As someone who lives in the Toronto area, a house like that is undoubtedly worth a lot more, real estate prices have skyrocketed in the last few months. That’s easily over 2 Million
Fun fact: apparently from Ottawa it's a quicker drive to get to Florida than it is to get to the Manitoba border. It's insane. UPDATE: I've since driven the entire length of the current HWY 17/417 and old HWY 17. And pretty much to every corner of Ontario. All for work. It's unreal.
As a Canadian, when you said the province of “Winnipeg” that is still fairly accurate. If you ever take a look at a list of cities in manitoba by population you will see what I mean.
As someone from Québec I’m just happy he pronounced it correctly. “Kuhbeck” not “Kwabeck” honestly also nowadays gen z doesn’t care about the whole independence québec thing, we realize how stupid that is. Also nowadays we have to learn english starting at around 5 years old. Also french and english are the official languages so like québec and the rest are all normal canada. Also it’s not just Quebec, it’s all of Acadia (New brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince edward island) and Newfoundland and labrador all of these speak french and english. (Officially bilingual where everything is in both languages besides quebec)
It's the Windsor-Quebec City corridor Fun fact about Windsor: it has some of the worst air pollution in Canada due to being directly downwind from Detroit Fun fact about Quebec City: It is not downwind from Detroit
@@crashgoblin2877 wait till you see Whistler, 20 million isn't uncommon. Glad I live in Texas. We got our house in '99 for 80,000 now it's worth 201,000
Austin Terrace is near Casa Loma and it’s in Midtown. Any house with 3+ bedrooms and 2+ bathrooms is automatically worth 1.5 million dollars if it’s in Midtown.
Unfortunately, all of those small places in the North have a purpose (well, a massive majority). A lot of these village a native villages, and a lot of those villages are populated by people working in mines, hydroelectric dams, and those are our primary resources and sources of income (aside from taxes, of course). Also, i'm way more scared of polar bears than covid lol
@@dixonhill1108 wut? that's a weird analog, makes me think of joke that british boy band/male pop singers,musicians have very elite and most expensive background, similar way. I thought hockey was like in 70s mostly gladiator sports(pure brawl and bloody fights), like NFL and NBA is if not dominated, lot of players come from poor background or working class.
Fun fact, most of the names of settelments in the far north of quebec arent actually french, but they are indigenous languages. Most of the northern quebec population is indigenous. Source: im from quebec
There's some wonderful snowmobile coverage of Inukjuaq. I thought it was hilarious that the stop signs are bilingual in ENGLISH and Inuktitut. In Quebec.
Actually every small Canadian town has a Sports and Recreation Center. It's the focal point of the little towns. Whereas in America that's all too rich for our bloodstream. I lived in Haines Alaska for 22 years. And the nearest town to drive to was Haines Junction in the Yukon. 5 hours away. And Whitehorse was another 100 miles on. Whitehorse is great! Klondike Rib and Salmon is tasty. 2/3 of the Yukon lives in Whitehorse. Compare the size of the Yukon to California. It doesn't feel that remote. Because of the Alaska Highway. 'Lots' of traffic. By the way Haines Alaska is one of the best towns in Alaska! Visit it Toycat. The North is calling you. (Get in touch if you want tips.)
You'd think someone in Alaska who's familiar enough with the Canadian north that every small town has a recreation centre would know it's Yukon, not "the Yukon."
Not speaking for the far North, but for rural Alberta at least, some small towns are basically just a rec-centre and a “Main Street”… which is useful when there a tone of flooding and suddenly several thousand people have lost their homes and need a place to stay. My Oma and Opa (and me by extension) are still thankful to this day for the kindness and caring of those small town heroes
I come from Northern Ontario, and every town has an LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) and THAT is the focal point of the town. Every town has an LCBO, and as soon as one is built, the town springs up, it's how you tell if what you are looking at is a town or not.
The last time I was flying from Sweden to the US, I was looking out the window to the northern parts of Canada below, and there were just a few isolated roads snaking along vast expanses of what looked like semi-arctic prairielands, and I've really wanted since then to just take a roadtrip out there on those desolate but probably pretty beautiful expanses of fields and rivers and lakes.
@@Swoski Just learned those fuel containers have the name of jerry cans. Thx for that. And yea that's a good idea. Wouldn't want to get stranded out there for sure.
Yeah Yellowknife looks like any city in southern Canada, just looking around on Google Streetview is fascinating, the only hint that you're in the Arctic is the signage.
You could drive to Tuktoyaktuk. They just finished the last 200 km recently. It's only 6,800 km from Toronto. It would surely make for an adventurous drive. You could try having a swim in the Arctic Ocean.
Actually it's wrong the map overlayed is just Tokyo prefecture. It has a population of 13million the 37million includes all surrounding prefectures and some others that really shouldn't be included.
@@johnotm Tokyo Prefecture isn't that shape at all. It's long (east to west) and thin. Usually, people talk about the greater area of a city when talking about the population. If you talk about the population as being just the city proper (which you can't do with Tokyo, as you properly didn't do), Vancouver would be the 10th biggest city in Canada, smaller than Mississauga, North York and Scarborough.
I was born and spent my childhood in one of those microscopic spots you describe, and I'm personally familiar with hundreds of them, in many parts of the country. The places that have no roads to them are called "fly-ins", and people think of bush planes about the same way that Londoners use the Tube or cabs. From childhood, I still remember the distinctive buzz of the beloved DeHavilland Beaver (a different sound from the larger Otter). The place where you put the Tokyo overlay is in what are called "The Barren Grounds", It is in Kivalliq Region [ᑭᕙᓪᓕᖅ] of Nunavut Territory. Kivalliq is almost exactly twice the area of the United Kingdom and has a population of 10,413. Almost everyone is Inuit, with a handful of Cree, Dene and southerners. It was first explored by Samuel Hearne in 1769. The next outside visitor was the geologist Joseph Tyrell in 1893. In 1927, a party of three attempted to spend a year crossing it, but failed to meet the caribou herds and starved to death. One of the three was an 18-year-old English schoolboy from Hampshire named Edgar Christian. He was the last to die, and ten years later his highly moving diary was discovered. The diary can be found at his old public school in Dover. In 1948-49, the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent by the Wildlife Service to investigate a decline in size of the caribou herds. In 1953, he published a kids' adventure book, Lost In the Barrens, set in the area. He later wrote a book about his experience, Never Cry Wolf, which was turned into a film. Because the area is too remote, the film was shot in British Columbia and the Yukon instead. The district's only other claim to fame is that it has the world's highest rate of post-glacial rebound.
When I saw the population density map, I thought that it was saying that southern Alberta and Saskatchewan were populated. Then I saw that you need a person every 2 square kilometers to get a color.
I actually live in London, Canada, nice to finally see someone talk about my hometown because we’re always overshadowed by, y’now, London (fun fact: Justin Bieber was born biking distance from my house)
11:43 it's literally just because there's so many rural areas in Canada, that they take the pictures year round. When you zoom in to get a higher res version you often get snow fall and frozen lakes where it looks green and warm.
Pretty much the entire country is connected by float planes, that house in Toronto is probably worth closer to three or four mil. I definitely would be more scared of a room with the polar bear in 100 people getting mauled to death that would be an awful sight.
The places you looked at in Northern Ontario where the road just stops is the end of the all season road. In winter the road is extended over the frozen lakes and rivers and muskeg until it connects with roads from the south. These are used to resupply the remote northern communities, most of which are First Nations communities.
13:30 remember that you're looking at a road that connect to Alaska, there's money to be made. And yes they truck in gas to some of the most remote places, some gas stations are literally a tank on skis with a gas attendant who'll often only take cash (many remote areas have basically no cell/data coverage).
As an American, I don’t know the difference between townhouse, row house, and terrace house. I lived in one growing up, and I would like to live in one for the long term, even though there are few options in the United States for those types of houses.
I don't think there is a difference, other than the terms exist in different dialects. I live in Texas where they're pretty much nonexistent, but nevertheless the term I know best is townhouse.
I live In Ohio where we have terrace houses and row houses are townhouses here but maybe because I live in Columbus and the inner city has packed brick houses instead of townhouses
For the fact check at 23:23, Wyoming (253,000 km^2) is in fact exactly half the size of Spain (506,000 km^2) weirdly. Funnily enough, it's just a tad bigger than the UK (242,000 km^2).
I live in the 50th biggest city in Canada. It is Medicine Hat, and we only have 67,000 people max, the surrounding area might increase it to 100,000 people if your lucky.
As someone who used to live in Thunder Bay, I can confirm that I never actually found the will to drive to another large city when I lived there. I always flew. The only "large" population center that people visit somewhat regularly there is Duluth in Minnesota, but even that is a pretty long drive.
Bought 5 acre of land in the maritime for 5000$. I built my own home and get water for my well. Overall, my house costed me 65k to build . I don't understand people who flock to cities. I know people who live in Toronto, make twice what I make and he still is strugling to have a familly. In rural Canada you can get such a great quality of life in comparison. I go to the farmer market to get fresh food. A fully grown lobster, fresh from the docks, cost me 10$, cheaper then a Starbucks coffee haha. Rural life in Canada is so underappreciated. Best decision in my life was to move from Montreal to southeast New-Brunswick.
It's the opposite if you live in Northern rural Canada. EVERYTHING is more expensive due to the travel cost of goods, and a lot of the time the goods that are sold in store are already expired (sometimes the food is expired by years YEARS). I know a lot of people who just said "Fuck it" and decided to just live off the land (all of them hold First Nation status so they can do it legally). It's also really frustrating to do clothes shopping; it's pretty much all online, but the problem is the clothes arent made for the winter weather ( Ex. this past winter bewteen Jan- Feb it dropped to -40c without the wind chill.)
@Jeremiah Madsen in my case; I move in the region after high school, all by myself. When I got there I knew no one and am pretty solitary in nature. Worked some small job during my studies to become a teacher and was able to put cash on the side. Around 7k in 4 years and my use of credit was good. Met a few trustworthy people and rural communities are welcoming. After graduating i got a loan and built the house during the summer with my 3 friends. New-Brunswick is 50% rural and I have met people who have done the same with less stable work or lower income. I think that with a 15$ / hour job you could achieve that after 2-3 year ? So not so hard. There plenty of manual jobs around the country side and the cities like Moncton, Frederiction and St-John are surrounded with cheap land in a 30 minutes radius. TBH, not all jobs are available around here, but you need to make the decision base on your priority's. For me, I wanted to be able to enjoy nature, outdoor sports and the sea while being financial free to do things. In many parts of Canada, teacher are not paid enough but in a rural area, the money is good enough for the cost of living. Rural also bring more taxes for service and less of them. Road are more often covered in snow or can take days to be fully clean during a storm, but you buy a truck and put a plow in the front.
Some of these really remote places are full of people who get most of their necessities from the land, so they aren't exactly dependent on the government in the way even a rich person in a city is dependent.
British Columbia has places on the mainland that have no roads that reach them. For example, the Sunshine Coast is on the mainland but you need to take one or two ferries to get there.
Toycat: "Who stocks the gas station. How do they work?" I think the show Ice Road Truckers was largely based entirely around the concept of how semi tractor trailers get to the northern parts of Canada to supply those regions.
Strangely most Canadians would not call Thunder Bay a tiny, remote place. My cousin lives in Sudbury and most Canadians would not call that tiny and remote. In my family we reserve that for where my dad is from - Levack, Ontario.
You should go to Whitehorse, It kind of feels like Banff but people actually live there. Fun fact when you enter town from the north or the south there are signs that say 20km to the city center. It's has a long city boundary with lots of room between neighbourhoods Also rent a vehicle and drive to Dawson City then follow the Dempster highway north to the arctic ocean.
Most of the country is crown land (the legal term for land owned by the federal or provincial governments). Most of the northern towns are tied to native reserves or some local industry (resource extraction, tourism/hunting & fishing retreats, military installations or hydro-electric projects) or in some cases quasi-ghost towns that used to have a working mine, military base or other industry. It's lovely country but really out of the way.
Aside from the northern climate. One of the main reason why much of Canada lives south is the Canadian Shield which a large exposed piece of rock known for being very mineral rich and full of hydroelectric potential but extremely difficult to navigate and build on. Hence this is why there are no roads from Toronto to the Hudson Bay. A few hours north of the city and you'll notice the rock and unsuitability for any form of agriculture. This often prevents large population centers or road access but also makes the country effectively split between East and West. Politically, this has resulted in disconnect with Western Canada and growing regionalism.
That only really accounts for the eastern half of the country. There's a mix of factors. All the development in southern Ontario and Quebec is along maritime routes, be it the Great Lakes or the Saint Lawrence River, which gives what would otherwise be "inland" access to the Atlantic ocean, and essentially a big inland sea. A lot of development that could have happened on the East Coast of Canada skipped the coast for that region because of the ease of transportation along these routes. Western Canada is vast and has no access to the ocean until you reach British Columbia, and there isn't a major seaway that connects Eastern Canada to Western Canada east to west in the same way the Mississippi River in the United States connects a large part of eastern America North-South by maritime transportation. There are no rivers connecting the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay, or any river that connects across more than two provinces, if there were, you'd see much more east-west development. With modern technology, the barriers that the shield poses, and the lack of maritime connections between Ontario and Manitoba could be easily overcome, nothing really prevents building more roads between northern Ontario and Manitoba, or from Winnipeg to developing into a city twice its size - it really just comes down to a lack of economic or demographic pressures. Why build a massive network of highways through the northern part of the provinces and into the territories when almost nobody needs them? Why settle in Brandon, Manitoba, when Hamilton, Ontario has better weather and more economic opportunities?
@@Blakbox92 Good points. The only thing I would say is that developing on the Shield is a big task and still a big a problem to planners. The Shield is also practically half of Canada and not strictly limited to Central Canada. While technology can handle it, it's still incredibly difficult and not particularly easy. Simply speaking, cost-benefit analysis of building is not worth it nor can large population centers be sustained no matter how connected by road. Agricultural industries and suitable geography are needed to strongly support large population centres and that's something that rock, swamp, and poor thin soil can't do. Weather has less to do with than geography, Edmonton and Thunder Bay have similar summer and winter temperatures more or less but one is larger than the other even though Thunder Bay is on Lake Superior. The other item is, the Prairies has grown on a population percentage growth rate basis much more than areas like Quebec or Ontario or BC even if these areas are more connected to international trade. At the end of the day, its a variety of factors.
As a canadian I really hate how everyone assumes london is the only important candian city, because londoners always think they are the centre of the world
That's like asking "would you rather die or would you rather not die". A polar bear that feels trapped is going to rip his way through everything in sight. Even if you were outdoors it wouldn't be great odds.
I mean I think it's a pretty obvious choice, since you most likely will be fine with covid unless you are like over the age of 70 or have a health conditions, but a polar bear ain't gonna care whether you're healthy
When you come to think of it, the Montreal/Ottawa/Quebec City region is pretty isolated from other major urban centres like in the Northeastern US or southern Ontario or Pittsburgh/Ohio/Michigan/Chicago, and it's at least almost as isolated from those other population centres as St. Louis or Minneapolis/St. Paul.
The answer in most cases to "why does the road go to here and stop?" in Canada is usually logging. That's where some company's logging permit area ended.
8:07 this is actually slightly inaccurate as in 2018 the Invuik-Tuktoyuktuk road opened, connecting that northernmost road to the Arctic Ocean. Pretty crazy nonetheless
As a person who lives in northern British Columbia, the pretty much every town has a Tim Hortons and an A&W. Its kind of a joke up here that there are more gross restaurants than people here.
If you go only by land area, Canada actually falls to fourth in the world. A lot of Canadas area is lakes and territorial waters which is why it’s usually ranked ahead of China and the US
I live in Whitehorse and real estate is way more expensive than expected. I live in a small house, on a small plot of land, on the outskirts of town and it is worth $700,000 cad.
@@E4439Qv5 Whenever I browsing through Google Earth, I always find myself arriving in Iqaluit for some reason. There are even some remote villages on the west coast of Greenland where there are street views available. Amazing places.
@@doodleblockwell2610 I too will often end up in the North Atlantic and Canadian Arctic when I browse maps. An amazingly rugged and beautiful region. It's just so sparse is all-- hard for me to imagine living anywhere beyond the treeline.
About small areas like Kasabonika, the majority of those are First nations or Inuit reserves and towns. I believe that's why they're sometimes censored. Also unfortunately the Canadian government has always been brutal and disrespectful to Indigenous peoples and continues this today. They don't bother building roads or providing much support to these communities. All products are flown in and super expensive and its just part of the systemic genocide and darker side of Canadian history. Sorry for the rant lol but i hope this provided some education to any foreigners.
1:27 Pretty sure this is innacurate. North America definitely has a higher population than South America. I think they mistakenly counted all of Latin America as South America
I live in Ohio on the southern coast of Lake Erie, so I am fascinated by what's on the other side, including the city of London, and the fact that it is so sparsely populated in comparison to Ohio, and yet is the most densely populated part of Canada.
Well, that area is not actually sparsely populated at all. Like the graphic showed of that area, there's about 10 million people stuffed into that tiny area of Canada comparable to the area of Tokyo.
To get Ohio-level population densities in southern Ontario, you'd have to be pretty much in the Greater Toronto Area or just to the southwest, through Hamilton, the Niagara Peninsula, Kitchener-Waterloo, and on to London. The part of southern Ontario directly across Lake Erie from Ohio isn't that populated.
Sea planes are surprisingly a big part of getting around in the northern interior. All the lakes left over from the ice age make for really good landing spots!
It's not just "not worth it" to build roads in most of the sparsely-populated (or non-populated) parts of Canada...it's impossible. Okay...I take that back. With enough effort and will to do something, it's technically "possible" but honestly, even getting railroads built over some of these areas was a massive struggle. The northern city of Churchill, Manitoba has no roads connecting it to the rest of North America, but it does have a rail line. Except it took AGES to build that rail line (and it would never have happened without the government being willing to spend a LOT of money), because it required building over muskeg, which is just waterlogged ground that freezes in the winter, with some areas of open water in the summer, and given that the bedrock is deep below the surface of the muskeg, setting (i.e. ROOTING) a rail line on something solid is pretty difficult. Any fill you bring in will spread out and become waterlogged itself, so every few years, that rail line requires expensive maintenance, or it becomes unsafe. And clearing out the muskeg down to bedrock is extremely difficult and costly (and environmentally damaging, for a few reasons, not least of which is that the water needs to be constantly pumped away), so that's not really an option either. And because the rail line was bought by an American company (privatization man, the bane of people everywhere), they eventually just didn't see the point in maintaining it properly, and so this town of around a thousand people, which sees tens of thousands of tourists every year, had no permanent land link to the rest of the country for many months (back about 3-4 years ago). It was only when the government stepped in and spent the money, that the trains started running again. But for that time period, the only supplies available to buy were those brought in by airplane, making everything even more expensive than it normally is (and it was already super-expensive). So building a road to Churchill is maybe something that could be done (it would be expensive and take a long time, but realistically, it will probably happen at some point in the near or far future). But such a project is only feasible because there are people there...and a tourism industry. To build a road throughout most of Nunavut or the NWT, or a large part of northern Quebec, with the same conditions to deal with (or worse, really), but no REASON for one to exist...it would be the ultimate boondoggle. That land is empty for a reason. It's unfarmable, it doesn't support a lot of wildlife, the summers are short and filled with biting insects, the winters are bitterly cold, and that's coming from someone who currently deals with winters that periodically dip below -30 degrees Celsius (coldest I've ever experienced was a -42 C air temperature...and even a light wind at that temp makes it feel WAY colder)...even I can't handle these more northerly areas. About the only thing it has going for it is possibly a lot of mineral resources...but it's so expensive to find them, and set up a mine for their extraction, that it's just not worth it. You can fly for hundreds of kilometers in any direction from the center of Nunavut and not find a single person. It's just...empty.
The Maritimes are only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Adding Newfoundland and Labrador gets you to the concept of Atlantic Canada.
I mean, I'm simply a pitiful westerner from Alberta, but I've always thrown in Newfoundland with the maratime region, and exclude Labrador, given regions often care not for provincial or sovereign borders, but what do I know
Well, that's not how things are perceived in these actual places. Newfoundland is culturally distinct from the Maritimes and joined Confederation much later. I love both but they are different.
the first town i lived in was legitimately an intersection there were like 10 houses a gas station a diner/convince store/post office in one no fire station if there was a fire the closest station was 15 minutes down the road
Statistics Canada defines a population centre as an area with over 1000 people with a population density of over 400 people per square kilometre, so that's why there's only 900
I made a Zolo account to check and you were right, 44 Austin terrace is valued at 1,070,000 CAD
As someone who lives in the Toronto area, a house like that is undoubtedly worth a lot more, real estate prices have skyrocketed in the last few months. That’s easily over 2 Million
The price you're referring to is from ten years ago. That house is around 2.5 mil right now.
That address is near Casa Loma, a warning against the folly of building large homes if there ever was one!
I actually live rly close to the houses he was showing and most of those houses today are worth close to 3 million dollars
That’s case loma right?
Fun fact: apparently from Ottawa it's a quicker drive to get to Florida than it is to get to the Manitoba border. It's insane.
UPDATE: I've since driven the entire length of the current HWY 17/417 and old HWY 17. And pretty much to every corner of Ontario. All for work. It's unreal.
Based on the number of Quebec license plates you can see on the NYS thruway every summer, its the preferred destination too
I live in Ottawa and I didn’t even know that lmao
I made that exact drive when Covid first hit. Absolutely insane
The Canadian Shield is possibly the worst thing to happen to Canada in terms of infrastructure. There is just no building good roads up there.
@@Dominodude55 Precisely 😂
"No one lives here, what does it matter if you say you own it" - An Englishman.
it does when they find earth minerals and oil :D I saw in video recently mentioned US was interested in Greenland for rare earth minerals supply.
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How to make a French king cry
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As a Canadian, when you said the province of “Winnipeg” that is still fairly accurate. If you ever take a look at a list of cities in manitoba by population you will see what I mean.
As a Canadian, I completely agree lol
Pretty sure Winnipeg has like 60% of Manitoba's population :D
That's not surprising lol I think a chunk of the rest is from the city of Brandon (if that's what its called)@@MrSharkFIN
@@MrSharkFIN just looked it up and it is 51%
Yep
"Let's leave the French-speaking part of Canada behind and let's go into the real Canada." *Excuse moé?*
Crisses de têtes carrées smh
Toy cat spitting facts
I’m sorry but nobody cares about Quebec
As someone from Québec I’m just happy he pronounced it correctly. “Kuhbeck” not “Kwabeck” honestly also nowadays gen z doesn’t care about the whole independence québec thing, we realize how stupid that is. Also nowadays we have to learn english starting at around 5 years old. Also french and english are the official languages so like québec and the rest are all normal canada. Also it’s not just Quebec, it’s all of Acadia (New brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince edward island) and Newfoundland and labrador all of these speak french and english. (Officially bilingual where everything is in both languages besides quebec)
You wrote moi moweh
When you zoom in on the map and it goes white, it is actually a winter photo that wasn't updated when the summer photos were taken
No its a more quility image of a town that happened to be in the cold seasons
the water was white so i dont think so but it oculd have been snow over a frozen lake
@@thiccsand it's snow over a frozen lake.
@@thiccsand water freezes in Canada
@@jxavier3876 xd
Bruh I lived in London and it was so weird to see you comment on places I've passed by
Lol im still watching the vid hoping he stops by Montreal where i live
Fun fact: The northernmost Tim Hortons in Canada is in Pond Inlet, Nunavut
Some areas are empty, others have a tim hortons in every plazza (GTA)
It's the Windsor-Quebec City corridor
Fun fact about Windsor: it has some of the worst air pollution in Canada due to being directly downwind from Detroit
Fun fact about Quebec City: It is not downwind from Detroit
You scrolled past, but there was a house on Austin Terrace in Toronto for $3,988,000. It’s a very nice area, and Toronto prices are outrageous.
Wait till you see Vancouver, the house prices are out of hand!
@@crashgoblin2877 wait till you see Whistler, 20 million isn't uncommon. Glad I live in Texas. We got our house in '99 for 80,000 now it's worth 201,000
@@crashgoblin2877 yeah I’m from Vancouver and it’s one of most expensive cities in the world
Austin Terrace is near Casa Loma and it’s in Midtown. Any house with 3+ bedrooms and 2+ bathrooms is automatically worth 1.5 million dollars if it’s in Midtown.
I think modern economic theory is terrible if people still think inflation is the trendiest economic policy.
I actually live in London Canada and we refer to the actual London as London England so we don’t confuse it with London Ontario
What?
@@iamfuzzydolphins7792 wdym?
@@geraldbeceker2948 what?
@@ihswap what?
@@ekvedrek What?
Toy cat there is a Paris in Ontario and it’s less than two hours away from London.
There is also a Delhi and Zurich
Kitchener used to be called Berlin
@@gurkaransahota9785 oh yeah my friend was telling me about that too. It was changed because of the world wars lol
@@claudememon9833 fun fact, back when they were voting for a new name for Berlin (now Kitchener) one of the options was Corona.
There are some Canadian cities of Ontario that are named for European cities, right?
Unfortunately, all of those small places in the North have a purpose (well, a massive majority). A lot of these village a native villages, and a lot of those villages are populated by people working in mines, hydroelectric dams, and those are our primary resources and sources of income (aside from taxes, of course). Also, i'm way more scared of polar bears than covid lol
toycat: ''Including London, a place very close to my heart''
angry not just bikes noisses
There are currently 7 NHL players from Thunder Bay (granted 3 of them are brothers).
They were 4 if u count Jared Staal who played a couple of NHL games
Hanson Brothers?
@@dixonhill1108 wut? that's a weird analog, makes me think of joke that british boy band/male pop singers,musicians have very elite and most expensive background, similar way. I thought hockey was like in 70s mostly gladiator sports(pure brawl and bloody fights), like NFL and NBA is if not dominated, lot of players come from poor background or working class.
I keep forgetting that there are Canadians in NHL. And also that the NHL is a Canadian league that was just overrun by Americans.
They wanted to continue the road, but all workers kept getting eaten by Polar bears.
In Canada you are eaten by polar bear
In Russia polar bear is eaten by you
bruh, canada is not as cold as you think
@@bagofcoolness yes it is
@@bagofcoolness r u kidding me
@@bagofcoolness you know that countries arent all one temperature, it can be warm in Vancouver and Ottawa but still Nunavut is in the fucking freezer
Fun fact, most of the names of settelments in the far north of quebec arent actually french, but they are indigenous languages. Most of the northern quebec population is indigenous.
Source: im from quebec
There's some wonderful snowmobile coverage of Inukjuaq. I thought it was hilarious that the stop signs are bilingual in ENGLISH and Inuktitut. In Quebec.
yeah
Actually every small Canadian town has a Sports and Recreation Center. It's the focal point of the little towns. Whereas in America that's all too rich for our bloodstream. I lived in Haines Alaska for 22 years. And the nearest town to drive to was Haines Junction in the Yukon. 5 hours away. And Whitehorse was another 100 miles on. Whitehorse is great! Klondike Rib and Salmon is tasty. 2/3 of the Yukon lives in Whitehorse. Compare the size of the Yukon to California. It doesn't feel that remote. Because of the Alaska Highway. 'Lots' of traffic. By the way Haines Alaska is one of the best towns in Alaska! Visit it Toycat. The North is calling you. (Get in touch if you want tips.)
And bigger city's have local hockey teams , like here in Barrie go Colts go !
You'd think someone in Alaska who's familiar enough with the Canadian north that every small town has a recreation centre would know it's Yukon, not "the Yukon."
Not speaking for the far North, but for rural Alberta at least, some small towns are basically just a rec-centre and a “Main Street”… which is useful when there a tone of flooding and suddenly several thousand people have lost their homes and need a place to stay. My Oma and Opa (and me by extension) are still thankful to this day for the kindness and caring of those small town heroes
I come from Northern Ontario, and every town has an LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) and THAT is the focal point of the town. Every town has an LCBO, and as soon as one is built, the town springs up, it's how you tell if what you are looking at is a town or not.
The last time I was flying from Sweden to the US, I was looking out the window to the northern parts of Canada below, and there were just a few isolated roads snaking along vast expanses of what looked like semi-arctic prairielands, and I've really wanted since then to just take a roadtrip out there on those desolate but probably pretty beautiful expanses of fields and rivers and lakes.
Better bring some gerry cans and hope you've got a lot of money to burn. Traveling across Canada is VERY expensive.
@@Swoski Just learned those fuel containers have the name of jerry cans. Thx for that. And yea that's a good idea. Wouldn't want to get stranded out there for sure.
@@mdg936 Canada without a doubt has some of the most beautiful places in the world, so much so that I moved here from the UK!
@@Swoski He's from Sweden. Canadian gas is cheap to him.
Yellowknife has a literal skyline with like under 50k people, which I find interesting.
Yeah Yellowknife looks like any city in southern Canada, just looking around on Google Streetview is fascinating, the only hint that you're in the Arctic is the signage.
I mean, like literally, just sayin' (Those were the only other useless catch phrases I could think of off the top of my head.)
I hope one day they are able to build a road to Nunavut. What a road trip that would be
Hell yeah!
'A' road.
There are no roads to Nunavut right now.
@@pauljackson3491 yes of course. He or she is implying that a potential future road would be cool.
You could drive to Tuktoyaktuk. They just finished the last 200 km recently.
It's only 6,800 km from Toronto. It would surely make for an adventurous drive. You could try having a swim in the Arctic Ocean.
@@seanrodgers1839 lol yes
That's crazy. I know Tokyo is crowded but putting it overlayed on Canada really puts it into perspective.
Imagine living there, I can see why Japan has a suicide problem.
Actually it's wrong the map overlayed is just Tokyo prefecture. It has a population of 13million the 37million includes all surrounding prefectures and some others that really shouldn't be included.
@@decus9544 I do live here, and I'm not suicidal.
@@johnotm Tokyo Prefecture isn't that shape at all. It's long (east to west) and thin. Usually, people talk about the greater area of a city when talking about the population. If you talk about the population as being just the city proper (which you can't do with Tokyo, as you properly didn't do), Vancouver would be the 10th biggest city in Canada, smaller than Mississauga, North York and Scarborough.
Searched it up, Wyoming is actually about half of Spain's area
That's almost cursed info, thank you.
So add Wyoming and Colorado to get Spain.
Colorado at least has a few people though. Wyoming probably has fewer people than San Marino.
@@chitlitlah Hold on now. Wyoming's pop is around 578K.
San Marino is only about 33K.
@@chitlitlah San Marino: 34,000 in 2021. Wyoming: 578,759
Canada has population density just slightly less skewed than Russia
Hey toycat can you do a video talking 30 mins about your dates that would actually be so good
I second this
Doing a review on each of them 😂
@@kugul1683 HAHAHAHAHA that would be the best
The people who live in 90% of Canada's land area are skilled hunter/gatherers.
Yeah, we keep that land for the mini games, then the small islands at the top is where we banish people
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I was born and spent my childhood in one of those microscopic spots you describe, and I'm personally familiar with hundreds of them, in many parts of the country. The places that have no roads to them are called "fly-ins", and people think of bush planes about the same way that Londoners use the Tube or cabs. From childhood, I still remember the distinctive buzz of the beloved DeHavilland Beaver (a different sound from the larger Otter). The place where you put the Tokyo overlay is in what are called "The Barren Grounds", It is in Kivalliq Region [ᑭᕙᓪᓕᖅ] of Nunavut Territory. Kivalliq is almost exactly twice the area of the United Kingdom and has a population of 10,413. Almost everyone is Inuit, with a handful of Cree, Dene and southerners. It was first explored by Samuel Hearne in 1769. The next outside visitor was the geologist Joseph Tyrell in 1893. In 1927, a party of three attempted to spend a year crossing it, but failed to meet the caribou herds and starved to death. One of the three was an 18-year-old English schoolboy from Hampshire named Edgar Christian. He was the last to die, and ten years later his highly moving diary was discovered. The diary can be found at his old public school in Dover. In 1948-49, the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent by the Wildlife Service to investigate a decline in size of the caribou herds. In 1953, he published a kids' adventure book, Lost In the Barrens, set in the area. He later wrote a book about his experience, Never Cry Wolf, which was turned into a film. Because the area is too remote, the film was shot in British Columbia and the Yukon instead. The district's only other claim to fame is that it has the world's highest rate of post-glacial rebound.
This comment was a very good read. Thank you
I can't be bothered to read all of this but it sounds cool, have a compleatly useless thing called a "like"
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When I saw the population density map, I thought that it was saying that southern Alberta and Saskatchewan were populated. Then I saw that you need a person every 2 square kilometers to get a color.
I actually live in London, Canada, nice to finally see someone talk about my hometown because we’re always overshadowed by, y’now, London (fun fact: Justin Bieber was born biking distance from my house)
11:43 it's literally just because there's so many rural areas in Canada, that they take the pictures year round. When you zoom in to get a higher res version you often get snow fall and frozen lakes where it looks green and warm.
Pretty much the entire country is connected by float planes, that house in Toronto is probably worth closer to three or four mil. I definitely would be more scared of a room with the polar bear in 100 people getting mauled to death that would be an awful sight.
☮️ if you ever come back to Calgary or Banff I'll be your tour guide! @ibx2cat
Just from looking at Google Maps for like 30 minutes, I found over 40 named locations in Ontario alone that are named after large European cities.
The places you looked at in Northern Ontario where the road just stops is the end of the all season road. In winter the road is extended over the frozen lakes and rivers and muskeg until it connects with roads from the south. These are used to resupply the remote northern communities, most of which are First Nations communities.
3:20 It`s actually called the Windsor-Quebec City corridor! Don`t forget Windsor, where I live!
13:30 remember that you're looking at a road that connect to Alaska, there's money to be made. And yes they truck in gas to some of the most remote places, some gas stations are literally a tank on skis with a gas attendant who'll often only take cash (many remote areas have basically no cell/data coverage).
I live here in Windsor , Ontario, next to the border. Did you know that detroit is north, south and east of canada?
As an American, I don’t know the difference between townhouse, row house, and terrace house. I lived in one growing up, and I would like to live in one for the long term, even though there are few options in the United States for those types of houses.
I don't think there is a difference, other than the terms exist in different dialects. I live in Texas where they're pretty much nonexistent, but nevertheless the term I know best is townhouse.
I live In Ohio where we have terrace houses and row houses are townhouses here but maybe because I live in Columbus and the inner city has packed brick houses instead of townhouses
To me old style ones in America are row houses. Old style in the uk are terraced houses. And new ish ones are townhouses.
That time when toycat and a google driver saw a kid get jumped by two dogs.
lol
Many places with deserted roads are first nations reserves so that's probably why you can't look at them on google maps even though you see something
Exactly. And or mining or logging roads
Or the road was closed when the Google car was in the area.
Do Australia next, like it's literally hot canada
west of Adelaide there is absolutely nothing until Perth. it's actually crazy
Im convinced that Australia and Canada are the same country but one is hot and one is cold
Hot, and flat. The tallest mountain in Australia would be considered a wee hill in Canada.
As a Canadian i love the space we have for more UFO landing pads
Here in Alberta there's a small town near Edmonton that actually built a UFO landing pad with welcome messages and everything
Well we do have a Vulcan
For the fact check at 23:23, Wyoming (253,000 km^2) is in fact exactly half the size of Spain (506,000 km^2) weirdly. Funnily enough, it's just a tad bigger than the UK (242,000 km^2).
I live in the 50th biggest city in Canada. It is Medicine Hat, and we only have 67,000 people max, the surrounding area might increase it to 100,000 people if your lucky.
Wikipedia counts Gatineau with Ottawa, so I guess I'm in the 6th biggest population center in Canada.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 is their a reason you live in the capital region.
@@EglomHistory Idk, I was born there and I still live with my parents.
As someone who used to live in Thunder Bay, I can confirm that I never actually found the will to drive to another large city when I lived there. I always flew. The only "large" population center that people visit somewhat regularly there is Duluth in Minnesota, but even that is a pretty long drive.
Bought 5 acre of land in the maritime for 5000$. I built my own home and get water for my well. Overall, my house costed me 65k to build .
I don't understand people who flock to cities. I know people who live in Toronto, make twice what I make and he still is strugling to have a familly.
In rural Canada you can get such a great quality of life in comparison.
I go to the farmer market to get fresh food. A fully grown lobster, fresh from the docks, cost me 10$, cheaper then a Starbucks coffee haha.
Rural life in Canada is so underappreciated. Best decision in my life was to move from Montreal to southeast New-Brunswick.
A $10 lobster is cheap but definitely not cheaper than a Starbucks coffee
@@dr.winner2516 fair point, 2 coffee + taxes.
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Found a libertarian GST dodger
It's the opposite if you live in Northern rural Canada. EVERYTHING is more expensive due to the travel cost of goods, and a lot of the time the goods that are sold in store are already expired (sometimes the food is expired by years YEARS). I know a lot of people who just said "Fuck it" and decided to just live off the land (all of them hold First Nation status so they can do it legally). It's also really frustrating to do clothes shopping; it's pretty much all online, but the problem is the clothes arent made for the winter weather ( Ex. this past winter bewteen Jan- Feb it dropped to -40c without the wind chill.)
@Jeremiah Madsen in my case; I move in the region after high school, all by myself. When I got there I knew no one and am pretty solitary in nature.
Worked some small job during my studies to become a teacher and was able to put cash on the side. Around 7k in 4 years and my use of credit was good.
Met a few trustworthy people and rural communities are welcoming. After graduating i got a loan and built the house during the summer with my 3 friends.
New-Brunswick is 50% rural and I have met people who have done the same with less stable work or lower income.
I think that with a 15$ / hour job you could achieve that after 2-3 year ? So not so hard.
There plenty of manual jobs around the country side and the cities like Moncton, Frederiction and St-John are surrounded with cheap land in a 30 minutes radius.
TBH, not all jobs are available around here, but you need to make the decision base on your priority's. For me, I wanted to be able to enjoy nature, outdoor sports and the sea while being financial free to do things.
In many parts of Canada, teacher are not paid enough but in a rural area, the money is good enough for the cost of living.
Rural also bring more taxes for service and less of them. Road are more often covered in snow or can take days to be fully clean during a storm, but you buy a truck and put a plow in the front.
Some of these really remote places are full of people who get most of their necessities from the land, so they aren't exactly dependent on the government in the way even a rich person in a city is dependent.
British Columbia has places on the mainland that have no roads that reach them. For example, the Sunshine Coast is on the mainland but you need to take one or two ferries to get there.
Shout out Canada! I love Canadian content thanks
Toycat: "Who stocks the gas station. How do they work?"
I think the show Ice Road Truckers was largely based entirely around the concept of how semi tractor trailers get to the northern parts of Canada to supply those regions.
14:10 that’s a New Zealand flag. New Zealand flag has red stars while Australia has white stars
I read "Toronto", that would have been surprising amount of people in Toronto!
My mother worked in kuujjuaq and she could only get there by plane and then have to take a snowmobile from the airport to where she was staying
Strangely most Canadians would not call Thunder Bay a tiny, remote place. My cousin lives in Sudbury and most Canadians would not call that tiny and remote. In my family we reserve that for where my dad is from - Levack, Ontario.
You should go to Whitehorse, It kind of feels like Banff but people actually live there. Fun fact when you enter town from the north or the south there are signs that say 20km to the city center. It's has a long city boundary with lots of room between neighbourhoods
Also rent a vehicle and drive to Dawson City then follow the Dempster highway north to the arctic ocean.
Most car rental companies don't allow driving the Dempster, which is a pity, as it is one of the world's great drives.
Thanks for getting Winnipeg and Manitoba correct, I was stressing haha. Love your videos man
5:43 ngl I really enjoyed toycat's story times, want more!
In terms of remote places I am always amazed at Manaus,Brasil. A city of over 1 million people smacked in the middel of the Amazon rainforest
Correction: Canada is the 4th largest country by land area, but the 2nd by total area (Canada has a lot of water)
What even happens in north Canada 🇨🇦. If someone just built a house up there what would happen? Is there even cops up there? Who owns the land?
Nothing will happen, natives do it all the time
Most of the country is crown land (the legal term for land owned by the federal or provincial governments). Most of the northern towns are tied to native reserves or some local industry (resource extraction, tourism/hunting & fishing retreats, military installations or hydro-electric projects) or in some cases quasi-ghost towns that used to have a working mine, military base or other industry. It's lovely country but really out of the way.
If you built a cabin up there I don't think anyone is gonna stop you, but it's so remote that's it's really not worth it.
In Nunavut the government owns all the land and you essentially lease land from the government if you want to build
Technically 100% of the land in Canada is owned by the Queen. No Canadian actually owns land, just the right to use said land.
Another video on my country! Awesome!
This is proof that Toycat likes anime more than Canadians
Canada is stretched out on mercator but the people didn't stretch out with it
Aside from the northern climate. One of the main reason why much of Canada lives south is the Canadian Shield which a large exposed piece of rock known for being very mineral rich and full of hydroelectric potential but extremely difficult to navigate and build on. Hence this is why there are no roads from Toronto to the Hudson Bay. A few hours north of the city and you'll notice the rock and unsuitability for any form of agriculture. This often prevents large population centers or road access but also makes the country effectively split between East and West. Politically, this has resulted in disconnect with Western Canada and growing regionalism.
That only really accounts for the eastern half of the country. There's a mix of factors.
All the development in southern Ontario and Quebec is along maritime routes, be it the Great Lakes or the Saint Lawrence River, which gives what would otherwise be "inland" access to the Atlantic ocean, and essentially a big inland sea. A lot of development that could have happened on the East Coast of Canada skipped the coast for that region because of the ease of transportation along these routes.
Western Canada is vast and has no access to the ocean until you reach British Columbia, and there isn't a major seaway that connects Eastern Canada to Western Canada east to west in the same way the Mississippi River in the United States connects a large part of eastern America North-South by maritime transportation. There are no rivers connecting the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay, or any river that connects across more than two provinces, if there were, you'd see much more east-west development.
With modern technology, the barriers that the shield poses, and the lack of maritime connections between Ontario and Manitoba could be easily overcome, nothing really prevents building more roads between northern Ontario and Manitoba, or from Winnipeg to developing into a city twice its size - it really just comes down to a lack of economic or demographic pressures. Why build a massive network of highways through the northern part of the provinces and into the territories when almost nobody needs them? Why settle in Brandon, Manitoba, when Hamilton, Ontario has better weather and more economic opportunities?
@@Blakbox92 Good points. The only thing I would say is that developing on the Shield is a big task and still a big a problem to planners. The Shield is also practically half of Canada and not strictly limited to Central Canada. While technology can handle it, it's still incredibly difficult and not particularly easy. Simply speaking, cost-benefit analysis of building is not worth it nor can large population centers be sustained no matter how connected by road. Agricultural industries and suitable geography are needed to strongly support large population centres and that's something that rock, swamp, and poor thin soil can't do. Weather has less to do with than geography, Edmonton and Thunder Bay have similar summer and winter temperatures more or less but one is larger than the other even though Thunder Bay is on Lake Superior. The other item is, the Prairies has grown on a population percentage growth rate basis much more than areas like Quebec or Ontario or BC even if these areas are more connected to international trade.
At the end of the day, its a variety of factors.
It's called the Quebec-Windsor corridor, not London-Quebec. ;)
As a Canadian, the ignorance in this video hurt my head
He knows a lot more than the average Canadian knows about Canada.
As a canadian I really hate how everyone assumes london is the only important candian city, because londoners always think they are the centre of the world
As a Canadian I Didn't know about London Canada
@@tyrellroes That was a joke making fun of torontonians
I'd rather be trapped in a room with a person with covid than trapped in a room with a polar bear, which I think is pretty relatable
That's like asking "would you rather die or would you rather not die". A polar bear that feels trapped is going to rip his way through everything in sight. Even if you were outdoors it wouldn't be great odds.
I mean I think it's a pretty obvious choice, since you most likely will be fine with covid unless you are like over the age of 70 or have a health conditions, but a polar bear ain't gonna care whether you're healthy
The crazy thing is how empty even the area around Toronto is. When you drive from Toronto to Montreal, there are large stretches of pretty empty land.
When you come to think of it, the Montreal/Ottawa/Quebec City region is pretty isolated from other major urban centres like in the Northeastern US or southern Ontario or Pittsburgh/Ohio/Michigan/Chicago, and it's at least almost as isolated from those other population centres as St. Louis or Minneapolis/St. Paul.
I live in the middle of nowhere, but most of Canada is just Nowhere.
The answer in most cases to "why does the road go to here and stop?" in Canada is usually logging. That's where some company's logging permit area ended.
The rule in Canada is. If it has a store that sells liquor, its a real town hahaha
Fun Fact about Mail the United States Postal Service will send mail to the small diomede island for the price of a normal letter
8:07 this is actually slightly inaccurate as in 2018 the Invuik-Tuktoyuktuk road opened, connecting that northernmost road to the Arctic Ocean. Pretty crazy nonetheless
Spain is actually twice as big as Wyoming, give or take.
As a person who lives in northern British Columbia, the pretty much every town has a Tim Hortons and an A&W. Its kind of a joke up here that there are more gross restaurants than people here.
Don't forget subway, they're everywhere up here. Lol
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True but subway is universally everywhere
@@birchpage1117 I'll never understand why.
If you go only by land area, Canada actually falls to fourth in the world. A lot of Canadas area is lakes and territorial waters which is why it’s usually ranked ahead of China and the US
The Québec-Windsor Corridor is a Via Rail term, but also describes the similar highway corridor of the 401 and A-20/A-40.
I live in Whitehorse and real estate is way more expensive than expected. I live in a small house, on a small plot of land, on the outskirts of town and it is worth $700,000 cad.
Fun fact: There is a Road to Nowhere leading out from Iqaluit, Nunavut
Nowhere to drive to on Baffin Island... unless you like rocks.
@@E4439Qv5 Whenever I browsing through Google Earth, I always find myself arriving in Iqaluit for some reason. There are even some remote villages on the west coast of Greenland where there are street views available. Amazing places.
@@doodleblockwell2610 I too will often end up in the North Atlantic and Canadian Arctic when I browse maps.
An amazingly rugged and beautiful region. It's just so sparse is all-- hard for me to imagine living anywhere beyond the treeline.
I love the Canada videos, thanks for shouting us out :)
About small areas like Kasabonika, the majority of those are First nations or Inuit reserves and towns. I believe that's why they're sometimes censored. Also unfortunately the Canadian government has always been brutal and disrespectful to Indigenous peoples and continues this today. They don't bother building roads or providing much support to these communities. All products are flown in and super expensive and its just part of the systemic genocide and darker side of Canadian history. Sorry for the rant lol but i hope this provided some education to any foreigners.
1:27 Pretty sure this is innacurate. North America definitely has a higher population than South America. I think they mistakenly counted all of Latin America as South America
Maybe he's thinking of population density.
Latin america can be counted as south america.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 mexico is definetly north america plus some people consider the french part of north america as latin american even if it
It's actually called the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, which starts on the border city with Detroit.
If you have the time, watch Loading Ready Run’s Roadquest, where they go from Victoria, BC to Dawson City, Yukon Territory.
I live in Ohio on the southern coast of Lake Erie, so I am fascinated by what's on the other side, including the city of London, and the fact that it is so sparsely populated in comparison to Ohio, and yet is the most densely populated part of Canada.
Well, that area is not actually sparsely populated at all. Like the graphic showed of that area, there's about 10 million people stuffed into that tiny area of Canada comparable to the area of Tokyo.
To get Ohio-level population densities in southern Ontario, you'd have to be pretty much in the Greater Toronto Area or just to the southwest, through Hamilton, the Niagara Peninsula, Kitchener-Waterloo, and on to London. The part of southern Ontario directly across Lake Erie from Ohio isn't that populated.
I love these videos where you just scrolled around google maps. They are chill and fun!
Bruh as a Londoner (Canada) I freaked out when you zoomed in like 5 blocks from where I live hahaha
Fun fact Alert, Nunavut is the furthest North Settlement in Canada
These videos are basically just you ranting about the most random things while going off-topic all the time but it’s still very entertaining
0:15 It's actually 4th largest by land area. 2nd is China and the US is 3rd. It's only second largest when you factor in water area too.
Sea planes are surprisingly a big part of getting around in the northern interior. All the lakes left over from the ice age make for really good landing spots!
11:25 Look up Canada Ice Roads, they're used for trucking in the cold seasions, they're ALL OVER canada
If you want to see the roads up to Whitehorse, and Whitehorse itself, there's a youtube series called "Road Quest" from loadingreadyrun.
As someone who's lived in Chapais for half my life I do confirm it is cruel
Finally, finally someone pronounces my province, Newfoundland, correctly. Thank you ibx2cat.
wilbur didn’t pronounce it correctly
and he lost an election to the person on your profile picture
@@angadgrewal9324 Lmao, nice joke. It took me a second but i got it haha.
It's not just "not worth it" to build roads in most of the sparsely-populated (or non-populated) parts of Canada...it's impossible. Okay...I take that back. With enough effort and will to do something, it's technically "possible" but honestly, even getting railroads built over some of these areas was a massive struggle. The northern city of Churchill, Manitoba has no roads connecting it to the rest of North America, but it does have a rail line. Except it took AGES to build that rail line (and it would never have happened without the government being willing to spend a LOT of money), because it required building over muskeg, which is just waterlogged ground that freezes in the winter, with some areas of open water in the summer, and given that the bedrock is deep below the surface of the muskeg, setting (i.e. ROOTING) a rail line on something solid is pretty difficult. Any fill you bring in will spread out and become waterlogged itself, so every few years, that rail line requires expensive maintenance, or it becomes unsafe. And clearing out the muskeg down to bedrock is extremely difficult and costly (and environmentally damaging, for a few reasons, not least of which is that the water needs to be constantly pumped away), so that's not really an option either. And because the rail line was bought by an American company (privatization man, the bane of people everywhere), they eventually just didn't see the point in maintaining it properly, and so this town of around a thousand people, which sees tens of thousands of tourists every year, had no permanent land link to the rest of the country for many months (back about 3-4 years ago). It was only when the government stepped in and spent the money, that the trains started running again. But for that time period, the only supplies available to buy were those brought in by airplane, making everything even more expensive than it normally is (and it was already super-expensive).
So building a road to Churchill is maybe something that could be done (it would be expensive and take a long time, but realistically, it will probably happen at some point in the near or far future). But such a project is only feasible because there are people there...and a tourism industry. To build a road throughout most of Nunavut or the NWT, or a large part of northern Quebec, with the same conditions to deal with (or worse, really), but no REASON for one to exist...it would be the ultimate boondoggle. That land is empty for a reason. It's unfarmable, it doesn't support a lot of wildlife, the summers are short and filled with biting insects, the winters are bitterly cold, and that's coming from someone who currently deals with winters that periodically dip below -30 degrees Celsius (coldest I've ever experienced was a -42 C air temperature...and even a light wind at that temp makes it feel WAY colder)...even I can't handle these more northerly areas. About the only thing it has going for it is possibly a lot of mineral resources...but it's so expensive to find them, and set up a mine for their extraction, that it's just not worth it. You can fly for hundreds of kilometers in any direction from the center of Nunavut and not find a single person. It's just...empty.
The Maritimes are only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Adding Newfoundland and Labrador gets you to the concept of Atlantic Canada.
I mean, I'm simply a pitiful westerner from Alberta, but I've always thrown in Newfoundland with the maratime region, and exclude Labrador, given regions often care not for provincial or sovereign borders, but what do I know
Well, that's not how things are perceived in these actual places. Newfoundland is culturally distinct from the Maritimes and joined Confederation much later. I love both but they are different.
I just call it welfare land.
the first town i lived in was legitimately an intersection there were like 10 houses a gas station a diner/convince store/post office in one no fire station if there was a fire the closest station was 15 minutes down the road
"Why do they exist? They basically don't." lol
Statistics Canada defines a population centre as an area with over 1000 people with a population density of over 400 people per square kilometre, so that's why there's only 900
I have always loved wandering around the remote areas of Canada on Google Maps