Australian Reacts To 'Canada Provinces And Territories Explained!'
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- Welcome to Australian Reacts, where an Australian reacts to 'Canada Provinces And Territories Explained! Geography Now'. Australian reacts is a series of checking out a whole range of international videos, based around history, peoples findings or even just random little facts. Some videos teach us more about a countries history and others open the door to something we never knew. Meanwhile any videos on Australia get measure up against real knowledge from a local of "the land down-under". Overall we get to see a glimpse of what this incredible world has to offer and have some laughs along the way!
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One correction: Toronto is the capital of Ontario, Ottawa is the capital of Canada. I think they should have done the provinces in order from one coast to the other instead of jumping all over the place and shown the map first while posting the statistics.
They decided on an alphabetic order...not the easiest to follow, unfortunately. You're right coast to coast to coast ismuch easier:
Provinces:
BC-Victoria
AB-Edmonton
SK-Regina
MB-Winnipeg
ON-Toronto
QC-Québec
NB-Fredricton
NS-Halifax
PEI-Charlottetown
NFLD&LBD-St. John's
Territories
YKT-Whitehorse
NWT-Yellowknife
Nunavut-Iqaluit (hope I got the spelling)
@@caralynne2809 Oh, I didn't even catch that they were doing it alphabetically, it seemed just random. lol But yeah, coast to coast would have been better.
That was painful. And the laws of territories are not all made directly by the federal government.
@@caralynne2809 you forgot Nunavut
@@slake9727 I did, oops...no offense...guess it's my pre-1995 education, it makes me forget since it wasn't a Territory at that time. Will remedy it 😀
There is a joke that your dog can run away in the prairies for 2 days and you can still see him..flat with not much of nothing to see..I am from Canada and am impressed you have taken such a great interest in our country. Great videos
Ha, well I guess Canada and Australia keep proving to be more and more similar!
There's lots to see on the plains! There's nothing to block the view.
I agree, except your smile and voice are addictive. My dog wont run farther than two kilometres from my house. I feed her twice a day :)
Saskatchewan. there's a cartoon on TV with a New York mafia family in the witness protection program that was relocated to Saskatchewan. that is what they are poking fun at.
To learn more about Saskatchewan culture, watch the Canadian TV comedy series Corner Gas.
Small error on the Ontario description. The capital of the province of Ontario is Toronto, not Ottawa. Ottawa, despite being located in Ontario, is the capital of the entire country.
The bilingual aspect of Canada is mostly tied into the country at the federal level. Federal politics requires bilingualism and regulations that generally apply to Canada as a whole include english & french requirements. Example being the requirement of nutritional information on food packaging sold in Canada overseen by CFIA (Canada Food Inspection Agency). This is why, for the most part, you will see english and french on packaging together, as it is a federally regulated issue. Also, any services provided by the federal government are required to provide service in both languages.
Aside from the obvious benefits, many people will try to learn english/french, whichever is their non-native language, as it opens more doors for careers at the federal level.
When it comes to each individual province, things differ greatly province to province. Quebec is 'officially' only french and New Brunswick is 'officially' bilingual. The other provinces are 'officially' english. Many people are bilingual in Quebec/Ontario/New Brunswick and across the country, so what is 'official' is mostly a regulatory element and not a reflection of the population as a whole at the individual level. Needless to say, the official language does influence the culture and regulations of the provinces.
Quebec has the highest percentage of bilingual population in Canada even if we are officially a French nation. Being surrounded by an ocean of English, it is useful to have more then a "yes/no/toaster" level of English, especially if you want to work in any kind of job where you have to interact with people. Even the cashier at the gas station or coffee shop needs at least a basic level of English for the odd customer who speaks English.
The territories have delegated powers, while the provinces have constitutional powers.
The territories do elect a legislature at the territory level but only have powers given to it by the federal government.
Provinces, have their powers listed in the constitution of Canada.
Stay safe, stay sane, be well
Thank you, I came down here to say just this. They still make autonomous decisions, they are elected, it's simply a difference in implementation.
@@AdamDavid Similar to how canada had autonomy under the british crown.
Fun fact- I live in Southwestern Ontario near London, Ontario. For me to drive out of my province to the west and stay inside Canada, it takes a full 24 hours of driving just to get out of my province.
Same, or ya know like 20 minutes east to Quebec.
@@michellamoureuxm From London, Ontario to Mattawa (on the Quebec border) is at least a five hour drive.
SK here, drove out to Niagara Falls which took ~36 hours of non-stop driving and pretty much 24 hours of it was spent in Ontario. So can confirm that very fun fact
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Can confirm. Saskatchewan/Manitoba; beautiful driving. Ontario; lots of drive hours to cover very little distance.
Alberta has a rat patrol. If anyone finds a rat, alive or dead, we call the rat patrol and they take care of it. Rat's can't cross the Rockies, so the rat patrol was set up as rat's were making their way here from the East.
as someone who was born in Newfoundland, Raised in Labrador, to Ontario and landing in Alberta the last 14 years. Alberta is indeed the Texas of Canada 😂
Cajuns didn't migrate to Louisiana, they were deported by the British who depossesed them of their homes.
That's still a migration, just a forced migration.
You should watch “Terry Fox Anything is Possible”
It’s very good.
In terms of geography, "The Prairies" are meant to refer to the flatter land in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba, which is in contrast to the Rockies in the west and the Appalachian mountains to the east. Canada is built a bit like a bucket in that sense if you looked at it from left to right, mountains on each side with a flat middle.
The US is the same. The prairies extend down to at least Kansas. Kansas, Saskatchewan, and Ukraine are all huge producers of wheat.
Since you've been doing Heritage Minutes, the Minute Joseph Tyrell is on the Dinosaur fields in Alberta and there is one about the Acadian Deportation. That little Alaska panhandle that you found strange used to be part of BC. When gold was found in the region, the US threatened to go to war over it, so rather than go to war the British gave it up. The Museum in Manitoba is indeed the one on the Viola Desmond $10 bill. On Newfoundland , Gander Newfoundland took in thousands of Plane People during 9/11. Called Operation Yellow Ribbon ( American reporter Tom Brokaw did a piece on this as well for the 2010 Olympics which I recommend) , a Tony award winning play was based on this. Most students in Canada are required to take 2 years of French usually around grade 7 & 8. This year, there was a maple syrup shortage ( production has been dropping off mostly due to climate change. It's not getting cold enough long enough for a good sap run) and Canada had to tap that reserve that amazed you.
We have a fun saying here in Alberta: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes".
Our average temp range in the winter thanks to a phenomenon known as a "Chinook" fluctuates so wildly it's insane. This winter alone we've jumped between -50c all the way up to +26c.
Just super jazzed in general to have someone online FINALLY learn about my province. Those out east and even BC tend to outshine us publically 🤣
And yeah, I've used that line to explain my province to international friends: Alberta is the Texas of Canada. Oil, cowboys, and dirt.
RAT FREE!: yes! We are the only place in the world (aside from the arctics) that doesnt have any rats. A long time ago the provincial Gov set up some sorta buffer zone between Saskatchewan and Alberta where they even went so far as to poison crops the rats were attracted to. We have a provincial number to call for rat sightings and we take a moderate amount of pride in this fact ^-^ (I've gone my whole life and have never seen a rat in Alberta. Plenty of field mice/house mice, but no rats)
I experianced my first Chinook when I went to see my Dad in Calgary it felt weird to be outside in the winter without a jacket
Our Albertan quote that us Albertans have actually connects us that much more with Texas. I have friends all over the world, I was blown away when a friend from Texas had another Texan friend use that phrase. They have the same mindset that it’s a Texas phrase.
Plain and Prairie are 2 different words describing the same thing. It's a vast continental grain belt that straddles the Canada-US border. Then US portion is called the Great Plains while our side is referred to as the Prairie. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are Canada's 3 prairie provinces. You may remember the word prairie from a 1970s US tv show called 'Little House on the Prairie'.
Only half of Manitoba is Prairie, same as Alberta
@@daniellysohirka5079 Only about 25% of Manitoba is prairie, a third in Saskatchewan, and half of Alberta. The term 'prairie province' isn't in reference to what % is prairie but due to the fact these 3 provinces are where the prairie is located.
Also, the prairie region is the result of an ancient seabed that eventually turned to grassland. That's also why the soil is so fertile.
Nobody says poutine is “good for you.” Plenty of people say poutine is “heart attack on a plate.” It tastes reeeeeeeeal good, though!
Windsor Ont is the most southern mainland city point in Canada. Windsor is actually South of Detroit Michigan.
I'm from Montreal and spent a year in Paris, France. How the accents compare depends. There are many different accents in France, like in every country. Same with in Quebec. Remember, France fits into Quebec like 2 or 3 times. Even though all of the north of Quebec is empty, there is still great distance east/west, and there are some pretty different accents/slang, believe me.
I like to say that French Canadian accents are to French accents as English Canadian accents are to English accents.
17:00 Quebec is recognized as a nation within a nation. To most Quebeckers or Québécois, our Quebec nationality comes before our Canadian one. You can live your whole life without using English at all in Quebec, beside mandatory English class in school. French is also very protected in Quebec because we have had to fight to keep speaking our language. To be able to go to school in English in Quebec at least one of your parents must have gone to school in English, otherwise French school in mandatory. Beside the language, we also have a different origin, history, culture and even a completely different legal system from the ROC (Rest of Canada). Quebec's legal system is based on the French system and not the English one. That is for civil laws, as criminal laws are a federal jurisdiction.
18:30 The 2nd red light is a backup so if the red burns out, there is still one, so you don't cross the intersection on a red light, other then that we have yellow and green. Don't need a backup for yellow and green because you won't cause an accident crossing the intersection on those.
Alberta is rat free (claimed). They have all these protocols for reporting seen rats and they send out teams to exterminate the problem immediately (as well as a bunch of other protocols around trains, planes etc.)
Also they can’t really enter the province from the west because of the mountains. We’ve got loads of rats in BC.
😂 not all Canadians have a secret stash of maple syrup on them at all times 😂 but we do like to play up sterio types to mess with non Canadians 😂
what do you mean I do
British Columbia: Canada's California
Alberta: Canada's Texas
Saskatchewan: Canada's Nebraska
Manitoba: Canada's Minnesota
Ontario: Canada's New York
Quèbec: Canada's France
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island: Canada's England
Nova Scotia: Canada's Scotland
Newfoundland: Canada's Ireland
Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut: Canada's Alaska
The point about French in Quèbec being different from French in France: Quèbec French is basically French as it would have sounded 500 years ago. For French speakers from mainland France, it's like stepping into a time machine.
Cape Spear, Newfoundland is not only the Easternmost point in Canada, but in all of North America.
Accurate
13:18 Toronto is the capital of the province of Ontario; Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
Guy from Québec here, born and raised in Montréal. 🙂
- Our official language is indeed French, which is the native language of approximately 80% of the population. It is different from the French spoken in France or Belgium, for example, but it shares most of its characteristics. Our accent is also different, which is not surprising at all considering the distance, and even varies between cities and regions of the province.
- Since French is our official language, most newspapers, schools, etc. are indeed in French. We also have our own star system, TV shows, music, literature, etc.
- A typical academic path in Québec includes mandatory English classes during 13 years: 6 years in elementary school, 5 years in high school and 2 years in CEGEP (a kind of technical/pre-university school).
- The same can't be said about the rest of Canada; according to Wikipedia : "There are no mandatory core French class in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and second-language courses are mandatory only in BC."
- For that reason, most people from Québec understand English pretty well, and I'd say around 50% of us can hold a decent conversation. However, outside of Québec, it can be really hard to find someone who understands you when you speak French. That being said, there are several smaller French-speaking communities outside the Belle Province.
- Like many people here, I learned English in school, since I grew up 100% in French. My day-to-day life is also entirely in French; I can't even remember the last time I had to speak English with someone.
- In other words, Québec is basically a nation living within a country. 🙂
Québécoise ici aussi but my family is a little different from the "standard" Québécois family, at least on my dad's side. My Great-grand-mother was Finish (from Finland) her family immigrated to Ontario. She married a Québécois but lived in Ontario. My grand-mother married a Québécois, they had their 10 kids in Ontario but moved to Montreal when my dad was 5 (he's the 9th kid). They all grew up bilingual. Some of the kids moved back to Ontario as adults some stayed in Quebec. One married an English (from England). My generation are mostly bilingual, but some use more English and some more French. I have cousins I consider Anglophone with French as second language and some Francophone with English as second language and sometimes they have the same parents. Depends on the preference of individual. In family gatherings it is not uncommon to start a conversation in French, switch to English, return to French, etc. For my own kids, I raised them bilingual from birth, so we speak both languages at home. (Also my husband was born and grew up in Ontario until he was 10, from Québécois parents, because his dad was doing a doctorate at Toronto University) School personnel were confused at first why kids with 100% French names spoke English so well and I had to remind my kids to speak in French at school more then once.
@@isabelleblanchet3694 Interesting! Funny story: my paternal grandfather was of American descent and my maternal grandfather was of Irish descent -- both anglophones. They also both married Québécoises who wanted their kids to be raised exclusively in French. And in my family, women pretty much always have the final say. 😅 So my parents and their brothers/sisters have a very, very basic level of English, even though they all had an anglophone dad. 🤔
@@notthatnick5546 Sounds like my mom's side. My mother's grand-mother did not speak French and my mother does not speak more then yes/no/toaster kind of English.
Saskatchewan also has a large oil reserves, mining for potash, uranium... We grow a large amount of Mustard, oil seeds and grains.
Fun Fact: The province of Alberta was originally given to French Canadians as a new francophone country. After the migration of francophones to Alberta and colonizing the province, the federal government did a 180 and settled a bunch of European immigrants in Alberta, thereby out numbering the French Canadians who were STUCK there because they didn't have the means to return to Québec!
This story is true. I am in my sixties and my father told me this. It was my own grandfather and great-grandfather that helped colonize Alberta. Although my grandfather came to Ontario during the Great Depression, my great-grandfather is buried in Alberta and most of my dad's many cousins, aunts and uncles stayed in Alberta and their descendants still live there.
You’ll never see that truth in a history book!
I never knew this. Merci.
@@donofon101 My dad was born in Morinville. His siblings were born in Legal, Saint-Vincent and other French towns.
A truth you can find in a history book is why that "migration" map of New Brunswick blew his mind. As an Anglo NBer the shortest story, is best for making me feel less bad. England and France are at war, as usual, in 1774. The contest North America. In 1775, GB searches out the French colonists of Acadie and offers an either or proposition. Swear loyalty to GB to keep your land or get in the boat. Many did stay. Many did set sail. Crazy map.
@@trudycolborne2371 The English Canadians of today have no idea the hell they imposed on French Canadians! Especially outside of Québec. The worst part is that the racism is still very much alive today! At least in my province it is. Since 1759 we have been fighting against them and they still haven’t learned that they will never win against the French Canadians.
@@danielfortier2629 That's not my experience here. New Brunswick is the only bilingual province though. It wouldn't make much sense to be bigoted against a third of the population who live beside us. I don't know why you're fighting your own neighbours. What do you think should be done for Canada's First Nations people?
Interesing fact about the north: in the winter time, the sun doesnt come up for the whole season - it only gets about as bright as dusk.. During the summer season, the sun doesnt go down - just goes around in circles .. 12 midnight is as bright as 12 noon.
About the maple syrup reserve: main reason is retail price stability and revenue stability. Maple syrup is almost exclusively run by small producers. So the reserve is made to help stabilize the market in bad seasons or too good of a season.
Basically a savings account you can dip into when paycheck is a little lower and you still need to pay rent. (Demand being rent)
Pelee Point is the southernmost point in Canada on Lake Erie. It's a few 100 kilometers south of Niagra Falls. It's slightly north of the northern point of California
Being Newfie I'm biting my tongue but I will add, that comedy skit was obviously an extremely and poorly exaggerated example of our many accents. Now back to the tongue biting.
P.S. PEI I'm biting it a little for you guys also.
When describing Saskatchewan as a "Prairie Province" means most of it is prairie, as in all grasslands. There are no trees in the southern half of the province. It is also very flat. In terms of the "bread basket" it produces a lot of wheat and durum. They also produce the most lentils in the world. They also produce a lot of canola, chick peas and other cash crops. They do produce some corn, but it is mostly used for feed, as they do have a lot of beef farms. Saskatchewan is a very dry province, almost desert like, however, the northern half of the province does get a little more rain, but the growing season is short, so the selection of crop is limited. If you want to learn more about Saskatchewan, I highly suggest watching vids from Mike Mitchell, he has a channel that shows the daily activities of a farmer in Saskatchewan. He owns one of the largest farms in Canada. th-cam.com/channels/RDywryGtWBmac-O4AReYpA.html
Quebec is my home province so I can explain the horizontal traffic lights. There are two red lights that are square on the outside. On the inside, the amber light is diamond-shaped and the green light is round. This was adopted by Quebec because it's much easier for colour-blind people to know which is which.
10:30 First the province name is Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland is one word not two. The island on Newfoundland has its own timezone which is 30 minutes later than Atlantic time which Labrador uses. Newfoundland was once a separate nation (dominion) like Australia and Canada but it failed and lost self-government and was taken over by the UK before deciding to join Canada.
Don't worry about the traffic lights in Quebec. No one pays attention to them anyway. The most exciting ride I was ever on in my lifetime was a taxi ride from the airport to downtown Montreal. I lost count of the traffic violations before we even left the airport area.
i dont beleive you took time to write this unappropriate and false information. Good exemple of the lack of respect of englisg canadians
@@jeanbolduc5818 Were you in that cab. I don't think so. By the way the driver was Italian.
I'll add a little more as the host didn't seem to know. Saskatchewan may be known for grain but it's also the Canadian Football (not soccer) heartland. It's probably the only province where hockey isn't #1. The Saskatchewan Roughriders football team are religion there. It's also the province that gave Canada medicare (public health care). Manitoba is home to the Canadian Mint. Labrador (part of Newfoundland & Labrador) is where the dog breed, Lab/Labrador Retriever comes from.
Ottawa also has a mint, not just Winnipeg.
@@cassandrakerwin417 Sure but Winnipeg is the main facility. Ottawa makes collector coins while Winnipeg produces the entire supply of Canadian circulation coins & foreign coins.
Most of us live close to the American border and get their TV stations on basic cable growing up. Territories do have Governments. Alberta is on the map between Saskatchewan and BC. It is big oil, cattle and country music - the Texas of the north.
I am from Hamilton,Ontario Canada. Between Toronto and Niagara Falls!
The large vehicles you saw in Churchill are called tundra buggies. They are a custom built ATV, specifically made for viewing polar bears. You would be surprised at the number of tourists worldwide that travel to Churchill. Just for the bears. Manitoba also has the largest number of French Canadians outside of Quebec! There are small towns all over Manitoba who only speak French. My mother-in-law’s own mother never ever learned to speak English! Thanks for the great video!
Only reason I know a lot of smaller Canadian towns or cities is that as a Latvian I follow hockey and Canadian junior leagues, QMJHL, WHL and OHL, and they have teams of all kinds of smaller places
Yo someone from Saskatchewan here! a prairie aka a steppe is a large grassland plains area, and the main difference between a steppe and a parrie is parries have taller grass.
I'm from Hamilton, Ontario as well (about 1 hour drive west of Toronto) and now live near Vancouver, British Columbia. I've been to every province, except Newfoundland and Labrador and have yet to get to any of the Territories. There is a Heritage Moment about the Klondike Gold Rush but it deals mostly with the North West Mounted Police (early form of the RCMP) and how they kept out, most the 'undesirable' elements from the Gold Fields. The Bay of Fundy photos were of Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick, a short drive south of Moncton. The Confederation Bridge connects PEI to the rest of Canada, opened in 1997. It is 12.9-kilometre (8.0 mi) bridge is Canada's longest bridge and the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. Before it was built you could only get there by ferry or plane.
I find funny as a Saskatchewan resident that he thought that Saskatchewan gets floods when we here are getting record settings high temperatures and droughts.
I live on Prince Edward Island. Yes the squeaking sand is true. We are covered with beaches but only 1 makes the loud squeaky sound. We call them the singing sands. Its not a normal sound here.
Winnipeg, also called 'Winterpeg'. winter -40c for weeks, summer +40c for weeks. Land flat as a pool table like Saskatchewan.
Hey man great video!! "Je me souviens" is the devise of the 22 royal regiment aka the Vandooz wich is in service since WW1. Keep up the good work!
Wrong!
« Je me souviens » was written by Eugène-Étienne Taché in 1883 :
Je me souviens / Que né sous le lys / Je croîs sous la rose.
Translated to:
I remember / That born under the lily / I grow under the rose.
(I.e.: the Lily being the floral symbol of France, and the Rose the one for England)
@@Locutus_5618 Alexandre Chabot is not wrong. He never claimed ‘Je me souviens’ on license plates is derived from an army regiment’s motto, only that they share it. But of course you are right about its origin ☺
I've lived in 4 provinces from the Bay of Fundy to the Pacific.
Prince Edward Island is named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent & Strathearn, the only member of the royal family to live in Canada.
One o the 'sayings' of Saskatchewan is - it's so flat you can sit on your front porch and watch your dog runaway for three days before it's over the horizon. It's flatter than piss on a platter. It has two parks with live sand dunes.
One of my great grandfathers went to the Klondike gold rush and was never heard of again. Just south of the Yukon in BC, next to the Alaskan panhandle is the Golden Triangle, where loads of gold, silver, copper and other minerals are plentiful. Canada is one country that doesn't bother with maintaining a gold reserve. The Queen's private jewellery collection has a number of examples of Canadian diamonds, sapphires, platinum, etc.
Before radio and cinema killed off piano owning and home entertainment, Ontario was the piano maker of the British Empire.
Many of the people of Quebec were from Normandy & Brittany, from before France ended up speaking just one modern dialect. When Quebecois troops landed in Normandy the residents were surprised at the old French they spoke.
Prairies... Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. All flat (except the mountains start in Alberta) it's all grain and cattle farming. It's a vast expanse similar to the outback in Australia
Saskatchewan has some oil and lots of Potash!
The Prairies are flat grasslands, mostly.
@badplay156 Only about the southern third. The north country is all soft hills, lakes and boreal forest. It's really pretty.
With a ton of mosquitoes and black flies LOL@@Sotto_
@@Kiera_Jackson74
Yes, but not as bad as Manitoba and Northern Ontario. Those can be provincial birds there. Thank goodness for cold winters.
Ontario's capital is Toronto, Ottawa is the national capital. Windsor is the southern most city, Point Pelee the southern most land and a few islands in Lake Erie southern most place. Prairie land is grasslands, think large grazing lands for buffalo, horses etc
This guy seems so sweet! Love from Canada!
I was born on Vancouver Island, my father worked in the logging industry, I wouldn't necessarily say that it was full of hippies, unless you go to Gabriola Island, which just off of the eastern side of Vancouver Island, you take a small ferry from Nanaimo. The prairie provinces are (as they are collectively called): Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. My father was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and my mother's father was born in Tuxford, Saskatchewan, which not far from Moose Jaw. Also I wanted to mention about what they said about Ontario, Ottawa is the Capital of Canada, while Toronto is the Capital of Ontario, their text was a little misleading. Also the Acadians did not leave Nova Scotia by their own merits. Here is a quick video that explains the Acadian Expulsion from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, th-cam.com/video/KbjrUAl3yBs/w-d-xo.html
FYI : Bosnia is NOT a landlocked country as he thought. Croatia does run down the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic but there is less than a 200 meter gap that gives BIH access to the sea. It's really hard to see on a map. I drove it so I know first hand.
If you want more information on the Acadians or Cajuns have a look at the heritage moments Acadian deportation
In 2018, a young man of 22, from Quebec, rode his bike across Canada. It took him 4 months. The video is 1hr 20min. I found it a fun video to watch if you would like to check out each province as experienced by Timmy. His channel is: The Adventures of Timmy Léger ALSO DownieLIve is a Canadian from BC. He spent 10 weeks traveling across Canada by train, stopping in every province. Each week, he uploads his experiences traveling to and in the next province on his itinerary. With you mentioning that you would like to visit Canada one day, I thought you may enjoy watching the videos from Tim & MIke Downey :)
Originally from Toronto Ontario and now live in Northern Ontario in French River. I am just a 45 minutes drive to Sudbury the largest city in Northern Ontario.
Capital city of Ontario is Toronto (where the seat of government is located) Ottawa is the Nation's Capital.
Manitoba - They forgot that there's an important francophone presence in Manitoba.
New Brunswick is NOT the "second most populous French speaking province." That would be ONTARIO, NOT NEW BRUNSWICK!!! Obviously this Canadian guy doesn't know much about francophones in Canada. Besides the francophone population of New Brunswick don't have the same culture as Québec. They have their own history and way of speaking. Most of them don't have ancestors that came from Québec! Personally I never heard New Brunswick referred to as "petit Québec". Like I said, I don't know where this Canadian is getting his information from.
The Cajun people were DEPORTED by the English. They did NOT migrate to Louisiana. They were FORCED to go there. It's called "The Great Deportation". It wasn't a little thing. Families were separated and deported to different areas. It was a terrible thing! Strange how the English Canadians tend to forget the truth!
I live on Prince Edward Island. The "singing" sands at Basin Head beach is unique because our Island is primarily sandstone so most other beaches are a red clay sand. Basin head beach sand is primarily silica so it's a pink/white sand. Australia sands are quartz...hence all of your beaches "sing" but Basin Head sand is audibly loud....very freaky.
Great video man! Wish they touched more on Nova Scotia
Thanks, I guess there is always more to learn!
ive been to Montreal and 90% of the people and all of the businesses speak very good English as well. Its a very European vibe, people dress much more fashionably and have a cafe culture (people sit out on the sidewalk and drink cocktails, coffee and tea after work) Very cool place. About the accent, if I remember correctly, France sent settlers to the colonies from specific regions and classes in France so they all were one language and culture. In France, after the revolution, the Parisian dialect became the de facto way to speak French.
Most of our ancestors came from regions in the North of France where they spoke the "langue d'oil" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl , mines were mostly from Normandie and my husband's from Picardie.
They are completely wrong when they say that "people in major cities" in Quebec are all bilingual, or that newspapers, TV and radio are all in English. WTF.
Canada's southernmost point is Middle Island, which is in Lake Erie about 5 km south of Pelee Island.
yes new Brunswick is officially bilingual meaning every street sign has both english and french quebec only has french ontario has both in the eastern part of suthern ontario but most places its just english. its funny on an Inuit reservation in northern quebec the stop signs are in french and Inuit but the res sign in that shape is the national sign for stop no matter what language it is in
growing up in New Brunswick I was surprised when I went out of the province that the rest of the county's street signs were either in French or Enlish, not in both. Also I've heard of horror storys of peaple flying to Saint John, N.B. and their luggage ending up in St.John's, N.L. because of how similar the names are.
The vehicle at 7:37 is a tundra buggy. Here's a young Obi-Wan Kenobi about to drive one onto Hudson's Bay... th-cam.com/video/lJae_m0T6Cs/w-d-xo.html
Manitoba is always described as a prairie province but I would say the prairie portion is quite small. In reality we have everything from deserts, to boreal forest, to huge lake districts, to tundra. I have a friend who works as a chef on Via Rail and she's gone north and south between Winnipeg and Churchill hundreds of times, usually shuttling Japanese and American tourists to see the polar bears. Some hearty people make that trip the old fashioned way, in a canoe. There was a great series years ago called Quest For The Bay, where a group tried to recreate the voyage of ancient fur traders all the way to Hudson Bay in York boats!
Love your Canadian videos! Something on our First Nations, would make for a great video
The territories do warm up in the summer months. The Klondike happened year round. No doubt digging for gold was better in the warmer months.
Proud person from Prince Edward Island and the singing sands are a thing. Maybe in Australia all the sands sing but my cottage is 30 minutes away on the same side of the island and the sand make no noise.
I’m waiting for you to put your singing sand to the test
BC also has it's own Rainforest. As well as know for their orchards. Their fruit often makes it all over the world. My husband used to eat it when he worked in India. Alberta also has a desert and is part of Tornado alley. It also has a national park that has no foothills. It is prairie then straight mountains. It is also one of Alberta's most beautiful but windy places, also the animals there have the right of way. The park is open ueat round but tourists usally onlycome for 4 monthsof the year, so when they are there becauseit is basically left wild, it isn't unusual for or streets etc to he closed off till a cougar or bear pass through. They even had to creat signs that depict a deer attacking, becausethe will come up to you, but if you feed them or try to pet them or get to close th their young they have a tendencyto get aggressive. Saskatchewan also is one of the world's largest producers of legumes. It is true Saskatchewan is very "flat" but they also have 100,000 lakes. Northern Saskatchewan has quite the forested area though part of the Boreal forest which touches every province and territory in Canada. In Churchill Manitoba it is illegal to lock you vehicle doors, just incase someone needs to escape a polar bear. Manitoba like Alberta has areas where French is the primary language mostly in small towns though. Some places in Manitoba are trilingual French, English, German, First Nations. Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and Waterton Alberta, were used for storage of liquor by citizens of the USA during their Prohibition. Ontario has Ice wine. Ontario, BC , Alberta and Quebec all have a thriving film Industry many movies TV shows are filmed here, other provinces and territories as well. Toronto has large film festivals and the most culturally diverse. I haven't been to all the province and territories YET but I am an Information junkie so this is all I can verify so far. Also Blackflies are horrible in some of the territories and parts of Ontario. My father worked from the North Pole and all across the Yukon and territories, as well as Northern Ontario. Oh and the size of Wood Buffalo National Park is bigger than Switzerland to give you an idea of the size. As well if you took all the islands of Japan and kinda flipped them around like a puzzle, you could fit three Japan's in Alberta. I know a ridiculous about of little tidbits of everyone I visit but here are some of the better known.
Resident of Drumheller here, you need to check out the Royal Tyrell Museum.
I think we need to react to you reacting to this. - Love Canadians
Go for it! Would be great to get the other sides perspective :)
When I was in Melbourne a Tasmanian chap said, you can substitute Newfy (or Newfoundlander) in a joke and it would be fitting.
Oh! I'm from Hamilton, Ontario, too!
The Klondike Goldrush picture was actually a HUGE PASS ( I forget the name ) to get through the mountains going to and from the area known as the Klondike which had a large river system...there were very few actual " mines " they panned gold from the rivers. YES they had summer!!! warmer weather down in the valley's and the rivers thawed in the spring , you'd try to time your passage for more favorable weather through the mountains and once on the other side you had rough shanty towns made of whatever bits of canvas and wood/logs and mud...lot's and lot's of mud...which refroze in winter! Took a long time to get more modernization in many area's that far north. Summer months can actually be pleasant up there now and have warmed up considerably in the last 20yrs or so. Research has found while the summer season is short there is longer daylight garden are actually possible with help from some green housing while plants are young depending on species. Fruits and veggies tend to be sweeter due to longer exposer to sunlight!!!
the Chilkoot pass
@@seankennedy1903 Yep - Featured in the old Jack London novels.
I live in Sackville -- approx. 50kms away from Moncton. It's pronounced as "monk-ton", but without the hyphen separation and almost skipping the "o" in the ton. Just kind of say it quickly.
Also, blueberry syrup > maple syrup. My husband disagrees, but he's a BC boy. Blueberry syrup is actually more of a Nova Scotia thing. We live 15 minutes away from the nearest Nova Scotia town. Sackville is a bordertown. We're in NB, but closer to NS.
The French in Quebec, is close to the French spoken in France in the 16/17th. Century!
The yellow areas are also largely wheat farms and ranch land .
As an Albertan, I have never seen a rat inside of Alberta. Plenty of mice and other critters. No rats.
I'm from Alberta... we are Rat Free. The rats can't travel over the mountains from the west, or the vast cold prairies from the east. The only way in is by trains and trucks, usually hauling grain... but we have rat patrols that we can report sightings to, and they will come and exterminate them. I can honestly say I have never seen a rat in Alberta in my lifetime.
Re Newfoundland having its own time zone. There's an old Canadian joke: "How do you tell if there's a Canadian in the room? You announce 'The world will end at 8 PM, 8:30 in Newfoundland' ".
That stored maple syrup isn't for emergency, it that you just end up producing that much maple syrup but in order keep supply low and prices high they store it away to keep it off the market.
The southern most point in Ontario is Windsor which is on the border with Detroit.
What I find so bizarre is I can drive to Canada in about 6 hours but we never really learned much about Canada in school. I bet we learned more about Mexico in school than we did Canada. The strangest part is a good chunk of Wisconsin was in Canada for a long period.
French in Quebec vs France is like comparing Australian accent to american accent. And we have ( being in a large province ) alot of sub-accent. Quebec protect french as Heritage or else it would have passed to english by now (Je me souvient) i remember my french heritage. Ps. In New Brunswick they have what we call Franglais (Français + Anglais) where they mix alot of word and you end up understanding 1/2 if not bilingual --- Radio-radio Jacuzzi song for example
"Je me souviens" is the devise of the 22 royal regiment aka the Vandooz wich is in service since WW1. Your information is incorrect
@@jeanbolduc5818 as yours is not totally complete. "Je me souviens" is the devise of the province of Québec since 1883. Eugène Étienne-Taché, the architect of the Parliement of Québec engraved it. The 22 royal regiment chose that devise as well in 1914 if I remember correctly.
And Manitoba French is different from the rest but similar enough that you would be anle to get your point across
Prairies means flat grasslands. In tye US, they refer to those states as "Plains" states whereas in Canada, we call them "Prairie Provinces." (Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba)
I've seen bay of fundy. It really is amazing.
when I bought my house I had a friend who rented a room from me for a few months. he was born in British Columbia. Very interesting. He was mostly black with some first nations ancestors and he noticed how people treated him when he came to the states -meaning not very nice as he didnt look white enough to be seen as white and he had no connection to american slavery or american southern culture so many black people also didnt immediately connect.
The Territories are not independently run due to immense size and low population. Adding another level of government would be horribly costly for everyone living there. Here is what I mean:
Yukon Territory has a population of 42,986 people in an area of 482,443 square kilometers.
Nunavut has a population of 33,403 people in an area of 2,093,000 square kilometers.
Northwest Territory has a population of 45,504 in an area of 1,346,000 equated kilometers.
In an area of 3,921,443 square kilometers, the total population is only 121,893. It is almost incomprehensible how sparsely populated that vast area truly is.
The Easternmost Province is Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland is the island, Labrador is part of the mainland. Both were British Colonies until 1949 when the two joined Confederation and became the 10th Province.
The boys are wrong. Ottawa is the Capital City of the Dominion. The Provincial Capital is Toronto.
Quebeçois is a French dialect most closely related to French as spoken in Medieval times. It is fun to hear a person from France trying and failing to converse with someone from Quebec! Acadian is even more different.
Poutine is very similar to English cheesey chips, but with cheese curds instead of cheddar cheese.
Just so you know, -40 degrees is considered a warm day in the winter in any of the Territories. Nighttime lows of -60 are quite common. Too cold for my blood. My brother can have it. Would like to drive up and see for myself. It is 5,300 kilometers each way from where I am in Ontario. The old car should make it. The old boy only has 613,000 kilometers on the clock.
the bay of fundy is visible from my kitchen, lol
New Foundland is a province. There are 3 territories they are Yukon, North West Territories and Nunivit.
alberta does take care of any rat problem , only a very few get in and they are hunted out if nests are found ,, remember we have alot of plains to grow wheat and other things they could destroy
Hi from BC and no not like California and we're not mostly hippies we are just regular coastal people, I'm half Native and live just off a beach on my People's original village sight (me personally don't like maple syrup) but we do have a hiking trail that goes through our place and I make and sell fudge and crafts to the hikers in my house store.
I spent 8 mos in Tassie. Newfoundland and Tasmania are very analogous. Half day ferry ride to the mainland; N Sydney NS to Port aux Basques...Devonport. to Melbourne., Two larger population centers: St Johns and Cornerbrook vs Hobart and Launceston. Very nice harbours in both St Johns and Hobart. Lots of smaller semi rural or rural towns in both. English, Scots , Irish settlers. Forestry, fisheries and mining are main occupations. Lots of Hydro electric installations. Both islands virtually exterminated Aboriginal Populations (Beotuks in NFLD... Tasmanian Aborigines in Tassie.) BOGANS everywhere! LOL! (Just kidding!) I was at U Tas in Lonnie (AMC).
18:12 it's also a slightly different variation of French, aka Acadian french, we use 1700s french with some holes filled, instead of the newer slang heavy french. Makes it incredibly annoying to remember, Canadian french isn't know by it's rules, it's the 27 exceptions to those rules you gotta remember.
Most Canadians have some exposure to french in school. For me it was from grade 6 to 9, but they started in grade 3 after that. I took it in high school, too, voluntarily. Unfortunately I never really got to exercise it after that, so I'm still useless beyond very basic stuff.
During the gold rush the border was contested between the Yukon and Alaska and Canada lost a city just on the Canadian side of the border due the fact Britain had the deciding vote and wanted to keep The US happy.
Quebec is like poutine. It's not necessarily good for you but we love it anyway.
Look into doing a short clip on Hans Island. You'll get a smile out of it!
The capital of Ontario is Toronto not Ottawa. Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
There’s millions of Canadians that don’t speak any French, particularly in BC, myself included lol
MOST English-speaking (aka 'anglophone') Canadians are required to take mandatory French classes through grade 8 - so Junior Kindergarten (JK), Senior Kindergarten (SK), and then grades 1-8, plus any extra courses they choose to sign up for through grade 12, if they want to pursue it further than that. In the country's most populous province of Ontario, I know that nearly every home-speaking anglophone student is also offered the opportunity to attend a "French immersion program/school" if their parents so choose - in an effort to help their kids develop as naturally bilingual as possible. However, I do not believe the same is true for francophones (who speak French as a first language, primarily in Quebec; however I have never lived in QC, so PLEASE correct me if I am wrong!). Thus, most Canadians usually know the most general words to help them get by in Quebecois or Acadian French territory...e.g. Out est les toilettes?; Bonjour!; Merci!; Merde! (careful with this one, it is technically a swear word and essentially means sh**! lol); Combien?; Je parle [soulement - my own added word] un peu français; Parlez-vous anglais? (Do you speak English?); etc.
As for the southern most point in ontario, I happen to live in the most southerly town in all of Canada, kingsville ontario :)
Territories do in fact have their own Governments. However they do not have a Lieutenant Governor. Their Laws are approved and signed off on by the Federal Government in the same way a Provincial Law is given Royal Assent. They also don't have the same rights as a Province. Territories can be split up or have their borders changed much more easily that the Provinces can. In fact Canada only had 2 Territories when I was growing up. The North West Territories were actually split into NWT and Nunavut when I was in High School I believe.
I rarely consume Maple Syrup... I have however tapped a tree as a kid.
Alberta is actually rat free. They do get across the border but Alberta is very proactive in dealing with rats. Because of the way it was settled it was possible to basically keep rats out.