Another fun fact: Most Canadians live in Canada

As a Canadian who lives south of that line the answer is easy... too cold up there

As a Canadian living in the US, I spend more time explaining that more Americans live north of most of us, and that we have 4 seasons, than anything else. This is not embarrassing for us!

Some of us who live far North of that 100 mile line are still starting to feel congested. When I visit a dense metro area I start to feel suffocated in a just a few days. I like my wide open space, pristine forest, canyons, rivers, wildlife. I love people, I just don't love living near them.

Fun fact: 100% of Canadians spell "Ottowa" as Ottawa.

Short answer : it's cold above this line. Long answer: it's *very* cold above this line.

A long time ago, I went on a Eurotrip with some friends I knew ever since high school. There were three of us and we were all from the Toronto area. We identified ourselves as Canadian. Then, on a walking tour thingie, we heard some other people indicate they were Canadian, too. They were from Manitoba or something. When we heard them talk, we realized what all the Canadian stereotypes about "aboot" were all, well, aboot.

Yeah, I feel like many people overestimate how populous our country is, especially compared to the US just south of us having very high population density, but most of the country is either rock, frozen, water, farmland (Saskatchewan) or a city. Many people prefer the cities.

RealLifeLore: *Talks about orchards and wineries in Southern Ontario, shows picture of Okanagan region in B.C.* Me, a Western Canadian: *resigned sigh*

Here's a fun fact: there's more Puerto Ricans outside of Puerto Rico than inside of it

Beautifully put together. Excellent video!

I came across your channel one day at work and have been watching all the videos ever since. The amount of facts and knowledge you put into each video is amazing. Thank you for your hard work making these videos. I have enjoyed all of them.

I was expecting a 5 second video saying "Because it's cold up there..."

Fun Fact: At least 40% of Canadians live in Canada!

Ottowa is the capital of Canada? Who knew?! For decades I thought it was Ottawa! ;)

Worth Mentioning that Sault St. Marie, a small town that borders Michigan, even has it's own well known folk song about a shipwreck. That's how much of a maritime place it feels.

Gonna go out on a limb and assume it’s cold up there

RealLifeLore: haha I’m gonna embarrass Canadians Also RealLifeLore: Ottowa

Fun fact, your picture of a Canadian vineyard in 'Ontario' is of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia 😀

Very nice video! Thank you for sharing!!

Here's another fun fact: During winter, it feels like 50% of Canadians live in South Florida.

10 minutes to explain that humans and plants prefer temperatures above freezing for most of the year.

I can imagine this guy talking emphatically like this even to cashiers at the grocery store.

It's a striking graph, but you're just highlighting Toronto and Montreal. You can do a vertical version of the meme by drawing a couple of lines somewhere along 82W and 72 W. Then you can say 50% of Canadians live between these two vertical lines.

Fun fact: AT LEAST 1% of all Canadians live in Canada.

I 'm from Russia and I can confirm that when you go from the southern part of the country to the northern one, the population density decreases a lot. Most people just don't want to live in the cold areas with overpriced imported food.

Thanks for making many points I've made to friends and acquaintances in the past, often to doubt-laden reactions. I remember camping in Lake Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota a bunch of years ago and meeting a fellow from New York City. I mentioned that I had lived in NYC as a student and that I had moved back to Toronto. His response was, "Oh yeah, Toronto! Nice town. I've been up there!" I smiled and responded, "Nice! Of course it's actually 'down there' from where we stand right now.'" He looked at me sideways and asked, "What?" I remarked that Toronto was actually quite a ways south of where we were at the moment in Minnesota. He kept saying, "Nah, buddy, you got that wrong. Toronto's north of here." Unfortunately it was before the internet and smart phones so I couldn't prove my point without going to the car and retrieving a map! I've never liked it when people would refer to Canada as "north of the 49th," when most Canadians actually live south of it. The fellow from NYC was convinced that all of Canada was north of all of the USA. One other thing worth mentioning about where the population has settled is the simple reality of the Jet Stream. Over North America, it happens to hug the area close to the international border between the US and Canada, then over the Atlantic it heads much further north, and by the time it reaches Europe, the dividing line between north and south in terms of air temperature and humidity is significantly further north. Edmonton, Alberta is at 53 degrees north latitude, about the same amount north of the equator as is the city of Berlin, Germany. Edmonton has winter temperatures that regularly hit -40C, whereas the coldest winter temperatures in Berlin rarely go much below the freezing point (0C). That jet stream makes an enormous difference, making large swaths of northern Europe much more hospitable to human settlement than most of Canada. Great job otherwise (other than misspelling "Ottawa" 🙂).

The picture you showed of wineries is from the west coast near Oliver, BC since I live here I recognized it right away.

fun fact - Windsor Ontario is South of Detroit City, so we drive north into the US lol

I'm one of those Canadians who actually lives further north in Canada.

Lots of neat points here, as a well travel Canadian, I spyed lots of photos from Windsor/Detroit area! Which is next to our most southern part of the country.

I really like all your videos

*Every 60 seconds in Canada, a minute passes* *Together we can stop this!*

I'm from the Toronto area, and whenever I go up to Algonquin Park I feel that I'm 'way way up north', but in actual fact there are entire US states that are north of Algonquin Park.

As someone who lives above that line every winter I cry.

That's true. Upstate New York including Buffalo gets more snow compared to Southwestern Ontario including Toronto. From Kitchener, Ontario. Canada 🇨🇦.

this guy really knows how to transition to his sponsors

“I’m not done embarrassing Canada yet.” Canadians: Sorry.

I used to live nestled in between those Great Lakes in Ontario. The temperature swing there between winter and summer is astounding. Summers were high 30s low 40s Celsius. Winter was often -30 to -40 Celsius. My friend had moved there from South African and found the summers unbearably hot.

(6:05) I live along the St. Lawrence river, in the area that was most heavily impacted by the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. In our area, approximately 38,000 acres of land was flooded in total to expand the river. 18,000 on the American side, 20,000 on the Canadian side. They relocated the population from the local towns in the area, and either dismantled or moved all of the buildings and infrastructure there to accommodate the move. On the Canadian side, in my area, 6 towns and 3 hamlets were flooded, another village lost 1/3 of its original location, and the village next to it was moved almost entirely to the North (excluding two homes). There are all kinds of reminders of this project in the St. Lawrence, including old highways, bridges, foundations, tree stumps, and railway beds that can be seen from the surface. The Americans lost 1 hamlet, and 1 street of another town, the rest of the area was farmland I believe. Because of this, the project is generally more well remembered on our side of the border than our southern neighbors.

As a Canadian who lives in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor and seeing "Ottowa" Me: 😳

5:01 Talks about southern Ontario Wineries: Shows the Okanagan valley of BC...

Ottowa? Map showed port Arthur at the head of Lake Superior. It’s been Thunder Bay for a very long time. But a cool video.

I live in Michigan and most people live in the lower peninsula. I think this is due to all the cold weather in the up. I think the same applies to Canada.

The real reason isn’t that complicated… European actually tried to go up there and build cities, but it’s just too cold and in the middle of nowhere. They rapidly realized it…

If anyone has ever experienced a Saskatchewan winter, you'd understand why.

Toronto here - it's just colder up there lol we have legitimate decent freshwater beaches in the summer where temps hit 32C or about 90F which is a lot nicer than well, you know lol

It’s crazy to think how Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, but the majority of the population live in urban areas in the southern area. While the rest of the country is just kilometers and kilometers of beautiful unappreciated wilderness and tundras. Some parts of Canada are so far from civilization and untouched by man, it’s like being on a different planet.

I crossed Canada by train in 2012 and could not believe the remoteness of most of the route beyond the major cities. Even in Ontario, which is Canada's most populous province (and not even its largest geographically), the train ran for 16 hours and never passed through a single town with more than 1,000 people in it; the largest town, Hornepayne, had only about 1,000 people and only had that many because the railroad needs a place to change crews every eight hours or so. Canada is BIG!

"But I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet." lol jokes on you dude, Canadians just like to be included.

Thanks!

Nice footage out of Windsor. ♡

As a Canadian, I can confirm we all live near the border.

As a Canadian I'm not shocked he spelt our capitol wrong. Ottowa instead of Ottawa 3:22

I live in Nova Scotia and I love it because it Sunny most of the time on June July and August!

Honestly this clears up a lot. Being from One of those northern states and knowing how cold they get, I would always say I can’t believe we’re south of an entire country.

This guy really just said Forget the Praries and East Canada when talking about agriculture

As a resident of ottawa my entire life seeing “ottowa” really hit me right in the gut

Great video, one quick note: your photo of orchards/wineries is from BC's interior not east coast corridor

Farming is actually possible and popular in the Canadian shield. I live north of this line in the Canadian shield and I'm in a farming area.

That transition to the advertising section was kinda smooth ngl

There's another, huge reason why so many Canadians live near the border, that I thought this guy was transitioning to. Political. The first true transcontinential railroad, the CPR, was built near the border to establish Canadian control over what would one day become the provinces of Manitoba, Saskachewan, Alberta and British Columbia, by establishing our own transcontinental railroad, connecting Halifax to Vancouver, and located near the 49th parallel to ensure we could populate our side of the border with settlers and move troops in as needed to prevent the USA from colonizing our west away from us. Back when our founding Prime Minister, Sir John A MacDonnald made this decision, Americans were starting to send spur lines up into Canada, and migrate Americans into western Canada. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from Halifax to Vancouver headed off that move and established Canada's territory, as the USA was forced to stop sending settlers and abandoned any spur lines they'd been building up towards/into Canada. Back in those days, the war of 1812 was still a fairly recent memory, and the American war cry of 54-40 or fight was still a part of current events. Canadians were very much concerned about America taking away parts of our country. The best way to head that off without forcing them into a major international war, would be to simply populate the border with Canadians and economic activity. That's the real, historical reason for most Canadians to live near the Canada-USA border.

Several things wrong. First, while the Southern Ontario region is fertile, and indeed some of the most fertile land in the world, you left out the entire Great Plains region which includes parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. While nowhere near as densely populated as the Qc-W corridor, it's a major source of agricultural output for the country. And I say this as a Southern Ontarian! Second, there's several huge geopolitical reasons for the population density that you did not allude to, which is shame. One is outlined by Jason Ross in a top comment below - the CN railway in the West was intentionally built close to the border to ensure the border would not be encroached upon by the US secretly - hard to do so when there's "Canadians" living there. Another is the the combination of the geography of the Saint Lawrence/lower Great Lakes, and the French colonization of Quebec. When the British took over what is now Quebec and Ontario from the French in ~1763, they faced an... uncooperative population, to say the least. Most of what would become Southern Ontario was divided into a distinct region - Upper Canada, separate from the French-speaking Lower Canada. At this point, as you alluded to regarding shipping, what is now Southern Ontario was pretty much "the inland" - the west was very far from being explored or claimed. Then, the American Revolution happened. Loyalists fleeing the 13 colonies needed somewhere British to go, and they settled mostly in Upper Canada, what is now Southern Ontario, founding cities like Kingston and York (now Toronto). Thus, we had a massive population concentration even as far back as 1790 and it has only grown since. Touching on this is like, Canadian Histropoliticalgeography 101, so I would have expected to see it mentioned.

I never knew this! super interesting

At 4:55 you showed Blue mountain vinyard in BC when talking about Quebec lol

I hate to be "that guy", but the video of vineyards in Ontario was actually near OK Falls in British Columbia.

I'm a Canadian, and I live above that line, and so do all the people in BC, AB, MB, SK, QC, NS, PEI, and NB. Canada is not the GTA.

I moved from Ottawa to Sudbury and even though Sudbury is a big northern town up here it is quite remote and sparsely populated. It’s so rocky and barren here, astronauts from the Apollo missions came here to practice exploring the moon’s surface. Although the city has made efforts to add more vegetation, the soil is very thin and you can’t farm anything here. All the mining being done doesn’t help. Produce is pricey enough here because it gets shipped in, I can’t imagine what peoples’ grocery bills look like in Iqaluit or even Kapuskasing lol.

Fun fact: Montreal is Canada’s most populated island.

"but I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet" Every Canadian ever: "what am I supposed to be embarrassed by?"

I feel I just completed a course in college after watching this video. Thanks for your work wow.

@RealLifeLore what software do you use to project those countries?

"I'm not done embarrassing Canadians yet" Ottowa

I’m Canadian, its not Ottowa, its Ottawa.

Calgary is also freezing as fucc when I last visited there, can't imagine how cold it will be further north.

Canada is kind of just a resource storage in BC is just mountains so really no Settlements Alberta is where all the oil Saskatchewan and Manitoba is farm land Ontario and Quebec is the Canadian shield where the soil is harder and in the Maritime provinces P.E.I, Nova Scotia, and new Brunswick is lobster hunting mainly and up north in where it snows a lot in the territories and the reason is bc the soil where 50% of Canadians live is where soil it’s very soft and food can be grown

I'd like to point out that Portland Oregon is also above that first dropped line which is the only major metro in all of Oregon. A lot of people don't realize how far north Portland is. Portland is further north than Toronto. Also I'd like to point out that most of this doesn't apply to Vancouver, BC. The Pacific Northwest as a whole is a weird region with its own climate rules.

How much of Northern Canada is uninhabitable? -Nonnavut

A lot of people I talk to from Europe have a really hard time understanding just how big and sparsely populated Canada is... I've heard British people complain about having to drive 2 whole hours to get to another city... I live in Calgary, a Western Canadian city of over 1 million people; going east on the TransCanada highway, I have to drive for over 16 hours before reaching the next major city...

I live in Canada and I live more north than the united stats and I think that up here is a great place the united stats too I love the videos my mom does to and she says you videos are so cool and so educational thank you so much for good work I love the snow ❄️ up here it’s great and Canada has 37 millon people living in it bye! Stay safe!

Canada in winter: it's minus 40c! Canada in summer: It's above 40c!

More than half of Canadians live in just two provinces: Ontario, where one in three Canadians live, and Quebec where almost a quarter of Canadians live.

he could've gone a little further in this video by highlighting Calgary's and Edmonton's outstanding meaning in this regard. when 80% of all Canadians live within a hundred miles from the US border, that in return means that almost half of the remaining population is "held" by those single two "settlements" (that aren't even that far apart given Canada's overall size.) effectively bringing down the population density of the remaining area (which is enormous in land size) to probably something comparable to the Pacific Ocean, I'd roughly guess.

A perceivable segue between the content and the advertising would be much appreciated.

I live in a northern section of Canada and I’ve gotta say that people make it seem like it’s as cold as Antarctica. Sure it can get fairly cold in the winter, but it really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.

Unfortunately you forgot to mention that it's generally colder in the East and so most of the western American states above southern Ontario are still warmer.

then there is me living north of that line north ontario the roads that are huge become one way in the peak of the winter

Maybe could it be that Quebec and Ontario were settled first because when you come from Europe you can go up by ship right up to Montreal? To go to Calgary or Edmonton you would have to travel thousands of miles through bush and prairie.

Alternate title: Why 50% Canadian live North of this line.

I'm a Canadian who lives North of this line, Y'all got soft lol

Fascinating. Amazing that I was never aware of the Lachine canal. Don't forget the black flies. Nasty.

I'm from WIsconsin and I was really thinking "no way I could live in Canada, it's already so cold here" but most of their major cities are literally around the same latitude as where I live already-

"Farming is impossible" Me who lives in Manitoba where we account for 11% of Canada’s farmland: that’s cap boi that’s cap

The moment when you realize he mispelled your home in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada

As a Canadian. I can confirm 77% of our population is in Madagascar

5:00 thats the south okanagan valley in BC. yeah theres wineries there but its not in the great lakes reigon

RealLifeLore: Puts out a video Me: I wasn’t interested, but you have my attention.

THE WAY HE SPELLED OTTAWA PLS IM CRYING "ottowa"

8:23 funnily enough I was in Florida in March 2020 when everything shut down and I had to get back home to Canada

The prairies actually produce the most crops in Canada but it's actually both Ontario and Quebec who have the largest food and beverage processing sector and it grosses over 100 billion a year.