John Bartlet Brebner (1895-1957), a Canadian historian, famously said, "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States." It's always been this way. I blame the U.S. education system, not Americans.
Love the quote but I absolutely concur about the education system. You can only react to knowledge you have or have acquired through your own curiosity.
I used to get offended by videos like this until I realized that Americans are just as clueless about their own country as they are about Canada. So really, it's nothing personal...
Yeah, I think the American education system just doesn't teach students a lot about the world. I was amazed growing up at what my American cousins were not taught(even in good schools) about the rest of the world when compared to myself(Canadian) and my other British cousins. It was wild! And Canadians in particular are taught a lot about America, as it is our nearest neighbour, extremely powerful/big military, we are exposed to a ton of American entertainment, and many of us have family there. Two other points, Drake is FAMOUSLY Canadian. From his start in entertainment in Canadian tv show Degrassi, to his very famous love of his home Toronto. Nobody loves anything as much as Drake loves Toronto, it is a running joke. So yes, he does live here most of the time and is ubiquitous in terms of people spotting him or being at events with him. Even as recently as last week, he made a sad Instagram post about leaving the city and how much he would miss it (probably to tour) and it was picked up by local media. He was also spotted all over, wearing a jacket for the Toronto transit system. It is a joke at this point. It would be like any New York-based celeb wearing an MTA coat. Also Celine Dion is also famously Canadian, you should look up her wedding for reference.(It was huge in Quebec) Finally, Pierre Trudeau, former PM and Justin's father, once in the 60's gave a pretty famous speech in DC that beautifully sums up why Canadians know so much about Americans. He compared being next to the States like a mouse sleeping next to an elephant. No matter how friendly the elephant, the mouse can't help but be aware of its every movement. Long way of saying, we stay informed for our safety and security.
What often stuns me as a Canadian is how much I know about the USA. Even your Constitution and how it should work. I live slightly more than 1 hour's drive from the US Border. Our Capital, Ottawa, is that close to the US. Yes, during 9/11 we Canadians were as stunned as all of you. Yes we opened our borders immediately to all your flights. Yes we assisted to keep your citizens safe and comfortable because it's the right thing to do. No we do NOT hate you. We can make the difference between politics and good people. Yes we speak our english a bit differently. Some of us dont speak english at all, and that's ok. We dont have guns everywhere, but we DO have plenty. We just use them differently. We like similar products, media, arts, foods and freedoms to live in a safe world. Our military are always in contact. We share the control of NORAD equally. We dont always agree about politics or politicians, either ours or yours. We'll be there if you need us, because that's how we see the world. PS yes we are normally quite polite people. Never mistake that for weakness as many despots and terrorists have found over our history.
When you say "normally quite polite people" I think you're referring to when we're not Québécois mad about hockey because that's the least normal and polite you can get😂
I had a friend who worked at the US/Canada border (New York/Ontario). She had some funny stories to tell. One American couple arrived perplexed because they could not understand why it was so darn hot and no snow in July. They had brought snow gear, sweaters, ski gear. Apparently, they thought that the weather underwent a cosmic shift when you travel that 3km over the St. Lawrence River.
Yes! My Mom grew up in Windsor (1950s and ‘60s) and she said every summer there’d be Americans coming over from the Detroit border with skis on top of the cars, asking how much longer to drive until they get to the snow.
@@oatmealshoesI also grew up in that time frame in Windsor. A neighbour was a customs officer at the Ambassador Bridge. I remember him telling of these misguided/misinformed Americans crossing over in July with all the ski equipment, saying they were going to the Laurentian mountains "for the day". They would be back around supper time. The Laurentians are over 1200 km. and a 12 hour+ drive away, northeast of Montreal. So good luck with that, plus snow free in the summer.
I can relate to this so much!! I grew up in Niagara Falls Ontario and worked in the tourist are as a teen. I cannot tell you how many Americans would come over looking for snow and mountains. 🤦♀️ I also Lived in Louisiana for 18 years and was asked by alot of southerners if I lived in an igloo and if we had roads up in Canada. 😂😂😂
An American friend of mine used to debate about Canada vs U.S. I told him one day that Americans barely understand what happens outside their county, let alone global politics. He scoffed at it until he went back to Missouri. He came back and apologized
A few years back I was at the Lake louise hostel in Banff park. I met an American who had spent the last year living in Edmonton. He was in his early twenties and had grown up in St. Louis. I am from Edmonton. He said that living in a Canadian city for the last year had forced him to change his view of world events. He said that growing up in St. Louis all the news was about the USA with a little bit of world news thrown in. He admitted that living in Canada had changed his perspective on current events.
@@NickVaters-od8kp No. I was at a Youth Hostel. The Lake Louise Hostel is a member of Canada's Youth Hostel Association.I could not afford to stay at a hotel in Lake Louise.
They aren’t taught about the world. It’s like the King of Siam. Their maps are mostly US with Canada a vague fuzz to the north but it’s because they don’t get world news like every other country does. When I worked there I had to get papers sent from home to know what was going on and this was during the Cold War.
About 20 years ago I was talking to an American lady who asked me where I was from, so I told her I was from Canada. She said oh yeah she'd heard of that place, it is over there beside China someplace. I said no, it is on the other side of the US's northern border, and then she totally lost it, started yelling about how there is nothing there and that I wasn't fooling her any.
In 1967 I was a golden blonde deeply tanned teen. In AZ I was asked why I had blue eyes and blonde hair because...weren't we all eskimos living in igloos? Duh. Where did they think I got the tan? I lived in Windsor Ontario right across from Detroit separated by the Detroit river. Wow. The sun didn't stop at the border in summer and the snow doesn't stay in Canada in winter. It's an awful lack of common sense and critical thinking. Having said that today I know very intelligent people in USA ...mind....they were raised in Canada and moved to the states!🤣🤣🤣👏🏻 just joking. There are very intelligent American born people but still are islolationist. That's a serious issue.
Far too often American maps just show the contiguous states with Hawaii and Alaska tucked in beside California. No Canada or Mexico and no U. S. territories.
in 1983, I went to the US. People there asked me how long our Igloos lasted before melting. I went along with it, and told them I walked 20 miles in Snow Shoes, then traveled 200 miles by Dogsled, then got on a Snowmobile to get to a place where I was able to get a Car.... The 1st Trip across the Border was also the Last
@@psefti true except that we don't call ourselves "American" just "Canadian" as a rule. It's probably easier than explaining why don''t live in the U.S. which is a different country and not part of the commonwealth.
Tyler, you are becoming more Canadian with every video. The fact that you know that Lacrosse is our summer sport and hockey is our winter sport shows just how far you've come. And just about a week ago we hit 40 million for our population.
Please stop kissing this guy's ass. He doesn't care about Canada and he hasn't learned anything. He's been doing a video every day for a year and he's learned barely anythign.
@@mau1558 government has announced it passed 40m couple weeks ago, although some sites showing another countdown, and if you are referring to what google says please note the date 2021 was 38m
I’m Canadian myself and Lacrosse isn’t in no way our Summer National Sport! It’s already a sport in itself that the majority of Canadian peoples doesn’t even know, so it’s not our Summer National Sport! The parliament may have made it National, but it isn’t, to be National, we have to at least have the majority of Canadians knowing about that kind of sport as well of loving it! The only thing as much loved and done in summer, is “Hockey Cosom” I’m from myself from a family of Baby Boomers, our total of members in our family is about 120 to maybe 150 and we all in majority doesn’t even know about Lacrosse!
Lacrosse is actually our national sport, it is a game played by my Indigenous people, before modern hockey, hockey was played on a field, today we know it as field hockey and also played by my Indigenous people before contact. Both games were uses to settle disputes between Indigenous nations. The disputes were solved by the winning team.
You are half right, the Creator's game was the national sport period until the 90s or maybe even more recently. But Parliament changed it to be simply the national summer sport and added hockey as the national winter sport. I believe they were going to change it completely to hockey, but Indigenous groups, especially the Haudenosaunee raised concerns and a compromise was reached. Now I had never heard of the Indigenous playing field hockey before. I realize that it likely isn't field hockey as modern people know it. But I did not realize any variation was done by the Indigenous. To be quite honest, lacrosse is the only sport outside of those played at the Arctic Winter Games that I am aware of that are of Indigenous origin.
@@georgecuyler7563 Lacrosse stick, field hockey stick and ice hockey sticks are VERY different. Lacrosse sticks have a round netted head while field hockey sticks have a round curved head. google has many comparison pictures
Now Tyler, we Canadians were laughing at you too not too long ago!! Yes, you have certainly learned a lot since you started these videos, we're very proud of you! 🎉
Hi Tyler! It's Canadian Wes Sept here, and even though I don't drink, I am surprised that you don't know how much everyone else does drink? We have beer with 9 percent alcohol, once in awhile I drink one. Also in Medicine Hat, the deer walk down the sidewalk right next to you! A couple of weeks ago a two point buck rubbed against me as I walked by. Without thinking I extended my left hand, and said hey buddy as I petted him. Some of this stuff you show, even I haven't heard, or seen it. Like the maple syrup Coke, and the frozen hair contest, it doesn't surprise me, but a lot of this I'm seeing for the first time. I sure love your videos Tyler, you have a great night. With love, and respect. Wes Sept
Just asked my 14 year old grandson who the President of the US is? No hesitation - Biden. So yes, most Canadians know more about the US than the US citizens know about Canada. Thank you for doing these videos. I am blessed to live in a wonderful country.
One little caveat to that is I'd expect people in school to be more knowledgable about some things than adults. When I was going through school I had to learn all of the state capitals and where all the states were on a map. I had to learn the dates for a lot of historical events. Now if I'm lucky I can name the capitals of about 30-35 states and can probably get about 35-40 placed correctly on a map. I remember what happened in a lot of historical events but if you ask me for the year I probably wouldn't remember most of them.
Most Canadians know more about America than Americans. Before the last election I was talking to an American and asked if she was going to vote. She asked when the election was and how to do that. It was horrifying. I mean the American election day never changes so that should help.
I suspect part of why Canadians know so much about the States is because of American culture being so much a part of Canadian life. I mean it says something when the CRTC has to mandate radio play a percentage of Canadian music and TV channels to devote a certain amount of time to Canadian made programming. If it wasn't for the CanCon rules, I suspect there would be very little Canadian pop culture. I would ask your 14 year old who the Prime Minister of Britain is. If he knows that I would say he is aware of the world. For the record, they just recently had an election (early July 2024) and I can't remember who beat Rishi Sunak from the Labour Party. So I would fail if the BBC came and asked questions of me. My high school history teacher was very adamant that we knew things about the world. In addition to the history lessons he would teach. Each year (I happened to have him three of the four years), he would do some work sheets with us. We had to know all the countries of Europe on a map. The major rivers of Europe and Asia. The capital cities of Europe and I think we did some American geography (but not state capitals). He also had us learn what the acronyms for a number of international organizations are (not that he taught us what they did) and we had to learn the leaders of a number of countries. He would have us write a test even to ensure we actually learned this. I don't remember all the leaders on that list, some were from relatively obscure countries like the President of Bolivia and others of major importance like Australia or Germany. But I think he was interested in that kind of stuff. The other history teacher I had in high school didn't do any of that. But I am glad the other one did as it made everyone in his class a little more knowledgeable about the world around them. It is funny how certain thing stay associated in your mind though. The Prime Minister of Australia at the time was John Howard. I never forgot that because I always thought the John Howard Society (which has nothing to do with him but it was a linkage in my mind and I found it amusing that the former British penal colony had a PM who shares a name with an organization that works with former inmates.). I often thought that Canadian schools should be teaching a current events/civics type class. Students should learn about how our system of Government works, how the UN works, who is who in world politics, what is going on in the world. I mean you don't have to get in depth on things, but an overview of how everything works would be helpful knowledge, especially considering that many in Grade 12 turn 18 during rhe school year and are old enough to vote. It would be nice if they knew enough to be able to make an educated vote. I am not saying all are clueless, I certainly was not. In fact, one of the Provincial leaders came and spoke to us during the election campaign when I was in Grade 12. Should have been a softball photo op right? He didn't count on me being there. Being 17 and a cocky teen, I decided to throw a curveball in with my question and it skewered him. I can't remember how many reporters were there but I helped tank his campaign by getting him to admit something about his intentions he hadn't wanted to get out. But at that same Q and A, other classmates of mine asked him about things that the Province has no responsibility for under the Constitution. If we had had a Civics class, everyone would be aware of who does what. Though I will admit in some areas the lines get blurry. I am sure my teacher was mortified I did that. This politician was from the area and his kids even went to my high school. I suspect my teacher invited him to do the Q and A because he thought it would be a good learning experience for us. Not that someone like me was going to tank his party's fortunes in the election. He still was elected, but his party sure wasn't. They had been expected to win a dozen seats or so and they won three. That was my fault in some ways. I didn't even ask him my super tough question either. I wish I had been able to ask both questions. Anyway, I am rambling away here. TL:DR American culture is part of what we consume in Canada. So knowing Biden isn't a stretch. Knowing the British PM on the other hand would indicate a world awareness of your 14 year old.
You're totally right - the national sport used to be Lacrosse. Now it's Hockey for winter & Lacrosse for Summer. They actually passed a bill in 1994. We don't have a national dish, but Poutine has become the most famous, I think because it's mentioned so much on American TV. Other dishes that are well known are Butter Tarts, Nanaimo Bars, and Beavertails.
Lacrosse was but given. Back to the natives who actually started it. With human heads instead of balls.... Joke lol. She hokey is now Canadian numb 1 .
I'm from Quebec, and please tell me were lacrosse comes into play. Hockey, football, soccer, baseball...but lacrosse ? Probably shuffleboard is more popular 😅
@@pgpogo I’m in Saskatchewan and have never even seen a game of Lacrosse. But I did have fun playing broom ball every winter at school….so my vote would be for boom ball being our national sport. Unfortunately Canadians knowledge of Lacrosse and broom ball are probably equally. Zero point zero…so I would have the only vote. ⛸️🥶.
@pgpogo lacrosse is an indigenous sport. I'm in Ontario and I know we played it in school but there are different levels of teams within the province here.
60? Try a 15 min drive over the Niagara river, on the Peace bridge, to Fort Erie and maybe 10 mins by boat...I know this because I live 45 mins from there, on the Canadian side.
As a Canadian imigrait from Pakistan and learning all the history of Canada, including history, its just so hard and embarrassing to see these Americans not knowing these questions. A women asked if Canadian is a language and I thought that too as a kid but in the third grade i discovered that English and French are the 2 languages spoken in Canada, which was surprising to me but i understood why i spoke English and took Frecnh classes. I know a lot of geography of the world (including my home country) and if I ask them a question about anything rather then America I know they'll just straight up struggle and be embarrassed. I'm not making fun or anything but I hope today they'll learn more geography so that even if I'm going to quiz them, they'll understand.
The reason the group in the second video did so well is that Buffalo is directly across the river from Niagara. It's a major crossing point, in fact a lot of Canadians in that area have P.O. boxes in Buffalo for online shopping. And yes there are Tim Hortons in Buffalo
@user-qv2ur2bw3z pretty sure there are and there are some in some airports throughout too now if what I've heard still holds true tho I do know some cities they didn't end up staying since it is such a saturated industry... even tho timmies far supercedes its competitors lol but I may be a Lil biased on that one lol
The 2nd video was filmed in Buffalo NY which literally is on the border. Americans on border cities like Detroit, Seattle, Minneapolis and Buffalo will definitely have stronger knowledge about Canadian culture compared to other Americans. Tim Hortons actually has a large presence in upstate New York.
As a kid growing up in Quebec in the 60's and 70's, I never had to learn that. I'm not sure if the difference is due to the difference in time or location.
@@MarieAnne. Born in the late 1950s, we had to learn all the US states and their capitals in grade 7 or 8. Maybe because you were educated in Quebec. I should ask my wife as she was also educated in Quebec.
Tyler, there are currently 630 Tim Horton's locations in the U.S. Also, you missed the fact that these interviews are being conducted in Buffalo, NY, which is located right on the Canada/U.S. border. That's why these people knew more about Canada than you might expect. They certainly knew more than a cab driver I once had in Atlanta: "Where you from?" me, "Canada". Cabby, "Canada...oh yeah, I hearda' that. That's up near Delaware, ain't it?"
In the words of Canadian comedian, Simon Rackoff, “we don’t mind that Americans don’t know much about us - we’ve seen what happens to countries you take an interest in!”
For the first few months living in British Columbia, I didn't even know Victoria was the capital of BC. I was convinced it was Vancouver. Until a Canadian friend asked me in amazement: "What do they teach you at your private school with this elite educational program from Switzerland? You live in Greater Victoria, you are visiting the city very often and you often pass Parliament there, but you have no idea what it's meant for? It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. And perhaps one of my most Canadian moments so far as I apologized very verbally and in a colorfully manner for my stupid ignorance. At least I knew that Vancouver Island is paradise, where even any mistakes and stuff can be of a divine nature.
Time to write back to your "Private School in Switzerland" and tell them they know schit & teach schit as their nose is so far up the hinny they can't smell it anymore. Even public school teaching in Victoria know that Swiss watches got beat by Japanese made watches & Swiss cows make milk, the coco you source from south of the Equator to make chocolate. Which is NOTHING SPECIAL with a high price. Switzerland is just another country that makes stuff.(one day in the PAST it was desired because of its quality & precision.)
A paradise that's a pain to get to. There was a hydrofoil from Vancouver to Victoria- but it was for dinner cruises. So, you can take a ferry from Tsawwassen or a plane. Get out of Victoria - up island is nicer.
I'm Canadian, and many of the TV shows I watched growing up were American. Most movies in theatres are American. Canadians are exposed to a lot of information from the USA. Whereas Americans are not exposed to as much Canadian content. It's not simply that we learned about the US in school. Thanks for sharing your reactions, Tyler. I enjoy your channel. It makes me see Canadian culture through a different lens and it's fun. :)
This is exactly what I was about to write. For the average Canadian, we see so much American content. It is also important for us to know what is happening down there.
A lot of the people writing or appearing in American movies and TV shows are Canadian. The parody film _The Canadian Conspiracy_ reveals this is due to a Canadian plot to subvert American culture.
I agree to an extent. I'm Canadian born and raised. I moved to Louisiana when I was 21 and lived there for 18 years. I had 3 children and they went to American school. They honestly learned nothing about Canada or other countries to be honest. It was All American history, politics,......That was in 2002- 2012 when my boys went to school there. Its actually kind of sad.
I have watched a few of few of your videos, and I wanted to let you know that I am impressed with how knowledgeable you are getting about Canada. I was thinking hockey as well, but lacrosse and basketball were in the back of my mind. Well done, sir. Keep up the good work
My sister lived in Sooke, BC. She had two Windmill Palms at the end of her driveway. Southern BC is the farthest north palms grow,with 4 different species.
The Sunshine Coast is I think sub-tropical rainforest, and my dad's friend had a tall palm tree in his front yard. It doesn't rain on the "Wet Coast" every day 😂
@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling Simcoe County is no where near Lake Erie. Yes there are Palms in Southern Ontario, There are Palm at Port Dover, And there are several species of cold tolerant species, The north shore of Lake Erie is about 350 miles farther south than all of British Columbia. it is at the same latitude as the French Riviera.
@@alanmacification it may be further south but it's darn cold in winter 😂 I lived in Bowmanville and while it shares the same latitude as the French riviera and is slightly south of the Sunshine Coast it's not as temperate.
Population just reached 40 million in 2023. The tiny in area province of Nova Scotia just reached 1 million. Since in 2023, there are 630 Tim Hortons in USA, maybe the participants answering the questions don’t think it’s Canadian.
Sadly Tim Horton's, one of our most iconic Canadian chains, just like Hudson's Bay, (the Canadian company) is owned by Americans. All that complaining about the quality happened not long after they took it over.
@@bemasaberwyn55 The parent:company was Wendy's (1995-2006); and then Restaurant Brands International (2014-present) that owns Burger King. The real quality issues started when Restaurant Brands took them over. Why companies buy a successful brand like Timmies and then go about fooling around with it is beyond me. I do think they have tried to make some improvements over the last couple of years as Canadians were really upset over the quality issues such as downsizing the donuts and serving sizes etc. Makes me very sad that it is no longer a Canadian owned company.
Before Tim Horton played for the Sabres, he had an outstanding career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He also played with the NY Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins.
Tyler, you may at one time not have known the capital of Canada, but you took an early interest to find out. And it is now admirable how you have gone above and beyond to learn so much more. Way to go, eh!
Funny story in 1976 I worked pumping gas. It was summertime in July and some Americans stopped for gas and they had skis tied to their roof racks. They asked where the snow was....in July!. I said well you have to go more north to the arctic or North pole but here we get summer just like you.
I’m Canadian, sorry I can’t watch this. I appreciate the effort but over my life, I’m 65, I’ve worked with Americans all over the world. The most interesting comment I ever heard was from a man working here in Canada with me. As he complains about the exchange rate he says “we all know Canadians are just nice Americans “. In my country and to my face, I am Canadian, I was extremely polite knowing it better to just tolerate fools rather then confront them. I have no problem fighting I’m an award winning firefighter. Thanks for producing this, maybe someone will listen
A ridiculous example of Americans knowledge of Canada is a incident that happened to a friend of mine who was attending University of Pennsylvania as a student. He was walking on campus when they were conducting a voter drive for an upcoming national election. They asked him if he was registered and he said no because he is Canadian. The girl told him “You can register because Canada is part of the U.S.!!! When he corrected her, she turned to her colleague and said “Isn’t Canada part of the U.S.”? Her colleague answered “I think so”. 😢
I knew a whole lot of American geography and history from grades, 6,7 and 8 as a Canadian.. Plus, I studied up on it on my own! The American education system needs to be improved big time. I guess some of them think that it's all about them!
Canada's biggest and first industry 350 years ago was the beaver fur trade (Top hats in England were traditionally made with beaver pelts) The Hudson Bay company
Canadian students grade 4 up learn about every country. Language, resources. land mass climate, education, how many different cultures living in the country, national anthem, religions, animals, plants,trees. We were tested on each country.
Don’t feel bad Mr. Bucket……..I think most Americans generally have a positive view of Canada, it’s the educational system that doesn’t focus much attention on us up here. I really admire your desire to learn about my country and really enjoy your videos. 👍👍👍
I would add that in addition to the US educational system being a key source of the lack of knowledge about Canada is the American media. When we are in the US we seldom hear anything about Canada in the news.
Frankly, as a Canadian I would say that a large number of Americans don't know much about their own country from watching questions put to them on the street about that subject .
I was once at Tim Horton's in NW Edmonton. This Canadian woman told me that she thought that Boxing Day was named in honour of Joe Louis. She actually thought that he was a Canadian boxer and that Boxing Day was named after him. I told her that it was a British Commonwealth holiday. After Christmas Day people in Britain would put food and clothes in boxes and leave them for poor people. There are some dumb Canucks out there, too.
@@norwolf4765 An American her age would have known that Joe Louis was an American from Detroit MI. In 1985 I was down in Montana with some friends. On the way back to Edmonton my friend said that we should to visit some friends of his in Calgary. I did not know this couple. It turned out that they were from Ontario and had been in Calgary for two years. They were in their late twenties. My friend said"We went down to Montana". The women Said "Where is Montana".My friend had to explain to her that Montana is an American state that is south of Alberta and borders Alberta. I cannot understand how someone can live in Calgary for two years and not know where Montana is. The woman was brunette. No excuses.
@@roberteaston6413 I would actually doubt if the average American even today would know who Joe Louis was, unless they lived in Detroit. I went to University in the states and some one actually asked me if I spoke Canadian . So, on average I would say Canadians are better informed about both countries than Americans. I've lived in five different provinces and have met people that have never been out of their province and are content just living in their own little sheltered world. Just remember that every kid you went to school with wasn't the brightest on the block.....EH! Happy Canada Day
Lacrosse used to be the only official sport, but hockey was added within the last 15-20 years as an official sport. I understand why people don’t know it, because I also grew up with it being just lacrosse, which was perplexing.
I remember when she was a very chubby teen featured on the 1980s Canadian kid's show 'Going Great', who bragged that she would be a huge star one day... I thought she sounded nuts, at the time! 😂
Even as a Norwegian I was initially taken aback a bit by how little you knew about Canada, but to be fair, Tyler, I have actually learned things I never knew about Canada through your videos. So keep it up :)
The TV show Jeopardy had Canada as a category once and no one knew the answers to the questions. This must have been annoying to the host Alex Tribek who is Canadian although he didn't show it.
I’ve noticed that every episode of “Jeopardy” includes at least one A/Q with a reference to Canadian content. I wonder if the late Alex Trebek made this mandatory?
Part of the reason most Americans don't know Canada, is because, really, we are not obviously, an important country to the States, we are but it's not obvious.
Canada is one of THE most important Countries to the USA, but sadly most of it's own citizens don't realize what a powerhouse Canada is concerning mining, forestry, gas, oil, farming, and beef exports.
Canada is the States' biggest trading partner. It is so important to the US in strategy material that the Reagan government threatened invasion if Canada didn't sign the original NAFTA agreement. It allowed Americans to own 100% of a Canadian resource company.
Most Americans don't think any countries are important besides the USA and that is why they know precisely nothing about any other country not just Canada.
Me before it started: How bad can it be? Lady: Is Canadian a language? Me: I was too kind Edit: I literally once saw a quiz that asked something about a state in Canada and it wasn’t a trick question…
Hi Canadian senior citizen here. While going to school in California in the mid 1980's my 15 year old son was in the gifted class at Sequoia Freshman School. Because he was a Canadian the class discussed where he came from, one student was asked to find Canadaon the map. Options were Canada to the North, USA middle and Mexico to the South. The boy could not find Canada in the map. My son told me that if this is the gifted program he hated to see the regular classes, and oh yes, he was told he spoke 3 languages, American, French, and Canadian. 😱🇨🇦 Love your stuff.
There are way more than 3 bands from Canada. Bryan Adams, Glass Tiger, Shania Twain, Paul Brandt, Tom Macdonald, Madchild, DeadMouse and Unleash the Archers...just to name a tiny few.
Great job on educating Americans Tyler. I grew up in England and now live in Canada. In England and Canada, we were always taught world history. This is sad
I remember a few years back we went for a trip into the US, stayed just outside of Chicago, and went out for breakfast the next morning. The waitress asked where we were from, we said Canada...wow she said, you speak really good english. A bit stunned, we asked what she thought we spoke, she replied french. I think we chuckled and then she vanished and we had a different waitress :)
My last laptop had the keyboard set to default to the French alphabet, once it detected my location as being in the province of Alberta. I had to keep resetting it to American English so I could type properly.
@@cannedend8915 I did try Canadian English. Whoever programmed it thinks Canadian English includes French letters. So I had to use the American English keyboard.
As a Canadian, born and raised in Toronto, i don't know if i would consider Poutine as the national dish. It's definitely iconic, but it's more prominent in Quebec
It’s just as prominent in the rest of Canada. In Toronto you have many option because of the versatility of the city. Smaller towns and cities across the country do not have the same diverse menu.
Keep in mind you live in Toronto, where the food options are _extremely_ diverse. Toronto is less then 10% of the countries population, so yours is not most Canadians experience. Go outside the major cities and ask what Canada’s most iconic food is, I can promise you they won’t be saying it’s sushi pizza or peameal bacon sandwich. They’ll say poutine, _maybe_ Nanaimo bars.
9:21 I’m Canadian and beavers didn’t cross my mind either. I thought our national animal was the lark or the duck, or maybe the loon. 11:17 the maple leaf is so important in Canada. We have a song (in French) about it. 14:00 Karl Tremblay (RIP), Céline Dion, Jean Leloup
When I went to school in geography , I am Canadian, i had to learn all the names of the States, their state capitals, all the infustries and where the metals were mined.
Another great video Tyler! There will be a big birthday party tomorrow in Ottawa🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 so happy Canada Day to you🇨🇦 the population of Ottawa just hit a million a couple of years ago & the population of Toronto is over 6 million so I think that has a lot to do with more people who know of Toronto.
In 1994 the “National Sports of Canada Act” specified two official national sports. Ice Hockey is the winter national sport and Lacrosse is the summer national sport. Before then lacrosse was the only national sport.
In Canadian High-schools - during my high-school years - "Social Studies" was split into History and Geography. And we studied the History and Geography of the ENTIRE WORLD - starting with the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc., etc., etc. This included not only their Geography, Agriculture, Art, History, etc. - but also their mythology. We were THOROUGH. In Grades 11 & 12 - History and Geography were two separate classes - and we concentrated on the History & Geography of the Americas (South, Central, North) - from the time of "discovery" 450 yrs ago up to the middle of the Cold War - which was still going on when I graduated. So we LEARNED - as much about the US as we did about Canada. At one time - the 49th parallel was the world's longest undefended International Border (Bush put an end to that), and we didn't need passports to pass freely back & forth across that Border. To this day - I can recall most of what I learned about the US Constitution. I know stuff about it that most US'ers don't know - including the Federalist Papers that set out the supporting arguments for each of the Amendments. It astonishes me how many US'ers are completely unaware of this aspect of THEIR Constitution they purport to revere and venerate. And yes - Canada has a Constitution - as do almost ALL of the world's 195 countries - MOST of which are CENTURIES older than the US Constitution. The state of the US Education system IS your responsibility. It's the responsibility of everyone who has ever gone to school, or has become a parent with children in school. In Canada - we have a NATIONAL standardised education system. Funds are allocated from General Revenue based on one factor alone - population. NOT (as in the US) on a county's income tax bracket - where the richest counties get the best teachers and up-to-date books, computers, etc. In Canada - Education is one of our two "Socialised" essential services (Health Care being the other) - so EVERY child/student has access to the same across-the-board education to the end of Grade 12. I haven't been to the US since the onset of COVID - when the Border was closed, and T-Rumpf intended to station US Troops along the Border. Trudeau let him know that that was not the best idea he'd ever had - and T-Rumpf backed down on that intention. But relations have been strained since then. So many US TV shows are staffed by Canadian writers - Silicon Valley is staffed by Canadian code hackers - Video game creators seem to be mostly Canadians - Mid-Wife-Trained Nurses in US teaching Hospitals are mostly Canadians - most of the students (and most - if not ALL the RA's) in Applied Maths & Physics at CalTech - are STILL mostly Canadians. I really hope that Biden has a 2nd term - and that Drl Jill Biden DOES something about laying the groundwork for fixing the US Education "system."
In Canada the provincial and territorial governments are responsible for education. There is no federal Ministry of Education. I hadn't heard of Trump's plan to station troops along the U.S. / Canada border. It's bad enough he declared Canada "a threat to national security" so he could impose tariffs. His "justification" was that Canada provides the U. S. military with vital supplies such as steel, aluminum, and oil, and we could potentially deprive them of those materials.
I don't know what part of Canada you're from, but I can tell you that this starry-eyed view of history education in Canada is not true everywhere. Growing up in the 60's and 70's in Quebec, I can tell you that we were mostly (almost exclusively?) taught about Quebec history, and it bored me half to death. Math, science, and geography were much more interesting.
I’m Canadian, one of my (also Canadian) friends is convinced that British people and Australians originally speak a different language and then learn English because “where do the accents come from if English isn’t a second language” she still fails to understand that Canadians (and literally everyone everywhere), too, have an accent. By the way she claims that they used to speak Eglandish if they are British and Australian if they are Australian. I genuinely don’t understand how she survives in school with knowledge (or lack of) like this.
They’re in Buffalo NY in that second video which has a major border crossing into Canada and an airport that many Canadians use when travelling because it’s typically cheaper than the Toronto airport. Canadians cross into Buffalo all the time, even just for a few hours to go shopping. Myself included. So that’s why they know so much - they probably see toonies fairly regularly.
I understand so much of this. Whenever I travel to the States (California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Texas, etc.) I watch local news. I don’t think I’ve seen a weather map of USA that expands beyond the 49th parallel. I often wonder if people in United States think there’s nothing above this straight line. If only news stations would show the whole continent a lot of passive learning would occur.
In 1972 , while I was working in Windsor Ontario, I literally saw an Oldsmobile convertible pulled up to the customs booth at the bridge crossing with 4 young university age men and women with the top down and a rear deck ski rack fully loaded, get very upset when they didn't see the expected snow. This was in mid July on a sunny 85F day. They got so upset and abuse that they were forcibly escorted back to Detroit amid a ton of laughter by every Canadian present, including the police escort.
@@fedodosto3162Eux autres, ils sont des Québécois. En tant que Canadian originaire du sud de l'Ontario, ça m'agace qu'on compte des artistes du Québec comme 《Canadien》. Après avoir vécu 7 ans à Ste-Foy, avoir complété une diplôme collégiale en français, avoir vu comment les Québécois et Québécoise se voient en tant que nation et après avoir vu sur les Plaines d'Abraham , des artistes comme Paul Piché, Laurence Jalbert, Michel Rivard et Gilles Vigneault la veille de l'échec de lac Meech, j'ai de la misère à compter des choses Québécois comme Canadien. J'étais là à 9:00 pm le 24 juin 1991. Michel Rivard a dit 《il est 9h et demi en Terre-Neuve. Il est 8h au Manitoba...et POUR L'ENSEMBLE DU CANADA IL EST TROP TARD》. Alors, essayez pas de me dire que les Québécois sont des Canadiens...à part de l'équipe d'hockey😂.
Michael Buble, David Foster, Sarah McLachlan, ELO. Actors, William Shatner, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Christopher Plummer, Gordon Pinset. Just a few!
I am of Native decent not full blood registered with a ( Haudenosaunee) Mohawk Nation in Ontario some Haudenosaunee Nations/ Tribes are in Western New York I have a cousin on one of them she knows a bit about Canada However we are all on Turtle Island lets see who can figure out where that is unless you are Native Canadian/American
Thanks for your enjoyable videos Tyler. I have enjoyed them tremendously. Please keep making them! As a kid in elementary school (in Canada): Grades 1 to 9, all children were taught about the USA: State Capitals, etc. I'm not surprised about the lack of knowledge about Canada. Here is one for you: Did you know that the USA lost a war between Canada & Great Britain in 1812? That;s when the British burned Washington, D.C & the Whitehouse.
I have a hard time watching these kind of videos (NOT YOURS, TYLER, THE ONE YOU ARE WATCHING)... The fact that, before I even graduated high school, I knew all 50 US states, their capitals, where the national capital was, and some basic American history simply because us Canadians are engulfed by American media and yet these people have SUCH a hard time even naming OUR LANGUAGE? Man, it just makes me want to pull my hair out!
I flew down to Ft. Myers in Sept 2021 for a Veteran funeral. The woman at the airport gave me a stomach ache because she said “I didn’t know Canada even had an Army 😳🤦🏼♀️
We learned to name all the US states and the countries of the world, where they are located and the name of their capitals back when I was in school. I may have forgotten a few and some countries changed since I was a student (the USSR was still a thing back then), but it is still basic knowledge to know the world we live in. And as a Québécoise I know them in both French and English.
There are times where our athletes competing for Canada in international competitions will have clothing that is red with a white maple leaf on it. The Canadian national hockey teams have worn white jerseys with a red maple leaf, red jerseys with a white maple leaf, red jerseys with a black maple leaf, black with a red maple leaf, and red or white jerseys with a red and black maple leaf with the shape of a hockey player in white separating the two colours. So it could get confusing for the people of other countries at times.
Tylor you are so funny and a good sport. I remember studying the US in geography. One would think because we are your neighbours, Americans would be taught and know more about Canada. 🇨🇦
I used to be in hospitality and people have asked me if the cabs take English money. Someone asked if we were still a British Colony and who runs the country. They would get upset that their change was sometimes in loonies or toonies not bills.
I went to Edmonton last summer and was taking the light rail to my hotel. The bills I'd gotten were all 20s so I put a 20 in the machine to get a ticket and got like 17 dollars in coins back.
“Is Canadian a language?” Well in a way yes! Canadian English, and Canadian French or both languages and they are the official languages of Canada they just don’t add “Canadian” in front of it!
Border cities have some answers but the fragmented, elite or private education in the USA in one of the lowest in the world. Public schools in Canada teach the WORLD, every Continent, every Country, both geography and history. It is funny when a retired Judge, or other career person from a southern state arrives at our border crossing but is astonished about gun restrictions or the remaining distance to Alaska is a full 3 day drive to complete. The size of each Province is equal to four or MORE States together. cheers from the west coast !
I remember in my high school social class we we're actually taught the differences between the electoral college system of the US and the first-past-the-post system that dominates our federal elections
Many years ago, I was a tour guide in Halifax. Our standard joke was about American tourists coming up in August with skies on their car roofs! I would explain to them that 50% of Canadian's live at the same latitude as Boston...or maybe Portland, Maine.
Remind them that the most southern tip of Ontario (Point Pelee) is further south than the most northern tip of California (not by much, but it is). Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and most of Wisconsin are more northern than Toronto. It shocks the hell out of them.
Lacrosse was Canada's national sport a long time ago, then Hockey was suggested and what happened is we kept Lacosse as our national Summer sport and Hockey as our national Winter sport.
Buffalo, where the second video was taped, is right on the border with Ontario, and very close to Niagara Falls. There are a lot of Canadians who cross the border to shop at chains that aren't available in Canada. Buffalo even has the Toronto AAA baseball team, the Bissons. So they have a better than average chance to know these answers.
They must have picked the dumbest inhabitants of Buffalo, NY for the video. Golly you can walk across the bridge near the downtown to Canada and can drive in one hour to Toronto the centre of about 10 million of Canada’s people. So obviously geography doesn’t result in knowledge.
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John Bartlet Brebner (1895-1957), a Canadian historian, famously said, "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States." It's always been this way. I blame the U.S. education system, not Americans.
I blame both education systems
As a Canadian, I absolutely love this quote LMAO
Love the quote but I absolutely concur about the education system. You can only react to knowledge you have or have acquired through your own curiosity.
Trust me history classes were boring 😅. Didn’t know why we had to learn about the USA. Probably more content lol
Sad but true.
I used to get offended by videos like this until I realized that Americans are just as clueless about their own country as they are about Canada. So really, it's nothing personal...
Exactly 😊
Yeah, I think the American education system just doesn't teach students a lot about the world. I was amazed growing up at what my American cousins were not taught(even in good schools) about the rest of the world when compared to myself(Canadian) and my other British cousins. It was wild! And Canadians in particular are taught a lot about America, as it is our nearest neighbour, extremely powerful/big military, we are exposed to a ton of American entertainment, and many of us have family there.
Two other points, Drake is FAMOUSLY Canadian. From his start in entertainment in Canadian tv show Degrassi, to his very famous love of his home Toronto. Nobody loves anything as much as Drake loves Toronto, it is a running joke. So yes, he does live here most of the time and is ubiquitous in terms of people spotting him or being at events with him. Even as recently as last week, he made a sad Instagram post about leaving the city and how much he would miss it (probably to tour) and it was picked up by local media. He was also spotted all over, wearing a jacket for the Toronto transit system. It is a joke at this point. It would be like any New York-based celeb wearing an MTA coat. Also Celine Dion is also famously Canadian, you should look up her wedding for reference.(It was huge in Quebec)
Finally, Pierre Trudeau, former PM and Justin's father, once in the 60's gave a pretty famous speech in DC that beautifully sums up why Canadians know so much about Americans. He compared being next to the States like a mouse sleeping next to an elephant. No matter how friendly the elephant, the mouse can't help but be aware of its every movement. Long way of saying, we stay informed for our safety and security.
Ask an American if they think children should study Arabic numerals…
Buffalo literally boarders Niagara Falls lol
Call center: "you're from New Mexico? we can only help people in the US" . . .
thunk.
To all of my fellow Canadians HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! I am so proud to be a Canadian and am happy to have found this channel. Keep going Tyler.
You too!!!😊❤
Happy Canada Day!
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!❤🤍❤
YES A GREAT BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA AND MANY MORE TO COME.
Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day to everyone, the finest people in the world in the world's greatest country.
What often stuns me as a Canadian is how much I know about the USA. Even your Constitution and how it should work.
I live slightly more than 1 hour's drive from the US Border. Our Capital, Ottawa, is that close to the US.
Yes, during 9/11 we Canadians were as stunned as all of you. Yes we opened our borders immediately to all your flights. Yes we assisted to keep your citizens safe and comfortable because it's the right thing to do.
No we do NOT hate you. We can make the difference between politics and good people.
Yes we speak our english a bit differently. Some of us dont speak english at all, and that's ok.
We dont have guns everywhere, but we DO have plenty. We just use them differently.
We like similar products, media, arts, foods and freedoms to live in a safe world.
Our military are always in contact. We share the control of NORAD equally.
We dont always agree about politics or politicians, either ours or yours.
We'll be there if you need us, because that's how we see the world.
PS yes we are normally quite polite people. Never mistake that for weakness as many despots and terrorists have found over our history.
I can tell this is a very heartfelt comment, and I just want to say thank you for spreading this information about our country. :)
Don't forget, Canada was pretty much the reason we have the Geneva Convention XD
When you say "normally quite polite people" I think you're referring to when we're not Québécois mad about hockey because that's the least normal and polite you can get😂
@@milesdockendorff errrr, well, yeah ;) Pass the beer.
@@ichigof6921 And the United Nations!
I had a friend who worked at the US/Canada border (New York/Ontario). She had some funny stories to tell. One American couple arrived perplexed because they could not understand why it was so darn hot and no snow in July. They had brought snow gear, sweaters, ski gear. Apparently, they thought that the weather underwent a cosmic shift when you travel that 3km over the St. Lawrence River.
😂😂😂
Yes! My Mom grew up in Windsor (1950s and ‘60s) and she said every summer there’d be Americans coming over from the Detroit border with skis on top of the cars, asking how much longer to drive until they get to the snow.
@@oatmealshoesI also grew up in that time frame in Windsor. A neighbour was a customs officer at the Ambassador Bridge. I remember him telling of these misguided/misinformed Americans crossing over in July with all the ski equipment, saying they were going to the Laurentian mountains "for the day". They would be back around supper time. The Laurentians are over 1200 km. and a 12 hour+ drive away, northeast of Montreal. So good luck with that, plus snow free in the summer.
I can relate to this so much!! I grew up in Niagara Falls Ontario and worked in the tourist are as a teen. I cannot tell you how many Americans would come over looking for snow and mountains. 🤦♀️
I also Lived in Louisiana for 18 years and was asked by alot of southerners if I lived in an igloo and if we had roads up in Canada. 😂😂😂
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An American friend of mine used to debate about Canada vs U.S.
I told him one day that Americans barely understand what happens outside their county, let alone global politics. He scoffed at it until he went back to Missouri.
He came back and apologized
Yep. Stupid is a way of life in Missouri.
A few years back I was at the Lake louise hostel in Banff park. I met an American who had spent the last year living in Edmonton. He was in his early twenties and had grown up in St. Louis. I am from Edmonton. He said that living in a Canadian city for the last year had forced him to change his view of world events. He said that growing up in St. Louis all the news was about the USA with a little bit of world news thrown in. He admitted that living in Canada had changed his perspective on current events.
@@roberteaston6413u mean hotel not hostel
@@NickVaters-od8kp No. I was at a Youth Hostel. The Lake Louise Hostel is a member of Canada's Youth Hostel Association.I could not afford to stay at a hotel in Lake Louise.
They aren’t taught about the world. It’s like the King of Siam. Their maps are mostly US with Canada a vague fuzz to the north but it’s because they don’t get world news like every other country does. When I worked there I had to get papers sent from home to know what was going on and this was during the Cold War.
About 20 years ago I was talking to an American lady who asked me where I was from, so I told her I was from Canada. She said oh yeah she'd heard of that place, it is over there beside China someplace. I said no, it is on the other side of the US's northern border, and then she totally lost it, started yelling about how there is nothing there and that I wasn't fooling her any.
Too funny!
That’s insane. Mind blowing ignorance.
Oh wow 😂 I am as well from Canada
In 1967 I was a golden blonde deeply tanned teen. In AZ I was asked why I had blue eyes and blonde hair because...weren't we all eskimos living in igloos? Duh. Where did they think I got the tan? I lived in Windsor Ontario right across from Detroit separated by the Detroit river. Wow. The sun didn't stop at the border in summer and the snow doesn't stay in Canada in winter. It's an awful lack of common sense and critical thinking. Having said that today I know very intelligent people in USA ...mind....they were raised in Canada and moved to the states!🤣🤣🤣👏🏻 just joking. There are very intelligent American born people but still are islolationist. That's a serious issue.
Far too often American maps just show the contiguous states with Hawaii and Alaska tucked in beside California. No Canada or Mexico and no U. S. territories.
in 1983, I went to the US. People there asked me how long our Igloos lasted before melting. I went along with it, and told them I walked 20 miles in Snow Shoes, then traveled 200 miles by Dogsled, then got on a Snowmobile to get to a place where I was able to get a Car.... The 1st Trip across the Border was also the Last
Tyler, you have earned the title of an honorary Canadian good sir.
One of us! One of us!
@@jomac841 He's part of the tribe now?
okay 👌
Agreed 💯
I concur.
@@MysteriousMrXpart of the village.
Majority of Americans barely know their own country's history. How can we expect them to know Canada's?
Exactly
True !
Lol
Most Canadians know more about the U.S. than the residents there, Canadians are actually American too we live in North America ?
@@psefti true except that we don't call ourselves "American" just "Canadian" as a rule. It's probably easier than explaining why don''t live in the U.S. which is a different country and not part of the commonwealth.
Tyler, you are becoming more Canadian with every video. The fact that you know that Lacrosse is our summer sport and hockey is our winter sport shows just how far you've come. And just about a week ago we hit 40 million for our population.
Please stop kissing this guy's ass. He doesn't care about Canada and he hasn't learned anything. He's been doing a video every day for a year and he's learned barely anythign.
darrenmacdonald1499, nope not yet. 38 million, 7 hundred thousand something.
@@mau1558 government has announced it passed 40m couple weeks ago, although some sites showing another countdown, and if you are referring to what google says please note the date 2021 was 38m
I’m Canadian myself and Lacrosse isn’t in no way our Summer National Sport! It’s already a sport in itself that the majority of Canadian peoples doesn’t even know, so it’s not our Summer National Sport! The parliament may have made it National, but it isn’t, to be National, we have to at least have the majority of Canadians knowing about that kind of sport as well of loving it! The only thing as much loved and done in summer, is “Hockey Cosom”
I’m from myself from a family of Baby Boomers, our total of members in our family is about 120 to maybe 150 and we all in majority doesn’t even know about Lacrosse!
@@mau1558 All I know is that about two weeks ago, stats Can announced that June 24th we were supposed to hit 40 million.
Lacrosse is actually our national sport, it is a game played by my Indigenous people, before modern hockey, hockey was played on a field, today we know it as field hockey and also played by my Indigenous people before contact. Both games were uses to settle disputes between Indigenous nations. The disputes were solved by the winning team.
Yeah as a Canadian I’m pretty sure that hockey is the national WINTER sport of Canada
You are half right, the Creator's game was the national sport period until the 90s or maybe even more recently. But Parliament changed it to be simply the national summer sport and added hockey as the national winter sport. I believe they were going to change it completely to hockey, but Indigenous groups, especially the Haudenosaunee raised concerns and a compromise was reached.
Now I had never heard of the Indigenous playing field hockey before. I realize that it likely isn't field hockey as modern people know it. But I did not realize any variation was done by the Indigenous. To be quite honest, lacrosse is the only sport outside of those played at the Arctic Winter Games that I am aware of that are of Indigenous origin.
@@Shootmaster44 cool I didn’t know that
@@Shootmaster44 it uses the same stick, but the ball is different.
@@georgecuyler7563 Lacrosse stick, field hockey stick and ice hockey sticks are VERY different. Lacrosse sticks have a round netted head while field hockey sticks have a round curved head. google has many comparison pictures
We are so proud of you, Tyler. You were once one of them.
The Beaver is important because of the fur trade in 17th to the mid-19th centuries
Now Tyler, we Canadians were laughing at you too not too long ago!! Yes, you have certainly learned a lot since you started these videos, we're very proud of you! 🎉
Hi Tyler! It's Canadian Wes Sept here, and even though I don't drink, I am surprised that you don't know how much everyone else does drink? We have beer with 9 percent alcohol, once in awhile I drink one. Also in Medicine Hat, the deer walk down the sidewalk right next to you! A couple of weeks ago a two point buck rubbed against me as I walked by. Without thinking I extended my left hand, and said hey buddy as I petted him. Some of this stuff you show, even I haven't heard, or seen it. Like the maple syrup Coke, and the frozen hair contest, it doesn't surprise me, but a lot of this I'm seeing for the first time. I sure love your videos Tyler, you have a great night. With love, and respect. Wes Sept
Just asked my 14 year old grandson who the President of the US is? No hesitation - Biden. So yes, most Canadians know more about the US than the US citizens know about Canada. Thank you for doing these videos. I am blessed to live in a wonderful country.
One little caveat to that is I'd expect people in school to be more knowledgable about some things than adults. When I was going through school I had to learn all of the state capitals and where all the states were on a map. I had to learn the dates for a lot of historical events. Now if I'm lucky I can name the capitals of about 30-35 states and can probably get about 35-40 placed correctly on a map. I remember what happened in a lot of historical events but if you ask me for the year I probably wouldn't remember most of them.
I mean, he's 14, he should know.
Most Canadians know more about America than Americans. Before the last election I was talking to an American and asked if she was going to vote. She asked when the election was and how to do that. It was horrifying. I mean the American election day never changes so that should help.
Remember the show 'are you smarter than a 5th grader'?
I suspect part of why Canadians know so much about the States is because of American culture being so much a part of Canadian life. I mean it says something when the CRTC has to mandate radio play a percentage of Canadian music and TV channels to devote a certain amount of time to Canadian made programming. If it wasn't for the CanCon rules, I suspect there would be very little Canadian pop culture.
I would ask your 14 year old who the Prime Minister of Britain is. If he knows that I would say he is aware of the world. For the record, they just recently had an election (early July 2024) and I can't remember who beat Rishi Sunak from the Labour Party. So I would fail if the BBC came and asked questions of me.
My high school history teacher was very adamant that we knew things about the world. In addition to the history lessons he would teach. Each year (I happened to have him three of the four years), he would do some work sheets with us. We had to know all the countries of Europe on a map. The major rivers of Europe and Asia. The capital cities of Europe and I think we did some American geography (but not state capitals). He also had us learn what the acronyms for a number of international organizations are (not that he taught us what they did) and we had to learn the leaders of a number of countries. He would have us write a test even to ensure we actually learned this. I don't remember all the leaders on that list, some were from relatively obscure countries like the President of Bolivia and others of major importance like Australia or Germany. But I think he was interested in that kind of stuff. The other history teacher I had in high school didn't do any of that. But I am glad the other one did as it made everyone in his class a little more knowledgeable about the world around them.
It is funny how certain thing stay associated in your mind though. The Prime Minister of Australia at the time was John Howard. I never forgot that because I always thought the John Howard Society (which has nothing to do with him but it was a linkage in my mind and I found it amusing that the former British penal colony had a PM who shares a name with an organization that works with former inmates.).
I often thought that Canadian schools should be teaching a current events/civics type class. Students should learn about how our system of Government works, how the UN works, who is who in world politics, what is going on in the world. I mean you don't have to get in depth on things, but an overview of how everything works would be helpful knowledge, especially considering that many in Grade 12 turn 18 during rhe school year and are old enough to vote. It would be nice if they knew enough to be able to make an educated vote. I am not saying all are clueless, I certainly was not.
In fact, one of the Provincial leaders came and spoke to us during the election campaign when I was in Grade 12. Should have been a softball photo op right? He didn't count on me being there. Being 17 and a cocky teen, I decided to throw a curveball in with my question and it skewered him. I can't remember how many reporters were there but I helped tank his campaign by getting him to admit something about his intentions he hadn't wanted to get out.
But at that same Q and A, other classmates of mine asked him about things that the Province has no responsibility for under the Constitution. If we had had a Civics class, everyone would be aware of who does what. Though I will admit in some areas the lines get blurry.
I am sure my teacher was mortified I did that. This politician was from the area and his kids even went to my high school. I suspect my teacher invited him to do the Q and A because he thought it would be a good learning experience for us. Not that someone like me was going to tank his party's fortunes in the election. He still was elected, but his party sure wasn't. They had been expected to win a dozen seats or so and they won three. That was my fault in some ways. I didn't even ask him my super tough question either. I wish I had been able to ask both questions. Anyway, I am rambling away here.
TL:DR American culture is part of what we consume in Canada. So knowing Biden isn't a stretch. Knowing the British PM on the other hand would indicate a world awareness of your 14 year old.
You're totally right - the national sport used to be Lacrosse. Now it's Hockey for winter & Lacrosse for Summer. They actually passed a bill in 1994. We don't have a national dish, but Poutine has become the most famous, I think because it's mentioned so much on American TV. Other dishes that are well known are Butter Tarts, Nanaimo Bars, and Beavertails.
Lacrosse was but given. Back to the natives who actually started it. With human heads instead of balls.... Joke lol. She hokey is now Canadian numb 1 .
I’ve lived in Canada 54 years and still have not tasted Poutine. So my vote for national dish is still pirogies.
I'm from Quebec, and please tell me were lacrosse comes into play. Hockey, football, soccer, baseball...but lacrosse ? Probably shuffleboard is more popular 😅
@@pgpogo I’m in Saskatchewan and have never even seen a game of Lacrosse. But I did have fun playing broom ball every winter at school….so my vote would be for boom ball being our national sport. Unfortunately Canadians knowledge of Lacrosse and broom ball are probably equally.
Zero point zero…so I would have the only vote. ⛸️🥶.
@pgpogo lacrosse is an indigenous sport. I'm in Ontario and I know we played it in school but there are different levels of teams within the province here.
A person in Buffalo once asked me where Ontario is and I told him to look up. It's about 60 minutes from Buffalo.
60 minutes if that. Ya, not a lot of excuses for not knowing anything about your literal next door neighbour.
60? Try a 15 min drive over the Niagara river, on the Peace bridge, to Fort Erie and maybe 10 mins by boat...I know this because I live 45 mins from there, on the Canadian side.
Dont you mean 60 secs?
As a Canadian imigrait from Pakistan and learning all the history of Canada, including history, its just so hard and embarrassing to see these Americans not knowing these questions. A women asked if Canadian is a language and I thought that too as a kid but in the third grade i discovered that English and French are the 2 languages spoken in Canada, which was surprising to me but i understood why i spoke English and took Frecnh classes. I know a lot of geography of the world (including my home country) and if I ask them a question about anything rather then America I know they'll just straight up struggle and be embarrassed. I'm not making fun or anything but I hope today they'll learn more geography so that even if I'm going to quiz them, they'll understand.
The reason the group in the second video did so well is that Buffalo is directly across the river from Niagara. It's a major crossing point, in fact a lot of Canadians in that area have P.O. boxes in Buffalo for online shopping. And yes there are Tim Hortons in Buffalo
Buffalo has been where I've done some of the best shoe shopping of all time!!! Mind you that was decades ago when it was worth driving over for shoes!
Fort Erie Ont actually use to be a few Timmies in Ohio as well not sure if they are still there or not.
@user-qv2ur2bw3z pretty sure there are and there are some in some airports throughout too now if what I've heard still holds true tho I do know some cities they didn't end up staying since it is such a saturated industry... even tho timmies far supercedes its competitors lol but I may be a Lil biased on that one lol
Also they get Canadian TV channels, or at least they used to.
Buffalo is across from Fort Erie, Ontario. Niagara Falls, New York is across from Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The 2nd video was filmed in Buffalo NY which literally is on the border. Americans on border cities like Detroit, Seattle, Minneapolis and Buffalo will definitely have stronger knowledge about Canadian culture compared to other Americans. Tim Hortons actually has a large presence in upstate New York.
Seattle is 2.5 hours away but most don't know about Vancouver or Canada.
People in Bellingham are a bit more knowledgeable though
Yep and it is actually quite popular lots of Tim Hortons around Buffalo/Niagara Falls NY area.
Owww.. take it easy.
There’s a Tim Horton’s on every corner in metro Detroit too.
Also a bunch on Tim Hortons locations across Ohio
Tim Horton Played for BUFFALO SABRES and scored - one goal ! Toronto IS so close to Buffalo - that You can see Canada from Niagara River !
Fun fact, Canada is larger than the US. It is the second largest country in the world second only to Russia in size.
And most of the population in Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border.
Another fun fact:half of Canada is unihabitable. Who cares if it's larger?
@@kristend344Most US Americans also live on the coasts and borders
CANADA WON the war of 1812 and burnt down the White House....lol.
@@kristend344officially, yes.
Unofficially? We’re amassing a multi-million army in the territory’s to stage an invasion.
As a Canadian kid in the 80's, I had to learn all the states and capitals too some time in primary school.
As a kid growing up in Quebec in the 60's and 70's, I never had to learn that. I'm not sure if the difference is due to the difference in time or location.
@@MarieAnne. Born in the late 1950s, we had to learn all the US states and their capitals in grade 7 or 8. Maybe because you were educated in Quebec. I should ask my wife as she was also educated in Quebec.
Me too. It was because we couldn't afford our own textbooks then.
Same.
Same it was in Grade Four for me.
Hi Tyler! You should say I WAS a typical average American and not I am. You know more about Canada right now than many Canadians!
Here here!
@@mrmacq I'm looking.
Tyler, there are currently 630 Tim Horton's locations in the U.S. Also, you missed the fact that these interviews are being conducted in Buffalo, NY, which is located right on the Canada/U.S. border. That's why these people knew more about Canada than you might expect.
They certainly knew more than a cab driver I once had in Atlanta: "Where you from?" me, "Canada". Cabby, "Canada...oh yeah, I hearda' that. That's up near Delaware, ain't it?"
Really I didn’t know their was Tim’s in the us shows how much I know
Says alot about him, not realising why people in Buffalo know about Canada.
269 Tim Hortons in New York State alone!
In the words of Canadian comedian, Simon Rackoff, “we don’t mind that Americans don’t know much about us - we’ve seen what happens to countries you take an interest in!”
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We can thank the US for doing our dirty work that saved our ass countless of times
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Lol. Well put.
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Tyer you are a very special man ; To start with you have a thirst to know . Which makes you rare among your people .
Tyler, you are humble, smart, funny and as a Canadian I respect you alot for doing all those awesome videos. Merci mon ami :)
Agreed! I also like how he researches things to get more information. It's cool
You just stated all the Canadian attributes, so Tyler "is a Canadian." Oops,forgot polite !
@@laurag7295 not sure about your point but all good :)
For the first few months living in British Columbia, I didn't even know Victoria was the capital of BC. I was convinced it was Vancouver. Until a Canadian friend asked me in amazement: "What do they teach you at your private school with this elite educational program from Switzerland? You live in Greater Victoria, you are visiting the city very often and you often pass Parliament there, but you have no idea what it's meant for?
It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. And perhaps one of my most Canadian moments so far as I apologized very verbally and in a colorfully manner for my stupid ignorance. At least I knew that Vancouver Island is paradise, where even any mistakes and stuff can be of a divine nature.
It's definitely paradise here. 🥰
Lol na not overly canadian if you fid so colorfully as opposed to colourfully 😋🫂❤️
Time to write back to your "Private School in Switzerland" and tell them they know schit & teach schit as their nose is so far up the hinny they can't smell it anymore. Even public school teaching in Victoria know that Swiss watches got beat by Japanese made watches & Swiss cows make milk, the coco you source from south of the Equator to make chocolate. Which is NOTHING SPECIAL with a high price. Switzerland is just another country that makes stuff.(one day in the PAST it was desired because of its quality & precision.)
A paradise that's a pain to get to. There was a hydrofoil from Vancouver to Victoria- but it was for dinner cruises. So, you can take a ferry from Tsawwassen or a plane.
Get out of Victoria - up island is nicer.
I love living here, but I do agree about up island. Comox is a favourite.
As of June 16 Canada's population just passed the 40 million mark
June 2023.
@@hypsyzygy506thank you immigration! Thanks for all the goodness immigrants bring
Bless you for taking an interest in Canada and teaching other Americans about us. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
I'm Canadian, and many of the TV shows I watched growing up were American. Most movies in theatres are American. Canadians are exposed to a lot of information from the USA. Whereas Americans are not exposed to as much Canadian content. It's not simply that we learned about the US in school. Thanks for sharing your reactions, Tyler. I enjoy your channel. It makes me see Canadian culture through a different lens and it's fun. :)
actually a lot of tv shows come from canada now.
This is exactly what I was about to write. For the average Canadian, we see so much American content. It is also important for us to know what is happening down there.
A lot of the people writing or appearing in American movies and TV shows are Canadian. The parody film _The Canadian Conspiracy_ reveals this is due to a Canadian plot to subvert American culture.
I agree to an extent. I'm Canadian born and raised. I moved to Louisiana when I was 21 and lived there for 18 years. I had 3 children and they went to American school. They honestly learned nothing about Canada or other countries to be honest. It was All American history, politics,......That was in 2002- 2012 when my boys went to school there. Its actually kind of sad.
Americans aren't educated about any other country but America to be honest.
HAPPY 😃 CANADA 🇨🇦 DAY TYLER! 🍁
To be fair, Canadians are so inundated with American news, film, and TV that you can't help but learn a huge amount about the US just by osmosis.
So true, I've learnt so much just from movies, TV shows, video games, and music.
I totally agree.
We are also taught in our schools on World history with includes the USA…we knew American history long before internet or cable news …
I have watched a few of few of your videos, and I wanted to let you know that I am impressed with how knowledgeable you are getting about Canada. I was thinking hockey as well, but lacrosse and basketball were in the back of my mind.
Well done, sir. Keep up the good work
My sister lived in Sooke, BC. She had two Windmill Palms at the end of her driveway. Southern BC is the farthest north palms grow,with 4 different species.
The Sunshine Coast is I think sub-tropical rainforest, and my dad's friend had a tall palm tree in his front yard. It doesn't rain on the "Wet Coast" every day 😂
We have palm trees in Simcoe County Ontario on the north shore of Laje Erie.
@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling Simcoe County is no where near Lake Erie. Yes there are Palms in Southern Ontario, There are Palm at Port Dover, And there are several species of cold tolerant species, The north shore of Lake Erie is about 350 miles farther south than all of British Columbia. it is at the same latitude as the French Riviera.
@@alanmacification Yeah you're right!! I meant to say Norfolk County. So used to going to the town of Simcoe in Norfolk County!!
@@alanmacification it may be further south but it's darn cold in winter 😂 I lived in Bowmanville and while it shares the same latitude as the French riviera and is slightly south of the Sunshine Coast it's not as temperate.
Population just reached 40 million in 2023. The tiny in area province of Nova Scotia just reached 1 million.
Since in 2023, there are 630 Tim Hortons in USA, maybe the participants answering the questions don’t think it’s Canadian.
>The tiny in area province of Nova Scotia
Cries in PEI
Sadly Tim Horton's, one of our most iconic Canadian chains, just like Hudson's Bay, (the Canadian company) is owned by Americans. All that complaining about the quality happened not long after they took it over.
@@singtweetypie if my memory serves wasn't Burger King the parent company that bought Tim Hortons?
@@bemasaberwyn55 The parent:company was Wendy's (1995-2006); and then Restaurant Brands International (2014-present) that owns Burger King. The real quality issues started when Restaurant Brands took them over. Why companies buy a successful brand like Timmies and then go about fooling around with it is beyond me. I do think they have tried to make some improvements over the last couple of years as Canadians were really upset over the quality issues such as downsizing the donuts and serving sizes etc. Makes me very sad that it is no longer a Canadian owned company.
As a Canadian, I'm impressed that you knew about Lacross even existing. I think we learned how to play it in grade schools. Once.
I know about lacrosse from American Pie.
Tim Horton played for the Buffalo Sabres and the franchise is all over upstate New York.
Before Tim Horton played for the Sabres, he had an outstanding career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He also played with the NY Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins.
Happy Canada Day Tyler, God Bless you for trying!
Tyler, you may at one time not have known the capital of Canada, but you took an early interest to find out. And it is now admirable how you have gone above and beyond to learn so much more. Way to go, eh!
Funny story in 1976 I worked pumping gas. It was summertime in July and some Americans stopped for gas and they had skis tied to their roof racks. They asked where the snow was....in July!. I said well you have to go more north to the arctic or North pole but here we get summer just like you.
I’m Canadian, sorry I can’t watch this. I appreciate the effort but over my life, I’m 65, I’ve worked with Americans all over the world. The most interesting comment I ever heard was from a man working here in Canada with me. As he complains about the exchange rate he says “we all know Canadians are just nice Americans “. In my country and to my face, I am Canadian, I was extremely polite knowing it better to just tolerate fools rather then confront them. I have no problem fighting I’m an award winning firefighter. Thanks for producing this, maybe someone will listen
A ridiculous example of Americans knowledge of Canada is a incident that happened to a friend of mine who was attending University of Pennsylvania as a student. He was walking on campus when they were conducting a voter drive for an upcoming national election. They asked him if he was registered and he said no because he is Canadian. The girl told him “You can register because Canada is part of the U.S.!!! When he corrected her, she turned to her colleague and said “Isn’t Canada part of the U.S.”? Her colleague answered “I think so”. 😢
They're not even a real country anyway.🤷🤣
omg- that is shockingly sad!
I knew a whole lot of American geography and history from grades, 6,7 and 8 as a Canadian.. Plus, I studied up on it on my own! The American education system needs to be improved big time. I guess some of them think that it's all about them!
There are segments of the American population who think Jesus was American.
You got that right , Big Time 🤔
hahahahahaa it is all about them
Canada's biggest and first industry 350 years ago was the beaver fur trade (Top hats in England were traditionally made with beaver pelts) The Hudson Bay company
Hudson's Bay ....oldest company in Canada...1652
Canadian students grade 4 up learn about every country. Language, resources. land mass climate, education, how many different cultures living in the country, national anthem, religions, animals, plants,trees. We were tested on each country.
Don’t feel bad Mr. Bucket……..I think most Americans generally have a positive view of Canada, it’s the educational system that doesn’t focus much attention on us up here. I really admire your desire to learn about my country and really enjoy your videos. 👍👍👍
I would add that in addition to the US educational system being a key source of the lack of knowledge about Canada is the American media. When we are in the US we seldom hear anything about Canada in the news.
Unlike way too many of your peers, you have the curiosity to go looking for videos about Canada and learn about it. That’s commendable of you.
Frankly, as a Canadian I would say that a large number of Americans don't know much about their own country from watching questions put to them on the street about that subject .
I was once at Tim Horton's in NW Edmonton. This Canadian woman told me that she thought that Boxing Day was named in honour of Joe Louis. She actually thought that he was a Canadian boxer and that Boxing Day was named after him. I told her that it was a British Commonwealth holiday. After Christmas Day people in Britain would put food and clothes in boxes and leave them for poor people. There are some dumb Canucks out there, too.
Keep in mind they only keep the answers from the absolute dumbest people, who are probably on something.
@@roberteaston6413 She was probably an immigrant from the US...lol!
@@norwolf4765 An American her age would have known that Joe Louis was an American from Detroit MI. In 1985 I was down in Montana with some friends. On the way back to Edmonton my friend said that we should to visit some friends of his in Calgary. I did not know this couple. It turned out that they were from Ontario and had been in Calgary for two years. They were in their late twenties. My friend said"We went down to Montana". The women Said "Where is Montana".My friend had to explain to her that Montana is an American state that is south of Alberta and borders Alberta. I cannot understand how someone can live in Calgary for two years and not know where Montana is. The woman was brunette. No excuses.
@@roberteaston6413 I would actually doubt if the average American even today would know who Joe Louis was, unless they lived in Detroit. I went to University in the states and some one actually asked me if I spoke Canadian . So, on average I would say Canadians are better informed about both countries than Americans. I've lived in five different provinces and have met people that have never been out of their province and are content just living in their own little sheltered world. Just remember that every kid you went to school with wasn't the brightest on the block.....EH! Happy Canada Day
Hockey is Canadian's official winter national sport and lacrosse is Canada's summer national sport.
Lacrosse is technically the actual national sport tho
Lacrosse is Canada's official sport. While hockey is the most popular, it is still not the national sport.
Lacrosse used to be the only official sport, but hockey was added within the last 15-20 years as an official sport. I understand why people don’t know it, because I also grew up with it being just lacrosse, which was perplexing.
@@joelmacdonald6994 hmm good to know. I’ll still consider it the secondary sport tho
Yep! Celine Dion is not only Canadian but she's from Quebec and she can speak very Québécois 😉
*excited duck noises*
I remember when she was a very chubby teen featured on the 1980s Canadian kid's show 'Going Great', who bragged that she would be a huge star one day... I thought she sounded nuts, at the time! 😂
She grew up speaking French, and took lessons as a young teen to learn English, as her career was taking off.
@@nommchompsky Ok
@@shoknifeman2mikado135she was never chubby….
Even as a Norwegian I was initially taken aback a bit by how little you knew about Canada, but to be fair, Tyler, I have actually learned things I never knew about Canada through your videos. So keep it up :)
Me too.
Jeg også😊
We appreciate you guys taking the time to learn anything about Canada! 😊 I figured it was only Canadians watching these videos for a laugh 😅
That’s the only reason I watch these also to see If I’m actually Canadian or just an American spy
I am Canadian from Quebec and learned some things as well! Hahaha!
When you said “it’s lacrosse” I cheered haha. You’ve become so knowledgeable and you’re absolutely correct, lacrosse is our national sport.
Tyler, please come to Canada and shoot a few episodes here. It’s in the cards!!🃏
The TV show Jeopardy had Canada as a category once and no one knew the answers to the questions. This must have been annoying to the host Alex Tribek who is Canadian although he didn't show it.
Trebek lived in the States for several decades. I'm sure he was used to it by then.
I’ve noticed that every episode of “Jeopardy” includes at least one A/Q with a reference to Canadian content. I wonder if the late Alex Trebek made this mandatory?
Buffalo NY is practically ON the Canadian border. Thousands of Canadians shop there every day.
It IS on the border, namely the Niagara River
Part of the reason most Americans don't know Canada, is because, really, we are not obviously, an important country to the States, we are but it's not obvious.
Most Americans don't know any countries.
Canada is one of THE most important Countries to the USA, but sadly most of it's own citizens don't realize what a powerhouse Canada is concerning mining, forestry, gas, oil, farming, and beef exports.
Canada is the States' biggest trading partner. It is so important to the US in strategy material that the Reagan government threatened invasion if Canada didn't sign the original NAFTA agreement. It allowed Americans to own 100% of a Canadian resource company.
@@alanmacificationChina is first we are 2nd
Most Americans don't think any countries are important besides the USA and that is why they know precisely nothing about any other country not just Canada.
Have to admit you have learned SOOOOOOO much about Canada, since your earlier videos, that I am very impressed!!!🎉❤
Me before it started: How bad can it be?
Lady: Is Canadian a language?
Me: I was too kind
Edit: I literally once saw a quiz that asked something about a state in Canada and it wasn’t a trick question…
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Most Canadiens speak Oxford English !
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UM canada does not have states!!!
0:03 ni sir your not just the typical American you're above average, at least you know something about not your country
Hi Canadian senior citizen here. While going to school in California in the mid 1980's my 15 year old son was in the gifted class at Sequoia Freshman School. Because he was a Canadian the class discussed where he came from, one student was asked to find Canadaon the map. Options were Canada to the North, USA middle and Mexico to the South. The boy could not find Canada in the map. My son told me that if this is the gifted program he hated to see the regular classes, and oh yes, he was told he spoke 3 languages, American, French, and Canadian. 😱🇨🇦 Love your stuff.
There are way more than 3 bands from Canada. Bryan Adams, Glass Tiger, Shania Twain, Paul Brandt, Tom Macdonald, Madchild, DeadMouse and Unleash the Archers...just to name a tiny few.
Great job on educating Americans Tyler. I grew up in England and now live in Canada. In England and Canada, we were always taught world history. This is sad
I remember a few years back we went for a trip into the US, stayed just outside of Chicago, and went out for breakfast the next morning. The waitress asked where we were from, we said Canada...wow she said, you speak really good english. A bit stunned, we asked what she thought we spoke, she replied french. I think we chuckled and then she vanished and we had a different waitress :)
My last laptop had the keyboard set to default to the French alphabet, once it detected my location as being in the province of Alberta. I had to keep resetting it to American English so I could type properly.
@@Shan_Dalamani Should have tried Canadian English, or British English if that won't show up.
@@cannedend8915 I did try Canadian English. Whoever programmed it thinks Canadian English includes French letters. So I had to use the American English keyboard.
Greatest Canadian Singer = Sarah McLachlan
Hands down. She got a record deal at age 17, before leaving high school, after her first live performance.
Gordon Lightfoot!!!!!!!!
We have way too many to name
Anne Murray
You all forgot Paul Anka! Oh, wait: he's undoubtedly before your time.
I think Celine Dion was younger...but do love Sarah!
One thing Canadians take great pride in is humility and in this regard Tyler shows us Americans can too. Which has won many fans.
I am a Canadian. Went on a trip to Mississippi. Told the girl in the shop that I went to work in a dogsled and she believed me!
As a Canadian, born and raised in Toronto, i don't know if i would consider Poutine as the national dish. It's definitely iconic, but it's more prominent in Quebec
Certainly not officially.
It’s just as prominent in the rest of Canada. In Toronto you have many option because of the versatility of the city. Smaller towns and cities across the country do not have the same diverse menu.
Keep in mind you live in Toronto, where the food options are _extremely_ diverse. Toronto is less then 10% of the countries population, so yours is not most Canadians experience. Go outside the major cities and ask what Canada’s most iconic food is, I can promise you they won’t be saying it’s sushi pizza or peameal bacon sandwich. They’ll say poutine, _maybe_ Nanaimo bars.
Yeah, and I'm from Quebec. It’s more of Quebec's national dish.
From Northern Ontario, living in SW Ontario, and Poutine is a popular dish here. Sadly Toronto isn't the center of the universe.
9:21 I’m Canadian and beavers didn’t cross my mind either. I thought our national animal was the lark or the duck, or maybe the loon.
11:17 the maple leaf is so important in Canada. We have a song (in French) about it.
14:00 Karl Tremblay (RIP), Céline Dion, Jean Leloup
When I went to school in geography , I am Canadian, i had to learn all the names of the States, their state capitals, all the infustries and where the metals were mined.
Me too!🇨🇦
So, can you also remember all Canadian provinces and territories?
As a Canadian. I learned the American states and capitals from the Animaniacs.
I also learned about Canadian politics, the parliamentary system and local politics, provincial and legislative.
Another great video Tyler! There will be a big birthday party tomorrow in Ottawa🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 so happy Canada Day to you🇨🇦 the population of Ottawa just hit a million a couple of years ago & the population of Toronto is over 6 million so I think that has a lot to do with more people who know of Toronto.
Apparently, we hit 40 million earlier this year. :)
A lot of Europeans are migrating here, instead of the USA, because of the anti-immigrant Jingoism in the States
In 1994 the “National Sports of Canada Act” specified two official national sports. Ice Hockey is the winter national sport and Lacrosse is the summer national sport. Before then lacrosse was the only national sport.
With all your new found knowledge of Canada you should do a series where you ask people around where you live Canadian trivia!
The second group were in Buffalo, NY, a city where there are 3 Tim Horton's.
In Canadian High-schools - during my high-school years - "Social Studies" was split into History and Geography. And we studied the History and Geography of the ENTIRE WORLD - starting with the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc., etc., etc. This included not only their Geography, Agriculture, Art, History, etc. - but also their mythology. We were THOROUGH. In Grades 11 & 12 - History and Geography were two separate classes - and we concentrated on the History & Geography of the Americas (South, Central, North) - from the time of "discovery" 450 yrs ago up to the middle of the Cold War - which was still going on when I graduated.
So we LEARNED - as much about the US as we did about Canada. At one time - the 49th parallel was the world's longest undefended International Border (Bush put an end to that), and we didn't need passports to pass freely back & forth across that Border. To this day - I can recall most of what I learned about the US Constitution. I know stuff about it that most US'ers don't know - including the Federalist Papers that set out the supporting arguments for each of the Amendments. It astonishes me how many US'ers are completely unaware of this aspect of THEIR Constitution they purport to revere and venerate.
And yes - Canada has a Constitution - as do almost ALL of the world's 195 countries - MOST of which are CENTURIES older than the US Constitution.
The state of the US Education system IS your responsibility. It's the responsibility of everyone who has ever gone to school, or has become a parent with children in school. In Canada - we have a NATIONAL standardised education system. Funds are allocated from General Revenue based on one factor alone - population. NOT (as in the US) on a county's income tax bracket - where the richest counties get the best teachers and up-to-date books, computers, etc. In Canada - Education is one of our two "Socialised" essential services (Health Care being the other) - so EVERY child/student has access to the same across-the-board education to the end of Grade 12.
I haven't been to the US since the onset of COVID - when the Border was closed, and T-Rumpf intended to station US Troops along the Border. Trudeau let him know that that was not the best idea he'd ever had - and T-Rumpf backed down on that intention. But relations have been strained since then. So many US TV shows are staffed by Canadian writers - Silicon Valley is staffed by Canadian code hackers - Video game creators seem to be mostly Canadians - Mid-Wife-Trained Nurses in US teaching Hospitals are mostly Canadians - most of the students (and most - if not ALL the RA's) in Applied Maths & Physics at CalTech - are STILL mostly Canadians.
I really hope that Biden has a 2nd term - and that Drl Jill Biden DOES something about laying the groundwork for fixing the US Education "system."
In Canada the provincial and territorial governments are responsible for education. There is no federal Ministry of Education.
I hadn't heard of Trump's plan to station troops along the U.S. / Canada border. It's bad enough he declared Canada "a threat to national security" so he could impose tariffs. His "justification" was that Canada provides the U. S. military with vital supplies such as steel, aluminum, and oil, and we could potentially deprive them of those materials.
I don't know what part of Canada you're from, but I can tell you that this starry-eyed view of history education in Canada is not true everywhere. Growing up in the 60's and 70's in Quebec, I can tell you that we were mostly (almost exclusively?) taught about Quebec history, and it bored me half to death. Math, science, and geography were much more interesting.
It was this way in BC in the 80s/90s and EARLY 2000s
I was with you until your last statement about Bidet
@@patriciabrandt490DEPLORABLE 😂😂YOU ARE. Drumpf cult follower.
I’m Canadian, one of my (also Canadian) friends is convinced that British people and Australians originally speak a different language and then learn English because “where do the accents come from if English isn’t a second language” she still fails to understand that Canadians (and literally everyone everywhere), too, have an accent. By the way she claims that they used to speak Eglandish if they are British and Australian if they are Australian. I genuinely don’t understand how she survives in school with knowledge (or lack of) like this.
They’re in Buffalo NY in that second video which has a major border crossing into Canada and an airport that many Canadians use when travelling because it’s typically cheaper than the Toronto airport. Canadians cross into Buffalo all the time, even just for a few hours to go shopping. Myself included. So that’s why they know so much - they probably see toonies fairly regularly.
I understand so much of this. Whenever I travel to the States (California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Texas, etc.) I watch local news. I don’t think I’ve seen a weather map of USA that expands beyond the 49th parallel. I often wonder if people in United States think there’s nothing above this straight line. If only news stations would show the whole continent a lot of passive learning would occur.
Drake has a house in Toronto 😂 he had to get the city to approve his big ass bushes around his property
In 1972 , while I was working in Windsor Ontario, I literally saw an Oldsmobile convertible pulled up to the customs booth at the bridge crossing with 4 young university age men and women with the top down and a rear deck ski rack fully loaded, get very upset when they didn't see the expected snow. This was in mid July on a sunny 85F day. They got so upset and abuse that they were forcibly escorted back to Detroit amid a ton of laughter by every Canadian present, including the police escort.
Singers…..Bryan Adams, Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Shania Twain, Getty Lee, Celine Dion, Burton Cummings, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, K.D. Lang, Randy Bachman, Alanis Morissette…………
Paul Anka, Marie King
Diane Dufresne, Robert Charlebois, Gilles Vigneault, Félix Leclerc, Pauline Julien, Marc Dupré....
@@fedodosto3162Eux autres, ils sont des Québécois. En tant que Canadian originaire du sud de l'Ontario, ça m'agace qu'on compte des artistes du Québec comme 《Canadien》. Après avoir vécu 7 ans à Ste-Foy, avoir complété une diplôme collégiale en français, avoir vu comment les Québécois et Québécoise se voient en tant que nation et après avoir vu sur les Plaines d'Abraham , des artistes comme Paul Piché, Laurence Jalbert, Michel Rivard et Gilles Vigneault la veille de l'échec de lac Meech, j'ai de la misère à compter des choses Québécois comme Canadien. J'étais là à 9:00 pm le 24 juin 1991. Michel Rivard a dit 《il est 9h et demi en Terre-Neuve. Il est 8h au Manitoba...et POUR L'ENSEMBLE DU CANADA IL EST TROP TARD》. Alors, essayez pas de me dire que les Québécois sont des Canadiens...à part de l'équipe d'hockey😂.
Michael Buble, David Foster, Sarah McLachlan, ELO. Actors, William Shatner, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Christopher Plummer, Gordon Pinset. Just a few!
I truly enjoy these videos. I am a Indigenous Canadian raised in Southwestern Ontario on Lake Huron. We loved the American tourists!
I am of Native decent not full blood registered with a ( Haudenosaunee) Mohawk Nation in Ontario some Haudenosaunee Nations/ Tribes are in Western New York I have a cousin on one of them she knows a bit about Canada
However we are all on Turtle Island lets see who can figure out where that is unless you are Native Canadian/American
She:kON Heather
lol I think only Natives or people like me (c31) of Native decent know about Turtle Island lol
O: nen ki' wahi
@@markmiller4609 Long live Turtle island! Chi miigwetch
Tyler, I don't know if you read these comments, but if you want to know more about Canadian culture, I hope you do react to the Heritage Minutes.
A Timmie is short for the Donut shop Tim Horton's, we Canadians like to call the donut's Timmies
Thanks for your enjoyable videos Tyler. I have enjoyed them tremendously. Please keep making them! As a kid in elementary school (in Canada): Grades 1 to 9, all children were taught about the USA: State Capitals, etc. I'm not surprised about the lack of knowledge about Canada. Here is one for you: Did you know that the USA lost a war between Canada & Great Britain in 1812? That;s when the British burned Washington, D.C & the Whitehouse.
Yep. They don't like to admit that...🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's why the White House is painted white-- they couldn't clean the soot off of the stones, so they opted to paint over them.
I have a hard time watching these kind of videos (NOT YOURS, TYLER, THE ONE YOU ARE WATCHING)... The fact that, before I even graduated high school, I knew all 50 US states, their capitals, where the national capital was, and some basic American history simply because us Canadians are engulfed by American media and yet these people have SUCH a hard time even naming OUR LANGUAGE? Man, it just makes me want to pull my hair out!
I flew down to Ft. Myers in Sept 2021 for a Veteran funeral. The woman at the airport gave me a stomach ache because she said “I didn’t know Canada even had an Army 😳🤦🏼♀️
@@Sodonewithchaosdoh lol
We learned to name all the US states and the countries of the world, where they are located and the name of their capitals back when I was in school. I may have forgotten a few and some countries changed since I was a student (the USSR was still a thing back then), but it is still basic knowledge to know the world we live in. And as a Québécoise I know them in both French and English.
@@Sodonewithchaos oh my gosh
@@Sodonewithchaos Can't help saying it: the way things are going, that might soon be true! Support our troops!
There are times where our athletes competing for Canada in international competitions will have clothing that is red with a white maple leaf on it.
The Canadian national hockey teams have worn white jerseys with a red maple leaf, red jerseys with a white maple leaf, red jerseys with a black maple leaf, black with a red maple leaf, and red or white jerseys with a red and black maple leaf with the shape of a hockey player in white separating the two colours.
So it could get confusing for the people of other countries at times.
Tylor you are so funny and a good sport. I remember studying the US in geography. One would think because we are your neighbours, Americans would be taught and know more about Canada. 🇨🇦
I used to be in hospitality and people have asked me if the cabs take English money. Someone asked if we were still a British Colony and who runs the country. They would get upset that their change was sometimes in loonies or toonies not bills.
I went to Edmonton last summer and was taking the light rail to my hotel. The bills I'd gotten were all 20s so I put a 20 in the machine to get a ticket and got like 17 dollars in coins back.
@@jonmendelson1104 There's talk of a $5 coin. Speculation is that it would be called a "foonie".
If so, I won't use them. That's just ridiculous.
i really like youtr videos and your increase in knowledge of canada is definetely increasing
I'm Canadian. Literally making POUTINE as I watched this video...laughed so hard! That's the fries with cheese and gravy
“Is Canadian a language?” Well in a way yes! Canadian English, and Canadian French or both languages and they are the official languages of Canada they just don’t add “Canadian” in front of it!
She's in buffalo at the border....so many come back and forth for the falls
Border cities have some answers but the fragmented, elite or private education in the USA in one of the lowest in the world. Public schools in Canada teach the WORLD, every Continent, every Country, both geography and history. It is funny when a retired Judge, or other career person from a southern state arrives at our border crossing but is astonished about gun restrictions or the remaining distance to Alaska is a full 3 day drive to complete. The size of each Province is equal to four or MORE States together. cheers from the west coast !
I remember in my high school social class we we're actually taught the differences between the electoral college system of the US and the first-past-the-post system that dominates our federal elections
Many years ago, I was a tour guide in Halifax. Our standard joke was about American tourists coming up in August with skies on their car roofs! I would explain to them that 50% of Canadian's live at the same latitude as Boston...or maybe Portland, Maine.
Remind them that the most southern tip of Ontario (Point Pelee) is further south than the most northern tip of California (not by much, but it is).
Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and most of Wisconsin are more northern than Toronto.
It shocks the hell out of them.
with skies or with skis?
@kimpanther clearly my outstanding expertise with the English language! And maybe auto-correct!
And significantly further south than any part of the UK.
@@jeffallan3140 Also, Detroit MI is north of Windsor ON
Lacrosse was Canada's national sport a long time ago, then Hockey was suggested and what happened is we kept Lacosse as our national Summer sport and Hockey as our national Winter sport.
Buffalo, where the second video was taped, is right on the border with Ontario, and very close to Niagara Falls. There are a lot of Canadians who cross the border to shop at chains that aren't available in Canada. Buffalo even has the Toronto AAA baseball team, the Bissons. So they have a better than average chance to know these answers.
I grew up in Burlington ON, so spent lots of time over the years in Buffalo. They are very used to our presence there.
They must have picked the dumbest inhabitants of Buffalo, NY for the video. Golly you can walk across the bridge near the downtown to Canada and can drive in one hour to Toronto the centre of about 10 million of Canada’s people. So obviously geography doesn’t result in knowledge.