Why United States and Canada Have the Strangest Border in the World
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- In this video, we'll discuss why 80% of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border. We'll explore the history of the border, the border cities, and the importance of the border for Canada.
We'll explore this question in this documentary video and the border's role in Canadian and US history. If you are a fan of geography and map based facts, this one is for you.
CORRECTION: Canada is 1.5% larger than the United States.
One reason why most Canadians live in the southern fringe of the country is simply because it's too cold farther north, and the land becomes tundra past a certain point.
Pretty much the only reason
It was a stupid question. The writer of this video must have never been to the US northern states or to Canada in the winter.
I mean
It does get colder but my guy
It doesn’t become tundra for so much further north thrn we live
Honesrly we just spread out along the rivers
And there really arnt that many running north and south so we just sort of ; settled enough immigrants along the border to lock it down but there was no like natural immigration
@@ShmuckCanuck it's mostly the Great Lakes region with all the Canucks. More south than Seattle.
@@northernpunx1978 not just that it’s the single best piece of real estate in all of North America
Best climate
Most water
Bear farmland
It’s inland but has ocean access
That shit is the crown jewel of the Canadian land grab
We had to fight off the Americans twice to keep it and capture Quebec City and you know what they say
Whoever controls Quebec cirty controls Canada
As a Canadian its simple, partially trade but mostly the further north you go the colder it gets, especially in winter
Exactly. What can you grow in zone 2 and 1?? And in zone 0 you can grow ZERO thing 😅 why it calls zone “0” 🤣🤣
As a modern day land surveyor, my hat's off to the old school surveyors...! I couldn't imagine traversing North America from coast to coast 66 feet at a time like Lewis and Clarke did...!!! A chain, which is an actual term of measurement, is 66 feet long, so every 'turn' that they made was 66 feet long... But with the change of elevation,especially in the Rockies, a 66 foot turn wasn't always possible, so they had half chains(33'), quarter chains(17.5') and so on...! Very interesting...!!! Also, 3 of the 4 on Mt. Rushmore are land surveyors...! A land surveyor, at one time was considered a 'witch' or unnatural because it was so mind-blowing to transfer a map to the actual earth...! It was also at one time considered the highest form or level of science, again because their minds were blown by the ability to transfer mapped info to the ground with monumentation.... Anyway, thanks, keep up your awesomeness and go enjoy some nature today...!
In I think 4th grade in early 60s I and my class saw the first Slides or projected pictures of earth from space from the Gemini rockets or capsules. We had studied maps of the great lakes and the Suez canal areas and of course Panama and gulf of Mexico and CA. We ere all fixated on how accurate the maps made by map makers were so perfectly accurate. We had a guest map maker or surveyor demonstrate how maps had been made. It was and still is dang cool trade. hats off to you guys.
If you ever respond to a knock at your door and one person has a metal hook instead of a hand, make sure that door is locked and repeat three times, “Hey Candyman”then run! You run like hell and get to your safe spot you don’t make a sound. And pray !
Thank you for sharing this cool info! Lewis & Clark took me back to elementary school in the 70s 😃
" half chains(33'), quarter chains(17.5')" 33/2= 16.5 not 17.5. 1/4 chain is know as a Rod.
It's interesting to note also that 10 chains equal a furlong. Although the Roman mile was 4750 feet, officials wanted to make the figure divisible my an equal number of furlongs. Eight furlongs is 1760 yards.
As a canadian this was mostly funny hearing your pronunciations of place names. However a concerning mistake in the video is the bit about Louis Riel, who was hung in Regina(pronounced like the lady parts) November 16, 1885.
Also, the original Selkirk is in Scotland--not England!
@samuelarsenault5484, yeah, I caught that, too, and I'm from "south of the border". Until that point, I assumed he's Canadian, but after that point, I wasn't so certain.
Canada's first PM was Scottish John A MacDonald
Toronto's first mayor Willian Lyon MacKenzie was Scottish, was born in the same town as me, Dundee
Lots of mispronunciations, and worse, malapropisms.
Buy a dictionary. Unlettered and lazy; not a good combo.
@sandrahuntington1602 he was both 🥵
I can't believe how much of the information in this video seems to be based on pure invention, not actual research. I am at about the 10:30 mark, and the narrator has just asserted that the Erie Canal was built to facilitate trade with the Steel plants, in Hamilton, Ontario.
Bzzzt!
The Appalachians were a barrier to the transport of goods from the Atlantic states, to the interior. And, the Erie Canal, although it was near the northern end of the Appalachians, was the best place to cross it. Ground traffic could cross the Appalachians, through mountain passes, like the Cumberland Gap. But that was orders of magnitude cheaper via canal barges, than wagons.
As the Laurentide glacier retreated a series of glacial lakes formed at the foot of the glacier, more or less where the current Great Lakes are now. Lake Algonquin formed in the basin of what is now Lake Ontario. But it was deeper than Lake Ontario, because the glacier still covered what is now the St Lawrence River valley. So, there was no Niagara Falls. And the water from Lake Algonquin slopped over and flowed down the Mohawk River, to the Hudson River. This huge volume of water carved a valley deep enough, and low enough, that the Erie Canal could cross the daunting barrier of the Appalachians.
The canals built in the period just prior to railroads were shallow, and narrow. That didn't matter, they were far superior to horse-drawn wagons, on primitive dirt roads. The original canal boats' draft was only about 2 feet deep. Yet a canal boat could carry something like 100 times as much cargo as a horse-drawn wagon, and would only require a single horse to do so.
The canal enabled the settlement of cities on the great lakes. And, when a canal was built connecting Lake Erie to the nearby Ohio River, the most important tributary of the Mississippi River, it transformed the entire midwest.
Shame on the video-maker for not knowing this.
As I said, I am at about the ten minute mark and this huge knowledge gap is not even the first or second I encountered.
Listen video-maker. Go do something else. Mow people's lawns. You aren't qualified to make educational videos
That’s because this whole channel is chatGPT. I’ve had a suspicion since whatever video popped up on my feed first.
But really, look at it. Something about the editing is weird. There’s no channel branding whatsoever. Just the generic orange arrow. There’s no about, no playlists, nothing.
The “host” shows no inflection at all. There’s no opening, no credits at the end. It just ends as the last word is spoken.
This whole channel is AI
I agree. Most of the info in the video is wrong or at least misleading. The War of 1812 wasn't about Madison trying to conquer Canada. That was a poorly conceived side quest and back then Toronto was called York.
@@XanCrewsyep I noticed that too
@@XanCrews 11:59 he said Maritime province New Finland (!?)
@@DS-ud6ys and Regeena Saskatchewan, rather than Reg-I-na. There is definitely something very wrong about this video.
Around 11 minutes in I thought “that’s the most incorrect I’ve ever heard anyone pronounce ‘Newfoundland’” than a minute later I heard the narrator say ‘Portage La Prairie’ and like… hoo boy guys, there’s pronunciation guides to these names online, they’re not hard to find
Yeah, American names are hard to pronounce.
Schubenacadie - too bad that one did not pop up
Not sure how Canadians pronounce it, but here in the states that’s how we refer to Newfoundland. Btw I’m from a state with names like oconomowoc
I can't wrap my head around doing research for a video like this and never taking the time to verify pronunciations
In the late 70s or early 80s, I heard a flashback radio program with a piece on how to pronounce the new member of Confederation. "Not new FOUND land... not NEW found land... the proper pronunciation is new found LAND."
Missed the bit about the French and Indian War (18th century) and the Aroostoock War (19th century) which affected border between Main and New Brunswick. I didn't learn scant little about it at school but learned more from my memere and pepere, translated by aunts and uncles. A difficult bit of Acadian history.
Correct. Van Buren, ME is in Aroostock County.
I’m dying at the fact he can say Saskatchewan but says Newfoundland as new finland. And how he says Regina 😂
he only pronounced Saskatchewan correctly one time. I have no idea why people think it's pronounced Saskatchewaaaaaaaaaaan.
not the first time I've heard mispronunciation of Regina, usually from A singer at a concert!
It's a giant peeve of mine when people don't do basic research on information and especially pronunciation. It's not that hard, it just takes a little extra time to not sound so dumb!
@@jarlwhiterun7478 Newfoundland doesn’t even take research. Just read the word like a normal person. It’s quite literally spelled how it sounds, why try to be extra? XD
@@markmierau5189lol. Re Geena, Sask catch oo waaaaan!
As a historian I spent some time looking at the boarder issue between New Brunswick and Main. The most simple way to explain it is as a question of boundaries following rivers or watersheds (the highest points between rivers) Each side pushed for the sensible choice that would give them more land.
"BORDER.....Historian my ass cant even spell a two syllable word #Poser
Many of these people are uninformed with no idea of international borders around the world.
There is a stretch of border between Maine and Quebec that is just nuts. It is not straight and does not follow any natural boundary. It is close to the watershed boundary but deviates a fair bit. It is a series of steps with apparently random turns in between. Look around Jackson Ranch Elk Outfitters, for example.
*Maine
No where as strange as the borders between Belgium and the Nertherlands. That consists of a weird group of enclaves.The USA and Canada berder is mostly a straight line for much of its length.
This report is STUNNINGLY INCOMPETENT. At 14 seconds into the report it shows the area of Canada as 3.85 BILLION
square miles instead of 3.85 MILLION square miles. Then it states that Canada is almost 1.6 times as large as the
United States. This is not even close. The truth is that Canada is about 6.5% larger than the United States.
Would be better if you didn't use a Mercator projection for the map. It really distorts the sizes of the countries, and Canada is very strongly affected because it is so far to the north.
I came here to say this. I'll never understand why *geography* channels would EVER use Mercator. You're showing the geography wrong! It's 2023, you're presumably highly educated, please use a 3d globe for any area larger than 1000 km.
Nothing wrong with the Mercator projection map. It has an actual purpose. It is a navigation map that allows you to draw strait lines on a 2 dimensional surface.
@@JS-vn1og For educational purposes it gives people a completely distorted understanding of comparative sizes and distances. I doubt one person is watching this video with the intent of using it to navigate a ship with sextant and astrolabe, etc.
It was hurting my head the entire video. I was thinking wait why is Saskatchewan where Alberta is and why is North not at the top?!
It's too cold in the northern parts of Canada, that's why it's not more populated
Canada is not 1.6 times bigger than the U.S., it's 1.6 percent bigger, BIG BIG difference. In fact, Canada has so many lakes, the U.S. actually has more land area than Canada.
Canada land area - 3,511,023 sq mi
U.S. land area - 3,531,905 sq mi
I was coming here to say this.
Sooo 0.016 times bigger. Eh, same difference. Good land area stats. I’m surprised we are SO close in land area. Appreciate ya.
Are we going to have to drain all our lakes for the USAers to come to their senses? Lakes are part of our territories and USA will never be bigger than Canada, perdiod.
@@corywilliams9895Alaska gets em close...
And China sneaks in in between in size…
A fascinating overview of US/Canadian relationships and evolution in slightly over half an hour! Learned more in this video than entire semesters of my high school Social Studies/History curriculums! Thanks.
You're a uninformed with no informed idea of international borders around the world.
You learn more on RUclips than in any history class around the world.
0:41 That 80% within 160 kilometres stuff is because of Ontario's population being mostly in the south and to a lesser extent Quebec. Between them they have to majority of the population so it skews the average. In western Canadas the population is spread more evenly over about 800 kilometres of the border.
Except not really because Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, and Winnipeg all far within that distance as well.
@@RealMajora Those are only cities,. The rest of us are spread out quite evenly. A little thinner in the south than in the middle.
@@RealMajoraCalgary is 200+ km from the US border (4th largest city in Canada), and Edmonton is 500+ km from the US border (5th largest city in Canada).
@@mendelgrant2129 oh shit you right, my bad
@@Rancid-Jane there isn't any 'rest of us', Winnipeg has more people than the rest of the province, same with Vancouver and the surrounding areas.
There are ~116 places you can legally cross the US-Canada border by car. I counted them on Google Earth so you don’t have to. Because knowing is a fraction of the battle.
Fractional G.I. Joe!
Thank you for sacrificing so much of your time to gather this piece of information that I'll never use in my life. 👍😂
I think the Belgium-Holland border is far stranger with house sized enclaves.
Toronto is on Lake Ontario closer to the Niagara river than the St Lawrence River. Perhaps there was a typo? Could you have meant the St Lawrence Seaway which includes more than the river?
You can't ship anything up Niagara Falls, so maybe the St. Lawrence Seaway is used as a term that's understood, but not completely accurate? Vague recollection that The Intracoastal Waterway in the US has one or two short spots that aren't inland, but they still use the name...
Should've specified that James K. Polk was looking for the entire territory of Oregon which consisted of modern British Colombia as well as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming. It was inhabited by both countries, he wasn't just trying to take an exclusively Canadian territory.
Bruh everyone knows we’re gods chosen people and North America is ours by right
It’s all exclusively ours
But being the nice polite people we are we’re just waiting for your country to collapse into total anarchy before we absorb it
Spoken like a Yankee
That's right, callmefleet. The Oregon Territory was jointly run and occupied, its southern border initially being the northern limit of Spanish territory (very shortly after 1818 it was Mexican territory) which is now the California-Oregon boundary. The northern border came east from the coast at 54 degrees, 40 minutes north latitude, both lines ending at the continental divide (the Rocky Mountains). The 54-40 point appears to have resulted from an agreement between Russia and Britain to limit Russia's southern reach, and in 1825 a boundary settled it as the 141st meridian in the north, and a line "ten marine miles inland" around the panhandle, which became a troublesome definition in 1897-1898 and was settled in 1903 when a Brit betrayed Canadian interests.
As the joint arrangement went on, Americans were inclined to want the whole territory to be American, cutting Britain off from the Pacific coast which would be only Russian-American-Mexican (for now!), but the Mexican-American war forced the U.S. to agree to a split by continuing the 49th parallel boundary onward to the coast, jogging to put Vancouver Island entirely in Canada (logical, since Vancouver Island, USA would be cut off from the rest of the Oregon Territory by water). The boundary did not define which strait was used around the San Juan Islands, resulting in the Pig War; the German emperor mediated that dispute in the early 1870s.
Large cities tend to be naer water that doesn't freeze over too much.
This is not the strangest border in the world. It is the coolest one. We agreed on a line respect each other and get along we got this
Thank you so much for this history lesson! Everything you said makes sense. And I learned a lot about both Canada and my country.
I think this was a spoof. Many inaccuracies. Do not take it seriously.
Some of these maps randomly have cities in the wrong place.
Even to this day, there are many maps that don't include New Zealand.
Calm down buddy , if you can make a better video link me up , but i thought it was pretty damn good
26:39 I used to live in a town in B.C. called Cranbrook, and its history is directly tied with the C.P.R. eventually running through the town instead of another one which is now a heritage town called Fort Steele.
I love those towns and the history there went there the summer before covid!
This is such a wonderful piece of information. There is a full historical research project going on here and I appreciate the countless hours of time committed to this video. So much knowledge is in this video. Amazing work!
It makes Alaska look bigger than South America. Such an archaic map to use, it has its places in primary school but not in a video discussing this topic.
I noticed a number of inaccuracies in the video only a non Canadian would make
how to make a You-tube video that's 1/2 hr long & give false info in under 20 seconds:
1: Canada is 1.6% larger than USA, Not 1.5x larger...theres a big, massive difference
2: the Globe is stretched out on the North & South Pole, to fit a rectangle 1D (Dimension) map...
is why you have Antarctica & Greenland looking...have u even seen a globe in ur elementary class? lol
sum1 has not been paying attention
Great vid, but you seem to have placed Vancouver somewhat east of Spokane WA @25:34…
And WHAT are you pointing to at 27:15?!? That big dark dot is certainly not Vancouver east of the Cascades! The little dot at left is Vancouver and Blaine is basically due South on the border…
12:29 man what on earth are you talking about with that translation? It translates to "portage (carrying a boat between bodies of water) the prairie (large open area of grassland)"
Its very fitting that they didnt mention ottawa lol. Its the city that fun, and everyone, forgot.
Toronto was the Canadian capital, Known as York at the time, and the capital was moved north to Ottawa during the war with the states. Ottawa was basically a logging and farming community, and the only reason its grown so much is because of that change in capitals
Oh you are right 👀 he never mentioned Ottawa
@nathanbrisebois8756 .. Ottawa was formerly known as Bytown... and the name survives on in the name of the mineral Bytownite ( calcium rich plagioclase feldspar) which was found near by.
@gilbertarnold-percy that's right! Somebody else mentioned the st Lawrence Seaway, which includes the sophisticated lock and canal systems that made it possible to move the capital and reroute and shelter along of supplies from being attacked by American ships. That canal and lock system was built very quickly, and many lives were lost in its construction due to non-existent safety standards and malaria, mostly French and Irish immigrants. Folk legend Joe Mufferaw ( or Joe Montferrant), who worked on the canals, is basically the Canadian Paul Bunyan and is claimed by both the French and Irish.
There is a museum on the locks beside the Parliament Buildings that is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Colonel John By, for which Bytown (Ottawa) is named for.
Edit: It would have made the video longer, but that canal and lock system would have been worth mentioning. The subject is the weird border, but a quick 2-3 minute explanation would have been cool.
Joe Mufferaw is also why the 2nd iteration of Ottawa's CFL team is called the RedBlacks (incredibly lazy and uninspired name imo) and the jerseys in the first 2 years included plaid stripes on the jersey and pants. Absolutely awful
@@gilbertarnold-percyOr the Bytown old school cinema, downtown Ottawa 😉
And at the time its name was Bytown. Maybe that's why it got passed by. LOL.
One of the 20% who live far from the Border!! Woot!!
I can still the faint glow of the sun at 2 am in the morning when looking north.
Hihi 👍💖
All I’m going to say is Canadians were cool until they they changed the drinking age. Great times when we could cross over from Ogdensburg Ny yo Canada and go drinking, made some great friends as a teen 🤣🤷♀️
Selkirk is in Scotland, not England. Canada has many Scottish connections as I'm sure you're aware of.
I’m not sure he is. He’s made numerous other errors.
@@JUVI9596 like the pronunciation of Portage La Prairie. Yes, he used the correct French pronunciation, but that is absolutely not how locals pronounce it.
@@homomorphic I grew up in Winnipeg. I’ve never heard the French locals say it that way
@@JUVI9596 sure, but not the anglophone locals, and the speaker is an anglophone.
Ih
A couple of times your mapping graphics mis-position Vancouver, once almost in Kalispell, the other east of Abbotsford (nowhere near the coast).
Yes, I was noticing these "odd" placements even as an American. I live within easy driving of Vancouver and a trip to Canada is not thought of as a big deal so the basic location of Canadian geography is familiar. I'm old enough to remember that the spending of US and Canadian money across the borders was no big deal until the US businesses stopped accepting the Canadian dollar because of the growing disparity in exchange rates. I remember at the time, as a bartender, that we always had a mix of money in our tills and one day having a guy who was from someplace in the southern US complain I had given him a Canadian quarter. I explained the situation and he didn't care and wanted "American Money". I reached into my pocket and gave him a US quarter and put his in my pocket.
Granville was the name from 1870 to 1886 for what would become the townsite of Vancouver, British Columbia. The townsite included the original settlement of Gastown. The video seems to treat them as two separate cities a long ways apart. Today, the only thing left of Granville is Granville Island in the heart of Vancouver consisting of lots of restaurants, bars, hotels and marinas.
Resident of St. Lawrence County, NY here. Thanks for the great video on the history. I live about 15 minutes from the SL River.
Point Roberts is one of my favorites. When I was a substitute teacher, I’d assign students who had finished their work to find where in the U.S. Do students have to cross into Canada, then back into the US every morning to get to school, then back through Canadian immigration then back through US immigration to get home. Maps out. Challenge on.
I live in eastern Washington. Once, on a trip to Vancouver, I just had to drive out to Point Roberts to see the remotest part of my state. It was strange to see gas sold in US Dollars per liter! Also fun that I can cross the border with my WA enhanced driver's license.
It’s an accident of both geographical and hence historical context. Hence the world’s weirdest School Bus Ride. lol!
9:10, ah, Toronto is not even near the St. Lawrence River. Toronto is located beside Lake Ontario and is a fair distance from the St. Lawrence River = hundreds of kilometres from the St. Lawrence River.
Decades ago I read about a house on iirc the Canadian/Vermont border and the front of the house was in Canada and the rear of the house was in the U.S.A.
The figure is 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. 70% live below the 49th parallel. The population density should be calculated using the area of the land within 100 miles of the border to get a true picture of how Canadians live.
I heard somewhere that the majority of Canadians live south of Seattle, WA
Most of Canada is in subarctic & arctic zone.
In the most southerly part new immigrants many from Middle East & India move to this southern area of Ontario.
In the late 1800s Canada offered free land to settlers especially religious groups that moved from Russia found the Canadian West too cold to grow their crops from Russia and moved further west to warmer British Columbia.
I’d like to know about the Alaska-Yukon straight line border on the Rocky Mountains 🏔️
What do you want to know about it?
I mean there’s only 1 crossing open all year round, but man that top of the world highway is amazing to see
I think most of us Canadians live so close to the border is because it is the most southern part of Canada, and therefore, it is warmer. I don't think it's because we feel a need to be closer to our Ameican neighbors ( not that there is any reason not to) And I think because the people living on the otherside of the border want to live more southernly as well and there is not a high percentage of our southernly neighbors living close to the Canadian/ American border.
Great info, but when making videos, please consider checking the pronunciation of different places you’ll be discussing. Example: Long I in Regina. It’s not pronounced re-jeeee-na. It’s pronounced like the heart condition, “angina” but with R in front. 😊
Or like a woman's private part vag...na Regina 😂
Also, ive never heard anyone put a french accent on Portage La Prairie. And the pronunciation of Newfoundland was way off.
@@jaredreynolds5843 It wasn't even French... He said "prayer" instead of either the French or English pronunciation of Prairie, lol...
This issue with the Métis people was so badly explain. Riel and some other Métis people were hung by the Canadian government without a trial because they refused to cede their lands to Canada. They were hostile towards the Canadian government because they made them starve almost to death by eliminating there primary source of food: the bisons. The death of Riel lead to rebellions in Lower Canada (Québec), because the Métis people were brothers of the Canadians (the French speaking ones were the only ones called "Canadians" before the 1900's) and native people. This is one of the first events that lead to the conflict between French Canadians and British subjects and is the event that started the independentist movement in Québec.
It's spelled Metis, without an 'H'. As for the French-speaking settlers if Quebec being "Canadians", untrue. They were, and are, "Canadiens".
I mean
The Métis arnt native and don’t have any land claims in Canada
So the crown wasn’t wrong
You know the Métis arnt native right there jsut the decendants of fur traders and trappers
But they didn’t buy any land off the natives lol
Louis Riel was hanged after a trial. No one was hanged without trial.
I don't know if this idea that there was no conflict between the French of New France (and Acadia) and the British before the 1900s is correct. Consider the French and Indian Wars, which was in fact war between French and British, with various native tribes choosing one side or the other. And the Plains of Abraham when the British defeated (militarily) the French in New France and made New France part of British North America (not saying I agree with it, just saying it happened). The Acadians were also French and had been in Acadia, which originally included Nova Scotia, parts of New Brunswick, a part of what became Maine, and part of Cape Breton Island. The British squeezed them off their land into Nova Scotia and a little piece of Maine (where there is now Acadia National Park, Maine), then totally evicted them, shoving them into ships and sending them south along the coast of New England. Many Acadians eventually went to Louisiana, where their descendants are referred to as Cajun (corruption a Canadien, the French spelling of Canadian)
Excellent show thank you very much. I will be re-watching.
Good presentation. One correction: Regina, Saskatchewan is pronounced REG-EYE-NA. It was named after Queen Victoria. Regina means "Queen".
Never knew that!
Good Reporting
Some of this video is VERY poorly researched. For example, there were myriad reasons the U.S. declared war on the U.K. in 1812, other than wanting to conquer what later became Canada. Some of those issues included impressment of American seamen into the Royal Navy, the presence of British troops occupying forts on U.S. territory (especially in the Great Lakes region), and British interception of American merchant vessels trading with Napoleonic France. Also, Canada was formed in 1867 when the British colonies north of the U.S. were consolidated into the Dominion of Canada, which did NOT become completely independent of British rule until 1982.
Riel fled to keeseville, ny at one point...aprox 115 km south of montreal. As well, the grand trunk rail system, probably the most important railway of its time in canada: Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, with corporate headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It cost an estimated $160 million to build. The Grand Trunk, its subsidiaries, and the Canadian Government Railways were precursors of today's Canadian National Railway. GTR's main line ran from Portland, Maine to Montreal, and then from Montreal to Sarnia, Ontario, where it joined its western subsidiary. The GTR had four important subsidiaries during its lifetime: • Grand Trunk Eastern which operated in Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. • Central Vermont Railway which operated in Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. • Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which operated in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Im an american, and Toronto is the cleanest city i have ever been in,
the safest city,
the friendiest city,
The most culturaly diverse city,
The most advanced city with products from all over the world, a sports city, an educational city with top education, the best food in the world, music, and protection by the government. Top notch medical care and transportation.
It was the best 25 cents i ever spent as an american!
Glad you like it. *smile*
What a thorough and in depth explanation in short. Appreciated.
One nitpick: Toronto's population in 1890 was 180,000, not 20,000.
Great video! Please don’t hate me for being nit picky, but the Maritime provinces consist of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Atlantic Canada, or the Atlantic provinces, are New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. I think it’s probably a distinction that many people do not know. Thanks again for a great video.
Newfoundland province is not a maritime province, alright, thanks. Is the pronunciation of the Newfoundland Province and the breed of canine, Newfoundland Hound, the same?
Most people say ‘Newfinland’ no not Finland, more like Newfinlan
@@cathypineau6367 Spot on. Last few years I have heard "New Found Land" pronounced slowly and thought I had perhaps been pronouncing it incorrectly. It is probably computer generated narration.
I did not realize the distinction and I'm Canadian. Nobody's perfect. My grade 6 geography was many moons ago. And saying many moons is now probably considered non politically correct for person of Anglo-Saxon descent. I'm older that political correctness. So please forgive me.
Compared to the borders between Chile and Argentina, or even more so Belgium and the Netherlands this border is comically straightforward. Not even close to strange. How very US-centric.
You missed one of the major causes of the war of 1812. The British captured approximately 15,000 American sailors and forced them to serve in the Royal Navy.
No. They were British deserters in the main
@@markshakespeare5146 No only a few were and its ridiculous that lie continues for more than 200 years.
Thank you. I really enjoyed this.
The "gi" in Regina, capital of Saskatchewan, is pronounced like the "gi" in "giant", not like "Jee" in Jeep.
uhh, that opening graphic says 3,855,000,000 (billion) not million square miles..
I thought i was the only one who noticed.
Thank you for mentioning Point Roberts. We're often forgotten about.
The city that rhymes with fun
not forgotten enough see lineups on saturday
Nonetheless, very interesting presentation. Thank you.
Wow, this video just took me 30 years back to high school! Excellent production values and I can find no fault with the general facts as presented either. Great job!
Sehr guter Inhalt. Vielen Dank. Dass sich die Sprechgeschwindigkeit häufig ändert empfinde ich allerdings als sehr störend.
The Eire Canal was not built to give Canadians access to the Sea. The Eire Canal was built to open America's interior. It runs from the Hudson River to Lake Eire and the Great Lakes, and then by connecting rivers, to points beyond. It allowed goods and people to move via waterways from New York City and the Eastern seaboard, to the Midwest and North West.
Dude Selkirk ain’t even in England!
In the opening seconds of the video when showing Canada, it says the Canada is 3.85 million sq miles, but the number that is shown on the screen at 0.17 seconds is 3.5 Billion (with a B) sq miles and 9.97 Billion sq kilometers. I just thought you might like to know.
i wonder why every youtube channel that covers this asks the question "why do canadians live so close to the american border??"
BECAUSE IT'S FREAKING COLD UP THERE BOBBY! IT'S FREAKING COLD!!
What a great review from what I learned in History class many years ago! 👍
Good work, but I think you should avoid using the Mercator projection when doing any work near the poles. You've had several severly distorted visualizations of Russia and Canada in the few videos you have done so far. I would heartily recommend switching your visualizations to using a 3d globe instead; I'm sure that'll require a rework of your visualization workflow, but the sooner the better.
A comparison of "citys/towns" area Vs. Pop would be interesting
For all provinces, mayb top 5 of each?
Great video. Regina rhymes with you-know-what.
He also mentioned "beaver fur"....
Selkirk, England??? No, my friend!
Are you really ripping off that other Map youtubers thumbnails? I think its reallifelore. Or are you affiliated?
This is extremely similar to RealLifeLore
Even the thumbnails are similar to reallifelore
If it looks like smoke , smells like smoke, it prolly is smoke!If it quacks like a duck, looks like one, it likely is a duck! Same with thumbnails guys!
@@chairlesnicol672 you forgot shit, how dare you.
"French for 'We have to carry the canoe HOW far?"
As a native Minnesotian, that was hilarious. We know quite a bit about the Voyageurs here.
Gotta love the war of 1812.
"The US wanted to aggressively annex Canada. The US didn't gain anything they wanted, though, as the British Canadians successfully defended themselves and pushed all the way into the US capital and burned it down. Anyway, no one really won or lost."
And we still teach it that way.
Americans have always tried to portray the War Of 1812 and the burning of Washington DC as British aggression and a heroic American "win".
Thats exactly like the Russian invaders describing the Ukrainian counter offensive as Ukrainian aggression.
The US started the war by trying to invade and annex Canada. The US was the aggressor.
The British/Canadians counter attacked and pushed the American forces all the way back to Washington.
The Americans got their asses handed to them.
And this time the US didn't have the might of the French Army there to do all their fighting for them.
It was peace talks in the Netherlands two years later in 1814 in which both sides agreed to go back to the start lines and stay there which ended the war.
The US most definitely did NOT win the War Of 1812. The British/Canadians most certainly did win the war as they successfully defended their territory against an invading aggressor.
We teach that no one won because no one won. You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the British didn't burn Washington for giggles. They invaded the US and were pushed back, the same as what happened to the US invading Canada. Neither side accomplished anything they wanted to.
@@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect The Americans got their asses handed to them? Someone has never heard of the Battle of New Orleans. Or, again, is conveniently ignoring it for the sake of their biased narrattive. The British did not win the war any more than the Americans, and Canadians didn't even exist. Canada has been a British colony for most of its existence. It didn't even become a country until the 1980s. If you don't even know this, you shouldn't be speaking on its history.
@@xviper2k Well actually, the British/Canadians DID win the war because they utterly defeated President James Madisons goal of invading and annexing Canada.
The British rightly occupied half the US at that time and stayed there until peace talks two years later in the Netherlands in which both sides agreed to stay behind they own borders.
The Battle of New Orleans was just one battle which was a silly mistake by the British.
But the British achieved their main goal which was the successful defence of Canada against US aggression.
The British/Canadians were as justified in invading the US and Washington DC as the Allies were in invading Germany in WWII. And as justified as Ukraine would be if they attacked Moscow.
And they withdrew in gentlemanly fashion after the US agreed to stay in their own country.
The British achieved their main goal and that counts as a victory. The US failed to achieve theirs. The peace talks were a successful resolution to the problem.
The US didn't have the French to fight their battles for them this time.
However, today the British, Canadians and the US are successful friends and Allies, as long as Trump doesn't get in and becomes an ally of Russia.
Canada's North is super cold that's why
Not like supper cold, people live there just hard to build infrastructure. I live in Canada
Alaska is also super cold and yet people still live there.
Contrast to Australia's interior is so hot and dry majority of the cities are along the coast.
Hes saying eh
That’s not what he said at all it’s because the ground isn’t good
a large portion of canada's area is comprised of water. if you only count land area, the usa is actually slightly bigger
This isn’t the weirdest border. I’d say it’s pretty normal. The weirdest border is Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan
Oh you are so correct. Who ever drew that border line must want to cause maximum trouble…or just stone drunk 😅
First thing I thought too: does he even know what the word weird means??
No other country in the world is completely divided in two by another country (Alaska).
Point Roberts......
I found this very interesting because of the information good stuff
I thought that Selkirk was in Scotland!
There are uncountable Scottish place names brought to Canada, right across the country. The Scots and French were the early fur traders working for the NW co. and the HBC
I love how 15 seconds in and Canada is listed in text as being bigger than Neptune. Off by a factor of 1000, bro!
It is sad that my school never taught the basic history of our neighbor to the north, Canada. I know far more about European & Latin American history, British Colonization, Spanish Colonization, and Colonial United States (up to the civil war, but never beyond). I can't tell you how many times I saw "Johnny Tremain" from 5th grade through high school, and I vividly recall repeating the same colonial through revolutionary period multiple times, wondering why we never EVER got to the uncomfortable history. (I can, however, recite the preamble to the U.S. Constitution verbatim, but I attribute that to Schoolhouse Rock.) The civil war was watered down, and the U.S. slave trade was never really addressed as a human rights issue, rather it was treated as one economic factor among many other factors (including agriculture, trade and railroad transportation) which led to the secession of the Confederate States. (Mind you, I went to school in a northern state that had not relied on slavery nor was part of the Confederacy.) We never looked at 20th century history because that would mean we'd have to address Korea and Vietnam (M.A.S.H. had covertly informed us about those "wars"), or even scarier to the "system" we'd study the Civil Rights Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment. My un-informed inner child is really wishing that a more comprehensive, more global, more raw and uncensored history had been taught to Gen-X. So any time I hear that school districts, states or political parties are sweeping history under the rug, watering down the uncomfortable parts or simply omitting large geographical areas and eras I am concerned. (Don't even get me started on knowing nothing about Asia. China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Laos were never part of the curriculum. The only thing I knew about the (then) U.S.S.R. was based upon cold-war propaganda. Australia? India? Indonesia? It's like they didn't even exist.)
as a late millennial who has a large interest in history and has 2 brothers who are gen z, I can tell you school sugarcoats it even worse now. We need to learn both the good and the bad otherwise history will repeat itself.
You can thank the National Council of Social Studies (with support from major universities from Harvard to Stanford) for its progressive bent in eliminating geography, civics, and Canadian history from the American education curriculum.
Have you heard of The Underground Railroad? Did you know that Canada would be a member of the Security Council had it not been for the US desire to downplay our importance to basically pillage our resources?
Not trying to be cheeky but you generally seem to have an interest. Look up Heritage Minutes if you want to learn a tremendous amount about Canada in a short amount of time.
This video is not a history lesson. It is a fairy tale of fiction,
Because they actually like each other.
"Discovered" and "New world" are trigger words for many of us. More like "accidently found someone else's land" and "laid claim on said land".
And deceived and raped and murdered and then stole the children to brainwash them using violence and cultural genocide and generational trauma. Lot to be proud of......
I am triggered by the word "triggered"!
@@voxveritas333 it is lame word to describe actual trauma. If that why you bothered
is this video/channel A.I. generated?
you can tell an american made this
You itself was made by an American
@@AndyMartin92 ? im literally from europe
😂😂😂 for sure , from south river ont here
@@AndyMartin92she's likely Anglo Saxon there bud
My husband just informed me the lowest part of Canada is within line of a town just 40 minutes southwest of where we live in Nebraska, I had no idea we were higher than the border!
This is well done ❤ I appreciate you
My family is originally from New Brunswick and Québec in Canada. We immigrated to the United States of America in the late 1800s and mostly settled in the New England states. My dad was born in Grand Falls, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada and his father was born and raised in Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada and came to the United States of America through Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine, United States of America when he was 14 years old. This was around 1951.
Selkirk is in Scotland not England
We have a fucking mountain range in BC ; right beside the Rockies called the Selkirks. Thank you for your time
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We know the name came from Scotland.
Oh, the mighty Scottish empire
Yes; I am being facetious
That was a great video i really enjoyed it thank you , truly
It's warmer near the border plus common trade
Portage la Prairie is pronounced PORTidge la prairie (just like the word prairie in English). Rhymes with mortgage the prairie. It's not "prière" which means prayer. While it has a French name, the city is predominantly English. Also, the O in Montreal is pronounced in English like the O in Monday, Monkey or Come. Like a U sound. Not MAHN-tree-all (think Biloxi, Mississippi). Regina is pronounced Ridge-EYE-na. Rhymes with the lady part. Peace Arch is pronounced as written, not "arc"..We also call it the St. Lawrence Seaway, not "waterway". Bravo for getting Riel and Métis right!
Good job “eh”!
shut up man
You also got Louis Riel wrong. It is ree-al, ree as is sea and al as in national.
PLAP
Portage was the term used to describe a pathway to transfer boats from one waterway to another. People would carry their boats between navigable rivers or lakes.
Wow. Needed a summary of the summary.
Canada is not 1.6 times larger than the USA. Canada is 3.855,100 square miles. The US is 3,796,742 square miles. They are similar in size.
The video is full of errors.
YUKON TERRITORY BORDER WITH ALASKA another % of population
new-finland and rigena.... know how i know you're american?
Peace Arc??? Come on that makes no sense...😮
The main reason most Canadians live in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnepeg and Vancouver are those the cities with NHL teams...🏒
Always been curious about Canada's formation this helps a bit
30 seconds in and already making mistakes.... Canada is 1.6 % larger than USA not 1.6x larger
Get it together!🤦🏻
Fascinating video. The city Regina is pronounced RegEYEna
Like the body part.
2nd largest country yet 75% is uninhabitable.
Saudi Arabia ,all there land is desert ,with no river and lakes ,still have higher population
@@Karan-hi3jiSaudi Arabia has 34m versus 40m of Canada
Much of Canada could be used to raise reindeer and musk oxen, as well as gas and oil drilling. Unfortunately, Trudeau foolishly restricted oil and gas. The result: China and India use coal which is much worse. China and India create massive amounts of greenhouse gases and particulates. Once again, Trudeau puts on a false show of woke virtue.
Only uneducated moron's think that.
Not 90%, more like 60-70%.
There was also The Aroostook War which was a border dispute in 1839. The fort in Fort Kent, ME still mentions The Aroostook War if you visit that small Fort along The Saint John River.
A lot of mispronounced Canadian places, but otherwise, excellent video. :)
Lots of inaccuracies and downright errors.
Most of the Selkirk Settlers came from Sutherlandshire in the north of Scotland.
But remember the Narrator is American and thinks the whole of Britain is England. Selkirk is in the Borders region of South-Eastern Scotland.
What makes the Canadian border so strange,
One side thinks they're the greatest thing ever with no reason to leave,
While the other half knows better and stays where it's safe...