Why 50% of Canadians Live South of This Line
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2021
- Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/real-life-lo...
Please Subscribe: / @reallifelore
Select video clips courtesy of Getty Images
Select video clips courtesy of AP Archive
Special thanks to MapTiler / OpenStreetMap Contributors and GEOlayers 3
www.maptiler.com/copyright/
www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
aescripts.com/geolayers/
![A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - Body (feat. Cash Cobain) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RMT3AlAs0r8/mqdefault.jpg)
Another fun fact: Most Canadians live in Canada
Hmm yes the floor here is made of floor
For every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
Hmm yes, the sky is made of sky
One of those things we subconcsiously know but never truly realize
Do you have a source for this?
As a Canadian who lives south of that line the answer is easy... too cold up there
*Laughs in Calgary*
I agree
been above the line and it isnt cold, infact its perfect temperature, idk about you though
Settlements made close to border during war
As a Canadian who lives north of that line I agree with the answer.
As a Canadian living in the US, I spend more time explaining that more Americans live north of most of us, and that we have 4 seasons, than anything else. This is not embarrassing for us!
Idk what you’re talking about were I live in Canada it goes Winter, Winter, Construction, Winter
We just Have Winter & July
@@siberiusstuph I live in Canada, no
Winter is Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Spring apr may
Summer Jun Jul Aug
Fall sep oct
@@siberiusstuph it's 30°C rn and it's september
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 Different Story for British Columbians
Some of us who live far North of that 100 mile line are still starting to feel congested. When I visit a dense metro area I start to feel suffocated in a just a few days.
I like my wide open space, pristine forest, canyons, rivers, wildlife. I love people, I just don't love living near them.
Where you live in Canada
@@anshumansingh5088 prob near Edmonton, only big Canadian city I can think of above the 49th parallel
@@LittleHomieLightningtech vancouver
@@LittleHomieLightningtech Vancouver, Calgary, Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna, Edmonton, Red Deer, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Dawson City, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Churchill, Brandon, etc., are all cities that are located above the 49th and vary in size. Some are located in the far North while most are located within 100 miles of the U.S. border. I apologize for the geography lesson but there is understandably a lack of awareness about the large population that lives outside of the southern Ontario area. Anyway, take it for what it is. I hope you have a nice holiday season. 😊
Agreed, I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is a fairly nice sized city (about 750k pop) not too big and not not too small, compared to some other city’s in Canada but it can still get sorta stuffy so I love it when we get to go visit my family that has a cabin on lake of the woods, just outside of Kenora, Ontario but I do think people tend to gloss over the prairie provinces and the territories and only think about Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and bc and sometimes the maritimes but not too much. Also some ppl say we are Americas little brother but we do things that they see and are like “wait that’s a good idea, let’s take the credit for that”, ever heard about the penny? Do some research, Canada is a beautiful country with safe schools instead of schools*crossed out in place of shooting ranges*… it’s awesome here.
Fun fact: 100% of Canadians spell "Ottowa" as Ottawa.
We need to get this comment to number 1
There's probably some first grader who doesn't but true lol
As someone from Ottawa, we need to make this top comment so he will get it right next time
Is there any way I can like this comment more than once to get it to the top?
@UCul8Y29FWJ1fDzQpeH3inuA yes, the correct spelling is Ottawa
Short answer : it's cold above this line.
Long answer: it's *very* cold above this line.
Underrated
Not entirely accurate. Southern British Columbia can get very hot, 40C in the summer and some areas only get down to -15C in the winter. This area is hotter in the summer than many US states.
I live in Sweden and are more north than the whole Hudson Bay! You should not talk about cold! 😅
And I live in exactly the middle of Sweden....
@@central3425 He literally just said its cold and its very cold about the unoccupied parts of canada. It wad a joke and you ruined it
@@casswashwash1070 Unoccupied? People live up there.
A long time ago, I went on a Eurotrip with some friends I knew ever since high school. There were three of us and we were all from the Toronto area. We identified ourselves as Canadian. Then, on a walking tour thingie, we heard some other people indicate they were Canadian, too. They were from Manitoba or something. When we heard them talk, we realized what all the Canadian stereotypes about "aboot" were all, well, aboot.
As a fellow Ontarian, I still have never heard "aboot." I've been to Winnipeg briefly, but didn't pay attention. Will have to next time!
Well you don't even have to travel more than half an hour out of the city before "about" sounds far more like "aboat"
Another thing I've noticed here in BC is the way people pronounce "Again".
@@3DGECASE Kate Bierness of TSN, is from Port Perry and she says "aboat", but its very soft and understated.
LMAO SAME! i was in europe this summer and met some other Canadians from Manitoba & Saskatchewan and finally understood where we get those stereotypes from 😭
Yeah, I feel like many people overestimate how populous our country is, especially compared to the US just south of us having very high population density, but most of the country is either rock, frozen, water, farmland (Saskatchewan) or a city. Many people prefer the cities.
saskatchewan is literally just farms
signed, an alberta citizen
I like cities a bit, but I also like rural. They both have pros and cons.
@@proletariennenaturiste true
very true
@bob 37 Yeah this couldn't be further from the truth but go ahead and speak for an area you know nothing about.
@@mowbray231 well even if it's not just farms it has no shape
it's a boring rectangle
RealLifeLore: *Talks about orchards and wineries in Southern Ontario, shows picture of Okanagan region in B.C.*
Me, a Western Canadian: *resigned sigh*
Haha I noticed that too was like didn't know Ontario had a semi desert.
I love okanagan, it is my favourite part of BC to visit, I live in western Alberta, I also realized that because I been to okanagan over 6 times
Me an Eastern Canadian when he spelled it "Ottowa" had the same reaction.
I was also confused when he said southern Ontario is one of the only places agriculture can happen. So I guess the lower mainland, okanagan, and all 3 prairie provinces just don't exist.
@@FG-ww8rc In BC, not since we started paving over them all to create impossible-to-afford housing...
Here's a fun fact: there's more Puerto Ricans outside of Puerto Rico than inside of it
More Irish people in New York than in Ireland
@@Stavroization I think that would be wrong, like 240 million wrong
More Albanians outside of Albania than inside of it
More Irish people live outside Ireland.
There’s more Americans in the United States than in America
Beautifully put together. Excellent video!
I came across your channel one day at work and have been watching all the videos ever since. The amount of facts and knowledge you put into each video is amazing. Thank you for your hard work making these videos. I have enjoyed all of them.
except some of the pretty glaring mistakes; like misspelling the capital of Canada; or showing a picture of an orchard 2000 mi away from the area they're talking about.
I was expecting a 5 second video saying "Because it's cold up there..."
RIGHT
me too
yeah, same
Congratulations! Your truth stat has increased by +5%!
That works too
Fun Fact: At least 40% of Canadians live in Canada!
😳
We can go further: over 50% of Canadians live in Canada
Are you sure?
Oml I never new I thought the lives in Norfolk Island
No, at least 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Ottowa is the capital of Canada? Who knew?! For decades I thought it was Ottawa! ;)
Yep Ottawa ... Just like Ottawa Illinois.
How does a kid from Ottawa Ontario know this??
Ottawa Illinois is the birthplace of Bob McGrath everyone's friend from Sesame Street who passed away recently.
@@comebychance people appropriating names and misspelling and misunderstanding them - especially colonizers - is hardly anything new.
Like it or not, this is the name we Canucks are stuck with. At least we got Ottawa and Kanata right.
Worth Mentioning that Sault St. Marie, a small town that borders Michigan, even has it's own well known folk song about a shipwreck. That's how much of a maritime place it feels.
Gonna go out on a limb and assume it’s cold up there
It's pretty chill(y)
No man, it's actually close to 50 degrees!
*Laughs in 32° C in Alberta*
@@CanadaBricks ha Manitoba be like
33 with humidity
@@CanadaBricks -36 in January though🤣
RealLifeLore: haha I’m gonna embarrass Canadians
Also RealLifeLore: Ottowa
LOL
hmm yes the capital of canada is ottowa
Ottowa Senators
@@ttc_flaw7964 Ottoman Empire
He didn’t even mention downtown Canada
Fun fact, your picture of a Canadian vineyard in 'Ontario' is of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia 😀
Very nice video! Thank you for sharing!!
Here's another fun fact: During winter, it feels like 50% of Canadians live in South Florida.
Good chunk in Arizona too. My accent changes eh. Lol jk
lmao so true, i live in south florida and it gets so crowded during the winter (I live in a town that isn't that populated so it feels like the population increases by like 500%)
@@xdEnvasion how?
Thought the same thing!
Same thing but it feels like 50% of Finlands population moves to Greece, Thailand or Spain in mid winter
10 minutes to explain that humans and plants prefer temperatures above freezing for most of the year.
well the southern prairies are still really cold in winter. its probably because where they laid the railroads originally.
@@LukeTEvans the prairies are above the 49th parallel.
@@LukeTEvansdon't you know it's impossible to build railroads in permafrost? It's not they settle because of the railroads, it's because they settle where they could do anything at all.
You need a video to get sponsored :).
@@jarrettwilfred5453 I've just googled 'permafrost in Alberta' and got the exact thickness. Wouldn't bother to google the rest.
I can imagine this guy talking emphatically like this even to cashiers at the grocery store.
It's a striking graph, but you're just highlighting Toronto and Montreal. You can do a vertical version of the meme by drawing a couple of lines somewhere along 82W and 72 W. Then you can say 50% of Canadians live between these two vertical lines.
yeah its not that mindblowing
Fun fact: AT LEAST 1% of all Canadians live in Canada.
I mean, he's not wrong
@@ZhouMama69420 right?
Fun Fact: There are more Illegal Mexican-Americans than people who live in California.
@@mohdadeeb1829 fun fact: no there arent
There are less than 11Million illegal imigrants
No at least one Canadian lives in canada
I 'm from Russia and I can confirm that when you go from the southern part of the country to the northern one, the population density decreases a lot. Most people just don't want to live in the cold areas with overpriced imported food.
Smart !
@@crixy.. wdym by saying "smart" ?
I would agree for the most part except for affordability as the toronto area is far more expensive to live in than Calgary or Edmonton. Vancouver is also expensive af
@@legendztofar-- :- What he meant by "north" is up there in the northern territories, where fresh fruit like bananas, apples & oranges and many other grocery items, all have to be shipped by air...very expensive.
@@user-ov2dk7cf7n I mean that you are smart haha what you said is true
Thanks for making many points I've made to friends and acquaintances in the past, often to doubt-laden reactions. I remember camping in Lake Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota a bunch of years ago and meeting a fellow from New York City. I mentioned that I had lived in NYC as a student and that I had moved back to Toronto. His response was, "Oh yeah, Toronto! Nice town. I've been up there!" I smiled and responded, "Nice! Of course it's actually 'down there' from where we stand right now.'" He looked at me sideways and asked, "What?" I remarked that Toronto was actually quite a ways south of where we were at the moment in Minnesota. He kept saying, "Nah, buddy, you got that wrong. Toronto's north of here." Unfortunately it was before the internet and smart phones so I couldn't prove my point without going to the car and retrieving a map!
I've never liked it when people would refer to Canada as "north of the 49th," when most Canadians actually live south of it. The fellow from NYC was convinced that all of Canada was north of all of the USA.
One other thing worth mentioning about where the population has settled is the simple reality of the Jet Stream. Over North America, it happens to hug the area close to the international border between the US and Canada, then over the Atlantic it heads much further north, and by the time it reaches Europe, the dividing line between north and south in terms of air temperature and humidity is significantly further north. Edmonton, Alberta is at 53 degrees north latitude, about the same amount north of the equator as is the city of Berlin, Germany. Edmonton has winter temperatures that regularly hit -40C, whereas the coldest winter temperatures in Berlin rarely go much below the freezing point (0C). That jet stream makes an enormous difference, making large swaths of northern Europe much more hospitable to human settlement than most of Canada.
Great job otherwise (other than misspelling "Ottawa" 🙂).
Yeah here in Windsor I technically live "south of the border" in Canada, since the downtown core of Detroit lies due north of Windsor. In this whole region crossing the border take you north to the US or west to the US if you're up in Sarnia-Port Huron
The picture you showed of wineries is from the west coast near Oliver, BC since I live here I recognized it right away.
fun fact - Windsor Ontario is South of Detroit City, so we drive north into the US lol
Stfu
And the border at Niagra falls doesn't make geographic sense neither.
Me who lives in Windsor and finally gets recognition for the city 👁️👄👁️
@@RamiHaddadin windsor is knock off detroit lol
@@RamiHaddadin Me 2. lol
I'm one of those Canadians who actually lives further north in Canada.
What area do you live in (in general, of course)?
Vancouver?
Born and raised in the NWT, living in Alberta now though, but I still work in the NWT and Nunavut.
Surprised you have wifi
I’m an American who lives Further north than the line
Lots of neat points here, as a well travel Canadian, I spyed lots of photos from Windsor/Detroit area! Which is next to our most southern part of the country.
I really like all your videos
*Every 60 seconds in Canada, a minute passes*
*Together we can stop this!*
Please spread the word
Canada is overrated.
@@karwan6385 so is anime
@@SynthBeatsStudio LOL
@@karwan6385 you have never been there
I'm from the Toronto area, and whenever I go up to Algonquin Park I feel that I'm 'way way up north', but in actual fact there are entire US states that are north of Algonquin Park.
That's right.
Technically there is only one: Alaska.
The north tip of Algonquin is at 46.14N
The southern border of North Dakota is at 45.93N. There are no states in the continental US entirely above Algonquin
Haha 'way way up north'. That's shocking for me to hear that because i live a 8 hours drive north from Winnipeg.
Lol USA is north!! But not as north as Canada is . 😂 ( Geologically on the map )
Omg yeah same jeez
As someone who lives above that line every winter I cry.
That's true. Upstate New York including Buffalo gets more snow compared to Southwestern Ontario including Toronto. From Kitchener, Ontario. Canada 🇨🇦.
Fellow K-Towner here. Years ago I had a gig in Montana and when asked by them how far south I had to fly (which is funny when you think how Montana is below Alberta and not Ontario), I had to explain to many a perplexed Montanan that I flew six hours NORTH to get to Missoula. Watching their minds explode was pretty amusing.
Ahh, Americans. Bless 'em.
NY gets the snow b/c they are on the windward side of Lake Erie, except of course when the wind changes and Fort Erie Ontario gets it, but not as bad and not as often.
this guy really knows how to transition to his sponsors
I thought the same thing, lollll
My older sister is a nonstop chatterbox.
I use this guy's same transition technique to change conversation topics with her.
@@cometcal2 lol XD
fuck morning brew. this guy never heard of them till someone gave him an ad he had to read
@@cometcal2 Hilarious comment lmfao xD
“I’m not done embarrassing Canada yet.”
Canadians: Sorry.
I killed my dad
Canadians : sorry
HAHAHA! That is what I said!
LOL!!
Sorry
Insert meme
Surf
I used to live nestled in between those Great Lakes in Ontario. The temperature swing there between winter and summer is astounding. Summers were high 30s low 40s Celsius. Winter was often -30 to -40 Celsius. My friend had moved there from South African and found the summers unbearably hot.
Where in the GTA do temperatures reach low 40s in the summer or -40 in the winter? Its currently 4 degrees in Hamilton in the middle of February.
@@4spooky8u I wouldn't quite say -40, but it did get as low as -25 a couple of years ago!
(6:05) I live along the St. Lawrence river, in the area that was most heavily impacted by the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. In our area, approximately 38,000 acres of land was flooded in total to expand the river. 18,000 on the American side, 20,000 on the Canadian side. They relocated the population from the local towns in the area, and either dismantled or moved all of the buildings and infrastructure there to accommodate the move. On the Canadian side, in my area, 6 towns and 3 hamlets were flooded, another village lost 1/3 of its original location, and the village next to it was moved almost entirely to the North (excluding two homes). There are all kinds of reminders of this project in the St. Lawrence, including old highways, bridges, foundations, tree stumps, and railway beds that can be seen from the surface. The Americans lost 1 hamlet, and 1 street of another town, the rest of the area was farmland I believe. Because of this, the project is generally more well remembered on our side of the border than our southern neighbors.
As someone from the NY side of the river, we still remember the project too. And are sometimes reminded of it when diving and you encounter the drowned ruins or when fishing and pull up artifacts like horseshoes.
I personally am facinated by the project and the dams, although if its any consolation Canada takes about 1.1GW of capacity from the dam and the USA takes about .9GW so you get more benefits from it to make up for sacrificing more. Although trade benefits wise we probably had more benefits from it because of having more cities on the lakes. Although realistically speaking the loss of a few villages in exchange for the massive trade boost and a combined 2GW hydrodam that also helps with flood management is certainly an easy decision for national governments to make.
As a Canadian who lives in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor and seeing "Ottowa"
Me: 😳
The irony of this comment lmao
@@KasabianFan44 well to be fair, it was just a typo, r is right next to e, but o is not next to a so it was intentional
@@KasabianFan44 Windsoe Corridoe
Lmao having a fun time there huh
I think I work it Ottawa. I'm not sure though haha
5:01 Talks about southern Ontario Wineries: Shows the Okanagan valley of BC...
Haha, yep. Between OK Falls and Oliver
Joys of stock footage.
I was wondering where they were hiding the mountains that line the Great Lakes.
And ifyou can find a ski hill over 1400 ft. high in Michigan... You aren't in Michgan anymore!
Made a similar comment before I read yours. Yes Blue Mountain Vineyards in OK Falls and one of my favourite views in the Okanagan.
🔴 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE REAL LIFE LORE 🔴
Ottowa? Map showed port Arthur at the head of Lake Superior. It’s been Thunder Bay for a very long time. But a cool video.
I live in Michigan and most people live in the lower peninsula. I think this is due to all the cold weather in the up. I think the same applies to Canada.
The real reason isn’t that complicated…
European actually tried to go up there and build cities, but it’s just too cold and in the middle of nowhere. They rapidly realized it…
If there was money to be made and food was easy to grow people would settle there
@@draggy6544 Not that much though. Alaska’s population is huge compared to Yukon Territory for instance and experienced both the Klondike Gold Rush and is a major oil producer, but its population doesn’t even scratch a million. If every single part of Canada were just as useful the line wouldn’t be much different. Would maybe need to be just a bit higher. A bit.
@Hernando Malinche wtf?
@Hernando Malinche Canada should have annexed the US
@Ablazelearner85 Thank your lucky stars that the various close brushes with parts of modern day Canada being peacefully annexed into the United States didn't happen. Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia in particular. Though, I think it's pretty clear you're definitely dealing with our problems.
If anyone has ever experienced a Saskatchewan winter, you'd understand why.
Hi, neighbour! I feel you. MB's winters are just as bad.
I have. It got so cold that my block heater cable snapped in half when I tried to plug it in. It was -50c for over a week straight. One of my coworkers moved there from the northern coast of the Yukon. After one winter, then announced he was going back to the Yukon because Saskatchewan winter was so miserable.
@@drew_mb Two letter abbreviation for provinces was forced on us by the United States Post Office.
Same with northern Alberta +40 in the summer and below -40 in the winter😂
That wind chill be chilly
Toronto here - it's just colder up there lol we have legitimate decent freshwater beaches in the summer where temps hit 32C or about 90F which is a lot nicer than well, you know lol
It’s crazy to think how Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, but the majority of the population live in urban areas in the southern area. While the rest of the country is just kilometers and kilometers of beautiful unappreciated wilderness and tundras. Some parts of Canada are so far from civilization and untouched by man, it’s like being on a different planet.
I crossed Canada by train in 2012 and could not believe the remoteness of most of the route beyond the major cities. Even in Ontario, which is Canada's most populous province (and not even its largest geographically), the train ran for 16 hours and never passed through a single town with more than 1,000 people in it; the largest town, Hornepayne, had only about 1,000 people and only had that many because the railroad needs a place to change crews every eight hours or so. Canada is BIG!
Well it’s big AND empty. Us is the same size and you wouldn’t run into much of this problem because of the sheer population disparities between the two nations.
Try to imagine how it is in Russia
@@inter5123 US is not the same size as Canada, it's big, but Canada is the 2nd biggest in the world
@@maybeanonymous6846 Canada is 1.6% larger…
@@maybeanonymous6846 not to mention the population of Canada is close to 5x less than the US
"But I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet." lol jokes on you dude, Canadians just like to be included.
um, we are one of the most respected and beloved countries in the world, America is hated by pretty much everyone, including their friends so..... include us or dont, we are your most vital neighbor since we sell you oil super cheap and share the largest border in the world with you, and we share a border on the north pole with russia.
@@Zeitgeist2000 “respected”
@@williamhenning4700 yeah people respect us, we may not have global super power status with which we throw our tiny dick around over compensating every moment. But no one goes out of their way to insult us and when Canadians visit foreign countries everyone likes us. When americans visit other countries everyone expects you to be ignorant of customs and be a jackass.
@@Zeitgeist2000 judging from your comment, looks like canadians are indeed rude
@@nutsonmydog646 hey, we learn from our southern neighbours. You guys are the masters of that.
Thanks!
Nice footage out of Windsor. ♡
As a Canadian, I can confirm we all live near the border.
Thanks for confirming i thought this video was propoganda
*me who lives in nuvnat be like*
Yes when I was born I used to lived in Wennipeg but it was too cold so they went to Vancuver
Sorry for grammar
@@RyderAviation like what
@@tekken5375 ... do you not know what be like is
As a Canadian I'm not shocked he spelt our capitol wrong. Ottowa instead of Ottawa 3:22
**angry geese noises**
What is ottawa? Because a capital is the city, a capitol is the building
@@evilbadger34 this guy knows things
The irony of you spelling capital wrong
Oh the irony
I live in Nova Scotia and I love it because it Sunny most of the time on June July and August!
Honestly this clears up a lot. Being from
One of those northern states and knowing how cold they get, I would always say I can’t believe we’re south of an entire country.
being from just north of the border, i am always amazed at how ignorant americans are about their northern neighbours.
I live in Alberta, which is north of Montana, and boy it consistently can reach -40 degrees in the winter, specifically December though February
This guy really just said Forget the Praries and East Canada when talking about agriculture
we grow all our food in BC also
LITERALLY. I was thinking that too. Also the Okanagan?! Hes never heard of Okanagan wineries and fruits?
Stereotypical Canadian video... "Ontario is the only part of Canada that matters" 🙄
i was just about to say that as well
@Mike DeMarco “bro tried to sneak Nebraska in there 💀”
As a resident of ottawa my entire life seeing “ottowa” really hit me right in the gut
I was gonna say the same thing lmao
OwOwa
Ottawa, representing!
Looking for this comment 😂
The Ottowan Empire
Great video, one quick note: your photo of orchards/wineries is from BC's interior not east coast corridor
Caught that one too. Looks like south of Penticton near Osoyoos/Okanagan Falls
@@TheAjbarron I love that area
@@TheAjbarron Looks like Oliver!
Farming is actually possible and popular in the Canadian shield. I live north of this line in the Canadian shield and I'm in a farming area.
That transition to the advertising section was kinda smooth ngl
If you watch these type of videos long enough you start to expect it. I had a feeling the second he mentioned in 7:42 'the border that has been closed for over a year now' which basically had nothing to do with the rest of the videos content.
Even with the best news service, he still won't learn anything on the real reasons of borders closing for so long.
fr i didnt even realize until he said the advertisement
🟣 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE REAL LIFE LORE ⚫
Well I'm glad you're ngl
There's another, huge reason why so many Canadians live near the border, that I thought this guy was transitioning to. Political. The first true transcontinential railroad, the CPR, was built near the border to establish Canadian control over what would one day become the provinces of Manitoba, Saskachewan, Alberta and British Columbia, by establishing our own transcontinental railroad, connecting Halifax to Vancouver, and located near the 49th parallel to ensure we could populate our side of the border with settlers and move troops in as needed to prevent the USA from colonizing our west away from us. Back when our founding Prime Minister, Sir John A MacDonnald made this decision, Americans were starting to send spur lines up into Canada, and migrate Americans into western Canada. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from Halifax to Vancouver headed off that move and established Canada's territory, as the USA was forced to stop sending settlers and abandoned any spur lines they'd been building up towards/into Canada.
Back in those days, the war of 1812 was still a fairly recent memory, and the American war cry of 54-40 or fight was still a part of current events. Canadians were very much concerned about America taking away parts of our country. The best way to head that off without forcing them into a major international war, would be to simply populate the border with Canadians and economic activity. That's the real, historical reason for most Canadians to live near the Canada-USA border.
TIL, thanks
Niice!
During the early years, on the western prairies, Canada populated the arable lands by offering homesteads at minimal còst to encourage farming with many small towns .The small towns where spaced along the railways at 10 or 12 miles apart in order to provide the steam locomotives with water and coal as they moved along the various lines.. These small towns offered many opportunities for retail, banking , and service businesses like lumber yards, farm implement dealers, blacksmiths etc. After a few years , western Canada became the bread basket of the British Empire. Large grain companies sprang up to handle the purchase and transport of grain from the farm to the docks in eastern Canada .Each town had a grain elevator to handle the loading and storage of grain collected from surrounding farms. Great fortunes were made. Over the years ,the small family farms became unsustainable due the economy of scale so successful farmers started to acquire more and more land. The unsuccessful farmers moved to cities to find employment. As the rural population reduced, the opportunities for businesses were lost . People , moved to larger cities.. This depopulation of small towns also concentrated the populations closer to the border with the US. The effect of large corporate farms is the cause of depopulation of rural areas. It's not that the land is uninhabitable or the climate is a hinderance.. The result is vast areas of space population.
@@brianfrederickson2080 Yup, the Canadian version of homesteading was implemented by Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier, and was the final link in completing his predecessor, Sir John A. McDonnal's National Dream of an Atlantic-Pacific-Arctic Canada.
The wheat was a special strain bred by years of plant husbandry to thrive on the extremes conditions of the Canadian Parries (very cold snowy winters, very hot dry summers and wet springs). The first line was the CPR line, which was intentionally kept close to the Canada-US border, even though that was a much harder route to build it on, to strategically place the first settlers as close to the border as possible to enforce our claim to those lands through populating the lands.
The drought of the Great Depression era also helped accelerate the depopulation of rural Canada and urbanization of our nation, as many farmers were ruined by the dust bowl, which didn't just affect the USA, but also the Canadian prairies as well. The raise of industrialized farming of the mid-late 20th century was really the final nail in the coffin of most family farms.
Not reading all that
Several things wrong.
First, while the Southern Ontario region is fertile, and indeed some of the most fertile land in the world, you left out the entire Great Plains region which includes parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. While nowhere near as densely populated as the Qc-W corridor, it's a major source of agricultural output for the country. And I say this as a Southern Ontarian!
Second, there's several huge geopolitical reasons for the population density that you did not allude to, which is shame.
One is outlined by Jason Ross in a top comment below - the CN railway in the West was intentionally built close to the border to ensure the border would not be encroached upon by the US secretly - hard to do so when there's "Canadians" living there.
Another is the the combination of the geography of the Saint Lawrence/lower Great Lakes, and the French colonization of Quebec. When the British took over what is now Quebec and Ontario from the French in ~1763, they faced an... uncooperative population, to say the least. Most of what would become Southern Ontario was divided into a distinct region - Upper Canada, separate from the French-speaking Lower Canada. At this point, as you alluded to regarding shipping, what is now Southern Ontario was pretty much "the inland" - the west was very far from being explored or claimed. Then, the American Revolution happened. Loyalists fleeing the 13 colonies needed somewhere British to go, and they settled mostly in Upper Canada, what is now Southern Ontario, founding cities like Kingston and York (now Toronto). Thus, we had a massive population concentration even as far back as 1790 and it has only grown since. Touching on this is like, Canadian Histropoliticalgeography 101, so I would have expected to see it mentioned.
I think you mean the CPR. CN came much later.
@@jamesthomson8659 Yes indeed thank you for the correction!
I never knew this! super interesting
At 4:55 you showed Blue mountain vinyard in BC when talking about Quebec lol
RIGHT?! I was like, what.... that's the Okanagan... which is popular for it's orchards and winery lol.
Someone in d different video claimed giant rats in New York and showed a picture of a Muskrat which is not a rat. Another guy in another video talked about elks while showing pictures of both elks and moose so didn't know the difference.
Yeah, I was looking at that and I thought: “hmm looks like the okanagan ... this guy is so bad at this
I was thinking how did BC get into Ontario?
Another reason that we cannot take 'informational' videos seriously.
I hate to be "that guy", but the video of vineyards in Ontario was actually near OK Falls in British Columbia.
Exact! Moreover, there are no such mountains in Ontario and whoever is familiar with this location recognized it right away.
@ this guy is a hack haha, love from vernon
@@jaredf5000 most of the vineyards in southern Ontario is in the Niagara region.
@@jaredf5000 whats up, vernon? Love from kelowna
@@Excitable101 yeah i know , ive been there multiple times... Not sure why you felt the need to tell me that
I'm a Canadian, and I live above that line, and so do all the people in BC, AB, MB, SK, QC, NS, PEI, and NB. Canada is not the GTA.
I moved from Ottawa to Sudbury and even though Sudbury is a big northern town up here it is quite remote and sparsely populated. It’s so rocky and barren here, astronauts from the Apollo missions came here to practice exploring the moon’s surface. Although the city has made efforts to add more vegetation, the soil is very thin and you can’t farm anything here. All the mining being done doesn’t help. Produce is pricey enough here because it gets shipped in, I can’t imagine what peoples’ grocery bills look like in Iqaluit or even Kapuskasing lol.
Fun fact: Montreal is Canada’s most populated island.
Cool, I didn't even know Montreal was an island.
As an Montréalais i agree
It’s an island?? 😦
@@stxrrymidnight yes
what even is montreal
edit: oh
"but I'm not done EMBARRASSING Canada yet"
Every Canadian ever: "what am I supposed to be embarrassed by?"
He should be embarrassed by spelling "ottOwa" instead of "Ottawa"
So embarrassed by all our resources LMAO
I am impressed by the Canadian public education system. Almost every Canadian I have met can speak English!
I’m also confused
@@stephenchapel2058 So can every American?
I feel I just completed a course in college after watching this video. Thanks for your work wow.
@RealLifeLore what software do you use to project those countries?
"I'm not done embarrassing Canadians yet"
Ottowa
Ottawa*
@@kanishkthirumala736 ik lmao. They spelt it ottowa in the video, and I said they should be embarrassed lol
You guys are really Clowning on him because he got one letter wrong 😑
@@unitgamex2972 It's our country's capital. It's not surprising that we are lol
@@suzaku1679 But dude Sorry to tell you but he’s from America and also Americans don’t really pay attention to Canada
We guys barely even know you exist
I’m Canadian, its not Ottowa, its Ottawa.
It just sounds stupid saying it with an a
I'm not Canadian, but 🇨🇦.
@@jemhelprt5365 no, it makes a lot more sense lol
Ottawa,eh.
@@taylor943 that hurt my soul to see it spelled like that and I'm not even canadian
Calgary is also freezing as fucc when I last visited there, can't imagine how cold it will be further north.
Canada is kind of just a resource storage in BC is just mountains so really no Settlements Alberta is where all the oil Saskatchewan and Manitoba is farm land Ontario and Quebec is the Canadian shield where the soil is harder and in the Maritime provinces P.E.I, Nova Scotia, and new Brunswick is lobster hunting mainly and up north in where it snows a lot in the territories and the reason is bc the soil where 50% of Canadians live is where soil it’s very soft and food can be grown
I'd like to point out that Portland Oregon is also above that first dropped line which is the only major metro in all of Oregon. A lot of people don't realize how far north Portland is. Portland is further north than Toronto.
Also I'd like to point out that most of this doesn't apply to Vancouver, BC. The Pacific Northwest as a whole is a weird region with its own climate rules.
Lol that’s what I try to say, but everybody doesn’t bieleve me for some reason lol
Ehh, I've only notice when living there because it's practically on the border of washtington.. just 5 minute drive and already in vancouver like how tf did I end up here
@@Jacob_Overby It's not practically on the border, Portland *is* on the border. Portland's biggest suburb is in Washington.
Tell me about it
The weird climate rules are usually the mountains redirecting the cold weather north and I'm not sure why this is but all of North America is warmer in the west and colder in the east.
How much of Northern Canada is uninhabitable?
-Nonnavut
ha
lol
All of it .
🤓 I’m trying not to laugh, but I’m a word nerd. I can’t help it! Haha!
Yukon't get funnier than that...EH?
A lot of people I talk to from Europe have a really hard time understanding just how big and sparsely populated Canada is... I've heard British people complain about having to drive 2 whole hours to get to another city... I live in Calgary, a Western Canadian city of over 1 million people; going east on the TransCanada highway, I have to drive for over 16 hours before reaching the next major city...
It takes you over 16 hrs to get from Calgary to Regina or Saskatoon? Or do you not consider those to be major cities? (I think they are by definition, but idk if I'd classify them as such personally, so I'm genuinely curious what your take is). And of course, if you go west, you're driving through the Rocky mountains, which idk if I'd do in the winter... of course, I don't know if I'd do any trans-Canada driving in the winter...
I live in Canada and I live more north than the united stats and I think that up here is a great place the united stats too I love the videos my mom does to and she says you videos are so cool and so educational thank you so much for good work I love the snow ❄️ up here it’s great and Canada has 37 millon people living in it bye! Stay safe!
Canada in winter: it's minus 40c!
Canada in summer: It's above 40c!
lol yup
Basically
Yes
RIP Western Canada
replace 40 with 30 and that's basically my town
More than half of Canadians live in just two provinces: Ontario, where one in three Canadians live, and Quebec where almost a quarter of Canadians live.
Which is why you guys think milk comes in bags all over Canada, when it's literally just in your 2 provinces
@@AslanKyoya1776 Quebec's dairy sector has always been and still is the largest agricultural
@@AslanKyoya1776 Quebec’s milk production is an important mechanism in the economy of all regions of Quebec. The some 10,400 dairy farm operators throughout the entire province market more than 3 billion litres of milk every year with a farm gate value of over $2,75 billion
While technically true, southern Florida has a substantial Canadian population, , many of whom can be identified by their black socks with sandals.
Hey, u forgot BC
he could've gone a little further in this video by highlighting Calgary's and Edmonton's outstanding meaning in this regard. when 80% of all Canadians live within a hundred miles from the US border, that in return means that almost half of the remaining population is "held" by those single two "settlements" (that aren't even that far apart given Canada's overall size.) effectively bringing down the population density of the remaining area (which is enormous in land size) to probably something comparable to the Pacific Ocean, I'd roughly guess.
Pacific Ocean? No way is that remotely comparable to the total population of all the islands in Pacific Ocean. I'll take a guess and say 50 million people live there, excluding all of the densely populated nations like Japan and the Philippines.
@@front331 where would they be, though? I mean the ocean as in ocean. yes, that'd exclude Australia and such. there's just a couple very, very remote Islands that typically have a population (if any at all, that is) of 50 to a 100k. so, kinda like you come across a settlement every once in a while up there in the territories. yes, Hawaii is somehow not fitting in. but my point is that the Pacific Ocean is vast and empty; just like Canada mostly. those ten remaining percent would still mean some 3.8 million. so, since Hawaii is roughly a million, that probably still holds true. it's just that I can't think about anything comparably dense in Canada outside of what we already excluded.
@@front331 OP clearly said about population density, not just number of population... Do you know how huge Pacific Ocean is? it's about 1/3 of Earth's surface.
@@Sm00thieK yeah, what about it? 😅
(I mean, dunno what you mean, but it's literally sitting right on the border [with a tiny part of it even dipping into the States, oddly enough.] the two cities I mentioned are the only two larger population conglomerations that aren't close by the US border.)
@@HxTurtle Ohh sorry, I was referring to the line in the video.
A perceivable segue between the content and the advertising would be much appreciated.
I live in a northern section of Canada and I’ve gotta say that people make it seem like it’s as cold as Antarctica. Sure it can get fairly cold in the winter, but it really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.
same here in alaska. people always think this state is cold year round which it does get pretty cold in months like january and february, but last month it just hit 90 degrees. crazy
Where do you live?
What?? I live in fort mcmurray /Edmonton and I’m not gonna lie it gets really cold at times lol. -35° and shit
@@heo9927 feel you there lol. I remember going to Quebec from Edmonton mid winter and having to take off a couple layers just because the temperature difference was crazy
@@yakko7418 people do seem to forget about Alaska. It’s right beside northern Canada so there are plenty of Americans who know what’s up. I’ve gone up that far only once and it was in the summer but the NWT/Yukon/Alaska is awesome
Unfortunately you forgot to mention that it's generally colder in the East and so most of the western American states above southern Ontario are still warmer.
Especially living near the great lakes, gets mad cold
Our summers in Toronto are hot asf to. We get it all here
@@Michael-tk1wd the thing is humidity here creaps up much higher than areas in the south that are away from the great lakes. Heat isn't only temperature
@George Washington screw off 🤦🏽♂️ this is not the U.S.
@@adamk3306 that has nothing to do with it being cold. Places like North Bay and Sudbury get far colder in winter than places near the great lakes
then there is me living north of that line
north ontario the roads that are huge become one way in the peak of the winter
Maybe could it be that Quebec and Ontario were settled first because when you come from Europe you can go up by ship right up to Montreal? To go to Calgary or Edmonton you would have to travel thousands of miles through bush and prairie.
Alternate title: Why 50% Canadian live North of this line.
We like it when the cold makes our nipples hard.
that's where the oil sands are
i’m afraid videos like this, which this topic has been covered extensively I might add, gives the wrong impressions to non-Canadians. I can only imagine they think the roads just end at some point and nobody lives in Northern Ontario or BC for example, in their mind it’s a complete desolate tundra.... I have friends that live in Whitehorse Yukon, and it can be really nice up there.
@@Nathan-rt5vj Yes, this video seemed like he ran out of ideas and recycled something already done half-assedly by others (of which he continued that tradition).
@George Washington do you think zucc is a communist instead of a cap
I'm a Canadian who lives North of this line, Y'all got soft lol
me too eh
Isn't it better for business and transport south of the 49th parallel?
So it makes sense.
Same
No it's just where all the jobs are lmao
Same. I'm in AB
Fascinating. Amazing that I was never aware of the Lachine canal. Don't forget the black flies. Nasty.
I'm from WIsconsin and I was really thinking "no way I could live in Canada, it's already so cold here" but most of their major cities are literally around the same latitude as where I live already-
Where I live (West Coast of Canada) the lawns stay green all winter. We do usually get a few days of snow each winter, which creates a bit of havoc, and great hilarity in the rest of Canada.
"Farming is impossible"
Me who lives in Manitoba where we account for 11% of Canada’s farmland: that’s cap boi that’s cap
We should change the name of Manitoba to Winnipeg, because realistically thats where the entire province lives
he is not very well informed...its like Justine explained canada to him.
@@adamk3306 not really like 600k people live in other areas of Manitoba so close to half don’t live in Winnipeg
I grew up in Brandon! We’re not all from Winnipeg haha
Only joking lads. But it's partially true
The moment when you realize he mispelled your home in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada
The guy spends 10 minutes explaining that Canada is cold but can’t manage to spell the capital correctly
@@guillaumeqc2202 he still did a great job overall, but ya that is kinda unfortunate. Nothing to cry about tho :P
@@RuthlessTragedy yea well the other major mistake he made is that he seemed to have included the country of Québec in Canada which is indeed quite unfortunate
Me just now realizing Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Always just assumed it was Toronto or something
@@guillaumeqc2202 no mistake there, quebec isn't a country.
As a Canadian. I can confirm 77% of our population is in Madagascar
5:00 thats the south okanagan valley in BC. yeah theres wineries there but its not in the great lakes reigon
RealLifeLore: Puts out a video
Me: I wasn’t interested, but you have my attention.
These are videos we don’t want but didn’t know we needed
What's more interesting than Canada?
@@TheOtherAndrewV2 *weird Soviet and German tech stories by mustard*
THE WAY HE SPELLED OTTAWA PLS IM CRYING "ottowa"
Im sorry Not everyone gives a shit about canada
@@xhafts then why did you click on this video?
@@jackthomas1448 because im a fan of realifelore?
Trust me usa 2.0 isnt as important as you think
@@xhafts takes a second to spell something correctly.
@@g5umpfo647 ottowa
8:23 funnily enough I was in Florida in March 2020 when everything shut down and I had to get back home to Canada
The prairies actually produce the most crops in Canada but it's actually both Ontario and Quebec who have the largest food and beverage processing sector and it grosses over 100 billion a year.