Probably not the best idea to watch this video while In a small tin shed with only one way out , tired and inebriated alone at midnight

I love how JJ's voice gets flatter the deeper he goes!😂

The way that the last tier was presented was such a departure from your typical presentation style, but I really liked it. It really helped emphasized how depraved the last picks on the iceberg were; no music, no colorful backgrounds, just a sobering dose of reality where the subjects speak for themselves.

Seeing the color drain the further down you went was a melancholic, if appropriate, touch to the video. It’s hard to just say “good job” and move along, but I appreciate the knowledge and your sober handling of its content.

Always nice to here some fun tidbits about our happy and nice neighbors up north! 🍁

Imagine the blessed timeline we'd have been living in if the Natural Law Party won

Your phenomenal narration and its progression towards the bleakness and seriousness represents the progression of the bleakness and darkness aptly represented by the iceberg. You're a phenomenal creator, JJ.

I don’t think I’ve ever hear JJ get so serious so fast. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the video. I think I’m just so use to his bubbly, almost cartoony personality and voice.

I was surprised Karla Holmolka wasn’t included in the last Disturbing Canadian Iceberg. It’s seem as though that her and Paul Bernardo have a similar meaning to Canadians that Charles Manson would’ve to Americans at one point in history.

Your distinction between a "Loft Bed" and a "Bunk Bed" killed me. I've never heard someone say that before and it was very funny to me.

To be fair, that "yogic flying" clip was pretty impressive from an athletic perspective.

the “star wars kid” was obviously being bullied pretty severely. its lowkey made out to just be “he was angry” in this video but it’s so much deeper than that. it’s shitty that they managed to get an entire country basically to bully him too

I come from the part of Canada where the "Ken and Barbie Killers" are from and its still casts a huge shadow over that part of Ontario. I remember one time when I was a kid being warned to not wander alone at night or I might "end up like Kristen French (one of their victims)." Something that terrible works its way into the soul of a community for a long time.

We in the United States have a counterpart to Grey Owl known as "Iron Eyes Cody" (1904-1999). He appeared in that 1971 "Keep America Beautiful" ad where he shed a tear after a piece of trash was thrown out of a car window at his feet. During his acting career, he insisted even in his personal life that he was Native American (he claimed to be part of various different tribes over his life and started wearing his movie costumes in daily life). It wasn't until after his death when the general public found out that his birth name was Espera Oscar de Corti and he was actually a second-generation Italian American (father from Sicily; mother from southern Italy).

Seeing a Native American chief's face in stone might just be one of those situations where we saw faces on the moon. Our human minds like to make recognizable patterns out of shapes. I believe the word for it is pareidolia.

As an Albertan, I can comfortably say that I have never personally seen a rat in the province, nor has anyone ever mentioned to me that they've seen one in the province. I'm sure they exist, especially closer to the border with the US, BC and Saskatchewan but whatever were doing it seems to be effective based on my anecdotal experience.

I work as a contractor for the American VA, and I regularly deal with Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange. Lots of prostate cancer and lung problems. It’s quite sad. I didn’t realize the substance came from Canada.

it’s always interesting to hear specific topics I never knew about Canada, both the good and bad. Hell, I never knew that Canada was huge on asbestos.. like i feel like i should’ve learned that for some reason? anyways I also want to say that, even with the mystery of the person himself, Jerome’s story sounds somewhat wholesome in the end. it’s nice knowing that, even if they didn’t know who he was, people were willing to help him and take care of him, allowing him to live a longer life. Hearing your tone change later down in the video kind of hits hard, but it also fits the topics, which I think was a good choice, too.

As a fellow Canadian, I very much appreciate the time and research that has gone into these iceberg videos. The respectful and somber tone cast on the more disturbing and eye opening topics of the last layers of the iceberg was certainly not lost on me. I think we all collectively breathed a sigh of relief when you came back on screen for the last few seconds of the video, JJ. After the horror of taking in the last layers of the iceberg, I think I will need a proper palate cleanse so I'll go watch your award winning video on ice cream flavours next.

The Albertan Rat-Free Campaign was also the focus of a school play that was featured on the (sadly recently cancelled) Adult Swim series “Joe Pera Talks With You”. The play had kids play farmers, government officials, Mounties, rats, and one kid as Abraham Lincoln for some reason.

Again, the Lac Megantic freight train disaster in Québéc is missing. A Titanic level engineering disaster that wiped out a downtown. The fact that you can see the whole main street before the disaster on Google Street View is eerie as hell.

Wow, JJ. That was quite a ride! From Yogic "flying" to Jerome, to Agent Orange and asbestos. The last stuff was pretty gruesome. I can just never get over man's inhumanity to man in its many forms. Thank you for sharing this stuff. Next time, I may have to skip the gruesome. 😝✌️

I remember reading a while back about "The Darker Side of Canada" and they mentioned the Asbestos thing in it. So mention of any subsequent "soorry" on the part of Canada. :P

2:50 - I remember first learning about the Dionne Quints as a throwaway gag in a Daffy Duck cartoon. Daffy is working as the dispatcher for the Stork helping deliver babies and he said this line "Mister Dionne....MISTER DIONNE, PUH-LEEZE!"

The way your delivery became flatter, more rushed, and monotonous as you went on helped with the delivery. It really conveyed the gravity and emphasized that you just wanted it to be over with.

Can we collectively all give JJ a hug? He sounded like the newscaster in the final episode of Dinosaurs by the end

It was haunting to see the video get more grey and monotone as we went deeper into the iceberg. The way the last tier was presented was the cherry on top. It was a really good video.

I really love these kind of videos, please keep making them! It's really interesting hearing you explain things you're passionate about

the fact that your voice get bleek when you get to the more darker parts helps keep the shock factor and it emphases how real this was

Man, the Canadian Airborne Regiment thing really shocked me, how can there be such poor excuses for human beings I'll never know :(

Love watching videos about canada while im from switzerland knowing nothing

I like how the farther down the iceberg you go and the bleaker the stories get, the darker (and faster) your voice gets. I don’t think I’ve ever heard you speak without your happy, normal voice.

One of the girls who was murdered by R.W. lived across the street from my Highschool, and was my friend's 2nd cousin. :( It feell like every time I start to forget that the event happened I end up seeing something online directly referencing it.

JJ with the microphone will now be my favorite meme. I will spend the rest of my days creating videos of him with the microphone talking out of context over historical events.

10:57 - There actually were a large number of those in the 20th century, Ukraine also had a government in exile after the Formation of the USSR, as did Poland and Lithuania from their world war two communist takeovers, but most of those recognized the new governments after the fall of communism in the early 90s and dissolved themselves, the major exception being the Belarussians in exile.

This was a really interesting video, JJ. I had no idea about a lot of these, maybe because I like many Canadians have inherent "cultural blinders" on and either aren't exposed to these stories or would never assume they're possible here. Thank you for going into such detail with these. I know this more... sombre content isn't really your style, but you approach these topics with a lot of respect and care, and it shows. Thank you.

How's this for an obscure fact about Canada. I am a Russian/Plautdietsch speaking Mennonite living in Mexico. What has this got to do with Canada? Well, as it happens we are currently celebrating 100 years of Mennonites in Mexico. Where did my ancestors live before that? Canada(a lot of us still live there). This means that a lot of plautdietsch speaking Mennonites in Mexico and other parts of Latin America (including me) are Canadian citizens even though we may never have been in Canada. The largest community of Russian Mennonites in Mexico is near Cuauhtémoc Chihuahua, where, Fun Fact, a copycat trucker protest happened earlier this year. I find it odd that I can't find a lot of information online of Mennonites in Canada. I learned in school that because of our "Germaness" and pacifism some Mennonite preachers weren't treated very well during WWI, being thrown in jail and having their belongings auctioned of at a cheap price. The increasingly stricter rules in Canada at the time, forcing my ancestors to teach English and display the Union Jack in school prompted them to move to Mexico. Btw Steinbach in Manitoba was founded by Mennonites.

The way you subtly change the lighting as the levels get darker is very effective in conveying the change in subject matter. Great video as per usual and very eye opening stuff

Jj, thank you for your interesting videos. It makes for a wonderful Sunday morning routine while cooking breakfast for my family. Btw, Alberta and rats. I was camping in Waterton Provincial Park and some Canadians we met and hung out with around our campfire that evening told us the "fact" of Alberta + no rats. I lol'd hard and told them "cool story." Man, they were so offended that I felt bad. Being a guest to the country and being a better person, I acknowledged such a "neat" fun fact and went about a way to make the mood fun again. Talk about a weird thing to get huffy and puffy over.

Funny thing about the Cariboo camels is that prehistoric camels actually called North America home up until a few thousand years ago. Like horses & donkeys, camels actually evolved in North America & scientists even have DNA from prehistoric Yukon camels that confirm that they're closely related to modern dromedary, Bactrian, & wild camels. The only place you can find wild American camels in large abundance is South America as llamas, alpacas, & their wild kin are members of the greater camel family!

Let’s all sign a petition for JJ to grow his hair out for a fantastic Doug Henning cosplay

I loved the first one! I was secretly hoping for a follow up but didn’t expect it. Great to see!

So glad this is back, my video stopped yesterday half way through :( I am so glad we get our weekend JJ fix! JJ's demeanor as the content gets darker really sets the mood as others have mentioned. That is true empathetic storytelling. Brilliant as always JJ!

The shift in tone really got to me. Even after knowing many of these facts and stories this presentation struck me. But another great video given the topics.

This Iceberg was very interesting and every time I thought it couldn't get worse there was another layer to delve into. I also enjoyed that this video had a lot more ethereal topics that I love about deep iceberg charts.

11:57 Al Capone also spent time in rural Mexico to set up and oversee his bootlegging operations. Several bars and restaurants in Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco) on the Gulf of California South of Yuma, Arizona, have a Capone/Chicago Gangster theme.

Thanks for making the video. It's a big departure from the tone of your usual videos but I appreciate that, and it led to me finding out about some pretty interesting (if morbid) facts about Canada I probably wouldn't have known otherwise.

Thank goodness, it's back! I was worried I'd imagined a new McCullough video... again ;p And you weren't kidding when you said this one get's dark. Watching this makes me realize how Canada's place in the geopolitical consensus is all the more impressive bit of diplomatic jiggery-pokery. What I mean by that is (as you've pointed out many times) how Canada is internationally imagined as being this uncomplicatedly lovely liberal wonderland that has it's shit together, especially from left-leaning inhabitants of more right-leaning countries like the USA, or myself in England, etc. We obviously have plenty of disturbing or upsetting historical events in the UK that I'm well aware of, being from there, but it's interesting how the preponderance of American news means we're often overwhelmed with an almost endless supply of atrocities and moral outrages (both old and new) that happen in the USA; in a way we are almost never shown about Canada. You really do have to go and actively look for Canadian news in England, and you probably won't get much from our mainstream television news channels. There was some baseline coverage of the discovery of those residential school graves, but often told in a "Canada is reckoning with it's sombre past" kind of way that avoids going into the level of searing detail you'd probably see if a similar thing happened here, or in the USA, or quite a number of other places honestly. Canada does seem to be let off quite lightly in international media for things other nations simply wouldn't get away with - that's assuming whatever the hypothetical "it" is gets any sustained coverage at all. The the UK the reporting on the trucker protests especially lacked a lot of the context you'd really need to get why it was happening at all, more often or not being presented along the lines of "ha ha Canadian truckers go BRRRR". Also, I hope you're doing good J.J. The last layers of this iceberg held some genuinely distressing lore, and I'd hate to think it took a toll (no matter how modest) on your mental wellbeing, especially if it's done for the edification and entertainment of your fanbase. Take care of yourself, my dude :D

The Natural Law Party was an international thing. We had it in Germany too (called Naturgesetzpartei), complete with Yogic flyers and all.

Loved this. Felt a bit more obscure and interesting than the last. Keep up the great work!

Yoo, it's back! I only got to watch like a quarter of it before work yesterday do I'm happy I can see the whole thing now!

This was great, i would love to see this type of video become a series, maybe even a north american iceberg, or a 2000’s or 90’s iceberg

A loft bed it’s not the same as a bunkbed. A bunkbed is two beds stacked on top of one another and a loft bed is a raised bed that you usually use the ladder to access.

Outstanding!!! It is always great to learn little tid bits of Canadian history & Culture

I was so sad the og video was taken down while watching it yesterday. Glad it’s back up!

I didn't know that Sask used to be particularly important. Would love to hear a history of the waxing and waning relevance of different Canadian regions/cities since 1867.

Ideas for other videos?: the Gimli glider, which is really about switching from Imperial to metric in the 80s. The Avro Arrow which was canceled for mysterious or controversial reasons. But you might have touched on these in other videos

There is nothing like a new JJ video for when you come back from vacation.

I live on the other side of the world and don't have anything in my life connecting me to Canada, except for the algorithm helping me find your channel. Your videos paint such a varied and interesting picture, and they've made me hope that I'll be able to visit someday.

I know is going to be good, so I already liked it! Hugs from Montreal.

Huh, as a Canadian who loves unsolved mysteries, I'd never heard about Jerome. Very interesting!

I was born in Thetford Mines, a town that had stopped relying on asbestos for its jobs and economy, but was still recovering from its downfall. The dumps of the open-pit mines were great to have fun and hangout as a teen though.

Love this. Please make this a series.

I’ve always been fascinated with Canada as a neighbor to the south. Hopefully I’ll get visit one day.

I thought the Beatles reunion thing was about the time the four of them were supposed to meet in Canada? The story goes that because of legal issues(drug convictions) they couldn't meet in the u.s., and John Lennon couldn't leave the u.s. for similar reasons, but since going to Canada was relatively easy, they were going to meet there. Word got out, and the meeting was cancelled.

you might be my favorite youtuber, i legit get excited when i see a new upload

These videos are so great. Keep up the awesome work!

Thanks for these videos JJ. As an immigrant, I heard a lot if these things being alluded to by friends and coworkers. But I could never relate to them. Your video helped familiarize me with these topics.

Hey, I’ve seen this one before!

We need part 3!

Always love these, thanks!

Great video, so many things I forgot about or never knew. “Loft bed, not a bunk bed”. I can imagine what rent is there. Can’t blame ya.

Did the filter/color get more unsaturated the further this video went? Nice touch! Very creepy stuff

I watched this the first time u uploaded it yesterday. It was so good, I'll watch it again. Go ahead JJ, take my views, you deserve them.

I love these. Keep up the good content JJ!

Unless I've missed it, I don't think you've done a video about the self-professed "Queen of Canada" and her cult. They're pretty bizarre. Crazy to keep up with their social media

Wow that really was kind of disturbing at the lower end... 😳 but super interesting! Thanks JJ!

Than you for educating us as always in your own interesting way!

i hope this becomes a series. i like the fast pace information.

Intresting camals evolved for more wintery settings. They have thick and warm fur that minimizes heat exchange, so they don't gain or loose a lot of heat. Their wide feet are made for walking on snow. They would do very well in Northern Canada. I'm surprised there isn't large herds.

6:14 WAIT A MINUTE...

Love how you super breezed thru the end for your own sanity. Love these kinds of videos.

You don’t know how happy I am that u blurred out the mommy’s. Thanks JJ!

Even though I'm canadian I find some of these so obscure... I only knew about St. Pierre and Miquolin and Salmon arm salute (I live in Salmon Arm)

I was shocked to find out that Karla Hamalka is out of prison after serving just 12 years, a mother of 3, and married to the brother of her defence attorney 🤯🤯🤯

8:56 mark: The Highway 99 bridge over the Fraser River, at Lillooet BC, is named the "Bridge of the 23 Camels."

Nice to see this video back loved it the first time will love it a second

"Hey here's a good idea, why not send some of out worst and deplorable unit of our army completely unsupervised in a completely isolated area for a humanitarian relief effort "

I like all your videos however sometimes you put out exceptional ones. I feel this way about this one, thanks!

OMG !!! This is so important ! Thank you JJ .

Love these videos a lot keep it up JJ :)

JJ can cosplay as Doug Henning

thank you for showing us "the real Canada" - i have spent many vacations in canada and found the people wonderful p- i also knew that since you have police they were doing more then keeping traffic moving!

Can't stop having more of jj

Helloooo! I've only seen your shorts. Glad I'm here now. Love the videos! 🥰🇨🇦❤️✌️

I noticed how JJ's voice changes dramatically when he brings up agent orange as a subject.

Keep Up The Good Work

This was lots of fun and I enjoyed it. Aside from the heinous stuff of course. Thanks

Saw this video recommended to me yesterday! Glad to see it finally made it's way back out on youtube.

Wait. An anti American protestor dumped red paint on a Canadian independence document? I guess I am going to have to go down a internet rabbit hole to make sense of that one.