Quebec gets "blamed" for federal policians needing to speak French to be elected. But Canada has two official languages and, for 20% of the population, French is the mother tongue. So, yeah, Quebec is the one French province, but there are French-speaking people all across Canada and they all deserve to be represented by people that speak their language just as much as English-speaking people do.
In school we were taught French as spoken in Paris, not Quebec which made it harder to enter government as they wanted Quebecois French. I guess it sucks to die out in importance?
@@nancyharris255 Ontario IS, once you get north of Central Ontario......you better be able to speak French....Canadian French....or you ain't gettin' any food or gas.....lol
Now the Ontario Provincial Police don't think mucha Bud Yeah the cops have been lookin' for the son of a gun That's been rippin' the tar off the 401 They know the name on the truck shines up in the sun "Green Gables." But he hits Toronto and it's 7 o'clock when he backs 'er up against the terminal dock And the boys gather 'round just to hear him talk About another big load a potatoes!
Disappointed with the talk of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan is 44% boreal forest for one thing, there is a desert here, there are hot springs here. We have over 700 Reserves here too. (Reservations). Oh, and over 100,000 lakes.
Don't forget, Regina is the headquarters of the RCMP, our national police force, except for Ontario and Quebec, who have their own provincial police forces.
Some of the best moose hunting in the country as well. The problem is that the vast majority of Canadians have travelled through or only visited southern Saskatchewan. They never go north. So the miss out on all the fun adventures you can do basically north of north battleford. It’s on my bucket list to get into a hunting camp up there and spend a week fishing for pike and hunting moose.
@@jessecollingwood1002 LaRonge is beautiful winter and summer. Seaplanes will fly you from there to more northern lakes as well. (Or the winter roads).
Yes, Quebec French is different from, say, Parisienne French (that's France), or Acadian French (the east coast provinces). There are several Caribbean islands and parts of Africa that are French speaking and I am sure their accents are different as well. And, hey, Louisana has a French sector. French is not just a Canadian or France language.
It is ABSOLUTELY FALSE to say that all politicians have to speak French. Most outside Quebec don't. Those who want to run for the leadership of one of the main FEDERAL parties have to speak both languages, but I guarantee your average politician in Alberta or BC or Newfoundland DO NOT speak French. And, as has already been pointed out, Ottawa is not the capital of Ontario. That's two pretty big mistakes by these guys.
And also, the "Je me souviens" is not to throw shade at anyone, the full saying is "Je me souviens d'être né sous le lys et d'avoir grandi sous la rose" which means "I remember being born under the lily and to have grown under the rose", the lily being France and the rose England.
There ar many more francophones all over the country that are often ignored by many; Alberta for instance has a large concentration along the Saskatchewan border, I grew up in Alberta and found that quite interesting.
I completely agree. This is utterly false. Also, one of those guys live in Ontario and he doesn’t know that Ottawa is not the capital of Ontario? Who are those guys?
"Je me souviens" come from " Je me souviens /Que né sous le lys /Je croîs sous la rose" "I remember/That born under the lily/ I grow under the rose". It's mean that I remember where I'm from and how Québec is become how it is today. It's not revengeful like what they say in the video. (Sorry for my english)
ne sou sle lys= venus des francais, je crois sou sla rose= la rose est rouge, on grandit sous les anglais. C'est donc revengeful un peu oui. Mais pas comme ils l'on expliquer.
The lys represented the French royalty back then and the rose is the English royalty. Thus, the full translation is I remember being born under the lys but grew up under the rose.
In fact there are different interpretations of 'Je me souviens', that one being just one of the explanations. In fact nobody knows for sure. To know more, watch this episode of 'L'histoire nous le dira', made by an actual historian. th-cam.com/video/38CD1CtJ4UU/w-d-xo.html
While Canadians may get annoyed at Americans for their abysmal ignorance about Canada, we actually want to keep it that way. Staying off American radar has always been the best strategy for Canada's survival as a semi-independent nation. Once Britain was no longer interested in or capable of defending us, America became the our protectors. Nobody tries to attack or invade Canada because Big Brother next door will nuke them. Our economies are a single unit so America gets everything it needs from Canada without the messy process of conquest, although it has been tried, in 1812 and during the American Civil War when there was a lot of talk in Congress about marching that huge shiny Union Army North and taking the place over. The fear of invasion from the US was the main driving force behind the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, so Canada could claim dibs on all that valuable territory which is now the Western Provinces before the Americans could show up and steal it (they did try in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern Alberta but that's another story). So we lay low, provide raw materials at a good price, and cling to Quebec with the knowledge that, while English Canada is susceptible to American influence, French Canada is not and would give the US a serious case of indigestion should they try and swallow it. To everyone else here, stop telling this guy our secrets!
WHAT??? 'America became our protector'??? Bruh... Nobody tries to attack Canada, because they are taught from a VERY young age how Canada acts in wartime. Not just WW1 either... They are taught how Canada comes to the aid of almost anyone who asks, AND how utterly unstoppable Canadian soldiers can be. Its nothing to do with the US... If anything, its the opposite. Nobody attacks the US, out of fear that a Canada/US coalition force will be sent to 'liberate' your civilian populace. Canada doesn't get attacked, because Canada EARNED its respect across the globe. ALSO, War of 1812, they DID try to 'annex' parts of Canada, and the 'Canadian' soldiers (british soldiers were the majority, but not solely) pushed the US army so far back that we could have effectively kept Michigan if we had wanted. AND THEN, on our way home, we lit the White House on fire (which is how it got the name White House, FYI).
Ontario also makes a decent amount of maple syrup as well. My stepdad built a sugar shack in our bush and he makes his own syrup. Taps 80-200 trees in the spring and that produces a few hundred gallons of maple syrup he gives away to friends and family
@@airborne63 When they mentioned Ontario, The American on the right said "This is your province" and the guy on the left said "Indeed, it is". That just makes it an even worse error.
Not surprising when a heard that Justin Trudeau was a Quebeker. I didn't know that being born in Ottawa was making you a born quebeker because you have a french name. That was said somewhere in the western part of the ROC.
Oh yeah, France French and Quebecois French are completely different. That's because Quebecois basically speak 'old french'. During the many years of french colonization, a lot of language reforms happened back in France, leading to the colony and the country growing more and more distinct, in both vocabulary, accent, and dialect. Nowadays, a lot of French people say they can't understand when Quebecois speak with a thick accent
agreed. like all languages, there are dialects - accents - vocabulary. central / south america countries all differ in their spanish dialects - accents - vocab.
Same for the French speaker from Quebec, we sometime can't understand the French from France. I'm a native French speaker but I've had to put on subtitles on some French movies.
well... I dont think Anglo should lesson us on how french from france see us. Actually, I am from Gaspesie, so I do have an accent, but apart from parisian who dont understand us because they just are so self important and sometimes tiresome, but the rest of france understand us very well.
@@ydro11 I'm from Laurentides, I'm no anglo. I'm only saying what I know. If you had a different experience, then good for you. In my experience, just a touch of jouale is enough for a communication breakdown
This. I lived in Ottawa, and it was interesting because it is the home of the Ottawa municipal government and the Canadian federal government, but not the Ontario provincial government which is, of course, in Toronto. But Toronto also has a similar thing, where they have the municipal and provincial governments there, but they are not the home to the federal government, which is instead located in a comparatively minor city that is located within the province they govern.
The people living in Nunavut (which means "Our Land" in Inuktitut) are part of a larger family, the Inuit, which spreads both West and East of Nunavut, including into Northern Québec and Northern Labrador. They're the actual people who live in igloos (not all of them, not all the time). In fact, that word comes from Inuktitut to begin with: ᐃᒡᓗ (iglu). It actually just means "house"; in their language, they have to specify if they mean one made of snow. Greenlandic people are also part of that family, and you also find some Inuit in Northern Alaska too. Oh, while I'm at it, no, they don't have thousands of words for "snow". It's just that their dialects are polysynthetic, which means that they combine many roots and affixes together to form sentences, which make their sentences kinda like one or two big words instead of many words like we do in European languages like English. So in reality, they only have a couple of roots for "snow", but they're then combined with other things to form big words that are the equivalent of phrases or full sentences, which is probably where the misconception comes from.
The difference between France french and Québec french is that we use diphtongs and contractions all the time in Québec. Diphtongs are one letter pronounced like a slide between two sounds, or like he said "poutsine" instead of "poutine", and there is a rule to this. We use soft T in front of "i" and "u" but not "a" or "e". So it's "tomate" not "tsomatse". Contractions are like the southern english "y'all'd've". You can't say "A'men'd'né" in France, you will get funny looks 😂. As for what happens in Northern Québec, inuit villages are there, the biggest one being Kuujjuaq. The last race of inuit sled dogs are there too. They let them roam free.
The difference between France French and Québec French is that they separated about two hundred years ago, and then developed differently from there. So Quebec's French will still use pronunciation from Louis XIV era, still use "char" to mean a car (like a horse-drawn car were "chars"), and borrowed a lot of words from various First Nations. And of course, they got some old influence from English, while current's France French wave of anglicization is much more modern. So in Quebec, there are some phrase structure copied from English, while in France, they borrow words.(I am still annoyed when Radio Canada use "week-end" instead of "fin de semaine" just cause they started saying that in France. Seriously, "fin de semaine" is correct and barely longer to say than week-end.)
@@stereonacht2247 I gave the linguistic version cause that's what I like, but no worries I know the historical version too haha. Turns out diphtongs are super useful to learn other languages, especially Korean. Copy paste this in google translate to hear it : 부친 Chieut (ㅊ) is super close to soft t. A ton of expressions taken from english sure, but at some point I stopped caring because it's more politics than love of language : L'office de la langue française tient à préciser qu'il ne faut pas dire Bon matin puisque l'expression est tirée de "Good morning", mais bien Bonjour. L'entièreté de l'épisode avec les toasts au beurre de pinottes c'était délicieux. Le mot toast a été emprunté du vieux français vers l'anglais et après de l'anglais au français. Le mot toast est dans le dictionnaire depuis au moins 100 ans. 🤣 Au moins on fait un effort de franciser l'anglais ou de créer des néologismes au lieu de copier coller directement dans la plupart des cas, ce que la france ne fais pas.
Yes, people do of course live in Northern Québec. It's First Nations territory. By the way, the oldest rock ever found on Earth was discovered in Northern Québec in the Hudson Bay area. It was dated at around 4.28 billion years old.
It's a bit reductive to say the north (of Quebec, or the territories) are "First Nation territory". There are First Nation people all over the Canadian territory. But since the northern parts are not agricultural-friendly, the winters are long and harsh; there are few food sources, and they are different from what European people are used to, there is very few non-native people living there. There are those with mining jobs, teachers, doctors and nurses, maybe some notaries/lawyers and judges (but I think those just fly there when they are needed)... That's about it. Very little tourism, proportionally. But still, the "powers that were" tried to "europeanize" those populations, making villages for traditionally nomadic people, causing all the problems one can imagine, trying to force an outsider culture on people whose own culture is born from and appropriate for surviving there.
@@stereonacht2247 To me, that means it's their territory and theirs ONLY. In the case of the south of the province, it's their territory and ours as well. Both are not mutually exclusive and that's how it worked 400 years ago when we were actually allied with them (except the Iroquois of course). It all went to shit when the english took over. "We" didn't put them into reservations, the English did. Furthermore, everything regarding the First Nations is managed at the federal level. Also, those who live up north on the Canadian Shield don't want to live anywhere else. As they say, it's their ancestral territory and we have to respect that. They choose to live in a place where agriculture is not viable and btw, only 4% of Québec's land actually is. I'm aware of everything you wrote and just so you know, in this province, the cultural genocide was committed by the Catholic Church obeying the English (it was a condition for letting them keep their grip on power). My ancestors never wished for that to happen but they were so blinded by their faith that they didn't see what was right in front of them. Physical and psychological violence, rape/molestation, forced conversion, lies, theft, manipulation, extortion, you name it. They got all that thanks to the fkin clergy. We eventually got rid of all that shit in the 1960s. In my opinion, part of the reconciliation process is to acknowledge our common History and to always be looking for the *real* truth, positive or not. We are also often criticized for focusing too much on the past 532 years. Almost everything we know of before that time is from archeology alone. They did not have a written language at all when Europeans arrived. I would dare say that my ancestors learned from them just as much as they learned from us. They would never have survived the harsh winters without the First Nations and they're the ones who taught us how to make maple syrup. The French, with their metal cauldrons, were able to mass produce it unlike our then allies. Anyway, we're here now and it's our home just as much as theirs. And we have to keep in mind that climate change or not, northern Québec absolutely belongs to those who live there right now. Personally, I don't want *anything* to happen there without their consent. A significant portion of the province's population wants autodetermination and ultimately, a country but of course we can't ignore the First Nations who are absolutely entitled to their own autodetermination. All that stuff is a very touchy subject.
No, most politicians don't have to be bilingual. It all depends on what constituency you are representing and what position you have in the government. For example, federal ministers would all have to be bilingual.
Yeah most aren't bilingual. It really only the federal MPs where it is important and even then not all are. Most provincial legislatures in non francophone provinces aren't.
Cottage culture is HUGE in Canada. Not everyone owns one but a lot of people will rent one for a week or two or even weekend in the summer. It's got a very defined vibe. Some are more ritzy but a lot are more rustic. often on or near a lake. Boating culture can be big. Lots have canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and things like that. Think like camping vibes but with a cabin so often fire pits and fishing and stuff too. Lots of chill vibes and lounging and drinking. Muskoka and Kawarthas are two popular cottage regions near Toronto but like some people go a lot further.
I once had an internship in Northern Ontario. Fun fact: lots of French speakers there. I recently learnt that Quebec is so big because they got a chunk of what was once known as Rupert’s Land (if I remember correctly the rest of it became Northwest Territories). Most of Northern Quebec is Inuit land so most people there speak Inuktitut, not French; in fact our current governor general came from Northern Quebec and she doesn’t really speak French
I live in Northern Ontario, but I remember when I was in grade 6 my teacher had asked based on a map if we were in Northern or Southern Ontario. I had said Southern based on where my city is located. I was told I was wrong. I think it's more of a population density thing than a geographical one. Also, Southern Ontario go to cottages, Northern Ontario go to camps.
France also has many,many accents- differing in Paris to say,the more rural towns and villages on the outskirts. Belgian french is fairly different as well.
Lots of people have small summer places - cottages - They are out by the lakes and in the forests, and go out there on weekends or for holidays. Some cottages are fancy and some are not. This is just not in Ontario. I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and my grandparents had a cottage at Grand Beach, just an hour north of the city. My family went there every summer for two weeks. It is in a provincial park and has one of the best beaches in the world. It was the best part of my childhood.
Grand Beach was originally a railroad resort. But CN eventually sold it to the conservation department, and it became a provincial park. Besides cottages, there are sandy beaches, a fishing lagoon, marina, and a provincial campground. Next to the park is the town of Grand Marais.
@@SomeGuy_GRM I am born and raised in BC and growing up in the 80s and 90s I knew a lot of folk with cottages for the summer or they have a time share in a cottage, or they own a tiny plot of dedicated camping land in the interior for summer camping near a lake or that sort of thing. I think it was definitely more common prior to the 2000s cuz land was much cheaper in the 60s/70s/80s and the generations prior to millennials probably had more funds for that sort of luxury - I only know a couple millennials like me that have either a time share or a tiny camping land off a small lake locally but I know a lot of gen x and older that bought into things when they were much cheaper. I think in the current economic climate its a much harder thing to justify the cost of
One thing that wasn't mentioned about Ontario is Lake Manitou, the largest fresh water lake on the largest fresh water island, Manitoulin Island, in the world.
And yes , some Quebecois going to France have a hard time being understood because of the accent. And there's a différence in Quebec between accent .. Saguneay Lac Saint Jean , Gaspésie or Montréal dont sound the same.
I'm a native French speaker from Québec, I've been to France and can confirm that Québec and France speak a different kind of French. It's like the U.S. and the U.K., they both speak English but it's not the same accent and vocabulary, same thing for France and Québec. Also we swear a lot which tend to freak out the people of France. I hear that Mexico's nickname for us was "Los Tabernàculos" because "tabarnak" (tabernacle) is one of our favourite swear words. LOL!!
How and when did objects related to the church become a way of swearing in Quebec, especially when the people came across as very religious? Just curious. 😊
@@Sid-gu5qk It's a nix on the church, thus carries(ed) the same shock value as Anglophones referencing intimate acts and private body parts. Us Anglophones do it too. We call it 'taking the lord's name in vain'.
Tyler is AI. Not even a real human. But the better video would be to discuss the beef between Canada and Quebec, Ontario and Quebec, Anglo Canadians vs French Canadians. TH-cam algorithm loves hate more than love.
Federal politicians are invited to be bilingual, but few actually speaks fluent French, aside from those coming from Québec, New-Brunswick and eastern Ontario.
We have French speakers in Manitoba, too. We used to be officially bilingual, until we lost that status in the 1980s. But the provincial government still operates in both languages today. The federal riding of St. Boniface (s.e. Winnipeg) can usually be counted on to send a bilingual MP to Ottawa. That quarter of Winnipeg has a very high percentage of Francophones.
I live in Northern Ontario, actually the southern part of it in Sault Ste Marie. We think of most people from Southern Ontario similar to Americans since they know very little about Northern Ontario.
I live in BC but have very good friends and have flown to Whitehorse a few times My friends have lived there for 20+ years and love it, beautiful country and people
The Territories are for the "Average Canadian" the same as what Canada is for "your Average American"; Snow, cold, Inuit, barren. I've never been so I can't say for certain, but i think it's pretty accurate, with the notable addition of "Gas & Mineral rich".
Je me souviens comes from a poem. The first line says Je me souviens que né sous le lys, j’ai grandi sou la rose. Roughly I remember that being born under the Lys (France) I grew up under the Rose (England/UK).
I missed part 1. I should watch that as this is probably going to be just as educational to me as to pretty much any American and I lived my whole life here
100% true about Saskatchewan... NICEST people... we apologize when we walk into poles 😂😂 help others when stranded down a back road... laugh at ourselves before anyone else... lots of room to roam... love it 😊 😊😊
The guy on the right hand side is a Québec lover and he forgot that 30% of New-Brunswick speaks french, northern Ontario speaks French and so on and he forgot to say that there are two official languages in Canada even if he doen't like it. New-Brunswick is officially a bilingual province. Acadians are not from Québec and they speak french. We are in a free country and it looks like that you have the right to hate quebekers because they speak french.
There also a strong French community in Manitoba (ex: region of St-Boniface) and some French communities in the other provinces as well. And you are right to correct that Acadians are not from Quebec - but some Quebecers (like me) have Acadians roots (from Acadians who escaped "Le grand derangement" and found refuge in what is today the province of Quebec. Acadians have their own (tragic) history and culture.
He comes out to me as an English-speaking snob who only knows Quebec speaks French cause we make noise whenever our language rights are trampled. That irritates a lot of people who think Quebecers should accept they were conquered, and should start speaking English like every civilized people. (Really, there are people who think like that.)
The 3 territories aren't mostly aboriginal because they were 'given' to them but because so few non-aboriginals moved there. Secondly, the aboriginals who live there didn't move there from the south. It's where they're from.
Québec supposedly looks like a dog's head and Ontario like a fish's tail. The Québec French accent varies a lot across the province and is way different from the French accents in France. It's closer to Cajun French in Louisiana. If you're going to hand over Alaska, can we have Hawaii too? We could use a warm province.
15:15 Keep in mind that the VAST majority of Canada is what's called 'Unceded Territory' and is "owned" by the First Nations and Inuit. We call them First Nations because they are literally countries (more than 50) within a country. Similar to Quebec's arrangement with the federal government. They are self governed and subjects of Canadian law but they are not subjects of the Crown.
Just as there are many locales that are French Canadian other than Quebec, there are also many dialects of French language across Canada. When I applied for admission to the Coast Guard College in Cape Breton I was tested on my knowledge of French. The teachers were surprised that I speak a blend of seven distinct dialects. I explained that each year of school I would have a teacher who taught a different dialect including Parisienne, Continental {used across Europe}. Quebecois, Joual,, Montrealaise {pronounced Mon-ree-al-aize}, Acadian, and a dialect of French from southern Georgian Bay, Ontario. The teachers to;d me I was the first person they had met who spoke so many dialects mixed together. Probably a good thing I had not been out west to pick up Metis { pronounced May-tee}, a blend of Indigenous and European languages or any of the other distinct dialects found regionally.
And Britain was not interested( Canada was still a British colony) and relations between Russia and Britain weren't very good at that time either. So Russia preferred to sell to the United States and spite Britain( you know, the ones who had already had that little Independence war thing with the USA - their other North American colony!)
Cottage country is only a few hours north of Toronto. People don't have cottages in the far north. People in Toronto always call cottage country the north but there is a whole lot more north than that. They also don't seem to realize that there is anything to the west, between that and the Manitoba border which is a huge area.
I have a friend who moves here to Canada from France, and when she went through Quebec she stated that she had a hard time understanding their version of French. My friend said it was easier to understand English than to communicate with someone in that area.
Some French folks love to claim that we don't speak "real French" and that we're hard to understand. The French people I've had as classmates and/or friends I've had told me that the folks who say that kind of stuff are just snobs trying to be cool and superior 😆 Imagine a Brit saying Americans are hard to understand...
Re the maple syrup, I’d suggest checking out Glen and Friends. He makes his own and explains that it has to do with the huge temperature swings from day to night. There’s only a brief time of year to harvest the sap
@@alpearson9158 Its beautiful eh! I drove Toronto to Calgary every week, taking Highway 11 for 20 years as a truck driver. The best part of the drive for me was from SSM to Nipigon.
Any time I’ve driven home (Sault Ste Marie) from points south, I’ve always cheered upon crossing the French River. Even though the drive from there to Sudbury feels like it’s a week long, at least I’m back in the north.
Lolll!! Great episode! I'm from Montreal, Quebec... and really appreciate your videos! BTW, I was passing by an A&W yesterday and happened to be hungry, so I took a video of the experience and will happily send it to you if you're interested 😊🇨🇦
its a lil different now but for the most of Canadas history the middle class could easily own a cottage up north as well as your primary residence. 80s-90s you could easily buy a cottage north of north bay for only $10000 - $200000. also look up Muskoka cottage country!
These guys are only partly right about Saskatchewan, as usual. Only the southern half is flat-ish farmland. The northern half is mainly forests and lakes with world class fishing, hunting etc. SK has the highest point of land in Canada east of the Rockies. Located in Cypress Hills Park, it's over a mile in elevation.
I live in the southern section of "cottage country". Cottaging is a longtime pastime in Ontario and is not just in Northern Ontario. There are many lakes and rivers in cottage country which draws people to our area and north of here. Even though Toronto is on Lake Ontario, it's still a crazy busy city and people strive to get away from the city and head to cottage country. Celebrities have cottages in the Muskoka region. Which is not far from where I am. Maple syrup is made in other places besides Quebec, just putting that out there. The Indigenous people in Canada are located all across the country, not just in northern Canada.
@@ultrasometimes8908 Yeah, it was there. Saskatchewan, capital, Regina. Largest city, Saskatoon. Flattest province, except for the Qu'Appelle Valley, a huge gorge that cuts across the southern part of the province from west to east.
That’s the problem with youtubers not vetting their content and create false facts. just like the other dude whose the ONLY canadian saying A boot instead about. The house hippo ads warned us long ago haha
We call our Eastern provinces the Maritimes. Also, please do a video on the history of Alaska. It is very interesting. We learned about it in elementary school.
You DON'T have to be bi-lingual because in the house of commons they have interpreters to translate for members of the house who do not speak the other language
About Québec french accent... of course it's different from the french from France. Look at all the different english speaking countries in the world and all the differents accents... (even when they are close by distance, like the british and the irish or the scots...)
"Northern Ontario" as a region is a bit of an anomaly. It's definitely not as rich as southern Ontario, but it's still cottage country so you tend to get a fairly even mix of wealthy people and normal people. In most provinces the further you go out from the capital city things get poorer, but it's not quite as simple as that in Ontario. The roads are still very well paved for the amount of permanent residents because a lot of touristy people come out in the summer. Although if you look at the actual northern parts of Ontario near the Hudson's Bay which people outside of Ontario would assume would be called northern ontario, that's where it starts to become more stereotypically rural, very few paved roads out that way. Very few opportunities if you're not in a mining town.
I like being from Saskatchewan. The people are amazing, Saskatoon is a beautiful city. We get a TON of sun here, which makes sense as the breadbasket of Canada (and the world). Canola, wheat, mustard etc. But we have a ton of potash too (fertilizer), oil (not as much as Alberta, but 2nd most I believe). It gets to 30's c (90s f) in summer and down to -40c/f in winter, so folks are hearty abd tough here. Also, they made fun of us in the Adam Sandler movie "Grownups" by poking fun at "Saskatch-atoon" combining Saskatchewan and the biggest city Saskatoon with the muscle dude at the Waterpark that had a high voice, then all the women wanted the men to pretend they were from Saskatchatoon in bed later that night. Hilarious. 😆
We definitely have cottage country even in Nova Scotia Canada we have places for example in the south shore cottage country. A lot of people have a second location could be just a RV on a lot. I grew up in Nova Scotia and went to PEI every summer to our families cottage
An American once asked me (a Canadian) which “Providence” I’m from. Years later another American complimented me on my ability to speak English. She had a puzzled look when I told her English is the only language I speak.
The French-English reality of Canada means someone interested in federal politics can't be considered qualified if they're not bilingual. How can you represent all Canadians if you can't communicate with 25% of Canadians?
Coming from a québécois I agree rhat the Quebec version of French is vary different then France French many words are different as well as the accent 12:02
Ontario has a cottage culture. Toronto empties out on the weekend with everyone heading to either their, or a friend’s cottage. There are enough lakes for everyone.
Glad P.E.I. got a mention, as minimal as it was. Quite often, if a map or globe is a bit too small, we're just completely left off lol Oh, and the capital Charlottetown, is pronounced basically "Charlotown", we skip the double "T" sound and just combine it. Here is a little more info to add: Prince Edward Island (PEI) produces around 2.5 billion pounds of potatoes annually, which is about 25% of Canada's total potato production. PEI is the largest potato producer in Canada, and some call it the potato capital of the world. We also have a "Potato Museum" located in O'Leary. Also: Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire), (published as L. M. Montgomery), was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Sorry if this is a bit much, but like I said, we get overlooked and forgotten usually.
These guys know a teeny bit, but not a lot. Saskatchewan is great, gorgeous sunsets, not too populated, some great nature all over, but especially in the north.
in Curling northern ontario is in its own teams in the national playdowns the rest of ontario has a team seoerate southern ontario has three big cities hamilton Toreonto ottawa.
Did you know that the capital city of Manitoba is affectionately called "Winterpeg"? And it's known for its mosquitoes 🦟 ? HUGE mosquitoes. And they have a hilariously dry sense of humour (the people, not the mosquitoes 😜).
7:22 There is no such limitation on language in municipal or provincial government which is where almost all of our federal politicians start. Moving into federal politics is a choice that comes with the requirement of learning the other language. In BC we have an ex-premier learning french to join (she wants leadership universe help us) one of the federal parties.
Northern Ontario is pretty remote with lots of lakes and is mostly cottage communities. The middle part of Ontario is like farm country and small towns with a few bigger cities like Barrie. Yes lots of Ontarians own cottages and come summertime many travel hours up north to the cottage every weekend. The lakefront cottages are sometimes very small and there are huge expensive cottages owned by rich people too that are basically like lakefront mansions. They are often being rented out as well. Many cottages are built many years ago and handed down in the family through generations. Buying a cottage nowadays is about the price of buying a second home and mostly unattainable compared to 50 years ago.
In our country anymore because of the government , being diverse is more important than being qualified for the job OR being bilingual in French and English. Pretty much as long as you're any other culture you can get a job with the current government.
I would not want to own a vacation property. For one thing, I don't want to go to the same place or do the same thing for every vacation. For another, I don't want to have to deal with a property far away from where I live.
You might enjoy actor and stand up comedian, Johnny Harris's show Still Standing. He meets amazing members of very small communities around Canada, and finishes the show with a a sweet roasting of the guests of honour
There's some information needed to be addressed. Politicians don't have to be bilingual. They have an ear piece with a translator telling in their language the comments made on the other languages. Canada is officially bilingual and has to offer service in both languages. This is not because of Quebec it's in the Canadian constitution recognizing that French and English as a founding nation. It was in the first constitution and in the new one from the 80s.
Tyler I can tell you a little about Alaska. The land of Alaska was apart of Russian in the earily 1800s. The Russians around that time tried to make a go of it in Alaska but failed doing so. Of course this happen before oil was found in Alaska. Not only that the Russian emperor needed money do to the after math of the Crimean War with Britian and France. So Russia put a for sale sign on Alaska. Seeing Russia would not sale Alaska to Britian do to the Crimean War they just had. The Yanks stepped up and bought Alaska instead. Form then on Alaska was apart of the United States of America.
An interesting side note. Kingston was originally picked to be Canadas capital. It actually served as the capital for 3 years in the 1840s, However it was determined that it was too close to the us border and may have been an issue strategically as this was also fairly recent to the war of 1812 when the us invaded upper Canada (southern Ontario) and parts of Quebec (lower Canada)
As a Canadian, I can see so much inaccuracy in this video. Something that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the comments is that the residents of Quebec speak Englsih and French which is wrong for about 50% of Quebecers, who don't speak English. It's more common in Montreal and the Eastern Townships closer to the U.S. border, but even across the river from Ottawa and Ontario, there are tons of Quebecers who don't speak English. Less than 20% of Canadians are bilingual in English and French overall throughout Canada. And while I've been to P.E.I mamy times, I've never heard those nicknames for it. Perhaps they are used by only young locals? Yes, cotttage culture is huge in Canada with all our lakes. If you don't have a cottage in the family, you may still get invited to a friend's cottage or rent one for a weekend, week or more.
Yeah to also stress what everyone is saying, the capital of Ontario is Toronto and the capital of Canada is Ottawa which is located in Ontario on the border of Quebec. As someone who spent much of his youth protesting the Ontario provincial government at Queens Park, the capital is Toronto. Another thing about population to add is that southern Ontario (even though it is the bottom 5th of the province as you mentioned) 94% of the province lives there. So of that 40% of Canadians live in Ontario thing, 36% of that 40 is in southern Ontario. Another interesting fact about population is if you just take the population of our largest 3 cities (Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver) that accounts for roughly 37% of our entire population. Also 90% of our population live about 100 miles from the US border.
The capital of Ontario is not Ottawa like was said in the video you are watching, it's Toronto. Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
And it's in Ontario
Are those two guys Canadian? They can’t be if they think the capital of Ontario is Ottawa!
Ahahaha!!
@@heidimueller1039The dude in the left actually says he's from Ontario, yet doesn't know the capital city 🤦
@@bradnowakowski8594 More likely they just misspoke and didn't catch it and fix their error.
For perspective - from Toronto to Florida is about 24 hours driving. From Toronto you can drive for 24 hours North & still be in Ontario.
Yeah but that's because there are no highways that go all the way North...
@@brunoleclerc4768 Sure there are.......😅😂
Driving Ottawa to Manitoba is also 24 hrs…without stopping.
If you take a string across Ontario and take that length and measure it from Ontario you will reach Florida.
To get from New Brunswick to Alberta it’s about 50 hours (if you don’t stop).
Quebec gets "blamed" for federal policians needing to speak French to be elected. But Canada has two official languages and, for 20% of the population, French is the mother tongue. So, yeah, Quebec is the one French province, but there are French-speaking people all across Canada and they all deserve to be represented by people that speak their language just as much as English-speaking people do.
In school we were taught French as spoken in Paris, not Quebec which made it harder to enter government as they wanted Quebecois French. I guess it sucks to die out in importance?
And New Brunswick is the only truly bilingual province.
@@nancyharris255 And your former premier would have made it English only if he could have gotten away with it.
New Brunswick is a Francophone Province, as is most of Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan.....
@@nancyharris255 Ontario IS, once you get north of Central Ontario......you better be able to speak French....Canadian French....or you ain't gettin' any food or gas.....lol
Bud the spud from the bright red mud
Rollin' down the highway smilin'
The spuds are big on the back of his rig
Cuz he's from Prince Edward Island!
Now the Ontario Provincial Police
don't think mucha Bud
Yeah the cops have been lookin' for the son of a gun
That's been rippin' the tar off the 401
They know the name on the truck shines up in the sun
"Green Gables."
But he hits Toronto and it's 7 o'clock
when he backs 'er up against the terminal dock
And the boys gather 'round just to hear him talk
About another big load a potatoes!
@@bartlett454 he's got a big load
Of the best dog gone potatoes that's ever been growed
And they're from Prince Edward Island
Don’t forget, ketchup loves potatoes
@@nolanharriott4574 Hell, yeah!
As an Islander in my 40's I only got around to listening to Stompin' Tom a couple months ago.
Disappointed with the talk of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan is 44% boreal forest for one thing, there is a desert here, there are hot springs here. We have over 700 Reserves here too. (Reservations). Oh, and over 100,000 lakes.
Don't forget, Regina is the headquarters of the RCMP, our national police force, except for Ontario and Quebec, who have their own provincial police forces.
@@lauriegunn9636 I'm disappointed with everything in that video
THANK YOU for adding this. We are a beautiful province!
Some of the best moose hunting in the country as well. The problem is that the vast majority of Canadians have travelled through or only visited southern Saskatchewan. They never go north. So the miss out on all the fun adventures you can do basically north of north battleford. It’s on my bucket list to get into a hunting camp up there and spend a week fishing for pike and hunting moose.
@@jessecollingwood1002 LaRonge is beautiful winter and summer. Seaplanes will fly you from there to more northern lakes as well. (Or the winter roads).
Yes, Quebec French is different from, say, Parisienne French (that's France), or Acadian French (the east coast provinces). There are several Caribbean islands and parts of Africa that are French speaking and I am sure their accents are different as well. And, hey, Louisana has a French sector. French is not just a Canadian or France language.
It is ABSOLUTELY FALSE to say that all politicians have to speak French. Most outside Quebec don't. Those who want to run for the leadership of one of the main FEDERAL parties have to speak both languages, but I guarantee your average politician in Alberta or BC or Newfoundland DO NOT speak French. And, as has already been pointed out, Ottawa is not the capital of Ontario. That's two pretty big mistakes by these guys.
And also, the "Je me souviens" is not to throw shade at anyone, the full saying is "Je me souviens d'être né sous le lys et d'avoir grandi sous la rose" which means "I remember being born under the lily and to have grown under the rose", the lily being France and the rose England.
Knowing 2 languages ads credibility perspective and many more things.
There ar many more francophones all over the country that are often ignored by many; Alberta for instance has a large concentration along the Saskatchewan border, I grew up in Alberta and found that quite interesting.
AFAIN premier Eby of BC is bilingual.
I completely agree. This is utterly false. Also, one of those guys live in Ontario and he doesn’t know that Ottawa is not the capital of Ontario? Who are those guys?
"Je me souviens" come from " Je me souviens /Que né sous le lys /Je croîs sous la rose" "I remember/That born under the lily/ I grow under the rose". It's mean that I remember where I'm from and how Québec is become how it is today. It's not revengeful like what they say in the video. (Sorry for my english)
Exactly. Two gooffy talking sh*t :)
ne sou sle lys= venus des francais, je crois sou sla rose= la rose est rouge, on grandit sous les anglais. C'est donc revengeful un peu oui. Mais pas comme ils l'on expliquer.
The lys represented the French royalty back then and the rose is the English royalty. Thus, the full translation is I remember being born under the lys but grew up under the rose.
In fact there are different interpretations of 'Je me souviens', that one being just one of the explanations. In fact nobody knows for sure.
To know more, watch this episode of 'L'histoire nous le dira', made by an actual historian.
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@@rejeangagne4524 1 thing i know for sure, its that Quebeckers dont remember anynore.
While Canadians may get annoyed at Americans for their abysmal ignorance about Canada, we actually want to keep it that way. Staying off American radar has always been the best strategy for Canada's survival as a semi-independent nation. Once Britain was no longer interested in or capable of defending us, America became the our protectors. Nobody tries to attack or invade Canada because Big Brother next door will nuke them. Our economies are a single unit so America gets everything it needs from Canada without the messy process of conquest, although it has been tried, in 1812 and during the American Civil War when there was a lot of talk in Congress about marching that huge shiny Union Army North and taking the place over. The fear of invasion from the US was the main driving force behind the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, so Canada could claim dibs on all that valuable territory which is now the Western Provinces before the Americans could show up and steal it (they did try in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern Alberta but that's another story). So we lay low, provide raw materials at a good price, and cling to Quebec with the knowledge that, while English Canada is susceptible to American influence, French Canada is not and would give the US a serious case of indigestion should they try and swallow it. To everyone else here, stop telling this guy our secrets!
WHAT??? 'America became our protector'???
Bruh...
Nobody tries to attack Canada, because they are taught from a VERY young age how Canada acts in wartime. Not just WW1 either... They are taught how Canada comes to the aid of almost anyone who asks, AND how utterly unstoppable Canadian soldiers can be. Its nothing to do with the US... If anything, its the opposite. Nobody attacks the US, out of fear that a Canada/US coalition force will be sent to 'liberate' your civilian populace.
Canada doesn't get attacked, because Canada EARNED its respect across the globe.
ALSO, War of 1812, they DID try to 'annex' parts of Canada, and the 'Canadian' soldiers (british soldiers were the majority, but not solely) pushed the US army so far back that we could have effectively kept Michigan if we had wanted. AND THEN, on our way home, we lit the White House on fire (which is how it got the name White House, FYI).
Ontario also makes a decent amount of maple syrup as well. My stepdad built a sugar shack in our bush and he makes his own syrup. Taps 80-200 trees in the spring and that produces a few hundred gallons of maple syrup he gives away to friends and family
Seriously, they have a Canadian on the panel, and they did not correct that Toronto is the prov. Capital and Ottawa is the federal capital. Wow!!!!
I think that these videos have NCI....No Canadians Involved.
Yeah honestly it was really bad and they didn't do the provinces justice. They talked about things that don't matter at all.
Yeah, kind of crazy, because the guy on the left said he was from Ontario. I can't believe they would've put such a glaring error in the final video.
@@airborne63 When they mentioned Ontario, The American on the right said "This is your province" and the guy on the left said "Indeed, it is". That just makes it an even worse error.
Not surprising when a heard that Justin Trudeau was a Quebeker. I didn't know that being born in Ottawa was making you a born quebeker because you have a french name. That was said somewhere in the western part of the ROC.
Oh yeah, France French and Quebecois French are completely different. That's because Quebecois basically speak 'old french'. During the many years of french colonization, a lot of language reforms happened back in France, leading to the colony and the country growing more and more distinct, in both vocabulary, accent, and dialect. Nowadays, a lot of French people say they can't understand when Quebecois speak with a thick accent
agreed. like all languages, there are dialects - accents - vocabulary. central / south america countries all differ in their spanish dialects - accents - vocab.
Same for the French speaker from Quebec, we sometime can't understand the French from France. I'm a native French speaker but I've had to put on subtitles on some French movies.
well... I dont think Anglo should lesson us on how french from france see us. Actually, I am from Gaspesie, so I do have an accent, but apart from parisian who dont understand us because they just are so self important and sometimes tiresome, but the rest of france understand us very well.
@@ydro11 I'm from Laurentides, I'm no anglo. I'm only saying what I know. If you had a different experience, then good for you. In my experience, just a touch of jouale is enough for a communication breakdown
@@GigiC4 pas dans mon cas puisque j'ai été exposée à l'accent français parisien (TV5 et TF1 ) dès le jeune âge
Not only do a lot of Canadians have cottages in northern Ontario, so do a lot of Americans, including some celebrities.
Not just in Ontario, same in Québec. A lot of people got a cottage (we call it Chalet in French)
A lot of middle-class people get a cottage in Canada
Many people in the Maritimes have cottages.
In BC, we call them cabins.
@@dorisbetts3012 In ontario cottage country?
They made an oops. Ottawa is not the capital of Ontario, Toronto is.
They're dummies!!! Probably not even Cdn.
This. I lived in Ottawa, and it was interesting because it is the home of the Ottawa municipal government and the Canadian federal government, but not the Ontario provincial government which is, of course, in Toronto.
But Toronto also has a similar thing, where they have the municipal and provincial governments there, but they are not the home to the federal government, which is instead located in a comparatively minor city that is located within the province they govern.
The people living in Nunavut (which means "Our Land" in Inuktitut) are part of a larger family, the Inuit, which spreads both West and East of Nunavut, including into Northern Québec and Northern Labrador. They're the actual people who live in igloos (not all of them, not all the time). In fact, that word comes from Inuktitut to begin with: ᐃᒡᓗ (iglu). It actually just means "house"; in their language, they have to specify if they mean one made of snow.
Greenlandic people are also part of that family, and you also find some Inuit in Northern Alaska too.
Oh, while I'm at it, no, they don't have thousands of words for "snow". It's just that their dialects are polysynthetic, which means that they combine many roots and affixes together to form sentences, which make their sentences kinda like one or two big words instead of many words like we do in European languages like English. So in reality, they only have a couple of roots for "snow", but they're then combined with other things to form big words that are the equivalent of phrases or full sentences, which is probably where the misconception comes from.
Thank you!😊
The difference between France french and Québec french is that we use diphtongs and contractions all the time in Québec. Diphtongs are one letter pronounced like a slide between two sounds, or like he said "poutsine" instead of "poutine", and there is a rule to this. We use soft T in front of "i" and "u" but not "a" or "e". So it's "tomate" not "tsomatse". Contractions are like the southern english "y'all'd've". You can't say "A'men'd'né" in France, you will get funny looks 😂.
As for what happens in Northern Québec, inuit villages are there, the biggest one being Kuujjuaq. The last race of inuit sled dogs are there too. They let them roam free.
The contractions come from the Picard influence in our language. 😊
The difference between France French and Québec French is that they separated about two hundred years ago, and then developed differently from there. So Quebec's French will still use pronunciation from Louis XIV era, still use "char" to mean a car (like a horse-drawn car were "chars"), and borrowed a lot of words from various First Nations. And of course, they got some old influence from English, while current's France French wave of anglicization is much more modern. So in Quebec, there are some phrase structure copied from English, while in France, they borrow words.(I am still annoyed when Radio Canada use "week-end" instead of "fin de semaine" just cause they started saying that in France. Seriously, "fin de semaine" is correct and barely longer to say than week-end.)
@@stereonacht2247 I gave the linguistic version cause that's what I like, but no worries I know the historical version too haha. Turns out diphtongs are super useful to learn other languages, especially Korean. Copy paste this in google translate to hear it :
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Chieut (ㅊ) is super close to soft t.
A ton of expressions taken from english sure, but at some point I stopped caring because it's more politics than love of language : L'office de la langue française tient à préciser qu'il ne faut pas dire Bon matin puisque l'expression est tirée de "Good morning", mais bien Bonjour.
L'entièreté de l'épisode avec les toasts au beurre de pinottes c'était délicieux. Le mot toast a été emprunté du vieux français vers l'anglais et après de l'anglais au français. Le mot toast est dans le dictionnaire depuis au moins 100 ans. 🤣 Au moins on fait un effort de franciser l'anglais ou de créer des néologismes au lieu de copier coller directement dans la plupart des cas, ce que la france ne fais pas.
Yes, people do of course live in Northern Québec. It's First Nations territory. By the way, the oldest rock ever found on Earth was discovered in Northern Québec in the Hudson Bay area. It was dated at around 4.28 billion years old.
It's a bit reductive to say the north (of Quebec, or the territories) are "First Nation territory". There are First Nation people all over the Canadian territory. But since the northern parts are not agricultural-friendly, the winters are long and harsh; there are few food sources, and they are different from what European people are used to, there is very few non-native people living there. There are those with mining jobs, teachers, doctors and nurses, maybe some notaries/lawyers and judges (but I think those just fly there when they are needed)... That's about it. Very little tourism, proportionally. But still, the "powers that were" tried to "europeanize" those populations, making villages for traditionally nomadic people, causing all the problems one can imagine, trying to force an outsider culture on people whose own culture is born from and appropriate for surviving there.
@@stereonacht2247 To me, that means it's their territory and theirs ONLY. In the case of the south of the province, it's their territory and ours as well. Both are not mutually exclusive and that's how it worked 400 years ago when we were actually allied with them (except the Iroquois of course). It all went to shit when the english took over. "We" didn't put them into reservations, the English did. Furthermore, everything regarding the First Nations is managed at the federal level. Also, those who live up north on the Canadian Shield don't want to live anywhere else. As they say, it's their ancestral territory and we have to respect that. They choose to live in a place where agriculture is not viable and btw, only 4% of Québec's land actually is. I'm aware of everything you wrote and just so you know, in this province, the cultural genocide was committed by the Catholic Church obeying the English (it was a condition for letting them keep their grip on power). My ancestors never wished for that to happen but they were so blinded by their faith that they didn't see what was right in front of them. Physical and psychological violence, rape/molestation, forced conversion, lies, theft, manipulation, extortion, you name it. They got all that thanks to the fkin clergy. We eventually got rid of all that shit in the 1960s. In my opinion, part of the reconciliation process is to acknowledge our common History and to always be looking for the *real* truth, positive or not. We are also often criticized for focusing too much on the past 532 years. Almost everything we know of before that time is from archeology alone. They did not have a written language at all when Europeans arrived. I would dare say that my ancestors learned from them just as much as they learned from us. They would never have survived the harsh winters without the First Nations and they're the ones who taught us how to make maple syrup. The French, with their metal cauldrons, were able to mass produce it unlike our then allies. Anyway, we're here now and it's our home just as much as theirs. And we have to keep in mind that climate change or not, northern Québec absolutely belongs to those who live there right now. Personally, I don't want *anything* to happen there without their consent. A significant portion of the province's population wants autodetermination and ultimately, a country but of course we can't ignore the First Nations who are absolutely entitled to their own autodetermination.
All that stuff is a very touchy subject.
No, most politicians don't have to be bilingual. It all depends on what constituency you are representing and what position you have in the government. For example, federal ministers would all have to be bilingual.
also, federally one can only communicate in french if certified to do so.
Also if you live West of Ottawa (ie most of Canada) there's almost no requirement to speak French so most people don't.
Yeah most aren't bilingual. It really only the federal MPs where it is important and even then not all are. Most provincial legislatures in non francophone provinces aren't.
Cottage culture is HUGE in Canada. Not everyone owns one but a lot of people will rent one for a week or two or even weekend in the summer. It's got a very defined vibe. Some are more ritzy but a lot are more rustic. often on or near a lake. Boating culture can be big. Lots have canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and things like that. Think like camping vibes but with a cabin so often fire pits and fishing and stuff too. Lots of chill vibes and lounging and drinking. Muskoka and Kawarthas are two popular cottage regions near Toronto but like some people go a lot further.
Yes you're right and lots of provinces have camping. BC is very big into camping everywhere
In Atlantic Canada, most cottages are on the ocean althoygh they are found on lakes and rivers as well.
@TheShaleco RV/trailer parks are a big thing too. I'm in eastern ontario and these parks are everywhere. Some refer to these as their cottage.
@@DenisEssiambre yeah! A friend of mine’s parents have a trailer near Lindsey and it def has cottage vibes
Growing up in BC I'd never even heard of "cottage culture," heard about it as an adult as a specifically Ontario thing.
I once had an internship in Northern Ontario. Fun fact: lots of French speakers there.
I recently learnt that Quebec is so big because they got a chunk of what was once known as Rupert’s Land (if I remember correctly the rest of it became Northwest Territories). Most of Northern Quebec is Inuit land so most people there speak Inuktitut, not French; in fact our current governor general came from Northern Quebec and she doesn’t really speak French
I've learned more watching this channel than I did in school about Canada
I live in Northern Ontario, but I remember when I was in grade 6 my teacher had asked based on a map if we were in Northern or Southern Ontario. I had said Southern based on where my city is located. I was told I was wrong. I think it's more of a population density thing than a geographical one. Also, Southern Ontario go to cottages, Northern Ontario go to camps.
Fun fact about Ontario. Windsor Ontario is across the river from Detroit and in fact is south of Detroit.
The Quebec accent is VERY different from the one in France. In fact, Quebec has many accents. Montreal will be different from the less urban regions.
France also has many,many accents- differing in Paris to say,the more rural towns and villages on the outskirts. Belgian french is fairly different as well.
Lots of people have small summer places - cottages - They are out by the lakes and in the forests, and go out there on weekends or for holidays. Some cottages are fancy and some are not. This is just not in Ontario. I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and my grandparents had a cottage at Grand Beach, just an hour north of the city. My family went there every summer for two weeks. It is in a provincial park and has one of the best beaches in the world. It was the best part of my childhood.
As an adult I learned about it as specifically an Ontario thing. Never even heard of it growing up in BC.
Grand Beach was originally a railroad resort. But CN eventually sold it to the conservation department, and it became a provincial park. Besides cottages, there are sandy beaches, a fishing lagoon, marina, and a provincial campground. Next to the park is the town of Grand Marais.
@@SomeGuy_GRM I am born and raised in BC and growing up in the 80s and 90s I knew a lot of folk with cottages for the summer or they have a time share in a cottage, or they own a tiny plot of dedicated camping land in the interior for summer camping near a lake or that sort of thing. I think it was definitely more common prior to the 2000s cuz land was much cheaper in the 60s/70s/80s and the generations prior to millennials probably had more funds for that sort of luxury - I only know a couple millennials like me that have either a time share or a tiny camping land off a small lake locally but I know a lot of gen x and older that bought into things when they were much cheaper. I think in the current economic climate its a much harder thing to justify the cost of
One thing that wasn't mentioned about Ontario is Lake Manitou, the largest fresh water lake on the largest fresh water island, Manitoulin Island, in the world.
And yes , some Quebecois going to France have a hard time being understood because of the accent. And there's a différence in Quebec between accent .. Saguneay Lac Saint Jean , Gaspésie or Montréal dont sound the same.
I'm a native French speaker from Québec, I've been to France and can confirm that Québec and France speak a different kind of French. It's like the U.S. and the U.K., they both speak English but it's not the same accent and vocabulary, same thing for France and Québec. Also we swear a lot which tend to freak out the people of France. I hear that Mexico's nickname for us was "Los Tabernàculos" because "tabarnak" (tabernacle) is one of our favourite swear words. LOL!!
Same, born and raised, and every time I stub a toe, break a nail, lose my train of thought, ect…tabarnak comes flying out of my mouth.😊
Los tabernacos is a mexican-québec bar in mexico too.
How and when did objects related to the church become a way of swearing in Quebec, especially when the people came across as very religious? Just curious. 😊
@@Sid-gu5qk It's a nix on the church, thus carries(ed) the same shock value as Anglophones referencing intimate acts and private body parts. Us Anglophones do it too. We call it 'taking the lord's name in vain'.
@@Sid-gu5qk« Tabarnac» is the first one (1640) and all the others came out in 1700's
Tyler! Video idea! Visit Canada and make videos about it. You can ask people questions on the street and include that. It would be so fun!
Tyler is AI. Not even a real human. But the better video would be to discuss the beef between Canada and Quebec, Ontario and Quebec, Anglo Canadians vs French Canadians. TH-cam algorithm loves hate more than love.
“Talking to Canadians.” 😊
Federal politicians are invited to be bilingual, but few actually speaks fluent French, aside from those coming from Québec, New-Brunswick and eastern Ontario.
finally someone acknowledges that new brunswick speaks french too
true
We have French speakers in Manitoba, too. We used to be officially bilingual, until we lost that status in the 1980s. But the provincial government still operates in both languages today. The federal riding of St. Boniface (s.e. Winnipeg) can usually be counted on to send a bilingual MP to Ottawa. That quarter of Winnipeg has a very high percentage of Francophones.
@@dougbrowning82 True. Sorry for forgetting you.
Maple Syrop is found in Ontario and Quebec mainly, most of NE North America that have the Sugar Maple trees even Maine, Vermont, etc..
Ohio also has a LOT of Maple trees.
I live in Northern Ontario, actually the southern part of it in Sault Ste Marie. We think of most people from Southern Ontario similar to Americans since they know very little about Northern Ontario.
Hi Dan, i’m also living in the Soo
People in northwestern Ontario have more in common with Manitoba than the rest of Ontario.
Damn Southies. *joins the Sault Grumblers Club*
If you are interested in Quebec's food, then you may search for Anthony Bourdain's trip to Quebec City and Montreal.
I live in BC but have very good friends and have flown to Whitehorse a few times
My friends have lived there for 20+ years and love it, beautiful country and people
Let's hear it for Whitehorse - it even has a WALMART!
The Territories are for the "Average Canadian" the same as what Canada is for "your Average American"; Snow, cold, Inuit, barren. I've never been so I can't say for certain, but i think it's pretty accurate, with the notable addition of "Gas & Mineral rich".
Je me souviens comes from a poem. The first line says Je me souviens que né sous le lys, j’ai grandi sou la rose. Roughly I remember that being born under the Lys (France) I grew up under the Rose (England/UK).
Toronto is the capital of Ontario, not Ottawa.
Tyler all you gotta say to your friend that a Province is like a State in the United States.
I missed part 1. I should watch that as this is probably going to be just as educational to me as to pretty much any American and I lived my whole life here
Saskatchewan, home of Dog River and Corner Gas.
And Woolerton.
@@theunaccompaniedsenior (spit)
Little mosque on the Prairie too?
100% true about Saskatchewan... NICEST people... we apologize when we walk into poles 😂😂 help others when stranded down a back road... laugh at ourselves before anyone else... lots of room to roam... love it 😊 😊😊
Why do you walk into poles? 😅
I apologize when I walk into a Pole too, the Polish are people too.
only problem with those from Saskabush is the Roughrider mafia lol
The guy on the right hand side is a Québec lover and he forgot that 30% of New-Brunswick speaks french, northern Ontario speaks French and so on and he forgot to say that there are two official languages in Canada even if he doen't like it. New-Brunswick is officially a bilingual province. Acadians are not from Québec and they speak french. We are in a free country and it looks like that you have the right to hate quebekers because they speak french.
There also a strong French community in Manitoba (ex: region of St-Boniface) and some French communities in the other provinces as well. And you are right to correct that Acadians are not from Quebec - but some Quebecers (like me) have Acadians roots (from Acadians who escaped "Le grand derangement" and found refuge in what is today the province of Quebec. Acadians have their own (tragic) history and culture.
He comes out to me as an English-speaking snob who only knows Quebec speaks French cause we make noise whenever our language rights are trampled. That irritates a lot of people who think Quebecers should accept they were conquered, and should start speaking English like every civilized people. (Really, there are people who think like that.)
The 3 territories aren't mostly aboriginal because they were 'given' to them but because so few non-aboriginals moved there. Secondly, the aboriginals who live there didn't move there from the south. It's where they're from.
Québec supposedly looks like a dog's head and Ontario like a fish's tail. The Québec French accent varies a lot across the province and is way different from the French accents in France. It's closer to Cajun French in Louisiana. If you're going to hand over Alaska, can we have Hawaii too? We could use a warm province.
Nope.
15:15 Keep in mind that the VAST majority of Canada is what's called 'Unceded Territory' and is "owned" by the First Nations and Inuit. We call them First Nations because they are literally countries (more than 50) within a country. Similar to Quebec's arrangement with the federal government. They are self governed and subjects of Canadian law but they are not subjects of the Crown.
Just as there are many locales that are French Canadian other than Quebec, there are also many dialects of French language across Canada. When I applied for admission to the Coast Guard College in Cape Breton I was tested on my knowledge of French. The teachers were surprised that I speak a blend of seven distinct dialects. I explained that each year of school I would have a teacher who taught a different dialect including Parisienne, Continental {used across Europe}. Quebecois, Joual,, Montrealaise {pronounced Mon-ree-al-aize}, Acadian, and a dialect of French from southern Georgian Bay, Ontario.
The teachers to;d me I was the first person they had met who spoke so many dialects mixed together. Probably a good thing I had not been out west to pick up Metis { pronounced May-tee}, a blend of Indigenous and European languages or any of the other distinct dialects found regionally.
Fun fact. The USA bought Alaska from Russia back in the 19th Century.
Very surprised an American wouldnt know this
And Britain was not interested( Canada was still a British colony) and relations between Russia and Britain weren't very good at that time either. So Russia preferred to sell to the United States and spite Britain( you know, the ones who had already had that little Independence war thing with the USA - their other North American colony!)
@@wjdietrich Exactly so!
Cottage country is only a few hours north of Toronto. People don't have cottages in the far north. People in Toronto always call cottage country the north but there is a whole lot more north than that. They also don't seem to realize that there is anything to the west, between that and the Manitoba border which is a huge area.
I have a friend who moves here to Canada from France, and when she went through Quebec she stated that she had a hard time understanding their version of French. My friend said it was easier to understand English than to communicate with someone in that area.
Some French folks love to claim that we don't speak "real French" and that we're hard to understand. The French people I've had as classmates and/or friends I've had told me that the folks who say that kind of stuff are just snobs trying to be cool and superior 😆 Imagine a Brit saying Americans are hard to understand...
@@constancep7632 that would be true
Re the maple syrup, I’d suggest checking out Glen and Friends. He makes his own and explains that it has to do with the huge temperature swings from day to night. There’s only a brief time of year to harvest the sap
There is a Québec french accent, and there is Québec french on google translate now!!!
The USA = English + Spanish
try driving across Canada....there is definitely a Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario......its one loooong drive getting through Ontario...
When driving from Toronto to Manitoba we drove through the US, it was faster and less desolate.
@@CrDa-i7e did that once now I prefer the HWY 11 northern route
@@alpearson9158 Its beautiful eh! I drove Toronto to Calgary every week, taking Highway 11 for 20 years as a truck driver. The best part of the drive for me was from SSM to Nipigon.
Highway 17 goes from Sault Ste Marie to Nipigon
Any time I’ve driven home (Sault Ste Marie) from points south, I’ve always cheered upon crossing the French River. Even though the drive from there to Sudbury feels like it’s a week long, at least I’m back in the north.
Lolll!! Great episode! I'm from Montreal, Quebec... and really appreciate your videos! BTW, I was passing by an A&W yesterday and happened to be hungry, so I took a video of the experience and will happily send it to you if you're interested 😊🇨🇦
PEI is where you go to visit in the summer to see anne of green gables and theme parks
Tyler, In Europe, most people can speak two or three Languages and you are shocked if someone speaks two.
On Canadian news you can hear diplomats from the U.S. speak french with excellent grammar and a good vocabulary.
its a lil different now but for the most of Canadas history the middle class could easily own a cottage up north as well as your primary residence. 80s-90s you could easily buy a cottage north of north bay for only $10000 - $200000. also look up Muskoka cottage country!
These guys are only partly right about Saskatchewan, as usual. Only the southern half is flat-ish farmland. The northern half is mainly forests and lakes with world class fishing, hunting etc. SK has the highest point of land in Canada east of the Rockies. Located in Cypress Hills Park, it's over a mile in elevation.
I live in the southern section of "cottage country". Cottaging is a longtime pastime in Ontario and is not just in Northern Ontario. There are many lakes and rivers in cottage country which draws people to our area and north of here. Even though Toronto is on Lake Ontario, it's still a crazy busy city and people strive to get away from the city and head to cottage country. Celebrities have cottages in the Muskoka region. Which is not far from where I am.
Maple syrup is made in other places besides Quebec, just putting that out there.
The Indigenous people in Canada are located all across the country, not just in northern Canada.
The USA = English + Spanish
Ohio has a LOT of Maple trees; a few people here also make Maple syrup.
Alotttt of people on southern Ontario have cottages. I have one lol. Yes it’s a thing.
Actually, Ontario has two capitals, Toronto is the provincial capital and Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
Well all Provinces have capital.
@@renaudhobden4236not all province have the national capital.
Dude you forgot Saskatchetoon
@@EliasBac They have provincial Capitals all of them
@@ultrasometimes8908 Yeah, it was there. Saskatchewan, capital, Regina. Largest city, Saskatoon. Flattest province, except for the Qu'Appelle Valley, a huge gorge that cuts across the southern part of the province from west to east.
That’s the problem with youtubers not vetting their content and create false facts. just like the other dude whose the ONLY canadian saying A boot instead about.
The house hippo ads warned us long ago haha
Since your looking at BC(bring cash) look up 54/40 or fight, a major dispute with your country that almost become war.
We call our Eastern provinces the Maritimes. Also, please do a video on the history of Alaska. It is very interesting. We learned about it in elementary school.
There is a joke about Saskatchewan: If your dog runs away at night, you can still see it running in the morning.
You DON'T have to be bi-lingual because in the house of commons they have interpreters to translate for members of the house who do not speak the other language
About Québec french accent... of course it's different from the french from France. Look at all the different english speaking countries in the world and all the differents accents... (even when they are close by distance, like the british and the irish or the scots...)
"Northern Ontario" as a region is a bit of an anomaly. It's definitely not as rich as southern Ontario, but it's still cottage country so you tend to get a fairly even mix of wealthy people and normal people. In most provinces the further you go out from the capital city things get poorer, but it's not quite as simple as that in Ontario. The roads are still very well paved for the amount of permanent residents because a lot of touristy people come out in the summer.
Although if you look at the actual northern parts of Ontario near the Hudson's Bay which people outside of Ontario would assume would be called northern ontario, that's where it starts to become more stereotypically rural, very few paved roads out that way. Very few opportunities if you're not in a mining town.
🌹 Yes, Tyler, when not in our igloos fighting off Polar Bears, you can find us in our cottages entertaining Moose. 🙄
I can’t believe these guys messed up. Toronto is the capital of Ontario and Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
Fun Fact... British Columbia has the world's longest suspension bridge... the Capilano Suspension Bridge.
Politicians will learn French as necessary when elected to Federal Parliament. It's not quite the dealbreaker you may think.
I like being from Saskatchewan. The people are amazing, Saskatoon is a beautiful city. We get a TON of sun here, which makes sense as the breadbasket of Canada (and the world). Canola, wheat, mustard etc. But we have a ton of potash too (fertilizer), oil (not as much as Alberta, but 2nd most I believe). It gets to 30's c (90s f) in summer and down to -40c/f in winter, so folks are hearty abd tough here. Also, they made fun of us in the Adam Sandler movie "Grownups" by poking fun at "Saskatch-atoon" combining Saskatchewan and the biggest city Saskatoon with the muscle dude at the Waterpark that had a high voice, then all the women wanted the men to pretend they were from Saskatchatoon in bed later that night. Hilarious. 😆
Robin Scherbatsky’s dog (from “How I Met Your Mother) was named Sir Scratchewan. 😁
We definitely have cottage country even in Nova Scotia Canada we have places for example in the south shore cottage country. A lot of people have a second location could be just a RV on a lot. I grew up in Nova Scotia and went to PEI every summer to our families cottage
An American once asked me (a Canadian) which “Providence” I’m from.
Years later another American complimented me on my ability to speak English. She had a puzzled look when I told her English is the only language I speak.
I believe Quebec produces about 80 percent of the worlds maple syrup
The French-English reality of Canada means someone interested in federal politics can't be considered qualified if they're not bilingual. How can you represent all Canadians if you can't communicate with 25% of Canadians?
Coming from a québécois I agree rhat the Quebec version of French is vary different then France French many words are different as well as the accent
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Ontario has a cottage culture. Toronto empties out on the weekend with everyone heading to either their, or a friend’s cottage. There are enough lakes for everyone.
We do cottages in Manitoba, too.
Glad P.E.I. got a mention, as minimal as it was. Quite often, if a map or globe is a bit too small, we're just completely left off lol Oh, and the capital Charlottetown, is pronounced basically "Charlotown", we skip the double "T" sound and just combine it.
Here is a little more info to add: Prince Edward Island (PEI) produces around 2.5 billion pounds of potatoes annually, which is about 25% of Canada's total potato production. PEI is the largest potato producer in Canada, and some call it the potato capital of the world. We also have a "Potato Museum" located in O'Leary.
Also: Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire), (published as L. M. Montgomery), was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
Sorry if this is a bit much, but like I said, we get overlooked and forgotten usually.
These guys know a teeny bit, but not a lot. Saskatchewan is great, gorgeous sunsets, not too populated, some great nature all over, but especially in the north.
in Curling northern ontario is in its own teams in the national playdowns the rest of ontario has a team seoerate southern ontario has three big cities hamilton Toreonto ottawa.
Your constant interests in the globe should be the new American norm. Your just so pleasant.
Coming from a Canadian. Your just. Nice 👍
Did you know that the capital city of Manitoba is affectionately called "Winterpeg"? And it's known for its mosquitoes 🦟 ? HUGE mosquitoes. And they have a hilariously dry sense of humour (the people, not the mosquitoes 😜).
Tyler, check out Stompin Tom Connors. He’s got a song about most provinces especially PEI(where he grew up) and Newfoundland.
7:22 There is no such limitation on language in municipal or provincial government which is where almost all of our federal politicians start. Moving into federal politics is a choice that comes with the requirement of learning the other language. In BC we have an ex-premier learning french to join (she wants leadership universe help us) one of the federal parties.
Yea ! Southern Ontario isn't cold enough, so we have cottages to go to in Northern Ontario so we can continue to freeze our bells off all year round.
Northern Ontario is pretty remote with lots of lakes and is mostly cottage communities. The middle part of Ontario is like farm country and small towns with a few bigger cities like Barrie. Yes lots of Ontarians own cottages and come summertime many travel hours up north to the cottage every weekend. The lakefront cottages are sometimes very small and there are huge expensive cottages owned by rich people too that are basically like lakefront mansions. They are often being rented out as well. Many cottages are built many years ago and handed down in the family through generations. Buying a cottage nowadays is about the price of buying a second home and mostly unattainable compared to 50 years ago.
In our country anymore because of the government , being diverse is more important than being qualified for the job OR being bilingual in French and English. Pretty much as long as you're any other culture you can get a job with the current government.
I would not want to own a vacation property. For one thing, I don't want to go to the same place or do the same thing for every vacation. For another, I don't want to have to deal with a property far away from where I live.
You might enjoy actor and stand up comedian, Johnny Harris's show Still Standing. He meets amazing members of very small communities around Canada, and finishes the show with a a sweet roasting of the guests of honour
There's some information needed to be addressed. Politicians don't have to be bilingual. They have an ear piece with a translator telling in their language the comments made on the other languages. Canada is officially bilingual and has to offer service in both languages. This is not because of Quebec it's in the Canadian constitution recognizing that French and English as a founding nation. It was in the first constitution and in the new one from the 80s.
The Capital of Ontario is NOT Ottawa, it is Toronto. Ottawa is the capital of CANADA, which is also IN Ontario, on the Border with Quebec.
Tyler I can tell you a little about Alaska. The land of Alaska was apart of Russian in the earily 1800s. The Russians around that time tried to make a go of it in Alaska but failed doing so. Of course this happen before oil was found in Alaska. Not only that the Russian emperor needed money do to the after math of the Crimean War with Britian and France. So Russia put a for sale sign on Alaska. Seeing Russia would not sale Alaska to Britian do to the Crimean War they just had. The Yanks stepped up and bought Alaska instead. Form then on Alaska was apart of the United States of America.
An interesting side note. Kingston was originally picked to be Canadas capital. It actually served as the capital for 3 years in the 1840s, However it was determined that it was too close to the us border and may have been an issue strategically as this was also fairly recent to the war of 1812 when the us invaded upper Canada (southern Ontario) and parts of Quebec (lower Canada)
As a Canadian, I can see so much inaccuracy in this video. Something that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the comments is that the residents of Quebec speak Englsih and French which is wrong for about 50% of Quebecers, who don't speak English. It's more common in Montreal and the Eastern Townships closer to the U.S. border, but even across the river from Ottawa and Ontario, there are tons of Quebecers who don't speak English. Less than 20% of Canadians are bilingual in English and French overall throughout Canada. And while I've been to P.E.I mamy times, I've never heard those nicknames for it. Perhaps they are used by only young locals? Yes, cotttage culture is huge in Canada with all our lakes. If you don't have a cottage in the family, you may still get invited to a friend's cottage or rent one for a weekend, week or more.
Yeah to also stress what everyone is saying, the capital of Ontario is Toronto and the capital of Canada is Ottawa which is located in Ontario on the border of Quebec.
As someone who spent much of his youth protesting the Ontario provincial government at Queens Park, the capital is Toronto.
Another thing about population to add is that southern Ontario (even though it is the bottom 5th of the province as you mentioned) 94% of the province lives there. So of that 40% of Canadians live in Ontario thing, 36% of that 40 is in southern Ontario.
Another interesting fact about population is if you just take the population of our largest 3 cities (Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver) that accounts for roughly 37% of our entire population.
Also 90% of our population live about 100 miles from the US border.
Taylor - being bilingual is hard. Swiss people - laughing their butts off.
Or Belgium.
Throughout Canada, people have cabins or cottages, usually near a lake. They range from very small to mansions.
Keep it up bud...your doing awesome..