I think as a Canadian, if you don't have a sense of humor about this country, you are probably in the wrong country. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada, but I laugh at it as well.

The special day for cats is Boxing Day.

The groundhog... every year in Canada they watch the groundhog come out... in theory if he sees his shadow and goes back in his burrow there will be 6 more weeks of winter. For the record... he always sees his shadow.

I’m a Canadian who has spent a lot of time in Scotland working. I couldn’t get over how similar the Scots and Canadians are; many Canadians are from Scottish stock.

Mert, I love your channel. As a Canadian, let's face it, WE ROCK! Bring the snow, bring the rain, bring the ice and humidity!!! Long Live Canadians.

My personal favourite, to share with everyone.... "One day Canada will rule the world and then you'll ALL be sorry!" (I have it on my wall. Shows a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, inset) 🇨🇦✌️

Yep, that's us all right! 🇨🇦 Polite, self deprecating, stoic, not flag wavers but still very proud and grateful to be Canadian.

The "finally" meme is a pictogram of "spring is in the air"

The “I’m a rodent - not a meteorologist” reference is referring to Groundhog Day in Canada and the US. If specific groundhogs around both countries see their shadow, it’s six more weeks of winter. If they don’t see their shadows, spring weather will come early. This tradition goes back over 140 years and happens every February 2nd. The Newfoundland sandwich looks like a very thick bologna sandwich.

The meme about all the cats in boxes was Boxing Day. We still celebrate Boxing Day from our British origins. Due to our proximity to the U.S.A we often seem to be explaining it. I think you may not have fully appreciated the one from Titanic with Jack sinking into a pot hole. Every Spring our roads show all the damage from thawing and freezing with heavy vehicles rolling over them. Yes, we have problems with mosquitoes - thankfully not malaria but they do make us miserable with itching.

As Canadians, we can definitely laugh at ourselves and I love it! It's just who we are.

So many cities and towns here in Canada are named after cities and towns in the U.K. Watching a U.K travelogue is fun because you get to hears all the Canadian places mentioned.

The most sacred day for cats is Boxing Day.😅

That's Newfie Steak which to the rest of the world is fried balogna.

The one where the car must jump,over the gap,is a bridge got washed away when the creek/ river was flooded from a heavy rain. Its looks like it happened over in British Columbia.

As a Canadian, yes this is all very accurate.

Yes, those community names in southern Ontario are real. I’m from Ontario and I lived and worked in London, Ontario for ten years. I’ve been to many of those communities. Lots of places to visit and to see and do in Ontario! 🥰🇨🇦👍🏻 (Also the meme with the washed out road (“Just speed up a bit. You got this”) looks like a highway in British Columbia and yes, that has happened during November 2021 when there was major rainfall and flooding in many areas of lower and central mainland BC and also on Vancouver Island.) Instead of Elf on a Shelf, we have Goose on a Moose. And of course there are those drivers here who think they can drive throughout the winter with summer tires. A dopey bunch. 😉👍🏻 The rodent meme is about using Wireton Willie, a groundhog, to predict how many more weeks of winter remain by seeing if he sees his shadow. This happens on Groundhog Day in February. The result really doesn’t matter because we always get six more weeks of winter anyway. 😂 Wireton Willie is in Ontario and Nova Scotia has Shubenacadie Sam. Saskatchewan has hay bales. Canada geese: fast, unpredictable, mean. And they hold a grudge. Never turn your back on a Canada goose. I relate to all of those memes. ❤️🇨🇦

A lot of people wait until the last minute to put the snow tires. So every first snow a good portion of them end-up in the ditch.

“Dogs are just good boys” Truer words were never spoken The most difficult city to name in Canada, apparently, is Vancouver. Even people who’ve lived here all their lives say “Vangcouver”. See, even my auto-correct is losing its mind…

My husband and I are from London Ontario. When we would go home to see my parents in Chatham our leaving at the end of the weekend was exactly that list with my Dad. They left off the most important step though, ALWAYS honk twice when you go around the corner to really put a final nail in that Goodbye!!😂❤🇨🇦

Im a Canadian and I enjoy watching people react to things i think are normal

Nova Scotia has some challenging names for come-from-awayers to pronounce like Tatamagouche, Musquodoboit, Antigonish, but my favourite is L’Ardoise (pronounced lords way)

The Canada goose is effectually know as a Cobra Chicken. For good reason, they will mess you up.

Unlike the U.K., to get to Calgary from here (Toronto), if you drive straight, no stops, and have good traffic and weather, will take you 36.5 hours, and both Calgary and Toronto are already more near the middle of the country than the ends.

One of my favourite place names in Canada is "Craigellachie" in British Columbia - famous as the site where the last spike was driven in connecting and completing the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. (A good topic for a reaction, by the way - the building of the railway across the country, and particularly through the mountains, was an incredible feat.) It's named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey in Moray, Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen, who was the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).

In Southern Manitoba & Saskatchewan we can always expect +35 to +40 degrees C in summer, & -35 to -40 degrees C in winter(with wind chill factor). Sometimes more on both sides! Thanks for another great vid!

4:15 "spring is in the air" That live "Christmas tree" was a cannabis plant. 8:30 is a reference to groundhog day

I love how Mert delivered goose on a moose. Perfectly accented.😅

Super happy to be Canadian and I love all the jokes, memes and stereotypes! And yes indeed, we have some nasty mosquitos in some areas. Back when I was a teen, living in Saskatchewan, we would call mosquitos, “gators”, after alligators.

You said Shubenacadie dead on! For Nova Scotia I think some of the toughest place names are either native Mi'kmaq words like Shubenacadie, Musquodoboit (mus-ka-dob-it), Kejimkujik (keji-mi-koo-jik), and so on. Tourists struggle with those. We also have a lot of Gaidhlig on road signs and such in certain places, so North River will also say Abhainn a Tuath, or the famous Alexander Graham Bell estate, Beinn Bhreagh - these words trip up a lot of people!

One of the most difficult locations to pronounce: Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake

Excellent! The one that had you a little mystified was the flying spring denoting the phrase, "spring is in the air". In summer, it's not just the mosquitoes. We have my personal most hated bug, the black fly, but we also have deer flies, bull flies, and horse flies, the latter two of which will take a serious chunk out of you if they manage to land and bite. Those 2 al least are big but slow and if you see 'em, pretty easy to swat.

The Christmas tree is a pot plant, its to get someone to take the risk of growing it and the guy would come back for the tree and enjoy the results.

The weight/measures thing is because we are taught metric in school but there is so much influence in media and tools from the U.S.

Kejimkujick, Musquodobouit, Scheubenacadie, Gananoque, Saskatchewan. Mix French, English, Iroquois, Mi'kmaq, Inuit, Cree, and many other aboriginal dialects, you get some interesting words that for sure. Thank goodness there isn't much Welsh mixed in....

Remember Saskatchewan. "The place where you can watch you dog run away for 4 days".

Not sure if you've seen Red Green Show. Patrick McKenna as Harold is sooo good!

When you live in a country that can give you minus 40 degree celsius (and plus 40 degree celsius), snow drifts that can bury your house, tumbleweeds that can bowl you over and leave road rash, and yes! mosquitoes that can carry away a small child, you develop a very well honed sense of humour. Go Canada!

The sign with "just speed up a bit, you've got this" is probably a "wash out" It's when there's flooding and it washes out a section of the road. Happened near our farm every year. My parents joked that we lived on an island in the spring time.

As a Québec native, the picture of the frenchman representing Québec is not offensive. I think it’s important to be able to laugh at yourself. It’s just good fun. 🤗 I think France natives might be more offended because they hate our accent and tend to think about us as inferior 🤷‍♀️ (of course, this is a generalization)

Gordie Plow refers to Gordie Howe, a famous Canadian ice hockey legend.

This is a good Facebook page, and I'm a follower. Full of Canadian humour. See what I did there? MertCan probably missed it, but every American is going, "THAT'S not how you spell..."

Odd tv show in Canada during the 1980's called " The littlest Hobo" maybe show on odd Canadian show

The cat one is boxing day- bc cats love boxes ;) The spring one is "spring is in the air"

1:04 What happened, is Canada has a lot of highways that are on the sides of mountains. Especially British Columbia. The coquihalla, a main route from the Fraser valley (BCs largest population area by density) is touted as “the most dangerous road in North America” because on one side, is a sheer cliff. And the other, is a mountain that likes to throw rocks. I used to go up it yearly to get to my grandparents. It’s beautiful, but just like a lot of Canada, Dangerous.

The summer tires club... it's not that they forget to switch to winter tires, it's a couple of other things. 1. Around mid-October, you start trying to get a time slot at the garage to switch out the tires. 2. Sometimes, snow comes earlier than expected and you're caught out.

The movie Jaws one was funny, but the Titanic shot in a pot hole! I couldn't stop laughing. So true.

8:30 A reference to Groundhog Day (which is more a USA thing, but we know about it, and it will get brief mention on our car radios) Groundhog day is: It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and sees its shadow, it will retreat to its den and winter will go on for six more weeks; if it does not see its shadow, spring will arrive early. Canadians have observed that, while there is very often a warm spell in early spring which will drive the snow away... it comes right back. Our winter is not intimidated by the behaviour of one rodent in Pennsylvania.

Mert, cats love getting into bags and boxes. Chritmas is a treat for them with all the boxes lying around and them trying to squeeze into them.

"I've actually never ran a snowblower before, it looks like fun." Hey Mert, come visit me in New Brunswick from mid-November to the end of March. You can have the fun you wish for with my snowblower.😊

Shubenacadie is phonetically pronounced Shoe-bah-nack-ah-dee or just shoe-bee for short "I'm a rodent, not a meteorologist" is about Groundhog's Day. A holiday on February 2nd where the groundhog is said to leave it's burrow and if the groundhog doesn't see its shadow (if it's overcast) it will stay out, meaning spring will start in 6 weeks. Whereas if it sees its shadow (if it's sunny) it is said to be frightened and run back into its burrow for and extra 6 weeks, causing people to say "there will be 6 more weeks of winter" (meaning snowy weather) so spring will start in 12 weeks

Newfoundland and Labrador(proudly from here) that is a thick Bologna sandwich!! LOL!!

In Canada, we have groundhog's day in February. We have reporters that go to a wildlife park and sit outside of the groundhog enclosure and wait for them to emerge. If the groundhot sees it's shadow, winter will last six more weeks. If the groundhot doesn't see it's shadow, we will have an early spring. It's a national thing. All of the groundhog's have a name.

I am not sure about THE hardest place to pronounce, but very few get "Osoyoos" correct. "Oh-SUE-yis." Meaning "a narrowing of the waters" in Syilx'tsn, the local native language (from sw̓iw̓s). It is located at the south end of the Okanagan valley, in Canada's dessert area.

What's not at all surprising is how many of these also apply to Minnesota and North Dakota.

Pretty much all appliances in North America are switchable, the cost of programming chips is nothing, so appliances like ovens and fridges pretty much all come with the ability to be switched between Celcius and Fahrenheit - and the ability to be set for kosher requirements. The advantage of using celsius outside in Canada is that since freezing temperatures are more common, having a scale where freezing is just Zero is simpler. Below zero, roads may be icy, hose or regular pipes might burst, plants may be damaged etc. It is one spot on the temperature scale that things actually change state. It just makes more sense than 32°F.

The most sacred day in the cat calendar : since cats love to curl up into boxes and Boxing Day is on January 2nd, when all retail stores lower their prices dramatically to sell the products not sold during Christmas holiday period. Hence this intended pun.

I guess the one you didn't get was (a) spring is in the air (finally).

Mosquitoes in Canada are very small (six to 12 millimetres in length) but extremely numerous (by the thousands) in spring/summer seasons near bogs, lakes, rivers and in the forest. In medium to big size cities, there are almost none and almost none in the fields because of the wind that sweeps them away.

Thanks Mert, I needed a good laugh. Yes, this selection is VERY Canadian. Cheers :)

"are mosquitoes that prevalent in 🇨🇦 ?" ...yeah buddy, they are are 'prevalent '. Not to mention the blackflies. Check out the video/song "blackfly" . greetings from North Ontar-i-o i-o !😊

4:00 Renaming snowplows. They're not the only town that does this. The one I heard that made me crack up laughing was named "You're a Blizzard, Harry!"

Yeah, I went to a fight once and a hockey game broke out!

You really need to come to Canada. All of those are true. Most Canadians have a fantastic sense of humour. 🇨🇦. P.S. the one about “I hope this is a parking spot” is because it could be at the end of a driveway but you cannot tell because of the snow.

Write them down. Charlie Chaplin, Kenny Rodgers, Tommy Hunter, Donald Southerland, Kiefer Southerland, John Candy, Mike Meyers, Dan Akroyd, Oscar Peterson, Chilliwack, Avril Levine, Bob Carlin, Keanu Reeves, Barenaked Ladies, Paul Anka, Leslie Nielsen, and a lot I don't remember off the top of my head. All hosers. Hahaha

Not as much fighting in hockey as before, but for a time we would say, I went to see the fight and a hockey game broke out. 😂

The pic with with the springs means "spring is in the air". Meaning winter is almost over

Rodent is a groundhog. - tumble weeds

BTW, you’ve nailed the pronunciation of “Shubenacadie”.

In Nova Scotia, we call the heavy snow plows “feather dusters”.

Fun fact: Tumbleweeds are actually an invasive species from Russia.

2:40 We don’t speak like Americans at all. This is a common misconception and it is VERY incorrect. When travelling abroad I’ve had English people ask if I was Scottish and I’ve had Americans ask if I was Irish. I’m neither. Nobody has any idea what the Canadian accent actually sounds like. It’s not Scottish. It’s not Irish. It’s not American. It’s something entirely different and totally distinct. We are Canadian. And mind you, there’s no “one singular Canadian accent” either. We are NOT a monolith. There are a multitude of different regional dialects. Newfie, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québécois, Ontario, Prairies, Alberta, BC, and the northern territories (mostly Natives), all have differences, be it accent, lingo, and/or culture. We are a confederation of 10 different provinces and 3 territories, not a monolithic country where everyone is the same everywhere. It’s so frustrating that people assume so, when they gladly grant that not Americans are the same. Yet again, nobody gives a shit about us, and we don’t matter. Just like how we’re almost always left out of the conversation when it comes to WWII. The Yanks were there. The Brits were there. But apparently Juno Beach didn’t exist, Operation Market Garden never happened, and the Netherlands just magically freed itself from Nazi occupation. The Dutch still send us flowers every year in thanks ffs 🤦🏻‍♂️.

Pardon the user name, long story. At 9:33 the picture for Newfoundland and Labrador is a 'Newfie steak sandwich' 'Newfie steak' being a thick slab of fried bologna. Yes the Newfies do eat that, in work camps when they can have pretty much anything made for them, in some cases by better chefs than Gordan Ramsey they will still request a Newfie steak or a Newfie steak sandwich. I have never met a non Newfie that eats bologna like that. Also because you asked the Saskatchewan picture is a tumbleweed.

Believe it or not, that little groundhog predicts the weather in both the US and Canada. February 2 is Groundhog Day ( and my youngest son’s birthday ). In the US the groundhog they use is called Punxsutawney Phil and Canada’s is is Wharton Willie. In Pennsylvania and Ontario respectively. On the 2nd of Feb. they are removed from their burrows. If they see their shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. When they don’t see their shadow it predicts an early spring.. They have a cute little official ceremony that is often broadcast on the news every year..

The location that was pronounced slowly for the American tourists was where they were when they asked the question. In a Canadian Donut & coffee shop called Tim Hortons, which are everywhere, and distinctly part of the Canadian identity, named for a famous hockey player.

"I'm a rodent not a meteorologist" refers to February 2nd, Groundhog Day, when a groundhog is observed as it emerges from its den in the morning. If it sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.

The groundhog meteorologist thing - On February 2, it’s Groundhog Day, where if the groundhog sees his shadow, it’s six more weeks of winter.

"Run For Your Life" from a Canada Goose. YESSS !!! A tourist from India named them "cobra chickens" - and he was totally correct. They are territorial and mean as heck. Flocks of them tie up rush hour traffic when they're crossing roadways - and NO one would EVER get out of their vehicle to try and shoo them across the road, faster. Anyone trying it would be shredded. "The Goose On A Moose" . . . a reference to the US "Elf On The Shelf" . . .

Ummmmmm, I think the Christmas tree is actually a Pot plant. Otherwise there would be no reason he would want it back.

Shubenacadie Sam is the east coast groundhog.

Saskatchewan had the tumbleweed. Ontario had a man stuck in traffic, again. 😅

The only thing to add is that Canadians measure long distances in time. For example: I live about an hour from my mother's house. "How far do you live from Toronto? About an hour and a half." "How far apart are Toronto and Vancouver? Between 3-4 days,."

Mert, you might want to watch Groundhog Day. Just a thought, even though it's the US depiction. LOL Love your channel.

Most difficult towns' names to pronounce probably come from the province of Québec : Pohénégamook (po-hay-nay-ga-mook), St-Herménégilde (saint-air-may-nay-jild : the "j" in jild is pronounced without the "d" sound English speaking people put at the beginning of pronouncing "j"), Betsiamites (bet-see-ya-mits), Bay-Johan-Beetz (bay-jo-ann-beets).

The most sacred day in the cat calendar is Boxing Day, of course! Cats love boxes. There have even been experiments to see if wild cats like boxes, and the photographic evidence says they do.

Favourite difficult Canadian place names... Tatamagouche NS, Clayaquot BC, Ucluelet BC, Tuktoyaktuk NWT,

For the cats, it a reference to boxing day!

The spring one I think is eluding to the phrase "Spring is in the air".

I wasn't sure because you didn't allude to it but, did you realize that "Christmas Tree" was a cannabis bush made to look like a Christmas Tree?

I’m from Nova Scotia, Canada and can relate to all of them.

I think it's funny that Shubenacadie came up. I think it would be interesting if you made a video on that.

Place names are normally relatively simple, indigenous languages were not written, so tend to be just written phonetically - although sometimes a little bastardized. Other place names may be pronounced 'wrong' because smaller more remote towns may have had a different way of pronouncing them, sometimes using different vowel sounds. There are also a number of places in the east that may be appear to be a French name, but may be said with the French accent or a bastardized English version. In my region tourists struggle with names that start with Ts like Tsawwassen or Tz like Tzouhalem. There is sometimes confusion over which syllables are stressed in names, which is purely local custom rather than a language rule. - probably the name that falls into that category and is most often corrected, is Newfoundland. Newfoundlanders get quite upset when people don’t stress the correct syllables

I think you misunderstood the meme at 3:00. It's to shorten the fences that divide and use the wood to make the table longer to have more over. I thought I heard you say it was 'bullying' so I assumed you misunderstood. If I'm incorrect, then apologies.

5:13 i had a gf who lived in an apartment all her life, so when she saw i had a driveway she WANTED to shovel it. Said she wanted the "winter experience". Her worst day, but my best laugh.

That was a big thick slab of bologna in that sandwich. 😂

The real Christmas tree is a weed tree 😂 cause it's legal here and boxing day for kitties the rodent is a ground hog, think Feb. 2 ground hog day, predicting an early spring but popular in north eastern states also. Tumbleweed. Mosquitoes come at you in platoons and yes big, some places bigger than others but we don't compare to the bugs in oz. The parking spot is not about a pond but someone's driveway, come on over to Ottawa mr. Scottish man 😂❤

12:31 Not a pond. This IS a parking lot, but seeing where the lines are painted is impossible, so one must guess and hope for the best.

3:30...Boxing Day...the day after Christmas. lol

yeah, the carved sunglasses work great. Still used today.

The rodent is a groundhog, for Groundhog Day (Feb 2nd), and the 6 weeks of winter thing. The spring one is about... spring time.