Australian Reacts To 'Explaining Canada To Americans!
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- Welcome to Australian Reacts, where an Australian reacts to 'Explaining Canada To Americans, Tom Brokaw'. 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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YOU MUST look into how Canada dealt with the planes of 911. It is so emotional and touching and demonstrative of Canadian spirit at it's best.
I agree!
There’s a great documentary called “you are here; a come from away story”
It’s about the town of Gander NL and how they helped the stranded passengers
There are other stories about the 911 section. Gander Newfoundland. There is also a Broadway show done about it called Come From Away. You may come across the story of a couple from Australia that were stranded in Gander. 60 Minutes Australia
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I think at one point the play came to Australia.
The Highway of Heroes is a section of Ontario's Highway 401 running between Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton and Toronto. You were not looking at a Government precession. but a funeral precession, that happened for every single Canadian Soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. Every bridge crossing that section of the 401 between Trenton and Toronto would have Police, fire fighters and civilians of all sorts lining them as the vehicles carrying the family of the fallen soldier and the hearse carrying the fallen would pass by. That section of highway is about 171 km long, and literally every bridge crossing that highway was lined with those paying their respects and giving their thanks. A truly Canadian phenomenon.
I can remember coming down the 401 from the cottage and every single bridge was packed with people and flags.
Possibly the longest funeral procession ever.
Yeah, that’s something I really love about my country ❤ 🇨🇦
@@laurafedora5385 same here!
my nephew drove his last mile on the Highway of Heroes ...and he was
Suprised in all the videos they've never mentioned our vast oil resources before... We have the 3rd largest proven oil reserves on the planet. And not to mention the most fresh water of any country.
So much more unfortunately that people are ignorant too
For now....until you know who comes knocking with gun in hand from down below.
Too much water in plenty of areas right now. Anyone want some? If Australia will come fetch it they can have it.
More lakes than the entire rest of the world combined.
The -81 in Snag, Yukon was in Fahrenheit; it's only -63 in Celsius. I live in the Klondike (north of where Snag is), and we regularly get into the -50'sC. You just dress for it! Well, other things as well: my truck has a block heater, battery warmer, oil pan heater, and transmission warmer all on the one plug-in. The tires freeze into their shape, meaning "square wheels" while driving until they thaw out a bit. We have ladders on our roofs so you can go up to clean the chimneys. And so on. Life goes on!
The multiple hockey rinks on the lake? That's the world pond hockey tournament in New Brunswick. Pond hockey, or "shinny" is sort of an informal version of "real" hockey. It's the kind of hockey average Canadians play at the local outdoor rink over the winter. Lots of fun. Give it a try when you visit the Bay of Fundy! You ARE going in winter, right?
Brokaw expresses that surprise you get from a lot of Americans when he says "Canada was in WW2 before we were?!". It always makes me chuckle. EVERYONE was in WW2 before the Americans haha. Same with WW1. Canada was of course in both wars from the very beginning, and it declared war on it's own behalf and not because Britain or anyone else told us to.
Here's a little known war fact...in WW2, when German prisoners were in Canadian POW camps, some of them would try to escape to the USA because it was a neutral country. Only one of them actually made it back to Germany. Franz von Werra escaped from his prison transport train and walk over the frozen St. Lawrence River to New York state where he was temporarily detained for immigration reasons. They made a movie about it called The One That Got Away. Actually the history of German POWs in Canada is an interesting one. After the war many of them stayed and became Canadians. Here is a documentary about that story if you're interested... th-cam.com/video/dHbrPBH6b88/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, Ken Taylor the Canadian diplomat in Iran during the hostage crisis. The movie Argo does a good retelling of that story. For years we Canadians thought Taylor had planned that entire escape. He didn't. It was run by a CIA man named Tony Mendez. Taylor was heroic during the ordeal and took great personal risk to save the Americans but it's doubtful he would have been able to get those people out without the expertise of Mendez. Anyway, cool story and a really good movie.
Lastly, the thing about the 9/11 flights. Everyone kinda knows the story of Gander and all the other places which took in the passengers. That's a great story. But the thing to remember is WHY did they divert all those planes away from US airspace. It was because they didn't know how many more suicide planes there were. Could be one, could be a dozen, no one really knew. Before Canada started Operation Yellow Ribbon to remove these potential dangers from US airspace there must have been a pause, "Do we really want them in OUR airspace? Will they look for secondary targets?". As the story goes there was indeed a pause, but only a very slight one, before jumping into it 100%. I'm quite proud of that reaction by Canadian authorities.
The 239 flights were international flights inbound to US airspace, when they were ordered to the closest Canadian airports. The biggest story was gander, newfoundland, a city of about 10,000 people.
The musical Came from away is all about that here a trailer th-cam.com/video/Af77C4zUkjs/w-d-xo.html
@@superandrew2000 Also, they made a documentary about it, the true story behind the muscial, and the events in Gander, really good doc; Trailer: th-cam.com/video/KYjtD-SBpFw/w-d-xo.html
Their were no orders given.
We opened our airspace to our neighbour's in need.
USA would have done the same.
@@BOOSETO The US closed their airspace, and air traffic control ordered the international flights to land at the closest airport. Once all the planes were on the ground Canada closed their airspace, as well.
@@ser132 Canadian ATC.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has no jurisdiction in Canadian airspace.
Okay, there's another video of Tom Brokaw's about Canada you have to see. It's a longer one, but well worth it. It's about one town in Canada on 9/11.
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Most definitely! It's a beautiful tribute to the people of Gander! (Also done by Tom Brokaw for the 2010 Olympics) A must watch! They even made a Tony award winning musical called "Come From Away" about this! It also answers all the questions you articulated about the flights.
Its also Broadway musical and Apple TV Movie: th-cam.com/video/lNj40wJaT7A/w-d-xo.html
From Moncton, NB. We had several here.
They stayed at our arena for the first day, and then we took them into our homes.
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Shout out to the British Airways flight from Birmingham UK that fateful day.
I remember your faces even now.
Highway of Heroes is a section of Highway 401 between Canadian Forces Base Trenton (which is the airforce base they return to) , and the coroners in Toronto where the body is taken.
You should come for a visit, mate. Canadians and Aussies get along great.
In reguards to Operation Yellow Ribbon.. there's an amazing play called "Come From Away" that shows a snapshot of what those days where like in and around Gander, Newfoundland who had the most planes touch down and the most people who needed shelter. If you can find the entire play somewhere I would suggest watching it. It's an amazing tribute to those people and was written from the stories that the people on the ground and from the planes told the writers.
There’s a documentary as well. So heart warming
Loved your video! I try to catch all your Canadian videos especially ( call me a proud Canadian ). I read one of the comments mentioning Gander Nfld. There are many excellent videos on their 911 response. I’ve even seen a short one done on your Australian 60 minutes! Some are really great and more detailed. If I can find them I’ll send you their name. Try to imagine a small town population around eight or nine thousand suddenly doubling in size in one day! There were lots of very strong bonds that exist still today, between the townspeople and many of the passengers.
I've lived in B.C. all my life with most of it on the coast in the Vancouver area. I believe the bridge you asked about is the Lion's Gate spanning from the cities of Vancouver to North Vancouver. It is shown a few times in this video with one view adorned with its lights on. This bridge was built by the famous Guinness Family to sell their properties. Cheers!
I think it was the ambassador bridge.
The bridge with the lights is Lion's Gate (2:40), but I think the one he went back to look at again was Ambassador (2:15)
The bridge at 2:46 also looks like Lion's Gate.
Tom Brokaw narrated this in 2010 and he is the one on the right toward the end. He is also the guy at 8:43 talking about the Iranian situation back in 1980. As for the people's glasses in 1980, that's basically just what glasses looked like back then.
Yes I will vouch for that had a pair just like that in the 80's.
In both Canada and the US, a yellow ribbon is generally understood to signify "Welcome Home".
2:27 That is most likely The Lions Gate bridge that connects Downtown Vancouver/Stanley Park (2nd largest city park in the world) to North & West Vancouver
6:34 Canada doesn't have wild penguins. Penguins = Antarctic - Polar Bears = Arctic
actually people had debated that "penguin" actually was used to refer to another similar bird in the northern hemisphere long before it was used for the birds in the southern hemisphere. the bird aforementioned is now extinct. client's reptile youtube channel did a interesting video on the topic, I believe.
OJB the Fjord you are wondering about is in Newfoundland. It is located in Gros Morne National Park. We have even bigger ones on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland.
Indeed! Newfoundland and Labrador has fjords to rival Norway. Quebec has a few of them too, most notably the Saguenay fjord.
WW2 started in September 1939 when Britain declared war on Germany. Canada joined in one week later. Two long years later the US got involved but only because the Axis declared war on them and attacked Pearl Harbor.
Similarly, Canada was involved in WW1 from the start 3 years before the US joined in.
I was in school in downtown Toronto on 9/11. I was in grade 10. Right after the 2nd plane hit my aunt who worked at the Toronto stock exchange called my mom to let her know they were being evacuated. My mom picked us up at school, and I remember on the radio US airspace was closed and that hundreds of US bound flights were entering Canada because they had nowhere else to go.
My mother was looking up in the sky as we drove.
As scary as that was, we went to the airport to try and help some stranded passengers, place was already filled with people doing the same.
Was at the same time the scariest situation and one that warms the heart in retrospect.
I know for a fact Americans would do the same for 🇨🇦 without question.
I was in downtown Toronto too, working at the 24 hour news station, CP24. The only day in my over a decade in tv news that no commercials (our paycheques) were run. The Toronto Star also put out an ''Extra' that day, for the first time since WWII. My best friend worked for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on King Street. She messaged me that day to let me know they were being sent home early, and she thought I should go home too. Appreciated her concern, but as a 24 hour news channel, no one was going home early. I lived with my cousin at that time, and when I finally arrived home late that night, she casually asked me, 'busy day at work?'. I'll never forget the disbelief of that day and the aftermath.
Interesting fact. This was the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010. You always think we are cold abs snowy in Canada…February 2010 was so warm that most venues had to,be closed to spectators. So what did the visitors do. They were busy kayaking and SUP in winter. Southwest BC Is not at all arctic. The city behind the commentators show that. I live there and was present. Walking around to beer gardens in T shirts enjoyed the sun most days. Of course the snow and cold Weather came later after the events were done. Those that’s were in Whistler did have snow and winter weather
There's a HUGE oil industry in Canada's west, particularly Alberta, but also across the entire country include off the coast of Newfoundland. But curiously the first commercial oil industry in North America began in Oil Springs ,Ontario in 1861 - still producing today!
Honestly the oil and gas industry is balancing out between Alberta and Saskatchewan. Yes in northern Alberta oil is still booming, but it has been slowing down in the south for a while now which has lead to companies moving north or east.
Canada is the fourth largest oil producer in the world.
The deep steep cliffs near the start are the Fjords of Gros Morne National Park in North Central Newfoundland. Visited it once and was blown away by it.
I was in Vancouver for my honeymoon when 9/11 happened. My hotel was in Richmond on the flight path and there was planes nose to tail as far as I could see that morning. It was surreal to see.
I honestly think that if Canada and Australia shared the kind of border that US & Canada do, we'd be EVEN closer, since we have more similar international philosophies/community values/etc.
The dig at the end is a stereotypically American thing to do. If it stings too much we tell them "Ow, you hurt my feelings! Now I have to go to the emergency room for FREE to get a bandaid for my boo boo."
This video was made for the NBC (American) broadcast of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; most of the city scenes in this video are of Vancouver, and that green bridge is Vancouver's famous Lion's Gate Bridge (which often draws comparisons to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge).
Back in the day of the Iran Hostage Crisis it was reported mentioned that the six Americans went to two other embassies before getting to the Canadian one who let them in without question. Maybe no one wants anything negative mentioned about which countries they were. Could cause hurt feelings even today. I remember reading this detail in a magazine back then.
Which countries were they?
@@j2174 There was two....can only remember one was Swiss....remembered thinking if anyone would give refuge it would at least be the Swiss....In their defense they may have not known this group to be embassy staff as guns were being fired in the streets....most likely very scared for their own safety and neutrality.
Argo
@@519breezy Argo was a slap in the face to the Canadian hero (Ken Taylor) who actually organized this operation.
The coldest i've seen in my life with windchill was -52C in Thunder-Bay, Ontario. It was physically painful just to go outside for a moment. Now living in Québec and 2 weeks ago we had 3 days straight of -37C, that sucked too. Doesn't happen all that often though, usually it's more tolerable. I know many people still think it's terribly cold, but to me as long as it doesn't go bellow -25C it's fine.
As a fellow Canadian who was born in Manitaba, lived in Winnipeg or 'Winter-peg' I now live in Ontario to escape those -50 and colder days. I agree Thunder Bay and Kenora and even the Ottawa Valley where I am now get some extremely cold winter temperatures due to 'lake-effect' weather phenomenon', and I guess river effect too! 😀 😬
@@serenapenner3581 Ottawa is the second coldest national capital in the world in winter, surpassed only by Ulan Bator, Mongolia, which is the colder.
Obviously, it's warmer in space! 🤣😂😅 It's a balmy -21 today in Ottawa
I’m a Canadian that worked indirectly for NBC during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Obviously, I don't have that much time to go through all the comments, but I just to clarify a few things. I'm a Canadian who lives in the USA, and I'm so proud to be a Canadian. That being said, Penguins live in Antarctica, they don't live in the Arctic. So, polar bears have never met a penguin (maybe in a zoo, but who knows)! Now, regarding oil production, the majority of Canada's oil is produced out of Alberta (the Alberta Tar Sands). Think of Alberta as being Canada's version of Texas. On a global scale, the USA produces the most oil whereas Canada produces the fifth most oil out of all countries. The video was produced during the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. BTW, I absolutely love your expressions and your interest in my amazing country, thank you so much for what you do, it's greatly appreciated.
This video was done in 2010, when the Winter Olympics were in Vancouver. NBC, who carried the TV feed, always does a profile of the host country, as do most nations.
Most of Canada’s oil reserves are in the west, specifically Alberta. Look up Canadian Oil sands projects.
I remember, many decades ago, doing a science project on the Oil sands, when the first plant opened. I believe it was Syncrude.
I also remember having a sample of the sands, as I wrote to the company and asked them for some. ( I lived in Ontario).
They sent me a whole lot of information about it, so I built a small, ( non working) model of how the oil was extracted from the fine sand. Sadly didn’t win any awards, the judges wanted a working model☹️☹️☹️
Thanks for the videos…. I hope one day you will post more videos of Australia!
Stay safe, stay sane, be well
They are not tar sands, they are oil sands. Tar sands is what those hypocrites in LA have, denigrating Alberta oil, while getting their oil using an exraction process that is a on a large scale more environmentally unfriendly.
My first career as a young adult was working on the high voltage transmission line from Wabasca to the Syncrude site. Before that there had only been a prototype operation called Great Canadian Oil Sands.
@@ralphvelthuis2359 : I stand corrected. Thanks ! I will correct it in my original post.
Stay safe, stay sane, be well
The guy in brown is Tom Brokaw, who narrated the piece, and was the longtime national anchor for NBC’s nightly news show. The guy in blue is Al Michaels, legendary sportscaster. Both are stalwarts of American broadcasting.
Our Parliament has emergency debates on oil. Alberta is known for oil, cattle and country music.
Toronto became big due to the extraction industries in Northern Ontario. Charlie Angus just wrote a book called Cobalt.
This was aired right after the "Great Recession" when the US was still recovering from their housing market crisis. The housing market crisis was mostly caused by deregulation which Canada wasn't really big on so when the "Great Recession" hit, Canada wasn't hit as bad as the US did.
Even today Fur is vastly superior to synthetic or other plant based clothing for keeping you warm. The native peoples have been living here with fur long before we came.
A award winning musical was made about the story of landing the planes on 911. It's called " Come From Away" set in Newfoundland. Another untold story was the men's hockey gold medal game. The streets were empty in everywhere in the country. Every canadian person was watching! and joined in the countywide celebration! PRICELESS!!!
Really love your content. Keep up the great work.
The skaters at the beginning of the video are playing in a shinny tournament. Shinny is a form of hockey usually played by pick-up teams; the players throw their sticks into a pile then one of them takes sticks out one at a time and throws them alternately to each side to choose the teams. The goals are usually just a pair of coats or some other item, and goals have to pass between them on the ice. In tournament shinny you have fixed teams and goals with a crossbar, but only a couple of inches above the ice. The game is often played on rivers and ponds as well as on rinks.
OJB Reacts...if you want to learn more about Operation Yellow Ribbon, there is a play about it called Come From Away. It has played in Sydney, but is now going to be in Canberra starting this June. It's actually been playing in Toronto, London and New York, as well. The bridge you were asking about early in the film is the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver.
The rinks do need to be maintained. Outdoor rinks even more so because of the nature of nature. The top layer of ice is constantly being tore up and will need to be smoothed out every so often.
I live in Nova Scotia Canada and I'm not sure if it's shipping but we sure see A LOT of tourists via ship/boat/cruise ship lol....many items come to North America via the water, container ships are a staple in Halifax Harbour.
Most of these ships are from our southern neighbour
The ice rinks probably have their own zamboni. It's a drive on machine that smooths the ice by making a thin layer of water.
It is in Vancouver British Columbia. The bridge is called The Lions Gate Bridge. It crosses over the Burrard Inlet.
Some of those breathtaking scenic views at the beginning of the video are of the rock (Newfoundland). You really should check out some of their official tourism/province videos to learn more about that province and the kind people who live there.
911. We all remember exactly where we were when the events were happening. The skies in North America closed for 3 days. Nothing flew … I lived a few km away from the US border. It was really eerie. Nothing in the skies… nothing. Planes landed at Vancouver international and at Abbotsford international. The only flights were military fighter jets. Anything else would be escorted or shot down….you should do some investigation about the realities. Other countries were not as affected. However flights also were diverted to,Mexico
I love that Tom Brokaw showed a picture of himself when talking of Canadian stars of Journalism, great touch there.
That was Peter Jennings, not Tom Brokaw that was shown. Jennings was a Canuck; Brokaw isn’t.
@@keithmills778 Thanks, my mistake.
I live about 8 miles from the peace arch.
This feature was part of NBC coverage of the 2010 Olympics.
You are correct about shipping, I an certain almost all trade goes overland
What they don't tell you is that to get Canadian citizenship you have to cuddle both a moose and a beaver. And if you live you get to be Canadian.
Lol
You have to check out Gander, Newfoundland during 9/11. They made international headlines when 7000 ppl landed in a town with a population of 7000 (you can just imagine capacity). Gander and all the neighbouring towns pulled together to take care of everyone with good food, sleeping arrangements, entertainment, etc. The Broadway Play 'Come From Away' captures this moment in time. Newfoundland is where my mom's family is from. They are known as one of the most generous and funny people in the world. Humourous storytelling and hospitality are very much apart of their culture. They have a very old accent which differs from region to region, but you know it when you hear it. It sounds a little Irish, but very different at the same time. My cousin, who is a teacher there, once told me they speak very old English and being on an island, the accent didn't change much over hundreds of years.
Btw, I love your videos. I would love to know more about Australia from your perspective, such as heroes and people we're not aware of, resources, politics, etc. It's definitely a country that's on my bucket list!
That one bridge they showed after the one you were wondering about is in my home city of Windsor Ontario 🇨🇦. Queen Elizabeth II herself visited the city in 1984 , one year before I was born . It is a border city going to Detroit Michigan USA 🇺🇸. Windsor gets a lot of Americans crossing here to go somewhere else other than Windsor or our casino which is big and we now get famous celebrities to preform at the casino which is at the river front facing the US .
The big green bridge you were wondering about is called the Lions Gate Bridge. It's one of two bridges that connects downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver.
They key was US BOUND flights. Most of them went to Gander Newfoundland.
That’s the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver
Just an FYI in case no one mentioned it yet, Canada actually declared war on Germany in 1939 before Britain did. We fought in the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of the St Lawrence, Germany bombed Bell island Newfoundland (which wasn't part of Canada yet), Germany attacked Rimouski Québec, we landed on Dieppe, we landed on Juno Beach, we liberated the Netherlands, we helped defeat Italy. In WW1 we had Vimy Ridge, a nation building battle, just as you had at Gallipoli.
OK, what they said about oil - is that Canada is the US's largest supplier -
Most of US oil needs are supplied by domestic production -
but the country that we import the most oil from, is Canada -
which has huge reserves, primarily in the province of Alberta.
Alaskan oil is primarily carried by pipeline to the Alaskan port of Valdez,
where it is then loaded on Tankers.
Oil from Alberta Arrives in the US primarily through pipelines.
Australia has a similar relationship with NZ as America and Canada have with each other
I was in the Canadian navy and in Aussie and Kiwi for many months and ports in my youth. North Island to Dunedin, Sydney to Townsville. Got so I could tell an Aussie accent from a Kiwi accent in seconds. Can still do it decades later most of the time.
The 🌎 needs more Canada !
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Most winter animals like polar bears or your average Huskey have what is called a double coat it both helps cool and keep them warm....it's why you should NEVER fully shave a dog like Huskey or German shepherd
The Great Lakes have a HUGE shipping Industry ..
The place you see at the 1:35 mark is in Newfoundland in Gross Morne National park. Never been to it but I have seen many videos of it.!
The place at the beginning where you asked where it was. It's Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland. It's fjords carved by glaciers. The park also has one of the few places in the world where you can walk on the Earth's mantle.
The Green suspension bridge you asked about is the "Lion's Gate Bridge" in Vancouver, BC.
I might be biased, but Canada is awesome! We also have our friends' backs. Peacekeeping before policing. EDIT: check out the stories behind those headlines.. Sorry if I went on too long LOL
Canada needs to adopt that saying " it's colder in space" lol. It's called the highway of hero's because when dead Canada solders came home the caskets are taken to the cemetery on that highway. I've driven down it. It's moving. Way to many solders drove one last time down that road
Re: world War 2. You guess wrong. Canada did not declare war on Germany, etc or Japan until after the Brits.
The Americans did not declare war until Pearl Harbor was bombed several years later.
The place that made you think of New Zealand was Gros Morne Park in Newfoundland. The bridge was Lion's Gate bridge in Vancouver.
That, sir, is the Rainbow Bridge in Niagra Falls that you drive or walk across to reach Buffalo City on the American side. It is at the half-way point you pass a pole that defines the borderline.
We don't have penguins in Canada. Also, we don't 'ship' things to the USA, we either have pipelines for oil, or we use rail and trucks....we are physically connected to them.
We ship lots to the US. The entire great lakes is container ships back and forth
We also have 1000' long self unloading lake freighters for shipping iron ore and coal from the US to Canadian steel mills and somewhat shorter vessels to ship steel from Canada to the US. It would take eleven 100 car freight trains to fill a single 1000' laker that can travel port to port in as little as 12 hours
Canada produces oil primarily in Alberta, but also produces it out of Saskatchewan as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. We sell our oil to the US.
until the TM is finnished
As several have already said... the story of Gander, Newfoundland on (and after) 9/11 is a very special story.
Straight from Canada, the oil that is!🇨🇦❤️
OK. Hy there... I'm from the province of Québec... the lowest temperature I've experienced is -40°C. But hey, we're equiped for that... clothing, isolation of the houses... etc... Oh forgot to mention I live in the surroundings of Montréal. And yes, USA are like brothers in a kind of way... but they don't quit trying to invade our space in some ways... they did in the 1700 and they still does it, only more subtly... but aside from the political history... we have a wonderful country coast to coast... the views are spectacular as well as the people... we are pacifist for the most part... In 2001, many families in Canada opened their homes to welcomed those on the planes that had to land in our spaces. Didn't matter where they were coming from... they were trapped in that plane... so we gave them hospitality... I'm proud to be a French Canadian! Could you tell?
Tom Brokaw is a Trusted Legendary Journalist
The fjords that you mentioned is Gros Morne national park in Newfoundland
That image near the beginning that looked like a Norwegian fjord was very likely Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland.
When Tom Brokaw refers to the "Olympic City" in the opening scene... he is talking about Vancouver, BC.
Most of the shipping containers are from over seas Vancouver has the largest port in Canada for goods. I grew up in Alberta (have lived in Vancouver for 25 years now) and most of our schools have ice rinks that go up in winter and get taken down in the spring. Either the schools took car of them or the parents.
The "Fjords" scene is Western Brook Pond in NFLD, little bit of a misnomer, great place in Gros Morne National Park.
The photo on the fjord is from Gros Morne National Park in NFLD
This was done for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver
Explaining Canada to Australians: Like you but we drive on the right and it's cold.
Hahaha perfect! 😁🇨🇦🤩
I live on a border town they built a Bridge in 1938 and another beside it in 1999. In the 90's the added a tunnel for Rail aswell.... there is a fair bit of traffic by land too. Penguins don't exist in the Arctic. Only one species in Northern Hemishpere in Galapagos islands.
Flights to Europe use Gander Newfoundland as a "way point" when leaving/re entering North American air space.
2:12 that's the Lionsgate Bridge connecting downtown Vancouver/Stanley Park, to West Vancouver and the North Shore.
These shows you’ve been making are brilliant! I just wanted to suggest one thing… when in doubt feel free to ask a Canadian follower. Lots of us watch your content and would be more than happy to help you by clarifying things. 😊🍁
WHen Canada was originally settled by the French and English, the Saint Lawrence River into the Great Lakes was the major factor in where settlements were located. Water meant transportation and trade . Plus it's warmer further south which is near the U.S> border.
Canada one of the top 5 oil producing countries in the world and has the world's third largest known reserves.
Almost all of Canada's exports go to the USA. Less than 1% was exported to other countries in 2019.
About 30 Years ago I went up to Nunavit for about 4 months in the winter and it was about -60 Celsius
1:46 is New found land east coast.
2:22 That bridge is in Vancouver "the Lions gate bridge".
I'm from Canada and I can confidently tell you that we have a few a few provinces that produce oil. In fact it is specifically one of Alberta's top modes of income.
Canada has the second largest oil reserves in the world! Lotta dead dinosaurs here!!❤
40 seconds in, I think it was Newfoundland and the 2:30 mark, that's the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver I believe....
A video about the events of 911 is called Gander’s Ripple Effect: How a Small Town’s Kindness Opened on Broadway.
Canada's population is now well over 38 million and growing quickly!
Have spent 7 weeks travelling in Australia NZ a week in Fiji ( during the 2nd coup of 87) and a few days in Hawaii Absolutely loved Oz and NZ. Would love to go back again.
Alberta has no provincial tax bc of the oil industry.
Highway of Heroes: A stretch of Highway 401 in eastern Ontario where Canadians who have died overseas often travel after being returned to our country. People always line the bridges and highways honouring them as they pass.
correction: provincial SALES tax*, it does have other taxes
There was an excellent film released in 1981 called ARGO about the help from the Canadian Ambassador in Iran helping 6 embassy workers escape. Worth a viewing.
Highly factionalized, however.
A work of fiction. Ambassador Ken Taylor didn't help, it was his operation with help from the Canadian Government. Learn the real story, not Ben Affleck's propaganda
Yellow Ribbon - there was a movie about it called Gander - about Gander Newfoundland. That was during 9-11 when the Americans wanted to clear the sky because pilots were flying planes full of passengers into buildings as a form of Terrorism. Iraq had nothing to do with it, but GWB was looking for an excuse to go to war with them due to oil.