Yes the size of the Great Lakes are a marvel…. I visited Niagara Falls, and was in awe with the size of the water falls, then realized it’s been flowing like this for the last few hundred years…
@ Because both the US and Canada are taking out half the water for hydro power, the erosion has slowed. As the erosion pushes the edge of Falls upstream, the drop becomes less. By the time the erosion is back to the source at Buffalo, there may be no drop at all.
Fun Fact... "The average drop of water takes 173 years to pass through Lake Superior. The average drop of water takes 204 years to pass from Lake Superior to the ocean." Think about that for a moment... in your own family, how many generations can you go back to find someone who was around when a drop of water, just today, finally left Superior... your grandparents?... great grandparents?... further? Its hard to wrap ones head around the sheer size and volume of this wonderful waterway... 👍🏼✌🏼🇨🇦
I live in Mackinac County and this drives us UP here nuts. Every Yooper I know correct people who miss pronounce it immediately and they are not necessarily polite.
Well if it wasn't spelled Mackinac and was spelled Mackinaw then it wouldn't confuse people. I know it is Mackinaw because I have talked to Yoopers....
The first public works project in the US was the Erie Canal, built over a ten year period in the 1820s. It connected New York City to the Great Lakes by using the Hudson River as far north as Albany, then west to Buffalo and Lake Erie. Before the canal was built Philadelphia was larger than New York City. The canal is what made Chicago the business capital of the mid west.
US guy living in the Great Lakes Region. As a cup scout back in the 1950's we did a presentation on the Great Lakes. Mine was Lake Erie. I still remember my little part: Lake Erie is the shallowest of them all and has never failed to answer the call. From east to west it give ships service at its best"
It would make sense that it would look surprisingly small from 10km up, given that the lake is about 50km wide. From that altitude you could easily see the whole width of the lake. From a passenger plane flying at cruising altitude you could easily see a couple hundred kilometres away, atmospheric conditions permitting. I flew from Montreal to Detroit once and was able to see across all of southwestern Ontario out of the window.
You missed Lake Champlain which also flows north into the St Lawrence river, it's pretty big and is more closely connected to the great lakes than lac st jean.
Seriously, you _sound_ Canadian, but you're mispronouncing very common things like Mackinac and Niagara. Macnik? Neeagara? Isn't this how we used to flush out German spies in Allied uniforms in WWII? :D
The Great Lakes are very important to Canada and the US. It's one of the most important water systems on land made for transportation, trade, fishing, and most importantly, economy. The Quebec City-Windsor Corridor is one region in Canada with the country's largest megalopolis where most Canadians live.
In the USA the Great Lakes were very important mainly to the Midwestern region, especially for city’s like Chicago which was established right on the edge of Lake Michigan
@@beasley1232, the region south of the Great Lakes is called the Rust Belt. Since Chicago is the largest US city in the Great Lakes, it's followed by Detroit at #2, even though Detroit is on the Detroit River.
@@beasley1232, Chicago is one big transportation hub in the US where many railways (such as the CTA and Amtrak), canals, and roads (such as Route 66) are built and it sits on the St. Lawrence Divide that divides the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
@@CrystalClearWith8BE The largest city on the Great Lakes is Toronto. In fact, it is the third largest city in North America. When I was growing up in the Chicago area in the 60's-70's, it was surely the largest of the two. Toronto is now much larger and Chicago is much smaller. The Chicago metro area has gotten larger, but the city is much smaller.
@@billscott356, indeed, it is. Toronto sits on the northwest shores of Lake Ontario and guess what, it's kilometers away from the maritime border with the US on the same lake it sits on. Toronto isn't only a financial hub of Canada, but also a transportation hub of all of Canada. I think within the GTA, the best for livability has to be in Peel Region. Mostly in Mississauga.
Thanks a lot for providing this very informative video. Very interesting to see how all the lakes are connected and the elevation between them. Keep up the great work!
The Great Lakes really should be considered a huge inland freshwater sea because that's what it is essentially. And even though Thunder Bay has faded from prominence for a variety of reasons its location it probably still the most strategic in the nation linking the two halves of Canada together through a series of increasingly janky infrastructure... Two rail lines and one, 2-lane highway are all that links the West and the East together. If one bridge was taken out by a bad winter storm of accident, the entire nations commerce system could be affected. That's just how important it is... Also why Bombardier now Alstom transportation still builds the majority of its rapid transit vehicles there too! Along with factories in Kingston and suburban Montreal...
Michigander pronunciations love to add letters not found in the word, but the strait between the lower and upper peninsula is pronounced Mack-in- naw, like the city mackinaw city’s even though it’s spelt differently. It’s like how we say “krogers and Meijers” even though both stores don’t have an S in the name.
Another good job done. It took me a few seconds to recognize the map on the wall: Kapuskasing. The "circle" shopping area tipped me off, then I remembered the shape of the river.
Hey the map on the wall is actually Moncton New Brunswick. Looked up Kapuskasing (never once heard of it) and I agree, the river does have the same bend! Made me discover a cool little paper mill town in Northern Ontario, so thank you!
@@atlascanada1113 Oh my! [I'm saying it like George Takei] I'm totally embarrassed. Now I have to go back and pause the video to look more closely at the map. But first, I'm now checking out Moncton, and the resemblance is uncanny. What tricked me was the prominent traffic circle at Humphrey's Brook, on the east side of town. In Kap, the Circle is a prominent feature placed in the same position. But in Kap, it's a shopping area where there are stores facing the circle. Since you sounded Franco-Ontarian to me ---- i.e. speaking English well with only a very slight trace of accent, rather than the stronger accent of a Quebecois ---- my subconscious mind immediately lept to the Clay Belt region around Kap. For extra info, the town is pronounced KAP-us-KAY-sing. It's Cree for "bended river." It's a 68% francophone town.
I am assuming that you are from Kap? I have always found it interesting how Northern Ontario has large French speaking populations often making up the majority of residents and yet (Correct me if I am wrong) receive very few services in French. Luckily, here in New Brunswick, although numerically inferior (only 250k ish to Ontario's 500k ish) french speakers represent a good 32% of the provincial population, therefore receiving almost all services in French if desired. Moncton is probably one of the most linguistically fascinating cities in Canada with the Greater Moncton Area having a bilingualism rate of almost 50%.
@@atlascanada1113 I'm not from Kap, though I was born in the region and I'm familiar with almost every part of Northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec, including almost every rez and fly-in. The francophone area in Northern Ontario has plenty of services for francophones, comparable to New Brunswick. It's in Southern Ontario that they are lacking. This, however, is the result of a lot of activism over several generations. The peculiar thing about many of the towns like Timmins, New Liskeard, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst is that historically, the local business elite --- shopkeepers, dentists, lawyers, etc., tended to be French Canadian while the "anglos" [basically meaning anyone of non-French Canadian origin who used English as their basic language] worked in the mines and pulp mills. There was a period before WW2 when small towns in Quebec were locked in a rigid hierarchy, usually with a few English families controlling local business. So people who wanted to start businesses for themselves became part of the "pioneer" movement to service the new mining and paper towns. Many of these pioneer settlers came from small towns in the Saguenay region of Quebec, and from the Gaspe. As these businesses matured, these towns acquired a permanent francophone "elite." In the early days of Canadian television, Conrad Lavigne built one of the first TV stations outside of Montreal or Toronto --- CFCL. His pal Roc Demerse did all the engineering, ordering equipment from catalogs. But he chose to broadcast in English so as not to ruffle feathers with his financial backers in Toronto. Further south, in the strip stretching from Mattawa through North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, Sudbury, Thessalon, to Sault-Ste.-Marie, the francophone population is much older, largely descended from lumberjacks and log drives who worked their way up the Ottawa river during the 19th Century. Many of these were mixed French-Canadian & Irish families, such as one of my Grandmothers. Others were francophone Metis from Western Canada like my Grandfather. Sudbury became a nexus of a distinct Franco-Ontarian cultue in the 1970s, with a lively scene of musicians, poets and playwrights who wrote in the local dialect rather than mimicking styles in Quebec. . The brilliant rock band CANO was the superstar of this movement, and founded the annual festival La nuit sur l'etang. There's also a fair number of older generation Cree and Ojibway who speak French, though that is rapidly disappearing. While francophones may have trouble getting adequate services in Southern Ontario, there's no problem at all in places like Sturgeon Falls or Kapuskasing. In a town like Hearst, which is 95% francophone, the problem would be finding service in English. While Ontario is still not officially bilingual like New Brunswick, for the last half century every Ontario administration has been pretty good at promoting francophone services in the areas where it's needed. I grew up going to French language schools in the North. When I go to Quebec it's noticeable that my French is kind of archaic and "hick", since the region didn't participate in the massive cultural shifts of modern Quebec. When I listen to an old Acadian band like Beausoleil Broussard, the accent isn't the same as mine, but it has a similar "feeling." I'm sure any old Acadian would feel more at home in a Northern Ontario bar than in Montreal or Quebec City one.
@@atlascanada1113 I'm not from Kap, but I have a pretty thorough knowledge of every community in Northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec, including most of the isolated res communities and "fly-ins". My birth certificate was issued by the "Porcupine Mobile Health Unit" back in the remote past. . . . While Ontario is still not officially bilingual, for the last 50 years provincial administrations have been pretty good at providing services in French in the areas where it's needed. While it may be hard to find francophone services in some small southern Ontario town, it's no problem in someplace like Sturgeon Falls or Kapuskasing. In a town like Hearst, which is 95% francophone, the problem would be getting service in English. . . . An oddity of the history of the Clay Belt region is that it's business elite is overwhelming francophone. Back before WW2, ambitious young people from rural Quebec who were "locked out" of entrepreneurship by rigid small-town social structures migrated to the region, where they were free to become the shopkeepers, lawyers, dentists, etc. The anglophones (mostly immigrants using English as a second language) worked in the mines and the pulp mills. So most of these towns acquired a francophone elite. A perfect example would be Timmins, where the French were a minority but owned most of the stores and businesses. Conrad Lavigne built one of Canada's first television stations, CFCL, back in the 1950s, with his pal Roc Demerse building all the equipment from scratch. But he chose to broadcast in English only so as not to ruffle the feathers of investors in Toronto. The Claybelt region got most of these "pioneer" settlers in the 1930's, largely from the Saguenay, Charlevoix and Gaspe regions of Quebec. Further south, the belt running from Mattawa through North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, Sudbury, Thessalon to Sault-Ste-Marie was settled much earlier. French Canadians and French-speaking Irish lumberjacks and log drivers gradually moved up the Ottawa River in the late 19th Century. That's how my great-grandmother arrived. Also, French-speaking Metis from Western Canada came eastward on the CPR. My great-grandfather was one of those. . . . During the 1970s there was an explosion of Francophone cultural activity centred around Sudbury, with it's annual La nuit sur l'etang. Local poets and playwrights wrote in local dialect, appealing to Northern culture, rather than imitating the trends in Quebec. The superstar of the movement was the rock band CANO, whose frontman Andre Paiement also wrote brilliant plays. . . . I went to French-language schools in the North. When I go to Quebec, I realize that my French has a distinctly "hick", even archaic sound. Northern Ontario was not part of the cultural transformation that hit Quebec in the 1960s, and people sound more like very rural Quebecois from older times. There's also distinct influence from Cree, Ojibway, and Michif, since some of the older generation First Nations spoke French. I suspect that, while the accent is different, the average Acadian from rural New Brunswick would feel more at home in a Northern Ontario bar than in a trendy Montreal or Quebec City pub.
I find it curious that at 3:20 when you list several other lakes around the Great Lakes you don't mention the Georgian Bay. If you look at google maps for example the Georgian Bay is labeled separate from Lake Huron. This bay which is really a lake is entirely within the Canada boundary is also larger than all of those other smaller lakes that you mentioned!!
@@zachv And yet this is supposedly told from a Canadian perspective and as a Canadian from this area I know that nobody here would ever refer to Georgian bay as simply “Lake Huron” anymore that someone from the U.K. would refer to the English Channel as simply “The Atlantic Ocean” even though there’s no actual physical division between the two.
Great video as always! I felt the urge to watch something interesting, that I could learn something new, and then I remembered about your channel. You do make great and very informative videos. I wonder what kind of work you do for a living and if this is related to the geography of Canada.
The volume of the great lakes is truly incomprehensible. "About a fifth of all fresh water on the surface of the earth" helps a bit. If you really want to try to get it you have to visit the falls. Niagara Falls is moving an incomprehensible volume of water every second. Get close to it. Feel it. Let the sheer power and scale sink in to your bones. And then realize that the great lakes have enough volume to flow over these falls for over 300 years. In reality, some of the water in the depth of Superior has probably been there since the ice age, and the trickle going over the falls is the overflow from rainfall in the watershed. (One of the great lakes is even downstream from the falls.) But I think it's the best way to give yourself a hint as to this sort of scale.
@@invisiblemiles Only people who think Ontario is even remotely close to being a "superior province" are the ones who have never stepped foot outside out of it lol.
“Mackinac” is actually a french spelling and pronounciation of a Native American place name, as is “Michigan’ which is a french spelling ofa Native American term for the region - as is Chicago which has the French spelling thus “Ch” is pronounced as the English “Sh”. Not to be critical - it was all New France and once conquered by Great Britain the separation caused the loss of common understanding - but remarkably in our area the French spellings have been retained which is rare in the US - for example, “Les Cheneaux” islands are pronounced “lay sheneau” as the orignal french pronounciation as both Americans and Canadiens pronounce “Sault” as “Soo” just as in French. Most Michiganders are unaware that the pronounciation of their own state is a French pronounciation as neither do Chicagoans realize their city is a french spelling of a Native American world meaning “stinking onions”. Undfortunately we have butchered :”Detroit” and have lost its original french pronounciation which is quite beautiful, and mess up “Bois Blanc” as “Baa Blow” but at least it is a good try, Love Canada - as an American visitor the politeness and though I know no love is lost on both sides, but strangely French Canadians seem to actually like us - this truly one of the most amazing experiences ever as an American to visit French speaking Canada - but all of Canada as well is amazing to me, wish we had your good governance - thanks for posing this - very thoughtful !!
Idk how much water that is. I don't do the metric system. And I'm not doing the math to figure it out. I come here for a math lesson. lol. But thanks for the video. :P
I love how nobody knows how to pronounce Mackinac. And they never bother to look it up. To be fair it looks like you know how it's pronounced. But you don't.
Yes the size of the Great Lakes are a marvel…. I visited Niagara Falls, and was in awe with the size of the water falls, then realized it’s been flowing like this for the last few hundred years…
At least 10,000 years. Since the last ice age.
😮@@robertewalt7789 last ice age, or mud flood, or sandstorm lasting an entire year, or great flood?
And it is receding, several thousand years from now the falls will be further downstream towards the mouth of the river where Buffalo is now.
@ Because both the US and Canada are taking out half the water for hydro power, the erosion has slowed. As the erosion pushes the edge of Falls upstream, the drop becomes less. By the time the erosion is back to the source at Buffalo, there may be no drop at all.
Fun Fact...
"The average drop of water takes 173 years to pass through Lake Superior. The average drop of water takes 204 years to pass from Lake Superior to the ocean."
Think about that for a moment... in your own family, how many generations can you go back to find someone who was around when a drop of water, just today, finally left Superior... your grandparents?... great grandparents?... further?
Its hard to wrap ones head around the sheer size and volume of this wonderful waterway...
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Mackinac is pronounced MACK-IN-AW not MACK-IN-NACK
And the river with the Falls is pronounced Nia-AG-ra.
I live in Mackinac County and this drives us UP here nuts. Every Yooper I know correct people who miss pronounce it immediately and they are not necessarily polite.
Well if it wasn't spelled Mackinac and was spelled Mackinaw then it wouldn't confuse people. I know it is Mackinaw because I have talked to Yoopers....
Your mispronunciation of Nipissing makes it sound like a urinary function.
I made the same mistake. But I was 8. My parents love(d) that place though!
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The first public works project in the US was the Erie Canal, built over a ten year period in the 1820s. It connected New York City to the Great Lakes by using the Hudson River as far north as Albany, then west to Buffalo and Lake Erie. Before the canal was built Philadelphia was larger than New York City. The canal is what made Chicago the business capital of the mid west.
1:52 STRAIGHTS OF WHAT?
that's what i thought
Mackinac
US guy living in the Great Lakes Region. As a cup scout back in the 1950's we did a presentation on the Great Lakes. Mine was Lake Erie. I still remember my little part: Lake Erie is the shallowest of them all and has never failed to answer the call. From east to west it give ships service at its best"
I’ve lived across from Canada on the shore of the Detroit River all my life. I love my neighbors to the east
This is a pretty cool video.
Hello from Michigan❤✋️
Flew over Lake Ontario this summer. Amazed at how small it is from the air. Grew up in the area 1960s
It would make sense that it would look surprisingly small from 10km up, given that the lake is about 50km wide. From that altitude you could easily see the whole width of the lake.
From a passenger plane flying at cruising altitude you could easily see a couple hundred kilometres away, atmospheric conditions permitting.
I flew from Montreal to Detroit once and was able to see across all of southwestern Ontario out of the window.
You missed Lake Champlain which also flows north into the St Lawrence river, it's pretty big and is more closely connected to the great lakes than lac st jean.
Seriously, you _sound_ Canadian, but you're mispronouncing very common things like Mackinac and Niagara. Macnik? Neeagara? Isn't this how we used to flush out German spies in Allied uniforms in WWII? :D
Maybe I am a German spy LOL.
Just guessing but since he is Canadian, but didn't say which province he is from, he might not be a native English speaker.
he’s definitely french canadian considering that’s how you pronounce niagara in french
@@ramblinman4197 The map on the wall behind him is of Moncton, NB so there is a good chance he's Acadian (francophone)
@@calvinbaII Thanks! I was trying to figure out what that was a map of.
The Great Lakes are very important to Canada and the US. It's one of the most important water systems on land made for transportation, trade, fishing, and most importantly, economy. The Quebec City-Windsor Corridor is one region in Canada with the country's largest megalopolis where most Canadians live.
In the USA the Great Lakes were very important mainly to the Midwestern region, especially for city’s like Chicago which was established right on the edge of Lake Michigan
@@beasley1232, the region south of the Great Lakes is called the Rust Belt. Since Chicago is the largest US city in the Great Lakes, it's followed by Detroit at #2, even though Detroit is on the Detroit River.
@@beasley1232, Chicago is one big transportation hub in the US where many railways (such as the CTA and Amtrak), canals, and roads (such as Route 66) are built and it sits on the St. Lawrence Divide that divides the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
@@CrystalClearWith8BE The largest city on the Great Lakes is Toronto. In fact, it is the third largest city in North America. When I was growing up in the Chicago area in the 60's-70's, it was surely the largest of the two. Toronto is now much larger and Chicago is much smaller. The Chicago metro area has gotten larger, but the city is much smaller.
@@billscott356, indeed, it is. Toronto sits on the northwest shores of Lake Ontario and guess what, it's kilometers away from the maritime border with the US on the same lake it sits on. Toronto isn't only a financial hub of Canada, but also a transportation hub of all of Canada. I think within the GTA, the best for livability has to be in Peel Region. Mostly in Mississauga.
One sixth of the worlds fresh water. Crazy
The great lakes are called great cause they're big, but they're also pretty great in the coolness sense.
Thanks a lot for providing this very informative video. Very interesting to see how all the lakes are connected and the elevation between them. Keep up the great work!
The Great Lakes really should be considered a huge inland freshwater sea because that's what it is essentially. And even though Thunder Bay has faded from prominence for a variety of reasons its location it probably still the most strategic in the nation linking the two halves of Canada together through a series of increasingly janky infrastructure... Two rail lines and one, 2-lane highway are all that links the West and the East together. If one bridge was taken out by a bad winter storm of accident, the entire nations commerce system could be affected. That's just how important it is... Also why Bombardier now Alstom transportation still builds the majority of its rapid transit vehicles there too! Along with factories in Kingston and suburban Montreal...
I agree! Interesting to see just how fragile the east to west connection really is! I did not know that Alstom had a factory in Thunder Bay!
-1 for pronunciation
Let's hear you pronounce Bois D'Arc in the proper local Missouri dialect
@@kiewieswell if it’s anything the way Missourians pronounce “Versailles” then I’m guessing it’s “Boys Dee Arc” 😂
Wow so Niagara falls drops further than Lake Erie is deep
Lake Superior's name actually comes from the Ojibwe, who named it Gitche Gumee, which meant "great sea" or "big water."
Michigander pronunciations love to add letters not found in the word, but the strait between the lower and upper peninsula is pronounced Mack-in- naw, like the city mackinaw city’s even though it’s spelt differently. It’s like how we say “krogers and Meijers” even though both stores don’t have an S in the name.
Neagra Falls.
Pretty sure even the Canadian sides saw Mackinaw at least on Lake Huron we do
If I remember correctly it had to do with British and French ownership.
This video is a real watershed moment for me
Another good job done. It took me a few seconds to recognize the map on the wall: Kapuskasing. The "circle" shopping area tipped me off, then I remembered the shape of the river.
Hey the map on the wall is actually Moncton New Brunswick. Looked up Kapuskasing (never once heard of it) and I agree, the river does have the same bend! Made me discover a cool little paper mill town in Northern Ontario, so thank you!
@@atlascanada1113 Oh my! [I'm saying it like George Takei] I'm totally embarrassed. Now I have to go back and pause the video to look more closely at the map. But first, I'm now checking out Moncton, and the resemblance is uncanny. What tricked me was the prominent traffic circle at Humphrey's Brook, on the east side of town. In Kap, the Circle is a prominent feature placed in the same position. But in Kap, it's a shopping area where there are stores facing the circle.
Since you sounded Franco-Ontarian to me ---- i.e. speaking English well with only a very slight trace of accent, rather than the stronger accent of a Quebecois ---- my subconscious mind immediately lept to the Clay Belt region around Kap.
For extra info, the town is pronounced KAP-us-KAY-sing. It's Cree for "bended river." It's a 68% francophone town.
I am assuming that you are from Kap? I have always found it interesting how Northern Ontario has large French speaking populations often making up the majority of residents and yet (Correct me if I am wrong) receive very few services in French.
Luckily, here in New Brunswick, although numerically inferior (only 250k ish to Ontario's 500k ish) french speakers represent a good 32% of the provincial population, therefore receiving almost all services in French if desired. Moncton is probably one of the most linguistically fascinating cities in Canada with the Greater Moncton Area having a bilingualism rate of almost 50%.
@@atlascanada1113 I'm not from Kap, though I was born in the region and I'm familiar with almost every part of Northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec, including almost every rez and fly-in. The francophone area in Northern Ontario has plenty of services for francophones, comparable to New Brunswick. It's in Southern Ontario that they are lacking. This, however, is the result of a lot of activism over several generations. The peculiar thing about many of the towns like Timmins, New Liskeard, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst is that historically, the local business elite --- shopkeepers, dentists, lawyers, etc., tended to be French Canadian while the "anglos" [basically meaning anyone of non-French Canadian origin who used English as their basic language] worked in the mines and pulp mills. There was a period before WW2 when small towns in Quebec were locked in a rigid hierarchy, usually with a few English families controlling local business. So people who wanted to start businesses for themselves became part of the "pioneer" movement to service the new mining and paper towns. Many of these pioneer settlers came from small towns in the Saguenay region of Quebec, and from the Gaspe. As these businesses matured, these towns acquired a permanent francophone "elite." In the early days of Canadian television, Conrad Lavigne built one of the first TV stations outside of Montreal or Toronto --- CFCL. His pal Roc Demerse did all the engineering, ordering equipment from catalogs. But he chose to broadcast in English so as not to ruffle feathers with his financial backers in Toronto. Further south, in the strip stretching from Mattawa through North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, Sudbury, Thessalon, to Sault-Ste.-Marie, the francophone population is much older, largely descended from lumberjacks and log drives who worked their way up the Ottawa river during the 19th Century. Many of these were mixed French-Canadian & Irish families, such as one of my Grandmothers. Others were francophone Metis from Western Canada like my Grandfather. Sudbury became a nexus of a distinct Franco-Ontarian cultue in the 1970s, with a lively scene of musicians, poets and playwrights who wrote in the local dialect rather than mimicking styles in Quebec. . The brilliant rock band CANO was the superstar of this movement, and founded the annual festival La nuit sur l'etang. There's also a fair number of older generation Cree and Ojibway who speak French, though that is rapidly disappearing. While francophones may have trouble getting adequate services in Southern Ontario, there's no problem at all in places like Sturgeon Falls or Kapuskasing. In a town like Hearst, which is 95% francophone, the problem would be finding service in English. While Ontario is still not officially bilingual like New Brunswick, for the last half century every Ontario administration has been pretty good at promoting francophone services in the areas where it's needed. I grew up going to French language schools in the North. When I go to Quebec it's noticeable that my French is kind of archaic and "hick", since the region didn't participate in the massive cultural shifts of modern Quebec. When I listen to an old Acadian band like Beausoleil Broussard, the accent isn't the same as mine, but it has a similar "feeling." I'm sure any old Acadian would feel more at home in a Northern Ontario bar than in Montreal or Quebec City one.
@@atlascanada1113 I'm not from Kap, but I have a pretty thorough knowledge of every community in Northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec, including most of the isolated res communities and "fly-ins". My birth certificate was issued by the "Porcupine Mobile Health Unit" back in the remote past.
. . . While Ontario is still not officially bilingual, for the last 50 years provincial administrations have been pretty good at providing services in French in the areas where it's needed. While it may be hard to find francophone services in some small southern Ontario town, it's no problem in someplace like Sturgeon Falls or Kapuskasing. In a town like Hearst, which is 95% francophone, the problem would be getting service in English.
. . . An oddity of the history of the Clay Belt region is that it's business elite is overwhelming francophone. Back before WW2, ambitious young people from rural Quebec who were "locked out" of entrepreneurship by rigid small-town social structures migrated to the region, where they were free to become the shopkeepers, lawyers, dentists, etc. The anglophones (mostly immigrants using English as a second language) worked in the mines and the pulp mills. So most of these towns acquired a francophone elite. A perfect example would be Timmins, where the French were a minority but owned most of the stores and businesses. Conrad Lavigne built one of Canada's first television stations, CFCL, back in the 1950s, with his pal Roc Demerse building all the equipment from scratch. But he chose to broadcast in English only so as not to ruffle the feathers of investors in Toronto. The Claybelt region got most of these "pioneer" settlers in the 1930's, largely from the Saguenay, Charlevoix and Gaspe regions of Quebec. Further south, the belt running from Mattawa through North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, Sudbury, Thessalon to Sault-Ste-Marie was settled much earlier. French Canadians and French-speaking Irish lumberjacks and log drivers gradually moved up the Ottawa River in the late 19th Century. That's how my great-grandmother arrived. Also, French-speaking Metis from Western Canada came eastward on the CPR. My great-grandfather was one of those.
. . . During the 1970s there was an explosion of Francophone cultural activity centred around Sudbury, with it's annual La nuit sur l'etang. Local poets and playwrights wrote in local dialect, appealing to Northern culture, rather than imitating the trends in Quebec. The superstar of the movement was the rock band CANO, whose frontman Andre Paiement also wrote brilliant plays.
. . . I went to French-language schools in the North. When I go to Quebec, I realize that my French has a distinctly "hick", even archaic sound. Northern Ontario was not part of the cultural transformation that hit Quebec in the 1960s, and people sound more like very rural Quebecois from older times. There's also distinct influence from Cree, Ojibway, and Michif, since some of the older generation First Nations spoke French. I suspect that, while the accent is different, the average Acadian from rural New Brunswick would feel more at home in a Northern Ontario bar than in a trendy Montreal or Quebec City pub.
if drained the Great Lakes could cover the entire lower 48 states in water 9 feet deep from coast to coast.
Isn’t Lake Champlain also a part of the watershed?
Yes it is, I should of included it.
Now you should do the northern Great Lakes: Lake Tindé, Lake Sahtu, Lake Athabasca, etc.
N eye Agra not knee Agra
Cool channel, i liked and subscribed
I find it curious that at 3:20 when you list several other lakes around the Great Lakes you don't mention the Georgian Bay. If you look at google maps for example the Georgian Bay is labeled separate from Lake Huron. This bay which is really a lake is entirely within the Canada boundary is also larger than all of those other smaller lakes that you mentioned!!
I noticed that as well.
No, it’s a bay it’s not a separate lake
@@zachv And yet this is supposedly told from a Canadian perspective and as a Canadian from this area I know that nobody here would ever refer to Georgian bay as simply “Lake Huron” anymore that someone from the U.K. would refer to the English Channel as simply “The Atlantic Ocean” even though there’s no actual physical division between the two.
Great video as always! I felt the urge to watch something interesting, that I could learn something new, and then I remembered about your channel. You do make great and very informative videos. I wonder what kind of work you do for a living and if this is related to the geography of Canada.
The volume of the great lakes is truly incomprehensible. "About a fifth of all fresh water on the surface of the earth" helps a bit.
If you really want to try to get it you have to visit the falls. Niagara Falls is moving an incomprehensible volume of water every second. Get close to it. Feel it. Let the sheer power and scale sink in to your bones.
And then realize that the great lakes have enough volume to flow over these falls for over 300 years.
In reality, some of the water in the depth of Superior has probably been there since the ice age, and the trickle going over the falls is the overflow from rainfall in the watershed. (One of the great lakes is even downstream from the falls.) But I think it's the best way to give yourself a hint as to this sort of scale.
Did you do a video on the history of great lakes maritime navigation and channel history?
Awesome explanation
Wow someone is not from Michigan or even near the Great Lakes MACNICK….. it’s MACINAWWW
Some of the world’s largest salt mines are underneath the Great Lakes.
Excellent video
Thank you for the great video!
Some people count Lake Champlain as part of the Great Lakes.
Lake Winnipeg and Winnipegosis is technically a Great Lake, as well as a few in the territories.
Lake Superior is just superior bro simple as that
Superior lake for a superior province of Ontario :)
@@invisiblemiles such an ontarian thing to say
@@invisiblemiles Only people who think Ontario is even remotely close to being a "superior province" are the ones who have never stepped foot outside out of it lol.
Volcano lake
All of these Americans gasping at pronounciation, like they wouldn't have absolutely butchered all the French names mentioned.
Who’s gasping at it?
It’s still fucking English-ised Native American u off brand baguette
@@USA-o5obro I am, also we have French names for places in the Midwest too bruh? We were also a part of New France.
In Michigan we have Lac La Belle, Sault Sainte Marie, Bois Blanc Is. , Bete Grise, Isle Royale, L’Anse etc
“Mackinac” is actually a french spelling and pronounciation of a Native American place name, as is “Michigan’ which is a french spelling ofa Native American term for the region - as is Chicago which has the French spelling thus “Ch” is pronounced as the English “Sh”. Not to be critical - it was all New France and once conquered by Great Britain the separation caused the loss of common understanding - but remarkably in our area the French spellings have been retained which is rare in the US - for example, “Les Cheneaux” islands are pronounced “lay sheneau” as the orignal french pronounciation as both Americans and Canadiens pronounce “Sault” as “Soo” just as in French. Most Michiganders are unaware that the pronounciation of their own state is a French pronounciation as neither do Chicagoans realize their city is a french spelling of a Native American world meaning “stinking onions”. Undfortunately we have butchered :”Detroit” and have lost its original french pronounciation which is quite beautiful, and mess up “Bois Blanc” as “Baa Blow” but at least it is a good try,
Love Canada - as an American visitor the politeness and though I know no love is lost on both sides, but strangely French Canadians seem to actually like us - this truly one of the most amazing experiences ever as an American to visit French speaking Canada - but all of Canada as well is amazing to me, wish we had your good governance - thanks for posing this - very thoughtful !!
I noticed the map in the background is of Moncton/Dieppe/Riverview. Are you an Acadian from NB? Nice channel btw
Kakabeka falls that feeds into lake superior is often a forgotten marvel!
Smart man - pronouncing stuff wild to get all the rage comments 🧐
Good ..HOMES
Amazing
Say the letter A then say the word Ah. Then say the word Winnebago , Just a not ah. Next word we will work on is Kaukauna.
Their are also great lakes in Canada northwest of the great lakes
Is that a map of Moncton on your wall??????????
Knee agra falls?
good video
What is winabago its pronounced winabaygo
I gasped at how you pronounced "Lake Winnebago" Wi. As a local living on the lake, It's pronounced as Lake (Wi-nuh-bag-gow)
What is a KM???
Idk how much water that is. I don't do the metric system. And I'm not doing the math to figure it out. I come here for a math lesson. lol.
But thanks for the video. :P
You must be new to the region as your pronounciations are off.
Lmao, heard of Québec and New Brunswick?
"Niagra" is pronounced starting with a "nigh" not a "nee"
Where did this guy learn pronunciation?
How large are Canada and the States? We think nothing of using *other sovereign nations* as units of measure....
The pronunciation has to be satire this is ridiculous.
You do not own the Great Lakes legally you might but Michigan owns it
I love how nobody knows how to pronounce Mackinac.
And they never bother to look it up.
To be fair it looks like you know how it's pronounced. But you don't.
You can’t do a video on these and not know how to pronounce so many things. Mackinac, sure fine, but Niagara? I had to turn the video off.
Bro is not Canadian with those pronunciations
are you quebecois? you pronounce niagara like french 2:26
great video
No, I can't listen to the mistakes pronouncing so many landmarks 😳
You didn't Research the pronunciation first.
Just looks so bad.
Mack-in-ack.
pronounce words correctly please