I was on a train trip from Edmonton to Vancouver in November one year. There was a group of American seniors travelling across Canada. They had boarded in Halifax. They were amazed that Canada had cities with high rises. We were having a warm spell that November and I overheard them saying someone had told them it hadn’t been that warm in 100 years. I said to my daughter, oh look, the igloos have all melted! I think we are partly responsible for perpetuating their ignorance. One gentleman told me he was going to go home and learn more about Canada. These were seniors!
Similar story lol but on a game friend and I were playing with some Americans and we had them thinking we lived in igloos and ride polar bears to school. I said mine, her name was fluffy. He said he was getting off the game to tell his parents. I wondered what happened after this incident lol
I am Canadian I had an American asked me if we drive or have cars up here I've also had an American that didn't know Canada had time zones which is funny because a Canadian invented the concept of time zones
i had to actually show a photo of my house to an American because he was 100% sure we lived in igloos, would not take no for an answer. I thought he was joking when he asked, he thought I was joking when i laughed and said no
I'm a truck driver, driving from Montréal to Saskatoon, following the speed limit and going 10 hours a day takes 3½ days... Provided the Trans Canada Hwy isnt shut down for weather or accidents. The part that goes around the Great Lakes is particularly unpredictable for that. Snow squalls coming from the lakes can be pretty scary.
I definitely remember hubby driving from Ottawa to Winnipeg (our first military posting together 86 to 88), and the cruise control was almost useless along the North shore of Superior. His final posting was Camp Borden (Ontario) and we've been along Georgian Bay for 20 years. Squalls are a winter constant. Especially when our oldest was going to college in Peterborough.
K, now I'm feeling proud of myself cos (I'm from Alberta) when he was talking about that, O was trying to mentally estimate it and I was like, hmmm probably like 3 days driving or something? I feel like a boss now for getting it right despite never having driven east of Saskatchewan myself, haha (I've always flown to go further east)
Years ago I worked as a cashier at a theatre. It was the Saturday matinee, summer and really hot that day. A car parked in front with skis on the roof and they came in and asked me where the closest place was for them to go skiing, I told them my best guess was for them to drive a few thousand miles north. Recently a friend I made on a cruise years ago was on another cruise. They were pulling into Vancouver the next day and she wondered if I could come meet her for coffee. I live in Southern Ontario and she couldn't understand why I couldn't get there in time.
@@andreadunhill8219 I am not sure I would characterize him as a good guy, more that when he started out he had enough charisma that many people overlooked his numerous flaws.
@@chrisgraham2904But Americans know nothing about Alaska as well. I'm sure they couldn't even point it out on a world map if their life depended on it.
I lived there, and while we do have snow on the ground, about eight months of the year, the 21 hours of sunlight in the summer pretty much makes it go away!
I live in Sask. Had a German friend let me know they were going to be in Toronto. Could I meet them for lunch? Also an American friend from California who was going to be in Vancouver on the way to Alaska. Could I meet them for lunch🙄
When I was a teenager I went on a bus trip to California. We met some Americans who asked if we lived in an igloo. So we told them not only do we live in igloos but on the way down we were stuck in Alberta for 8 hours during the polar bear migration passed by us on the highway. We convinced them that it was normal and the polar bears got right up close to cars and the bus we were in. No one was scared cause it was normal. The bears will come up to the windows on the bus and some would rock the smaller cars. No one ever gets hurt and we just wait until they pass. The Americans actually believed it and thought it was super crazy. We never told them it wasn’t true. Lol
That reminds me of the time that I was at Disneyland and was asked by teens from Florida is we lived in Igloos, and I said yes that I did, but some rich people could afford houses. I said that I used to be able to drive a snowmobile to school, but my dad lost his whale blubber hunting job, so I had to sell my ski-doo and take the dog sled. I feel badly about it now, but at the time (I was on a school trip) we thought it was hilarious that they believed me.
Actually, that's not so farfetched if you live in Churchill, Manitoba. Vehicles and buildings are left unlocked so humans can have a safe place to escape if a polar bear decides they're on the lunch menu.
Oh yes the igloo hunting Americans. Also Troupes at our Buffalo motel bragging how well they were paid laughed when I stated my income not believing me while I pittied them how poorly they were being paid.
More like five days, unless you are several drivers all driving in tandem, with no stopping except for gas. My Swiss grandparents were visiting us in Montreal and asked to see Vancouver. It was difficult to convey to them that it was a six hour flight akin to Zurich-Montreal.
When it comes to the weed situation, I have personally had conversations with police while smoking a joint out in public and wasn't bothered but I have to admit that to this day going to the government shop that sell it and coming out the door with a brown paper bag full of weed still feels like I'm doing something wrong.
I live in Montreal and 25 years ago when weed was still illegal I use.I use to walk my dog and smoke a joint. Every night a cop would pull up next to me while I was smoking. He was only interested in my dog. I've never had. A problem with cops while smoking. They wouldn't bother you as the paperwork was a pain in the ass for the amount he'd catch you with.
Really I thought the Canadian weed thing was just a baseless American myth? A police officer beat up my dad pretty bad in the 80's in Manitoba after finding a joint on him for being "a dirty hippie".
Canada used to print $1 and $2 bills. We went to those denominations in coins because they can remain in circulation for many years and require far less maintainence.
I had a funny reaction during the Montreal Olympics in 1976. I was working as security at the stadium and answering some questions from young American adults, I was surprised when one of them said: “I didn’t know you guys spoke American “. That was even funnier becaI’m French Canadian.
And 6 more for the rest of Canada. 9 states are entirely north of the southernmost part of Canada. ME, NH, VT, MI, WI, MN, ND, MT, and WA. Also 98% of NY.
The land mass of Ontario is probably larger than those FIVE STATES combined. The SIZE of B.C. is larger than ALL the west coast States combined, WA +OR + CA+ Hawaii. Unfortunately, basic education in the USA does not include the REST OF THE WORLD, ZERO !
There are 10 US states that are further north than south western Ontario, I don't know how an American can look at a map of North America and not see the big picture, oh thats right, the world map for Americans only shows USA , nothing else exists, they are so brainwashed, I feel sorry for them, what a terrible education system
I remember years ago being on an art community website during the American Thanksgiving. Everyone was wishing me "Happy Thanksgiving" . I found myself explaining to them that I was not American and therefore do not celebrate Thanksgiving as our Thanksgiving was in early October. One person said "Oh. What do you call your Thanksgiving"?? I was stunned by the question and after a slight pause, I said "Thanksgiving".
There is American English and it drives me nuts. Oh, the heinous abominations they have committed against the most versatile language in the world. We can understand them, but we're not speaking the same English. It may be snobbery on my part but, I see American English probably how the French see Canadian French.
@@Canadianstoner21 WHAT DRIVES ME NUTS IS THAT AMERICANS THINK THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY AMERICANS. YOUR COUNTYS NAME IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IT IS NOT THE UNITED STATES IS AMERICA EH? IM AN AMERICAN TOO. BUT DONT YOU DARE CALL ME ONE.
@@CroneLife1There are American English dictionaries therefore, American English is a thing. For example. The bridge didn't collapse. That happens when the structure fails. It was knocked over, or demolished, destroyed, impacted, deconstructed, disassembled, put down, laid to waste, dismantled. Any of these would be far more accurate than 'collapsed'.
So living on Vancouver Island for many years got you all kinds of funny questions. Was asked which castle the Queen lived in? (Referring to the two historic castles in Victoria built by the Dunsmuir family). Was asked where the bridge was to get off the island. When told there is no bridge the person actually argued with me, convinced they arrived from Vancouver to the island via a bridge. Ummm nope. Nor will there ever will be. Was asked when one can see the Aurora Borealis on the island and the best spots to view. Um. Extremely rare to never and best spots, as with anywhere, would be away from city/town light noise. And sooooo much more
An uncle from El Salvador asked me why some of the snow is white and some is brown, as if 2 different types of snow fell from the sky. He didn't realise that some of the snow just got mixed with the dirt on the ground! 😆
Just to really blow your mind, the southernmost point of Canada is Pelee Island and it is at the same latitude as slightly south of Crescent City CA. The CA state line is north of that by about 0.3 degrees. Downtown Toronto at Yonge and King is at the same latitude as Winchester Bay Oregon which is south of Eugene OR. It's hard to get exact numbers but a quick check tells me at least 20M or about 1/2 live south of the 49th parallel which is the border for WA, ID, MT, ND, MN which is more than 60% of the USA Canada border. Sometimes I think Americans don't have access to Google maps or Apple maps.
Rob Ford was the mayor of Toronto. His father had a lucrative labeling company. Rob was a man who had many addictions. Alcohol, was caught drunk urinating in public, caught smoking crack. He became an embarrassment. His brother is now the Premier of Ontario.
Im a canadian. I used to work in a call centre calling to the US for solar panel sales. I was also told by an American that i speak good english for a Canadian when he found out i live in Canada.
I think Americans living in the east think all Canadians speak French. I was in New York State once and told someone I was Canadian. They didn’t believe me because I didn’t speak French.
@@franadolf4415 I am a Canadian living in the USA and can tell you that is an EXTREMELY common misconception. Even by educated Americans! They commonly think that EVERYONE in Canada speaks French. Personally...I don't know a lick of French. Never did!
I'm Canadian, I was in Galveston one time, a local guy asked me if we had roads in Canada. I says hell no, we drive as far as the border and we take dogs sleds the rest of the way..
I think the Canada Goose kinda gets a bad rap. Yes, they are protective of their mates, nests, etc. and will hiss, nip and chase you away when you get too close! Urban environments keep them constantly in fight or flight mode. But in natural, rural areas they aren’t really much different than other geese and ducks. For me, the worst part of having Canada geese around is the ridiculous amounts of goose poop!
Honestly I think most of it is exaggerated for fun. People often hold an exasperated affection for geese. The real issue is that they are nearly fearless, powerful enough to hurt you, but not a serious threat to an adult, and have fragile bird bones. Most people don't want to risk crippling an animal trying to protect it's young. Geese are a nuisance, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that loves them for it.
Canada geese fly in to munch on our harvested crops all through summer and fall. You couldn’t wish for better neighbours. However if you disturb their nests in the spring, they get very territorial and hostile. Just leave them alone and they will leave you alone.
They get VERY aggressive if you try to use a park or the zoo in the wrong time of year in Toronto. It's really not ok to cede all our parks to these interlopers.
I dunno man, I used to live near a small lake and saw all kinds of waterbirds there, even pelicans... And the only ones that'd get aggressive for no reason, try to block people from walking on the paths, etc were the Canada geese 😛 Sure, they're not always like that, though.
I had a friend come stay with us from NJ and every time I filled my gas tank she would ask me " How big is your tank? Where does all the gas go? And how do you afford so much gas? It wasn't until near the end of our visit I figured it out. Americans use gallons and Canada uses litres. She was so stressed out until we figured it out. Love ya Dee.
There are at least 5 provinces that are larger than the entire UK including Ireland. -40 temps, just adjust your day and get on with it. My favourite was a Texan arriving early morning seeing the mountains west of Calgary and asking, "Those are beautiful (pointing) who painted them?" Response, "Those are the Rocky Mountains." To which the Texan was indignant claiming "Only the US has Rocky Mountains!" As if we stole either the mountains or the name. 🙄
Spent 9 years at hubby's posting to CFB Cold Lake Alberta. Square wheels and rock hard seats in the car, face frost and triple layered outerwear, exhaust from the houses' heating hanging like a cloud at the rooftops, -47 c with a windchill of -58, and teenage boys with cabin fever when their father was on course in Ontario. But despite all that, northern lights at least 3 nights a week (depending on the weather).
Tyler - even though your show indulges my Canadian vanity rather too much I enjoy it immensely. You're so chatty and good tempered. You're like apolitical talk radio.
I once worked in a hotel near the American border (10 mile away) and Americans would come across the border wearing fur coats in August. Then they would buy something in the gift shop and ask how much it cost in "real money." One customer once asked "how do you tell your money apart when each bill is a different colour?" You can't make this stuff up. I think things are a bit better now- at least among people who live near the border.
My uncle who is from Quebec went to France and they commented how pure his French sounded. I think it's that when the French came to Quebec in the 1600's they brought with them the original French and it didn't get all corrupted. Except that Quebecois have different slang words.
France adopted/imposed the dialect of Paris, to lesson provincial differences that lead to trouble with governing the place, around the 1870s.@@JeanStAubin-nl9uo
As a Canadian, I used to think that Americans were just self-centered and they only focused on the history and geography of their own country. Many years later I traveled the southern states and realized that Americans didn't know their own history or geography and my knowledge of America was far greater than theirs.
@@michaeldowson6988 Quebec French is from the mid to late 1600's Paris mixed with Brittany, Normandy and Vendee regional languages. French was in the process of being supplanted as the main language of the colony and they had trouble keeping men there, so they sent hundreds of women from the Paris area to the colony.
We call our geese 'Canada geese,' not Canadian geese. In Quebec, they are called, "les outards.' Often in winter in Vancouver, one can go skiing in the morning, golfing then sunbathing in the afternoon. That is why so many people want to live there. Many years ago, my wife worked at a hotel in our community in South Central British Columbia. One evening a busload of American tourists rolled into their parking lot to check in. After she finished checking in a gentleman from Texas, he told her, "You sure talk good." She replied, "I speak the Queen's English." When he left to go to his room, another guest not part of the bus group shared a giggle at my wife's backhanded jibe (which had gone over his head.) This guest was from England.
The first time I ever heard a southern U.S. accent was at one of those tourist places in BC. It took me a few extra seconds to process what the elderly man was asking (we were in the dining room and he was asking about the cutlery).
My childhood best friend moved to Utah from Ottawa when were kids. In Geography class in Utah, she had to state the capital of Canada on a test. She put Ottawa of course. The teacher marked it incorrect, and stated that the answer was Toronto. They debated it in the Principal’s office. My friend’s mom had to bring in an Atlas to prove to the Principal that Ottawa was our capital. My friend was born here in Ottawa!!!🤦♀️
That "hijacker" wasn't a hijacker at all. He was just a regular passenger on that bus.. but being from Europe, he had no idea that Vancouver was several days away. He thought it was a few hours drive. When he found out in northern Ontario he freaked out and got into a physical confrontation with the bus driver while the bus was rolling down the highway. He was demanding to get off the bus. During that confrontation, the door opened and he fell out of the bus, hit a moose, and died. True story. (Except the moose part) 😂
I had a car full of people flag me down for directions to Vancouver. From Edmonton. At 5 in the morning. I told them to just keep going west. If the hit water, they went too far. 😂
I had a friend who worked at the Chateau Lake Louise and the tourist would often ask how we get the water so blue. He was tired of explaining about the minerals and glacial runoff, etc, so he told them that every spring, before tourist season, we drain the lakes and paint the bottoms blue. Word got back to his boss and he got fired. I've even had people ask "How much does the mountain weigh?" and "Where do you put the Elk at night?"
Ridiculous that they call a snow day with only 2 cm of snow (that's less than 4/5 of an inch)! That's hardly anything. Now, most of Canada doesn't get as much snow as Americans think, but at the same time, when it does snow, we're not crippled, certainly not for so little.
Moved from Ontario to Portland, Oregon when I was young ( age 5 to 10 years old) back in the '60s. One school day it snowed about an inch. My mom made sure I was wearing mittens, a hat, etc and sent me off to school. I was back home about 20 or so minutes later and she wouldn't believe me that the school was closed. So she walked me back to school only to find that, yes, it was closed for all of an inch of snow.
@@AngelEyezz002 I'm in Alberta. It snowed today, and I'm glad for every flake. The southern part of the province is going through an awful drought, and we've still got some of last summer's wildfires smoldering under a very inadequate snow cover. When the snow melts, these fires will have a head start. Anyway, it's the black ice that's more of a problem than the actual snow.
You learn how to drive in bad conditions in Canada. I've driven in some of the WORST road conditions, not in only in Canada but the U.S. as well. Blizzards, hurricanes, etc! We learn from our parents. One of the best things my father taught me, was how to drive in deep snow. Saved my a$$ a number of times! :) And helped me save others.
Yeah, I line in Australia now and when people ask about winter, they're often really floored to hear that winter in my hometown (Edmonton) usually lasts 5-6 months.
It’s the same geese here and there but when they come here they are here to mate and have babies which makes them much more territorial and aggressive.
Hey Tyler, thanks for another great video. My hubby and I were vacationing in Niagara Falls a few years ago, we were approached by a couple from U.S. I think Arkansas, if I remember correcly, anyways, they asked what our currency is..I told him it's "dollars". BTW they were very fascinated by a looney and twoonie, almost mind-blowing. I was talking to a guy from Lousiana the other day and he asked, why do we say sorry a lot...I said it's our pledge, we have to say sorry 5 times a day or else we're exported into U.S. He said, "oh well, we'll be happy to have you here, but you might have to learn American first".
In the 80'S a friend of mine and I were in the Beer Store, on a Friday afternoon of a long weekend. We were leaving when two American couples entered. They looked exhausted and frazzled. I suspect they had been trying to buy beer at grocery stores and variety stores and were really pissed off that they had to go to a special store to buy beer. Upon entering the store the one gentlemen demanded of the clerk " Do ya'll have any cold beer here", as if the Beer Store was some sort of bad practical joke, that Canadians had been playing on him and his friends!
@@agnaripOntario just started selling wine and beer in the grocery stores just in the past few years. One would have to go to the LCBO or The Beer Store before that.
@@brittanytrusler5295 Yes, I remember. I was a teenager in the 80s but I used to go with my father sometimes to buy beer. Being Italian, wine was his first choice of drink. His beer go to was Molson Canadian. RIP Dad.
Once, I went to New Orleans, and it dropped down to 0°C and snowed for the first time in like 100 years. Can't tell you how many times I was asked, "Aren't you cold?" I'd always say something along the lines of, "No. I'm Canadian. This is like our fall weather." A few times, people didn't believe me, so I let them feel my hand (this was pre-covid). Their hands were always ice cold compared to mine.
About being able to drive in snow: Most of Canada gets a considerable amount of snow each winter. Victoria BC, gets very little. The weather there is warm enough for palm trees. Two inches of snow in a short time can cause havoc as there are only six snowploughs to clear the city streets. Lack of experience driving in snow, lack of snow tires, and lack of common sense can cause a lot of problems
! ! ! I am a Canadian who travels a lot throughout the United States. I also have American family members who live in Nevada and Florida. I know for a fact that the Public School System in the United States is myopic. Canada is seldomly mentioned in the United States let alone studied. We are annoyed most of the time that your citizenry knows so little about the rest of the world ourtside of your own country! Personally, I don't find Americans lack of knowledge of Canada "funny!" I find it insulting! Europeans know more about Canada than the average American. You are an exception to the rule though Tyler Bucket, thank you for expanding your knowledge of Canada. It is most appreciated!
People like to rag on Vancouverites about bemoaning our snow driving, however to be fair it's almost always slippery melting slush or a few flakes over a sheet of black ice. Driving in stable snow is much different/better as long as you have good tires. As for distances, on a visit to England my hosts were aghast that we might drive for an hour to go out to dinner. On English maps it looks like there is distance between villages when they are often less than a mile apart. Totally different scale. Even though marijuana is legal in Canada and Washinton state, you cannot cross the border with it because it isn't legal federally in the US.
I'm surprised as well that my Canadian relatives have to drive 40 minutes to a grocery store and 1 hour to work every day. Plus gas is so much more expensive up there. I couldn't afford to live up there even if "Orange man" becomes president and I have to leave the country.
We shocked a lady at a castle we were touring in the UK when we told her we'd driven from Bath that day and would drive back the same day.( It was only 40 miles each way). Conversely, I've had people at home think I must have seen everything in the UK by now. It's hard to get them to understand how many interesting sites, history etc. there is nearly every few miles over there, unlike here where you can drive for miles and miles and it's just lakes, trees, mountains (or prairies). I found the best way to explain Canada's size to Europeans was to tell them how many days by train it would take to get from one coast to the other.
You can drive as far north as you want in the summer and you will NOT find any snow. If however you drive to BC where some places get NO snow in a given year, you can also go to Whistler and ski in April and May.
I'd rather have a 5-6 month winter than rattle snakes and black widows and other heat loving "nasties". France fits 3 times in the province of Québec. Québec has a population of 8M approx versus the French who are 55M.
I grew up in the Okanagan in southern BC, and we had rattlesnakes, black widow spiders and even scorpions. Cactus as well. When my daughter was around 5 I took her to where I had grown up, And I warned her about these things. She refused to walk anywhere that wasn't paved!
Yeah, I moved from Alberta to Australia, and I often miss having a bug-free season. Especially cos, toxic bugs aside, there are oodles of roaches all over Sydney and in basically every home, and I get very tired of being perpetually grossed out and startled by them 😅 I'm almost scared to move cos we've had it pretty peaceful in our apartment since I weather stripped the place, and I know if we move anywhere else we'll almost certainly have to go through that whole anxiety-inducing rigamarole again...
Cannabis was legalized in October of 2018. There are government owned dispensaries where anyone of legal age can purchase all types of products…..legal age is 18 or 19 depending on your province of residence, as is the drinking age.
Your geese and our geese are the same. They’re up here for the summer and migrate south for the winter. The reason they are so aggressive here and not there is because they come here to breed. Once they land here they rarely if ever leave the ground till their goslings are able to fly. They are protecting their eggs and their babies.they can’t just fly away and leave their babies.
Canada geese stay in Canada all year but I wouldn't doubt some also fly south. In most places this once endangered bird is now a nuisance and we have control programs (egg oiling or removal)
Canadian geese do not stay in Canada all year. Maybe on the coast or southern Ontario but here in the prairies they’d be fethery popsicles. They migrate as far south as Mexico.
@@chadmillar-l3e that's not necessarily true. A lot of geese living in Calgary stay all winter. In fact they fly NE during the day and come back to the city at night. I live under their flight path and hear them screaming twice a day everyday. I'm convinced there must be a lake or something NE of the city that they like to visit. But they always come back to the city to sleep at night. Most of them live around the river or on an island in the river.
The one with Montreal to Saskatchewan is funny because the distances involved are basically the same as if someone would drive from say NYC to Florida. People picture in their mind's eye a few hours drive when in reality it's a few days. A single average Canadian Province is larger than several European countries put together.
I worked at a small local airport one summer. We would get Americans flying in all the time. Some would come with skis or snowshoes in July/August and ask us where the good skiing is. We would tell them to keep flying about 2000 miles north and turn left.
I cannot understand people who don't research before planning a trip. It just boggles my mind. Every time I vacation I read up months in advance so I know what to expect, not just what to see/do.
We do have a wide range of temperatures. Hottest temperature: 121.3°F/49.6°C on June 29th, 2021 in Lytton, British Columbia. Coldest temperature: -81.4°F/-63.0°C on Feb. 3rd, 1947 in Snag, Yukon. Average temperature in Canada: -40°F/C in winter to 95°F/35°C in summer, which is a 135-Fahrenheit degree difference every six months. When I was a kid, we used to laugh at all of the Americans coming through our town in the heat of summer with skis on their roof racks looking to ski.
In my city there is a hundred degree swing from -35 to +35. The only time that schools or businesses close is if there is a blizzard with enough snow where roads are impassable.
One particular funny question that occurred during 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC… Question: Is this (Canadian) money good off (Olympic) site? Another time in Vernon, BC during the summer: Americans drove up expecting snow with winter gear. The temperatures were 30-40 degrees, in Celsius.
The skis on the roof rack is real and common. I live in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Most adults here have at least briefly, at some point in their lives, worked in the tourist industry. My friend who was a hotel desk clerk had a couple who claimed they were going skiing in Quebec. She asked them if they were checking out and they quizzically looked at her and said they would still need the room for tonight because they would be back when their daytrip was over. Of course she had to explain the distance concept to them. Oh....and the famous "What time do they turn the Falls off?" Heard daily by anyone working in that area.
I did a stint on the Hill and got asked at least once per week if they were now in Canada. For the life of me I have no idea what they thought was happening when the crossed the border with all that security.
You essentially won't find snow anywhere in Canada in July, except up in the mountains. Just think about it, the further north you go in the month of June, the longer the days are; in fact, above the arctic circle (about 60 deg. latitude), the sun is up 24 hours a day!
"Is snow creamy?" There is usually some snow dust in walk-in freezers, but not like the snow on the ground. I'm always surprised that people outside snowy place don't understand snow that way. I would love a whole video just of adults who encountered snow trying to describe how it was and wasn't what they expected and what it's like. I don't know that there's anything else like that in the natural world. Fog, mist, rain, heat humidity, sand --all have extremes, but they don't become a completely now tactile substance in the way snow does.
@@franadolf4415 I listened to a story on youtube that had a line in it that said, "All they could hear was the sound of the snow hitting the ground." It made me laugh but they were being serious.
The funniest tourist question I ever got was from a fellow Canadian who was visiting a friend and stopped by our cabin on the beach -the beach of the Pacific Ocean. He asked me, "How high are we above sea level.?" While I stared at him trying to figure an answer, he added , "We watched while we climbed in altitude over the Rockies." I wondered why he hadn't noticed the descent. So I told him, "Looks to me like you're about two feet away from the ocean."
I hate to admit I was judgemental about kids having way more snow days than we had when I was a kid. However, it struck me the population has increased substantially, and some families have 2, 3, or 4 cars, so it would be more dangerous driving than when I was growing up. Most people either didn't have a car or only one.
Montreal to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is 30 hours of driving, not accounting for stops for fuel, food, and rest or any weather or traffic issues. This would be similar to driving from Boston to Montana
Just checking the driving distance from Downtown Montreal to (Downtown Regina Saskatchewan), it's abour 30 hrs 😅😂 so unless grandpa intends to take a flight to see his friends, it is quite unlikely he can "pop over" for a visit 🤣🤣🤣 I have relatives overseas who always ask me similar questions.... "I have a friend in Vancouver or Alberta, is that close to you in Toronto". Now thats between 36-48 hrs potentially of driving auntie or uncle 😂😂😂😂 Other questions Ive gotten: - do you guys have your own money, or do you use US dollars? - do Canadians have an army? - are there other black people up there? (I myself am a black person 🤦🏽♀️😭🤣🤣)
I would check your math or source again as having driven from Ottawa to Winnipeg a few times, from experience and going about 10 mph over the speed limit it takes 29 hours to drive to Winnipeg from here. It would have to take at least another 7 hours from Montreal to Regina, 1.5-2 hrs from Montreal to Ottawa and at least 5 hrs from Winnipeg to Regina. After my last driving trip to Winnipeg, I swore never again and the same circumstances as it was basically 2 days hard driving as we had to get there by a certain day and time and were unable to leave home any earlier.
From “Ontario” Wiki page: “Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario (near Windsor and Detroit, Michigan) that is the southernmost extent of Canada's mainland. Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N - slightly farther south than the northern border of California.”
FYI - we're sharing the same geese. They migrate south in the winter. Perhaps they are not as aggressive down south as goslings (baby geese) hatch in late April and the parents are quite protective of their offspring.
I grew up in Ottawa and very seldom did everything stop and shutdown because of snow. Only a few times did it really snow, and I mean, snowing 35 centimetres and plus, did stuff close down. Nowadays schools close down not necessarily because of snow, but more because of freezing rain which is more dangerous.
While visiting in Harrisburg PA the cashier asked me where I was from. So telling her I was from Canada, she informed me she had a friend who lives on the "outskirts of Ontario!"
To be fair. Driving in the first snowfall of the year is treacherous. It is usually black ice with a little snow on top. Plus snow tires are not common. Imagine that in an area with no sand or salt trucks. It makes perfect sense to stay home for personal safety in central states.
Snow tires are mandatory in Quebec, and in certain places in BC that I know of. They should be everywhere it snows cuz most folks can't drive in even 1 inch of snow.
Studded snow tires are prohibited in Wisconsin, USA where I live because they aren't good for the roads. We have used all season radials since the '80's. They claim they are just as good as long as you still have a lot of tread on them. I never had any problems and we can get a lot of snow. (Not this winter)@@john543
Buffalo, NY must have snow all year round. It gets a lot more than Toronto. Sometimes we send our equipment there to help out when they get a really bad one out of Lake Erie.
Our walking club in Winnipeg hosted a tour group from an American walking club, as they were passing through on a trip to Churchill, Manitoba, to see the polar bears. On their return journey we hosted them again. We asked how their tour had gone and one woman asked, "Have you ever been so cold your AHballs hurt?" That question was funny because the answer is "Yes"..
I grew up in IL but now live in Vancouver Canada (west coast) and we got more snow in IL (when I was a kid) than we ever have here. Snow here is rare. It happens sometimes but it never sticks around long when it does.
Right now, March 28 2024, I still have a foot of snow in my yard. I'm around the middle of BC. My dad's place down south has blooms everywhere. They haven't seen snow since early February.
Just to preface, if you didn't know already, the southern most point in Canada, Point Pelee, is further south than Sacramento California. I was working as a bartender on a cruise ship, and told a gentleman from Sacramento this interesting tidbit. He looked at me puzzled and responded" I think you're wrong, Russia is above us. You guys are near Australia". I told him his bud light was on me, and wished him an enjoyable cruise.
The Canadian/USA border state residents realize Canada isn't always in snow. Maine, NH, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc have Canadian weather, Chicago does as well. From Montreal to Regina Saskatchewan is a 31 hour drive by car. Now granted Regina is in the middle of the province but still a long hike - 1775 miles. chicago to Albuquerque, NM is 1338 miles. I don't know where the hate on for Canada Geese came from, for 35 years I lived and walked in areas in North Vancouver (Deep Cove) that had many and other than crapping up the lawn, they were never a problem. They can become protective if they have young.
Do they? I live in Seattle now and have had people think that the weather is somehow significantly worse and/or consistently colder in Vancouver. It's 100 miles away.
@@LiqdPT I'm just going to dabble in trivia here. Interestingly the weather in Seattle is worse than in Vancouver and if you think in terms of geography and the effects of the ocean, this makes sense. However it's only slightly worse. As you know, in our coastal locations, the more inland you go the more the weather gets worse (a subjective opinion). So the weather in Concrete Washington is worse than Mukilteo which is right beside the water. So Seattle is further inland than Vancouver which means slightly colder. The ocean effect is slightly moderated because it has to go further inland to reach Seattle than Vancouver. Seattle I believe I think gets more rain. And given that it is colder, probably a little more snowfall with it staying longer but not substantially. So if snow lasts in Vancouver for two days, it probably lasts 2 1/2 days in Seattle.
@@ricknicholson5894 so, given your specific knowledge, I assume you know about the "convergence zone" around Seattle where weather can come onshore around the Olympics and come back together near Seattle. The result is that there are microclimates and Seattle, Issaquah, and Everett can be experiencing very different weather. I actually live in Mill Creek and work in Redmond. There's a very strange phenomenon near Totem Lake when travelling on the 405. I quite frequently encounter a very sudden change in weather around there. I've seen fog, rain, sudden blizzard, etc. Anecdotally, we seem to get more snow at my house than at my work. Interestingly, at least recently , Vancouver seems to get more snow than the Seattle area. I've seen relatives show blankets of snow on social media when we haven't gotten any days either side. Growing up I definitely thought Seattle got more snow than Vancouver, but I wonder how much of that was the microclimates. When I lived in Bellevue I'd see news reports of snow in Everett when we weren't getting any.
@@LiqdPT I just did a dive into Seattle/Vancouver weather. And the averages show Vancouver is "colder" but only by one degree Celsius in each month and on average gets one more day of rain per month. We had a travel trailer which we would take down to Whidbey Island and often live there for a month. Over time the months added it up. Even Whidbey has an interesting varied climate. What it does at the top of the island, middle of the island and bottom of the island varies. If I were to settle in Washington state it would be on Whidbey. I lived in Vancouver/North Vancouver for 44 years, now on Vancouver Island with its varied microclimates.
@@ricknicholson5894 ah, I grew up in PoCo and lived in North Van for a bit. So you know that weather can vary quite a bit between North Van against the mountains, Tswassen (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and in the Valley.
I was in Atlanta on business with roughly 12 others Canucks. We went to dinner and the restaurant owner sat with us. He had never been to Canada and wanted to learn as much as we could provide him. He noted how cold it was way up there. We tried to assure him he was wrong but you just knew he didn't believe a word we said. After a lengthy and friendly discussion we learned why he didn't believe us. His mother lived, a literal stone throw away from Canada, in Chicago and he routinely watched the weather reports before calling her. This great guy from Atlanta, who routinely watched the weather reports from Chicago, said, "I watched the news today and Chicago is 76 degrees and Toronto is 22 degrees!" After explaining Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, we all had a good laugh, and he covered our bill.
I lived near Montreal during Expo67 - when I was a kid. We used to love driving around checking out all the out-of-province, and US state license plates we saw from the thousands of visitors. It was July when we noticed more than a few cars coming up from the US with ski racks on their roofs.
A young couple from Europe wanted to know if they could walk from Halifax to Vancouver in a week or less. I have seen Americans arrive at Vancouver airport wearing parkas and with snow shoes and skis.....in August......it was only 85F outside. We used to get freight from London England in Vancouver destined for Halifax. It was causing us problems so I phoned London to find out why they were doing this. They thought Halifax was near to Vancouver. They were amazed when I informed them that Halifax was closer to London than Vancouver.
when I moved to Vancouver in 1980, it was common to have no snow at all some years and when there was snow, it would be less than an inch that melts away by the next day and maybe it would happen a couple times. Right now we still mostly don't get snow but we get more of it. Montreal to Saskatchewan is about 34 hours by car. Back in 1975, I phoned my brother-in-law who was at West Point to tell him that he had a new nephew, his room mate answered the phone and said he was out and asked if there was a message, so I told him that I was Dan's brother-in-law in Canada and that his sister just had a baby boy. The first thing he said was: "How are you calling? I didn't think you guys had phones."
Steel plant had a pump house by the river. When you had to do your daily inspection, you had to carry a broom to keep those geese at bay. They loved our little lagoon we created for the pump inlets. Geese would surround you and try to peck, very aggressively, until you finally left the area.
I am from Victoria B.C. and questions asked working in a tourist shop "does your flag come in different colours, I don't like red" "I'm American does a 5 and 10 making 15 in Canadian dollars" and from a friend she was asked "What does the beeping sound at the crossword mean" my friend responded "it's so blind people know when to cross" The woman responded "you let blind people drive here?'" This was many years ago
I was across the border, getting some gasoline, and an American asked me what the weather was like today. I pointed at Canada and said, well, pretty much the same as here. We weren't more than 30 seconds across the border.
Has now learned now not to drink when watching these videos. I just spit out my coffee in laughter when I saw the Ford remark. 🤣 Wasn't expecting his nickname to be used outside of Ontario nevermind the country lol.
My parents told me a story about running into a couple of Americans with skis on the roof of their station wagon back in the late 60s, early 70s. It was the middle of summer and they were on a skiing trip and wanted to know where the best skiing was. My dad told them it'd depend on whether they were waterskiing or snowskiing. It turned out they were looking for snow. My dad directed them towards the North Pole. He also directed them to some sites for waterskiing that were in a 50 mile radius. Don't know which one they chose. According to my dad they seemed very confused at our lack of snow. Fun fact, your northern states get more snow than alot of us here in southern Ontario get.
When I was in North Carolina, someone asked me what I did with my dogs in the summer. At least they realized that we have a summer, but I had to tell them that we have cars and dog sleds are not the main mode of transportation.
I’m Canadian but I lived in Texas for three years. This couple I knew had recently got married and planned on a ski trip to Canada for their honeymoon. They packed suitcases with snowsuits, boots and even bought skis. This would have been a great trip but it was July! We wished them a great honeymoon! But eventually we explained that they should postpone until winter!!!! LOL
My theory on why Americans think Canada has snow all the time, is the maps that show the border of the Canada and US, have Canada without any features,,,just a white background and the works Canada written.
Yes, in “Winterpeg”, we’ve had the mildest winter ever. Rarely double digits below zero and even above zero. We’ve had -40 a few years ago. In a Maine/ New Brunswick border town I have been asked how can we handle all of the snow. I smiled and said look across the town, what do you think. Obviously, the weather and snowfall was the same. It would be like asking Windsor and Detroit. It’s less than three km over the bridge? Or Pembina/ Emerson in Manitoba and North Dakota. There are numerous border towns. Do the US know geography? We rarely say ‘eh. I’ve never said it. It’s like all US citizens say Y’all. We NEVER “aboot”, that one is so annoying 🙄🙄
Your geese are the same birds as ours they go south to stay warm. The difference is that they breed in Canada so they get aggressive when breeding nesting and raising their young
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Most Canadians are thinking there’s something wrong with the educational systems in some countries.
Agree, notably the US. Their educational system is very much " inward looking."
No kidding. Start with the USA. Their school system is based on how much municipal tax people pay, so if you’re poor, your education is worthless.
"some countries"...
Yes, many Canadians view the USA as a whole as a very narcissistic country.
@@tonik-o3949 aint it???
I was on a train trip from Edmonton to Vancouver in November one year. There was a group of American seniors travelling across Canada. They had boarded in Halifax. They were amazed that Canada had cities with high rises. We were having a warm spell that November and I overheard them saying someone had told them it hadn’t been that warm in 100 years. I said to my daughter, oh look, the igloos have all melted! I think we are partly responsible for perpetuating their ignorance. One gentleman told me he was going to go home and learn more about Canada. These were seniors!
Similar story lol but on a game friend and I were playing with some Americans and we had them thinking we lived in igloos and ride polar bears to school. I said mine, her name was fluffy. He said he was getting off the game to tell his parents. I wondered what happened after this incident lol
My friends and I would joke about our igloos and summer sod houses
🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh God. So funny 😁
I am Canadian I had an American asked me if we drive or have cars up here I've also had an American that didn't know Canada had time zones which is funny because a Canadian invented the concept of time zones
i had to actually show a photo of my house to an American because he was 100% sure we lived in igloos, would not take no for an answer. I thought he was joking when he asked, he thought I was joking when i laughed and said no
Time zones already existed already, but they were haphazard until standard time was established by Sir Sanford Fleming.
Answer with "No we have dog sleds." Feed their ignorance and stupidity.
@@chapn7 And I've had an American in Minneapolis ask if we get around by dog sled. I mean, Minneapolis is a day's drive from winnipeg. SMH
He's actually Scottish.
I'm a truck driver, driving from Montréal to Saskatoon, following the speed limit and going 10 hours a day takes 3½ days... Provided the Trans Canada Hwy isnt shut down for weather or accidents. The part that goes around the Great Lakes is particularly unpredictable for that. Snow squalls coming from the lakes can be pretty scary.
The North Shore is a beautiful but treacherous drive. Respect to all the truckers who do it.
@liz yeah keyboard is set to Canadian French so we can do all the accents "éàìòùüûî" etc. and the exponants and fractions ²³¼½¾.
I definitely remember hubby driving from Ottawa to Winnipeg (our first military posting together 86 to 88), and the cruise control was almost useless along the North shore of Superior. His final posting was Camp Borden (Ontario) and we've been along Georgian Bay for 20 years. Squalls are a winter constant. Especially when our oldest was going to college in Peterborough.
K, now I'm feeling proud of myself cos (I'm from Alberta) when he was talking about that, O was trying to mentally estimate it and I was like, hmmm probably like 3 days driving or something? I feel like a boss now for getting it right despite never having driven east of Saskatchewan myself, haha (I've always flown to go further east)
Aaaand : Trans Canada Hwy is almost a continuous straight line, so how could the guy even think that the bus driver was going in "circles" 🤣😂
Years ago I worked as a cashier at a theatre. It was the Saturday matinee, summer and really hot that day. A car parked in front with skis on the roof and they came in and asked me where the closest place was for them to go skiing, I told them my best guess was for them to drive a few thousand miles north. Recently a friend I made on a cruise years ago was on another cruise. They were pulling into Vancouver the next day and she wondered if I could come meet her for coffee. I live in Southern Ontario and she couldn't understand why I couldn't get there in time.
lol … wow 🧐 the coffee invite especially 😂
Mr. Ford was a man of the people. He was offered crack and accepted the challenge.
I liked Rob Ford.
At first Rob Ford seemed like a good guy, but when he started having issues, it just got way out of control. It's sad he never got the help he needed.
@@andreadunhill8219 I am not sure I would characterize him as a good guy, more that when he started out he had enough charisma that many people overlooked his numerous flaws.
@@poutine57the wrong Ford brother died.
@@rickcole349 Use to be able to get pretty good hash from Doug in Etobicoke last century.
Even the Yukon doesn’t have snow all year. They have summer too lol
Alaska is an American state, so Americans should know that.
@@chrisgraham2904But Americans know nothing about Alaska as well. I'm sure they couldn't even point it out on a world map if their life depended on it.
I lived there, and while we do have snow on the ground, about eight months of the year, the 21 hours of sunlight in the summer pretty much makes it go away!
@@klondikechris I heard that's why Alaska holds multiple records for the largest ____ grown. If I recall correctly, pumpkin is one of them.
@@waterjade4198 It is similar in the Yukon. cabbages can be a meter across. Corn, on the other hand, doesn't grow at all.
Montreal to Saskatchewan would be like saying "I'm in NYC, I'm just going to pop over to Minnesota for the day"
Checked google maps and it's just a quick 33 hour drive lol
It's probably further...
Montreal is north of New York City. Saskatchewan is north of Colorado.
Not quite a day trip...
I live in Sask. Had a German friend let me know they were going to be in Toronto. Could I meet them for lunch? Also an American friend from California who was going to be in Vancouver on the way to Alaska. Could I meet them for lunch🙄
When I was a teenager I went on a bus trip to California. We met some Americans who asked if we lived in an igloo. So we told them not only do we live in igloos but on the way down we were stuck in Alberta for 8 hours during the polar bear migration passed by us on the highway. We convinced them that it was normal and the polar bears got right up close to cars and the bus we were in. No one was scared cause it was normal. The bears will come up to the windows on the bus and some would rock the smaller cars. No one ever gets hurt and we just wait until they pass. The Americans actually believed it and thought it was super crazy. We never told them it wasn’t true. Lol
And this how perpetuate American ignorance while they're too stupid to check to see if if we're lying.
That reminds me of the time that I was at Disneyland and was asked by teens from Florida is we lived in Igloos, and I said yes that I did, but some rich people could afford houses. I said that I used to be able to drive a snowmobile to school, but my dad lost his whale blubber hunting job, so I had to sell my ski-doo and take the dog sled. I feel badly about it now, but at the time (I was on a school trip) we thought it was hilarious that they believed me.
Actually, that's not so farfetched if you live in Churchill, Manitoba. Vehicles and buildings are left unlocked so humans can have a safe place to escape if a polar bear decides they're on the lunch menu.
Oh yes the igloo hunting Americans. Also Troupes at our Buffalo motel bragging how well they were paid laughed when I stated my income not believing me while I pittied them how poorly they were being paid.
Mean😂
My great aunt from UK thought it was a three hour drive to Vancouver from Montreal. It’s a minimum of 3 days. In the summer.
More like five days, unless you are several drivers all driving in tandem, with no stopping except for gas. My Swiss grandparents were visiting us in Montreal and asked to see Vancouver. It was difficult to convey to them that it was a six hour flight akin to Zurich-Montreal.
Without stops for gas and pee breaks 😂
Considering you could pretty much fit all of Europe into Canada, it's like asking if a drive from England brings you you to Morocco in a day 😂
When it comes to the weed situation, I have personally had conversations with police while smoking a joint out in public and wasn't bothered but I have to admit that to this day going to the government shop that sell it and coming out the door with a brown paper bag full of weed still feels like I'm doing something wrong.
Right, it's so surreal to just go to the Pot shop, after a lifetime of searching and dickering 😮😂. Hey from Summerside PEI 🇨🇦❤️🤟💯🔥
I live in Montreal and 25 years ago when weed was still illegal I use.I use to walk my dog and smoke a joint. Every night a cop would pull up next to me while I was smoking. He was only interested in my dog. I've never had. A problem with cops while smoking. They wouldn't bother you as the paperwork was a pain in the ass for the amount he'd catch you with.
Really I thought the Canadian weed thing was just a baseless American myth? A police officer beat up my dad pretty bad in the 80's in Manitoba after finding a joint on him for being "a dirty hippie".
You must not live in BC. We had open smoke weed cafes here 25-30 years ago....cops did nothing.
Two notable questions I've received from American tourists: "Do you speak Canadian?" and "Do y'all take dollars"
I'm Canadian and I've always wondered why/how is it cheaper to make loonies & toonies rather than their paper counter parts? 🤔
It’s funny we do have dollars and most major businesses accept usd
@@aps5846same
Doug Ford was the Mayor of Toronto for a while until videos came out of him doing crack.
Canada used to print $1 and $2 bills. We went to those denominations in coins because they can remain in circulation for many years and require far less maintainence.
I had a funny reaction during the Montreal Olympics in 1976. I was working as security at the stadium and answering some questions from young American adults, I was surprised when one of them said: “I didn’t know you guys spoke American “.
That was even funnier becaI’m French Canadian.
Yanks think American is actually a language
They also think that’s their nationality??
Crack mayor refers to Rob Ford, the current Ontario Premiers brother. He did crack. In 1999, i also believe he was arrested in florida for DUI.
He has since passed away.
If asked; "Do you know the crack Mayor from Toronto? I have to answer; "Yes...he was my neighbour".
He was on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Kimmel roasted him.
he did some crazy stuff but he tried to good for the city
He made the news in many US cities as a notorious, bombastic, larger than life character. He did in fact get high on crack occasionally.
when you think about it, Ontario shares a border with five states of the USA: New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Minnesota.
BC borders Alaska, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
And 6 more for the rest of Canada. 9 states are entirely north of the southernmost part of Canada. ME, NH, VT, MI, WI, MN, ND, MT, and WA. Also 98% of NY.
The land mass of Ontario is probably larger than those FIVE STATES combined. The SIZE of B.C. is larger than ALL the west coast States combined, WA +OR + CA+ Hawaii. Unfortunately, basic education in the USA does not include the REST OF THE WORLD, ZERO !
There are 10 US states that are further north than south western Ontario, I don't know how an American can look at a map of North America and not see the big picture, oh thats right, the world map for Americans only shows USA , nothing else exists, they are so brainwashed, I feel sorry for them, what a terrible education system
Windsor is south of Detroit.
I remember years ago being on an art community website during the American Thanksgiving. Everyone was wishing me "Happy Thanksgiving" . I found myself explaining to them that I was not American and therefore do not celebrate Thanksgiving as our Thanksgiving was in early October. One person said "Oh. What do you call your Thanksgiving"?? I was stunned by the question and after a slight pause, I said "Thanksgiving".
It’s surprising how many Americans believe “American” is a language.
There is American English and it drives me nuts. Oh, the heinous abominations they have committed against the most versatile language in the world. We can understand them, but we're not speaking the same English. It may be snobbery on my part but, I see American English probably how the French see Canadian French.
@@Canadianstoner21 , as per the meme, there is English, and then there are mistakes. American English doesn't exist. :D
@@Canadianstoner21 WHAT DRIVES ME NUTS IS THAT AMERICANS THINK THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY AMERICANS. YOUR COUNTYS NAME IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IT IS NOT THE UNITED STATES IS AMERICA EH? IM AN AMERICAN TOO. BUT DONT YOU DARE CALL ME ONE.
Or that "America" is an actual country.
@@CroneLife1There are American English dictionaries therefore, American English is a thing. For example. The bridge didn't collapse. That happens when the structure fails. It was knocked over, or demolished, destroyed, impacted, deconstructed, disassembled, put down, laid to waste, dismantled. Any of these would be far more accurate than 'collapsed'.
So living on Vancouver Island for many years got you all kinds of funny questions.
Was asked which castle the Queen lived in? (Referring to the two historic castles in Victoria built by the Dunsmuir family).
Was asked where the bridge was to get off the island. When told there is no bridge the person actually argued with me, convinced they arrived from Vancouver to the island via a bridge. Ummm nope. Nor will there ever will be.
Was asked when one can see the Aurora Borealis on the island and the best spots to view. Um. Extremely rare to never and best spots, as with anywhere, would be away from city/town light noise. And sooooo much more
From the island as well asked when the guards would be changing in front of the parliament building does the queen live at the Empress Hotel
I do find it funny how most places think Canada is covered in snow all the time, but they never look at Google Maps/Earth.
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Me too. 2 cm is nothing.
Many people, including many Americans, are pretty bad at geography, and don't really know about or care much of anything outside their borders.
@@Scroopiej where I live in Nova Scotia it only snowed approximately four times all winter, it never stayed
The only thing that stops Canadian snow from invading the US is the giant border wall built a few years ago. And of course paid by Mexico.
Or they think everyone only talks French. Sigh.
An uncle from El Salvador asked me why some of the snow is white and some is brown, as if 2 different types of snow fell from the sky. He didn't realise that some of the snow just got mixed with the dirt on the ground! 😆
Don't eat yellow snow 😃
Snirt - a mix of snow and dirt.
Most common in Spring as melting occurs.
And salt.
My dad´s wife´s family in Thailand asked if he could bring some snow with him the next time he went there. They didn´t know snow melts.
@@LindaSjoeblom awe thats actually so sweet lol
Just to really blow your mind, the southernmost point of Canada is Pelee Island and it is at the same latitude as slightly south of Crescent City CA. The CA state line is north of that by about 0.3 degrees. Downtown Toronto at Yonge and King is at the same latitude as Winchester Bay Oregon which is south of Eugene OR.
It's hard to get exact numbers but a quick check tells me at least 20M or about 1/2 live south of the 49th parallel which is the border for WA, ID, MT, ND, MN which is more than 60% of the USA Canada border. Sometimes I think Americans don't have access to Google maps or Apple maps.
Pelee Island makes delicious wines🍷🍾
Rob Ford was the mayor of Toronto. His father had a lucrative labeling company. Rob was a man who had many addictions. Alcohol, was caught drunk urinating in public, caught smoking crack. He became an embarrassment. His brother is now the Premier of Ontario.
Your Premier is also a member of his family’s drug empire.
@@lizzyfolks9116yes, Doug was always more business-savvy than Rob. He may not have a post secondary degree, but he was a hell of a hash dealer.
Im a canadian. I used to work in a call centre calling to the US for solar panel sales. I was also told by an American that i speak good english for a Canadian when he found out i live in Canada.
I think Americans living in the east think all Canadians speak French. I was in New York State once and told someone I was Canadian. They didn’t believe me because I didn’t speak French.
@@franadolf4415 I am a Canadian living in the USA and can tell you that is an EXTREMELY common misconception. Even by educated Americans! They commonly think that EVERYONE in Canada speaks French.
Personally...I don't know a lick of French. Never did!
I'm Canadian, I was in Galveston one time, a local guy asked me if we had roads in Canada. I says hell no, we drive as far as the border and we take dogs sleds the rest of the way..
I think the Canada Goose kinda gets a bad rap. Yes, they are protective of their mates, nests, etc. and will hiss, nip and chase you away when you get too close! Urban environments keep them constantly in fight or flight mode. But in natural, rural areas they aren’t really much different than other geese and ducks. For me, the worst part of having Canada geese around is the ridiculous amounts of goose poop!
Honestly I think most of it is exaggerated for fun. People often hold an exasperated affection for geese.
The real issue is that they are nearly fearless, powerful enough to hurt you, but not a serious threat to an adult, and have fragile bird bones. Most people don't want to risk crippling an animal trying to protect it's young.
Geese are a nuisance, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that loves them for it.
Canada geese fly in to munch on our harvested crops all through summer and fall. You couldn’t wish for better neighbours. However if you disturb their nests in the spring, they get very territorial and hostile. Just leave them alone and they will leave you alone.
They get VERY aggressive if you try to use a park or the zoo in the wrong time of year in Toronto. It's really not ok to cede all our parks to these interlopers.
I dunno man, I used to live near a small lake and saw all kinds of waterbirds there, even pelicans... And the only ones that'd get aggressive for no reason, try to block people from walking on the paths, etc were the Canada geese 😛 Sure, they're not always like that, though.
Most geese are one hell of lot larger and heavier than ducks....
I had a friend come stay with us from NJ and every time I filled my gas tank she would ask me " How big is your tank? Where does all the gas go? And how do you afford so much gas? It wasn't until near the end of our visit I figured it out. Americans use gallons and Canada uses litres. She was so stressed out until we figured it out. Love ya Dee.
@jennthurston364 You should have said that the car either drinks it all up or eats it all up 🤣.
@@JesusIsComing77736 lol! Hind sight. Honestly I was just so confused by her distress.
There are at least 5 provinces that are larger than the entire UK including Ireland.
-40 temps, just adjust your day and get on with it.
My favourite was a Texan arriving early morning seeing the mountains west of Calgary and asking, "Those are beautiful (pointing) who painted them?"
Response, "Those are the Rocky Mountains." To which the Texan was indignant claiming "Only the US has Rocky Mountains!" As if we stole either the mountains or the name. 🙄
I worked in Alberta one summer in an area with glaciers. A woman asked my colleague "what time does the next glacier go by?"
@@sparky711choc Did she confuse glaciers for icebergs? And Alberta for Newfoundland?
Spent 9 years at hubby's posting to CFB Cold Lake Alberta. Square wheels and rock hard seats in the car, face frost and triple layered outerwear, exhaust from the houses' heating hanging like a cloud at the rooftops, -47 c with a windchill of -58, and teenage boys with cabin fever when their father was on course in Ontario. But despite all that, northern lights at least 3 nights a week (depending on the weather).
We have Desert in British Columbia with Rattlesnakes, The record high temperature was 121 degrees F
Explains why Texas is a red state. Morons.
Tyler - even though your show indulges my Canadian vanity rather too much I enjoy it immensely. You're so chatty and good tempered. You're like apolitical talk radio.
We do call ourselves "The Great White North" so that probably doesn't help non-Canadians with the weather
To be fair there's allot more "great white north" than not, we just mostly stick to the southern parts
Carooca coo CA coo.sctv😂
if the question, is do you live in a IGLOO the answer should always be YES of course. and my dog/sled team is great on HWY 401 . Why confuse them.
@@dcrot9109 That reminded me of an old Jim Cary stand up video, where he did that.
Ironic name given our diversity.
As a Canadian people also forget that it’s the second largest country in the world behind Russia
I once worked in a hotel near the American border (10 mile away) and Americans would come across the border wearing fur coats in August. Then they would buy something in the gift shop and ask how much it cost in "real money." One customer once asked "how do you tell your money apart when each bill is a different colour?" You can't make this stuff up. I think things are a bit better now- at least among people who live near the border.
I’m a French-Canadian and I’ve been told in Barcelona that my French was very good.😅😅😅
My uncle who is from Quebec went to France and they commented how pure his French sounded. I think it's that when the French came to Quebec in the 1600's they brought with them the original French and it didn't get all corrupted. Except that Quebecois have different slang words.
France adopted/imposed the dialect of Paris, to lesson provincial differences that lead to trouble with governing the place, around the 1870s.@@JeanStAubin-nl9uo
As a Canadian, I used to think that Americans were just self-centered and they only focused on the history and geography of their own country. Many years later I traveled the southern states and realized that Americans didn't know their own history or geography and my knowledge of America was far greater than theirs.
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@@michaeldowson6988 Quebec French is from the mid to late 1600's Paris mixed with Brittany, Normandy and Vendee regional languages. French was in the process of being supplanted as the main language of the colony and they had trouble keeping men there, so they sent hundreds of women from the Paris area to the colony.
We call our geese 'Canada geese,' not Canadian geese. In Quebec, they are called, "les outards.'
Often in winter in Vancouver, one can go skiing in the morning, golfing then sunbathing in the afternoon. That is why so many people want to live there.
Many years ago, my wife worked at a hotel in our community in South Central British Columbia. One evening a busload of American tourists rolled into their parking lot to check in. After she finished checking in a gentleman from Texas, he told her, "You sure talk good." She replied, "I speak the Queen's English." When he left to go to his room, another guest not part of the bus group shared a giggle at my wife's backhanded jibe (which had gone over his head.) This guest was from England.
The first time I ever heard a southern U.S. accent was at one of those tourist places in BC. It took me a few extra seconds to process what the elderly man was asking (we were in the dining room and he was asking about the cutlery).
My childhood best friend moved to Utah from Ottawa when were kids. In Geography class in Utah, she had to state the capital of Canada on a test. She put Ottawa of course. The teacher marked it incorrect, and stated that the answer was Toronto. They debated it in the Principal’s office. My friend’s mom had to bring in an Atlas to prove to the Principal that Ottawa was our capital. My friend was born here in Ottawa!!!🤦♀️
That "hijacker" wasn't a hijacker at all. He was just a regular passenger on that bus.. but being from Europe, he had no idea that Vancouver was several days away. He thought it was a few hours drive. When he found out in northern Ontario he freaked out and got into a physical confrontation with the bus driver while the bus was rolling down the highway. He was demanding to get off the bus. During that confrontation, the door opened and he fell out of the bus, hit a moose, and died. True story.
(Except the moose part) 😂
I had a car full of people flag me down for directions to Vancouver. From Edmonton. At 5 in the morning. I told them to just keep going west. If the hit water, they went too far. 😂
I had a friend who worked at the Chateau Lake Louise and the tourist would often ask how we get the water so blue. He was tired of explaining about the minerals and glacial runoff, etc, so he told them that every spring, before tourist season, we drain the lakes and paint the bottoms blue. Word got back to his boss and he got fired.
I've even had people ask "How much does the mountain weigh?" and "Where do you put the Elk at night?"
Sorry, but the glacier water one got me😂😂😂. I’d be willing to be fired for that one.
Of course we bring the Elk into our igloos at night to provide heat. You haven't slept until you've spooned with an Elk.
Ridiculous that they call a snow day with only 2 cm of snow (that's less than 4/5 of an inch)! That's hardly anything. Now, most of Canada doesn't get as much snow as Americans think, but at the same time, when it does snow, we're not crippled, certainly not for so little.
Vancouver.
Im from Manitoba. We get a ridiculous amount of snow. Except for this year, its been a weird year.
@@LiqdPT Victoria, hold my beer.
Moved from Ontario to Portland, Oregon when I was young ( age 5 to 10 years old) back in the '60s.
One school day it snowed about an inch. My mom made sure I was wearing mittens, a hat, etc and sent me off to school. I was back home about 20 or so minutes later and she wouldn't believe me that the school was closed. So she walked me back to school only to find that, yes, it was closed for all of an inch of snow.
@@AngelEyezz002 I'm in Alberta. It snowed today, and I'm glad for every flake. The southern part of the province is going through an awful drought, and we've still got some of last summer's wildfires smoldering under a very inadequate snow cover. When the snow melts, these fires will have a head start.
Anyway, it's the black ice that's more of a problem than the actual snow.
You learn how to drive in bad conditions in Canada. I've driven in some of the WORST road conditions, not in only in Canada but the U.S. as well. Blizzards, hurricanes, etc! We learn from our parents. One of the best things my father taught me, was how to drive in deep snow. Saved my a$$ a number of times! :) And helped me save others.
I’m from Labrador, where it’s been explained as the land god gave to Cain. I prefer it as 9 months of winter, 3 months bad snowmobiling weather. 😂😂😂
Yeah, I line in Australia now and when people ask about winter, they're often really floored to hear that winter in my hometown (Edmonton) usually lasts 5-6 months.
It’s the same geese here and there but when they come here they are here to mate and have babies which makes them much more territorial and aggressive.
Hey Tyler, thanks for another great video. My hubby and I were vacationing in Niagara Falls a few years ago, we were approached by a couple from U.S. I think Arkansas, if I remember correcly, anyways, they asked what our currency is..I told him it's "dollars". BTW they were very fascinated by a looney and twoonie, almost mind-blowing. I was talking to a guy from Lousiana the other day and he asked, why do we say sorry a lot...I said it's our pledge, we have to say sorry 5 times a day or else we're exported into U.S. He said, "oh well, we'll be happy to have you here, but you might have to learn American first".
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In the 80'S a friend of mine and I were in the Beer Store, on a Friday afternoon of a long weekend. We were leaving when two American couples entered. They looked exhausted and frazzled. I suspect they had been trying to buy beer at grocery stores and variety stores and were really pissed off that they had to go to a special store to buy beer. Upon entering the store the one gentlemen demanded of the clerk " Do ya'll have any cold beer here", as if the Beer Store was some sort of bad practical joke, that Canadians had been playing on him and his friends!
Where do you live. I live in Quebec and every depanneur and grocery store sells beer
@@agnaripOntario just started selling wine and beer in the grocery stores just in the past few years. One would have to go to the LCBO or The Beer Store before that.
@@mi2boizHell, in the 80s they still stored all the beer in the back of the store. You had to tell the clerk what you wanted.
@@brittanytrusler5295 Yes, I remember. I was a teenager in the 80s but I used to go with my father sometimes to buy beer. Being Italian, wine was his first choice of drink. His beer go to was Molson Canadian. RIP Dad.
@@brittanytrusler5295it’s still that way in several Beer Stores. A make work project.
Once, I went to New Orleans, and it dropped down to 0°C and snowed for the first time in like 100 years. Can't tell you how many times I was asked, "Aren't you cold?" I'd always say something along the lines of, "No. I'm Canadian. This is like our fall weather." A few times, people didn't believe me, so I let them feel my hand (this was pre-covid). Their hands were always ice cold compared to mine.
About being able to drive in snow: Most of Canada gets a considerable amount of snow each winter. Victoria BC, gets very little. The weather there is warm enough for palm trees. Two inches of snow in a short time can cause havoc as there are only six snowploughs to clear the city streets.
Lack of experience driving in snow, lack of snow tires, and lack of common sense can cause a lot of problems
Jimmy Kimmel had Rob Ford on his show several times. He had addiction problems and embarrassed Toronto and Canada.
! ! ! I am a Canadian who travels a lot throughout the United States. I also have American family members who live in Nevada and Florida. I know for a fact that the Public School System in the United States is myopic. Canada is seldomly mentioned in the United States let alone studied. We are annoyed most of the time that your citizenry knows so little about the rest of the world ourtside of your own country! Personally, I don't find Americans lack of knowledge of Canada "funny!" I find it insulting! Europeans know more about Canada than the average American. You are an exception to the rule though Tyler Bucket, thank you for expanding your knowledge of Canada. It is most appreciated!
People like to rag on Vancouverites about bemoaning our snow driving, however to be fair it's almost always slippery melting slush or a few flakes over a sheet of black ice. Driving in stable snow is much different/better as long as you have good tires.
As for distances, on a visit to England my hosts were aghast that we might drive for an hour to go out to dinner. On English maps it looks like there is distance between villages when they are often less than a mile apart. Totally different scale.
Even though marijuana is legal in Canada and Washinton state, you cannot cross the border with it because it isn't legal federally in the US.
I'm surprised as well that my Canadian relatives have to drive 40 minutes to a grocery store and 1 hour to work every day. Plus gas is so much more expensive up there. I couldn't afford to live up there even if "Orange man" becomes president and I have to leave the country.
We shocked a lady at a castle we were touring in the UK when we told her we'd driven from Bath that day and would drive back the same day.( It was only 40 miles each way). Conversely, I've had people at home think I must have seen everything in the UK by now. It's hard to get them to understand how many interesting sites, history etc. there is nearly every few miles over there, unlike here where you can drive for miles and miles and it's just lakes, trees, mountains (or prairies).
I found the best way to explain Canada's size to Europeans was to tell them how many days by train it would take to get from one coast to the other.
You can drive as far north as you want in the summer and you will NOT find any snow. If however you drive to BC where some places get NO snow in a given year, you can also go to Whistler and ski in April and May.
I'd rather have a 5-6 month winter than rattle snakes and black widows and other heat loving "nasties".
France fits 3 times in the province of Québec. Québec has a population of 8M approx versus the French who are 55M.
I'm in northern USA and I'd take our winters anytime compared to those creepy crawlers down south.😯
I grew up in the Okanagan in southern BC, and we had rattlesnakes, black widow spiders and even scorpions. Cactus as well. When my daughter was around 5 I took her to where I had grown up, And I warned her about these things. She refused to walk anywhere that wasn't paved!
OMG😯I had no idea!@@klondikechris
Yeah, I moved from Alberta to Australia, and I often miss having a bug-free season. Especially cos, toxic bugs aside, there are oodles of roaches all over Sydney and in basically every home, and I get very tired of being perpetually grossed out and startled by them 😅 I'm almost scared to move cos we've had it pretty peaceful in our apartment since I weather stripped the place, and I know if we move anywhere else we'll almost certainly have to go through that whole anxiety-inducing rigamarole again...
Cannabis was legalized in October of 2018. There are government owned dispensaries where anyone of legal age can purchase all types of products…..legal age is 18 or 19 depending on your province of residence, as is the drinking age.
Your geese and our geese are the same. They’re up here for the summer and migrate south for the winter. The reason they are so aggressive here and not there is because they come here to breed. Once they land here they rarely if ever leave the ground till their goslings are able to fly. They are protecting their eggs and their babies.they can’t just fly away and leave their babies.
Canada geese stay in Canada all year but I wouldn't doubt some also fly south. In most places this once endangered bird is now a nuisance and we have control programs (egg oiling or removal)
Canadian geese do not stay in Canada all year. Maybe on the coast or southern Ontario but here in the prairies they’d be fethery popsicles. They migrate as far south as Mexico.
@@chadmillar-l3e that's not necessarily true. A lot of geese living in Calgary stay all winter. In fact they fly NE during the day and come back to the city at night. I live under their flight path and hear them screaming twice a day everyday. I'm convinced there must be a lake or something NE of the city that they like to visit. But they always come back to the city to sleep at night. Most of them live around the river or on an island in the river.
I don’t have the strength to deal with the whole Dunning Kruger thing you’ve got going on. Google it.
If they don't fly south why are they always flying south in V FORMATION in late fall. Are they confused?? @@john543
I think the funniest is the temperature…. Many think 32 degrees is cool, but it’s hotter than your Gramma’s front parlour!
That's because 32 degrees in the USA is in Fahrenheit and IS COLD but 32 in Canada is in Celsius and is hot.
Got up to 54c on the front porch a couple of years ago. 100km North of Edmonton.
@@sudsy7131 That heat dome was brutal.
The one with Montreal to Saskatchewan is funny because the distances involved are basically the same as if someone would drive from say NYC to Florida. People picture in their mind's eye a few hours drive when in reality it's a few days. A single average Canadian Province is larger than several European countries put together.
I worked at a small local airport one summer. We would get Americans flying in all the time. Some would come with skis or snowshoes in July/August and ask us where the good skiing is. We would tell them to keep flying about 2000 miles north and turn left.
I cannot understand people who don't research before planning a trip. It just boggles my mind. Every time I vacation I read up months in advance so I know what to expect, not just what to see/do.
In grad 1 schools in Canada start to teach kids about the world, by grad 4 we know all the geography of North America.
We do have a wide range of temperatures.
Hottest temperature: 121.3°F/49.6°C on June 29th, 2021 in Lytton, British Columbia.
Coldest temperature: -81.4°F/-63.0°C on Feb. 3rd, 1947 in Snag, Yukon.
Average temperature in Canada: -40°F/C in winter to 95°F/35°C in summer, which is a 135-Fahrenheit degree difference every six months.
When I was a kid, we used to laugh at all of the Americans coming through our town in the heat of summer with skis on their roof racks looking to ski.
In my city there is a hundred degree swing from -35 to +35. The only time that schools or businesses close is if there is a blizzard with enough snow where roads are impassable.
I think that’s 70 degrees
@@franadolf4415 +35 is 95 degrees Fahrenheit!
One particular funny question that occurred during 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC…
Question: Is this (Canadian) money good off (Olympic) site?
Another time in Vernon, BC during the summer: Americans drove up expecting snow with winter gear. The temperatures were 30-40 degrees, in Celsius.
The skis on the roof rack is real and common. I live in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Most adults here have at least briefly, at some point in their lives, worked in the tourist industry. My friend who was a hotel desk clerk had a couple who claimed they were going skiing in Quebec. She asked them if they were checking out and they quizzically looked at her and said they would still need the room for tonight because they would be back when their daytrip was over. Of course she had to explain the distance concept to them. Oh....and the famous "What time do they turn the Falls off?" Heard daily by anyone working in that area.
I did a stint on the Hill and got asked at least once per week if they were now in Canada. For the life of me I have no idea what they thought was happening when the crossed the border with all that security.
You essentially won't find snow anywhere in Canada in July, except up in the mountains. Just think about it, the further north you go in the month of June, the longer the days are; in fact, above the arctic circle (about 60 deg. latitude), the sun is up 24 hours a day!
"Is snow creamy?" There is usually some snow dust in walk-in freezers, but not like the snow on the ground. I'm always surprised that people outside snowy place don't understand snow that way. I would love a whole video just of adults who encountered snow trying to describe how it was and wasn't what they expected and what it's like. I don't know that there's anything else like that in the natural world. Fog, mist, rain, heat humidity, sand --all have extremes, but they don't become a completely now tactile substance in the way snow does.
A lot of newcomers say that they knew snow would be cold but they didn't expect it to be wet.
@@Basic-c2r Dry snow isn't very wet. It's more like cold glass, and very sharp. You can cut yourself on it.
I heard of someone encountering snow for the first time being surprised that it fell quietly. No sound. Amazing!
@@franadolf4415 I listened to a story on youtube that had a line in it that said, "All they could hear was the sound of the snow hitting the ground." It made me laugh but they were being serious.
It was a fun watch.
I had people from New Jersey ask me if we ever saw daylight, lol.
The funniest tourist question I ever got was from a fellow Canadian who was visiting a friend and stopped by our cabin on the beach -the beach of the Pacific Ocean. He asked me, "How high are we above sea level.?" While I stared at him trying to figure an answer, he added , "We watched while we climbed in altitude over the Rockies." I wondered why he hadn't noticed the descent.
So I told him, "Looks to me like you're about two feet away from the ocean."
Tyler I truely appreciate our friendship. You bring me much happiness . 😘🇨🇦
The average American doesn't no a great deal about anything outside of America.
Switch that ‘no’ to ‘know’ 😂
Ditto
I got news for you. A lot of Americans don't know much about their own country let alone ours.
I watched a street level interview of random Americans.... one couldnt point to Canada on a map. How America made it his far is beyond me.
I hate to admit I was judgemental about kids having way more snow days than we had when I was a kid. However, it struck me the population has increased substantially, and some families have 2, 3, or 4 cars, so it would be more dangerous driving than when I was growing up. Most people either didn't have a car or only one.
Montreal to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is 30 hours of driving, not accounting for stops for fuel, food, and rest or any weather or traffic issues. This would be similar to driving from Boston to Montana
For our European friends: Brussels to Moscow is 2553 km driving. Montreal to Moose Jaw is 2851 km driving.
Just checking the driving distance from Downtown Montreal to (Downtown Regina Saskatchewan), it's abour 30 hrs 😅😂 so unless grandpa intends to take a flight to see his friends, it is quite unlikely he can "pop over" for a visit 🤣🤣🤣
I have relatives overseas who always ask me similar questions....
"I have a friend in Vancouver or Alberta, is that close to you in Toronto". Now thats between 36-48 hrs potentially of driving auntie or uncle 😂😂😂😂
Other questions Ive gotten:
- do you guys have your own money, or do you use US dollars?
- do Canadians have an army?
- are there other black people up there? (I myself am a black person 🤦🏽♀️😭🤣🤣)
I would check your math or source again as having driven from Ottawa to Winnipeg a few times, from experience and going about 10 mph over the speed limit it takes 29 hours to drive to Winnipeg from here. It would have to take at least another 7 hours from Montreal to Regina, 1.5-2 hrs from Montreal to Ottawa and at least 5 hrs from Winnipeg to Regina. After my last driving trip to Winnipeg, I swore never again and the same circumstances as it was basically 2 days hard driving as we had to get there by a certain day and time and were unable to leave home any earlier.
From “Ontario” Wiki page:
“Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario (near Windsor and Detroit, Michigan) that is the southernmost extent of Canada's mainland. Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N - slightly farther south than the northern border of California.”
FYI - we're sharing the same geese. They migrate south in the winter. Perhaps they are not as aggressive down south as goslings (baby geese) hatch in late April and the parents are quite protective of their offspring.
I grew up in Ottawa and very seldom did everything stop and shutdown because of snow. Only a few times did it really snow, and I mean, snowing 35 centimetres and plus, did stuff close down. Nowadays schools close down not necessarily because of snow, but more because of freezing rain which is more dangerous.
I worked at a ski resort in the Rockies and had people surprised to see there was still snow at the top of the mountains at the beginning of summer
I had a snowball fight in August in the mountains of tumbler ridge doing heleportable sismic drilling.
While visiting in Harrisburg PA the cashier asked me where I was from. So telling her I was from Canada, she informed me she had a friend who lives on the "outskirts of Ontario!"
To be fair. Driving in the first snowfall of the year is treacherous.
It is usually black ice with a little snow on top. Plus snow tires are not common.
Imagine that in an area with no sand or salt trucks.
It makes perfect sense to stay home for personal safety in central states.
Snow tires are mandatory in Quebec, and in certain places in BC that I know of. They should be everywhere it snows cuz most folks can't drive in even 1 inch of snow.
Studded snow tires are prohibited in Wisconsin, USA where I live because they aren't good for the roads. We have used all season radials since the '80's. They claim they are just as good as long as you still have a lot of tread on them. I never had any problems and we can get a lot of snow. (Not this winter)@@john543
I had a American woman say to me that she wouldn't take a trip to Alaska because their is to much water between United States and Alaska.......wow!
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Buffalo, NY must have snow all year round. It gets a lot more than Toronto. Sometimes we send our equipment there to help out when they get a really bad one out of Lake Erie.
Our walking club in Winnipeg hosted a tour group from an American walking club, as they were passing through on a trip to Churchill, Manitoba, to see the polar bears. On their return journey we hosted them again. We asked how their tour had gone and one woman asked, "Have you ever been so cold your AHballs hurt?" That question was funny because the answer is "Yes"..
I grew up in IL but now live in Vancouver Canada (west coast) and we got more snow in IL (when I was a kid) than we ever have here. Snow here is rare. It happens sometimes but it never sticks around long when it does.
How long have you lived in Vancouver?
Right now, March 28 2024, I still have a foot of snow in my yard. I'm around the middle of BC. My dad's place down south has blooms everywhere. They haven't seen snow since early February.
Even in a radius of 7 miles from where I live, spring arrives at different times, generally about 2 weeks apart for each zone.
Just to preface, if you didn't know already, the southern most point in Canada, Point Pelee, is further south than Sacramento California. I was working as a bartender on a cruise ship, and told a gentleman from Sacramento this interesting tidbit. He looked at me puzzled and responded" I think you're wrong, Russia is above us. You guys are near Australia".
I told him his bud light was on me, and wished him an enjoyable cruise.
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So a Bot just impersonated Tyler and almost got me for 200bucks
Sacramento is further south. Middle Island is the furthest point south in Canada. Just south of the California Oregon border.
@@janetyeoman1544 middle island is part of Pelee National island, so excuse my error
The Canadian/USA border state residents realize Canada isn't always in snow. Maine, NH, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc have Canadian weather, Chicago does as well. From Montreal to Regina Saskatchewan is a 31 hour drive by car. Now granted Regina is in the middle of the province but still a long hike - 1775 miles. chicago to Albuquerque, NM is 1338 miles. I don't know where the hate on for Canada Geese came from, for 35 years I lived and walked in areas in North Vancouver (Deep Cove) that had many and other than crapping up the lawn, they were never a problem. They can become protective if they have young.
Do they? I live in Seattle now and have had people think that the weather is somehow significantly worse and/or consistently colder in Vancouver. It's 100 miles away.
@@LiqdPT I'm just going to dabble in trivia here. Interestingly the weather in Seattle is worse than in Vancouver and if you think in terms of geography and the effects of the ocean, this makes sense. However it's only slightly worse. As you know, in our coastal locations, the more inland you go the more the weather gets worse (a subjective opinion). So the weather in Concrete Washington is worse than Mukilteo which is right beside the water. So Seattle is further inland than Vancouver which means slightly colder. The ocean effect is slightly moderated because it has to go further inland to reach Seattle than Vancouver. Seattle I believe I think gets more rain. And given that it is colder, probably a little more snowfall with it staying longer but not substantially. So if snow lasts in Vancouver for two days, it probably lasts 2 1/2 days in Seattle.
@@ricknicholson5894 so, given your specific knowledge, I assume you know about the "convergence zone" around Seattle where weather can come onshore around the Olympics and come back together near Seattle. The result is that there are microclimates and Seattle, Issaquah, and Everett can be experiencing very different weather.
I actually live in Mill Creek and work in Redmond. There's a very strange phenomenon near Totem Lake when travelling on the 405. I quite frequently encounter a very sudden change in weather around there. I've seen fog, rain, sudden blizzard, etc.
Anecdotally, we seem to get more snow at my house than at my work. Interestingly, at least recently , Vancouver seems to get more snow than the Seattle area. I've seen relatives show blankets of snow on social media when we haven't gotten any days either side. Growing up I definitely thought Seattle got more snow than Vancouver, but I wonder how much of that was the microclimates. When I lived in Bellevue I'd see news reports of snow in Everett when we weren't getting any.
@@LiqdPT I just did a dive into Seattle/Vancouver weather. And the averages show Vancouver is "colder" but only by one degree Celsius in each month and on average gets one more day of rain per month. We had a travel trailer which we would take down to Whidbey Island and often live there for a month. Over time the months added it up. Even Whidbey has an interesting varied climate. What it does at the top of the island, middle of the island and bottom of the island varies. If I were to settle in Washington state it would be on Whidbey. I lived in Vancouver/North Vancouver for 44 years, now on Vancouver Island with its varied microclimates.
@@ricknicholson5894 ah, I grew up in PoCo and lived in North Van for a bit. So you know that weather can vary quite a bit between North Van against the mountains, Tswassen (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and in the Valley.
I was in Atlanta on business with roughly 12 others Canucks. We went to dinner and the restaurant owner sat with us. He had never been to Canada and wanted to learn as much as we could provide him. He noted how cold it was way up there. We tried to assure him he was wrong but you just knew he didn't believe a word we said. After a lengthy and friendly discussion we learned why he didn't believe us. His mother lived, a literal stone throw away from Canada, in Chicago and he routinely watched the weather reports before calling her. This great guy from Atlanta, who routinely watched the weather reports from Chicago, said, "I watched the news today and Chicago is 76 degrees and Toronto is 22 degrees!" After explaining Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, we all had a good laugh, and he covered our bill.
I was asked once in Georgia if I live in an igloo and use dogs to get around when I said I was from Canada 😂
I hope you said yes. Lol
@@lisafeyt3694 I was 12 and so confused and was like of course not and just walked away
I lived near Montreal during Expo67 - when I was a kid. We used to love driving around checking out all the out-of-province, and US state license plates we saw from the thousands of visitors. It was July when we noticed more than a few cars coming up from the US with ski racks on their roofs.
Had snow in feb. In Nova scotia. Grass is green buds are starting on the Trees. Yup snow bound.😂 16c today
A young couple from Europe wanted to know if they could walk from Halifax to Vancouver in a week or less. I have seen Americans arrive at Vancouver airport wearing parkas and with snow shoes and skis.....in August......it was only 85F outside. We used to get freight from London England in Vancouver destined for Halifax. It was causing us problems so I phoned London to find out why they were doing this. They thought Halifax was near to Vancouver. They were amazed when I informed them that Halifax was closer to London than Vancouver.
when I moved to Vancouver in 1980, it was common to have no snow at all some years and when there was snow, it would be less than an inch that melts away by the next day and maybe it would happen a couple times. Right now we still mostly don't get snow but we get more of it.
Montreal to Saskatchewan is about 34 hours by car.
Back in 1975, I phoned my brother-in-law who was at West Point to tell him that he had a new nephew, his room mate answered the phone and said he was out and asked if there was a message, so I told him that I was Dan's brother-in-law in Canada and that his sister just had a baby boy. The first thing he said was: "How are you calling? I didn't think you guys had phones."
Ive never been chased by a Canadian goose and i was born in canada and im a senior. You act like it happens all the time. It doesn't. 😊😊😊
Steel plant had a pump house by the river. When you had to do your daily inspection, you had to carry a broom to keep those geese at bay. They loved our little lagoon we created for the pump inlets. Geese would surround you and try to peck, very aggressively, until you finally left the area.
I've never met a goose that I couldn't scare away if it got aggressive.
I am from Victoria B.C. and questions asked working in a tourist shop "does your flag come in different colours, I don't like red" "I'm American does a 5 and 10 making 15 in Canadian dollars" and from a friend she was asked "What does the beeping sound at the crossword mean" my friend responded "it's so blind people know when to cross" The woman responded "you let blind people drive here?'" This was many years ago
I was across the border, getting some gasoline, and an American asked me what the weather was like today.
I pointed at Canada and said, well, pretty much the same as here.
We weren't more than 30 seconds across the border.
Blaine, WA?
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Has now learned now not to drink when watching these videos. I just spit out my coffee in laughter when I saw the Ford remark. 🤣 Wasn't expecting his nickname to be used outside of Ontario nevermind the country lol.
Believe me you are no longer "just your average American". You are very knowledgeable.
My parents told me a story about running into a couple of Americans with skis on the roof of their station wagon back in the late 60s, early 70s. It was the middle of summer and they were on a skiing trip and wanted to know where the best skiing was. My dad told them it'd depend on whether they were waterskiing or snowskiing. It turned out they were looking for snow. My dad directed them towards the North Pole. He also directed them to some sites for waterskiing that were in a 50 mile radius. Don't know which one they chose. According to my dad they seemed very confused at our lack of snow. Fun fact, your northern states get more snow than alot of us here in southern Ontario get.
When I was in North Carolina, someone asked me what I did with my dogs in the summer. At least they realized that we have a summer, but I had to tell them that we have cars and dog sleds are not the main mode of transportation.
I’m Canadian but I lived in Texas for three years. This couple I knew had recently got married and planned on a ski trip to Canada for their honeymoon. They packed suitcases with snowsuits, boots and even bought skis. This would have been a great trip but it was July! We wished them a great honeymoon! But eventually we explained that they should postpone until winter!!!! LOL
My theory on why Americans think Canada has snow all the time, is the maps that show the border of the Canada and US, have Canada without any features,,,just a white background and the works Canada written.
Sometimes you can ski in June or even July 1st in the high Rockies.
It's 1,769 miles (or 2847 km) from Montreal, Quebec, to Regina, Saskatchewan, which takes about 30 hours, 6 minutes to drive.
Yes, in “Winterpeg”, we’ve had the mildest winter ever. Rarely double digits below zero and even above zero. We’ve had -40 a few years ago. In a Maine/ New Brunswick border town I have been asked how can we handle all of the snow. I smiled and said look across the town, what do you think. Obviously, the weather and snowfall was the same. It would be like asking Windsor and Detroit. It’s less than three km over the bridge? Or Pembina/ Emerson in Manitoba and North Dakota. There are numerous border towns. Do the US know geography? We rarely say ‘eh. I’ve never said it. It’s like all US citizens say Y’all. We NEVER “aboot”, that one is so annoying 🙄🙄
Your geese are the same birds as ours they go south to stay warm. The difference is that they breed in Canada so they get aggressive when breeding nesting and raising their young
Actually, they don't fly south to stay warm. They fly south for the food supply.