As a (slightly older) Canadian, I measure driving distance in time, oven temperature in Fahrenheit, indoor/outdoor temperature in Celsius, fever temperature in either F or C, food temperature in F, a person’s height in feet/inches, object dimensions in feet/inches or cm/metres, food weight/mass in grams/litres, body weight in pounds.
I'm the same way lol. Anytime my kids get weighed and their height taken at the Dr's I have to ask what that is in feet and inches and in pounds lol 🤦♀️😆
In Canada, we hold doors open for people that are coming behind us. I thought this courtesy would happen in the United States, but the door slammed right in my face because the person in front of me didn’t hold the door. It’s common courtesy folks.
There are people in Canada who won't hold the door for you, too. I've seen my fair share of rudeness. I'm sure there are people in the USA who do hold the doors open for people. You could have encountered a bad apple.
@@cinzabeary5226 well don't expect to see it a lot in the US, especially when weird asses keep blowing up in people's faces for just holding a door for someone.
@@cinzabeary5226years ago in Toronto. I had my hands full with a hot tea and a cookie I just bought from Tim Hortons. Going through a set of double doors. These two 29 something ladies in front of me let the door slam on my face. In my attempt to grab it, I dropped my cookie and nearly spilled hot tea all over me. They were completely oblivious. I’ve heard some say that women tend to not hold doors. But I don’t know if that’s true or a bias or what. It’s probably an even %
@@g8kpr3000 - I would never let a door slam on someone especially if their hands were full. Often if I see someone at their car in a grocery store parking lot and they look a bit disabled or elderly I help them load their car and take their grocery cart back....and I'm 75...not yet elderly 😁. Some day I would appreciate it if I need help. Maybe because I was a nurse I just automatically help them into their car and, if they have one, put their walker in the trunk. Why not? I think it makes them happy to know people care. That being said, I'm not above giving 💩to someone illegally using a handicapped space.
I had lunch with an American at a Tim Hortons during a training course. When we were done lunch I cleaned up everything on the table and took it to the garbage/recycle. He looked at me with raised eye brows. Then he asked if I always do that. Yes, at fast food places we always clean up the table when done. Someone can sit there (however it hasn't been wiped with a cloth) He said he had never seen anyone do that before. We just help the staff out as much as we can. I also say thank you and good bye to the staff when I leave. Always have. The American man thought I was strange. I also always say thank you and goodbye to all bus drivers. Always have.
I remember when I was a kid back in the 70s when my dad found a wallet on his way home from work. My parents were tight for money and wondering how they were going to feed 3 kids until payday, which was in a couple of days. When my dad was searching the wallet for the owner's ID, he noticed there was $40 inside. He took the money out and replaced it with a $50 cheque and a note of apology that explained everything to the owner along with his name and phone number in case the owner wanted to chastise him for his 'thievery. He put the wallet in a small box, wrapped it up, and took it to the post office to get it weighed, stamped, then mailed it. About a week later, my dad got a call from the owner, thanking him for his honesty and telling my dad that he tore up the cheque and wished him a Merry Christmas!
💖 I turned in a wallet I found outside a warehouse that was full of cash as the guy had just cashed his pay check. Really impressed my boss when he found out but that wasn’t the intention, I was raised to do the right thing.
I am Canadian and work close to a University. I was walking to work one morning when I saw a young person hurrying along, backpack on back that unfortunately, was a bit open and cash was falling out. It was the end of the month so it was probably their rent. About 4 or 5 people, myself included, got the person to stop and we helped pick up the cash to give back to them. The poor young man was so upset, but so grateful that we had helped. He was sobbing and thanking us. We made sure he was ok and then all proceeded on our ways. I was glad that others had also stopped to help. I couldn't imagine how devastated could have been for him.
I am Canadian. my husband was out walking. found a wallet. (Money, driver's licenses, credit cards). Found the woman's address in it. Took it to her door. This is the Canadian thing to do.
My daughter was at a busy train station in Germany. She put her backpack down on the ground while she waited for her train, when it arrived she walked away forgetting her backpack with her money, passport, id etc. in it. About 6 hours later "I" received a call (in Canada) from the person in Germany who had found my daughter's backpack and passport. She called the # on the emergency contact info. She identified herself, and gave me her details so that my daughter could contact her. I immediately got ahold of my daughter who then called the woman and made arrangements. As a thank you she gave the woman a huge bouquet of flowers. The woman was so surprised to be given anything in return for her good deed and honesty. She said it must be a Canadian thing.
As an American living happily in Canada.......Canadians are just plain nicer, more invested in "fairness" and courtesy. Yes, there are exceptions...we are human beings after all, but generally just a better tone of society. Unfortunately, the proximity to the USA, means that we are constantly being bombarded by social/mass media from American sources that revel in rude, selfish, brutal, venal behavior as entertainment or something in which to aspire and the trickle down effect, especially amongst the young, is infiltrating our society. It isn't a perfect country, but a darned sight kinder and thoughtful.
Definitely. I didn’t know how to estimate distances until I started driving and GPS would tell me 😂 Even now, sometimes when it says “in 800 m, turn right” I’ll guess the wrong light 😅
Fun fact: In many of our cities (in Canada) people purchase or make toques, scarves, mittens, etc. that we leave on poles or similar places for homeless people to take. We need to label these items 'I am not lost - I am here for someone who needs me' otherwise the homeless people will not take these items believing they are lost items put there for the owners to find them.
I left a long armed monkey plushie wrapped around a tree, thinking someone would take it, in my old 'hood, next to Stanley Park in Vancouver. Each few days, I saw the monkey in a new pose... He survived 3 seasons in "his tree". 😂🐒
I dropped my wallet in downtown Toronto - it had $200 cash, credit cards, debit Cards etc. I was visiting Toronto - (I am from the Maritimes). I got a phone call a few hours later. Someone found my wallet. It had all the cash in it along with everything else. The person who found it - found my business card inside it.
The Toronto star once did a test. They dropped 5 wallets around the Eaton centre. Each with $100 in cash along with credit cards etc. I believe all wallets were eventually returned or turned in. Some with and some without the cash.
As a delivery driver, I found a sled/foldable fishing icehut on the highway. At the end of the day, I found a Mn DNR tag and name. I searched online (390 men in Mn with same name), being Tuesday I choose a retiree near the Canadian border. I called him and asked if he lost something this morning, he answered a fishing hut. He was impressed I tracked him down, I told him "I'll deliver to the town beside the border crossing in the morning at a store". He was thankful that he recovered all his fishing gear inside it (Rewarded me, paid for my minnows for the winter)
The taking off your shoes thing is normal here. But often we’ll be told by the homeowner to not worry about taking our shoes off, or we’ll ask if it’s ok to leave our shoes on. One would never presume to leave their shoes on and just walk around someone’s home without their ok.
I read a study once that looked at the differences in behaviour between Canadians and Americans while waiting for buses. They found that Americans typically just board the bus by the, 'whoever is closest' rule. While in Canada they found that people tended to board in roughly the order they arrived at the bus stop .
Or by their level of need. I’ll let people with kids, elderly, etc. on first, whether they just arrived or not. I know how much of a pain transit is with a kid and/or being disabled.
In Churchill, Man it's illegal to leave your car LOCKED. When one comes arond the corner and there's a hungry polar bear eyeing you, everyone needs a safe place to dive.
@@jean-michelb7290 A lot of camp/cabin up north have either no lock or just a sign where the key is with a note to leave your name and maybe some cash if you took some canned food, no one wants to be lost/stuck in the wood and come to a locked cabin, dunno if it s only regional though. The lock is mostly to keep animals out.
YES!! I just moved to Nunavut. We're 280 kms north of Churchill Manitoba. All those polar bears that the tourists flock to Churchill to see end up here and further north. One of the first things I was told was that almost everyone UNLOCKS their door at night so that anyone who encounters a bear has somewhere to go to be safe. We have nightly volunteer Bear Patrol and a bear sighting hotline. " If it's black, fight back; if it's brown, lie down; if it's white, say goodnight.".
We also ask the person in front or behind us to ‘hold my place’ in the line, and we do it while they go and get something. We call line butters ‘cutting IN line’ not ‘cutting a line’.
When I lived in Canmore back in the early 90's I was doing my banking and found an envelope of money left on the counter where you would fill out the withdrawal or deposits. It had a woman's name on it. So when I heard the person's name I brought it to her. Turns out it was her rent and bills. Feels good to do the right thing.
it's hard to think evil thoughts in Canmore tho... it's likely the nicest feeling place I've ever been to.. I lived in Calgary for 5 years and got to Canmore as often as possible. I just kick myself for not buying land there as I intended back in the 90s when you could get old run down houses for a song... < smacks self >
@@Kootenaylady-vs8kh I know right? driving back home from the east side.. cresting that hill and seeing the mountains..so majestic.. with the sunset making the city look tiny like an ornament lit in amber.. Im in Ottawa now.. I sure miss them.. like I miss the ocean.. :P
We use both systems metric and imperial because of the influence of USA that still use Imperial System. In addition, most of our standards are harmonised with USA. So, a plywood sheet is still 4 ft x 8 ft but in metric it is 121,9cm 243,8cm 😕. Ovens we purchased, up to recently, gave temperature in Faraneith only (sorry, I’ve forgotten how spelling it). On the other and, canadians manufacturers provide articles in both systems for the american market so we still have the choice using both systems.
"Pencil Crayons" is a thing in Canada because we first encounter them as children. Imagine that you're 6 years old encountering a box of coloured pencils in school for the first time. They're labelled in both English and French, so it reads "Coloured Pencil Crayons De Couleur". "Coloured Pencil" is the English, and "Crayons de Coleur" is the French for that (pencils of colour, literally), but when you're an Anglophone schoolchild you recognize all of the first 3 words as existing in English, so to your child mind the label reads as "Coloured Pencil Crayons". The first word is obviously the adjective, and "pencil" and "crayons" are both nouns, so it looks like you've encountered a noun phrase called "pencil crayons". And since the label is there to tell you what the thing is called, you assume these things must be called "pencil crayons". It also makes enough intuitive sense not to question it as a child, since there are boxes of crayons that come in a variety of colours, so the similar box of coloured pencils looks like "oh, this is the pencil version of crayons. That'd be why it says pencil crayons."
Great insight!! I believe you nailed it! 🎉 And here I was thinking it's because they contain coloured wax like crayons. Your explanation makes more sense.
A long time ago my mother found 2 matching mittens on the ground. She went above and beyond. She washed and dried them, then put them out on one of our picket fence posts. The mother with a little girl knocked on our door and thanked my mother for taking care of them.
When I find something lost, I always put myself in the owner’s shoes and do my best to get it back to them. I went to pay for parking and found someone had left their Visa card in the slot. I waited for about 15 or 20 minutes and they didn’t return. I took it home planning to cut it up if I couldn’t find the owner. Luckily, she was on Facebook and my husband and I tracked her down. She was so grateful to come and pick it up. It’s a great feeling to help somebody out who you know is probably worrying
Why would you take it home rather than into the bank or to the local police? I would NEVER take someone's credit card home with me if I found it. It can be construed as theft.
I used to work the night shift at a huge factory in Don Mills (3000 total employees). Each division put together a softball team and we would play against each other on Friday mornings after work at diamonds in Flemingdon Park, which is a very low-income part of town, and known for being a drug haven. But during the mornings when we would play ball, it was fine and nice as all the dealers/users were gone. One Friday morning, one of the girls on our division's team left her sweater on the small bleachers at the park. She didn't realize until late in the evening and went back to get it. She had no idea what the park became at night - a drug dealing nuthouse with lots of meth-heads getting high. As she walked toward the diamond one of the users got up and walked out to meet her, saying, "I really don't think you want to be here tonight miss. What are doing you here?" She told him she came to see if her sweater was still there and he told her to wait. He went back into the crowd of users at the bleachers, found her sweater and walked it back to her. I love being Canadian - even the meth-heads are looking out for you.
In 2021, we drove from Alberta to Ontario for 3 weeks. When we got back, we realized our eldest daughter had left our front door not only unlocked, but slightly ajar. We lived next door to a plaza. Not a single thing was askew or amiss inside our house. 💫🌟⭐️✨
We take our shoes off because it’s very messy with all the snow and salt in the winter, then we just do it year round. It really does keep the place cleaner.
We have a sign on our door at work, there is one in all the schools, all the medical businesses and even some Government business to remove mudding or dirty foot wear. Rather than track all that dirty into the establishment. It's just common curtesy.
The only time I don’t do this is if I just got home or am waiting for a ride and already put my winter boots on and need to run up to use the washroom or if the house of the person I’m visiting has visibly dirty floors (in summer)
Boots I take off, cause yeah, snow, mud, sleet, etc. When it's dry outside, there isn't much to track inside. And that's what the "welcome" mat is for: wiping down your shoes, so you don't bring (too much) dirt in. If I don't bring in "inside shoes" (slippers, whatever), and my shoes are clean and dry, I keep them up. If only to avoid imposing my smelly feet (with or without socks) on my host. Unless of course the host asks for them to be taken off. Men also have those nice rubber overshoes they can wear over their shoes when they don't go into too much snow or it's just raining. Take off the overshoe when coming in, the shoes are clean and dry. (Women shoes come in too many formats and heel heights to make it a practical solution; yet another way women fashion is sexist! 😛 )
Yeah, it definitely depends. In certain neighborhoods in my city, yeah, everyone locks their door. Other areas? Some do, some don't. If I'm visiting family in more rural areas, no one locks their door.
My late mother didn't lock her apartment door very much. But she started after a neighbor with early dementia just came in and sat down and visited with her for an hour and a half. Lol
Small example, we moved from the US to Canada recently. My daughter left an expensive water bottle in a local University classroom (she has singing practice there). I was a bit upset and said, well, that's gone. Lo and behold, she went to practice a full week later and it was in the same place. Never would have happened where we lived before. There are good and bad things no matter where you go, but we love it here.
Really I live in a smallish town in the upper part so it’s pretty safe I left my hoodie at a track overnight and came back and my size small girls hoodies was gone bc I forgot it iv also had people from my school steal my makeup twice they stole almost everything from my makeup bag even mascara
The lost mitten on a pole is very common. Canadians generally empathize with the frustration of losing things, and we try to find ways to return them. I once lost my wallet down the Lapie Canyon in the Yukon while I spent the summer working at a neighbouring mine site. I was sure I was never going to see it again but much to my surprise 2 weeks later it showed up in the mail at Curragh Resources where I was working as someone way down in the canyon and up river found it, gave it to the local police, who found my driver's licence, managed to locate me and sent it to me in the mail. There was still cash, a bit water logged, but all there!!😅
My husband lost his wallet twice. The first time the guy drove to the house to drop it off and the second time the store kept it in a safe place waiting for him to come back looking for it. Everything was there. People are generally honest, trustworthy and friendly. We’re immigrants living here about 15 years and we’ve adopted the same principles. It’s quite anointing when I see people move here and behave with wonton disregard of Canadian values.
I lost my birth certificate as a youth. Also in small town yukon. During community spring cleaning, a neighbour found it in the bushes and returned it to me.
lolll once my mum forgot her purse on the roof of the car when we were on a road trip back from niagara falls. She was alone with me and my siblings, all of us 10 or under. When the purse flew off the car, she lost her wallet and her phone. We ended up stranded at a gas station rest stop in the middle of nowhere ontario with no money no food (except pie) and no gas. Some random truckers and a random old lady bought us gas and gave us money for food, and I think someone let my mum borrow their phone so she could call my dad. After we made it home, my mum’s purse and phone showed up in the mail a few weeks later. Some construction worker or something had found it in a ditch on the side of the road and mailed it back to us based on the info inside.
I notice while looking at books at the pharmacy that some one had left MONEY in the bank machine tray..I took it to the owner ..he counted so we both KNEW the amt....I asked a week later..was told man was still in store and asked if any one turned in his cash..pleased to see it was returned to him..got card in mail 2 weeks later with $20 ...in a thankyou card...no return address..or would have sent back?
My best friends years ago had just cashed his income tax return cheque and his pay cheque before going to meet me at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg. When I got there he was walking around an area in circles looking at the ground. It seems he had lost his wallet with the entire $2600 in it. He was BEYOND distraught. But by the time we got back to his house a local business owner from a local running supply store who was out for his morning run with some of his customers found the wallet and called his house. My buddy had his wallet back within 2 hours with every bill intact. The guy wouldn't even accept a reward.
On the putting mittens etc up on a fence post. The OP (and subsequent responses) make the assumption that you understand this only happens in winter time. If it was left on the ground, after the next snowfall the snowplow would push it into the snowbank to be lost forever. No one is going to steal a single mitten, a hairy toque, or used scarf. We already have a cupboard full of single mismatched mittens.
agreed.. it's common practice to pick up what looks like a valued lost mit or toy or whatever.. and place it in an obvious spot away from damage. In fact I've lost track of the number of times people I know have lost their phones.. then it's answered by someone who found it. who wants to get it back to the owner.. Just yesterday my friend lost her personal.. unlocked.. phone in a snowbank.. she just got it back and Gave the young woman who found it a gift basket and 60 dollars.. treasures should be treasured. :P
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Yeah, can't say this applies when there is a complete set unfortunately. I forgot both of my kid's brand new mittens at the park (so 4 mittens) and the next day they were gone :(
My family has a small store and the amount of things people set on the ledge is actually kind-of cute. A lot of missing baby socks in the summer; a postal driver's glove and a Spiderman pencil.
We have lost gloves sitting on the propane cart outside our store waiting for the owners to return and find their lost hand warmer. There was 4 different gloves, but we're down to 2 now.
I'm from Vancouver, Canada and my first visit to NYC was during a fresh early Dec '04 snowstorm. We were stuck on the plane for over 3 hrs before being allowed off -due to freezing. There were no cabs or hotels available -it was crazy because everything was shut down! - but we were fortunate enough to find a gypsy cab, and the driver was a wonderful man. We thought we got the last room in a hotel and so he left. Five to ten mins later I realized I didn't have my passport! I had left it in his back seat. Thankfully he came to bring it back! The three of us got back in his car because he still wanted to help us find somewhere to stay, but first took us on a tour throughout the streets of Manhatten. It was soooo surreal. Like the day after tomorrow surreal! -Or something. Not a soul to be seen, while observing a stunningly peaceful, untouched white Christmas. Just beautiful!! We tipped him $100 for the hours he spent showing us all around and then finally finding us a pretty shifty motel in Queens ! 🤗🤩what an Angel😍
The order in which you board the bus can be important, especially in bad weather. In general, if another person was at the stop before you got there, they get to board first. That rule even technically supercedes "Women and children first" IMO. But I'm a 33yr old man and so whatever the weather, I generally wait for everyone else to board the bus first. It's only polite. (I can't count the times I've gotten in a "You first" argument with, say, an elderly person 😂)
I'm a woman and I agree, gender should be irrelevant when it comes to who's shivering in a lineup for the bus. We're all feeling the freeze!! 🥶 **Children, physically impaired and elderly excluded of course
First up (after any accessible boarding where the ramp is needed, that's always #1): elderly people. Second, people with kids. Third, anyone with heavy bags/carrying something. If none of the above apply, whoever was originally standing closest to where the bus doors ended up. i.e. if two people are both equidistant from the curb, but the bus stops a little further along than expected, it is only fair that the person closest is now first. No cutting in front.
@jennaleclaire2654 Facts. And even still, in Canada, I'm a healthy man that's had "You first" arguments with people using crutches or balancing groceries and a kid lmao
My understanding of why we have the metric/imperial mix for temperature is because many of our appliances come from the states so our ovens do not have the option to use Celsius… many of our cook books are American as well so they are often written in imperial so we need to understand both
I've also never walked more than a couple blocks away from where I sleep to vote. Never had to get a ride, or bus or be bussed. Never had to wait more than a couple minutes in a line and the entire process has never taken more than 20 minutes in and out.
GF is from the US. While she found it strange to have milk bags at first, she recently told me that she much preferred that over the traditional gallon of milk you find in the US. Much easier to pour and fresher milk. She even told me to stop buying the gallon jug I found at walmart and go back to the bagged milk. Edit: Bag milk is 1.33 liters
We used to have bagged milk in BC, but haven’t seen it I quite awhile. In the back of my cupboard while organizing I found the pitcher we used to put the bag in!
My 14-yr old grandson (in BC) says that to "cut a line" suggests snorting only a small amount of some illicit drug. He, his brothers, his parents, and I would use the phrase, "to jump the queue." 😅
In Canada, if you skip the line in Tim Horton’s, there could be violence. I was almost mobbed one day after I mistakenly cut to the front. I actually feared for my life.
Having worked in a call centre serving American customers, I can confirm that many, if not most, Americans do NOT in fact say goodbye at the end of a phone call. Very jarring, lol
Also they way they order food makes me uneasy, "gimme a cheeseburger, fries and a coke" .......I'm thinking to myself, any other words you want to add to that sentence as a curtesy? Appalling
Jarring is the perfect word for it. I worked in tourisum. There is a fairly big difference in cultural norms. Some would say Americans were being rude. Rude cant also meant ignorant. I usually never felt ill intent, or shortness with ill intent. Its just things are done a lil differently. Higher population mean less customer service time, less small talk. Everyone has somewhere to be and it takes long with many people. So less talking, less situational awareness when it comes to others. Perfect example, big cities feel americanized or feel rude. That whole, i am not in canada anymore feeling happens. I am sure in less populated areas, small towns are seemingly more polite. But still two different cultures.
18:30 Actually Tyler, "coloured pencils" DO contain one of either wax or oil, which is used as the binding agent for the pigments in the pencil core. Which type is in the core depends on the brand and/or quality level.
Hey Tyler - another thing we do very often at the Tim Hortons drive thru (at least across Ontario) is ‘pay-it-forward’. When we pick up our order at the window, we pay for the order for the car behind us. We do this for complete strangers. The car behind gets a free order so they pay it forward by paying for the car order behind them. And this keeps going on and on until someone breaks the chain. This happens very often in my neighborhood. I live outside Toronto.
Broke a chain once. Customer in front of me paid for my hot chocolate. I was gonna pay it forward, but the next order was 32 bucks! So, I said thanks and just drove away with my free hot chocolate!
I have done this a few times at my McDonalds here in Illinois. It confuses the person at the pay window. When I mentioned it to my husband he told me it was "weird" and that people might think I am stalking them. Ha! That had never crossed my mind. Like you can't do nice things without people being suspicious.
My papa has slippers that he just keeps here for when he comes over tbh I still were my shoes around the house we got dogs so the floor is messy anyways
Can't tell you how appreciative I am that you made a vid while sick. I missed my family holiday this year cause I didn't wanna put anyone else through the awful experience that is being isolated and unable to spend time with your family. Cran vs cray-yeon, yeah...understandable. The American dialect I know that says cran is TX, but I'm sure there's tonnes other that do. Love your vids, Tyler. Hope you're better soon!
It's also partly because of resistance to metric, which forced the government to allow the use of imperial (but not U.S.) measurements to be added alongside metric.
Not just because of that. Most of you kids wouldn't remember, but Canada also used the Imperial system throughout our entire history until roughly 1980. So, using Imperial is a holdover from those of us old enough to have been educated first in Imperial and, then, had to learn metric later.
Last summer in Montreal after a music show (NOFX) i forgot my hat waiting for my ride near the Olympic stadium, We drove at the same spot the next day and my hat was waiting at the top of the parking post for me :-) (it was a new hat from a different small band)
Hey, Tyler. Pencil crayon is derived from French "crayon de couleur". It's been used colloquially in Canada for any coloured pencil. In Canada, the premiere manufacturer of coloured pencils was Laurentien, whose name was originally spelled in English as "Laurentian", in reference to the Laurentian Mountains. It was changed in 1972 to the spelling "Laurentien" to boost sales in Quebec. What is literally, in English, Laurentian Coloured Pencils, is "Crayon de Couleur Laurentien", in French. To roughly translate that back to English, it's Laurentien Pencil Crayons. Laurentien did also make wax crayons, but coloured pencils are also made of wax or oils, not coloured graphite. Laurentein ceased to operate in around 2012, due to cheap coloured pencil imports from China.
Canadian chocolate tastes different because it's real milk chocolate. Americans have their taste buds perverted by the evil Hershey corporation who, unable to figure out how to bond milk to chocolate properly, ended up with something that tastes rather more like chocolate mixed with sweetened baby vomit. It gained market share in the US due to being bundled with rations in WWII so Americans got the impression that chocolate is actually supposed to taste that awful. Canadian chocolate is made properly.
Love the blanket statement but not true. Lindt chocolate is made in Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and New Hampshire USA. Ghirardelli chocolate is made in California. Both are high end chocolate but found at most retailers. Fun fact, See's Candy which is popular California, originated in Ontario. Does it suck because it crossed the border? Lol
I have noticed that it is very uncommon to put vinegar on fries in the US, but it is very common in Canada and the UK. Also, we have not locked our doors for over 24 years, unless we are going on an extended vacation. Have never had a problem.
You won't have a problem until you do have one. Leaving your door unlocked does not mean hordes of burglars are going to be drawn magnetically to your house, but if someone up to no good does try doors, an unlocked door is an invitation.
17:20 "Milk in Bags" Your theory isn't correct. Bagged milk is sold in a 4L back of 3 bags, so each is 1.33L. What bagged milk IS, is a cheap way to buy milk in bulk. The packaging couldn't physically get any cheaper to produce, so there's a cost savings for the consumer. Usually bagged milk is sold to large families who go through a lot of it, or restaurants for the same reason. Personally, as a lactose intolerant bachelor, I prefer the cartons with a screw cap you can seal tightly to defray spoilage, because I don't go through it that fast.
Exactly! Lol I don’t get why they think that is so weird. Same with gravy and fries (or poutine), all these things classically go with potatoes but god forbid you combine them!
The 4 liters of milk go into 3 bags. It takes less space in your fridge and it's easier to pour, than from a gallon plastic container. You can buy 1 liter carton, but it comes up more expensive and if your household uses a lot of milk it is impractical.
Restroom: fairly ubiquitous. Pretty much every Canadian will understand and sometimes use. Bathroom: a room with a bath or shower. Washroom: a restroom without a bath or shower. Both have a toilet and sink. So, washroom is a place where you can "wash up" and a bathroom is where you can take a bath or shower... technically. (extra credit: Many will also say "Toilet", but not as often.) EDIT: The missus just reminded me that I refer to either as "the can".
I always said bathroom as the general word, washroom if you're trying to be more polite. I know what a restroom is but I've never heard anyone actually call it that.
Years ago I left my purse on the back of the chair in a busy restaurant. I started driving home, realised I had left it, and drove back in a panic. No worry. It was still hanging on the back of the chair with nothing missing.
Same! Mine was in a Timmy's in Courtenay, B.C. and it was about 40 min later. A person was even sitting in the seat and had not even noticed my red purse! Lol.
The, "Doors Unlocked" thing, ...is 2 things, ... Where you live, is: city/town/metropolis/farming communities/small towns/villages/etc... determines whether you leave your doors locked, or not... And number 2, ... I'm a 63 yr old Canadian, and as a child, then adolescent, then teen, and even young adulthood, ... (Especially as a child, and adolescent, and teen...) It was normal to just walk into houses, and ask if our friend could come out to play, ... Sometimes under the rule, that you get a snack, a meal, or are told to make ourselves at home, watch tv, or even just ramble about the house, while waiting for your friend... Greatest ERA(s) EVER...
And the analogous stand-off: “I’ve got it.” “No, let me pay.” “I said I got it!” “No, I’ll get it ” “You’re sweet but I said I got it and you ” And again, this continues until someone relents. Extra exciting when with family and a half-dozen of you are engaging in this.
ha ha ha.. half the time at the door to Tims. :P It reminds me of those two overly polite squirrels that always end up in a huge argument about going first.. :P
1. Shoes off: We spend half of the year with snow stuck to our footwear. Every snowflake has a grain of sand at its core. Nobody wants to drag that much of a wet mess into the house, so it just carries over into a standard practice all year long. 👍🏻 2. Lost items: There are actually Facebook groups dedicated to neighbourhoods (at least here in Vancouver). I’m in 2 groups for my neighbourhood. Between these 2 groups I see at least 5 posts per day from people who found keys/wallets/shoes/bikes/pets/anything imaginable. They give a detailed description of the nearest intersection and share a picture of where they left the item. All of this in hopes that the rightful owner is a member of the group or that a member knows the rightful owner so that they can be messaged about it. It’s quite amazing to see just how many good samaritans live around me. Things like wallets usually get turned in to community policing centres for retrieval though. Those are quite a bit more sensitive regarding personal info & identity theft. Nevertheless, still get posted about with the note that it was turned in at said community policing location. 🥰 People even post about having lost items on particular streets and members who live near there will go out of their way to take walks to see if they can find the lost item for the person posting in the group. 🇨🇦🤯
We have another one, primarily in Ontario. When we get fries at a food truck, we ask for 'salt and vinegar half-way up'. This means, fill the container half full, then put in salt and vinegar, then add the rest of the fries, and put salt and vinegar on top as well. This means you get perfect flavour when you eat the fries and hit the half-way mark and still get that salt and vinegar taste right to the last chip.
It was always "pencil crayons" didnt realize that was weird. For the metric/imperial thing... Temperature: air = celsius Swimming water= fahrenheit Oven temp (usually) fahrenheight Side note: some newer or older ovens have both celsius AND fahrenheit Distance in km but height in feet/inches Weight : body in pounds Food in kilograms/grams The imperial for cooking and baking is because a lot of our cookbooks are printed in america and a lot of mid-age ovens are too
Tyler, may I clarify something that seems to confuse you? This is fully understandable if you weren't there when it happened. The reason we use both the metric system and Imperial is because in the mid 70s we had a Prime Minister (Pierre Trudeau,, father of the current PM) who initiated the change to metric. It took time, years, in fact, to effect the change, during which there was a federal election and good ole Pierre got the boot, around-about 1980. The new PM led an opposition party who stopped the change right away, leaving metric in its tracks and leaving Imperial to take the remaining measurements. This is why we measure distance in Kilometers and liquid using both types. Gallons became litres. Commercial airliners used weight to measure their fuel (where pounds became kilograms), which resulted in a bumble that could have killed hundreds. This is the story of the Gimbly (Gim-lee) Glider and is very popular on youtube. You should look it up for another fascinating Canadian story.
8:00 regarding the mittens on fence posts, cable boxes, post boxes, bollards... In the next snowfall, a mitten or hat on the ground risks getting buried, then ploughed to the side and embedded in a snow bank, and then hauled off to the snow dump when the bank gets cleared. In the next freeze/thaw/freeze cycle, the mitten or whatever *will* get frozen to the ground, or even encased entirely in ice, like a mammoth. The one on the fence might get snow on it, and some ice, but the water will mostly drain off it so it doesn't become a glovecicle and the snow will blow off or can be brushed off when you're looking for it. It's empathy: a child has lost their mitten, the parent may not be able to afford a new set immediately or have the time off from work to get them, and we can take a tiny action to make someone's day easier. A very tiny action. I'm sure sometimes hats or scarves get stolen some times, but the people doing that need some protection from the elements and i find it hard to judge them harshly. They're being rude to the original owner, who may not have a spare either, but I i understand where the need comes from. Survival, plain and simple.
The "oop" as you're walking by someone at the store is both regional and Canadian! Different areas of the country say different things. Where I'm from you say "excuse me" as you walk by. But when I lived in BC for a few years, a lot of people there said "oop". The reason we do it is to signify someone is close to you, so you don't startle them. Especially if you have to squeeze by closely. I have noticed people doing it less and less since Covid and that makes me sad, bc I'm partially blind and I get easily startled and love that little polite verbal sign someone is close.
I'm Canadian and love your channel. If you want to see a movie that shows 'Canadian culture" you should watch Men With Brooms. You may recognize some of the actors. Also... many American movies are filmed in Canada, so you are sometimes seeing Canadian settings in those movies.
yes, waiting in line to take a bus. In Montreal, tourists from France struggle a bit with this, until they get used to it. In Paris, they're used to run, push and rush into the bus. But after some time, they adapt quickly to our way of doing things calmly.
My grandparents were from Montreal. Got used to queuing for the bus when visiting them. Kinda unique to Montreal. Lived mostly in Halifax. No real queues, but everyone waiting for a bus, knew who was there before them, and you got on in that order. Sort of an 'unspoken queue'. 😊
@@dougwilson4537 Yes we don't do lines very often so most people don't take the bus or our terminals are very small. I generally do a mental check to see who's there first, and let them go ahead first.
Yeah, I had a colleague who came from France and she was so embarrassed that she had unknowingly cut the bus line twice until she learned about it. She had just rushed without really looking and the other passengers didn’t say anything (very typical of us haha). I was shocked to learn that it’s the law of the jungle when it come to public transport in France
Hi, Tyler :) A little bit of info about the Metric/Imperial systems... Back in the 1970s, Canada and the US had entered negotiations with both countries becoming metric to be more in-step with the rest of the world. However, due to the US public sector and citizens in general there was an uproar and the people said NO! Wasn't until President Reagan took office that the "Metrication Commission" was officially abolished. Canada continued on with the metric system. In one of the updates "Canadian Units" was added. This is the "Imperial" part. If the USA had followed through with converting to metric... Our weights and measures would not be 'uniquely Canadian' as it is now. Does make things more...uh...interesting when doing business with the US. On the plus side, conversions from Imperial to Metric and vice versa is taught in schools 🙂 At least in the schools where I live.
14:12 the shoes off thing. We have a lot of variable weather here. How rude is it to track mud/dirt/melting snow water through someone's house? Plus, at one point we had carpeting that was not easy to clean, in every room. As a result people wanted to keep it as clean as possible as long as possible
Leaving pieces of clothing for the owner to come and get it back is fairly common. There are currently 2 hats hanging from branches on a tree in front of my house right now 😂
When I was little, the whole family (parents and us, 5 children) went to spend a weekend with family friends 4 hours away. Since it was the middle of summer, we left all the windows open and, of course, the doors unlocked. When we came back on Sunday evening, before even getting out of the car, my mother noticed that all the windows were closed and exclaimed "someone has entered the house!" loll But yes, after checking with the neighbors, there had been a big storm on Saturday and the neighbors (in their own words) literally ran to our house to close all the windows. Certainly the good old times!
We still use Imperial sometimes because some industries can't convert easily. For example when you go to the hardware store to buy wood and all you can get are 2"x4" studs or 4'x8' sheets of plywood. Everything else in construction still works that way. Several other examples as well.
I have a uk pen pal and she was watching youtube and saw milk in a bag. She texted me asap and was astounded lol. My sister lives in the west and the first time her and her husband visited even they were amazed at bagged milk. You must live in ON😂
Pencil Crayons: you have to see the Canadian packaging to know this one. The French for "pencil" is "crayon", so a package of coloured pencils says "coloured pencils crayons couleurs"....and we just went "yeah, pencil crayons does also make sense" and that's what we call them. All packaging in Canada, by law, must have both English and French....so some things have "Canadian names"
Shovel snow in shorts😊 My husband was asked not to do that by a few neighbors with kids because the kids didn't want to wear winter clothes after seeing him.
The line up rule is pretty solid. Don't mess with the LINE UP (a.k.a. "queue"). First come, first in line and so on. No crowding, no pushing, no cutting - or you will be royally told off by numerous people!!
Only people out west say Oops when they bump into you. Most people say excuse me, or pardon me. You are expected to be polite in Canada. Hold a door open for the person behind you, line up and wait your turn at a bank or fast food restaurant ,say Please & Thank you , & if you did not hear what somebody said to you ,you Never say “ What?” But rather I beg your pardon”? Never litter, & always pick up your dog’s poop. Recycle your Soda cans or plastic soft drink bottles. Basically just remember all the things you were taught in elementary school on how to be a respectful citizen in this world.
Similar situation happened with me, I dropped my keys while I was walking in a busy downtown area. I made it home before I realized my keys were missing. When I went walking back to retrace my steps, I found them on a bin easily visible for me to notice. Thank you kind stranger.
Several years ago, I woke up after an *epic* night out, at 1pm, only to discover my wallet was missing. I was panicking and re-tracing my steps and remembered paying for the cab, it had to be near! After 20 minutes of searching and the "morning-after fear" setting in (if you know, you know), I looked out my front window and saw an older man walking up to my apartment, a few seconds later, the buzzer rang. He found my wallet in a pile of wet leaves on the curb, and realized the address on my ID was literally right in front of him. It was the best day ever! For context, I lived in Vancouver, very close to downtown, so very busy neighbourhood in a large city. I tried to give him all the cash I had left in it, but he refused, and told me to "take an aspirin and then get a full English" 😂🤣
When I was in elementary school, a girl I knew from school wanted to come play at my house for the first time. I asked my mom if she could come in but the girl didn't want to take off her shoes inside. As a young Canadian, I didn't understand what was wrong with her. Confused, I figured she was a little slow or something. My mom refused, as she should. The girl had to leave. We didn't hang out much again after that. Moral of the story: take off your shoes or leave, no matter your age 😂
Most people in Canada don't leave their doors unlocked, especially in the more populous cities, my parents did that for years until someone went in and stole all of the wrapped Christmas presents when the house was empty. Ever since then the doors have been locked, that was 50 years ago..
We do leave the door unlocked if my daughter is out and now during the day for the medical workers come to do stuff for my elderly sick stepfather,but for the most art at night it’s locked.
The confusion is when American's ask that question they mean "do you lock the door when you're at *home*" (because locking it when you're away / asleep is just assumed for them).
One thing I have noticed about Americans is everywhere I have been in the US people are friendly even when you don't expect it I will give you an example I was in New York state my car had a wire dragging on the ground because a mechanic forgot to put it back where it belonged another motorist put the wire back to do this he lay on his back on the ground and fed the wire back threw in the process got all full of oil and dirt I offered him money he wouldn't take it he didn't care he got dirty helping me. I was forever grateful I have other examples as well. Americans don't give themselves enough credit for their friendliness
As a Canadian, I love your channel. I get teased so often by my American friends. My explanation for pencil crayons (and I say “yawn” at the end of crayons lol), is they are the colour of crayons in pencil form. Keep up the good work bud !! We appreciate it, eh !?!? 😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦
Lines-We tend to respect the societal rules- lines might be frustrating, but they are a societal expectation. Metric/imperial bilingualism-most people that do this-not all- started learning imperial measurements in school and had to relearn metric when it was adopted. I think I was in grade six when the switch was made. I still tend to think in both. If the necklace was valuable many of us would go so far as to take it to the police station. Your smarties are our rockets. Canadian smarties are candy coated milk chocolate. Great treats for littles! All dressed is a combination of ketchup, barbecue, salt and vinegar and sour cream and onion chip flavours.
I'm actually the person who left the comment about the necklace, haha. It was pretty but was plastic, and I had no idea where the nearest police station was. Plus I have a chronic illness and was on foot, so I couldn't afford to wander around much. But believe me, the thought did cross my mind lol. It was the best compromise I could come up with in the moment, haha.
We stick it somewhere. It's too cold up here. We wouldn't steal a mitten or a hat just like a Korean wouldn't grab an umbrella that wasn't theirs. We all know how crap it is to be cold, or to lose your mitt or hat or whatever. To be real though, there was a cute sweater slung over the stop sign by my dad's from December-ish until a year later in March, so like 15 months. So I grabbed it. I really felt bad about it, because it's a sweater. But I justified it because of the amount of time and told myself it's better to grab it than have the stop sign covered for another year and a bit. I still have that sweater from 2008, and I love it. Thanks for your sweater dude wherever you are lol
I hired a young man to help me add chemicals to a commercial swimming pool. I told him "Just put half of that in" and he looked at me strangely and asked "Half? How much is that? I only learned metric in school." I knew I was doomed.
I Canadian and go to Grand Forks or Fargo, ND quite often for shopping. I've been asked by more than one person, when holding the door for others, "Are you Canadian?"
Hi Tyler. Some 🇨🇦 use F because we switched at some point. My parents were in school when they switched. So they're experts at F to C and C to F. I only know -40 °F = -40 °C, 32 ° F = 0 °C, and then "room temp" cause many of our thermostats are still in F...or can be swapped between F and C
The funny thing is that holding the door open for people behind you is an automatic response to having someone behind you, but we all still thank eachother for having held the door. It’s the same thing when we apologize to inanimate objects. It’s such an automatic reflex to apologize when bumping into someone, that it comes out even when what you’ve bumped into isn’t a living thing. You feel a bump you say sorry. 🤷🏽♀️ We also say sorry when somebody else bumps into us. There’s a lot of things we automatically say sorry or thanks for that you don’t even notice until an American points them out, but it would be so alien and awkward to not say it. Rather than seeing ourselves as super polite like Americans do, we see ourselves as normal and anything less is super super rude.
Washrooms, before indoor pluming. Where at one time a small room usually at the back door with a wash bowl and a place to hang your coveralls, dirty or wet clothing. It was a place to wash up before coming in to eat supper. Some fancy places also had a tub. However you have to heat and haul water to and from it. When indoor plumbing became the norm. People installed the toilet and sink and bathtubs in them and it still remained the washroom. As for measuring things, depending on where you live. Temperature outside and inside is usually done in Celsius, unless you live in Saskatchewan then the do it by Ferinhight. If your measuring a wall it is usually in feet. If it's somthing small it could be in inches or centimeters. Distance is measured in klicks or in miles depending on how old you are, it is oftern measured in time or how many beer. Depending on how far it is and where you are from. Body Temperature, is measured by health professionals in Celsius. Many ordinary people take Temperature by Ferinhight. Oven Temperature is in Ferinhight. Car speed is done in klicks. Liquid is in metric and imperial. Also a imperial gallon is mot the same as the US gallon. So if you're comparing gas price from Canadian to US, you also have to factor in the difference of US gallon and imperial gallon. For refrance, the imperial gallon is about 20% larger than the US gallon. Grain farmers need to know. Metric ton Also known as a tonne, this unit of mass is equal to 1,000 kilograms, or about 2,204.6 pounds. The metric ton is derived from the SI unit kilogram. Imperial ton Also known as a long ton, this unit of mass is equal to 2,240 pounds, or 1,016.0 kilograms. The imperial ton is an older unit of measurement that is outdated. Property is measured in acers . Farming grid roads are measured in miles. Because they aren't changing the raods to make a square kilometer. When measuring burned or burning forest fires they are measured in hectares. The early Gen Xers can switch back and forth between metric and imperial easily we where taught both in school. The boomers where taught imperial and the have trouble with metric. Midle Gen X just picked up what early Gen X did and passed it on. So in Canada we try to make it as easy as possible for other Canadians. The rest of the world we just love to F@$# with. Sorry, not Sorry 😂😂😂😂😂
We were at one of our prairie beeches and when leaving we saw a young woman put her bag on the roof of her car and drive away..we tried to catch up with her as we had picked up her bag…we lost her but when arriving home we looked inside and found her ID along with phone number…she was so relieved to have what she called her life in her bag….she arrived at our home the next day with big bouquet of flowers..this taught our teenagers a lesson…we had just moved 2000 miles west of ON and found out how appreciative prairie people are ..love happy stories
As an old Canadian, I grew up with the Imperial measuring system which was adopted in UK in 1824. It is slightly different from the original British system that was in place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 (one) during colonization - which the US still uses. I now favour all measurements in (the VERY logical) Metric system except for the measurement of lumber, which is still quoted in feet and inches because of our close exporting (and building practices) with the US. I also prefer the old system for drill-bit sizes (in inch/fractions) over the hard-to-remember Metric size. We tend to be somewhat measurement-bilingual here in Canada.
@@melissastory1993 Common nominal section sizes for structural softwoods are: 47x50mm, 75mm, 100mm, 125mm, 150mm, 175mm, 200mm, 225mm and 250mm / 75x150mm, 175mm, 200mm and 225mm / 100mm x200mm. Many other sizes are also available to order. Lengths increase in increments of 0.3m, from 2.4m up to 4.8m. What a PITA !!!
When i was 13, my moms wallet was stolen just 3 weeks before Christmas, and so she posted on the local facebook page about what it looked like, hoping someone might find it. Immediately, we got invited to a womans house where she gifted my sister and i with a Christmas present each along with some money for my mom, she offered her home anytime we needed just in case, soon after the wallet was put in a mailbox in the city where my mom could retrieve it. Many others on facebook offered to lay for our Christmas presents but we refused most offers it was so incredible
I remember the switch to the Metric System. It happened just when I was starting school, and we were never taught any Imperial units in math or science classes, but most people my age still use a lot of Imperial units. Most people know/give their weight in pounds and height in feet/inches, even though their driver's licence has Metric units. Cooking temperatures are generally in Fahrenheit, although some ovens might have both units, or a quick-reference conversion chart. Recipes are often in cups/teaspoons/tablespoons, once in a while you'll come across a recipe with both units listed. The actually measuring cups I have in my kitchen are labelled with both units, while my spoons have just imperial units. Tradespeople still use a lot of Imperial units in their work, although some measurements in building and electrical codes are slowly being changed over to Metric. If you're from a rural area, you'll probably be used to both systems, as our land was surveyed using the Imperial system, and farmland is still measured in acres and the rural road grid is based on miles. The 'shoes off indoors' thing makes a lot of sense if you consider that most of Canada has 4-5 months of snow cover a year and muddy springs and autumns.
Very true the hat, mittens, gloves, scarf.....also lost hubcaps, once found, are often propped up so it is easily visible. Also, lost license plates...I've personally turned in a few lost license plates to the local Ontario Service Centre. They will find and contact the owner. Also, the holding the doors open thing...I have some friends who are professional performers. They were looking to leave Montreal and moved to a small town near me. What convinced them to do so? A teenage boy held the door open for them at that town's Timmy's. That simple courtesy won them over.
So apparently the milk bags thing is from the 1960/70s, when Canada converted to the metric system. Milk bags had just entered the market, and dairy producers found it easier to retrofit their assembly lines with bags than glass bottles. THEN plastic jugs were introduced and milk bags fell out of use in a lot of areas. And then in the 80s, the rules regarding metric measurements were relaxed. So now we have 4 litres of milk in 3 little bags in some areas of the country, and plastic jugs in others. In my area of Ontario, plastic jugs are found in gas station convenience stores, and milk bags in grocery stores.
Hi Tyler! The reason for the milk in bags is that when filling machines were converted from imperial to metric, bags were the most convenient choice of container for the machine to fill! Pencil crayons don't make a lot of sense, but we just all use the name so it endures Also, in the video about slang, the word "clicks" was mentioned as a replacement for Km. This is because in certain motor vehicles, the mechanism in the odometer used to make a click noise when the readout was updated; once every Km! I hope this helps!
Pencil crayons makes perfect sense; another commenter laid out a very detailed explanation of why. The short version is that, since they're labeled in both English and French - Coloured Pencils/Crayons de Couleur - most kids are going to mistakenly read that as "Coloured Pencil Crayons" and ignore the French.
A lot of films set in Chicago are filmed in Winnipeg because Winnipeg's architecture in the Exchange District resembles Chicago. I know Shall We Dance was filmed in Winnipeg.
I have lived in a few places in BC , where I often left some of my windows and or doors unlocked . I recently found out that if someone broke in when there are windows and or doors unlocked my insurance will not cover damages or theft . Just a friendly suggestion to check with your insurance provider . Luckily I have not had any of my homes in Canada broken into . 🙏🏻🤞🙂
As a (slightly older) Canadian, I measure driving distance in time, oven temperature in Fahrenheit, indoor/outdoor temperature in Celsius, fever temperature in either F or C, food temperature in F, a person’s height in feet/inches, object dimensions in feet/inches or cm/metres, food weight/mass in grams/litres, body weight in pounds.
You summed this up perfectly! 😂
Yes. Thank you. You said it perfectly.
I'm the same way lol. Anytime my kids get weighed and their height taken at the Dr's I have to ask what that is in feet and inches and in pounds lol 🤦♀️😆
I think part of it is for some of us they did the switch over when I was in grade 3 or 4 so our generation has adopted to using both systems
I still switch to Fahrenheit on weather websites. And if grocery stores didn't have both imperial and metric, I'd be lost.
In Canada, we hold doors open for people that are coming behind us. I thought this courtesy would happen in the United States, but the door slammed right in my face because the person in front of me didn’t hold the door. It’s common courtesy folks.
There are people in Canada who won't hold the door for you, too. I've seen my fair share of rudeness. I'm sure there are people in the USA who do hold the doors open for people. You could have encountered a bad apple.
@@cinzabeary5226 well don't expect to see it a lot in the US, especially when weird asses keep blowing up in people's faces for just holding a door for someone.
@@cinzabeary5226years ago in Toronto. I had my hands full with a hot tea and a cookie I just bought from Tim Hortons. Going through a set of double doors. These two 29 something ladies in front of me let the door slam on my face. In my attempt to grab it, I dropped my cookie and nearly spilled hot tea all over me. They were completely oblivious.
I’ve heard some say that women tend to not hold doors. But I don’t know if that’s true or a bias or what. It’s probably an even %
@@cinzabeary5226 Happened a lot. Anyways, their minds are probably on something else.
@@g8kpr3000 - I would never let a door slam on someone especially if their hands were full. Often if I see someone at their car in a grocery store parking lot and they look a bit disabled or elderly I help them load their car and take their grocery cart back....and I'm 75...not yet elderly 😁. Some day I would appreciate it if I need help. Maybe because I was a nurse I just automatically help them into their car and, if they have one, put their walker in the trunk. Why not? I think it makes them happy to know people care. That being said, I'm not above giving 💩to someone illegally using a handicapped space.
I had lunch with an American at a Tim Hortons during a training course. When we were done lunch I cleaned up everything on the table and took it to the garbage/recycle. He looked at me with raised eye brows. Then he asked if I always do that. Yes, at fast food places we always clean up the table when done. Someone can sit there (however it hasn't been wiped with a cloth) He said he had never seen anyone do that before. We just help the staff out as much as we can. I also say thank you and good bye to the staff when I leave. Always have. The American man thought I was strange. I also always say thank you and goodbye to all bus drivers. Always have.
I am completely this same way. Blows my mind when people don’t thank bus drivers and shit. They just safely transported you but okay.
I believe it’s the polite thing to do, as I also tip any drive thru restaurant or coffee shop.
I do the same and my pet peeve is not pushing in your chair. Drives me crazy
Me too. I think a lot of Canadians do this. We don’t find it weird
That's why the tables are always never washed down
I remember when I was a kid back in the 70s when my dad found a wallet on his way home from work. My parents were tight for money and wondering how they were going to feed 3 kids until payday, which was in a couple of days. When my dad was searching the wallet for the owner's ID, he noticed there was $40 inside. He took the money out and replaced it with a $50 cheque and a note of apology that explained everything to the owner along with his name and phone number in case the owner wanted to chastise him for his 'thievery. He put the wallet in a small box, wrapped it up, and took it to the post office to get it weighed, stamped, then mailed it. About a week later, my dad got a call from the owner, thanking him for his honesty and telling my dad that he tore up the cheque and wished him a Merry Christmas!
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@@Ghostchild4 Typical.
We are multi-measuremented
💖 I turned in a wallet I found outside a warehouse that was full of cash as the guy had just cashed his pay check. Really impressed my boss when he found out but that wasn’t the intention, I was raised to do the right thing.
Oh wow that's very nice!
I am Canadian and work close to a University. I was walking to work one morning when I saw a young person hurrying along, backpack on back that unfortunately, was a bit open and cash was falling out. It was the end of the month so it was probably their rent. About 4 or 5 people, myself included, got the person to stop and we helped pick up the cash to give back to them. The poor young man was so upset, but so grateful that we had helped. He was sobbing and thanking us. We made sure he was ok and then all proceeded on our ways. I was glad that others had also stopped to help. I couldn't imagine how devastated could have been for him.
I am Canadian. my husband was out walking. found a wallet. (Money, driver's licenses, credit cards). Found the woman's address in it. Took it to her door. This is the Canadian thing to do.
My daughter was at a busy train station in Germany. She put her backpack down on the ground while she waited for her train, when it arrived she walked away forgetting her backpack with her money, passport, id etc. in it. About 6 hours later "I" received a call (in Canada) from the person in Germany who had found my daughter's backpack and passport. She called the # on the emergency contact info. She identified herself, and gave me her details so that my daughter could contact her. I immediately got ahold of my daughter who then called the woman and made arrangements. As a thank you she gave the woman a huge bouquet of flowers. The woman was so surprised to be given anything in return for her good deed and honesty. She said it must be a Canadian thing.
We generally are really nice. You get a few jerks here but we are for the most part the people who stopped a street car to save a scared cat.
As an American living happily in Canada.......Canadians are just plain nicer, more invested in "fairness" and courtesy. Yes, there are exceptions...we are human beings after all, but generally just a better tone of society. Unfortunately, the proximity to the USA, means that we are constantly being bombarded by social/mass media from American sources that revel in rude, selfish, brutal, venal behavior as entertainment or something in which to aspire and the trickle down effect, especially amongst the young, is infiltrating our society. It isn't a perfect country, but a darned sight kinder and thoughtful.
That's so sweet of both of them!
We use "time" to measure distance...We say, "It's a four hour drive." "A 10 minute walk."
Definitely. I didn’t know how to estimate distances until I started driving and GPS would tell me 😂 Even now, sometimes when it says “in 800 m, turn right” I’ll guess the wrong light 😅
I know a lot of people who drive/walk differently from each other so I never say things like this!
I was about to say the same
Is it really only a Canadian thing? I thought the yanks used it as well!
I'm British and we do that too!
Must be a Commonwealth thing ^^
Fun fact: In many of our cities (in Canada) people purchase or make toques, scarves, mittens, etc. that we leave on poles or similar places for homeless people to take. We need to label these items 'I am not lost - I am here for someone who needs me' otherwise the homeless people will not take these items believing they are lost items put there for the owners to find them.
I left a long armed monkey plushie wrapped around a tree, thinking someone would take it, in my old 'hood, next to Stanley Park in Vancouver. Each few days, I saw the monkey in a new pose... He survived 3 seasons in "his tree". 😂🐒
Omg that's adorable I love that 😂
That's awesome! My kind of people! ❤️
Haha my friend saw that! She sent me a pic. :D
ha, that's cute!!
I dropped my wallet in downtown Toronto - it had $200 cash, credit cards, debit Cards etc.
I was visiting Toronto - (I am from the Maritimes). I got a phone call a few hours later. Someone found my wallet. It had all the cash in it along with everything else.
The person who found it - found my business card inside it.
That's some solid Japanese society stuff!!
I'm completely amazed.
Hope you gave him a reward 🙂
The Toronto star once did a test. They dropped 5 wallets around the Eaton centre. Each with $100 in cash along with credit cards etc. I believe all wallets were eventually returned or turned in. Some with and some without the cash.
@@g8kpr3000 that was 2009 era. If they did that now, i think they will be turned in/returned but some wallets may be missing the money.
As a delivery driver, I found a sled/foldable fishing icehut on the highway. At the end of the day, I found a Mn DNR tag and name. I searched online (390 men in Mn with same name), being Tuesday I choose a retiree near the Canadian border. I called him and asked if he lost something this morning, he answered a fishing hut. He was impressed I tracked him down, I told him "I'll deliver to the town beside the border crossing in the morning at a store". He was thankful that he recovered all his fishing gear inside it (Rewarded me, paid for my minnows for the winter)
I have both found and returned and had my wallets returned over the years.
The taking off your shoes thing is normal here. But often we’ll be told by the homeowner to not worry about taking our shoes off, or we’ll ask if it’s ok to leave our shoes on. One would never presume to leave their shoes on and just walk around someone’s home without their ok.
I read a study once that looked at the differences in behaviour between Canadians and Americans while waiting for buses. They found that Americans typically just board the bus by the, 'whoever is closest' rule. While in Canada they found that people tended to board in roughly the order they arrived at the bus stop .
Canuck here, actually snapped at a guy for jumping the queue at the bus stop. He was a foreign student, I felt bad but he learned his lesson. 😂
Canadian vs. American at a buffet in Mexico...
Or by their level of need. I’ll let people with kids, elderly, etc. on first, whether they just arrived or not. I know how much of a pain transit is with a kid and/or being disabled.
@@melissastory1993yup! If I’m limping up to the bus, even if I’m last getting there I’ll usually get allowed on first.
Because we tend to start the line up as we get there.
In Churchill, Man it's illegal to leave your car LOCKED. When one comes arond the corner and there's a hungry polar bear eyeing you, everyone needs a safe place to dive.
Yeah no
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072It may not be the law but people definitely do that in Churchill
pretty much a non written rule over 60 th paralel
@@jean-michelb7290 A lot of camp/cabin up north have either no lock or just a sign where the key is with a note to leave your name and maybe some cash if you took some canned food, no one wants to be lost/stuck in the wood and come to a locked cabin, dunno if it s only regional though. The lock is mostly to keep animals out.
YES!! I just moved to Nunavut. We're 280 kms north of Churchill Manitoba. All those polar bears that the tourists flock to Churchill to see end up here and further north. One of the first things I was told was that almost everyone UNLOCKS their door at night so that anyone who encounters a bear has somewhere to go to be safe. We have nightly volunteer Bear Patrol and a bear sighting hotline. " If it's black, fight back; if it's brown, lie down; if it's white, say goodnight.".
We also ask the person in front or behind us to ‘hold my place’ in the line, and we do it while they go and get something. We call line butters ‘cutting IN line’ not ‘cutting a line’.
Bud in line not butters
I lost my wallet at a club and it was mailed back to me with money and credit cards in it.
When I lived in Canmore back in the early 90's I was doing my banking and found an envelope of money left on the counter where you would fill out the withdrawal or deposits. It had a woman's name on it. So when I heard the person's name I brought it to her. Turns out it was her rent and bills. Feels good to do the right thing.
it's hard to think evil thoughts in Canmore tho... it's likely the nicest feeling place I've ever been to.. I lived in Calgary for 5 years and got to Canmore as often as possible. I just kick myself for not buying land there as I intended back in the 90s when you could get old run down houses for a song... < smacks self >
@ioncladstudio2688 I lived in Calgary for 18 year's off and on. I use to love looking at the mountains over the horizon... Banff.
@@Kootenaylady-vs8kh I know right? driving back home from the east side.. cresting that hill and seeing the mountains..so majestic.. with the sunset making the city look tiny like an ornament lit in amber..
Im in Ottawa now.. I sure miss them.. like I miss the ocean.. :P
@@ioncladstudio2688I loved the mountains so much I moved to BC!
We use both systems metric and imperial because of the influence of USA that still use Imperial System. In addition, most of our standards are harmonised with USA. So, a plywood sheet is still 4 ft x 8 ft but in metric it is 121,9cm 243,8cm 😕. Ovens we purchased, up to recently, gave temperature in Faraneith only (sorry, I’ve forgotten how spelling it). On the other and, canadians manufacturers provide articles in both systems for the american market so we still have the choice using both systems.
"Pencil Crayons" is a thing in Canada because we first encounter them as children. Imagine that you're 6 years old encountering a box of coloured pencils in school for the first time. They're labelled in both English and French, so it reads "Coloured Pencil Crayons De Couleur". "Coloured Pencil" is the English, and "Crayons de Coleur" is the French for that (pencils of colour, literally), but when you're an Anglophone schoolchild you recognize all of the first 3 words as existing in English, so to your child mind the label reads as "Coloured Pencil Crayons". The first word is obviously the adjective, and "pencil" and "crayons" are both nouns, so it looks like you've encountered a noun phrase called "pencil crayons". And since the label is there to tell you what the thing is called, you assume these things must be called "pencil crayons". It also makes enough intuitive sense not to question it as a child, since there are boxes of crayons that come in a variety of colours, so the similar box of coloured pencils looks like "oh, this is the pencil version of crayons. That'd be why it says pencil crayons."
It's even on the box isn't it? It's a pencil that works like a crayon, only it's a pencil? It's a pencil crayon.
Exactly pencil crayons.
Great insight!!
I believe you nailed it! 🎉
And here I was thinking it's because they contain coloured wax like crayons.
Your explanation makes more sense.
Exactly
a pencil is made of wood, a crayon is made of wax
A long time ago my mother found 2 matching mittens on the ground. She went above and beyond. She washed and dried them, then put them out on one of our picket fence posts. The mother with a little girl knocked on our door and thanked my mother for taking care of them.
When I find something lost, I always put myself in the owner’s shoes and do my best to get it back to them. I went to pay for parking and found someone had left their Visa card in the slot. I waited for about 15 or 20 minutes and they didn’t return. I took it home planning to cut it up if I couldn’t find the owner. Luckily, she was on Facebook and my husband and I tracked her down. She was so grateful to come and pick it up. It’s a great feeling to help somebody out who you know is probably worrying
Why would you take it home rather than into the bank or to the local police? I would NEVER take someone's credit card home with me if I found it. It can be construed as theft.
@@MaggieLarocque Bank was likely closed.
I used to work the night shift at a huge factory in Don Mills (3000 total employees). Each division put together a softball team and we would play against each other on Friday mornings after work at diamonds in Flemingdon Park, which is a very low-income part of town, and known for being a drug haven. But during the mornings when we would play ball, it was fine and nice as all the dealers/users were gone.
One Friday morning, one of the girls on our division's team left her sweater on the small bleachers at the park. She didn't realize until late in the evening and went back to get it. She had no idea what the park became at night - a drug dealing nuthouse with lots of meth-heads getting high. As she walked toward the diamond one of the users got up and walked out to meet her, saying, "I really don't think you want to be here tonight miss. What are doing you here?" She told him she came to see if her sweater was still there and he told her to wait. He went back into the crowd of users at the bleachers, found her sweater and walked it back to her. I love being Canadian - even the meth-heads are looking out for you.
That's a great story 👍✌️
This sounds like a movie scene. 🙂
Oh I love us❤🇨🇦
Sooo true! Even the users here are usually very nice 🇨🇦 I love my country
gone, or sleeping in the corner of the park?
In 2021, we drove from Alberta to Ontario for 3 weeks. When we got back, we realized our eldest daughter had left our front door not only unlocked, but slightly ajar. We lived next door to a plaza. Not a single thing was askew or amiss inside our house. 💫🌟⭐️✨
I would just be worried about mice and bugs in there and the power bill being crazy
We take our shoes off because it’s very messy with all the snow and salt in the winter, then we just do it year round. It really does keep the place cleaner.
We have a sign on our door at work, there is one in all the schools, all the medical businesses and even some Government business to remove mudding or dirty foot wear. Rather than track all that dirty into the establishment.
It's just common curtesy.
The only time I don’t do this is if I just got home or am waiting for a ride and already put my winter boots on and need to run up to use the washroom or if the house of the person I’m visiting has visibly dirty floors (in summer)
Boots I take off, cause yeah, snow, mud, sleet, etc. When it's dry outside, there isn't much to track inside. And that's what the "welcome" mat is for: wiping down your shoes, so you don't bring (too much) dirt in. If I don't bring in "inside shoes" (slippers, whatever), and my shoes are clean and dry, I keep them up. If only to avoid imposing my smelly feet (with or without socks) on my host. Unless of course the host asks for them to be taken off.
Men also have those nice rubber overshoes they can wear over their shoes when they don't go into too much snow or it's just raining. Take off the overshoe when coming in, the shoes are clean and dry. (Women shoes come in too many formats and heel heights to make it a practical solution; yet another way women fashion is sexist! 😛 )
As a Canadian,🇨🇦 I can confirm that most of Canadians lock their doors, especially at night.
In big cities,.... maybe.
Yeah, it definitely depends.
In certain neighborhoods in my city, yeah, everyone locks their door. Other areas? Some do, some don't.
If I'm visiting family in more rural areas, no one locks their door.
My late mother didn't lock her apartment door very much. But she started after a neighbor with early dementia just came in and sat down and visited with her for an hour and a half. Lol
I live alone, so my door is locked 24/7
I lock my front doors but not my back doors 🤷♀️
Small example, we moved from the US to Canada recently. My daughter left an expensive water bottle in a local University classroom (she has singing practice there). I was a bit upset and said, well, that's gone. Lo and behold, she went to practice a full week later and it was in the same place. Never would have happened where we lived before. There are good and bad things no matter where you go, but we love it here.
Really I live in a smallish town in the upper part so it’s pretty safe I left my hoodie at a track overnight and came back and my size small girls hoodies was gone bc I forgot it iv also had people from my school steal my makeup twice they stole almost everything from my makeup bag even mascara
The lost mitten on a pole is very common. Canadians generally empathize with the frustration of losing things, and we try to find ways to return them. I once lost my wallet down the Lapie Canyon in the Yukon while I spent the summer working at a neighbouring mine site. I was sure I was never going to see it again but much to my surprise 2 weeks later it showed up in the mail at Curragh Resources where I was working as someone way down in the canyon and up river found it, gave it to the local police, who found my driver's licence, managed to locate me and sent it to me in the mail. There was still cash, a bit water logged, but all there!!😅
My husband lost his wallet twice. The first time the guy drove to the house to drop it off and the second time the store kept it in a safe place waiting for him to come back looking for it. Everything was there. People are generally honest, trustworthy and friendly. We’re immigrants living here about 15 years and we’ve adopted the same principles. It’s quite anointing when I see people move here and behave with wonton disregard of Canadian values.
I lost my birth certificate as a youth. Also in small town yukon. During community spring cleaning, a neighbour found it in the bushes and returned it to me.
lolll once my mum forgot her purse on the roof of the car when we were on a road trip back from niagara falls. She was alone with me and my siblings, all of us 10 or under. When the purse flew off the car, she lost her wallet and her phone. We ended up stranded at a gas station rest stop in the middle of nowhere ontario with no money no food (except pie) and no gas. Some random truckers and a random old lady bought us gas and gave us money for food, and I think someone let my mum borrow their phone so she could call my dad. After we made it home, my mum’s purse and phone showed up in the mail a few weeks later. Some construction worker or something had found it in a ditch on the side of the road and mailed it back to us based on the info inside.
I notice while looking at books at the pharmacy that some one had left MONEY in the bank machine tray..I took it to the owner ..he counted so we both KNEW the amt....I asked a week later..was told man was still in store and asked if any one turned in his cash..pleased to see it was returned to him..got card in mail 2 weeks later with $20 ...in a thankyou card...no return address..or would have sent back?
My best friends years ago had just cashed his income tax return cheque and his pay cheque before going to meet me at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg. When I got there he was walking around an area in circles looking at the ground. It seems he had lost his wallet with the entire $2600 in it. He was BEYOND distraught. But by the time we got back to his house a local business owner from a local running supply store who was out for his morning run with some of his customers found the wallet and called his house. My buddy had his wallet back within 2 hours with every bill intact. The guy wouldn't even accept a reward.
On the putting mittens etc up on a fence post. The OP (and subsequent responses) make the assumption that you understand this only happens in winter time. If it was left on the ground, after the next snowfall the snowplow would push it into the snowbank to be lost forever. No one is going to steal a single mitten, a hairy toque, or used scarf. We already have a cupboard full of single mismatched mittens.
agreed.. it's common practice to pick up what looks like a valued lost mit or toy or whatever.. and place it in an obvious spot away from damage. In fact I've lost track of the number of times people I know have lost their phones.. then it's answered by someone who found it. who wants to get it back to the owner.. Just yesterday my friend lost her personal.. unlocked.. phone in a snowbank.. she just got it back and Gave the young woman who found it a gift basket and 60 dollars.. treasures should be treasured. :P
Yeah, can't say this applies when there is a complete set unfortunately. I forgot both of my kid's brand new mittens at the park (so 4 mittens) and the next day they were gone :(
My family has a small store and the amount of things people set on the ledge is actually kind-of cute. A lot of missing baby socks in the summer; a postal driver's glove and a Spiderman pencil.
all of us do single mitts and single socks that are lost forever in the dryer
We have lost gloves sitting on the propane cart outside our store waiting for the owners to return and find their lost hand warmer. There was 4 different gloves, but we're down to 2 now.
I'm from Vancouver, Canada and my first visit to NYC was during a fresh early Dec '04 snowstorm. We were stuck on the plane for over 3 hrs before being allowed off -due to freezing. There were no cabs or hotels available -it was crazy because everything was shut down! - but we were fortunate enough to find a gypsy cab, and the driver was a wonderful man. We thought we got the last room in a hotel and so he left. Five to ten mins later I realized I didn't have my passport! I had left it in his back seat. Thankfully he came to bring it back! The three of us got back in his car because he still wanted to help us find somewhere to stay, but first took us on a tour throughout the streets of Manhatten. It was soooo surreal. Like the day after tomorrow surreal! -Or something. Not a soul to be seen, while observing a stunningly peaceful, untouched white Christmas. Just beautiful!! We tipped him $100 for the hours he spent showing us all around and then finally finding us a pretty shifty motel in Queens ! 🤗🤩what an Angel😍
Im surprised this dude hasnt moved to Canada yet. His mind explodes every episode.
Expecting him anytime now.
The order in which you board the bus can be important, especially in bad weather.
In general, if another person was at the stop before you got there, they get to board first. That rule even technically supercedes "Women and children first" IMO.
But I'm a 33yr old man and so whatever the weather, I generally wait for everyone else to board the bus first. It's only polite.
(I can't count the times I've gotten in a "You first" argument with, say, an elderly person 😂)
I'm a woman and I agree, gender should be irrelevant when it comes to who's shivering in a lineup for the bus. We're all feeling the freeze!! 🥶
**Children, physically impaired and elderly excluded of course
Oh the Canadian standoff. “You go first”, “no I’m ok you can”, “ no please go ahead.”….and on and on it goes.
First up (after any accessible boarding where the ramp is needed, that's always #1): elderly people. Second, people with kids. Third, anyone with heavy bags/carrying something. If none of the above apply, whoever was originally standing closest to where the bus doors ended up. i.e. if two people are both equidistant from the curb, but the bus stops a little further along than expected, it is only fair that the person closest is now first. No cutting in front.
@jennaleclaire2654 Facts. And even still, in Canada, I'm a healthy man that's had "You first" arguments with people using crutches or balancing groceries and a kid lmao
@@jennaleclaire2654yes!!
My understanding of why we have the metric/imperial mix for temperature is because many of our appliances come from the states so our ovens do not have the option to use Celsius… many of our cook books are American as well so they are often written in imperial so we need to understand both
You give me faith in Americans. You're a reasonable and respectful individual. Keep on keeping on.
It's still legal in Canada to give food and water to those standing in line to vote. If anyone ever told us otherwise there'd be a full on mutiny.
Not sure its relevant. @ 65 and voted in most elections, don't remember being in a line to vote.
@@bernardcloutier6057 Right, I thought of that, but Americans don't know that. I was merely taking a shot at how horrible their policies are.
@@bernardcloutier6057 This. I think once I made the mistake of showing up to vote at lunch time and the line was "crazy long" ... 20 minutes. lol
@bernardcloutier6057 I've been in a line to vote. Usually about five people long.
I've also never walked more than a couple blocks away from where I sleep to vote. Never had to get a ride, or bus or be bussed. Never had to wait more than a couple minutes in a line and the entire process has never taken more than 20 minutes in and out.
GF is from the US. While she found it strange to have milk bags at first, she recently told me that she much preferred that over the traditional gallon of milk you find in the US. Much easier to pour and fresher milk. She even told me to stop buying the gallon jug I found at walmart and go back to the bagged milk.
Edit: Bag milk is 1.33 liters
@@StephenRoss-po1rp Yeah still a thing in Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes (except NFL I think).
We used to have bagged milk in BC, but haven’t seen it I quite awhile. In the back of my cupboard while organizing I found the pitcher we used to put the bag in!
@@susanmeredith4957 BC'er here - we had bagged milk in the 70s for a while (maybe into the very early 80s, but I don't think so), but not since then.
@@susanmeredith4957 Ah! Nostalgia!
You don't cut a line in Canada unless you want to be called a "line butter".
Which is why we'll never master the zipper merge lol
Yes....no "butting in" 😂
@@dgjanes917 Hey, I zipper all the time. Sometimes it catches on and then others follow suit and sometimes not.
Mmm...line butter.
My 14-yr old grandson (in BC) says that to "cut a line" suggests snorting only a small amount of some illicit drug. He, his brothers, his parents, and I would use the phrase, "to jump the queue." 😅
In Canada, if you skip the line in Tim Horton’s, there could be violence. I was almost mobbed one day after I mistakenly cut to the front. I actually feared for my life.
That's when the hockey sticks start connecting with skulls 😂
In Canada, there could be violence at tim horton's. Or directly in front of.
Don't mess with our coffee !
So Timbits are more important to you than other people's feelings?
@leslieplayfair9836 As a founding member of the f your feelings foundation.....Yes !
Bathroom implies a place to bathe. Thus a bathroom without a bath is considered a washroom, since you can't physically bathe within.
Having worked in a call centre serving American customers, I can confirm that many, if not most, Americans do NOT in fact say goodbye at the end of a phone call. Very jarring, lol
Also they way they order food makes me uneasy, "gimme a cheeseburger, fries and a coke" .......I'm thinking to myself, any other words you want to add to that sentence as a curtesy? Appalling
Jarring is the perfect word for it. I worked in tourisum. There is a fairly big difference in cultural norms. Some would say Americans were being rude. Rude cant also meant ignorant. I usually never felt ill intent, or shortness with ill intent. Its just things are done a lil differently. Higher population mean less customer service time, less small talk. Everyone has somewhere to be and it takes long with many people. So less talking, less situational awareness when it comes to others. Perfect example, big cities feel americanized or feel rude. That whole, i am not in canada anymore feeling happens.
I am sure in less populated areas, small towns are seemingly more polite.
But still two different cultures.
It is weird. Plus if you say thank you, most Americans just say.. ah uh. What about, you’re welcome?!?
Mr. Rogers changed his shoes everyday he walked in the door of his house!
18:30 Actually Tyler, "coloured pencils" DO contain one of either wax or oil, which is used as the binding agent for the pigments in the pencil core. Which type is in the core depends on the brand and/or quality level.
Hey Tyler - another thing we do very often at the Tim Hortons drive thru (at least across Ontario) is ‘pay-it-forward’. When we pick up our order at the window, we pay for the order for the car behind us. We do this for complete strangers. The car behind gets a free order so they pay it forward by paying for the car order behind them. And this keeps going on and on until someone breaks the chain. This happens very often in my neighborhood. I live outside Toronto.
Love this and do it quite often!!! Watch your rearview mirror for the smiles!🇨🇦
Broke a chain once. Customer in front of me paid for my hot chocolate. I was gonna pay it forward, but the next order was 32 bucks!
So, I said thanks and just drove away with my free hot chocolate!
Tim Horton's employees hate this.
same here in manitoba, and though i have seen it happen throughout the year, i see it happen most often winter and around holidays
I have done this a few times at my McDonalds here in Illinois. It confuses the person at the pay window. When I mentioned it to my husband he told me it was "weird" and that people might think I am stalking them. Ha! That had never crossed my mind. Like you can't do nice things without people being suspicious.
I'm Canadian and if I'm going to visit someone I usually bring a pair of slippers with me.
Just wear your clean socks. We are fine with that.
Most people I know (and myself) keep a few pairs of wool slippers at the door for visitors.
@@winterwolf512I have a basket with slippers and reading socks, and in the winter, one with blankets, toques, and mittens by the balcony/patio.
I keep slippers at my best friends house
My papa has slippers that he just keeps here for when he comes over tbh I still were my shoes around the house we got dogs so the floor is messy anyways
Can't tell you how appreciative I am that you made a vid while sick.
I missed my family holiday this year cause I didn't wanna put anyone else through the awful experience that is being isolated and unable to spend time with your family.
Cran vs cray-yeon, yeah...understandable. The American dialect I know that says cran is TX, but I'm sure there's tonnes other that do.
Love your vids, Tyler. Hope you're better soon!
The mix of metric and imperial is because of our trade with the USA. For example, our ovens are in Fahrenheit, and so are our recipes.
True, but interestingly enough US physicians use the metric system
It's also partly because of resistance to metric, which forced the government to allow the use of imperial (but not U.S.) measurements to be added alongside metric.
True we would be all metric if we didn’t have to maintain imperial due to proximity to the US. Our ovens are American therefore in Fahrenheit.
Not just because of that. Most of you kids wouldn't remember, but Canada also used the Imperial system throughout our entire history until roughly 1980. So, using Imperial is a holdover from those of us old enough to have been educated first in Imperial and, then, had to learn metric later.
@@LoveCats9220sure Jan
Last summer in Montreal after a music show (NOFX) i forgot my hat waiting for my ride near the Olympic stadium, We drove at the same spot the next day and my hat was waiting at the top of the parking post for me :-) (it was a new hat from a different small band)
Hey, Tyler. Pencil crayon is derived from French "crayon de couleur". It's been used colloquially in Canada for any coloured pencil. In Canada, the premiere manufacturer of coloured pencils was Laurentien, whose name was originally spelled in English as "Laurentian", in reference to the Laurentian Mountains. It was changed in 1972 to the spelling "Laurentien" to boost sales in Quebec. What is literally, in English, Laurentian Coloured Pencils, is "Crayon de Couleur Laurentien", in French. To roughly translate that back to English, it's Laurentien Pencil Crayons. Laurentien did also make wax crayons, but coloured pencils are also made of wax or oils, not coloured graphite. Laurentein ceased to operate in around 2012, due to cheap coloured pencil imports from China.
Canadian chocolate tastes different because it's real milk chocolate. Americans have their taste buds perverted by the evil Hershey corporation who, unable to figure out how to bond milk to chocolate properly, ended up with something that tastes rather more like chocolate mixed with sweetened baby vomit. It gained market share in the US due to being bundled with rations in WWII so Americans got the impression that chocolate is actually supposed to taste that awful. Canadian chocolate is made properly.
Agree💯%👍
Love the blanket statement but not true. Lindt chocolate is made in Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and New Hampshire USA. Ghirardelli chocolate is made in California. Both are high end chocolate but found at most retailers. Fun fact, See's Candy which is popular California, originated in Ontario. Does it suck because it crossed the border? Lol
Yep, tastes like chocolate flavoured wax. 🤢
@Ghostchild4 I will base all my Canadian chocolate knowledge on Coffee Crisp, which tastes like a stale coffee. 🤣
I think its more because we use real sugar in our chocolate, not high fructose corn syrup
I have noticed that it is very uncommon to put vinegar on fries in the US, but it is very common in Canada and the UK. Also, we have not locked our doors for over 24 years, unless we are going on an extended vacation. Have never had a problem.
In USA they usually use vinegar as a cleaning product. It would probably sound to them like we were putting bleach on fries.
I also use vinegar for cleaning and baking soda for baking and meat tendering.
You won't have a problem until you do have one.
Leaving your door unlocked does not mean hordes of burglars are going to be drawn magnetically to your house, but if someone up to no good does try doors, an unlocked door is an invitation.
Love malt vinegar on fries 🍟
17:20 "Milk in Bags" Your theory isn't correct. Bagged milk is sold in a 4L back of 3 bags, so each is 1.33L. What bagged milk IS, is a cheap way to buy milk in bulk. The packaging couldn't physically get any cheaper to produce, so there's a cost savings for the consumer. Usually bagged milk is sold to large families who go through a lot of it, or restaurants for the same reason.
Personally, as a lactose intolerant bachelor, I prefer the cartons with a screw cap you can seal tightly to defray spoilage, because I don't go through it that fast.
If you eat French fries and ketchup .. why is it so strange to have ketchup chips...
Ketchup chips are amazing
Exactly! Lol I don’t get why they think that is so weird. Same with gravy and fries (or poutine), all these things classically go with potatoes but god forbid you combine them!
Dude, I will eat plain potato chips with actual ketchup! Same logic!😊
They are stupidly acidic and don’t even taste like ketchup imo
My favorite is the all dressed!
The 4 liters of milk go into 3 bags. It takes less space in your fridge and it's easier to pour, than from a gallon plastic container. You can buy 1 liter carton, but it comes up more expensive and if your household uses a lot of milk it is impractical.
And the packaging takes up far less space in the landfill.
Perhaps the biggest separator for Canadians is our politeness with strangers, eg. "Have a good day". "Sorry", " Thank you so much"....
Restroom: fairly ubiquitous. Pretty much every Canadian will understand and sometimes use. Bathroom: a room with a bath or shower. Washroom: a restroom without a bath or shower. Both have a toilet and sink. So, washroom is a place where you can "wash up" and a bathroom is where you can take a bath or shower... technically. (extra credit: Many will also say "Toilet", but not as often.) EDIT: The missus just reminded me that I refer to either as "the can".
We call it the Biffy!!!! Way down east.
We call it the pot 😂. Where's mama she's on the pot what do you want 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does no one use the term "the john" anymore, to refer to the washroom?
@@user-hr5pc3rt2nonly hear that in reference to a portapotty usually
I always said bathroom as the general word, washroom if you're trying to be more polite. I know what a restroom is but I've never heard anyone actually call it that.
Years ago I left my purse on the back of the chair in a busy restaurant. I started driving home, realised I had left it, and drove back in a panic. No worry. It was still hanging on the back of the chair with nothing missing.
Just went through the same thing a few days ago. I live in Toronto.
Y’all just lucky then 🥲
Today yes lucky can't really do that anymore
Been there too.😊
Same!
Mine was in a Timmy's in Courtenay, B.C. and it was about 40 min later.
A person was even sitting in the seat and had not even noticed my red purse! Lol.
The, "Doors Unlocked" thing, ...is 2 things, ... Where you live, is: city/town/metropolis/farming communities/small towns/villages/etc... determines whether you leave your doors locked, or not...
And number 2, ... I'm a 63 yr old Canadian, and as a child, then adolescent, then teen, and even young adulthood, ... (Especially as a child, and adolescent, and teen...) It was normal to just walk into houses, and ask if our friend could come out to play, ... Sometimes under the rule, that you get a snack, a meal, or are told to make ourselves at home, watch tv, or even just ramble about the house, while waiting for your friend... Greatest ERA(s) EVER...
Canadian Stand-Off:
"After you."
"You first."
"No, I insist!"
"Oh, no, after you!"
"No, really, you first!'
Etc. until someone gives.
Like the two gophers in the Looney Tunes cartoons
And the analogous stand-off:
“I’ve got it.”
“No, let me pay.”
“I said I got it!”
“No, I’ll get it ”
“You’re sweet but I said I got it and you ”
And again, this continues until someone relents. Extra exciting when with family and a half-dozen of you are engaging in this.
Did that yesterday. Five minutes of my life I'm not getting back.
ha ha ha.. half the time at the door to Tims. :P It reminds me of those two overly polite squirrels that always end up in a huge argument about going first.. :P
@@rondini2think u mean Chip n Dale, the chipmunks n it's waltdisney.
1. Shoes off: We spend half of the year with snow stuck to our footwear. Every snowflake has a grain of sand at its core. Nobody wants to drag that much of a wet mess into the house, so it just carries over into a standard practice all year long. 👍🏻
2. Lost items: There are actually Facebook groups dedicated to neighbourhoods (at least here in Vancouver). I’m in 2 groups for my neighbourhood. Between these 2 groups I see at least 5 posts per day from people who found keys/wallets/shoes/bikes/pets/anything imaginable. They give a detailed description of the nearest intersection and share a picture of where they left the item. All of this in hopes that the rightful owner is a member of the group or that a member knows the rightful owner so that they can be messaged about it. It’s quite amazing to see just how many good samaritans live around me. Things like wallets usually get turned in to community policing centres for retrieval though. Those are quite a bit more sensitive regarding personal info & identity theft. Nevertheless, still get posted about with the note that it was turned in at said community policing location. 🥰
People even post about having lost items on particular streets and members who live near there will go out of their way to take walks to see if they can find the lost item for the person posting in the group. 🇨🇦🤯
Facebook groups here in ON too!! Love it
I have returned wallets by searching their names on Facebook, and messaging them because their ID have their picture and address on it
We have another one, primarily in Ontario. When we get fries at a food truck, we ask for 'salt and vinegar half-way up'. This means, fill the container half full, then put in salt and vinegar, then add the rest of the fries, and put salt and vinegar on top as well. This means you get perfect flavour when you eat the fries and hit the half-way mark and still get that salt and vinegar taste right to the last chip.
This is a thing!!? 😮that’s amazing! Rarely do I see places that even have Vinegar
It was always "pencil crayons" didnt realize that was weird.
For the metric/imperial thing...
Temperature: air = celsius
Swimming water= fahrenheit
Oven temp (usually) fahrenheight
Side note: some newer or older ovens have both celsius AND fahrenheit
Distance in km but height in feet/inches
Weight : body in pounds
Food in kilograms/grams
The imperial for cooking and baking is because a lot of our cookbooks are printed in america and a lot of mid-age ovens are too
I agree with all except swimming water in C where I live.
But distance in time: how far is it? Four hours 🤣
In USA : pencil crayons are called colored pencils.
@@ms-literary6320 true distance I guess is in time a lot here too for driving...I was thinking more like cm/m when I said metric
I think it really depends on the household.
When I was a kid, it was coloured pencils. Now it is pencil crayons. I don't know when the change started.
The mixture of measurements is wonderful, you have the best of both worlds and understand it thoroughly.
Tyler, may I clarify something that seems to confuse you? This is fully understandable if you weren't there when it happened.
The reason we use both the metric system and Imperial is because in the mid 70s we had a Prime Minister (Pierre Trudeau,, father of the current PM) who initiated the change to metric. It took time, years, in fact, to effect the change, during which there was a federal election and good ole Pierre got the boot, around-about 1980. The new PM led an opposition party who stopped the change right away, leaving metric in its tracks and leaving Imperial to take the remaining measurements. This is why we measure distance in Kilometers and liquid using both types.
Gallons became litres. Commercial airliners used weight to measure their fuel (where pounds became kilograms), which resulted in a bumble that could have killed hundreds. This is the story of the Gimbly (Gim-lee) Glider and is very popular on youtube. You should look it up for another fascinating Canadian story.
That first one makes me laugh. My door is always unlocked unless I'm gone for multiple days.
8:00 regarding the mittens on fence posts, cable boxes, post boxes, bollards...
In the next snowfall, a mitten or hat on the ground risks getting buried, then ploughed to the side and embedded in a snow bank, and then hauled off to the snow dump when the bank gets cleared. In the next freeze/thaw/freeze cycle, the mitten or whatever *will* get frozen to the ground, or even encased entirely in ice, like a mammoth.
The one on the fence might get snow on it, and some ice, but the water will mostly drain off it so it doesn't become a glovecicle and the snow will blow off or can be brushed off when you're looking for it.
It's empathy: a child has lost their mitten, the parent may not be able to afford a new set immediately or have the time off from work to get them, and we can take a tiny action to make someone's day easier. A very tiny action.
I'm sure sometimes hats or scarves get stolen some times, but the people doing that need some protection from the elements and i find it hard to judge them harshly. They're being rude to the original owner, who may not have a spare either, but I i understand where the need comes from. Survival, plain and simple.
The "oop" as you're walking by someone at the store is both regional and Canadian! Different areas of the country say different things. Where I'm from you say "excuse me" as you walk by. But when I lived in BC for a few years, a lot of people there said "oop".
The reason we do it is to signify someone is close to you, so you don't startle them. Especially if you have to squeeze by closely. I have noticed people doing it less and less since Covid and that makes me sad, bc I'm partially blind and I get easily startled and love that little polite verbal sign someone is close.
I am in Saskatchewan and I usually say oops excuse me or sorry as I squeeze by you.
I'm Canadian and love your channel. If you want to see a movie that shows 'Canadian culture" you should watch Men With Brooms. You may recognize some of the actors. Also... many American movies are filmed in Canada, so you are sometimes seeing Canadian settings in those movies.
Just saw Men with Brooms (free) on CBC Gem. Same with Life of Pi 👍
You must watch the new series, Sticky. The great Canadian Maple Sirop Heist🤣 I think it's on Prime Video.
@@tsolum4126It's also free on CBC Gem.
I’m Canadian too….in New Brunswick…..25 km from Saint John.
Letterkenny and corner gas and trailer park boys...oh i forgot canadian bacon!!!
yes, waiting in line to take a bus. In Montreal, tourists from France struggle a bit with this, until they get used to it. In Paris, they're used to run, push and rush into the bus. But after some time, they adapt quickly to our way of doing things calmly.
My grandparents were from Montreal. Got used to queuing for the bus when visiting them. Kinda unique to Montreal.
Lived mostly in Halifax. No real queues, but everyone waiting for a bus, knew who was there before them, and you got on in that order. Sort of an 'unspoken queue'. 😊
@@dougwilson4537 Yes we don't do lines very often so most people don't take the bus or our terminals are very small. I generally do a mental check to see who's there first, and let them go ahead first.
Yeah, I had a colleague who came from France and she was so embarrassed that she had unknowingly cut the bus line twice until she learned about it. She had just rushed without really looking and the other passengers didn’t say anything (very typical of us haha). I was shocked to learn that it’s the law of the jungle when it come to public transport in France
Hi, Tyler :) A little bit of info about the Metric/Imperial systems... Back in the 1970s, Canada and the US had entered negotiations with both countries becoming metric to be more in-step with the rest of the world. However, due to the US public sector and citizens in general there was an uproar and the people said NO! Wasn't until President Reagan took office that the "Metrication Commission" was officially abolished. Canada continued on with the metric system. In one of the updates "Canadian Units" was added. This is the "Imperial" part. If the USA had followed through with converting to metric... Our weights and measures would not be 'uniquely Canadian' as it is now. Does make things more...uh...interesting when doing business with the US. On the plus side, conversions from Imperial to Metric and vice versa is taught in schools 🙂 At least in the schools where I live.
14:12 the shoes off thing. We have a lot of variable weather here. How rude is it to track mud/dirt/melting snow water through someone's house? Plus, at one point we had carpeting that was not easy to clean, in every room. As a result people wanted to keep it as clean as possible as long as possible
I only where my shoes at my house otherwise I take them off at peoples it’s not even bc of the weather it’s the fact that it’s not your home
Leaving pieces of clothing for the owner to come and get it back is fairly common. There are currently 2 hats hanging from branches on a tree in front of my house right now 😂
There’s a phone charger hanging from the fence across the street from me 😂
Love it❤
When I was little, the whole family (parents and us, 5 children) went to spend a weekend with family friends 4 hours away. Since it was the middle of summer, we left all the windows open and, of course, the doors unlocked.
When we came back on Sunday evening, before even getting out of the car, my mother noticed that all the windows were closed and exclaimed "someone has entered the house!" loll
But yes, after checking with the neighbors, there had been a big storm on Saturday and the neighbors (in their own words) literally ran to our house to close all the windows. Certainly the good old times!
We still use Imperial sometimes because some industries can't convert easily. For example when you go to the hardware store to buy wood and all you can get are 2"x4" studs or 4'x8' sheets of plywood. Everything else in construction still works that way. Several other examples as well.
Tyler, I looked it up and the UK, Israel, Mexico, India, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Russia all sell milk in a bag 😁🇨🇦
I have a uk pen pal and she was watching youtube and saw milk in a bag. She texted me asap and was astounded lol. My sister lives in the west and the first time her and her husband visited even they were amazed at bagged milk. You must live in ON😂
@@RottieLover-vu8muQuebec has milk in bags too.
Pencil Crayons: you have to see the Canadian packaging to know this one. The French for "pencil" is "crayon", so a package of coloured pencils says "coloured pencils crayons couleurs"....and we just went "yeah, pencil crayons does also make sense" and that's what we call them.
All packaging in Canada, by law, must have both English and French....so some things have "Canadian names"
Shovel snow in shorts😊 My husband was asked not to do that by a few neighbors with kids because the kids didn't want to wear winter clothes after seeing him.
😂
classic!
Perfect 😊
The line up rule is pretty solid.
Don't mess with the LINE UP (a.k.a. "queue").
First come, first in line and so on.
No crowding, no pushing, no cutting - or you will be royally told off by numerous people!!
Only people out west say Oops when they bump into you. Most people say excuse me, or pardon me. You are expected to be polite in Canada. Hold a door open for the person behind you, line up and wait your turn at a bank or fast food restaurant ,say Please & Thank you , & if you did not hear what somebody said to you ,you Never say “ What?” But rather I beg your pardon”? Never litter, & always pick up your dog’s poop. Recycle your Soda cans or plastic soft drink bottles. Basically just remember all the things you were taught in elementary school on how to be a respectful citizen in this world.
We also measure distance by time
i had the lost idea when i dropped my keys. when i came back someone was hanging my keys on a nail thank you.
Similar situation happened with me, I dropped my keys while I was walking in a busy downtown area. I made it home before I realized my keys were missing. When I went walking back to retrace my steps, I found them on a bin easily visible for me to notice. Thank you kind stranger.
Yes! And in apartment buildings there’s always a spot for things like keys that have dropped (usually also kids toys )
Several years ago, I woke up after an *epic* night out, at 1pm, only to discover my wallet was missing. I was panicking and re-tracing my steps and remembered paying for the cab, it had to be near! After 20 minutes of searching and the "morning-after fear" setting in (if you know, you know), I looked out my front window and saw an older man walking up to my apartment, a few seconds later, the buzzer rang. He found my wallet in a pile of wet leaves on the curb, and realized the address on my ID was literally right in front of him. It was the best day ever! For context, I lived in Vancouver, very close to downtown, so very busy neighbourhood in a large city. I tried to give him all the cash I had left in it, but he refused, and told me to "take an aspirin and then get a full English" 😂🤣
When I was in elementary school, a girl I knew from school wanted to come play at my house for the first time. I asked my mom if she could come in but the girl didn't want to take off her shoes inside. As a young Canadian, I didn't understand what was wrong with her. Confused, I figured she was a little slow or something. My mom refused, as she should. The girl had to leave. We didn't hang out much again after that. Moral of the story: take off your shoes or leave, no matter your age 😂
I still feel awkward if I wear shoes in my house. As if my mother is looking down disapprovingly.
Most people in Canada don't leave their doors unlocked, especially in the more populous cities, my parents did that for years until someone went in and stole all of the wrapped Christmas presents when the house was empty. Ever since then the doors have been locked, that was 50 years ago..
We do leave the door unlocked if my daughter is out and now during the day for the medical workers come to do stuff for my elderly sick stepfather,but for the most art at night it’s locked.
If you’re in places that have lost and found things you’d bring valuable things there too.
The confusion is when American's ask that question they mean "do you lock the door when you're at *home*" (because locking it when you're away / asleep is just assumed for them).
Sometimes in Canada you’ll get directions like go two blocks this way the turn left at the Starbucks on the corner.
One thing I have noticed about Americans is everywhere I have been in the US people are friendly even when you don't expect it I will give you an example I was in New York state my car had a wire dragging on the ground because a mechanic forgot to put it back where it belonged another motorist put the wire back to do this he lay on his back on the ground and fed the wire back threw in the process got all full of oil and dirt I offered him money he wouldn't take it he didn't care he got dirty helping me. I was forever grateful I have other examples as well. Americans don't give themselves enough credit for their friendliness
Great story that illustrates behaviors are not related to the side of the border you live on. Good people on both sides.
As a Canadian, I love your channel. I get teased so often by my American friends. My explanation for pencil crayons (and I say “yawn” at the end of crayons lol), is they are the colour of crayons in pencil form. Keep up the good work bud !! We appreciate it, eh !?!? 😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦
In a way, it's very Canadian because it's bilingual 😂
Lines-We tend to respect the societal rules- lines might be frustrating, but they are a societal expectation.
Metric/imperial bilingualism-most people that do this-not all- started learning imperial measurements in school and had to relearn metric when it was adopted. I think I was in grade six when the switch was made. I still tend to think in both.
If the necklace was valuable many of us would go so far as to take it to the police station.
Your smarties are our rockets. Canadian smarties are candy coated milk chocolate. Great treats for littles!
All dressed is a combination of ketchup, barbecue, salt and vinegar and sour cream and onion chip flavours.
I'm actually the person who left the comment about the necklace, haha. It was pretty but was plastic, and I had no idea where the nearest police station was. Plus I have a chronic illness and was on foot, so I couldn't afford to wander around much. But believe me, the thought did cross my mind lol. It was the best compromise I could come up with in the moment, haha.
@@aerialpunkseems completely reasonable!
@@MyLaymansViews Thanks, haha! I did my best :P
We stick it somewhere. It's too cold up here. We wouldn't steal a mitten or a hat just like a Korean wouldn't grab an umbrella that wasn't theirs. We all know how crap it is to be cold, or to lose your mitt or hat or whatever. To be real though, there was a cute sweater slung over the stop sign by my dad's from December-ish until a year later in March, so like 15 months. So I grabbed it. I really felt bad about it, because it's a sweater. But I justified it because of the amount of time and told myself it's better to grab it than have the stop sign covered for another year and a bit. I still have that sweater from 2008, and I love it. Thanks for your sweater dude wherever you are lol
I hired a young man to help me add chemicals to a commercial swimming pool. I told him "Just put half of that in" and he looked at me strangely and asked "Half? How much is that? I only learned metric in school." I knew I was doomed.
A Canadian at Kings Island Ohio I asked for some ice water. when they asked how many and I said a couple and I got a blank stare. 2 I said.
😂😂😂
I Canadian and go to Grand Forks or Fargo, ND quite often for shopping. I've been asked by more than one person, when holding the door for others, "Are you Canadian?"
Hi Tyler. Some 🇨🇦 use F because we switched at some point. My parents were in school when they switched. So they're experts at F to C and C to F. I only know -40 °F = -40 °C, 32 ° F = 0 °C, and then "room temp" cause many of our thermostats are still in F...or can be swapped between F and C
The funny thing is that holding the door open for people behind you is an automatic response to having someone behind you, but we all still thank eachother for having held the door.
It’s the same thing when we apologize to inanimate objects. It’s such an automatic reflex to apologize when bumping into someone, that it comes out even when what you’ve bumped into isn’t a living thing. You feel a bump you say sorry. 🤷🏽♀️ We also say sorry when somebody else bumps into us.
There’s a lot of things we automatically say sorry or thanks for that you don’t even notice until an American points them out, but it would be so alien and awkward to not say it. Rather than seeing ourselves as super polite like Americans do, we see ourselves as normal and anything less is super super rude.
And people say Sorry when they almost bump into you but don’t or if they are in your way too.
There's also the thank you for the first set of doors held and the awkward thank you for the second set of doors a few feet ahead.
Washrooms, before indoor pluming. Where at one time a small room usually at the back door with a wash bowl and a place to hang your coveralls, dirty or wet clothing. It was a place to wash up before coming in to eat supper. Some fancy places also had a tub. However you have to heat and haul water to and from it.
When indoor plumbing became the norm. People installed the toilet and sink and bathtubs in them and it still remained the washroom.
As for measuring things, depending on where you live. Temperature outside and inside is usually done in Celsius, unless you live in Saskatchewan then the do it by Ferinhight.
If your measuring a wall it is usually in feet. If it's somthing small it could be in inches or centimeters.
Distance is measured in klicks or in miles depending on how old you are, it is oftern measured in time or how many beer. Depending on how far it is and where you are from.
Body Temperature, is measured by health professionals in Celsius. Many ordinary people take Temperature by Ferinhight.
Oven Temperature is in Ferinhight.
Car speed is done in klicks.
Liquid is in metric and imperial. Also a imperial gallon is mot the same as the US gallon. So if you're comparing gas price from Canadian to US, you also have to factor in the difference of US gallon and imperial gallon. For refrance, the imperial gallon is about 20% larger than the US gallon.
Grain farmers need to know.
Metric ton
Also known as a tonne, this unit of mass is equal to 1,000 kilograms, or about 2,204.6 pounds. The metric ton is derived from the SI unit kilogram.
Imperial ton
Also known as a long ton, this unit of mass is equal to 2,240 pounds, or 1,016.0 kilograms. The imperial ton is an older unit of measurement that is outdated.
Property is measured in acers . Farming grid roads are measured in miles. Because they aren't changing the raods to make a square kilometer.
When measuring burned or burning forest fires they are measured in hectares.
The early Gen Xers can switch back and forth between metric and imperial easily we where taught both in school.
The boomers where taught imperial and the have trouble with metric. Midle Gen X just picked up what early Gen X did and passed it on.
So in Canada we try to make it as easy as possible for other Canadians. The rest of the world we just love to F@$# with.
Sorry, not Sorry 😂😂😂😂😂
We were at one of our prairie beeches and when leaving we saw a young woman put her bag on the roof of her car and drive away..we tried to catch up with her as we had picked up her bag…we lost her but when arriving home we looked inside and found her ID along with phone number…she was so relieved to have what she called her life in her bag….she arrived at our home the next day with big bouquet of flowers..this taught our teenagers a lesson…we had just moved 2000 miles west of ON and found out how appreciative prairie people are ..love happy stories
As an old Canadian, I grew up with the Imperial measuring system which was adopted in UK in 1824. It is slightly different from the original British system that was in place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 (one) during colonization - which the US still uses. I now favour all measurements in (the VERY logical) Metric system except for the measurement of lumber, which is still quoted in feet and inches because of our close exporting (and building practices) with the US. I also prefer the old system for drill-bit sizes (in inch/fractions) over the hard-to-remember Metric size. We tend to be somewhat measurement-bilingual here in Canada.
Yeah Metric is so simple to use too. Like seriously who thought it was a great idea to make a mile 5280 ft?
Now that you mention it, what do they call a 2x4 in the UK? 🤔
@@melissastory1993 Common nominal section sizes for structural softwoods are: 47x50mm, 75mm, 100mm, 125mm, 150mm, 175mm, 200mm, 225mm and 250mm / 75x150mm, 175mm, 200mm and 225mm / 100mm x200mm. Many other sizes are also available to order. Lengths increase in increments of 0.3m, from 2.4m up to 4.8m.
What a PITA !!!
@ wow, okay, now I know why we use imperial for wood still 😂
Been a good few times ive heard my father cuss about lugnuts and whatnot being in metric
In big cities we don't leave our doors unlocked..we do have druggies unfortunately over here too
Not to mention organized car thiefs 😅
However, out here in a northern town, I lock the vehicle but leave the house unlocked!
“Druggies” is a term that makes people sound like c***s
When i was 13, my moms wallet was stolen just 3 weeks before Christmas, and so she posted on the local facebook page about what it looked like, hoping someone might find it. Immediately, we got invited to a womans house where she gifted my sister and i with a Christmas present each along with some money for my mom, she offered her home anytime we needed just in case, soon after the wallet was put in a mailbox in the city where my mom could retrieve it. Many others on facebook offered to lay for our Christmas presents but we refused most offers it was so incredible
I remember the switch to the Metric System. It happened just when I was starting school, and we were never taught any Imperial units in math or science classes, but most people my age still use a lot of Imperial units.
Most people know/give their weight in pounds and height in feet/inches, even though their driver's licence has Metric units. Cooking temperatures are generally in Fahrenheit, although some ovens might have both units, or a quick-reference conversion chart. Recipes are often in cups/teaspoons/tablespoons, once in a while you'll come across a recipe with both units listed. The actually measuring cups I have in my kitchen are labelled with both units, while my spoons have just imperial units.
Tradespeople still use a lot of Imperial units in their work, although some measurements in building and electrical codes are slowly being changed over to Metric.
If you're from a rural area, you'll probably be used to both systems, as our land was surveyed using the Imperial system, and farmland is still measured in acres and the rural road grid is based on miles.
The 'shoes off indoors' thing makes a lot of sense if you consider that most of Canada has 4-5 months of snow cover a year and muddy springs and autumns.
Very true the hat, mittens, gloves, scarf.....also lost hubcaps, once found, are often propped up so it is easily visible. Also, lost license plates...I've personally turned in a few lost license plates to the local Ontario Service Centre. They will find and contact the owner. Also, the holding the doors open thing...I have some friends who are professional performers. They were looking to leave Montreal and moved to a small town near me. What convinced them to do so? A teenage boy held the door open for them at that town's Timmy's. That simple courtesy won them over.
So apparently the milk bags thing is from the 1960/70s, when Canada converted to the metric system. Milk bags had just entered the market, and dairy producers found it easier to retrofit their assembly lines with bags than glass bottles.
THEN plastic jugs were introduced and milk bags fell out of use in a lot of areas. And then in the 80s, the rules regarding metric measurements were relaxed. So now we have 4 litres of milk in 3 little bags in some areas of the country, and plastic jugs in others. In my area of Ontario, plastic jugs are found in gas station convenience stores, and milk bags in grocery stores.
Hi Tyler!
The reason for the milk in bags is that when filling machines were converted from imperial to metric, bags were the most convenient choice of container for the machine to fill!
Pencil crayons don't make a lot of sense, but we just all use the name so it endures
Also, in the video about slang, the word "clicks" was mentioned as a replacement for Km. This is because in certain motor vehicles, the mechanism in the odometer used to make a click noise when the readout was updated; once every Km!
I hope this helps!
Pencil crayons makes perfect sense; another commenter laid out a very detailed explanation of why. The short version is that, since they're labeled in both English and French - Coloured Pencils/Crayons de Couleur - most kids are going to mistakenly read that as "Coloured Pencil Crayons" and ignore the French.
Also - you should look up how many American shows are filmed in Canada. You'd be surprised!
A lot of films set in Chicago are filmed in Winnipeg because Winnipeg's architecture in the Exchange District resembles Chicago. I know Shall We Dance was filmed in Winnipeg.
Probably cheaper too!
I have lived in a few places in BC , where I often left some of my windows and or doors unlocked . I recently found out that if someone broke in when there are windows and or doors unlocked my insurance will not cover damages or theft . Just a friendly suggestion to check with your insurance provider . Luckily I have not had any of my homes in Canada broken into . 🙏🏻🤞🙂
I live in the country, fields of wheat, locked doors are not necessary. But, I think in the cities am sure they lock their doors.