The reason there are so many lakes in Canada is because the glacier from the last ice age that covered most or all of Canada, basically scraped away a lot of the topsoil, making for lots of places to collect water as the glacier melted.
And it’s the same reason the Mississippi watershed has some of the best farmland in the world. All the best soil was scraped away by the kilometres thick ice sheets, and then carried by glacial melt rivers and deposited downstream.
The town of Gander is also famous for having been instrumental in housing Americans who's flights were adversely affected by the 9/11 tragedy. The town of Gander put up thousands of stranded travelers and there's even been a Broadway show based on their story. A lot of the towns inhabitants kept in touch with the people they housed, even to this day.
I've been hoping he'd learn about that. He should react to this documentary on it/how it came to be a broadway show! ruclips.net/video/LTNDRvUqVQA/видео.html
Tyler, Polarbear jail is real. I live in Winnipeg and Churchill is further north and the polar bear capital of the world. Nuisance bears ( those who keep coming into the town, looking for food ) are caught in polar bear traps. They are then taken to the “ jail “ . It’s a holding facility that can keep up to 28 bears in individual pens. They are tranquilized, given a health check, which may include shots like antibiotics etc. they are fitted with a tracking collar. Then they are taken by helicopter and relocated further away from town. The
@@toddboyce3599 Yes to all 3 questions. Photo shots done upon arrest🥵Court is held in front of its holding cell🥺 Lawyer will try for a reduced sentence😁
There is a woman in Australia who is devouring videos of Canada. She is currently planning coming to Canada in 2025. Her name is Aussie Tash. I highly recommend watching and subscribing to her channel as well.
So now that you are so well versed on Canada, when are you planning to come to Canada for a visit? I would love to see you visit each province and make a video of each.
I really recommend you watch all the seasons of Heritage Minutes Tyler. There is one of Joe Schuster who drew/created Superman. Also, the largest Icelandic community outside of Iceland is in Gimli, Manitoba. The Winnipeg Falcons (a hockey team) who won the 1st Olympic hockey gold medal was made up entirely of Icelandic Canadians from Gimli. Many of Canada's lakes are named for Canadian soldiers who died in W.W. I and W.W. II.
@@jopay142 There is definitely a town named Gimli in Manitoba. It is about 1 hour North East of Winnipeg on Lake Winnipeg. They have the Icelandic Festival there every year at the end of July - first part of August. Party like a Viking!
If you want more proof that Santa's workshop is in Canada, there was a part in the movie Elf, where Buddy got hit by a car and then he apologized to the driver
I live on the shores of Lake Okanagan. We don’t know what’s at the bottom of it! It is a fjord lake with a depth of almost 800 feet - way deeper than Lake Superior. The Ogopogo gets spotted swimming in the lake every summer! Some folks think it’s a sturgeon that’s the size of a pickup truck! Peace
You are so lucky to live there. I live on the coast near Vancouver, but I REALLY miss visiting the Okanagan and the Kootenays. It's absolutely gorgeous, and super peaceful. Gas is just too damn expensive these days lol.
@@eyden1562 Hey! I KNOW how lucky I am! I got to choose where I live, and I picked the BEST place in Canada! I’ve lived in London and Toronto Ontario, Calgary and High River Alberta, Montreal Quebec and Halifax Nova Scotia! But I consciously chose BC’s Okanagan Valley - and I could not be happier with where I live! Peace
@@cherrypickerguitars That's too cool, that you've lived in so many places. All I've ever wanted to do was travel, and I just.. never got around to it. I did get lucky enough to be born in BC though 😊 lol. I've lived on the Vancouver coast my whole life, but I grew up having lots of family in the Okanagan, Kootenays, and the rest of BC. So my entire childhood and teen years was spent doing road trips and camping trips, and now I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. I just love it here. The only thing that makes it hard is the ever increasing cost of living lol. 😩😅 But the beauty makes it more worthwhile.
@@eyden1562 Hey! We have family in Langley and Vancouver. You live in “the second best place” for sure! But, I love all the sunshine we get in the Okanagan! I’m in Lake Country, half way between Kelowna and Vernon. I’m loving my life in British Columbia! Peace
I have seen the effects of the Ogopogo, but not the creature itself. breaking ripples in an otherwise calm lake without a boat around to cause the ripples makes for good evidence of an Ogopogo. I lived in Vernon as a kid, but moved away when I graduated high school. I still visit family in the Kelowna area.
For a long time Lacrosse was the national sport of Canada. It’s a First Nations game which is fairly popular, especially because many skills are similar to those used in hockey. In fact there are many Canadian NHL players who also played lacrosse growing up in the summer months. Hockey is so ingrained that it was later added as a co-national sport. Then people started designations one as the national winter sport and the other as the national summer sport.
The temperature change in pincher creek is the result of a chinook rolling through. We get them every winter in southern Alberta. Basically a warm wind that can raise temperatures above freezing for anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. Ottawa isn't the 2nd largest city in the country. It's probably about 5th or 6th. Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, and maybe Edmonton are all bigger. Maybe the second largest in Ontario.
I was going to guess it was a chinook but I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying. I thought Ottawa was fourth most populated. It reached the benchmark of 1 million just a couple of years ago and now it's been designated as a metropolis.
@@JesusFriedChrist "OTT-GAT- 1 million" love how they have to include the population centre on the other side of a provincial border to make the list 🤣
The temperature at the end of a chinook can change as drastically. I live in Calgary, and I remember a winter day when I was a kid where a chinook had the temperature at noon at about 12 degrees celcius, but a cold front moved through, ending the chinook, and leaving the temperature at 6 pm at -30 celcius.
We actually have 11 levels of 'sorry' from a levle 0, which is saying sorry to an inanimate object for bumping into it, to a level 3 sorry for ALMOST bumping into someone without incident except startling them, to a level 6 sorry where you indeed did some harm to someone to the rare, but effective level 10 sorry, delivered with such razor sharp sarcasm that you are in fact apologizing to the universe for the other persons existence.
There is also another lake in Canada that has a history of a lake monster. Lac Pohénégamook in the province of Quebec also has had sightings of Ponik ,their legendary lake monster. The lake sits very close to the birder of Maine and is about a 1/2 hour drive from Riviere du Loup. The town with the. same name has a lovely bar restaurant, a great beach and a wonderful 9 hole golf course.
The reason the temperature rised so quickly in pincher creek is because of its location, in southern Alberta there’s a weather phenomenon called chinooks, it’s when hot air flies over the mountains and warms the area, I’ve personally seen the temperature change from -40 to +5 in less than 8 hours
When my friend from South Africa flew into Canada the first time a passenger asked the attendant how they would know if they when they were in Canada? Her response was funny, she said when the saw hundreds of blue puddles, they are lakes and Canada had all the water. Nigel was shocked when he looked out and saw all lakes, when going home he would have liked to take even one with him. At that time in South Africa they were only allowed 2 litres of water to use and or drink.
Just a suggestion, but ignore "SilvanaDil". There is something seriously wrong with that child. She's like this on all of Tyler's channels. I blame her parents for their neglect.
IMO the best film portrayal of Santa Claus was in "One Magic Christmas" with Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton and a very young Sarah Polley, among others. Santa was played by iconic Czech-Canadian actor Jan Rubes. It was very reminiscent of an olde world European Sinterklaas and, for me, the standard by which others are measured.
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan Very cool! Your comment is one of the reasons why I love this channel so much. It's really interesting finding out things like this!
@@rockygonnadz74 I was amazed when I found out my co-worker was Santa’s son! His mother was the boss of TVO back then too. They’re all gone now though. None of us live forever … except Santa! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan It seems like every day someone else I grew up watching on TV or at the movies is gone. Most of the time now I haven't even heard of most of the Grammy or Emmy nominees. I've become my grandparents!
The weather spike in January would mean you'd have a very nice spring-like day with snow melting, and because it's in January, the ground is still frozen and by night time, chances are all that melted snow would turn the streets into skating rinks. Hot days happen here and there in the middle of winter but they don't last, but they are always welcomed.
My mother worked at our small town post office, and would annually help Santa answer the letters. When I got older, I would help her. It became a Christmas tradition for both of us. She told me to include personal stuff about the person in the letter. My mom would say things like “ Johnny you really looked nice in your Blue Jays shirt the other day. I know you like baseball, and your good at it, so maybe I will bring you a new baseball so you can practice more!” Of course, my mom had spoken to his mom, when she came to get the mail, so it wasn’t a far reaching promise. Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
Canada now has two national sports: lacrosse in the summer and hockey in the winter. Correction: Ottawa is not the second largest city in Canada. Montreal is. Vancouver is the third largest, followed by Calgary, then Ottawa.
The reason for the drastic temperature change that happened in Pincher Creek is because of chinooks. In Alberta they get them sometimes, it has to do with winds. I'm pasting this from the Canadian Encyclopedia. "In Canada, the chinook belt lies almost exclusively within southern and central Alberta. The wind occurs in every season, but it is more distinctive and numerous in the winter, when the unseasonable warming it brings differentiates it from the normal cold winter weather."
And that is the joy of living in southern Alberta. I live in Airdrie and right now it is +3C (about +41F) last week it was -32 Celsius. Lol I love our chinooks!
@@kathleensauerbrei5199 I’m living just outside of Calgary… really enjoying this warm weather. Though, the one thing I can live without are Chinook headaches.
Canadian Heritage Moments were a series of "ads" highlighting interesting bits of Canadian history. This one was about Superman's creator. ruclips.net/video/ScFwRoLhR2s/видео.html
That one lacrosse mention is a technicality. Both lacrosse and hockey are our national sports. As google told you, for winter sports it’s hockey, for summer sports is lacrosse. Lacrosse certainly isn’t as popular as hockey around here though. Despite it’s national sport title
Well, to be fair, hockey was only officially declared Canada's winter sport in 1994 (which, as a Canadian, seems crazy to me, I thought it always was). Lacrosse has been the national sport of Canada for longer (1859).
The pincher creek thing is called a chinook. It’s a really warm wind. Apparently also can be referred to as “snow eater”. I’m told by farmers it is very hard on the animals. I’ve never actually seen one though just heard about them from people who live there.
Lol, oh Tyler, thank you so very much for laughing, being sweet, and appreciating all of your Canadian neighbors. Canada 🇨🇦 🍁 is a very diverse country and jam packed with nature, adventure and so much beauty. We would love to have the chance to show you this magnificent country and spoil you ❤️. You are always welcome, oh & Thank You 😊
😳 oh no, oops, yes I did spell it wrong. Sorry about that. I think I need an English refresher course here Embarrassing 😳 thank you for the pointers, have a great day. 👍
Toronto was Canada's first Capital City. In 1813, the Americans set fire to downtown Toronto (then called York) because it was close to the border. In retaliation, we burned down the down White House. Queen Victoria later chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857 as it was a defensible location situated on the border between Quebec and Ontario and farther away from the border for greater protection.
I don't know why they would get mad because you say "sorry" hell it's just what we were raised with. I think its just being polite. You hear excuse me a lot too and that's OK too. Wouldn't have it any other way lol❤❤❤❤
You commented on the borders being drawn around "every island" to add up the coastline mileage. This isn't even a small fraction of the little islands that exist in Canada, particularly the north. For instance my son works in a diamond mine in the northern North West Territories. It's on a island that is 37 miles by 7 miles in size. There's many others just like it surrounding him.
Most of Canada was covered in glaciers and when they receded, they left mostly bare rock. There are very few sediments to level out the landscape. The northern landscape is covered in millions of rock basins that do a good job of trapping water.
Yes, as a Canadian, saying sorry when they are clearly wrong is a way to deescalate a potential argument or violent situation quickly so you may move on with life, it's also fun when they get that look on their face like they have won and everyone else is giving you a little smirk and a wink 😉
Ontario resident born and raised but got to move to Vancouver Island as a kid. We lived just outside of Nanaimo and went there now and then. Drove 3,000 miles to get there over the course of a week and saw *everything* in between! A cherished memory!
The severe weather change in Pincher Creek was caused by a chinook. Under the right conditions, warm air from the south will travel north and there are certain mountain valleys that it travels up. The word 'chinook' is from the Blackfoot people and means 'snow eater'. In Churchill, Manitoba, there is a town bylaw making it illegal to lock your car. This is due to the polar bear problem and allowing people a safe place to get away from bears that may wander into town. It's also considered child abuse to dress your kid up as a seal for Halloween.
yes, so true. Polar bears see people as meat nothing more nothing less. Anything walking that smells alive is food for them they look pretty but they’re not very nice to be around. And they’re very very dangerous
Lol, love the way the guy pronounced 'Okanagan.' I've lived here my whole life, didn't recognize the word, until he said the 'Ogopogo.' Since it's universally accepted that Santa lives at the North Pole, he's either Canadian, or Russian. There has been a disagreement between our countries for decades about who owns the North Pole, as it's in the ocean. More than a little disturbing at the moment, thinking just how close Russia is, and that they have such a dispute with us. It's easy to forget with how most maps are laid out. Find the right one, or a globe, it totally changes your perspective.
Just gonna put this out there about Santa. Greenland also has a red and white flag and is located (partly) north of the polar circle. That makes me think that, if Santa even has a nationality other than Northpolean, he's either Canadian or Greenlander. That is, if his outfit is based on the colors of the flag. Which I don't think it is, actually, since I believe Santa is from Finland originally.
I wasn't much into sports but my gym teacher wanted me to try out for the school lacrosse team, apparently being able to fling a ball more than 50ft is a skill lol
Churchill, Manitoba, is the polar bear capital of the world, no joke. People leave their doors unlocked, in case you need refuge from a bear. Bear jail is for bears that get too used to humans, and start hanging around town..
Santa has a Canadian postal code: H0H 0H0. The temperature change in Pincher Creek was because of a Chinook. A weather phenomena that Tyler might want to investigate.
Pincher Creek is in a windy valley which has extremely powerful winds. That change in temperature is due to a wind phenomenon called the "Chinook" which comes over the coastal mountains, goes across the Rockies, then warms up. People living in Southern Alberta can literally go through 4 different types of weather in less than 8 hours, from - 15 F. to + 65 F. It's why drivers carry both traction material (mostly kitty litter) and rain gear.
The temperature can change drasticaly because of the Chinook winds due to the mountains meeting the prairies in Alberta and western prevailing winds causing warm dry air to be generated and being pushed down from the mountains, I witnessed it twice I lived in Edmonton and it went from frozen to melting in an hour.
Here in Alberta some people complain that Ontario has more representation but the great Toronto area alone has twice as many people as my whole province. Why wouldn’t they have more people representing them
When I was in school Canada's only national sport was Lacrosse, it wasn't until 1994 that hockey became a national sport. If I remember correctly lacrosse was our national sport because of the natives who played it before European's came here. It wasn't just a game back then though and hundreds of natives would play against each other, the matches would last days and it was bloodthirsty, When I say bloodthirsty I mean from what I've read it was more like a battle, people would die. Being our national sport at the time I was going to school we learned about lacrosse because it was our national sport and part of our history.
And you (Tyler) should look into the bathtub races to see some of the original tubs! While now they are more high tech, the old ones using actual, out of your house, bathtubs are cool. It's been around for a while.
Ontario holds cardboard boat races every year. They’re hilarious to watch. Mostly young people build and design their own boats for the races. Some high schools do this, but regular non-students race too.
I think that's awesome Linda that our young people are interested in something like that . I would imagine that it's something outside of their normal zone . Very nice that they are being creative !@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan
@@sandraatkinson3409 Theckids have a ball! Constructing their craft after designing it as a group, they’re proud of the achievement . The races are attended by thousands and almost everyone ends up wet. It’s a fun activity that stimulates young minds and gets them away from staring at a screen. Hope they never stop this.
I am from New Brunswick and yes it's very foresty!!!! 😂 Lotsa lakes, rivers, waterfalls, the beautiful beaches, camp grounds, music, seafood and warm waters and extra friendly people along the coast make it a must visit!
living in alberta, i lived in Picture Butte, pretty close to pincher creek, and we got chinooks which was warm wind from BC, and it would go from super cold to tshirt weather, it was crazy, cause when i went to work, it was 19C and id always bring a coat because it would snow or drop like crazy throughout my shift.
Here in Montréal February 4th was -41 with windchill. Lucky me electricity went out at my place. For 15 hours, I was a cold easterner freezing in the dark
We have lacrosse team in my high school but no one even knew about it apparently they’re good I’ve still yet to see them even after I learned they existed🤷🏻♀️
Lol. Love your hilarity over the 'Apology Act' etc. It was brought in because people were apologising for accidents they weren't at fault for. In the USA 'sorry' means it's your fault automatically apparently. It was happening so often in Canada for no reason, as an automatic reflex, that the law was brought in lol. Britain and Commonwealth countries sorry all over the place too lol. Dont know which came first, the chicken or the egg. No apology laws though.😆😆😆
When I was in HS I took Law as a course, one of the things that I remember the teacher saying is "ignorance of the law is no excuse" so damn right these bears should be prosecuted but of course every single one of them will pretend they didn't know what they were doing was illegal but of course we all know they are feigning ignorance.
Santa truly IS Canadian...if a child (or probably anyone, I'm guessing) writes a letter addressed to Santa at North Pole, postal code H0H 0H0, employees and volunteers at Canada Post will send a personalized reply letter from "Santa".
My dad who was a well known yacht builder on the west coast was the one to make a bathtub out of fiberglass to enter the Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race , unfortunately the motor died but the tub proved to be very sea worthy,his idea changed the way future tubs were built.That was way back in the late 60s Great videos Tyler! keep em coming eh !
Lacrosse was developed from an indigenous game, and was the official (unofficially) sport long before hockey caught on. There was "heavy" debate against changing it... So the compromise was Lacrosse stayed as a national sport, and Hockey was acknowledged as the WINTER sport of Canada. Part of why there are so many lakes is the Canadian Shield. I also quibble about the % that is uninhabited. I'm one of those who never lived "close" to the US border. I'll agree we have a lot of open spaces, and places where people are rarely seen, but that map made it look like no one lives in the northern... two thirds of the country and that just isn't true.
Omg, I'd forgotten about him. I remember he visited my school when I was in highschool, did a whole presentation n stuff in our school theatre. Thanks for unlocking a memory lol.
For most of Canada's history, lacrosse was the sole official sport of Canada. Hockey folk were up in arms and wanted hockey to replace lacrosse as the official national sport. A compromise was reached in 1994. Lacrosse became the official summer sport and hockey the official winter sport. Ottawa isn't Canada's 2nd largest metro, it's Ontario's 2nd. Nationally, Ottawa is 6th largest. 3 million do live in the City of Toronto but there are 8 million in the Greater Toronto - Hamilton area.
Lacrosse used to be the sole national sport of Canada, and more recent legislation made it the national 'summer' sport, and hockey the national 'winter' sport.
Big temperature change in called a CHINOOK. There is a funny story about Leonardo Dicaprio warning about the dire climate change he experienced in Alberta. Dicaprio was quoted in an issue of Variety as saying “we would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.“It was scary." “I’ve never experienced something so firsthand that was so dramatic.” He used this as an example of the horrors of climate change.
LOL, the pronunciation of Lake Okanagan got me laughing. I can see how the narrator of that video could make that mistake. However, with all the pronunciation clips available on the interwebs it surprises me how much stuff people get incorrect. It's Oh-KAH-naw-gen
Lmao. I had to go back and listen to the announcer. I just read Okanagan and heard it correctly in my head lol. It sounds like he was thinking it was like our anthem. Oh-Can-na-gen.lol!!
@@chadjmoore He was thinking it was an Irish name, but it’s not. It’s native. Besides, if it was Irish it would have the apostrophe after the O, and the K would be capitalized: “O’Kanagan”.
There’s a reason for the lower gravity in the Hudson Bay area. As the ice age glacier receded, Hudson Bay was one of the last areas to melt. The ice was more than kilometre thick. Gravity is less because the ocean floor is still rebounding. David Suzuki mentioned this on The Nature of Things years ago. ( he’s my hero) There’s a weird tradition that will make you laugh. In Ontario, many schools have cardboard box boat races! High school kids and some adults create boats from boxes then race them on the nearest body of water. Talk about fun to watch! New Brunswick may be the tree harvest capitol of Canada, but there’s a larger forested area in our country. The entire northern parts of Canada (and Europe, Russia, Nordic countries etc.) are covered in Boreal Forest. It’s not financially of interest as much because the farther North they are, the smaller the trees. That’s where most of our paper comes from though. Great deal of forestry in NFLD/Labrador, northern Quebec, Ontario, the prairie provinces, the Territories and, of course, BC. NB has a denser, larger treed forestry industry. Had a great geography/history departments in my high school!
Teh comment on happiest countries is funny "even despite all that cold". Countries #1 to #4 are all frozen countries. If anything, Canada is an underachiever among the cold countries regarding happiness.
Lacrosse has been around for several hundred years, it became the Ntl sport BEFORE hockey gained in popularity in the early 20th cent. In the late 20th cent, they created the title of "winter sport", just for hockey!
The best episode of the old fashion kind you can find them know newly made for like $2000 but the old ones are priceless. It drives me nuts these guys do this but they’ve been doing it for years.
I didn't know about Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! either, so I had to look it up. Apparently, a "ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond from the other side." Wikipedia. Also from Wikipedia, "The Commission de toponymie du Québec asserts that the parish's name refers to nearby Lake Témiscouata, the sense of haha here being an archaic French word for an impasse; see Ha-ha. The Louis may refer to Louis Marquis, one of the first colonists of the region, or Louis-Antoine Proulx, vicar of Rivière-du-Loup, or perhaps the abbot Louis-Nicolas Bernier. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name, and shares the distinction of having an exclamation point in its name with Westward Ho!, a village in Devon, in south-west England." Huh.
8:11 I'm Canadian and not all Canadians Loves Hockey like me for one I wasn't good at and didn't really had any good experience my favorite kind are Combat Sports for a Canadian Fighting Spirit and Passion for War not Incursion more of Resistance like Guard Duty.
Southern Alberta has Chinook winds, similar to the Santa Anas. We get snow, freeze, melt cycles all winter. Usualy happens right after you make a killer snow man and it's very slippery lol!!!!
Look closely at Alberta from the US border to Calgary is flatter and more open with few trees. Going between Calgary and Edmonton there are more hills and more trees, going north of Edmonton you get more trees for about 300 miles then you get to forest or bush with fewer farms. About 800 miles north of the US border there are no farm’s only trees
Tyler, on the Santa Claus question. When I was in Alert, NWT(now Nunuvik) in 1977, our supply Sgt. Sgt. Hewett, looked exactly like the Santa Claus image reconized around the world.
11:43 just like me as Canadian when I think of United States that New York is the Capital City in America. Also because before Toronto was first Named as York City in Canada then Change it's Name too Toronto is Canadian version of New York City but different too USA.
I currently live by Pincher Creek and I can attest to the winter temperature changes from being below freezing to above freezing in the same day. This is because of the geography of the area. We experience something called chinooks (pronounced shin-nooks). Also, my home town is St. Paul, Alberta and it's far more historically relevant to the country than just as the first UFO landing pad (we just called it the landing pad and the second landing pad was constructed in China)
In addition to the absurd amount of lakes we have, I believe we're situated on some of the oldest rock in the world. The pre-Cambrian Shield, or Canadian Shield, covers more than half of Canada & up into Greenland.
Fore the Record Ottawa doesn't come 2nd to Toronto. It comes 2nd to Toronto ONLY in Ontario. Montreal comes second to Toronto in Canada. Then you have probably Vancouver and Calgary with more people, so Ottawa is at best the 4th largest city in the country.
I am Canadian and the apology act is the most Canadian thing I've ever heard
Yeah! I've never heard of that either but that's amazing. So Canadian. Haha
Agreed as a True Canadian 🇨🇦
The reason there are so many lakes in Canada is because the glacier from the last ice age that covered most or all of Canada, basically scraped away a lot of the topsoil, making for lots of places to collect water as the glacier melted.
It’s called the Canadian Shield!
And it’s the same reason the Mississippi watershed has some of the best farmland in the world. All the best soil was scraped away by the kilometres thick ice sheets, and then carried by glacial melt rivers and deposited downstream.
@@JesusFriedChrist Yes, i live on the Canadian shield, but that is not all of Canada.
Patient Hermit -Good to know.
The glaciers also carved out the Great Lakes as well as most of Michigan, Wisconsin and upper New York State., all places known for numerous lakes.
The town of Gander is also famous for having been instrumental in housing Americans who's flights were adversely affected by the 9/11 tragedy.
The town of Gander put up thousands of stranded travelers and there's even been a Broadway show based on their story. A lot of the towns inhabitants kept in touch with the people they housed, even to this day.
I've been hoping he'd learn about that. He should react to this documentary on it/how it came to be a broadway show!
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Tyler, Polarbear jail is real. I live in Winnipeg and Churchill is further north and the polar bear capital of the world. Nuisance bears ( those who keep coming into the town, looking for food ) are caught in polar bear traps. They are then taken to the “ jail “ . It’s a holding facility that can keep up to 28 bears in individual pens. They are tranquilized, given a health check, which may include shots like antibiotics etc. they are fitted with a tracking collar. Then they are taken by helicopter and relocated further away from town. The
Yes the juvenile and not so juvenile delinquent bears go to jail in Churchill. It isn't a nice stay for the.
Weird but true fact: Churchill is the world capital of polar bears. I didn't even know animals did have capitals.
Do Polar Bears get their mugshots as well? Are they taken to a court room? Do they have a lawyer XD?
@@toddboyce3599 Yes to all 3 questions. Photo shots done upon arrest🥵Court is held in front of its holding cell🥺 Lawyer will try for a reduced sentence😁
@@Doreana48501 I can confirm all of this
can we crowd fund bringing this feller to Canada ?
Let's do it eh
Sounds like a great idea!
Would be great if we could organize something to get him from coast to coast, over a few trips, courtesy of a few stops even with travel perhaps.
There is a woman in Australia who is devouring videos of Canada. She is currently planning coming to Canada in 2025. Her name is Aussie Tash. I highly recommend watching and subscribing to her channel as well.
I'm in
So now that you are so well versed on Canada, when are you planning to come to Canada for a visit? I would love to see you visit each province and make a video of each.
I'll host in NB! Lol
Great idea
good luck for Quebec lol
We are able to speak English don’t worry
I really recommend you watch all the seasons of Heritage Minutes Tyler. There is one of Joe Schuster who drew/created Superman. Also, the largest Icelandic community outside of Iceland is in Gimli, Manitoba. The Winnipeg Falcons (a hockey team) who won the 1st Olympic hockey gold medal was made up entirely of Icelandic Canadians from Gimli. Many of Canada's lakes are named for Canadian soldiers who died in W.W. I and W.W. II.
Darcy Martin - Good to know.
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canadians dont know anything about their history anymore, History is against our post-world values now, being ignorant is our strength!
WHAT!!!! There's a town named "Gimli" in Manitoba?? As a rock-hard fan of tLotR, I find that quite soothing learning that 😍
@@jopay142 There is definitely a town named Gimli in Manitoba. It is about 1 hour North East of Winnipeg on Lake Winnipeg. They have the Icelandic Festival there every year at the end of July - first part of August. Party like a Viking!
If you want more proof that Santa's workshop is in Canada, there was a part in the movie Elf, where Buddy got hit by a car and then he apologized to the driver
As a Canadian I gotta say this stuff makes me smile. I love your reaction to our beautiful country. And I'm so very proud to be Canadian. 🍺
Same!! I'm just smiling constantly watching this
Oh Canada!❤🇨🇦🎄
Black bear: No problem, brown bear: back away slowly, polar bear: pray to whoever you believe and hope you're faster than your friend
I live on the shores of Lake Okanagan. We don’t know what’s at the bottom of it! It is a fjord lake with a depth of almost 800 feet - way deeper than Lake Superior. The Ogopogo gets spotted swimming in the lake every summer! Some folks think it’s a sturgeon that’s the size of a pickup truck!
Peace
You are so lucky to live there. I live on the coast near Vancouver, but I REALLY miss visiting the Okanagan and the Kootenays. It's absolutely gorgeous, and super peaceful.
Gas is just too damn expensive these days lol.
@@eyden1562 Hey! I KNOW how lucky I am! I got to choose where I live, and I picked the BEST place in Canada! I’ve lived in London and Toronto Ontario, Calgary and High River Alberta, Montreal Quebec and Halifax Nova Scotia! But I consciously chose BC’s Okanagan Valley - and I could not be happier with where I live!
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@@cherrypickerguitars That's too cool, that you've lived in so many places. All I've ever wanted to do was travel, and I just.. never got around to it.
I did get lucky enough to be born in BC though 😊 lol. I've lived on the Vancouver coast my whole life, but I grew up having lots of family in the Okanagan, Kootenays, and the rest of BC. So my entire childhood and teen years was spent doing road trips and camping trips, and now I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. I just love it here.
The only thing that makes it hard is the ever increasing cost of living lol. 😩😅 But the beauty makes it more worthwhile.
@@eyden1562 Hey! We have family in Langley and Vancouver. You live in “the second best place” for sure! But, I love all the sunshine we get in the Okanagan! I’m in Lake Country, half way between Kelowna and Vernon. I’m loving my life in British Columbia!
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I have seen the effects of the Ogopogo, but not the creature itself. breaking ripples in an otherwise calm lake without a boat around to cause the ripples makes for good evidence of an Ogopogo. I lived in Vernon as a kid, but moved away when I graduated high school. I still visit family in the Kelowna area.
I'm from Nanaimo! I'm so happy to see the Bathtub Race getting a mention! Also if you're reading this, google how to make 'Nanaimo Bars'!
Every serviceman from WWII that was killed has a lake named after him/her in Saskatchewan. Kinda cool. 🇨🇦
For a long time Lacrosse was the national sport of Canada. It’s a First Nations game which is fairly popular, especially because many skills are similar to those used in hockey. In fact there are many Canadian NHL players who also played lacrosse growing up in the summer months. Hockey is so ingrained that it was later added as a co-national sport. Then people started designations one as the national winter sport and the other as the national summer sport.
Lacrosse was the official sport of Canada between 1859 to 1994 when hockey was added.
Yep. The 1980 original Trivial Pursuit game had a question about the national sport of Canada. The answer was lacrosse.
The temperature change in pincher creek is the result of a chinook rolling through. We get them every winter in southern Alberta. Basically a warm wind that can raise temperatures above freezing for anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks.
Ottawa isn't the 2nd largest city in the country. It's probably about 5th or 6th. Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, and maybe Edmonton are all bigger. Maybe the second largest in Ontario.
I was going to guess it was a chinook but I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying.
I thought Ottawa was fourth most populated. It reached the benchmark of 1 million just a couple of years ago and now it's been designated as a metropolis.
TOR - 5.6m
MTL - 3.6m
VAN - 2.4m
CGY - 1.3m
EDM - 1.1m
OTT-GAT- 1 million
WPG - 758k
QBC - 733k
HAM - 729k
KIT - 522k
@@JesusFriedChrist - Good to know.
@@JesusFriedChrist "OTT-GAT- 1 million" love how they have to include the population centre on the other side of a provincial border to make the list 🤣
The temperature at the end of a chinook can change as drastically. I live in Calgary, and I remember a winter day when I was a kid where a chinook had the temperature at noon at about 12 degrees celcius, but a cold front moved through, ending the chinook, and leaving the temperature at 6 pm at -30 celcius.
We actually have 11 levels of 'sorry' from a levle 0, which is saying sorry to an inanimate object for bumping into it, to a level 3 sorry for ALMOST bumping into someone without incident except startling them, to a level 6 sorry where you indeed did some harm to someone to the rare, but effective level 10 sorry, delivered with such razor sharp sarcasm that you are in fact apologizing to the universe for the other persons existence.
There is also another lake in Canada that has a history of a lake monster. Lac Pohénégamook in the province of Quebec also has had sightings of Ponik ,their legendary lake monster. The lake sits very close to the birder of Maine and is about a 1/2 hour drive from Riviere du Loup. The town with the. same name has a lovely bar restaurant, a great beach and a wonderful 9 hole golf course.
The way the narrator said “Okanagan” physically hurt me.
I know, eh? ;)
The reason the temperature rised so quickly in pincher creek is because of its location, in southern Alberta there’s a weather phenomenon called chinooks, it’s when hot air flies over the mountains and warms the area, I’ve personally seen the temperature change from -40 to +5 in less than 8 hours
You were amazed by Pincher Creek temperature swing... We just went from -31°C to 4°C (-24°F to 40°F) in 12 hours.
Wow. As a Canadian, there was quite a few things that I was not aware of. Thanks for sharing.
Canada actually has two sea monsters, the other one is in a city called Barrie in Kempenfelt Bay, it's called Kempenfelt Kelly.
When my friend from South Africa flew into Canada the first time a passenger asked the attendant how they would know if they when they were in Canada? Her response was funny, she said when the saw hundreds of blue puddles, they are lakes and Canada had all the water. Nigel was shocked when he looked out and saw all lakes, when going home he would have liked to take even one with him. At that time in South Africa they were only allowed 2 litres of water to use and or drink.
Just a suggestion, but ignore "SilvanaDil". There is something seriously wrong with that child. She's like this on all of Tyler's channels. I blame her parents for their neglect.
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Honestly. Life is filled with choices, and I can't imagine anyone actually choosing to live theirs filled with such bitterness and hatred.
IMO the best film portrayal of Santa Claus was in "One Magic Christmas" with Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton and a very young Sarah Polley, among others. Santa was played by iconic Czech-Canadian actor Jan Rubes. It was very reminiscent of an olde world European Sinterklaas and, for me, the standard by which others are measured.
I worked with Jan Rubes son in Toronto General’s ER. He was a staff doc there in the 80-early 90’s. His father was a cool dude too!
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan Very cool! Your comment is one of the reasons why I love this channel so much. It's really interesting finding out things like this!
@@rockygonnadz74 I was amazed when I found out my co-worker was Santa’s son! His mother was the boss of TVO back then too. They’re all gone now though. None of us live forever … except Santa! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan It seems like every day someone else I grew up watching on TV or at the movies is gone. Most of the time now I haven't even heard of most of the Grammy or Emmy nominees. I've become my grandparents!
@@rockygonnadz74 Unfortunately, that happens to most of us. Recent deaths of David Crosby and Eddy VanHalen made me sad too.
The weather spike in January would mean you'd have a very nice spring-like day with snow melting, and because it's in January, the ground is still frozen and by night time, chances are all that melted snow would turn the streets into skating rinks. Hot days happen here and there in the middle of winter but they don't last, but they are always welcomed.
More than Santa's suit colour, the North Pole is in Canada (or at least one of various North Poles - actual, magnetic, etc).
And Canada Post gave his address its own postal code: H0H 0H0
My mother worked at our small town post office, and would annually help Santa answer the letters. When I got older, I would help her. It became a Christmas tradition for both of us. She told me to include personal stuff about the person in the letter. My mom would say things like “ Johnny you really looked nice in your Blue Jays shirt the other day. I know you like baseball, and your good at it, so maybe I will bring you a new baseball so you can practice more!” Of course, my mom had spoken to his mom, when she came to get the mail, so it wasn’t a far reaching promise.
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
And NORAD tracks him taking off from Canada every December 24th
Canada now has two national sports: lacrosse in the summer and hockey in the winter. Correction: Ottawa is not the second largest city in Canada. Montreal is. Vancouver is the third largest, followed by Calgary, then Ottawa.
Probably a Torontonian wrote the script.
Technically, Vancouver is only like 8th if you don't count the metro area. It only has 662,000 residents.
@@sheenalawson I think an American wrote it.
@Mark S Yeah, but the metro area is important.
@@terryomalley1974 agreed
The reason for the drastic temperature change that happened in Pincher Creek is because of chinooks. In Alberta they get them sometimes, it has to do with winds.
I'm pasting this from the Canadian Encyclopedia. "In Canada, the chinook belt lies almost exclusively within southern and central Alberta. The wind occurs in every season, but it is more distinctive and numerous in the winter, when the unseasonable warming it brings differentiates it from the normal cold winter weather."
And that is the joy of living in southern Alberta. I live in Airdrie and right now it is +3C (about +41F) last week it was -32 Celsius. Lol
I love our chinooks!
@@kathleensauerbrei5199 I’m living just outside of Calgary… really enjoying this warm weather. Though, the one thing I can live without are Chinook headaches.
Joe Shuster was a Canadian that was one of the co-creators of Superman. There's a Heritage Minute about him
really? as in Wayne and Shuster?
@@fedodosto3162 Not that one :p
Fed. They were related.
13:39 We are quite the large country in property. Because of that, we have a TON of natural resources and lakes.
Canadian Heritage Moments were a series of "ads" highlighting interesting bits of Canadian history. This one was about Superman's creator. ruclips.net/video/ScFwRoLhR2s/видео.html
That one lacrosse mention is a technicality. Both lacrosse and hockey are our national sports. As google told you, for winter sports it’s hockey, for summer sports is lacrosse. Lacrosse certainly isn’t as popular as hockey around here though. Despite it’s national sport title
Well, to be fair, hockey was only officially declared Canada's winter sport in 1994 (which, as a Canadian, seems crazy to me, I thought it always was). Lacrosse has been the national sport of Canada for longer (1859).
Depends on where you live for Lacrosse teams. Lamport Stadium in Toronto is a primarily Lacrosse venue. Took a streetcar past it for about 10 years.
The pincher creek thing is called a chinook. It’s a really warm wind. Apparently also can be referred to as “snow eater”. I’m told by farmers it is very hard on the animals. I’ve never actually seen one though just heard about them from people who live there.
The first video I watched of yours was the Terry Fox one, and since then have enjoyed your content, good job man, look forward to part 2
Lol, oh Tyler, thank you so very much for laughing, being sweet, and appreciating all of your Canadian neighbors. Canada 🇨🇦 🍁 is a very diverse country and jam packed with nature, adventure and so much beauty. We would love to have the chance to show you this magnificent country and spoil you ❤️. You are always welcome, oh & Thank You 😊
"neighbour" ..just sayin' hee
@@brendamiller5785was going to spell it correctly for them too! 🤣🤣🤣
😳 oh no, oops, yes I did spell it wrong. Sorry about that. I think I need an English refresher course here
Embarrassing 😳 thank you for the pointers, have a great day. 👍
Toronto was Canada's first Capital City. In 1813, the Americans set fire to downtown Toronto (then called York) because it was close to the border. In retaliation, we burned down the down White House. Queen Victoria later chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857 as it was a defensible location situated on the border between Quebec and Ontario and farther away from the border for greater protection.
Kingston was the first capital city
@@wombatwilly1002 But we still burned down the White House. Don't mess with Canada (apologies to Texas for using their slogan)
Penny Fisher, the Reideau Canal was built to link up with Kingston as a defensive water way! Peace and Love
People get mad when I constantly apologize for things... it's just how I grew up in Canada!
I'm Canadian. I apologize a lot. I think that is a good thing, so, I'm sorry I won't apologize for that
I don't know why they would get mad because you say "sorry" hell it's just what we were raised with. I think its just being polite. You hear excuse me a lot too and that's OK too. Wouldn't have it any other way lol❤❤❤❤
You commented on the borders being drawn around "every island" to add up the coastline mileage. This isn't even a small fraction of the little islands that exist in Canada, particularly the north. For instance my son works in a diamond mine in the northern North West Territories. It's on a island that is 37 miles by 7 miles in size. There's many others just like it surrounding him.
Most of Canada was covered in glaciers and when they receded, they left mostly bare rock. There are very few sediments to level out the landscape. The northern landscape is covered in millions of rock basins that do a good job of trapping water.
Yes, as a Canadian, saying sorry when they are clearly wrong is a way to deescalate a potential argument or violent situation quickly so you may move on with life, it's also fun when they get that look on their face like they have won and everyone else is giving you a little smirk and a wink 😉
Lacrosse used to be much more ubiquitous…with local organized teams,etc. My dad played local lacrosse in the 1930’s as part of school team
I live in Muskoka, Ontario. It's HUGE here.
Ontario resident born and raised but got to move to Vancouver Island as a kid. We lived just outside of Nanaimo and went there now and then. Drove 3,000 miles to get there over the course of a week and saw *everything* in between! A cherished memory!
The severe weather change in Pincher Creek was caused by a chinook. Under the right conditions, warm air from the south will travel north and there are certain mountain valleys that it travels up. The word 'chinook' is from the Blackfoot people and means 'snow eater'.
In Churchill, Manitoba, there is a town bylaw making it illegal to lock your car. This is due to the polar bear problem and allowing people a safe place to get away from bears that may wander into town. It's also considered child abuse to dress your kid up as a seal for Halloween.
yes, so true.
Polar bears see people as meat nothing more nothing less. Anything walking that smells alive is food for them they look pretty but they’re not very nice to be around. And they’re very very dangerous
Also in Churchill, Halloween costumes can't be white, so no ghosts. Also extra adults patrol to watch for bears.
Lacrosse used to solely be the national sport. A few years ago, hockey was added as the winter sport.
Lol, love the way the guy pronounced 'Okanagan.' I've lived here my whole life, didn't recognize the word, until he said the 'Ogopogo.'
Since it's universally accepted that Santa lives at the North Pole, he's either Canadian, or Russian. There has been a disagreement between our countries for decades about who owns the North Pole, as it's in the ocean. More than a little disturbing at the moment, thinking just how close Russia is, and that they have such a dispute with us. It's easy to forget with how most maps are laid out. Find the right one, or a globe, it totally changes your perspective.
Me too!
I posed a comment about that!
_14:09__ Oh god he BUTCHERED that_
_It’s “Oh - kin - OG - in”_
_Not “Oh - KAN - ah - gin”_
I found the narrator's pronunciation of Okanagan Lake so strange!
emordnilaP - Phoenetically it would sound like Oak ah noggin.
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That’s what I was thinking
Just gonna put this out there about Santa. Greenland also has a red and white flag and is located (partly) north of the polar circle. That makes me think that, if Santa even has a nationality other than Northpolean, he's either Canadian or Greenlander. That is, if his outfit is based on the colors of the flag.
Which I don't think it is, actually, since I believe Santa is from Finland originally.
I wasn't much into sports but my gym teacher wanted me to try out for the school lacrosse team, apparently being able to fling a ball more than 50ft is a skill lol
I can guarantee that once a month I'm able to throw a ball a heck of a lot further than that, lol!
… I’m not letting that slide 😂 I think we need to do Tyler’s Ancestry Chart … he’s gotta have a Canadian great grandparent in their somewhere!
Churchill, Manitoba, is the polar bear capital of the world, no joke. People leave their doors unlocked, in case you need refuge from a bear. Bear jail is for bears that get too used to humans, and start hanging around town..
The juvenile and not so juvenile delinquent bears do in fact go to jail in Churchill and from what I understand the stay isn't that hospitable lol
Santa has a Canadian postal code: H0H 0H0. The temperature change in Pincher Creek was because of a Chinook. A weather phenomena that Tyler might want to investigate.
Pincher Creek is in a windy valley which has extremely powerful winds. That change in temperature is due to a wind phenomenon called the "Chinook" which comes over the coastal mountains, goes across the Rockies, then warms up. People living in Southern Alberta can literally go through 4 different types of weather in less than 8 hours, from - 15 F. to + 65 F. It's why drivers carry both traction material (mostly kitty litter) and rain gear.
The temperature can change drasticaly because of the Chinook winds due to the mountains meeting the prairies in Alberta and western prevailing winds causing warm dry air to be generated and being pushed down from the mountains, I witnessed it twice I lived in Edmonton and it went from frozen to melting in an hour.
I'm canadian.
For the first one, it's true for me because I've been abused by friends and neglected by family my whole life ❤️
Okanagan is properly pronounced Oka-noggin.
The Okanagan river runs through Washington state so many Americans know how to say it properly already
Tyler just rocked the cliffhanger! 😂
Here in Alberta some people complain that Ontario has more representation but the great Toronto area alone has twice as many people as my whole province. Why wouldn’t they have more people representing them
When I was in school Canada's only national sport was Lacrosse, it wasn't until 1994 that hockey became a national sport. If I remember correctly lacrosse was our national sport because of the natives who played it before European's came here. It wasn't just a game back then though and hundreds of natives would play against each other, the matches would last days and it was bloodthirsty, When I say bloodthirsty I mean from what I've read it was more like a battle, people would die. Being our national sport at the time I was going to school we learned about lacrosse because it was our national sport and part of our history.
I'm actually from Nanaimo and people from all over the world come to race their own tub . Nanaimo bars are known from here also
And you (Tyler) should look into the bathtub races to see some of the original tubs! While now they are more high tech, the old ones using actual, out of your house, bathtubs are cool. It's been around for a while.
Just yesterday Tyler covered a video about Nanaimo bars! Or maybe it wax Friday, but it was very recent.
Ontario holds cardboard boat races every year. They’re hilarious to watch. Mostly young people build and design their own boats for the races. Some high schools do this, but regular non-students race too.
I think that's awesome Linda that our young people are interested in something like that . I would imagine that it's something outside of their normal zone . Very nice that they are being creative !@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan
@@sandraatkinson3409 Theckids have a ball! Constructing their craft after designing it as a group, they’re proud of the achievement . The races are attended by thousands and almost everyone ends up wet. It’s a fun activity that stimulates young minds and gets them away from staring at a screen. Hope they never stop this.
I’m a from Alberta, my birthday is June 4th. I’ve woken up to snow in the morning, and +25 by noon lol
I am from New Brunswick and yes it's very foresty!!!! 😂 Lotsa lakes, rivers, waterfalls, the beautiful beaches, camp grounds, music, seafood and warm waters and extra friendly people along the coast make it a must visit!
living in alberta, i lived in Picture Butte, pretty close to pincher creek, and we got chinooks which was warm wind from BC, and it would go from super cold to tshirt weather, it was crazy, cause when i went to work, it was 19C and id always bring a coat because it would snow or drop like crazy throughout my shift.
We in Alberta love the chinooks. We are having one now :)
Ofcourse, we've got to deal with idiots like Leonardo Di Caprio who call it evidence of global warming.
Here in Montréal February 4th was -41 with windchill. Lucky me electricity went out at my place. For 15 hours, I was a cold easterner freezing in the dark
If you like forests and mountains. British Columbia is the place to be. Sure Alberta has some mountains but they're basically on loan from B.C. lol.
I’m over 50 and have lived in Canada my entire life and have never seen a lacrosse game.
Same! In fact I didn't know lacrosse was officially our national sport until my 20's. My level of disbelief was the same as Tyler's lol
I'm 50 and neither have I 🤷
Im over 50 and back in Manitoba in middle school we played lacrosse as a sport in gym
We have lacrosse team in my high school but no one even knew about it apparently they’re good I’ve still yet to see them even after I learned they existed🤷🏻♀️
@@Miss_Witch13 I just remenber getting checked by a player...painful...not good to keep eyes down while ya got the ball
I feel that Canadians saying sorry is along the lines of a Southerner saying Bless your heart.
Hey Tyler, here in Ontario alone has so many lakes that half of them don't even have names..!! True story....
Absolutely true. I named one 4 years ago.
Love the video, hope you have a nice day!
From a Canadian
Lol. Love your hilarity over the 'Apology Act' etc. It was brought in because people were apologising for accidents they weren't at fault for. In the USA 'sorry' means it's your fault automatically apparently. It was happening so often in Canada for no reason, as an automatic reflex, that the law was brought in lol.
Britain and Commonwealth countries sorry all over the place too lol. Dont know which came first, the chicken or the egg. No apology laws though.😆😆😆
When I was in HS I took Law as a course, one of the things that I remember the teacher saying is "ignorance of the law is no excuse" so damn right these bears should be prosecuted but of course every single one of them will pretend they didn't know what they were doing was illegal but of course we all know they are feigning ignorance.
no conviction without proof of bears rea tho
Santa truly IS Canadian...if a child (or probably anyone, I'm guessing) writes a letter addressed to Santa at North Pole, postal code H0H 0H0, employees and volunteers at Canada Post will send a personalized reply letter from "Santa".
Letters come from all over the world. The replies will be in the language of the child.
My dad who was a well known yacht builder on the west coast was the one to make a bathtub out of fiberglass to enter the Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race , unfortunately the motor died but the tub proved to be very sea worthy,his idea changed the way future tubs were built.That was way back in the late 60s
Great videos Tyler! keep em coming eh !
Lacrosse was developed from an indigenous game, and was the official (unofficially) sport long before hockey caught on. There was "heavy" debate against changing it... So the compromise was Lacrosse stayed as a national sport, and Hockey was acknowledged as the WINTER sport of Canada.
Part of why there are so many lakes is the Canadian Shield.
I also quibble about the % that is uninhabited. I'm one of those who never lived "close" to the US border. I'll agree we have a lot of open spaces, and places where people are rarely seen, but that map made it look like no one lives in the northern... two thirds of the country and that just isn't true.
There is man that is often over looked. He went around the world in a wheelchair. Look up Rick Hanson.
Omg, I'd forgotten about him. I remember he visited my school when I was in highschool, did a whole presentation n stuff in our school theatre.
Thanks for unlocking a memory lol.
I can't believe I forgot about this guy!!!!!! YES ABSOLUTELY RIGHT we should bring more light to this WONDERFUL man 🙂
There is Haha cementary in Newbrunswick, my dad spotted it as we were driving by it and we just had to stop.
For most of Canada's history, lacrosse was the sole official sport of Canada. Hockey folk were up in arms and wanted hockey to replace lacrosse as the official national sport. A compromise was reached in 1994. Lacrosse became the official summer sport and hockey the official winter sport. Ottawa isn't Canada's 2nd largest metro, it's Ontario's 2nd. Nationally, Ottawa is 6th largest. 3 million do live in the City of Toronto but there are 8 million in the Greater Toronto - Hamilton area.
Lacrosse used to be the sole national sport of Canada, and more recent legislation made it the national 'summer' sport, and hockey the national 'winter' sport.
Living in Alberta, the temperature change isn't that uncommon. But that much of a change is shocking still.
Big temperature change in called a CHINOOK. There is a funny story about Leonardo Dicaprio warning about the dire climate change he experienced in Alberta. Dicaprio was quoted in an issue of Variety as saying “we would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.“It was scary." “I’ve never experienced something so firsthand that was so dramatic.” He used this as an example of the horrors of climate change.
LOL, the pronunciation of Lake Okanagan got me laughing. I can see how the narrator of that video could make that mistake. However, with all the pronunciation clips available on the interwebs it surprises me how much stuff people get incorrect. It's Oh-KAH-naw-gen
Lmao. I had to go back and listen to the announcer. I just read Okanagan and heard it correctly in my head lol. It sounds like he was thinking it was like our anthem. Oh-Can-na-gen.lol!!
I made a comment about that!
_14:09__ Oh god he BUTCHERED that_
_It’s “Oh - kin - OG - in”_
_Not “Oh - KAN - ah - gin”_
@@chadjmoore He was thinking it was an Irish name, but it’s not. It’s native. Besides, if it was Irish it would have the apostrophe after the O, and the K would be capitalized: “O’Kanagan”.
There’s a reason for the lower gravity in the Hudson Bay area. As the ice age glacier receded, Hudson Bay was one of the last areas to melt. The ice was more than kilometre thick. Gravity is less because the ocean floor is still rebounding. David Suzuki mentioned this on The Nature of Things years ago. ( he’s my hero)
There’s a weird tradition that will make you laugh. In Ontario, many schools have cardboard box boat races! High school kids and some adults create boats from boxes then race them on the nearest body of water. Talk about fun to watch! New Brunswick may be the tree harvest capitol of Canada, but there’s a larger forested area in our country. The entire northern parts of Canada (and Europe, Russia, Nordic countries etc.) are covered in Boreal Forest. It’s not financially of interest as much because the farther North they are, the smaller the trees. That’s where most of our paper comes from though. Great deal of forestry in NFLD/Labrador, northern Quebec, Ontario, the prairie provinces, the Territories and, of course, BC. NB has a denser, larger treed forestry industry. Had a great geography/history departments in my high school!
It got so cold here in Ottawa the other day that Fahrenheit and Celsius and met up in the minuses
Teh comment on happiest countries is funny "even despite all that cold". Countries #1 to #4 are all frozen countries. If anything, Canada is an underachiever among the cold countries regarding happiness.
Lacrosse has been around for several hundred years, it became the Ntl sport BEFORE hockey gained in popularity in the early 20th cent. In the late 20th cent, they created the title of "winter sport", just for hockey!
The Manitoba desert is called Spirit Sands, in the Spruce Woods Provincial Park.
The best episode of the old fashion kind you can find them know newly made for like $2000 but the old ones are priceless. It drives me nuts these guys do this but they’ve been doing it for years.
I didn't know about Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! either, so I had to look it up. Apparently, a "ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond from the other side." Wikipedia. Also from Wikipedia, "The Commission de toponymie du Québec asserts that the parish's name refers to nearby Lake Témiscouata, the sense of haha here being an archaic French word for an impasse; see Ha-ha. The Louis may refer to Louis Marquis, one of the first colonists of the region, or Louis-Antoine Proulx, vicar of Rivière-du-Loup, or perhaps the abbot Louis-Nicolas Bernier. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name, and shares the distinction of having an exclamation point in its name with Westward Ho!, a village in Devon, in south-west England." Huh.
Yes, Santa is a Canadian citizen... 🇨🇦
Yeah Lacrosse is mostly unheard here.
8:11 I'm Canadian and not all Canadians Loves Hockey like me for one I wasn't good at and didn't really had any good experience my favorite kind are Combat Sports for a Canadian Fighting Spirit and Passion for War not Incursion more of Resistance like Guard Duty.
Southern Alberta has Chinook winds, similar to the Santa Anas. We get snow, freeze, melt cycles all winter. Usualy happens right after you make a killer snow man and it's very slippery lol!!!!
When ice and snow start to melt that quickly you get a lot of mist and fog
You tell the polar bear he can't have that food. That's an angry 2500 pound killing machine. I'm not telling he can't have anything.
I live in Manitoba, and there are 100,000 lakes here.
Look closely at Alberta from the US border to Calgary is flatter and more open with few trees. Going between Calgary and Edmonton there are more hills and more trees, going north of Edmonton you get more trees for about 300 miles then you get to forest or bush with fewer farms. About 800 miles north of the US border there are no farm’s only trees
Tyler, on the Santa Claus question. When I was in Alert, NWT(now Nunuvik) in 1977, our supply Sgt. Sgt. Hewett, looked exactly like the Santa Claus image reconized around the world.
11:43 just like me as Canadian when I think of United States that New York is the Capital City in America. Also because before Toronto was first Named as York City in Canada then Change it's Name too Toronto is Canadian version of New York City but different too USA.
I currently live by Pincher Creek and I can attest to the winter temperature changes from being below freezing to above freezing in the same day. This is because of the geography of the area. We experience something called chinooks (pronounced shin-nooks). Also, my home town is St. Paul, Alberta and it's far more historically relevant to the country than just as the first UFO landing pad (we just called it the landing pad and the second landing pad was constructed in China)
In addition to the absurd amount of lakes we have, I believe we're situated on some of the oldest rock in the world. The pre-Cambrian Shield, or Canadian Shield, covers more than half of Canada & up into Greenland.
Fore the Record Ottawa doesn't come 2nd to Toronto. It comes 2nd to Toronto ONLY in Ontario. Montreal comes second to Toronto in Canada. Then you have probably Vancouver and Calgary with more people, so Ottawa is at best the 4th largest city in the country.
Calgary is 3rd and Ottawa is 4th. Surprisingly Vancouver is 8th.
Yes, Vancouver is 3rd. And here in BC, Vancouver is assumed to be the provincial capital and it's not. Victoria is (my home).