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

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.

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.

Quick correction: British Columbia was technically named after the Columbia River.

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.

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.

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.

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

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💀

For a "second channel, don't care" type attitude, the effort keeps going up! We even have transition cards now!!

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.

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 😉

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

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).

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"!

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.

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

the Kelowna pronunciation was something else

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".

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 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.

You missed a fun fact. Nunavut shares a land border with Europe. (Denmark)

there’s also Franco ontarians, mostly up north near sudbury & sault ste-Marie. Pretty strong French speaking minority in ontario

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.

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!

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!

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.

Thanks, that was really informative and well-paced 🙂

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)

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.

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)

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

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

Prince Edward Island is probably most famous for Ann of Green Gables.

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

Thank you for actually pronouncing Newfoundland properly. Very impressive for a non-Canadian to get this

In 2007, it was free to cross the bridge to PEI, but cost money ($54CA?) to escape it.

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

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.

Apparently Final Fantasy VI takes place in Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island is where you use Surf in Johto.

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

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)

Yukon was big in the gold rush. There are still full abandoned towns there.

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 ...

BC resident here; I died at the pronunciation of Kelowna

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wanna see a JJ Mccullough reaction to this

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

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?

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)

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.

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.

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.

the cuts are gold

I would really love to see a similar video to this but on Australia

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

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.

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.

saskatchewan is a hidden gem. we play our province down to keep it to ourselves 😙

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.

*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.

In July 2022 one of our cell phone providers in Canada, Rogers, had a server issue and service was wiped out across the country. Which also affected debit and credit card machines that connected to Rogers towers. Lots of people actually got stuck on PEI because they didn’t have cash and couldn’t cross the bridge! Fun fact

There is ZERO reason for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to not be one province

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).

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.

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!

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.

Were the cutoffs on purpose? 🥴

Talking about weird Quebec islands while hovering over St Pierre and Miquelon is kind of ironic.

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.

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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

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?

Concerning the milk and bag bit in the Ontario section, this is true and it also involves popularity of certain companies in different provinces, for example in Atlantic Canada we have milk in cartons from the brand "Scotsburn" so if you are in Atlantic Canada you will find cardboard boxes of milk instead of bags like in Ontario. This also goes for Alberta which have their own methods for bottling milk and having a completely unique milk brand from their province aswell. This all goes back to Canadian federalism and the idea of Provinces relying on their own commercial entities.

A beach in British Columbia is *much* colder than a beach in California. (It's also becoming more Chinese than British.)

I love the shape of Ontario, it's a beautiful whale!

I like that you showed the windmill palm, I see them everywhere, they should be the official city tree of Vancouver

Why does your map show Ottawa located at Opasquia Provincial Park in Ontario?

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!

As a Canadian, I approve this video. You got a pretty good handle of Canada

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.

Good job editor, good music choices.

alberta worst province confirmed

This guy knows more about Canada than any American that I have ever spoken to...

Is that wind waker theme in the background?

Nova Scotian here, we have bagged milk too. Bagged milk doesn’t only live in Ontario. It’s moved to most if not all provinces. 😊

I had no idea there were plans of having the Turks and Caicos join Canada

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.

Most of Canadian things are from Quebec: National anthem, the flag, the name of Canada, maple syrup, hockey, poutine....

NEVER EVER expected to see my little town show up on one of your videos 🎉 Pense SK FTW!!!

Yep definitely never seen milk in a bag until I went to Ontario from Alberta. Seems majorly inconvenient and messy

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😄

Aha nice to see a Canadian video!! As a resident I still learn a lot about this massive country

In Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, there are three streets that are named "This Street", "That Street", and "The Other Street". Search it up.

The borders between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador is actually cut to follow the watershed. A lot of our hydroelectric potential is located in the north so it’s important for us to have total access to our river’s water sources. :)