Gore Knows Toronto is the Capital of Canada ;)
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Mostly Toronto. Montreal not so much.
I was in a parish in New York State for about 6 months years agp. temporary fill-in for a friend who was ill. Most of the people in the congregation, upon hearing I was Canadian, assumed I was from Toronto. My favourite comment was the nice old lady who said to me one morning, "Oh Father, you're from Canada? I have a cousin in a place called Vancouver, you must know him!". Americans can be...awfully funny
Yup I get kind of a weird reaction when I tell Canadians the city where I live too.... not everyone is a geography buff
I often wonder just how many people Rick Mercier has to talk to until he gets the responses he needs for his show? I have personally meet Canadians who don't know if Halifax is on the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, and have no idea which order the western provinces are in...
I confess!!
I am now and have always been a map freak! "Mapophile?"
I get an updated map of Canada and the U.S. every year, and my state map too because things change quickly....
I love to look at maps to see where people live and forums are excellent to read people from all over the world and if they reveal their country and even the city - I go flying for the maps.
I guess it is because travel has not been a biggie for me so I travel through other eyes - some day maybe I'll make a list of places I want to see.
The internet has been another great way to look up places all over the world - and the people who live in those places.
I am now and have always been a map freak! "Mapophile?"
I get an updated map of Canada and the U.S. every year, and my state map too because things change quickly....
I love to look at maps to see where people live and forums are excellent to read people from all over the world and if they reveal their country and even the city - I go flying for the maps.
I guess it is because travel has not been a biggie for me so I travel through other eyes - some day maybe I'll make a list of places I want to see.
The internet has been another great way to look up places all over the world - and the people who live in those places.
Curiosity, I love maps but I also love revision. I have a large blank map of Canada on my den wall and as I feel like it I rename and place on it my own take on what Canada's geography should be. Hudson Bay isn't there; Little Skipper Bay is.
Funny thats exactly the same way Toronto thinks of the world..let alone the country!!
Tamarin
I love it..... name your place any which way you want eh?
Little Skipper Bay is wonderful....
I would call B.C. Rainforest Land....
I would call the prairies - Forever Flats...
hee.... what fun... Oh yes - Nova Scotia - Sassy's Hideaway
I love it..... name your place any which way you want eh?
Little Skipper Bay is wonderful....
I would call B.C. Rainforest Land....
I would call the prairies - Forever Flats...
hee.... what fun... Oh yes - Nova Scotia - Sassy's Hideaway
Curiosity, yes, and I've renamed my own local town Little Beauty. I never was happy with a map I couldn't reconfigure. Hopefully, in the deep, distant future, a new civilization will arise and this map will be discovered and change their view of the past here completely!
Um Tamarin
In a weak moment some day could you erace the 49th?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?
A dividing line which never should have been drawn.
In a weak moment some day could you erace the 49th?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?
A dividing line which never should have been drawn.
ah yes that line that runs thru farmers fields and the middle of buildings..
I live in "A River runs through it"
That is exactly right. All you need to do is go to the street and ask any geography or political question and you can have a neat skit.
The people who answer it correctly "CUT! Thank you" and that clip finds itself on the floor of the editing room.
Now the people who answer it wrong become part of the skit and this knucklehead can say
"See how dumb Americans are!"
I'd know you could do the exact same thing here in Canada. Do you think Harper knows New York is the Capitol of the USA? You'd get lots of people who say pffffft, whatever. However you only need 5 or 6 dumbasses to make it look like we're all ignorant fools.
Curiosity and Ottawa Bill, don't worry, be happy!
My map here is actually a large blank one of North America. No messy co-ordinates. I've renamed at least 200 places so far. I have to use those finetipped erasible black markers to do all the wallwork. Looks good!
My map here is actually a large blank one of North America. No messy co-ordinates. I've renamed at least 200 places so far. I have to use those finetipped erasible black markers to do all the wallwork. Looks good!
No kidding. I bet he didn't even know that fur trapping and making hockey sticks is Canada's major industry.