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As an American I am not familiar with clothing in Canada. Today I am very interested to learn about winter fashion trends in Canada as well as 6 clothing items that were invented in Canada. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
The blanket jacket. The striped one was based on the Hudson's Bay point blanket. That stripe pattern is iconic in Canada.
yes specifically the stripped coat.
Yes! I have one of the HBC wool woven blankets. Has been in the family for almost 85 years. It is a piece of Canadian history that goes back decades. I treasure it. I hear some go for a pretty penny too. Haha! Thank goodness I'm not a greedy old lady and it looks great hanging in the stables behind glass.
@@myowndrum286 My parents bought one in the 60's
@@myowndrum286definitely sought after. Sells quickly at auctions.
It’s called a blanket jacket because the stripes were the brand of the Hudson Bay Company, which traded furs with the Indians and Voyagers. Pelts were often exchanged for blankets, which were in turn made into cats. The reason this.striped pea coat has become the uniform of the Montreal Snowshoe Club is that Indians and Voyagers, who were the first to wear these coats, used snow shoes to walk on deep snow.
OMG Tyler’s reaction to -30 cracked me up. We usually get at least 2 - 3 days below -40 😂😂
oh i was laughing at that
It's supposed to be going down to -37 in Canmore (outside of Calgary, in the Rockies) for two days this week. That's gonna be aweful.
Ya, edm here, wed and thurs night definitely in the minus 30s
@@desnake9709 My sister in Canmore says they're having temperatures like that exactly. And that's not adding in the wind chill! I really feel sorry for people's pet dogs having to go out several times a day in temperatures like this!
My buddy works in a mine north of Fort Mcmurray he says it gets below -50 there.
Hoods with massive fur trims do have a function other than fashion. The fur disrupts the wind and catches blowing snow, keeping it out of your face and a bit warmer. A hood that just ends tends to drip into your eyes and get all over your face with the snow falling on your head and melting from body heat. The trim is so much more comfortable. The only real drawback of the massive trim is you can’t see a damn thing other than what’s directly in front of you and turning your head doesn’t help. Not the safest in traffic. You have to do a full body swivel left and right to cross the street.
Let's twist again, like we did last winter ...
Natural fur also wicks moisture away from your face; keeping it warmer.
It can also be a pain if you're out for a long period of time and the trim gets too wet or snowy and then freezes.
@@odinskeeperscosplay8239 Depends on what fur the trim is made of. Some don't get wet. Apparently wolverine fur is great.
Those fur hoods are definitely not exaggeration: they're functional. And beautiful. Inuit know to use wolverine fur, because it doesn't ice up from your breath, like other kinds of fur.
Tyler, when you consider that 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border, the winter temperatures in most Canadian cities aren't much different than in northern American cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Buffalo, and Boston. But then, I live in Southern Ontario in the Great Lakes region. I noticed that a lot of other commenters here live in more remote rural areas like the Prairies or New Brunswick where winters are much harsher.
Exactly. Important geographical consideration.
im from southern ontario. yes parts get winter but once you get out of the bottom part you learn that southern ontario winter is nothing. today isnt that bad high of -13
Thanks for saying what I wanted to🎉also they think it’s colder here cause we have Celsius where they have Fahrenheit so the ones who don’t know both think it’s way, way colder here😂😂. Winter apparel from Canada has become very popular in the USA as well. The North Face, Canada Goose, and many more.
@@davestrange3718 I’m also from southern Ontario! I’m curious to know what region you live closest to, because here in the Durham Region, it’s currently 3 degrees, feels like 1. It’s insane how much the temperature varies in our country, even over fairly short distances!
I live in the middle of Yukon and it's almost -40 today.
The Blanket jacket was made by the Hudson's Bay Company. Do a video on the history of the Hudson's Bay Blankets. Dates as far back as 300 years.
The future image is of the "Peace Tower", not Big Ben. It's the middle of the Canadian Parliament Building (in Ottawa).
It's called the Blanket Jacket because of the green, red, yellow, and navy blue stripes. The Hudson Bay Company has sold wool blankets like that for almost two centuries in Canada. You can still buy them, but they aren't like they used to be.
Not since the Bay was sold. Glad I already have my blankets. I miss the Bay.
I miss it from the 70s and past then. It had already changed before Zellers bought it in the 80s, and isn't much now, is it? Just overpriced average inventory.@@cherylmosher6026
They are WAY overpriced
I know an Indigenous man who makes his coats from HBC blankets
Three and a half centuries. Just sayin'.
Dressing for 0C is a lot different for -15C, then again for -30C, and for calm weather compared to wind. "Winter" can mean a lot of different things. Poeple who don't cover their heads are fools, generally, and I see a lot of young people in winter in Montreal who frankly are fashion victims, and suffer to look 'cool'.... a lot of bare ankles out there, which always blows my mind.
My ears got frost bite when I was 15 and the temp was -50 with the wind chill. I wasn't wearing a hat. 🙃 You don't make that mistake twice.
I never dress for fashion, I just never needed to bundle up until -20 because it’s not that cold
OC I wear a hoodie. At -15 I have on my light winter jacket. Less and I'll haul out the heavy one.
Could you look up the 'Hudson's Bay' blanket? The BEST winter boot is the Sorel. Back in the 90s Canadian and American soldiers were on Arctic War Games, to last 3 weeks in the far north. The Americans had the latest 'HIGH-TECH' cold weather boots. On the third day, they gave up because all their boots were cracking. The Canadian military could only supply 1/2 of their boots to the U.S., so all the other soldiers had to return to the States. The American commander said, "We have much to learn from our Canadian allies."
Parka=jacket. I grew up in Saskatchewan and -40°C was not uncommon for stretches of time. Schools were rarely closed so I walked to school, 20 to 30 minutes depending on snow. Wore: undershirts, T-shirt, sweatshirt, parka, torque, scarf, mittens and boots. Then would partially strip off the layers to be comfortable inside. The WORST was fogging up glasses which meant you couldn't see properly until I could wipe my glasses.
BTW, you are not a typical average American because you are actively learning about Canada. Thank you.
Growing up in Montreal in the 60's, my grandmother [ French Canadian] would knit toques, mitts, scarfs and wool slippers all year, and everyone would get them for Christmas. She had 8 kids and 20+ grandchildren. These would last years. I had one toque that lasted over 20 years, and lost the pom pom in the second year. With all the snow and them getting wet, we had several toques and mitts because they would take a full day to dry.
So glad I live in BC. Winter here in Vancouver is mild. A toque doesn't always have the pom-pom on top. Especially when worn by an adult.
Dressing in the winter depends entirely on the temperature. When it is really cold (-20 degrees C or colder), fashion is the last thing I think about. The more layers the better!
i remember my uncle telling me that only a fool can be cold. teenager at the time. fashion was great. and i was f-ing cold.
This just shows how different regions of Canada vary. As someone from northern Alberta, really cold is -30C or colder, lol. It's normal here for people (who don't have to stay outside for long periods of time) to be outside in just sweaters or light jackets at -25. I also have friends who wear shorts year round, although even I think that's crazy. It's not unusual for us to have multiple days of -40 or colder in the winter (which I loved as a kid because that's when school was canceled).
'you can take it off if you don't need it, but you can't put it on if you dont have it' - my dad, refusing to let me leave the house without my ski-pants and parka as a tween
But no for real, Im so happy he insisted. There was a fire alarm failure that morning before I got unbundled, and i was one of few not freezing to death before they finally got a neighbouring school's gym opened up for us to stay in. (we evac'd the school four more times that day, i did not take my ski-pants off for like a week after, just in case) Some of the girls in my class had minis and flats on, despite the -30c (and windchill) weather. They were a little blue before we got to safety.
So i wore a uniform to school... we would walk to 7- 11 to get a slurpee in regular shoes, knee socks, kilt and a winter jacket at -20 degrees. Yah it was cold but it didnt bother me haha
In Edmonton sometimes it's -40C for WEEKS.. and often it would get 'foggy' though it was the moisture in the air crystalizing into a fog.. which looks distinctly different with rainbow sparkles and everything! :P Another thing people who haven't done -40 for a couple weeks.. the snow.. everything.. becomes so cold and dry that when you walk on it it squeaks like you are walking on styrofoam. Of course also salt no longer works.. they don't even use salt in Edmonton but dark sand. Unsanded intersections quickly turn into lazy cars sliding through the intersection. Once you get used to it.. drivers 'time it'.. to avoid hitting eachother.. sometimes it's like Disney Cars on ice..
The Jean Jacket is referred to as a Canadian Tuxedo.
Hey, at least the kid had a liner on his jean jacket. Mine didnt.
@@Sillydogification
I was thinking that too!
A Canadian tuxedo includes jeans.
"Kenora Dinner Jacket"
Embarrassingly- yes 😅😂😅😅
Hi Tyler, this was such a fun video! Your reaction to the clips was so pure! A few things, most Canadians(if you can afford it) will have several winter jackets and a few types of winter boots. 0 to -15 is different than -25, is different than -40 degrees. You have to dress accordingly so you might have a light winter jacket and a parka for when it gets really cold. Secondly, as you can imagine, there are a ton of Canadian companies that make AMAZING outwear for extreme weather conditions. Everyone knows Canada Goose as it's parka is considered one of the standards for outwear but there are brands more locally famous and equally as good. Finally, on that generated image, it was not Big Ben, it was supposed to be the Peace Tower which is part of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa.
Climate change has made Canada a lot milder than it used to be. For example, I've been wearing a fall coat all winter and it's January. I haven't brought out any of my warmer jackets at all with the weather hovering around -2 or -3. It is not natural at all for this time of year. Fun fact, Ottawa, where I grew up is one of the coldest capital cities in the world despite being further south than many other cities on the list.
Your post was excellent. May I add that the warmer/milder temperatures here in Canada are causing terrible conditions for breeding for animals not to mention dry conditions which create our forest fires in BC, Quebec and Northern Alberta. I know that the writer of this post knows this but Tyler may not.
your so right, i just looked at how many jacket I have for winter. Where im doing winter this year has had a couple cold days. today high of -13 which is ok right now.
I was going to agree with you about the mild winter this year as we had tons of melts and barely any snow falls, but this week is about to his -38 on the low side, with some days having -20s for high. We had a delayed winter.
@@TheNinthGeneration1are you in Alberta too? lol
@@odinskeeperscosplay8239 Lethbridge
Yes, Lululemon is a Canadian company. The home of the founder (no longer owner), Chip Wilson, was just named as the most expensive home in Vancouver - assessed at $81.77 million.
Turned the rather sketchy douche it seems
So a two bedroom two bath condo with den and underground parking.
We are expected to reach -35 this week in Calgary. Nothing is warm enough IMO. We actually have rechargeable heated mits and gloves here too.
Don't forget the mitts with "idiot strings" 😂
It gets to be minus 40 here in Alberta… we hate it lol.
When I first moved to Calgary I was leaving Halifax on New Year's Eve and it was raining at Plus 8°c when I landed in Calgary it was -48°c
I was not prepared whatsoever it felt like the movie Cool Runnings😂
When we were kids in the 50s and 60s we always had a Hudson's Bay Blanket. The blankets always had those colored stripes the same as the jacket pictured had.
Calgary is a special case: the reason the river's warmer than the air, and the students weren't prepared for that weather, is that Calgary's one of our warmer winter cities, but the weather can change super fast. I too was a student there: one day I went to morning class in sweats and smeakers, and had to walk back to the dorm after lunch through a foot of snow, woefully underdressed!
A Parka is the warmest type of winter jacket. It's going to be to warm to wear at -15 but it will be great for -30 to -45
I used to own an Ontario Hydro Parka, that was rated to -85'C. Had all the bells & whistles even a thermometer. I found I left it open up to -15'C.
For me, when I was a teen, underdressing for winter was entirely a rebellious thing, because of course your mom would tell you to dress up warm or you'd catch a cold or something, and you'd reacted saying "Nah-uh! The cold doesn't bother me!", and you'd freeze your ass off trying to show off and you'd become sick within a week...
The blanket jacket was from the Hudson Bay. They were even traded with First Nations in the 1800s. Then someone took the design of the Hudson bay blanket and turned it into a coat. The vintage Hudson Bay blankets are sought after and valuable.
Coldest day i worked outside in the alberta oil patch was -54c with the wind chill. Foster Creek area 2 winters ago. Once your body acclimatizes -10 feels like t-shirt weather!
The first clip in Calgary, Alberta. When the student said they were unprepared for the cold, he may well have been saying true. Calgary is known for Chinook weather. That's when warm weather comes over the mountains from the west and mixes with what's there already. Their weather can change drastically in a matter of hours. Where you might take in 18 holes of golf in the morning, you could be shoveling your driveway of snow that night. Haha! There's another chinook spot up in northern Alberta I know of as well. I've experienced -2C/28F at one sister's acreage, drove to the other sister's farm(31Km/about 20 miles), and it's -12C/10F. Apparently, it's all in the lay of the land! LOL
when I lived in Calgary, my parents came from Nova Scotia for Christmas. As soon as they arrived, they had to go get new winter coats sd it was -36C....and the next day was a Chinook and it went up to plus 10, no need anymore for that expensive Parka!
My current winter “ jacket” is a nice vest with a thick fleece hoodie. If/ when it gets colder I’ll switch to my cold weather jacket.
The Denim coat You saw early has A Sheepskin lining wich will keep the Young adult warm, when the coat is buttoned up properly. The other coat looked like the outer shell was a nylon coating,which will help to break the wi d.
I bought a Canada goose parka this winter. Not cheap, but now that the temperature is - 25 C, it’s so worth it. It really keeps me warm. And of course I wear a toque, and I’m not even Canadian 😂 You guys know how to dress 😊
You might be interested to know (or you might not, sorry) that Canada Goose is extremely popular in Japan, of all places.
@@juliansmith4295I didn’t know that. I guess they also wanna dress in style, while warm in the winter 😊
@@juliansmith4295 Why is Japan "of all places"?
@@TomHuston43 Because of the few Canadian companies that still exist, they don't export on a very big scale, especially to Japan. The only other Canadian products in Japan are honey, maple syrup, ice wine and Van Houtte.
Wearing a Canada Goose jacket is a pretty quick way to tell that you are a foreigner who is looking to buy status.
I'm in Winnipeg, I remember one winter that even we found cold, I decided I wanted a Slurpee. I lived across the street from a 7/11, a couple of minutes walk from the store. I had to microwave my Slurpee to thaw it out enough to drink. By the way, Winnipeg has been the Slurpee capital of the world for over 20 years, even with our winters.
-30 is bad but it’s nothing compared to the deep freeze that can hit you with -40 or sometimes colder. The warnings really go out when the temps drop that low, skin can freeze in under 10 minutes
Traditionally, we do not call a togue a beanie. And we do not call a sweatshirt a sweater. The younger generations are starting to because of the influence of American social media.
It’s *toque* with a Q, not a G.
I say toque and sweater
We don't call a toque(?) a togue either.
I've only heard of a beanie as being the same as a skull cap. Like the kind cartoons put propellers on.
I'm not a younger generation and always say sweater. I very rarely say sweatshirt. Maybe it's a regional thing?
The blanket coat gets its name from early Canadian settlers using Hudson Bay Blankets to make winter coats. They were very roughly sewn by copying the basic shapes of a coat from the type, a frock coat. They were made at home and not by tailors so they were not able to get much of the same details as other coat and from what they had at home already. The number of stripes (called points) show the quality of the wool used.
-I’m a historical tailor and have one of these on my cutting table right now to be worn by a reenactor at a local living historic museum.
Growing up in Northern Ontario by Halloween there was at least 3 feet of snow. Now most Halloweens have next to nothing. This year in Sudbury we had a green Christmas and a green New Years. A green Christmas happened here 4 yrs ago but Boxing Day there was a blizzard and we got almost 2 feet of snow in one day. There has NEVER been a green New Years Eve and New Years Day. Plus usually by this time of year we have a good 4 feet of snow and temperatures are -20 Celsius on a good day. Today it is -7 thats it! The weather is crazy!!
Here in Vermont, we got our first major snowstorm last week , no snow in 2023.
im in Timmins and im feeling the cold. - 18 at this time but im being told that this is nothing. The snow is here but not in the amounts thats normal for this time of year.
We barely had a white Christmas in Calgary, it snowed on the 23rd and melted by the 28th
We had a foggy Christmas in southern Ontario. It was ... interesting.
I love the way you added the futuristic clothes.
Almost all Inuit live in the high Canadian North, this means to them Whitehorse in the Yukon and Yellowknife in the North West Territories are south. I worked with a number of Inuit teens attending an Army Cadet Camp in Whitehorse. Not infrequently, particularly in August, there could be some very brisk cold evenings. All us non-Inuit would bundle up to stay warm, but some of the Inuit were wearing shorts and T shirts sitting around outside at night.
Some of the locations these Inuits were from had a summer high of 8 C (46 F), hard to fathom but true. By the way these communities in the high north don't have trees, too far north for trees to survive. And, there is an area in Canada that most Canadians aren't aware of, it's located again in the high north and is very large, the size of a large American State. This area in the summer has pond after pond after pond, all close to each other going on for hundreds of miles. And trees grow in this area, but a 150 year old tree is this area usually only reaches the height of 15 cm (6 inches).
The Pea coat was not invented in Canada it is just the Hudson Bay blanket colour theme that is original to that coat.
It was -25 with the windchill here yesterday in NL Canada and my wife only wore a t-shirt,no jacket to costco 😂
Holy crap. I have worn shorts in -1C/30F in December here in Minneapolis and a light jacket
But why? Why not put on a jacket to be more comfortable???
It's gonna be -27 in Calgary on Thursday! I'm not looking forward to it! ....why do I live in a place where the air hurts ur face!! Hahaha!
Hot Flashes?@@margaretjames6494
Makes sense I take my coat with me.. but don't wear it in the car or stores haha
Living in calgary, this week is hovering around -30, Friday night will "feel like" -40 and below. The temperature in the city can vary 15° depending where you are.
Flannel shirt, oil-slick duster,.leather boots with rubber sole and a wool Tilley hat "fedora".
Leggings were being worn in Europe long before Lululemon existed. And yes, we wore them on the street in England in the 1980s. They were worn to work also (usually by all the wrong people).
I agree. Here in Canada we wore them in the 80’s before Lululemon
With regards to the accidents being calm...we all get accidents seeing how icy and slippery roads can be without anybodys fault so we just get each other's car insurance company talk to each other 😂
My sweet Mother in law had a Hudsons Bay coat . I always loved it so much . She used to wear it when she walked down the road to the neighbours to play auction in the winter evenings .... warm as toast .Miss ye Gertie
Tyler, Winter boots are not made the same way as your average dress boot. Winter boots can often be warm enough to handle -40c temperatures. I urge you to do a video on winter boots, their structure and function. Names like Sorel; a Quebec made boot: or Cougar. I have vegan boots that have cleats under them to handle slippery conditions. Olang is the producer of these boots but other companies are now making them also.
WRT well constructed Canadian brands of winter boots, don't forget Pajar. 🥾😉
In the 80s we still wore stockings, high boots, and short coats...no hat and leather gloves. Now even teens wear toque, down coats and good boots
I bought a pair of sorel snow boots in 1996 and still wear them today when out shovelling, using the snowblower, or just being outside for a length of time on a cold winter day. Warmest boots I have ever worn.
winter clothing in canada has mostly stayed the same from the 80's. Also the -35 temps they were talking about will be occuring in saskatchewan and manitoba this week and into febuary could get colder
I know a fellow that is still wearing his 1988 Olympic volunteer coat
It is a wee bit nippy out today. Our first actually "winter cold" day this season it seems to me. Been way too "warm" for winter this year. (Currently -19°C or -24°C with windchill, since you're curious)
I haven't heard one complaint about the weather yet today, so I think we're all used to winter, even if it came late this year.
-30 sucks, but it's not that terrible. most winters we'll get a couple weeks of -30/-35 through most of Alberta, where I live though, we usually have 2-3 weeks in the -40 range, dipping down into the -50's from time to time
Tyler, when I heard "blanket coat" I assumed it was the white coat with the colored stripes, reminiscent of traditional Hudson Bay blankets. The standardized blankets were used in trading for furs with the indigenous trappers.
Going to -31C as a high here on Thursday, -38C as a low. Before windchill. I’m in Calgary. Brrrrr.
Canadians in northern parts of Canada with the roads tend to be very treacherous with ice, tend to use all wheel, drive vehicles and four-wheel-drive pick up trucks with snow tires that have steel studs for better traction on icy roads.
Salt/sand put on the roads for traction.
Yup…in New Brunswick Canada where I live, it can get between -30C to -40C with the windchill and 5-6 feet of snow.
I like saying the opening with you, I have my American accent almost perfected.
15:03 we invented the winter selfie,.. oh wait, the Toque as well 😂 another great vid my american brother! as a canadian born and raised, i am learning some stuff on canada too by watching your vids. happy new year to you!
he wants to be canadian but yes some of the stuff he covers are informative to me as well.
6:15 You cannot imagine -22F. I grew up it Edmonton about 200 miles north of there. I once experienced a wind chill of -57F there as I was helping my cousin with his car that quit working. Not much later I moved to Vancouver where it rarely goes below +20F. As well , this Canadian took a 10 year break in Los Angeles. Never again with the -57 for this Canadian.
The tower you referred to as Big Ben is called the Peace Tower. I remember when Roots opened we all had to have their shoes. I met someone on a beach in Florida and assumed she was from Canada because she was wearing a Roots sweatshirt turns out she was from Japan and had bought the sweatshirt from Epcot Centre
Americans love Roots as well and they’re still popular since I was little & even today. They sponsor the Canadian Winter Teams for the Olympics. Baby Roots has nice stuff as well. They’re a bit more expensive but last a very long time.
Tyler i used to make this mistake too. When you get into anything below zero, you call it MINUS 20, MINUS 1, MINUS 5 etc, not NEGATIVE. You’re not used to saying minuses because you don’t have these temperatures!
Oh Tyler, I would love to spend an evening with you to educate you on all things winter in Canada. I grew up in small city where the temperatures could / would get down to -40 (C or F at that point) and we could get 10+ feet of snow. As a teen we had "teenage skin" and for temperatures above -20, jean jackets and boots were the norm. Below that, the parkas came out. At -40 your bluejeans freeze, exposed skin freezes in seconds (frost bite is very nasty), if you have a mustache you will have a frost covered face.
If you have a vehicle, you need to "plug it in" if temps get below -20C. If you do not plug in the block heater on your engine, you will not be going anywhere in that vehicle in the morning. At -40, vehicle tires will feel like blocks because the rubber would freeze with a flat spot while the tires are parks. It would take several miles of driving until they warm up a bit and the rubber loosens up. Another interesting phenomena is that at -40 car exhaust does not rise. It is visible as condensation fog and it stays on the ground like a ground fog. This can dramatically limit visibility.
It is interesting watching your videos because to me, this was a normal winter. I forget that while winters are not unique to Canadians, there are many people who have never experienced and hard winter. Those tough winters will toughen you up.
Sounds like where I grew up in Northern Manitoba.
I own the Northern Face jacket and it's very warm.
Alberta hits -30 C every year, colder than that in some place, -40 or -50, usually lasts for about a week in Calgary....
The AI generated Canadian winter wear is pretty much spot on when it gets down to those -30 windchill days.
Tyler calling the Capital Building "Big Ben" is peak American energy
I'm in Calgary and we just had one of the warmest holiday seasons ever. Temps were around 40F most of the time with nighttime lows just below freezing. It was glorious. That's all about to change, though, as we're heading into a deep freeze with HIGH temps around -25F... it's going to be brutal
It’s not unique to Canada, but is still a common path for Canadian companies to follow. Small companies making technical clothes manage to catch somebodies eye and become a bit popular, and before too long a fashion company buys them up and begins selling them to a wider market. And then things go to hell. - I can actually think of a few U.S. companies it’s happened to as well.
They are generally small companies, often founded by enthusiasts for their own use, they design and make excellent stuff, but when major companies get hold of it, they realise that it’s too warm for more southern climates or too bulky or overbuilt by people who wear them to catch the subway to work. So they start pulling out stuffing, and making the fleece a lighter weight, and they don’t need to be so waterproof, so the goretex gets taken out.
Soles that might be good on ice or solid enough to hike up a mountain are too heavy or unsuited for sidewalks, so they go too. And of course they Jack the prices. Meaning if you are person who actually goes out in rough conditions, the clothes you once relied on are now twice the price and half as useful.
In the winter it’s always warm inside. I just wear a down vest. The only time I’m outside in the cold is the short distance between my car and whatever store, mall or office I’m going into. City people avoid the weather. It’s not like on UA-cam where it seems everyone’s backyard is in Banff.
Is that because there are so many Igloos?
10:17 The coat on the right with the stripes is fashioned to look like a Hudson's Bay Blanket. Up until recent times, the Hudsons Bay company would buy furs (to ship all over the world) from the aboriginal people of Canada. One of the trade items the trappers would get are Hudsons Bay blankets. Which were very useful and warm for the native people. They were sold by the millions. Eventually, someone started to make coats from the blankets. With or without the stripes. Decades ago. I remember these coats on sale when I was a child and when I was that age, Kennedy was president.
In the big cities, the Bay stores are more like Macys, you will still see these coats for sale there. As well the blankets and anything else they can sell with those stripes on them. The while one though with the broad striped really marks one as a Canadian.
15:20 The toque is the best way to keep your ears from freezing. You wear your toque then put the hood up on your parka.
Leggings came out in many places but were popularized by Lululemon.
17:54. Yes. The picture is pretty accurate. Just missing a toque. But then the cool people only put the toque when it goes below -25.
As for those predictions,. I can saw for sure they will not be on your time frame. The first one is out there now. The second one will be never. The last one may be in 20 years.
Northern Alberta here and we’ve had such a warm winter it’s scary. But it was -28 this morning and I didn’t bother zipping my coat up and just wore sneakers that’s quite normal. It’s when it’s windy or a ton of snow you do boots or extra gear… or if you’re going to be outside for an extended time.
I'm in Southern Ontario (on the Hamilton Mountain on Lake Ontario), and during the coldest days and nights of winter, we'll definitely get temps of -20°C. And I've experienced lows of -30°C.
I'm old enough to remember those parkas with the neon colours. I maaaay have had one myself.
The Blanket Jacket from Hudsons Bay with the stripes mimics the famous Hudsons Bay wool blanket.
Roots is a HUGE Canadian athletic wear brand. There is a very specific red that features in many of their pieces. It's actually known as "Roots Red". Every Canadian was immediately onboard with the matching sweat pants and sweatshirts in the 80's, and most of us own at least one piece of Roots wear.
Lululemon may have brought back leggings in the late 90's, but we were definitely wearing them in the 80's with long tee-shirts and sweaters, under shorts, and under dresses and skirts. Leggings are iconic 80's wear.
Sometimes people acted like they dressed a certain way to be cool but in many cases it was due to family finances. My mother had 13 children. When my father left the family, my mother had to raise 8 children on her o n still at home. She worked full time job, plus went to night school. She received no financial help from my father. Parts of Canada can get to -40 c or colder any given winter. We use to get a lot more snow 3 and 4 decades ago.
We're getting ambient temps well into the -20s and -30s in Edmonton this week, with it expected to negatively peak at -40C/-40F ambient Friday night (close to -50C/-58F windchills). It's worth noting that Edmonton is an exception in how far north we are (500 km/300ish miles north of the 49th parallel), and -40C AMBIENT is cold even by our standards.
I'm a Saskatchewan (AKA Rider Nation 🏈💚) resident. And yup, winter snow only arrived this past Friday, Jan 5, so Christmas and New Year's were brown. Over night low forecast of -37 later this week.
the pom pom on top of the toque or tuque depending on what part of Canada you're from. Are actually threads you can pull off the pom pom, to knit closed the holes you get in your tuque or toque ,over the months or years of use.
The guy on the skidoo, I’d call his jacket a puffy coat (aka down filled). Colloquially, a parka is a term for a heavy, thick, hooded winter coat. Often longer length (mid thigh to knee). Usually either heavy down filled or a synthetic alternative. The hood usually has fur or faux fur trim.
In Edmonton tomorrow it is supposed to be -39C or -38.2F.
It’s not Big Ben.
The old City Hall building in Toronto also has a tower with a big old clock tower. It’s on the opposite corner from Nathan Phillips Square with the new city hall (that’s the low round one with the two semicircle towers)
Oh my goodness, I seriously LOL when you said that happens on planet earth. -30c -22f. It happens and colder than that too. Sometimes your reactions really crack me up. I tell everyone about you, that they need to look you up. ❤️
I love how all the images at the end are from a snowstorm in Ottawa.
Quebec resident here, -30C is common along the St Lawrence river for about a week every winter. It's usually a week when most people stay inside if they can, but there are the obligatory weirdos who can't help themselves but to go have a walk in running shoes. -10 to -20 is the average from january to early march where I live.
When looking at the cold temperature do not forget to add the wind chill factor which will reduce the realistic temperature (which makes it colder) you feel on your skin.
Snow and ice at -30 Celsius is actually not all that slippery. It is much more slippery at -3 Celsius. This is because one actually slips and slides on a small layer of water. Ice that is completely is not slippery and snow that is really cold goes CRUNCH, CRUNCH when you walk on it. It is not at all slippery. In fact, if you have ever watched the sport of curling and wondered why they sweep the ice in front of the rock, the reason is as follows. Sweeping the ice isn't just done to clean it but primarily to warm it up so as to create a thin layer of water on the ice just before the rock slides over it. This decreases the friction with the ice and allows the team to control the distance the rock will run before it stops. In other words sweeping in front of the rock affects its trajectory and the final result of the shot.
It's going to hit -35 to -40 celsius windchill this week here in Edmonton. Time to get the longjohns out!
5:00 regarding the accident, the first time I ever got into a fender bender, I was more worried if the other person was ok rather than the cars, and they seemed more surprised that it had happened rather than angry. I do love in Calgary so it may just be a Calgary thing, but likely a Canadian thing too
haha your reaction to -30C/-22F is priceless :D Welcome to Canadian winter. In Quebec, we see it often, its normal in January and February -30C. :)
-30 feels much colder without snow. Last year we had lots of snow, more then I could shovel. It must have been 10 feet high where we did shovel and 4 or 5 feet in other spots. It blocks the wind and holds heat in.
I don't know what you call them there, but where I live we have a few mobile homes/trailers. We have skirting on the bottom and I don't see that done much in the states. Many people use plywood but others use plastic skirting. When it snows I usually bank the snow up around the trailer to hold heat in, helps keep things like pipes from freezing, but at -30 you need a good heat source for this to be effective. If your furnace dies, you are goinf to have issues.
Where I am in B.C we have been really warm oddly this winter, in the day it has been about +4. We are going to drop to the minus 30 weather for a week. It's only supposed to snow 10cm today and that isn't much to work with. We only have about an inch currently, much different from many feet of snow.
I love the "Tip Top" store bag.
It no longer exists..lol
The wind chill 🥶 is insane
The issue with the steam coming off of the lake is PART of what is called "the Lake Effect". The temperature of a deeper lake is not the same as the land around it because it is more susceptible to the sun effect only. The land around it does soak in sun, but it also gets cooled quickly with various wind masses blowing overhead. Not only does the lake not get affected by the winds very much, a deep lake will also STORE the heat from the sun it has received that lasts quite a while (I don't remember from school HOW long, but it is weeks?/months? - the depth of the lake will also come into the equation into how long the heat is stored.
Since the lakes store this heat, they will be warmer in winter than the surrounding land & slowly give it off, warming the air - which is why you saw the mist in the photo. (It also means that places around the lake will be normally warmer in winter than other places.) In the summer it is a bit opposite since the land's top soil takes in the sun, but as it isn't having to heat such a depth as a lake it gets hotter than the water. (I don't think I am explaining this properly.) This means that the lake is now cooler than the land. When the sun causes some of that lake water to evaporate, it causes the air around it to once again be affected by this water so the land is now cooler than it would be
It is not that unusual for a Canadian to have a cold beverage - milkshake, slushy/slurpy or a cold food - an ice cream - item even in cold weather. I myself have trugged through a cold, stormy winter night to get to a store for groceries & bought an ice cream sandwich to eat it right there, right then because I just felt like one. The cashier, when I shamefacedly owned up to my desire told me that there have been many others who have done the same thing & it is normal.
In Alberta -30 is Average, Minus 20 to -40 is pretty standard across Canada ,and we get at least a week or two at minus 40 or more yearly, But we tend not to complain until -35 or +35 (at least in Alberta) as it can always get worse here (I remember-50 waiting for busses to goto school as a child myself) and
I have been in a few fender benders. Each time the other person was super nice. When I was a new driver, I caused a three car accident that was hard enough for my air bags to deploy. I can still remember the shock of it. I had the presence of mind to turn my car off but all I could say was "I hit someone". A young woman held my hand and a man gave me a water bottle from his car to drink while we waited for the cops to arrive. Thankfully no one was badly injured. I had misjudged the distance between my car and the car in front of me that was stopped at a red light.
I can't imagine getting mad at the other person when you're in an accident. It's already a stressful situation and you don't need to make it worse
I don't know for the rest of Canada, but here near Montreal, Quebec, we have about 2 weeks each year at -40°c (-40°f)
Having grown up in Edmonton and lived for a few years in Toronto, Prairie winters are the more frustrating to figure out clothing for. Eastern provinces where the humidity is much higher, wearing warm clothing indoors is more necessary because of the damp that keeps you feeling chilly. Places like Alberta are very dry so while it gets stupid cold, its very warm indoors because of less humidity and you really dont need heavy sweaters and such to the same degree. So you kind of have to plan outfits that will help keep you warm outdoors but breathe well or are easily taken off when indoors
Yes, -30c is very common here in Alberta. Less so in BC or the Maritimes.
Winnipeg aka Winterpeg is often below -20⁰C is is known as the slurpee capital of the world. 7-Eleven sells a humongous amount of slurpees, mostly in winter!
I grew up on a farm in northern Alberta. I became a heavy duty mechanic working for construction companies. I spent many hours out in the bush working for hours on end on Caterpillar equipment, plus a couple of winter in the Arctic. In a situation where I would spend 10 to 20 hours out in average-30 to -40 temperatures I would only wear wool, cotton and leather. Synthetic clothes don’t breathe properly causing you to first sweat and then freeze. I also wore layers of clothing to easily remove or add as needed.
I remember being for 2 weeks in Regina, in February 2007. I had a Chlorophylle winter coat, good for "down" to -40⁰ C. One day, the temperature went down to -49⁰ C and I feared that my coat would litterally break. 😆
Driving in the snow is Sooo fun!! Except when it’s snowing so hard you can’t see more than five to ten feet in front of the car, and the plow hasn’t been out yet.. then it’s a praying / guessing game as to if you are still on the road..
6:13 I used to work in the restaurant business in Edmonton, Ab. One day I took a break from cleaning the walk-in freezer and went outside for a dart. It was colder outside than in our deep freeze.