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As an American I can attest to the fact that some of us believe some pretty crazy things about Canada. Today I want to learn about the funniest things that people around the world actually believe about Canada. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
You don’t have to visit Scandinavian countries to find the midnight sun. We have plenty of that here in the Northern territories.
Yes, anything north of the Arctic Circle at 66.5° N will have midnight sun. Or if you’re counting twilight as still being lit by the sun, anything north of 48.5°
You don't even have to be that far north, 2/3's the way up the western 4 province's the sun skims the horizon with atleast a 3rd of it poking out.
Yellowknifer here, and we have the day of the midnight sun on aboriginal day in June. You can go golfing at 4am on our unique golf course made of sand. Everything is sand except the green. You carry a square of grass that you use to shoot until you reach the green...Winters are long and terrible. Sometimes,we reach -50+.🥶🥶🥶 Summer are awesome. You could be downtown and after a 15mins drive you are out of town in complete wilderness and under a hour,you find a spot and you already fishing. We are surrounded by lakes and rivers....but only downside is the mosquitoes 🦟 ...they are crazy around here.🤪🤣
@@actarus8564 crazy AND huge! Lol
24 days of night movie 😅
Celcius and Farenheit meet at minus 40. They are the same at that temperature.
Intersect would be more Accurate, as at Lower Temps they once again Diverge
Celsius
catherinemori4496 Centigrade, which is what Anders Celsius called it.
He doesn't care. He's done over a thousand videos on countries that all use the metric system. He doesn't care enough to learn.
@@daerdevvyl4314 100 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level. Freezing is 0C-32F.
The first time I went to Paris in 1995 (I was 23 years old) when I was in a Taxi, the men saw that I was from Québec and started talking about us living with Indians (natives were called that in the days) and living in igloos... I told him that in Canada, you could only become a man if you killed a wolf with your bare hands at the age of 18... His face was priceless
such a good story, thanks for sharing!
Canadian gamer: I gotta take a break, my wall is melting, gotta fix the igloo, brb!
No joke, as a kid the native family that lived behind us always had something drying or smoking and one time asked what they had going on over there. That time they were smoking beaver and offered some to my father and I. Guess what? We got a piece of the tail which was super greasy but oh my was the flavor ever good.
Even some of the stranger stereotypes can be true to an extent. Although my Dad one time pulled a good one on a couple of Australians. He had offered to guide them around our neck of the woods in Northern BC and before heading out had a bbq dinner outside. While eating a hummingbird flew by which startled one of them and they asked what that was as they had barely seen it fly by. To which without skipping a beat my Dad replies "Oh, those are our mosquitos". The look of horror on their faces 😂
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Good one😂
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and then there are our horror stories about our massive horseflys
Yeah no that is a real thing Beaver Tail like actual beaver tail it's actually pretty good tough but good,
Who's gonna tell him you don't have to go to Scandinavia to see the midnight sun?
When the internet was first accessible, anyone we met online asked if we have dog sleds and live in igloos. That was almost 30 years ago now. I can’t believe this is still a question.
I was also on the internet in the early days, and I had a story prepared if I was ever asked by an American if Canadians live in igloos, but I wasn't. I was going to tell them that the skydome in Toronto was our national igloo, and that we had to parachute off the CN tower to get into it. 😅
It's because so many Americans are so ignorant and many us Canadians can't help ourselves but to tell them fairytales
@@ResinEssenceByCheri I remember playing custom games of Warcraft 3 online with people and when people found out I was Canadian I would end up convincing them that I was playing inside my igloo, with an extension cord stretching down to Seattle. And that I could only play for another hour or so since I would have to pass the plug onto my neighbour as we only had the one extension cord for the entire village.
Sometimes I would continue to make the story more and more unbelievable to try and get them to stop taking it seriously, like say I need to go out and club a seal for supper after the game so I may be afk for a little bit.
If they kept going I would eventually break out the need to chase off the penguins from my igloo because if they still believed me when I talked about North American penguins then they were hopeless.
you question their education? HA
And we own a Cadillac, apparently? 😅
The best part is Ottawa is at 45 degrees N latitude and London, England is at 51 degrees N latitude. This means London is actually closer to the midnight Sun than Ottawa. 🤦🏻♀️
Yup. We're actually farther south than many European capitals.
Right now, the Northern Sky Never gets really Dark at night, and I am at between 53 and 54 degrees N. Have taken many Night Time Skyline shots of my City, and even a 1am, the Northern Skyline is Blue
Problem is Ottawa is in a valley so we get colder temps.
My first thought was, Ottowa isn't North of 49° is it? Thanks for confirming that for me!!😂😂
@@bhalliwell739
That is a Plus
My mother was a tour guide in Niagara in the 80s. She once hade to give directions to a clothing store to family who walked over the bridge from New York because they didnt pack any summer clothes. In July…
They walked over the bridge and thought the weather changed as soon as they crossed the border? 🤦♀️
@@andreanne8228 Pathetic isn't it? Thinking there is an invisible shield that prevents a border state from having the EXACT same weather 2 steps away.
@@calebminor6661
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@@mw-wl2hm we live in a snow globe 😂
Beaver tail has been eaten by natives for almost 2000 years and was eaten by European settlers during frontier days and was a source of fat.
In fact eating beaver was so common in the early European contact days that the Catholic Church declared it not a mean and was permissible to eat on Fridays when Catholics are supposed to refrain from eating meat (a tradition that also caused McDonald's to create the Filet O'Fish).
We’re from just east of Toronto so definitely not the worst winter weather in Canada. One February I took my wife and daughter to Florida for vacation. We were fully acclimated to winter temps at home and landed in Florida during a ‘cold snap’. It was 60*F in Orlando in the morning and the local radio was full of warnings to dress warmly in layers. We went out the door ready for a long day at Disney dressed in shorts and t-shirts knowing it would warm up. The locals dressed in thick coats looked at us like we were aliens until we said “Sorry, we’re Canadian” You could see the “Oh, that explains it” thought pop into their minds! We got a good laugh from this several times that week.
Same thing at the beach. Everyone in the water is Canadian. Compared to putting the dock in the lake in May Florida is always warm.
The craziest thing about Alberta is that not only does it get crazy cold in the winter, it can also get oppressively hot in the summer!
Where I grew up in Northern Alberta we had one year (2002 I believe) where a February storm dropped the temp to -45C and -60C with the windchill. Then we were hit with a heatwave in mid-June where the temp was +45C and +52C with the humidity factor, that's enough of a difference to almost boil water from freezing.
well the Canadian record is till Lytton BC at 49.6C
In the middle of January a client representative for a product we used came from the USA to give us a vendor demo. It was the coldest day of the year, about -45C with ice fog. His taxi dropped him off at the campus bus terminal where he phoned me to come get him.
Most of the buildings on campus are connected by walkways and tunnels. I wanted to get there quickly so instead of going the long way around I took a ten foot short cut where I had to go outside and come in through the main doors.
What the freezing client rep bundled in his parka saw was a Canadian in a T-shirt and sandals entering the building from -45C weather to meet him.
I love reinforcing stereotypes.
thats such a funny imagery.
Tyler, we have 24 hours of daylight right here in Canada too. In Nunavut and the Yukon. 🌞
And ummm Alaska which is part of the USA so you’d think they’d know this lol
You forgot the North West Territories.
Haudenosaunee here I teach on a remote fly in reserve in ontarios far north we do not get that quite like that but it will get dark at 11pm n start getting light by 3am so most provinces in some areas will get the midnight sun or close to it
@markmiller4609 Heck, I am in Saskatoon and around the longest day of the year in June, the sun sets about 10:30 and rises by about 3:30. I don't even think of us as that far north.
In my province, block heaters are mandatory to come on all new vehicles
If you're driving the mountain roads in BC, you're obliged by law to carry tire chains in your vehicle.
@@michaeldowson6988 as they are anywhere in Quebec
@@michaeldowson6988 not true, it is winter tire and M+S tires required, chains arent part of the equation.
M+S stands for mud and snow, but are actually quite a lot worse than actual winter tires, made of a different rubber compound, with different tread made for ice and snow. Mud and snow tires are knobby for mainly snow and mud, not ice though, which is dangerous. My $9,000 front end damage says so at Roger's pass when they closed the highway and i couldnt stop and rammed a semi truck from behind.
My buddy moved to Vancouver from Saskatoon when we finished University and of course with his fancy new job, he went to buy a new car. I was shocked to find out the Lower Mainland a block heater isn't standard. He actually had to request one with it (since he assumed he would drive back to Saskatoon from time to time). Now I don't remember when I bought my new vehicle a few years ago whether I paid extra for it, but it wasn't something I had to ask for in Alberta.
I was visiting some friends in California at US Thanksgiving one year and mentioned that Canadian Thanksgiving was in October. My lovely hostess asked me very seriously when “Canadian Christmas” was.
@@paulabeard9063 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇨🇦
About a dozen years ago I went to New Jersey from Toronto. I went to a friend's house party and were chatting up American people. I spun an entire narrative for them that they bought fully. I was a lumberjack who lived in downtown Toronto. I took the subway for 10 minutes and was in the wilderness chopping trees! Sometimes I would take a taxi to Alberta for lunch. I rented out my igloo in August. 😂
laughing
I hope you warned them about the snow snakes too.
@@valwhelan3533 Of course. Also the great furry northern mosquito! 4 Can carry off a calf.
@b delphi-moochymaker62
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I lived in Windsor, ON and we often heard stories about Americans arriving at the border and being bewildered by the fact that there was no snow in July as they were coming to skiw with skis on the roof.
I saw that myself here in Quebec many years back. Even worse though were antique dealers from Texas showing up in winter with summer tires on their truck and trailer. Didn't end well.
Yes saw that when we waiting to cross the border back into Canada through Niagara Falls. The guys in line in front of us got out to put winter sweaters on and pants over shorts. Then were being questioned by customs, we heard them telling the gaurd that they had skiis on their roof so they the could go skiing in Toronto. This was August! Sheesh, do your research. Where did they expect to stay when they got there?
The Canadian Geese are in a jolly mood when they are in the U.S. Because they they are on vacation. Also they are too tired from the flight to fight back. You know crossing those time zones and flight lag can mellow you out.
And they aren't protecting babies when they are down south.
I live in the Yukon, and I have a block heater, a transmission warmer, a battery blanket, and an oil pan heater that all get plugged in so I can start when it gets to minus 50 Celsius. Usually it works,...
Usually.... 😅 (hello, fellow Yukoner)
I was told by my mechanic once that all cars in north american come with built in block heaters however most americans dont know about it since the cord in usually hidden away in the firewall
@@markmiller4609Maybe the North American manufacturers. But my buddy bought a Honda a number of years ago in Vancouver and he had to ask to have a block heater in it. So it isn't standard on Hondas at least and I am guessing a lot of imports. Granted Hondas aren't exactly imports since I think they have plants in the States.
You guys can keep that temp up there. We only have the block heaters at best in Alberta.
Lived in Edmonton. Husband went into garage to unplug and start the car. Came in with a little snow on his work boots to wait for truck to warm up. Stepped outside and the melted snow froze his boots to the cement.
If you want to know what a typical mid-winter day is like in Western Canada spend a couple hours in a walk-in freezer. Those are typically around -20C. On the really cold days here it can get below -40C.
For me when walking the 4 Km to work each day:
-10C to 0C I wear a windbreaker jacket with a hoodie underneath. If it is icy, I wear “bear claws” on my boots (rubber attachments with metal spikes to assist in traction)
-20C to -10C I wear my parka, also usually with the hoodie plus a toque, scarf and some gloves with thinsulate insulation. Also good insulated winter boots, preferably with anti-slip.
-30C to -20C I add some workman’s quilted pants and switch from gloves to leather snow mobile mittens so my fingers are together for warmth and not separate
-40C to -30C I add a balaclava over my face and if really windy ski goggles to keep the wind out of my eyes.
Below -40C I may add some electronic hand or sock warmers.
The advantage in western Canada is it can get cold enough to instantly freeze your eyelashes together, but it is not usually humid, so the cold doesn’t penetrate your clothing. That’s one advantage winter has over summer. In winter you can always put on more layers and stay comfortable. In summer, there is a limit to how many layers you can take off … ;-)
Here In Ontario, it is legal for women to go topless
@@palladini9718 ok?
@@palladini9718I doubt they do that in the winter. It is legal Canada wide for women to go topless. But in the summer that doesn't help. Unlike winter where you can keep putting layers on, in summer once you are naked that is it. Nothing more you can remove to cool down.
Hey Tyler it's really easy: -40°C is -40°F, the point where Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal. 0°C is 32°F, the freezing point. 10°C is 50°F. 16°C is 61°F. 20°C is 68°F, room temperature. 32°C is 90°F. 38°C is 100°F. And 100°C is 212°F, the boiling point of water. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
I was once asked if there were buildings in Saskatchewan. I said no and walked away.
My Dad grew up in New Zealand and when i was about 6 i asked if they lived in straw huts; thats what your comment reminded me of.
Of course we don't have buildings here. Nor running water, paved roads, or electricity (seriously my Dad's friend from Oklahoma asked when he was invited to come visit us one summer).
They have those dedicated heating things (to make sure your car starts) in Alaska too!
Electric block heater.
block heater?
True fact re Canada:
On Canada Day 2024, the most advanced planes flying over Ottawa were F-35s.
To whom did they belong? Who flew them?
The Vermont National Guard
Obviously the most advanced planes flying over any country are military planes. Thank you USA for looking after us!
We judge cold off of whether or not it is "freezing temperature" 0°C at which point water will freeze. So anything above zero ia "nice" and anything below zero is cold. Of course there's personal preference thrown in but that's a good base to think of.
And it depends on the time of year, too. 12°C in the fall feels really cold, but 12°C in the spring feels almost tropical.
@@autumnsylverExactly. It also seems to feel warmer when there is snow as opposed to no snow. I hate those October days where it dips below 0°C but there isn't snow yet. It feels so much colder than a few weeks later when there is snow on the ground.
The difference between fall and spring temperatures I think is the position of the sun. In the fall it is moving south of the equator, in the spring it moving north of the equator. Thus, spring is artificially warmed by the sun being closer to us. It is why when you leave your car in the sun, the temperature on the dash reads something utterly ridiculous in the summer. I think mine once told me it nearly 60°C after sitting out in the sun in the parking lot at work all day. I think it was really only 35°C out though.
In some regards you are right Alyson. But it also depends on what you are doing. I am a football fan and let me tell you sitting out in 5°C weather for three hours is not "nice." You are frozen by the end of the game. Granted I am also the crazy person that went to the University football title game with nearly 13,000 of my closest friends when it was -40°C and had a wind chill. Most fun I ever had at a game (and no I wasn't drinking) and most clothes I have ever worn in my life. I forget how many pairs of pants I had on and how many layers I had on my top half.
It was so cold that at halftime they opened up the indoor track facility next to the stadium and all 13,000 crammed in there. I wear glasses and my classes fogged up the second I walked into the building and did not unfog the entire halftime. Worst part of that experience, the Saskatchewan Huskies didn't win.
I'm in Northern Canada (below the territories) and in Summer, the sun doesn't really set. It gets kinda dark but you can still see light on the horizon. In the winter, we only get about 5 hours of sunlight
🇨🇦 FYI. Canada geese is the species no matter what country the live in. Canadian geese are any species of geese that are born in Canada. 😀❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦…LOTS of Canadians make this error as well!!!❤️
This past winter here in AB where I live it was down to -66 without the windchill!!
Really? GIven that the current cold record temp in Canada is -62.8 and the coldest AB temp ever recorded is -61, I wonder how where you lived didn't make the record books? 🙄
I just watched a video from a year ago.
Maple water isn’t maple syrup added to water. The sap that comes from trees is like water and it’s cooked down to make the syrup you all know. People just drink the water similar to coconut water.
Cars sold in Canada all have block heaters. They are very necessary.
No they aren't. I never needed a block heater in southern ON nor BC. Had never even heard of them till I moved to the prairies.
If it doesn't regularly get down to -20 or colder on a regular basis in winter, you won't need one
@incensejunkie7516 My bad then. I live on the prairies, and i've literally never seen a car without a block heater. Why would that even be allowed?
You’re not Canadian are you? The only block heaters in BC are vehicles that moved from the Prairies or Eastern Canada. 🇨🇦
Not needed in Vancouver
@kyesnana I am Canadian, born in New Brunswick. I have been in most of Canada. I've never been in BC outside of the summer, though.
I wish it was always cold in Canada, I hate summer.
nooooooo, Air Conditioning is so good. and i like sun
I like the summer, winter is okay. But when the temperature gets down to -60°C with the windchill, as it did this winter in Saskatoon, I would gladly take California or Florida weather.
Fun fact: there are Indigenous people called the Inuit that live in the northern and snowy parts of Canada, and they sometimes build igloos for shelter but do not LIVE in them on a regular basis. I had a teacher who taught in a northern community where it's snowy and cold and they live in trailers and rely on heaters to keep warm. I think it would be very cool to build an igloo and try to live in it though lol
Fun until a Polar bear comes and smashes it in to eat you
Haudenosaunee here some people still think we live in longhouses Tipis or Wigwams
@@markmiller4609 and you should try to convince them that you have utilities and basements in them. Have fun with it.
@@jasonlauritsen5587Just give the polar bear a bottle of Coke and he will be on his way.
Most Northern communities in the Territories have typical houses. Due to the permafrost, they don't have basements though. But the homes and businesses look very similar to your typical home in Newfoundland. Some may live in trailers, but that is uncommon from what I have seen. I will admit I have never been up there. But I have friends from up there who have shown me pictures and videos and of course I watched shows like Rick Mercer Report and that comedy show that goes to random small towns and is half a stand up show and half a documentary about the town on CBC.
Ahhh😂😂😂 -40c well the water in your eye start to (feels like) your eyes are freezing solid. But, I love it that cold for a short periods of time. 😂🇨🇦
That Winter Wonderland idea about Canada here in the US probably comes from so many kids watching the Rankin Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer special every holiday season.
Please copy/paste "Ashcroft Canada weather".
Look at its week long forecast...You will see just how hot that part of Canada can get!
OMG 44 tomorrow!?!? We’re not getting anywhere near that here in Ottawa… Stay safe!
@@andreanne8228 I LOVE surprising Americans with Canadian weather (that goes completely against their expectations). Even many Canadians are surprised with some of my weather facts!
I was in Detroit which is across from Windsor Ontario and an American asked me if we lived in igloos and I was like look over there across the water what do you see, they're like high rise buildings and what is over there? I don't know Windsor im like yeah thats Windsor Ontario Canada thats why you need a passport to go over the ambassador bridge or through the tunnel lol do you see igloos over there, no ! No i didn't make them believe but made them realize their stupidity. Sorry not you Tyler and not all Americans aren't that dumb but those two guys were! Sorry but they were
There was one year when a Canadian goose made a nest near the House of Commons in Ottawa. It would attack every politician who entered the building. Too frigging funny!
"In some parts of the world and at certain times of the year, they get 24 hours of Sun" Oh my giddy aunt! It's like he has no clue when or where!
The Inuit used igloos when travelling between hunting grounds, not on a permanent basis. Nowadays many of the younger generation aren't well skilled in building one.
I spent 4 years exploring much of northern Alberta and never saw the Northern Lights; I only ever saw them when in the St Lawrence Valley and at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy.
When near Jasper in the peak of summer, the sky was only dark between about 11:30 pm to 3:00 pm. I live in Vancouver on the border with the US, and at peak summer first light is around 4 am and total darkness about 10pm. Vancouver & Victoria have year round temperatures somewhat comparable to the Northern Adriatic Sea, such as in Trieste.
I live in northern BC now.And yes, we plug in our cars when it gets to be about minus 15 Celsius.We plug it into the plug on the outside of our house that you would plug your lawn mower into or at work , they have little posts in the parking lot at the parkimg spots. You plug into those. Some business's have them too
There is a King now, but not him. LOL
no no no king,,, only in England.......
@@jackjrousselThat is our king too... We're part of the Commonwealth
@@user-xj9vf4xb9p He's kind of our king, but not really. He doesn't have any power here.
@@autumnsylver His power here is vested in the Governor General. But he can, while visiting Canada, sit in the GG's place.
@@autumnsylver Technically that's not true actually
I've plugged my car in when it goes really low
I think Canadians have a universal language. Sarcasm. Its tempting to fall back on when you work in tourism especially. So many assumptions or general misinformations on canada. At this point i am unsure if we have done it to ourselves with the sarcasm or we just dont really register on any scale for others to pay attention to us. We are after all like americas hat.
That the frost shields on our car side windows were bullet proofing. 😂
As a Canadian, born and raised, I can assure you that -35 to -40 temperatures are not at all uncommon, though they do only occur once or twice a year on average during the deep winter months. Those are the days when your breath actually freezes on your face as you walk along. Fun stuff!
In regards to starting your car in the morning, you need to plug them in at night (Canadian cars are usually equipped with block heaters that you can plug in at night to prevent the engine from seizing up).
You may have heard this..... a Canadian bartender in Florida never got tips from a constant US customer. At the end of the season, he stopped her from wrecking the "double-mint" or Wriglies 'Spearmint' gum wrappers, saying in Canada we use them as MONEY. Next year she had BAGS full to exchange for CASH! Too bad that guy now worked in a different Hotel.
I was 17 went to Boston from Montréal to visit a pen pal it was August as soon as we got in her moms car she asked see how tall some of our buildings are what do you think ? I answered “ omg 😱 people really go up that high? Then said I’d be afraid with all the weight of the people the building would fall? Where I live no buildings that high finally got to her house she and her friends started asking me questions 🤦♀️ ! Like did you buy shorts summer clothes from a catalog before for you came ? I answered “yes 🤣 told them my dad will meet me at the bus station when I go home as he will have my winter coats 🧥 boots ect , then they asked what’s it’s like to live in a igloo 🙄 I said well the hard walls of snow are good insulation plus we have oils Lamps , I also told that went in a long flat bottom boat and went to kill a whale for supper and other things then jaws were down to the floor 🤣🤣🤣🤣! Then I went in my backpack and took out souvenir book of Montréal and said “ well joke is on you see Montreal is just like Boston 4 seasons, we live in houses ect they almost did believe me 🤷♀️🤦♀️🙄?
Where I live, we have 4 to 6 hours of daylight mid-winter and 4 to 6 hours of darkness. Despite it being almost 9 pm, it's currently 31°C here today and forecast to be even hotter the rest of the week.
If you think about it, it should make sense that 20 hours of sunshine often tends to raise temperatures. Especially when our average temperatures have been increasing at 3 times the global average for most of my lifetime.
When people asked me if we live in igloos, I told them we upgraded to ice castles.
Ottawa is 111 miles from the American border, so if Ottawa experiences 24 hours of sunlight, so do Ogdensburg and Watertown, New York. Ironically, -40C is equivalent to -40F. It's the only trmperature where celsius and fahrenheit converge. Actually, there is a King of Canada: King Charles III.
Ottawa doesn’t experience 24 hours of sunlight.
@andreanne8228 Obviously, lol. That's the point i was trying to make to Americans. 😂
Tyler conveniently omits that until recently, ha had no clue about how the midnight sun works.
The first year i lived in Edmonton (as an adult), it got down to -70°C with the windchill! Now that's cold!!🥶
Oh ya, and the block heater is a real thing! My parents (about 6 decades ago) met an American family while visiting south of the border; they noticed the plug sticking out of the car and inquired. When my dad told them what it was for, their actual response was "you must have really long extention cords"! 😂
IN the 70's while pen palling with a cousin in Australia he asked me to send him a picture of our "Covered Wagon" -- I sent a pic of my dad's car, which surprised him.
Most cars in Canada have block heater by default. It's an integrated heating element of the engine block who's plug usually either goes through the front grill of the car if you can fit it or can fit under the hood when closed. While the main purpose is to warm up the engine block to make it easier to start engine, it also serves the purpose of warming up the cabin heater so it produces heat sooner for defrosting/thawing windshield, lessens the load on the starter and battery which prolongs their service lives, and reduces the need for a remote starter which saves fuel and emissions, along with other minor performance benefits of the car running warm instead of cold. You usually plug it in with an extension cable to the outside house socket the night before hand to keep it warm if you plan to use it the next morning and you know it will be cold overnight. It also can just plug it in when you need to use it the morning after a cold night, but you will be sitting there for a good 15-30 mins waiting for it to get warmed up. (The inside of a cold car can at times FEEL COLDER than the actual temperature and windchill outside of it.)
The sitting in a cold car is why most Canadians also have command starts in their vehicles. Hit the button before you jump in the shower (if your daily routine is like mine where a shower and get dressed is the last step before heading out the door) and you will have a nice warm, defrosted vehicle waiting for you.
What a lot do not realize is that the bottom of southern Ontario, where I live, is at the same latitude as northern California. As for the beaver tails, the beavers regrow them in one season.
Block heaters come built in to most cars sold in Canada. I've did meet one person recently that did not have one in her new SUV and I asked her why she would even consider buying a vehicle that doesn't have one. Suffice to say winters have not been kind to her.
In the Calgary area, most parking lots have a plug-in for block heaters at each parking spot at offices and malls. It gets COLD in the Winter.
The problem is, too many Canadians think what applies to THEIR area in Canada applies to ALL of Canada.
No need for block heaters in many areas of the country, especially the most populated ones.
Every winter, we Plug our Tractor trailers, even if using it the next morning, as well as most trucks in Canad have Glow plugs. To use glow plugs, first knoch on the key turns them on the next place is accessories and the last one is the starter.. Here in Southern Ontario, It rarely get below -20 C in winter, but I have been ST Cloud Minn, and trucks were freezing going down the road!
It’s 95 degrees in western Canada today. All of our igloos melted, but we will rebuild in December. No worries
I can remember back in the 60's well playing outside in the summer 🌞 time a family from the United States driving by. They stopped and asked us where's the snow ❄️ because we want to go skiing. Now we were like a hour and a half from Toronto. So being polite Canadian children we told them they would have to go about 1000 miles ( yes back then we used the imperial system) north of where we were. I think they thought we were being smart ass kids. They actually thought once they crossed the border there would be snow even though they were still a couple hours from the border. As kids we laughed at them for days
Back in the early eighties I worked in Tuktoyaktuk for Atco. We worked 7 12's outside in very cold weather. When I first got there in January, there was only about a 1/2 hour of daylight. In the spring there was 24 hr. daylight.
!8:30 "Thats a joke right? There is no King of Canada." Yes there is! He is also King of England and a bunch of other places, but King Charles does actually have the title, King of Canada. No Joke.
Fun fact for you, -40 is the one point where you don’t need to know which temperature scale you are using as the two scales intersect at that point making -40°C = -40°F
Ottawa is 3 hours north of Syracuse, NY - driving the speed limit
Tyler, you need to find a copy of Rick Mercer’s “Talking to Americans “. Hilarious!
Tyler has done reaction videos to those.
Here in Alberta, it sometimes dips to -50°C/-58°F. That doesn't happen often, though. Usually it doesn't get colder than -46°C/-50.8°F overnight for a couple of weeks. Then it'll start warming up to -30°C/-22°F and warmer every day after that. Shorts and t-shirt weather!😂
In Canada the geese are aggressive because while in Canada because they are brooding their goslings. Mama and Papa get just a little miffed if you get to close.
I have been far north in Canada, I have seen 24 hours days and night.
I'm from Canada, and the IGLOO question came up quite often at one time... so my response was:
"Ummm, yeah, igloos are normal here. Canada's really big, so all our houses are pretty close together too. Our next door neighbor is just 2 miles from our house. It's hard getting used to living so close to other homes like that, especially since our neighbor made up a really wild story that they were going to have "indoor plumbing" installed, and then bring the bathroom inside. Ummm, yeah -- I don't think so... Why would anyone want to be bringing that INSIDE of your igloo... Naturally we knew he was probably just joking (or maybe he really believed some people would do that), but then again maybe he believed it since he hasn't been quite right in the head since the last polar bear attack; so we just pretend we believe him that bathrooms inside the house sounds like a good idea."
That little response often created 30-45 minute debates from them trying to convince "we Canadians" that indoor bathrooms were a real thing elsewhere... It was always hysterical when we had other Canadians playing along going "No Way, That's Too Silly Of A Concept" - quietly laughing while they tried oh so hard to very seriously convince us indoor bathrooms were real...
We would eventually show them photos of our real houses and cities [we usually started by showing them generic igloo photos and saying that was our house] until they finally realized that "No, Most Canadians Don't Live In igloos"..... [and then we would move on to convincing them that a lot of Canadian homes and families had pet Polar Bears] 🤣
Met a couple from New Mexico whose plane was delayed so they had a day in Winnipeg and were actually surprised that there was no snow, it was June.
Well they were in Winterpeg after all. I assume it is like Saskatoon, where we have had snow in every month of the year. In fact, this year we had a blizzard in early May (maybe it was late April but either way), so while it is unusual, out here on the Prairies you never can quite be sure.
Fun fact: -40C and -40F are
mathematically the same temperature!
As far as the Canadian Goose is concerned, at Elk Lake in the summer there are hundreds of Geese that share the lake and beaches, you could be swimming 5ft away from them and it's no problem...
They are more aggressive when they have baby geese. The scary thing about them is they have teeth on their tongues.
I have been fortunate not to be attacked by a Cobra Chicken, but I have seen people get attacked and/or warned by the Goose.
It's funny because having a block heater is just a normal thing here. When the temp drops everyone plugs in the car to keep the engine warm. It doesn't heat up the cabin of the car, just the engine to let you start the car.
Cars in Canada come with block heaters
Not all of them! Just some!
@@brentwoodbay Just for people who don't live in southern BC.....lol
@@airborne63 That's most people in BC!
I have live 99.8% of life here southern Ontario, and the only thing I have seen with Block heaters in my 65 years, is on Tractors, Tractor Trailers and heavy Machinery, mostly anything with a diesel engine, a few cars have them but 99% of do not have block heaters on them down this way
I stumbled on your channel by accident, and as a Canadian I've yet to regret it. ❤
Canadians have a sense of humour . We love life.
In Canada you cannot strangle a beaver no matter how much you really really want to.
thats illegal!
Yeah you want to be very gentle when eating beaver.
Actual bever tail is still an honest to goodness delicacy to some people in very northern communities. It consists largely of fat, which I can't stand the texture of, so I've never worked up the nerve to try it myself. I can, however, assure you that it is a real thing.
Not only are there block heaters, but also battery heaters. Things at 40 below, which I'm sure that people in Alaska know well, are that the seal around door gaskets can freeze making it hard to open a door, and lock mechanisms can freeze where a key won't turn. Then of course, there is the flat spot on your tire freezing in place, making for a bumpy ride until the tire heats up enough to become circular. And then the seal on your wheel rim letting go and having to change a tire when everything metal transfers the cold very well. Fun times.
Just FYI -40°C and -40°F is the same temperature. 32°F is 0°C and when water freezes.
Also, it is not negative forty, it is minus forty.
For a story, my Dad had a friend in the mid-80s from Oklahoma. He was coming to visit his inlaws in North Dakota. My Dad invited him and his family to visit us in Saskatchewan. This man from Oklahoma was police officer and he asked my Dad if the roads from the border were paved, if he needed to bring his own water since we may not have running water, and whether we had power. I grew up in a city that is now 300,000 people. Of course all of that is the case. Now he isn't totally wrong about the roads. We do have rural roads known as grid roads which are gravel. But other than in the extreme north of the province, these do not form major highways.
Canada goose/geese=Cobra chickens!!! Lol
In 1983, the only Time(once was Enough) I went to the US, I was asked more than once: "How many Dogs do you have pulling your Sled?", "Don't you freeze at Night in your Igloo?"
Tyler, you want to be even more confused about vehicles in Canada. Not only do we have block heaters that we plug in. Most people have what is known as command start. I can stand at the window and hit a button and my vehicle starts. It allows for it to be warm inside when I get in. (I also use it on really hot days for the ac to cool it down inside.) But you don't have to worry about it running forever. If you don't turn the ignition within 15 minutes, it shuts itself off.
This winter I was cornered by some neighbours when I was heading out and I couldn't politely step away from the conversation (I am Canadian afterall) and had to run three cycles of the command start.
You’re not a real Canadian if geese
don’t accept you as a true Canadian!
I don't have a block heater in my current car but it does have a warmer/ jacket wrapped around certain engine components and it seems to work.
When I worked at McDonald's, sometimes they would send new people into the storage room to get a can of steam.
Luckily, I was there long enough to hear about this before I was ever sent into the storage room.
The geese are mean up in Canada, because this is where they raise they nest and breed. They get cranky during nesting season.
please do a revue of the city of trois rivires
Who are you talking to? You know that Tyler NEVER reads the comments?
@@brentwoodbayHe reads them I think just doesn't reply to them which is understandable since he gets so many comments
The Canadian Tire money was used often in the USA when I was young. And they really didn’t know the difference and excepted it.
I do remember years ago Americans coming over the border years ago bringing snowmobiles in the middle of summer thinking we were covered in snow
😂I love your videos. There are places in Canada that go through 24 hours of daylight and technically Canada, as well as other Common Wealth countries have a King. His name is Charles 😉
When I was younger and played cod on Xbox 360 I had a group of friends I played with some American some Canadian. I once convinced all the Americans that I actually lived in an igloo had a pet beaver and rode a moose to school, I also told them I had to get off the game because the heat from my Xbox was starting to melt my igloo. Times were fun back then.
I'm in Canada right now and I have 4 fans and a dehumidifier going because it hot
Block heaters are common in most areas of Canada except the West Coast, ie Vancouver and Vancouver island rain forests. I bought one for my car and had it installed as soon as I moved to Prince George BC. The block heater prevents your engine block from cracking from the cold over night. Absolute necessity or no motor.
Oh and I live in New Brunswick and we get -40's in the winter and have plugs on our cars too 😊
I never heard of this Beaver tail BS? We do like eating beaver though! Ha ha ha, love your videos Dude. With love, and respect. Wes Sept
Telling people that Canada geese are peaceful and love to be pet should be an attempted murder charge
Yes, if you live in a cold climate it is beneficial a block heater and a buttery blanket. When I lived in Northern Ontario I had a standard transmission so I had to put in an inline heater and also had a battery blanket
I still remember I went to a basketball tournament in Michigan and someone told me "there's no way you're from Canada, you came here on a bus) which I responded in the heaviest "Canadian" accent I could "Oh well you caught me eh, we had to park our dogs at the border since its to warm and no snow here you know eh?)
Some Canadians do live in igloos up in the northern territories. Also -40 can happen anywhere in Canada not just the territories. It's very common every winter in the prairies.