant enough that the province would become officially bilingual. In contrast, French-Canadians largely stayed in Québec after the conquest, and the British that settled the province did so further west, in what is now Ontario.
I live in metro Vancouver (Surrey), and have for the entirety of my life. I just wanted to say three things:
1. Honestly, no one really refers to it as "British Columbia" outside of like formal/official things, I guess. Instead, we mostly just call it BC.
2. Haven't really been in the actual city a lot, but in metro Vancouver (probably Vancouver as well), there is a ton of diversity. Like, I can go walk down the street and I'll hear like 4 or 5 different languages. Where I live is predominantly Indian and Chinese, but there's languages like English (obviously), some French (not nearly as much as in the East, I hear), and a ton of other Asian languages, mostly.
3. No offense, but I've personally never heard someone pronounce Kelowna the way you do. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've also pronounced it Kuh-low-nuh. Maybe it's just the British pronounciation?
It’s kuh-low-na, not kuh-lao-na, you’re right.
I've never heard Kelowna pronounce 'Clowna' either, but I've heard Winnipeg pronounced 'Winniepeg' by Brits. Always weird to hear Brits says 'Canader' when the next word starts with a vowel (7:55 and 11:00) and OnTARRio vs Ontareio
saskatchewan is a hidden gem. we play our province down to keep it to ourselves 😙
The Riders know all about Playing Down - sincerely, a Bombers fan :)
Ok buddy! (Sarcastically) Saskatchewan has literally nothing to do but watch endless Fields of wheat
@@ZACKMAN2007 riiight (sarcastically)… you keep thinking that, buddy! driving down highway 1 or 16 are not the way to see this place! :)
I would really love to see a similar video to this but on Australia
Why? Just to see him make an embarrassing mess of another subject as well?
@@dixonpinfold2582 Yeah
Specifically, the BC Alberta Border (souther twisty bit) is on the great continental divide so Alberta streams end up in the arctic or Hudson’s Bay and BC streams end up in the pacific. There’s even a mountain where the Great and arctic divides intersect where water and snowmelt can flow to three different oceans depending on which slope it sits on (Mt Athabasca)
You got a lot correct, so kudos to you. Small correction: the stereotypical accents are not really from Ontario. The "boot/about" thing for example seems to come from the Scottish heritage, which is much more popular in the east coast of Canada.
There is ZERO reason for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to not be one province
Fun fact- New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were in fact historically what was called Nova Scotia, before that they were called Acadia, and before that they and PEI and some of Maine - and Newfoundland partially) were part of Wabanakiyik or the land of the Wabanaki peoples which was a confederacy of different peoples allied first against incursions from the Haudenosaunee confederacy and then onwards as part of navigating the colonial world.
You must be from Ontario
@@janavanbeelen8489 I wish I was, sadly I'm from Brooklyn NY
@@TwoMorningPoops That's worse
Imagine being Canadian
quick correction: 8:14 it's not only in ontario, but outside of ontario it's more common to use cartons/jugs than to use bags
As to the highway numbers, each province sets it according to their own scheme. The Trans Canada Highway in New Brunswick is route 2 because route 1 basically connects with route 1 in Maine (so much so that there’s a rotary in Maine with signs that points different directions that both say route 1 lol)
Canadian here! I'm a Calgarian, sadly it is very true about alberta being the texas, but the diversity here is insane within the big city's, our top three most spoken languages are English, Panjabi, and hindu. A small correction on the pronunciation of Kelowna think of it like {Cole own a} and sask is definitely real but insanely boring not much todo, but there is a lot of free will there like you wont get in trouble for going on privet space in the open fields, people are definitely silent judgers there and a highly religious province but very friendly people, a lot of older generations and family lines stay within the province. But its my favorite province for sunrises and sunsets the full 360 few of the sky and flat lands are really cool, and the small population means not to much light pollution, so the stars and night sky there is pretty insane, as well as the northen lights are pretty visible from there too.
open fields?? you'll sure get a LOOK and a stance and a bearing that looks like some Idahoan wiht unlimited ammo.
I also perhaps feel familiarity to Canada since Canada has it's own Northern Peoples (please educate me - I need to study more of Canada. It's to large and we never here much from it. Europe is so dense and messy...). In Finland, the northern part is called Lapland - it has it's own people and language (Sami), it's own parliament and own culture that spans to Norway and Sweden.
Is Canada similar in this respect?
Kinda. It's more complicated because there are Natives everywhere in Canada, not just in the North, but we can draw parallels between the Inuit and Sami people, I'm sure. Just like the Sami culture crosses the borders of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the Inuit culture crosses the borders of the territories and provinces, as well as some international borders (Alaska, Greenland). The natives in general, including the Inuit, have their own decision-making processes, which I think depend on the nations themselves, and they negotiate with the federal government. It's far from being sunshine and roses, though, a lot of the time. It's better than it used to be, but there's still work to do.
The Inuit are a bit special among the natives for two reasons : 1. They came to North America after everyone else (I mean, excluding Europeans of course) 2. They mostly live in the territories, and can even form majorities there, especially in Nunavut. The territories have their own parliaments/assemblies, so the Inuit can more easily self-govern than most Native peoples. The territories have fewer rights than the provinces, though, so there's that to keep in mind.
Were the cutoffs on purpose? 🥴
What do you think?
So I live just outside of Caledonia, and have family just outside of Waterloo, most of our towns were named by the first settlers to the area, so with that being said, and most of our original settlers were British, or Western European, it tends to make a lot o sense as to why towns and cities are named what they are, and usually sheds some light on the history of the original town and it’s settlers.
Even to this day a lot of those European sounding towns will have a large population of people from that country and the old world roots are usually kept alive to some extent.
Caledonia for example has a huge Scottish and Dutch population.
Probably the only exception to this, and oddly enough you mentioned this town in the video, is Delhi, (we pronounce it as “Dell-High”) Delhi has a large German and Hungarian population, not a Indian population like you’re lead to believe.
Also another fun fact, Kitchener was named Berlin before WW1, and changed their name for obvious reasons, and still has a massive German/ Slavic/ Serbian population to this day. Kitchener also holds the largest annual Oktoberfest celebration outside of Germany still to this day.
Much of the boundary line between Quebec and Newfoundland-and-Labrador follows the drainage divide between the rivers going to Hudson Bay and the rivers going to the Atlantic Ocean.
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just some extra fun facts:
we have a saying, "worst case Ontario" and it is quite accurate
Letterkenny is filmed and based on a town in southern Ontario, near London, and Trailer Park Boys is based on and in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Both of those are shockingly accurate depictions of different parts of Canadian life.
Letterkenny? That's a place in Ireland - Donegal I think? Is there a Canadian town?
@@rogink The show is based on a fictional town. But there is a mostly abandoned town in Eastern Ontario called Letterkenny. It's in Renfrew County south of Killaloe.
@@rogink The real Letterkenny is a neighbouring town to Quadeville where
Al Capone and his gang had a cottage hideout during his bootlegging days.
The burning of the White House was retribution for the Yanks burning down York (today’s Toronto).
Delhi, Ontario is NOT pronouced deli, but rather del-high. Most people outside the coutry make that mistake.
I like that you showed the windmill palm, I see them everywhere, they should be the official city tree of Vancouver
Just some observations as a resident Canadian who has lived and worked all over the country. :)
- Local pronunciation of "Toronto" isn't just to skip syllables, we just don't say the last T and it becomes Torono. Similarly, Albertans often don't pronounce the 2nd A in "Calgary" so it becomes "Calgry."
- You can find bagged milk in Ontario and most provinces east of it, except Newfoundland.
- The overly exaggerated Canadian accent tends to be rural Ontario. Most people in Toronto don't speak like that at all.
- Apart from Quebec and New Brunswick, you will find pockets of bilingual cities all over Canada, even in Alberta.
- Regarding French in New Brunswick, the Atlantic provinces have a long history as the French colony Acadia. After France lost this colony many Acadians wouldn't swear allegiance to the Britain so they were exiled but were later allowed to return, settling in areas such as New Brunswick (the province with the most Acadians today). It's not so much French speakers spilling over from Quebec into New Brunswick, they have a separate history.
- We have 2 other major banks named after places: TD (named after Toronto), and BMO (named after Montreal).
A beach in British Columbia is *much* colder than a beach in California.
(It's also becoming more Chinese than British.)
Lol it's probably more Punjabi and Chinese than British
Toycat talking about Canada is one of my favourite things
"That's it back to Winnipeg" a quote from the Simpson's that lives in my head lol
Vast majority of settlers in southern Ontario were Scott, Irish, English and German (lots of Mennonites) and place names reflect that - Chepstow, Hanover, York, Berlin (changed to Kitchener during WW1 after death of Lord Kitchener), Paisley, London, etc. And Newfoundland joined Canada March 31, 1949 for the record.
I love the shape of Ontario, it's a beautiful whale!
It really is!
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Here in Edmonton, it’s not uncommon for the temperature to drop to -50°C with the windchill 😃👍 (😭)
As a Canadian, I approve this video. You got a pretty good handle of Canada
Prince Edward Island is noted for Anne of Green Gables and Spuds (potatoes) , as well as lobsters and sandy beaches
As a Canadian from Ontario I found it extremely offensive that he had the gall to inform the world that the rest of Canada doesn't like Alberta, implying that they're ashamed of it, that it doesn't belong in Canada, etc. Who does he think he is? Appalling ignorance and presumption.
And his little hipster GenZ buddies might be anti-American, but they don't speak for all Canadians. What a 🤡💩.
alberta worst province confirmed
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Its definitely Ontario but whatevs'
@@PaulRudd1941 yea u right lol
Alberta, BC, Quebec are all S tier despite being quite different.
PEI is A tier
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Sask are all B tier.
Newfoundland and Manitoba are C tier
Ontario, is of course, F tier 🤮
@@HeavyMetalorRockfan9 Quebec is S+ bro, American, but big fan of those francophones
8:40 I spent my high school days in Stratford and London, Ontario before spending my final year in Toronto. (the area code '519' areas) Stratford is a small but a big city in the region at about 20,000. Yes the name comes from the British city of Stratford so the Canadian counterpart also named its river "Thames" and the Canadian Stratford is also famous for its Shakespearean plays, which attracts lots of American tourists(particularly from Michigan across the border) during the summer. It is a beautiful small city especially down by riverside in downtown Stratford with lots of romantic memories of mine as well. Although I moved out of Stratford much earlier, Justin Bieber is a Stratford native.
London is a much bigger city and I don't know if it's just me, but the city center is located quite exactly in the middle with the two main streets also dividing the city crossing each other in downtown, as well as four shopping malls located on four edges, I feel like the city is divided into four sections. I lived in two locations within the city, one nearby King's College and another by Westminster Secondary(actually, closer to a French school Ecole Frere Andre). The city is well known for University of Western Ontario but I think the rest is relatively boring. Except for the four big shopping malls on each side of the city, the entire remainder, even its downtown is quite boring.
13:20 During my senior year in high school, I went on a field trip to Ottawa and we stayed at a hostel in Gatineau, the twin city of Ottawa on Quebec side. I was 18 at the time and under their regulations I was able to legally drink(while in Ontario the drinking age was 19), which was a fun memory. Except for the fact that it took us 10 hours drive ONE WAY to reach Ottawa, which is still Ontario.
Speaking of weather in Ontario, -30 Celsius is a norm during peak winter and another norm, one foot of daily snow is far short from closing schools down. Trust me, I have never seen my school close down ONCE due to heavy snowfall during all those years, which I have experienced up to 2 feet of snow just overnight. First snow of the year falls in September, from November snow does not completely melt before another snowstorm hits so whatever that lies below snow cannot be discovered until thawing in April next year. Igloos? Yes I have made them but it takes shorter time to just dig up plowed snow on the corner of a parking lot which eventually reaches like 10 feet high. Anyways, the famous Leamington Point is the souternmost Canada and surprisingly has many breeds of plants that wouldn't be able to survive in typical Ontario weather.
One last thing I want to mention is, that Canada converted from imperial units to metric in the late 70s, so people at my parents' age heavily used imperial units when I grew up(in late 30s now). So people at my age use(or at least are very accustomed to) a mixture of two units. For vehicle speeds and distance, we used metric because all the road signs and speedometers use metric. For height and weight, we used imperial.
is prince edward island even an island considering it's connected to a highway, north america and south america are considered seperate continents because the panama canal split them apart, so this would be the reverse.
couple of comments:
1. the more native way of pronouncing toronto is "tronno" (where the first o makes an "ah" sound)
2. we actually have bagged milk in other provinces, but it is definitely not that commonly used
3. the funny canadian accent is kind of found everywhere to be honest, though it varies across provinces. e.g. newfies have a very distinctly strange dialect
4. the quebec side of the ottawa river is actually its own city called gatineau, though it does obviously have a lot of ties to ottawa
5. I also find the shape of ontario and quebec to be very weird
6. the bilingualism is quite possibly the only interesting thing about new brunswick
7. nova scotia is also famous for digby scallops, but indeed our lobster rolls are good :)
8. halifax explosion was the largest man-made explosion prior to nukes
9. I live in halifax and didn't know you visited! hope you had fun
10. for some reason scotiabank has branches in a ton of countries that are not canada
11. there are a lot of beaches on PEI with red sand, but thunder cove is the most interesting one I've been to
12. the confederation bridge costs $50 to cross and I think that's a crime against humanity
13. PEI are mostly famous for potatoes
14. sable island is extremely far off from the coast but is considered part of nova scotia (the city of halifax even) and I find that funny
15. "I don't know what's going on in Labrador, must be some fun stuff" hahahahaha, no
16. people come to yukon for much the same reason they'd go to alaska. fun winter activities and northern lights and all that
17. if you want to see snowy streetview coverage, put the yellow guy in iqaluit
18. far as i'm aware the turks and caicos merger has no steam whatsoever
19. canadian postal codes go X0X 0X0 where X is a letter and 0 is a number
20. i am a cool canadian and I did enjoy this video!
Thanks for doing a video on Canada! A cool fact that most people wouldn't know is that the original Vancouver is actually between the States of Washington and Oregon on the Columbus River. This was back when The British and Americans joinly controlled the Cascadia Region and it was settled back in 1846 as the Oregon Treaty. The Modern City of Vancouver was first built around the time of the Canadian Confederation in 1867
For some odd reason if you look at the northern most point where newfoundland and labrador and quebec meet, you will see that nunavut owns part of the islands up there. Its quite strange to think quebec and nunavut border each other despite being sperated by the hudson strait.
NEVER EVER expected to see my little town show up on one of your videos 🎉
Pense SK FTW!!!
I had no idea there were plans of having the Turks and Caicos join Canada
Not gonna happen.
This guy knows more about Canada than any American that I have ever spoken to...
He also knows more about America than any Canadian to whom I have ever spoken. What is your point?
Sums up Manitoba beautifully. In and out, a couple sentences is all you need. Very on brand.
Good job editor, good music choices.
Or maybe toycat did it, not sure
Yep definitely never seen milk in a bag until I went to Ontario from Alberta. Seems majorly inconvenient and messy
It’s not, at all
Albarta actually doesn't have a bad rep. They've had an huge influx of fellow canadians relocating there due to their better tax rates, relatively relaxed covid restrictions, and it's one of the few places where you can avoid some of the harmful/controversial Far-left federal policies.
The problem is that people think they know other areas of CANADA and can speak for it. Then someone like this believes it. Newfoundland is a prime example. Alberta’s “bad” rep is another. “Smug” ontarians etc. Canadians just need travel more.
I find it funny that we're called super American when Ontario feels way more American to me
@Abiril the Archer I agree. Alberta has the mountains, wilderness, and everything good that we stereotypically associate with Canada. Ontario, more specifically, southern Ont. basically revolves around Toronto, which just feels like a discount New york.
@@caelanrileyfriesen3659 exactly my thoughts. Only part of Ontario that had unique vibes was Kingston
@Abiril the Archer yeah, exactly. Kingston is a college town, it's pretty fun there.
the cuts are gold
*YEAH!* Do this style of video more! I'd love to see one about my country (germany) but also any other you can come up with, Europe or not.
As a Finn I feel close to Canada, though I've not visited there. The big cities look gorgeous (better than the US ones which I have visited/worked in - sorry) My god-mother lives in Toronto so there is that😄
Let's do an exchange! I would love to visit Finland.
@@davidreichert9392 What do you mean - exchange?
Apparently you have no appreciation for things like museums, because the ones in the USA blow the Canadian ones away.
@@toms5996 You come here and I go to Finland!
@@SilvanaDil what an odd stance lol
we do, in fact, also have cool museums!
Not bad for a non-Canadian! Mostly correct even. I live in the Yukon (the Klondike) which had the biggest gold rush in the world. People still mine gold here - mining, and tourism are why we exist. And, where I live is the coldest place on the planet about a dozen times of the year. Our temperature range is around -55C to +30C or so. It can change by 30 degrees in a single day! I figure the cold either kills you, or cures you. We have all sorts of people who retire here, most living to ripe old ages.
Aha nice to see a Canadian video!! As a resident I still learn a lot about this massive country
The SK drinking age was 18 back in the 70's. It did not work out well. Too many high school kids, myself included, would have the more than occasional nooner and disrupt class all afternoon. And the drinking and driving was legendary. Lasted less than a year.
Part of the reason flights are expensive into SK is that the demand is rather low.
As an Albertan, I always try to give some love to Saskatchewan. It is treated like a shitty backwater, but it isn't the worst place in the world, it's certainly better than other places in Canada. It has a decent amount of economic opportunity. They have a pretty large agricultural sector and they mine ungodly amounts of uranium, and Saskatchewan is one of the largest producers of potassium fertilizer in the world.