I'm from the Toronto area, and whenever I go up to Algonquin Park I feel that I'm 'way way up north', but in actual fact there are entire US states that are north of Algonquin Park.
Technically there is only one: Alaska. The north tip of Algonquin is at 46.14N The southern border of North Dakota is at 45.93N. There are no states in the continental US entirely above Algonquin
Some of us who live far North of that 100 mile line are still starting to feel congested. When I visit a dense metro area I start to feel suffocated in a just a few days. I like my wide open space, pristine forest, canyons, rivers, wildlife. I love people, I just don't love living near them.
@@LittleHomieLightningtech Vancouver, Calgary, Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna, Edmonton, Red Deer, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Dawson City, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Churchill, Brandon, etc., are all cities that are located above the 49th and vary in size. Some are located in the far North while most are located within 100 miles of the U.S. border. I apologize for the geography lesson but there is understandably a lack of awareness about the large population that lives outside of the southern Ontario area. Anyway, take it for what it is. I hope you have a nice holiday season. 😊
Agreed, I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is a fairly nice sized city (about 750k pop) not too big and not not too small, compared to some other city’s in Canada but it can still get sorta stuffy so I love it when we get to go visit my family that has a cabin on lake of the woods, just outside of Kenora, Ontario but I do think people tend to gloss over the prairie provinces and the territories and only think about Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and bc and sometimes the maritimes but not too much. Also some ppl say we are Americas little brother but we do things that they see and are like “wait that’s a good idea, let’s take the credit for that”, ever heard about the penny? Do some research, Canada is a beautiful country with safe schools instead of schools*crossed out in place of shooting ranges*… it’s awesome here.
Not entirely accurate. Southern British Columbia can get very hot, 40C in the summer and some areas only get down to -15C in the winter. This area is hotter in the summer than many US states.
RealLifeLore: *Talks about orchards and wineries in Southern Ontario, shows picture of Okanagan region in B.C.* Me, a Western Canadian: *resigned sigh*
I was also confused when he said southern Ontario is one of the only places agriculture can happen. So I guess the lower mainland, okanagan, and all 3 prairie provinces just don't exist.
A long time ago, I went on a Eurotrip with some friends I knew ever since high school. There were three of us and we were all from the Toronto area. We identified ourselves as Canadian. Then, on a walking tour thingie, we heard some other people indicate they were Canadian, too. They were from Manitoba or something. When we heard them talk, we realized what all the Canadian stereotypes about "aboot" were all, well, aboot.
LMAO SAME! i was in europe this summer and met some other Canadians from Manitoba & Saskatchewan and finally understood where we get those stereotypes from 😭
I 'm from Russia and I can confirm that when you go from the southern part of the country to the northern one, the population density decreases a lot. Most people just don't want to live in the cold areas with overpriced imported food.
I would agree for the most part except for affordability as the toronto area is far more expensive to live in than Calgary or Edmonton. Vancouver is also expensive af
@@legendztofar-- :- What he meant by "north" is up there in the northern territories, where fresh fruit like bananas, apples & oranges and many other grocery items, all have to be shipped by air...very expensive.
Yeah, I feel like many people overestimate how populous our country is, especially compared to the US just south of us having very high population density, but most of the country is either rock, frozen, water, farmland (Saskatchewan) or a city. Many people prefer the cities.
I came across your channel one day at work and have been watching all the videos ever since. The amount of facts and knowledge you put into each video is amazing. Thank you for your hard work making these videos. I have enjoyed all of them.
except some of the pretty glaring mistakes; like misspelling the capital of Canada; or showing a picture of an orchard 2000 mi away from the area they're talking about.
@@LukeTEvansdon't you know it's impossible to build railroads in permafrost? It's not they settle because of the railroads, it's because they settle where they could do anything at all.
Thanks for making many points I've made to friends and acquaintances in the past, often to doubt-laden reactions. I remember camping in Lake Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota a bunch of years ago and meeting a fellow from New York City. I mentioned that I had lived in NYC as a student and that I had moved back to Toronto. His response was, "Oh yeah, Toronto! Nice town. I've been up there!" I smiled and responded, "Nice! Of course it's actually 'down there' from where we stand right now.'" He looked at me sideways and asked, "What?" I remarked that Toronto was actually quite a ways south of where we were at the moment in Minnesota. He kept saying, "Nah, buddy, you got that wrong. Toronto's north of here." Unfortunately it was before the internet and smart phones so I couldn't prove my point without going to the car and retrieving a map! I've never liked it when people would refer to Canada as "north of the 49th," when most Canadians actually live south of it. The fellow from NYC was convinced that all of Canada was north of all of the USA. One other thing worth mentioning about where the population has settled is the simple reality of the Jet Stream. Over North America, it happens to hug the area close to the international border between the US and Canada, then over the Atlantic it heads much further north, and by the time it reaches Europe, the dividing line between north and south in terms of air temperature and humidity is significantly further north. Edmonton, Alberta is at 53 degrees north latitude, about the same amount north of the equator as is the city of Berlin, Germany. Edmonton has winter temperatures that regularly hit -40C, whereas the coldest winter temperatures in Berlin rarely go much below the freezing point (0C). That jet stream makes an enormous difference, making large swaths of northern Europe much more hospitable to human settlement than most of Canada. Great job otherwise (other than misspelling "Ottawa" 🙂).
Yeah here in Windsor I technically live "south of the border" in Canada, since the downtown core of Detroit lies due north of Windsor. In this whole region crossing the border take you north to the US or west to the US if you're up in Sarnia-Port Huron
lmao so true, i live in south florida and it gets so crowded during the winter (I live in a town that isn't that populated so it feels like the population increases by like 500%)
I crossed Canada by train in 2012 and could not believe the remoteness of most of the route beyond the major cities. Even in Ontario, which is Canada's most populous province (and not even its largest geographically), the train ran for 16 hours and never passed through a single town with more than 1,000 people in it; the largest town, Hornepayne, had only about 1,000 people and only had that many because the railroad needs a place to change crews every eight hours or so. Canada is BIG!
Well it’s big AND empty. Us is the same size and you wouldn’t run into much of this problem because of the sheer population disparities between the two nations.
Yep Ottawa ... Just like Ottawa Illinois. How does a kid from Ottawa Ontario know this?? Ottawa Illinois is the birthplace of Bob McGrath everyone's friend from Sesame Street who passed away recently.
@@comebychance people appropriating names and misspelling and misunderstanding them - especially colonizers - is hardly anything new. Like it or not, this is the name we Canucks are stuck with. At least we got Ottawa and Kanata right.
I'd like to point out that Portland Oregon is also above that first dropped line which is the only major metro in all of Oregon. A lot of people don't realize how far north Portland is. Portland is further north than Toronto. Also I'd like to point out that most of this doesn't apply to Vancouver, BC. The Pacific Northwest as a whole is a weird region with its own climate rules.
Ehh, I've only notice when living there because it's practically on the border of washtington.. just 5 minute drive and already in vancouver like how tf did I end up here
The weird climate rules are usually the mountains redirecting the cold weather north and I'm not sure why this is but all of North America is warmer in the west and colder in the east.
um, we are one of the most respected and beloved countries in the world, America is hated by pretty much everyone, including their friends so..... include us or dont, we are your most vital neighbor since we sell you oil super cheap and share the largest border in the world with you, and we share a border on the north pole with russia.
@@williamhenning4700 yeah people respect us, we may not have global super power status with which we throw our tiny dick around over compensating every moment. But no one goes out of their way to insult us and when Canadians visit foreign countries everyone likes us. When americans visit other countries everyone expects you to be ignorant of customs and be a jackass.
It's a striking graph, but you're just highlighting Toronto and Montreal. You can do a vertical version of the meme by drawing a couple of lines somewhere along 82W and 72 W. Then you can say 50% of Canadians live between these two vertical lines.
I was wondering where they were hiding the mountains that line the Great Lakes. And ifyou can find a ski hill over 1400 ft. high in Michigan... You aren't in Michgan anymore!
The real reason isn’t that complicated… European actually tried to go up there and build cities, but it’s just too cold and in the middle of nowhere. They rapidly realized it…
@@draggy6544 Not that much though. Alaska’s population is huge compared to Yukon Territory for instance and experienced both the Klondike Gold Rush and is a major oil producer, but its population doesn’t even scratch a million. If every single part of Canada were just as useful the line wouldn’t be much different. Would maybe need to be just a bit higher. A bit.
@Ablazelearner85 Thank your lucky stars that the various close brushes with parts of modern day Canada being peacefully annexed into the United States didn't happen. Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia in particular. Though, I think it's pretty clear you're definitely dealing with our problems.
I have. It got so cold that my block heater cable snapped in half when I tried to plug it in. It was -50c for over a week straight. One of my coworkers moved there from the northern coast of the Yukon. After one winter, then announced he was going back to the Yukon because Saskatchewan winter was so miserable.
There's another, huge reason why so many Canadians live near the border, that I thought this guy was transitioning to. Political. The first true transcontinential railroad, the CPR, was built near the border to establish Canadian control over what would one day become the provinces of Manitoba, Saskachewan, Alberta and British Columbia, by establishing our own transcontinental railroad, connecting Halifax to Vancouver, and located near the 49th parallel to ensure we could populate our side of the border with settlers and move troops in as needed to prevent the USA from colonizing our west away from us. Back when our founding Prime Minister, Sir John A MacDonnald made this decision, Americans were starting to send spur lines up into Canada, and migrate Americans into western Canada. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from Halifax to Vancouver headed off that move and established Canada's territory, as the USA was forced to stop sending settlers and abandoned any spur lines they'd been building up towards/into Canada. Back in those days, the war of 1812 was still a fairly recent memory, and the American war cry of 54-40 or fight was still a part of current events. Canadians were very much concerned about America taking away parts of our country. The best way to head that off without forcing them into a major international war, would be to simply populate the border with Canadians and economic activity. That's the real, historical reason for most Canadians to live near the Canada-USA border.
During the early years, on the western prairies, Canada populated the arable lands by offering homesteads at minimal còst to encourage farming with many small towns .The small towns where spaced along the railways at 10 or 12 miles apart in order to provide the steam locomotives with water and coal as they moved along the various lines.. These small towns offered many opportunities for retail, banking , and service businesses like lumber yards, farm implement dealers, blacksmiths etc. After a few years , western Canada became the bread basket of the British Empire. Large grain companies sprang up to handle the purchase and transport of grain from the farm to the docks in eastern Canada .Each town had a grain elevator to handle the loading and storage of grain collected from surrounding farms. Great fortunes were made. Over the years ,the small family farms became unsustainable due the economy of scale so successful farmers started to acquire more and more land. The unsuccessful farmers moved to cities to find employment. As the rural population reduced, the opportunities for businesses were lost . People , moved to larger cities.. This depopulation of small towns also concentrated the populations closer to the border with the US. The effect of large corporate farms is the cause of depopulation of rural areas. It's not that the land is uninhabitable or the climate is a hinderance.. The result is vast areas of space population.
@@brianfrederickson2080 Yup, the Canadian version of homesteading was implemented by Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier, and was the final link in completing his predecessor, Sir John A. McDonnal's National Dream of an Atlantic-Pacific-Arctic Canada. The wheat was a special strain bred by years of plant husbandry to thrive on the extremes conditions of the Canadian Parries (very cold snowy winters, very hot dry summers and wet springs). The first line was the CPR line, which was intentionally kept close to the Canada-US border, even though that was a much harder route to build it on, to strategically place the first settlers as close to the border as possible to enforce our claim to those lands through populating the lands. The drought of the Great Depression era also helped accelerate the depopulation of rural Canada and urbanization of our nation, as many farmers were ruined by the dust bowl, which didn't just affect the USA, but also the Canadian prairies as well. The raise of industrialized farming of the mid-late 20th century was really the final nail in the coffin of most family farms.
You do realize that the winds are way stronger in southern Ontario than anywhere in America other than Alaska (edited) and also we don’t have major gun problems
If you watch these type of videos long enough you start to expect it. I had a feeling the second he mentioned in 7:42 'the border that has been closed for over a year now' which basically had nothing to do with the rest of the videos content.
Unfortunately you forgot to mention that it's generally colder in the East and so most of the western American states above southern Ontario are still warmer.
@@Michael-tk1wd the thing is humidity here creaps up much higher than areas in the south that are away from the great lakes. Heat isn't only temperature
More than half of Canadians live in just two provinces: Ontario, where one in three Canadians live, and Quebec where almost a quarter of Canadians live.
@@AslanKyoya1776 Quebec’s milk production is an important mechanism in the economy of all regions of Quebec. The some 10,400 dairy farm operators throughout the entire province market more than 3 billion litres of milk every year with a farm gate value of over $2,75 billion
LITERALLY. I was thinking that too. Also the Okanagan?! Hes never heard of Okanagan wineries and fruits? Stereotypical Canadian video... "Ontario is the only part of Canada that matters" 🙄
Several things wrong. First, while the Southern Ontario region is fertile, and indeed some of the most fertile land in the world, you left out the entire Great Plains region which includes parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. While nowhere near as densely populated as the Qc-W corridor, it's a major source of agricultural output for the country. And I say this as a Southern Ontarian! Second, there's several huge geopolitical reasons for the population density that you did not allude to, which is shame. One is outlined by Jason Ross in a top comment below - the CN railway in the West was intentionally built close to the border to ensure the border would not be encroached upon by the US secretly - hard to do so when there's "Canadians" living there. Another is the the combination of the geography of the Saint Lawrence/lower Great Lakes, and the French colonization of Quebec. When the British took over what is now Quebec and Ontario from the French in ~1763, they faced an... uncooperative population, to say the least. Most of what would become Southern Ontario was divided into a distinct region - Upper Canada, separate from the French-speaking Lower Canada. At this point, as you alluded to regarding shipping, what is now Southern Ontario was pretty much "the inland" - the west was very far from being explored or claimed. Then, the American Revolution happened. Loyalists fleeing the 13 colonies needed somewhere British to go, and they settled mostly in Upper Canada, what is now Southern Ontario, founding cities like Kingston and York (now Toronto). Thus, we had a massive population concentration even as far back as 1790 and it has only grown since. Touching on this is like, Canadian Histropoliticalgeography 101, so I would have expected to see it mentioned.
Someone in d different video claimed giant rats in New York and showed a picture of a Muskrat which is not a rat. Another guy in another video talked about elks while showing pictures of both elks and moose so didn't know the difference.
@@johanfalk2875 preaching to the choir. I am from New York and have spent 3 decades in the south New York is indeed better...but those winters are unbearable.
@@noneyabidness9644 NY definitely has its good points and is unique amongst the world’s cities, but its been heading downhill for awhile now. When you’re young and wild, its fine. When you grow out of that phase its really a shit hole.
@@SignalCorps1 And that is how you see New York as the City? Some New York city people need to rent a car to find out that New York is not just New York City. 😁
I live in a northern section of Canada and I’ve gotta say that people make it seem like it’s as cold as Antarctica. Sure it can get fairly cold in the winter, but it really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.
same here in alaska. people always think this state is cold year round which it does get pretty cold in months like january and february, but last month it just hit 90 degrees. crazy
@@heo9927 feel you there lol. I remember going to Quebec from Edmonton mid winter and having to take off a couple layers just because the temperature difference was crazy
@@yakko7418 people do seem to forget about Alaska. It’s right beside northern Canada so there are plenty of Americans who know what’s up. I’ve gone up that far only once and it was in the summer but the NWT/Yukon/Alaska is awesome
I used to live nestled in between those Great Lakes in Ontario. The temperature swing there between winter and summer is astounding. Summers were high 30s low 40s Celsius. Winter was often -30 to -40 Celsius. My friend had moved there from South African and found the summers unbearably hot.
@@suzaku1679 But dude Sorry to tell you but he’s from America and also Americans don’t really pay attention to Canada We guys barely even know you exist
It’s crazy to think how Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, but the majority of the population live in urban areas in the southern area. While the rest of the country is just kilometers and kilometers of beautiful unappreciated wilderness and tundras. Some parts of Canada are so far from civilization and untouched by man, it’s like being on a different planet.
@@haroldinho9930 Because they originally used to be a fort, also it has nothing to do with how north it is many cities across Canada originally started off as a fort you'll also see many cities in America have their names begin with "Fort" too, Edmonton for instance is one too it used to be called "Fort Edmonton"
The Canadian Prairies called, and they want to remind everyone that they (not Southern Ontario) are responsible for 80% of Canada's agricultural production. They are also one of the world's largest producer of oat, and so you can thank them for the oat milk in your latte.
oats wheat barley and hay; cattle; oil n gas. Lets see the rest of canada get along without the prairie provinces products! time for ontarion n quebec to APPRECIATE the pp....
As a Canadian living in the US, I spend more time explaining that more Americans live north of most of us, and that we have 4 seasons, than anything else. This is not embarrassing for us!
“Large scale farming operations are possible here and almost no where else”. Bro you ever heard of the prairies? A lot more agriculture happening out there than that little chunk of Ontario you highlighted
This guy has no clue what he’s talking about😂 when was the last time you heard someone bragging about how fucking North they live. -sincerely, Manitoba!
i’m afraid videos like this, which this topic has been covered extensively I might add, gives the wrong impressions to non-Canadians. I can only imagine they think the roads just end at some point and nobody lives in Northern Ontario or BC for example, in their mind it’s a complete desolate tundra.... I have friends that live in Whitehorse Yukon, and it can be really nice up there.
@@Nathan-rt5vj Yes, this video seemed like he ran out of ideas and recycled something already done half-assedly by others (of which he continued that tradition).
@@RuthlessTragedy yea well the other major mistake he made is that he seemed to have included the country of Québec in Canada which is indeed quite unfortunate
Right, Singaporeans don't need to eat since they live on cultivation and absorb the energy from nature so they can fight the demons and protect mankind.
As someone who lives just above that line, every winter we have a couple days where it -40 or below Celsius. Imagine going more North, it just gets colder and colder.
Well, let's be fair. He was highlighting crops you won't be able to grow in the central plains. Lots of wheat and other small grains come out of that region. But I don't think it is known for its apple production. Or grapes.
he could've gone a little further in this video by highlighting Calgary's and Edmonton's outstanding meaning in this regard. when 80% of all Canadians live within a hundred miles from the US border, that in return means that almost half of the remaining population is "held" by those single two "settlements" (that aren't even that far apart given Canada's overall size.) effectively bringing down the population density of the remaining area (which is enormous in land size) to probably something comparable to the Pacific Ocean, I'd roughly guess.
Pacific Ocean? No way is that remotely comparable to the total population of all the islands in Pacific Ocean. I'll take a guess and say 50 million people live there, excluding all of the densely populated nations like Japan and the Philippines.
@@Primitive_Code where would they be, though? I mean the ocean as in ocean. yes, that'd exclude Australia and such. there's just a couple very, very remote Islands that typically have a population (if any at all, that is) of 50 to a 100k. so, kinda like you come across a settlement every once in a while up there in the territories. yes, Hawaii is somehow not fitting in. but my point is that the Pacific Ocean is vast and empty; just like Canada mostly. those ten remaining percent would still mean some 3.8 million. so, since Hawaii is roughly a million, that probably still holds true. it's just that I can't think about anything comparably dense in Canada outside of what we already excluded.
@@Primitive_Code OP clearly said about population density, not just number of population... Do you know how huge Pacific Ocean is? it's about 1/3 of Earth's surface.
@@Sm00thieK yeah, what about it? 😅 (I mean, dunno what you mean, but it's literally sitting right on the border [with a tiny part of it even dipping into the States, oddly enough.] the two cities I mentioned are the only two larger population conglomerations that aren't close by the US border.)
And extremely cold in the winter. The seasons here are no joke. I used to think it was normal until a went out west and learned what moderate temperature was lol
@@SuchDarkness Maybe not, but it's close. The highest recorded temperature in Toronto was 105°F. The highest recorded temperature in Florida was 109°F in Monticello.
I live in Edmonton. The stats in this video are correct, and I love the content of this channel but he didn't really give the complete picture of Canada I feel. The Canadian prairies is mostly farm land, the bc interior and lower mainland have tons of fruit orchards, farms, and wineries. Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg all are cities with populations over 1 million people and are well above those lines. The random red blob map shown at 3:00 has a few large red blobs in places that don't make sense like why is there a red blob over Grande Prairie Alberta but not over Fort Mcmurray Alberta when they both have similar populations of 60 000 people? Also White Horse and Yellowknife way north in the territories have populations of 30 000 but no red blob at all? I know its just an exenterated visual representation but it could've been more accurate.
Some of the stats may be correct, but those which are true are predominately a great example of misrepresentation of facts. Example: there may be 19 million VISITS to USA, but no way 1/2 of Canada "live in" (aka "are permanent residents" ) of the states. A few actors, some musicians, some energy/gas people, and a few seniors are "permanent residents", but no 19million.
Most people don't care for accuracy in their lives and speech. It is sad. Lies are repeated and narrated and the truth, always precious, deep and more interesting than anything else, remain hidden, neglected, actively covered up.
The Red blobs for Newfoundland don't make any sense either. No North East Avalon blob which contains the provinces 4 largest settlements which together are around 200k people.
I kind of cringe when he says Windsor with an S sound instead of the Z sound. I'm not sure if it said the same way in Canada, but across here in Michigan, we say it with that z sound. Winzer.
(6:05) I live along the St. Lawrence river, in the area that was most heavily impacted by the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. In our area, approximately 38,000 acres of land was flooded in total to expand the river. 18,000 on the American side, 20,000 on the Canadian side. They relocated the population from the local towns in the area, and either dismantled or moved all of the buildings and infrastructure there to accommodate the move. On the Canadian side, in my area, 6 towns and 3 hamlets were flooded, another village lost 1/3 of its original location, and the village next to it was moved almost entirely to the North (excluding two homes). There are all kinds of reminders of this project in the St. Lawrence, including old highways, bridges, foundations, tree stumps, and railway beds that can be seen from the surface. The Americans lost 1 hamlet, and 1 street of another town, the rest of the area was farmland I believe. Because of this, the project is generally more well remembered on our side of the border than our southern neighbors.
As someone from the NY side of the river, we still remember the project too. And are sometimes reminded of it when diving and you encounter the drowned ruins or when fishing and pull up artifacts like horseshoes. I personally am facinated by the project and the dams, although if its any consolation Canada takes about 1.1GW of capacity from the dam and the USA takes about .9GW so you get more benefits from it to make up for sacrificing more. Although trade benefits wise we probably had more benefits from it because of having more cities on the lakes. Although realistically speaking the loss of a few villages in exchange for the massive trade boost and a combined 2GW hydrodam that also helps with flood management is certainly an easy decision for national governments to make.
the photo of the wine region shown in the discussion about the agriculture in Southern Ontario is actually a photo of the Okanagan valley in British Columbia (about 3000 miles west).The largest farm area producing the most grain and cattle ranches in in the western provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) not Southern Ontario.
That seems to be a trend with this channel. For all the brilliant, interesting videos he puts out, he also puts out a lot of error-ridden rushjobs like this episode.
This is a guy who thought he was embarrassing Canadians by saying some of them were geographically further south than some parts of the US. Can't expect too much accuracy.
It’s kind of nice that the colder north of Canada isn’t covered with human interactions. I’m sure it’s beautiful up there without people ruining natural wonders.
@@alexbreault8727 With the Black Flies, the little black flies. Always the black flies no matter where you go, I'll die with a black fly pickin' my bones in North Ontario-io, in North Ontario,
@@MaxTheCat-eh5ts it was going to end in nuclear hellfire started by the French after they would be the last man standing, I would have then started a second season showcasing the survivors and continuing on the story, but you are welcome and encouraged to think of your own ways the story could have ended
Yes, the United States are real bullies. They forced us to use tow letter abbreviations for provinces to comply with the rules of the United States Post Office.
@@ThwipThwipBoom Says the country, that can't have proper education system, let alone have their own people raid the White House because trump didn't get elected, I can keep on going buddy, you're recent events is getting worse too, Canada may have Trudeau, but our problem isn't worse like yours, just saying.
You missed out that the Prairie Provinces produce massive amounts of grains, B.C. has a lot of agriculture and is well known for its Estate Wineries in the Okanagan.
4:57 showed a picture of Vasuex Lake and orchards in BC while talking about the rich soil of Ontario. Lots of great soil beyond a pocket by the great lakes.
So? Who needs grains? Monsanto? There's a reason the prairies are also some of the most obese places on earth. I for one am sick of my tax dollars subsidizing peasant 'food' that nobody needs.
I was going to say, he completely ignored the west which contributes to Canada being the 5th largest wheat producer in the world. Also, the winery picture he showed was from BC, not back east. Not his best video I must say.
I'm from WIsconsin and I was really thinking "no way I could live in Canada, it's already so cold here" but most of their major cities are literally around the same latitude as where I live already-
Where I live (West Coast of Canada) the lawns stay green all winter. We do usually get a few days of snow each winter, which creates a bit of havoc, and great hilarity in the rest of Canada.
As a Canadian who lives south of that line the answer is easy... too cold up there
*Laughs in Calgary*
I agree
been above the line and it isnt cold, infact its perfect temperature, idk about you though
Settlements made close to border during war
As a Canadian who lives north of that line I agree with the answer.
Another fun fact: Most Canadians live in Canada
Hmm yes the floor here is made of floor
For every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
Hmm yes, the sky is made of sky
One of those things we subconcsiously know but never truly realize
Do you have a source for this?
I'm from the Toronto area, and whenever I go up to Algonquin Park I feel that I'm 'way way up north', but in actual fact there are entire US states that are north of Algonquin Park.
That's right.
Technically there is only one: Alaska.
The north tip of Algonquin is at 46.14N
The southern border of North Dakota is at 45.93N. There are no states in the continental US entirely above Algonquin
Haha 'way way up north'. That's shocking for me to hear that because i live a 8 hours drive north from Winnipeg.
Lol USA is north!! But not as north as Canada is . 😂 ( Geologically on the map )
Omg yeah same jeez
Some of us who live far North of that 100 mile line are still starting to feel congested. When I visit a dense metro area I start to feel suffocated in a just a few days.
I like my wide open space, pristine forest, canyons, rivers, wildlife. I love people, I just don't love living near them.
Where you live in Canada
@@Markwhatney5088 prob near Edmonton, only big Canadian city I can think of above the 49th parallel
@@LittleHomieLightningtech vancouver
@@LittleHomieLightningtech Vancouver, Calgary, Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna, Edmonton, Red Deer, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Dawson City, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Churchill, Brandon, etc., are all cities that are located above the 49th and vary in size. Some are located in the far North while most are located within 100 miles of the U.S. border. I apologize for the geography lesson but there is understandably a lack of awareness about the large population that lives outside of the southern Ontario area. Anyway, take it for what it is. I hope you have a nice holiday season. 😊
Agreed, I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is a fairly nice sized city (about 750k pop) not too big and not not too small, compared to some other city’s in Canada but it can still get sorta stuffy so I love it when we get to go visit my family that has a cabin on lake of the woods, just outside of Kenora, Ontario but I do think people tend to gloss over the prairie provinces and the territories and only think about Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and bc and sometimes the maritimes but not too much. Also some ppl say we are Americas little brother but we do things that they see and are like “wait that’s a good idea, let’s take the credit for that”, ever heard about the penny? Do some research, Canada is a beautiful country with safe schools instead of schools*crossed out in place of shooting ranges*… it’s awesome here.
Short answer : it's cold above this line.
Long answer: it's *very* cold above this line.
Underrated
Not entirely accurate. Southern British Columbia can get very hot, 40C in the summer and some areas only get down to -15C in the winter. This area is hotter in the summer than many US states.
I live in Sweden and are more north than the whole Hudson Bay! You should not talk about cold! 😅
And I live in exactly the middle of Sweden....
@@central3425 He literally just said its cold and its very cold about the unoccupied parts of canada. It wad a joke and you ruined it
@@casswashwash1070 Unoccupied? People live up there.
RealLifeLore: *Talks about orchards and wineries in Southern Ontario, shows picture of Okanagan region in B.C.*
Me, a Western Canadian: *resigned sigh*
Haha I noticed that too was like didn't know Ontario had a semi desert.
I love okanagan, it is my favourite part of BC to visit, I live in western Alberta, I also realized that because I been to okanagan over 6 times
Me an Eastern Canadian when he spelled it "Ottowa" had the same reaction.
I was also confused when he said southern Ontario is one of the only places agriculture can happen. So I guess the lower mainland, okanagan, and all 3 prairie provinces just don't exist.
@@FG-ww8rc In BC, not since we started paving over them all to create impossible-to-afford housing...
I was expecting a 5 second video saying "Because it's cold up there..."
RIGHT
me too
yeah, same
Congratulations! Your truth stat has increased by +5%!
That works too
A long time ago, I went on a Eurotrip with some friends I knew ever since high school. There were three of us and we were all from the Toronto area. We identified ourselves as Canadian. Then, on a walking tour thingie, we heard some other people indicate they were Canadian, too. They were from Manitoba or something. When we heard them talk, we realized what all the Canadian stereotypes about "aboot" were all, well, aboot.
As a fellow Ontarian, I still have never heard "aboot." I've been to Winnipeg briefly, but didn't pay attention. Will have to next time!
Well you don't even have to travel more than half an hour out of the city before "about" sounds far more like "aboat"
Another thing I've noticed here in BC is the way people pronounce "Again".
@@3DGECASE Kate Bierness of TSN, is from Port Perry and she says "aboat", but its very soft and understated.
LMAO SAME! i was in europe this summer and met some other Canadians from Manitoba & Saskatchewan and finally understood where we get those stereotypes from 😭
Gonna go out on a limb and assume it’s cold up there
It's pretty chill(y)
No man, it's actually close to 50 degrees!
*Laughs in 32° C in Alberta*
@@CanadaBricks ha Manitoba be like
33 with humidity
@@CanadaBricks -36 in January though🤣
Fun fact: 100% of Canadians spell "Ottowa" as Ottawa.
We need to get this comment to number 1
There's probably some first grader who doesn't but true lol
As someone from Ottawa, we need to make this top comment so he will get it right next time
Is there any way I can like this comment more than once to get it to the top?
@UCul8Y29FWJ1fDzQpeH3inuA yes, the correct spelling is Ottawa
I 'm from Russia and I can confirm that when you go from the southern part of the country to the northern one, the population density decreases a lot. Most people just don't want to live in the cold areas with overpriced imported food.
Smart !
@@crixy.. wdym by saying "smart" ?
I would agree for the most part except for affordability as the toronto area is far more expensive to live in than Calgary or Edmonton. Vancouver is also expensive af
@@legendztofar-- :- What he meant by "north" is up there in the northern territories, where fresh fruit like bananas, apples & oranges and many other grocery items, all have to be shipped by air...very expensive.
@@Черныйрусский-ь7б I mean that you are smart haha what you said is true
Yeah, I feel like many people overestimate how populous our country is, especially compared to the US just south of us having very high population density, but most of the country is either rock, frozen, water, farmland (Saskatchewan) or a city. Many people prefer the cities.
saskatchewan is literally just farms
signed, an alberta citizen
I like cities a bit, but I also like rural. They both have pros and cons.
@@proletariennenaturiste true
very true
@bob 37 Yeah this couldn't be further from the truth but go ahead and speak for an area you know nothing about.
@@mowbray231 well even if it's not just farms it has no shape
it's a boring rectangle
Here's a fun fact: there's more Puerto Ricans outside of Puerto Rico than inside of it
More Irish people in New York than in Ireland
@@Stavroization I think that would be wrong, like 240 million wrong
More Albanians outside of Albania than inside of it
More Irish people live outside Ireland.
There’s more Americans in the United States than in America
I'm one of those Canadians who actually lives further north in Canada.
What area do you live in (in general, of course)?
Vancouver?
Born and raised in the NWT, living in Alberta now though, but I still work in the NWT and Nunavut.
Surprised you have wifi
I’m an American who lives Further north than the line
*Every 60 seconds in Canada, a minute passes*
*Together we can stop this!*
Please spread the word
Canada is overrated.
@@karwan6385 so is anime
@@Sshaiwjw81 LOL
@@karwan6385 you have never been there
I came across your channel one day at work and have been watching all the videos ever since. The amount of facts and knowledge you put into each video is amazing. Thank you for your hard work making these videos. I have enjoyed all of them.
except some of the pretty glaring mistakes; like misspelling the capital of Canada; or showing a picture of an orchard 2000 mi away from the area they're talking about.
fun fact - Windsor Ontario is South of Detroit City, so we drive north into the US lol
Stfu
And the border at Niagra falls doesn't make geographic sense neither.
Me who lives in Windsor and finally gets recognition for the city 👁️👄👁️
@@RamiHaddadin windsor is knock off detroit lol
@@RamiHaddadin Me 2. lol
10 minutes to explain that humans and plants prefer temperatures above freezing for most of the year.
well the southern prairies are still really cold in winter. its probably because where they laid the railroads originally.
@@LukeTEvans the prairies are above the 49th parallel.
@@LukeTEvansdon't you know it's impossible to build railroads in permafrost? It's not they settle because of the railroads, it's because they settle where they could do anything at all.
You need a video to get sponsored :).
@@jarrettwilfred I've just googled 'permafrost in Alberta' and got the exact thickness. Wouldn't bother to google the rest.
Fun Fact: At least 40% of Canadians live in Canada!
😳
We can go further: over 50% of Canadians live in Canada
Are you sure?
Oml I never new I thought the lives in Norfolk Island
No, at least 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Thanks for making many points I've made to friends and acquaintances in the past, often to doubt-laden reactions. I remember camping in Lake Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota a bunch of years ago and meeting a fellow from New York City. I mentioned that I had lived in NYC as a student and that I had moved back to Toronto. His response was, "Oh yeah, Toronto! Nice town. I've been up there!" I smiled and responded, "Nice! Of course it's actually 'down there' from where we stand right now.'" He looked at me sideways and asked, "What?" I remarked that Toronto was actually quite a ways south of where we were at the moment in Minnesota. He kept saying, "Nah, buddy, you got that wrong. Toronto's north of here." Unfortunately it was before the internet and smart phones so I couldn't prove my point without going to the car and retrieving a map!
I've never liked it when people would refer to Canada as "north of the 49th," when most Canadians actually live south of it. The fellow from NYC was convinced that all of Canada was north of all of the USA.
One other thing worth mentioning about where the population has settled is the simple reality of the Jet Stream. Over North America, it happens to hug the area close to the international border between the US and Canada, then over the Atlantic it heads much further north, and by the time it reaches Europe, the dividing line between north and south in terms of air temperature and humidity is significantly further north. Edmonton, Alberta is at 53 degrees north latitude, about the same amount north of the equator as is the city of Berlin, Germany. Edmonton has winter temperatures that regularly hit -40C, whereas the coldest winter temperatures in Berlin rarely go much below the freezing point (0C). That jet stream makes an enormous difference, making large swaths of northern Europe much more hospitable to human settlement than most of Canada.
Great job otherwise (other than misspelling "Ottawa" 🙂).
Yeah here in Windsor I technically live "south of the border" in Canada, since the downtown core of Detroit lies due north of Windsor. In this whole region crossing the border take you north to the US or west to the US if you're up in Sarnia-Port Huron
Here's another fun fact: During winter, it feels like 50% of Canadians live in South Florida.
Good chunk in Arizona too. My accent changes eh. Lol jk
lmao so true, i live in south florida and it gets so crowded during the winter (I live in a town that isn't that populated so it feels like the population increases by like 500%)
@@xdEnvasion how?
Thought the same thing!
Same thing but it feels like 50% of Finlands population moves to Greece, Thailand or Spain in mid winter
RealLifeLore: haha I’m gonna embarrass Canadians
Also RealLifeLore: Ottowa
LOL
hmm yes the capital of canada is ottowa
Ottowa Senators
@@ttc_flaw7964 Ottoman Empire
He didn’t even mention downtown Canada
I crossed Canada by train in 2012 and could not believe the remoteness of most of the route beyond the major cities. Even in Ontario, which is Canada's most populous province (and not even its largest geographically), the train ran for 16 hours and never passed through a single town with more than 1,000 people in it; the largest town, Hornepayne, had only about 1,000 people and only had that many because the railroad needs a place to change crews every eight hours or so. Canada is BIG!
Well it’s big AND empty. Us is the same size and you wouldn’t run into much of this problem because of the sheer population disparities between the two nations.
Try to imagine how it is in Russia
@@inter5123 US is not the same size as Canada, it's big, but Canada is the 2nd biggest in the world
@@maybeanonymous6846 Canada is 1.6% larger…
@@maybeanonymous6846 not to mention the population of Canada is close to 5x less than the US
Ottowa is the capital of Canada? Who knew?! For decades I thought it was Ottawa! ;)
Yep Ottawa ... Just like Ottawa Illinois.
How does a kid from Ottawa Ontario know this??
Ottawa Illinois is the birthplace of Bob McGrath everyone's friend from Sesame Street who passed away recently.
@@comebychance people appropriating names and misspelling and misunderstanding them - especially colonizers - is hardly anything new.
Like it or not, this is the name we Canucks are stuck with. At least we got Ottawa and Kanata right.
I still don't know. No one knows about Canada. It is one of the least relevant countries.
I’m Canadian, its not Ottowa, its Ottawa.
It just sounds stupid saying it with an a
I'm not Canadian, but 🇨🇦.
@@jemhelprt5365 no, it makes a lot more sense lol
Ottawa,eh.
@@taylor943 that hurt my soul to see it spelled like that and I'm not even canadian
I'd like to point out that Portland Oregon is also above that first dropped line which is the only major metro in all of Oregon. A lot of people don't realize how far north Portland is. Portland is further north than Toronto.
Also I'd like to point out that most of this doesn't apply to Vancouver, BC. The Pacific Northwest as a whole is a weird region with its own climate rules.
Lol that’s what I try to say, but everybody doesn’t bieleve me for some reason lol
Ehh, I've only notice when living there because it's practically on the border of washtington.. just 5 minute drive and already in vancouver like how tf did I end up here
@@jay-d8g3v It's not practically on the border, Portland *is* on the border. Portland's biggest suburb is in Washington.
Tell me about it
The weird climate rules are usually the mountains redirecting the cold weather north and I'm not sure why this is but all of North America is warmer in the west and colder in the east.
As a Canadian who lives in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor and seeing "Ottowa"
Me: 😳
The irony of this comment lmao
@@KasabianFan44 well to be fair, it was just a typo, r is right next to e, but o is not next to a so it was intentional
@@KasabianFan44 Windsoe Corridoe
Lmao having a fun time there huh
I think I work it Ottawa. I'm not sure though haha
Fun fact, your picture of a Canadian vineyard in 'Ontario' is of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia 😀
Fun fact: AT LEAST 1% of all Canadians live in Canada.
I mean, he's not wrong
@@ZhouMama69420 right?
Fun Fact: There are more Illegal Mexican-Americans than people who live in California.
@@mohdadeeb1829 fun fact: no there arent
There are less than 11Million illegal imigrants
No at least one Canadian lives in canada
"But I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet." lol jokes on you dude, Canadians just like to be included.
um, we are one of the most respected and beloved countries in the world, America is hated by pretty much everyone, including their friends so..... include us or dont, we are your most vital neighbor since we sell you oil super cheap and share the largest border in the world with you, and we share a border on the north pole with russia.
@@Zeitgeist2000 “respected”
@@williamhenning4700 yeah people respect us, we may not have global super power status with which we throw our tiny dick around over compensating every moment. But no one goes out of their way to insult us and when Canadians visit foreign countries everyone likes us. When americans visit other countries everyone expects you to be ignorant of customs and be a jackass.
@@Zeitgeist2000 judging from your comment, looks like canadians are indeed rude
@@nutsonmydog646 hey, we learn from our southern neighbours. You guys are the masters of that.
this guy really knows how to transition to his sponsors
I thought the same thing, lollll
My older sister is a nonstop chatterbox.
I use this guy's same transition technique to change conversation topics with her.
@@cometcal2 lol XD
fuck morning brew. this guy never heard of them till someone gave him an ad he had to read
@@cometcal2 Hilarious comment lmfao xD
It's a striking graph, but you're just highlighting Toronto and Montreal. You can do a vertical version of the meme by drawing a couple of lines somewhere along 82W and 72 W. Then you can say 50% of Canadians live between these two vertical lines.
yeah its not that mindblowing
As a resident of ottawa my entire life seeing “ottowa” really hit me right in the gut
I was gonna say the same thing lmao
OwOwa
Ottawa, representing!
Looking for this comment 😂
The Ottowan Empire
5:01 Talks about southern Ontario Wineries: Shows the Okanagan valley of BC...
Haha, yep. Between OK Falls and Oliver
Joys of stock footage.
I was wondering where they were hiding the mountains that line the Great Lakes.
And ifyou can find a ski hill over 1400 ft. high in Michigan... You aren't in Michgan anymore!
Made a similar comment before I read yours. Yes Blue Mountain Vineyards in OK Falls and one of my favourite views in the Okanagan.
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The real reason isn’t that complicated…
European actually tried to go up there and build cities, but it’s just too cold and in the middle of nowhere. They rapidly realized it…
If there was money to be made and food was easy to grow people would settle there
@@draggy6544 Not that much though. Alaska’s population is huge compared to Yukon Territory for instance and experienced both the Klondike Gold Rush and is a major oil producer, but its population doesn’t even scratch a million. If every single part of Canada were just as useful the line wouldn’t be much different. Would maybe need to be just a bit higher. A bit.
@Hernando Malinche wtf?
@Hernando Malinche Canada should have annexed the US
@Ablazelearner85 Thank your lucky stars that the various close brushes with parts of modern day Canada being peacefully annexed into the United States didn't happen. Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia in particular. Though, I think it's pretty clear you're definitely dealing with our problems.
Thanks!
If anyone has ever experienced a Saskatchewan winter, you'd understand why.
Hi, neighbour! I feel you. MB's winters are just as bad.
I have. It got so cold that my block heater cable snapped in half when I tried to plug it in. It was -50c for over a week straight. One of my coworkers moved there from the northern coast of the Yukon. After one winter, then announced he was going back to the Yukon because Saskatchewan winter was so miserable.
@@andrew_mb Two letter abbreviation for provinces was forced on us by the United States Post Office.
Same with northern Alberta +40 in the summer and below -40 in the winter😂
That wind chill be chilly
As a Canadian I'm not shocked he spelt our capitol wrong. Ottowa instead of Ottawa 3:22
**angry geese noises**
What is ottawa? Because a capital is the city, a capitol is the building
@@evilbadger34 this guy knows things
The irony of you spelling capital wrong
Oh the irony
“I’m not done embarrassing Canada yet.”
Canadians: Sorry.
I killed my dad
Canadians : sorry
HAHAHA! That is what I said!
LOL!!
Sorry
Insert meme
Surf
Beautifully put together. Excellent video!
There's another, huge reason why so many Canadians live near the border, that I thought this guy was transitioning to. Political. The first true transcontinential railroad, the CPR, was built near the border to establish Canadian control over what would one day become the provinces of Manitoba, Saskachewan, Alberta and British Columbia, by establishing our own transcontinental railroad, connecting Halifax to Vancouver, and located near the 49th parallel to ensure we could populate our side of the border with settlers and move troops in as needed to prevent the USA from colonizing our west away from us. Back when our founding Prime Minister, Sir John A MacDonnald made this decision, Americans were starting to send spur lines up into Canada, and migrate Americans into western Canada. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from Halifax to Vancouver headed off that move and established Canada's territory, as the USA was forced to stop sending settlers and abandoned any spur lines they'd been building up towards/into Canada.
Back in those days, the war of 1812 was still a fairly recent memory, and the American war cry of 54-40 or fight was still a part of current events. Canadians were very much concerned about America taking away parts of our country. The best way to head that off without forcing them into a major international war, would be to simply populate the border with Canadians and economic activity. That's the real, historical reason for most Canadians to live near the Canada-USA border.
TIL, thanks
Niice!
During the early years, on the western prairies, Canada populated the arable lands by offering homesteads at minimal còst to encourage farming with many small towns .The small towns where spaced along the railways at 10 or 12 miles apart in order to provide the steam locomotives with water and coal as they moved along the various lines.. These small towns offered many opportunities for retail, banking , and service businesses like lumber yards, farm implement dealers, blacksmiths etc. After a few years , western Canada became the bread basket of the British Empire. Large grain companies sprang up to handle the purchase and transport of grain from the farm to the docks in eastern Canada .Each town had a grain elevator to handle the loading and storage of grain collected from surrounding farms. Great fortunes were made. Over the years ,the small family farms became unsustainable due the economy of scale so successful farmers started to acquire more and more land. The unsuccessful farmers moved to cities to find employment. As the rural population reduced, the opportunities for businesses were lost . People , moved to larger cities.. This depopulation of small towns also concentrated the populations closer to the border with the US. The effect of large corporate farms is the cause of depopulation of rural areas. It's not that the land is uninhabitable or the climate is a hinderance.. The result is vast areas of space population.
@@brianfrederickson2080 Yup, the Canadian version of homesteading was implemented by Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier, and was the final link in completing his predecessor, Sir John A. McDonnal's National Dream of an Atlantic-Pacific-Arctic Canada.
The wheat was a special strain bred by years of plant husbandry to thrive on the extremes conditions of the Canadian Parries (very cold snowy winters, very hot dry summers and wet springs). The first line was the CPR line, which was intentionally kept close to the Canada-US border, even though that was a much harder route to build it on, to strategically place the first settlers as close to the border as possible to enforce our claim to those lands through populating the lands.
The drought of the Great Depression era also helped accelerate the depopulation of rural Canada and urbanization of our nation, as many farmers were ruined by the dust bowl, which didn't just affect the USA, but also the Canadian prairies as well. The raise of industrialized farming of the mid-late 20th century was really the final nail in the coffin of most family farms.
Not reading all that
As a Canadian, I can confirm we all live near the border.
Thanks for confirming i thought this video was propoganda
*me who lives in nuvnat be like*
Yes when I was born I used to lived in Wennipeg but it was too cold so they went to Vancuver
Sorry for grammar
@@RyderAviation like what
@@tekken5375 ... do you not know what be like is
Thanks!
You do realize that the winds are way stronger in southern Ontario than anywhere in America other than Alaska (edited) and also we don’t have major gun problems
That transition to the advertising section was kinda smooth ngl
If you watch these type of videos long enough you start to expect it. I had a feeling the second he mentioned in 7:42 'the border that has been closed for over a year now' which basically had nothing to do with the rest of the videos content.
Even with the best news service, he still won't learn anything on the real reasons of borders closing for so long.
fr i didnt even realize until he said the advertisement
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Well I'm glad you're ngl
Unfortunately you forgot to mention that it's generally colder in the East and so most of the western American states above southern Ontario are still warmer.
Especially living near the great lakes, gets mad cold
Our summers in Toronto are hot asf to. We get it all here
@@Michael-tk1wd the thing is humidity here creaps up much higher than areas in the south that are away from the great lakes. Heat isn't only temperature
@George Washington screw off 🤦🏽♂️ this is not the U.S.
@@adamk3306 that has nothing to do with it being cold. Places like North Bay and Sudbury get far colder in winter than places near the great lakes
More than half of Canadians live in just two provinces: Ontario, where one in three Canadians live, and Quebec where almost a quarter of Canadians live.
Which is why you guys think milk comes in bags all over Canada, when it's literally just in your 2 provinces
@@AslanKyoya1776 Quebec's dairy sector has always been and still is the largest agricultural
@@AslanKyoya1776 Quebec’s milk production is an important mechanism in the economy of all regions of Quebec. The some 10,400 dairy farm operators throughout the entire province market more than 3 billion litres of milk every year with a farm gate value of over $2,75 billion
While technically true, southern Florida has a substantial Canadian population, , many of whom can be identified by their black socks with sandals.
Hey, u forgot BC
As someone who lives above that line every winter I cry.
Fun fact: Montreal is Canada’s most populated island.
Cool, I didn't even know Montreal was an island.
As an Montréalais i agree
It’s an island?? 😦
@@stxrrymidnight yes
what even is montreal
edit: oh
This guy really just said Forget the Praries and East Canada when talking about agriculture
we grow all our food in BC also
LITERALLY. I was thinking that too. Also the Okanagan?! Hes never heard of Okanagan wineries and fruits?
Stereotypical Canadian video... "Ontario is the only part of Canada that matters" 🙄
i was just about to say that as well
@Mike DeMarco “bro tried to sneak Nebraska in there 💀”
I hate to be "that guy", but the video of vineyards in Ontario was actually near OK Falls in British Columbia.
Exact! Moreover, there are no such mountains in Ontario and whoever is familiar with this location recognized it right away.
@ this guy is a hack haha, love from vernon
@@jaredf5000 most of the vineyards in southern Ontario is in the Niagara region.
@@jaredf5000 whats up, vernon? Love from kelowna
@@Excitable101 yeah i know , ive been there multiple times... Not sure why you felt the need to tell me that
Several things wrong.
First, while the Southern Ontario region is fertile, and indeed some of the most fertile land in the world, you left out the entire Great Plains region which includes parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. While nowhere near as densely populated as the Qc-W corridor, it's a major source of agricultural output for the country. And I say this as a Southern Ontarian!
Second, there's several huge geopolitical reasons for the population density that you did not allude to, which is shame.
One is outlined by Jason Ross in a top comment below - the CN railway in the West was intentionally built close to the border to ensure the border would not be encroached upon by the US secretly - hard to do so when there's "Canadians" living there.
Another is the the combination of the geography of the Saint Lawrence/lower Great Lakes, and the French colonization of Quebec. When the British took over what is now Quebec and Ontario from the French in ~1763, they faced an... uncooperative population, to say the least. Most of what would become Southern Ontario was divided into a distinct region - Upper Canada, separate from the French-speaking Lower Canada. At this point, as you alluded to regarding shipping, what is now Southern Ontario was pretty much "the inland" - the west was very far from being explored or claimed. Then, the American Revolution happened. Loyalists fleeing the 13 colonies needed somewhere British to go, and they settled mostly in Upper Canada, what is now Southern Ontario, founding cities like Kingston and York (now Toronto). Thus, we had a massive population concentration even as far back as 1790 and it has only grown since. Touching on this is like, Canadian Histropoliticalgeography 101, so I would have expected to see it mentioned.
I think you mean the CPR. CN came much later.
@@jamesthomson8659 Yes indeed thank you for the correction!
How much of Northern Canada is uninhabitable?
-Nonnavut
ha
lol
All of it .
🤓 I’m trying not to laugh, but I’m a word nerd. I can’t help it! Haha!
Yukon't get funnier than that...EH?
At 4:55 you showed Blue mountain vinyard in BC when talking about Quebec lol
RIGHT?! I was like, what.... that's the Okanagan... which is popular for it's orchards and winery lol.
Someone in d different video claimed giant rats in New York and showed a picture of a Muskrat which is not a rat. Another guy in another video talked about elks while showing pictures of both elks and moose so didn't know the difference.
Yeah, I was looking at that and I thought: “hmm looks like the okanagan ... this guy is so bad at this
I was thinking how did BC get into Ontario?
Another reason that we cannot take 'informational' videos seriously.
RealLifeLore: Puts out a video
Me: I wasn’t interested, but you have my attention.
These are videos we don’t want but didn’t know we needed
What's more interesting than Canada?
@@TheOtherAndrewV2 *weird Soviet and German tech stories by mustard*
The picture you showed of wineries is from the west coast near Oliver, BC since I live here I recognized it right away.
Can you do a video titled "Why 50% of New Yorkers live south of this line" and draw a line through central Florida.
:P
Because they love to talk about how great NEW YORK IS, BABY!!! but don’t want to live there. 😁
@@johanfalk2875 preaching to the choir. I am from New York and have spent 3 decades in the south
New York is indeed better...but those winters are unbearable.
@@noneyabidness9644 NY definitely has its good points and is unique amongst the world’s cities, but its been heading downhill for awhile now. When you’re young and wild, its fine. When you grow out of that phase its really a shit hole.
😂
@@SignalCorps1 And that is how you see New York as the City? Some New York city people need to rent a car to find out that New York is not just New York City. 😁
I live in a northern section of Canada and I’ve gotta say that people make it seem like it’s as cold as Antarctica. Sure it can get fairly cold in the winter, but it really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.
same here in alaska. people always think this state is cold year round which it does get pretty cold in months like january and february, but last month it just hit 90 degrees. crazy
Where do you live?
What?? I live in fort mcmurray /Edmonton and I’m not gonna lie it gets really cold at times lol. -35° and shit
@@heo9927 feel you there lol. I remember going to Quebec from Edmonton mid winter and having to take off a couple layers just because the temperature difference was crazy
@@yakko7418 people do seem to forget about Alaska. It’s right beside northern Canada so there are plenty of Americans who know what’s up. I’ve gone up that far only once and it was in the summer but the NWT/Yukon/Alaska is awesome
"Farming is impossible"
Me who lives in Manitoba where we account for 11% of Canada’s farmland: that’s cap boi that’s cap
We should change the name of Manitoba to Winnipeg, because realistically thats where the entire province lives
he is not very well informed...its like Justine explained canada to him.
@@adamk3306 not really like 600k people live in other areas of Manitoba so close to half don’t live in Winnipeg
I grew up in Brandon! We’re not all from Winnipeg haha
Only joking lads. But it's partially true
I used to live nestled in between those Great Lakes in Ontario. The temperature swing there between winter and summer is astounding. Summers were high 30s low 40s Celsius. Winter was often -30 to -40 Celsius. My friend had moved there from South African and found the summers unbearably hot.
Where in the GTA do temperatures reach low 40s in the summer or -40 in the winter? Its currently 4 degrees in Hamilton in the middle of February.
@@4spooky8u I wouldn't quite say -40, but it did get as low as -25 a couple of years ago!
"but I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet"
Every Canadian ever: "what am I supposed to be embarrassed by?"
He should be embarrassed by spelling "ottOwa" instead of "Ottawa"
So embarrassed by all our resources LMAO
I am impressed by the Canadian public education system. Almost every Canadian I have met can speak English!
I’m also confused
@@stephenchapel2058 So can every American?
"I'm not done embarrassing Canadians yet"
Ottowa
Ottawa*
@@kanishkthirumala736 ik lmao. They spelt it ottowa in the video, and I said they should be embarrassed lol
You guys are really Clowning on him because he got one letter wrong 😑
@@unitgamex2972 It's our country's capital. It's not surprising that we are lol
@@suzaku1679 But dude Sorry to tell you but he’s from America and also Americans don’t really pay attention to Canada
We guys barely even know you exist
THE WAY HE SPELLED OTTAWA PLS IM CRYING "ottowa"
Im sorry Not everyone gives a shit about canada
@@xhafts then why did you click on this video?
@@jackthomas1448 because im a fan of realifelore?
Trust me usa 2.0 isnt as important as you think
@@xhafts takes a second to spell something correctly.
@@g5umpfo647 ottowa
It’s crazy to think how Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, but the majority of the population live in urban areas in the southern area. While the rest of the country is just kilometers and kilometers of beautiful unappreciated wilderness and tundras. Some parts of Canada are so far from civilization and untouched by man, it’s like being on a different planet.
As someone that’s from Edmonton I’m watching this and feeling good about how canadien I am for living so far up north 😂
Me: laughs in Fort McMurray
@@tallo7545 lmao I’m not even gonna try and diss that 😂 rip man how u holding up.
@@tallo7545 why are all the far north places in Canada have fort in their name.
@@haroldinho9930 Because they originally used to be a fort, also it has nothing to do with how north it is many cities across Canada originally started off as a fort you'll also see many cities in America have their names begin with "Fort" too, Edmonton for instance is one too it used to be called "Fort Edmonton"
you can't even spell Canadian properly....
The Canadian Prairies called, and they want to remind everyone that they (not Southern Ontario) are responsible for 80% of Canada's agricultural production. They are also one of the world's largest producer of oat, and so you can thank them for the oat milk in your latte.
oats wheat barley and hay; cattle; oil n gas. Lets see the rest of canada get along without the prairie provinces products! time for ontarion n quebec to APPRECIATE the pp....
@@Lauren-vd4qe Toronto calling, paying for all those subsidies.
@@Lauren-vd4qe Time for AB and the Prairies to do their own thing
@Dan Johnston switch to vanilla unsw cashew milk instead. according to dr berg...almonds are the most heavily toxic sprayed plant on the market!!
@Dan Johnston np; i only found that out about a month ago!
As a Canadian living in the US, I spend more time explaining that more Americans live north of most of us, and that we have 4 seasons, than anything else. This is not embarrassing for us!
Idk what you’re talking about were I live in Canada it goes Winter, Winter, Construction, Winter
We just Have Winter & July
@@siberiusstuph I live in Canada, no
Winter is Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Spring apr may
Summer Jun Jul Aug
Fall sep oct
@@siberiusstuph it's 30°C rn and it's september
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 Different Story for British Columbians
Before this vid, I didn't know there were only 38 million Canadians, thats compared to over 300 million people in the U.S.
“Large scale farming operations are possible here and almost no where else”. Bro you ever heard of the prairies? A lot more agriculture happening out there than that little chunk of Ontario you highlighted
I was thinking, "Wait, what about all the wheat I see on Corner Gas?"
He's talking about the tundra and the Canadian Shield. The Prairies have lots of farming but the population isn't as high as the St Lawrence lowlands.
This guy has no clue what he’s talking about😂 when was the last time you heard someone bragging about how fucking North they live.
-sincerely, Manitoba!
Yeah. There are literally orchards and vineyards in BC. Meanwhile Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba are all well known for agriculture.
Not only that, but the picture at 4:56 is from British Columbia which has tons of orchards and wineries.
Alternate title: Why 50% Canadian live North of this line.
We like it when the cold makes our nipples hard.
that's where the oil sands are
i’m afraid videos like this, which this topic has been covered extensively I might add, gives the wrong impressions to non-Canadians. I can only imagine they think the roads just end at some point and nobody lives in Northern Ontario or BC for example, in their mind it’s a complete desolate tundra.... I have friends that live in Whitehorse Yukon, and it can be really nice up there.
@@Nathan-rt5vj Yes, this video seemed like he ran out of ideas and recycled something already done half-assedly by others (of which he continued that tradition).
@George Washington do you think zucc is a communist instead of a cap
The moment when you realize he mispelled your home in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada
The guy spends 10 minutes explaining that Canada is cold but can’t manage to spell the capital correctly
@@guillaumeqc2202 he still did a great job overall, but ya that is kinda unfortunate. Nothing to cry about tho :P
@@RuthlessTragedy yea well the other major mistake he made is that he seemed to have included the country of Québec in Canada which is indeed quite unfortunate
Me just now realizing Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Always just assumed it was Toronto or something
@@guillaumeqc2202 no mistake there, quebec isn't a country.
Well, I in fact, live above the 49th parallel and it’s cold with windshield it gets up to being -50 Except this winter, it’s been weird
“You just can’t have people or civilization without food”
Singapore: excuse me?
Yes.
30 x 30 !
@@joetrey215 30 percent by 2030 i see you
Right, Singaporeans don't need to eat since they live on cultivation and absorb the energy from nature so they can fight the demons and protect mankind.
I know they dont eat much in china. But are you saying in Singapure they dont eat at all??
As someone who lives just above that line, every winter we have a couple days where it -40 or below Celsius. Imagine going more North, it just gets colder and colder.
-40 Celsius is -40 Fahrenheit 😇
@@elliotkamper no thats -30
It is bluntly known as freezing your ass off almost half the year lol.
in peace river it got to like -43 last winter
@@blueleafy7167 got that about 3 times in Sudbury last year
Southern Ontario being the "basically only possible place to farm on a large scale"
The Interior Plains: Am I a joke to you?
I know...right? Totally dissing the Prairie Provinces.
In his defense, his comment was mainly referring to the region and not the country.
I'm from Ontario and even I balked at it.
Well, let's be fair. He was highlighting crops you won't be able to grow in the central plains. Lots of wheat and other small grains come out of that region. But I don't think it is known for its apple production. Or grapes.
@@cdjhyoung BC
he could've gone a little further in this video by highlighting Calgary's and Edmonton's outstanding meaning in this regard. when 80% of all Canadians live within a hundred miles from the US border, that in return means that almost half of the remaining population is "held" by those single two "settlements" (that aren't even that far apart given Canada's overall size.) effectively bringing down the population density of the remaining area (which is enormous in land size) to probably something comparable to the Pacific Ocean, I'd roughly guess.
Pacific Ocean? No way is that remotely comparable to the total population of all the islands in Pacific Ocean. I'll take a guess and say 50 million people live there, excluding all of the densely populated nations like Japan and the Philippines.
@@Primitive_Code where would they be, though? I mean the ocean as in ocean. yes, that'd exclude Australia and such. there's just a couple very, very remote Islands that typically have a population (if any at all, that is) of 50 to a 100k. so, kinda like you come across a settlement every once in a while up there in the territories. yes, Hawaii is somehow not fitting in. but my point is that the Pacific Ocean is vast and empty; just like Canada mostly. those ten remaining percent would still mean some 3.8 million. so, since Hawaii is roughly a million, that probably still holds true. it's just that I can't think about anything comparably dense in Canada outside of what we already excluded.
@@Primitive_Code OP clearly said about population density, not just number of population... Do you know how huge Pacific Ocean is? it's about 1/3 of Earth's surface.
@@Sm00thieK yeah, what about it? 😅
(I mean, dunno what you mean, but it's literally sitting right on the border [with a tiny part of it even dipping into the States, oddly enough.] the two cities I mentioned are the only two larger population conglomerations that aren't close by the US border.)
@@To.Ma.To_78 Ohh sorry, I was referring to the line in the video.
you could have just said: "Cold" and then talked about your sponsor
exactly... it was just a commercial
Underrated comment
This guy is pure cringe he is just saying people live above people while making a crap load of money
Need to mention that their is like a 36% tax on your Big Mac and fries...
@@johnhungerford6073 in Ontario the sales tax is 13%
Fun fact: Toronto is extremely hot in the summer
Yes I know. O god do i know
And extremely cold in the winter. The seasons here are no joke. I used to think it was normal until a went out west and learned what moderate temperature was lol
Fun Fact: Not as hot as Florida i'll bet
@@SuchDarkness Maybe not, but it's close. The highest recorded temperature in Toronto was 105°F. The highest recorded temperature in Florida was 109°F in Monticello.
what do you mean by extreme ? its 42 degrees here and we usually see 45 to 48 degrees in the shade for at least a week every summer
I live in Edmonton. The stats in this video are correct, and I love the content of this channel but he didn't really give the complete picture of Canada I feel. The Canadian prairies is mostly farm land, the bc interior and lower mainland have tons of fruit orchards, farms, and wineries. Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg all are cities with populations over 1 million people and are well above those lines. The random red blob map shown at 3:00 has a few large red blobs in places that don't make sense like why is there a red blob over Grande Prairie Alberta but not over Fort Mcmurray Alberta when they both have similar populations of 60 000 people? Also White Horse and Yellowknife way north in the territories have populations of 30 000 but no red blob at all? I know its just an exenterated visual representation but it could've been more accurate.
Some of the stats may be correct, but those which are true are predominately a great example of misrepresentation of facts. Example: there may be 19 million VISITS to USA, but no way 1/2 of Canada "live in" (aka "are permanent residents" ) of the states. A few actors, some musicians, some energy/gas people, and a few seniors are "permanent residents", but no 19million.
Most people don't care for accuracy in their lives and speech. It is sad.
Lies are repeated and narrated and the truth, always precious, deep and more interesting than anything else, remain hidden, neglected, actively covered up.
@@brianpugh6707 they never made that claim as they said they half live below the longest stretch of border in the world (49th parallel)
The Red blobs for Newfoundland don't make any sense either. No North East Avalon blob which contains the provinces 4 largest settlements which together are around 200k people.
Winnipeg has less than 800K people and if it ever hits 1million it will be a long time from now.
Actually 40% of Canadas population lives there. Ontario which basically has that whole area only has about 15 million people.
I'm thinking that line of theirs' is at least containing much of the Montreal metro area too.
"Ottowa" is spelled "Ottawa" :)
@@danielsilveira0041 it is spelled ottawa silly billy
@@danielsilveira0041 it’s spelled Ottawa
umm, whatever?
@@danielsilveira0041 I as a Canadian can confirm to you it is spelled Ottawa
@@meesalikeu88 Whatever ? How about Uashington, DC, Neu Yorck, and sofort ?
"The great lakes warm up the surrounding area" yet we still get -40 winters
What? Thats the weather in edmonton not Toronto.
Well it's no gulf stream
Celcius or Fahrenheit
Or both??
I mean, in Windsor it snowed like 5 times total last year.....
@@sumansrivastava8750 Both, -40 is where both Celsius and Fahrenheit meet.
Tiny little mistake: it’s “Ottawa” with 2 A’s, not Ottowa as shown at 3:23
I kind of cringe when he says Windsor with an S sound instead of the Z sound. I'm not sure if it said the same way in Canada, but across here in Michigan, we say it with that z sound.
Winzer.
@@TH-camSucksCoxks It's 100% just "Winzer," I live here. If you said "Wintsoar" like he does you'd get laughed to Hell (Mi) and back
everyone always misspells ottawa. we get no respect lol
@@TheBaegislash there’s a town called Windsor in my state, too, and it’s pronounced either ’Winzer’ or ’Windzer’ but with an almost silent ’d’.
There are some major factual errors in this video though as well when it comes to farming land.
(6:05) I live along the St. Lawrence river, in the area that was most heavily impacted by the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. In our area, approximately 38,000 acres of land was flooded in total to expand the river. 18,000 on the American side, 20,000 on the Canadian side. They relocated the population from the local towns in the area, and either dismantled or moved all of the buildings and infrastructure there to accommodate the move. On the Canadian side, in my area, 6 towns and 3 hamlets were flooded, another village lost 1/3 of its original location, and the village next to it was moved almost entirely to the North (excluding two homes). There are all kinds of reminders of this project in the St. Lawrence, including old highways, bridges, foundations, tree stumps, and railway beds that can be seen from the surface. The Americans lost 1 hamlet, and 1 street of another town, the rest of the area was farmland I believe. Because of this, the project is generally more well remembered on our side of the border than our southern neighbors.
As someone from the NY side of the river, we still remember the project too. And are sometimes reminded of it when diving and you encounter the drowned ruins or when fishing and pull up artifacts like horseshoes.
I personally am facinated by the project and the dams, although if its any consolation Canada takes about 1.1GW of capacity from the dam and the USA takes about .9GW so you get more benefits from it to make up for sacrificing more. Although trade benefits wise we probably had more benefits from it because of having more cities on the lakes. Although realistically speaking the loss of a few villages in exchange for the massive trade boost and a combined 2GW hydrodam that also helps with flood management is certainly an easy decision for national governments to make.
Yeah I’ve wondered for a while why more of them don’t live in the frozen wilderness of Nunavut
This guy knows ^
There aren't even any trees there, it's all tundra and permafrost
Difficulty is set to insane up there.
@@rarewaffles8257 all of the trees are in the middle provinces. Especially Alberta. One of the most beautiful places.
Cost of living is insane since most everything must be flown in.
the photo of the wine region shown in the discussion about the agriculture in Southern Ontario is actually a photo of the Okanagan valley in British Columbia (about 3000 miles west).The largest farm area producing the most grain and cattle ranches in in the western provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) not Southern Ontario.
Lol I searched it up and you were right. This guy is just lying unprovoked😂
Ontario does have a wine region though it's up by Niagara on the Lake.
Thought it looked familiar
Thanks Robert, you beat me to it. I live in Kelowna and know that vista well....
I thought that looked familiar, I pass those all the time here in bc
This video has a lot of mistakes lol… most of Canada’s food is grown in the central provinces, you know west of Ottowa haha
Ottowa
@@snakethewarlord4685 Ottoooooowa
That seems to be a trend with this channel. For all the brilliant, interesting videos he puts out, he also puts out a lot of error-ridden rushjobs like this episode.
Ottowa bahaha
This is a guy who thought he was embarrassing Canadians by saying some of them were geographically further south than some parts of the US. Can't expect too much accuracy.
I can imagine this guy talking emphatically like this even to cashiers at the grocery store.
It’s kind of nice that the colder north of Canada isn’t covered with human interactions. I’m sure it’s beautiful up there without people ruining natural wonders.
It is beautiful in northern Ontario
Wonderful colours
There’s some incredibly gorgeous natural views in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well, particularly far up north ☺️
@@alexbreault8727 With the Black Flies, the little black flies. Always the black flies no matter where you go, I'll die with a black fly pickin' my bones in North Ontario-io, in North Ontario,
its absolutely gorgeous and attracts lots of tourism but barely anyone stays to live there. there are also many native tribes living up north.
some great fishing too, you should come visit
This guy: You can only only farm in southern Ontario!
The prairies: Am I a joke to you?
ikr, this video is kinda wrong on a lot of things. Excuse me?? “Ottowa” like wtf
@@Hyacinth77 shut the mouth le gay
@@ArctecZ what?😂
What about NS and NB? lol
PEI grows a lot of potatoes!
The Great Lakes make The Lake District look like a collection of small puddles.
Smaller lakes make for great literature.
England has amazing scenery and history though. Respect from Costa Rica.
Very nice video! Thank you for sharing!!
Im gonna take a guess before watching the video and say its because it gets a little chilly up there.
Hey, your mapping was great i know you quit but i just wanted to say you did good.
@@MaxTheCat-eh5ts thanks man it means a lot
@@KiwiMapper did you have an ideas on how to end AFOE or is it open to interpretation?
@@MaxTheCat-eh5ts it was going to end in nuclear hellfire started by the French after they would be the last man standing, I would have then started a second season showcasing the survivors and continuing on the story, but you are welcome and encouraged to think of your own ways the story could have ended
@@KiwiMapper ah, thanks. Also are you ever going to return to mapping?
Tries to embarrass Canada, spells capital as Ottowa…
Yes, the United States are real bullies. They forced us to use tow letter abbreviations for provinces to comply with the rules of the United States Post Office.
@@rustystove8410 No, Canada is just dumb.
@@ThwipThwipBoom huh? I'm sorry but last time I checked we are literally the most educated country in the world.
@@ThwipThwipBoom Says the country, that can't have proper education system, let alone have their own people raid the White House because trump didn't get elected, I can keep on going buddy, you're recent events is getting worse too, Canada may have Trudeau, but our problem isn't worse like yours, just saying.
@AB - 07MA 780507 Robert H Lagerquist Sr PS they use the stupid metric system.
Also because murica says so.
Lol
You actually made my morning a wee bit better by uploading 👍
🏴?
It's night here
@@nobody-cj7rw timezones...
Where are you from,
As a Canadian. I can confirm 77% of our population is in Madagascar
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'
You forgot the 4th kind , alternative facts .
Coffefe :) .
@@mikldude9376 Hunter? Is that you?
@@allenatkins2263 Rudy? Is that you?
Dude legit copied a Ted Ed statistics graph misleading video quote and pasted it here.
@@Snarkonymous I'm the gween new deal, frweedoom!
This was an amusing watch with my Canadian friends. A weird mix of facts, obvious points and eyebrow raising mistakes.
really you made a gathering of it?
yes it really is as boring in canada as they say
@@meesalikeu88 LOL sureee
“Ottowa” really triggered me as a Canadian ;-;
"Saint-Laurence" really got to me….
You missed out that the Prairie Provinces produce massive amounts of grains, B.C. has a lot of agriculture and is well known for its Estate Wineries in the Okanagan.
4:57 showed a picture of Vasuex Lake and orchards in BC while talking about the rich soil of Ontario. Lots of great soil beyond a pocket by the great lakes.
So? Who needs grains? Monsanto? There's a reason the prairies are also some of the most obese places on earth. I for one am sick of my tax dollars subsidizing peasant 'food' that nobody needs.
I was going to say, he completely ignored the west which contributes to Canada being the 5th largest wheat producer in the world. Also, the winery picture he showed was from BC, not back east. Not his best video I must say.
I'm from WIsconsin and I was really thinking "no way I could live in Canada, it's already so cold here" but most of their major cities are literally around the same latitude as where I live already-
Where I live (West Coast of Canada) the lawns stay green all winter. We do usually get a few days of snow each winter, which creates a bit of havoc, and great hilarity in the rest of Canada.