Why There's an American National Park in Canada

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  3 года назад +608

    Do you think you know something as interesting as the fact that there's a country north of America? Submit it to our suggestions bin, and maybe it'll turn into an HAI video! Also, if we use your topic, we'll eventually send you a free HAI t-shirt, which is cool, I guess. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

  • @ZNotFound
    @ZNotFound 3 года назад +1012

    HAI: Other countries exist beyond America.
    Also HAI: Maple America, Guava America, big weird scaffolding America.

    • @saigesheen
      @saigesheen 3 года назад +8

      Half Interesting As?

    • @ZNotFound
      @ZNotFound 3 года назад +18

      @@saigesheen Damn dyslexia. I also did "Mapla America"

    • @liesdamnlies3372
      @liesdamnlies3372 3 года назад +22

      Well, he did say it's not entirely proven, just that there's quite a bit of evidence. All those places could still in fact be part of the USA.
      As a resident of Maple America though, I can confirm that we don't actually exist and are a figment of your imaginations. (There is definitely nothing to see up here, seriously, no need to try to cross the border and test your wild theories of our existence please stay away.)

    • @malyhakhakwani5388
      @malyhakhakwani5388 3 года назад +2

      I dont get guava America!

    • @eustab.anas-mann9510
      @eustab.anas-mann9510 3 года назад +5

      @@malyhakhakwani5388 Guam. He said Guahan not Guava.

  • @ChengTeoh
    @ChengTeoh 3 года назад +2351

    The fact that injuries tied to lawn and gardening equipment is a little over 875 per day is even more interesting than why there's an American National Park in Canada, lol. ;)

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +110

      Almost
      *Half as Interesting*

    • @xsforreal
      @xsforreal 3 года назад +38

      Nah, that's a quarter as interesting

    • @deadtornadoYT
      @deadtornadoYT 3 года назад +22

      three fourths as interesting

    • @OkieBadu
      @OkieBadu 3 года назад +15

      @@deadtornadoYT 1/12th as interesting

    • @Azivegu
      @Azivegu 3 года назад +24

      @@OkieBadu -1/12th as interesting, for who ever gets it

  • @nicolasmartin9463
    @nicolasmartin9463 3 года назад +470

    I love how every battle on the wiki page you showed is in France

    • @petemagnuson7357
      @petemagnuson7357 3 года назад +7

      A lot are, but quite a few near the top are in other countries. They almost all use the perfidious Tricolor though, so I can see the error.
      The surplus of French entries is because of the world wars btw

    • @DoctorX17
      @DoctorX17 3 года назад +26

      Did you mean _weird scaffolding America?_

    • @fustigate314159
      @fustigate314159 3 года назад +3

      Couple world wars will do that.

    • @ssjjshawn
      @ssjjshawn 2 года назад +2

      Turns out the divorced father of America still has some connection to their son.

  • @evankrosney6759
    @evankrosney6759 3 года назад +283

    There's actually a similar park on the Canada-US border between Manitoba and North Dakota called the International Peace Garden. It's jointly maintained by the two countries, and visitors to the park can freely walk across the border and around the park without going through customs.

    • @brendancross2767
      @brendancross2767 3 года назад +27

      And that peace park thing on the Washington - British Columbia border

    • @jimroscovius
      @jimroscovius 2 года назад +6

      @@brendancross2767 Been to both of them!!

    • @austenc4520
      @austenc4520 2 года назад +2

      I live in North Dakota and never been there. Might have to check it out someday!

    • @russellcalhoun9010
      @russellcalhoun9010 2 года назад +6

      There’s also Waterton-Glacier IPP in Montana.

    • @danamoore1788
      @danamoore1788 2 года назад +6

      Good. Because I don't know Canadian customs.
      =^_^=

  • @gabeywabey5
    @gabeywabey5 3 года назад +1475

    I should be doing schoolwork right now, but that’s half as interesting.

  • @advisingbob
    @advisingbob 3 года назад +1736

    "...scientists believe there are other countries besides the United States..."
    Me: "puh-lease, like taking scientists seriously has stopped us before!"

    • @andrewcaicedoortiz3397
      @andrewcaicedoortiz3397 3 года назад +54

      Yeah I live on a small tiny island with no less 66.5 million people that is called great britain and we are totally part of america

    • @ecliponaut475
      @ecliponaut475 3 года назад +43

      Would not be the first time scientists were ignored, and will not be the last time.

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +19

      @@andrewcaicedoortiz3397 don't worry, you'll get those treasonous people over the pond and end this civil war once and for all, I see you are just playing the long game.

    • @mbathroom1
      @mbathroom1 3 года назад +3

      Lol

    • @ramborogueraider
      @ramborogueraider 3 года назад +9

      @@TenOfZero1 if all of this was planned props to England.

  • @andrimahegan2667
    @andrimahegan2667 3 года назад +532

    "the godlike high of using summer as a verb". You get a like for that one Sam.

    • @pyrotechnic96
      @pyrotechnic96 3 года назад +3

      That is the exact level of success I am now going to attempt to attain

    • @stephenpowstinger733
      @stephenpowstinger733 3 года назад +3

      Still trying to imagine summer verb.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +1

      HAI can now experience the godlike high of getting a like from you.

    • @robertandrews6915
      @robertandrews6915 3 года назад

      You don't have authority to call him "Sam"
      Or maybe because I don't like the "son the sam"

    • @pyrotechnic96
      @pyrotechnic96 3 года назад +5

      ​@@stephenpowstinger733 "We summered in the Hamptons" To 'summer' is to go on an extended summer vacation, usually to a second home often somewhere expensive and exclusive.

  • @60secondfinance81
    @60secondfinance81 3 года назад +251

    Next video on Wendover:
    The logistics of national park airports

    • @tenaciousjoda8605
      @tenaciousjoda8605 3 года назад +6

      Now, some parks had preexisting airports from BEFORE they were parks so those aren't as difficult, but some new parks DOn't... (long pause) You see, (Short pause) Some places aren't the best to make airports, challenging the engineers (stock clip of a worker quitting)
      I didnt see that it was a wendover not an HAI vid lol

    • @thetimelapseguy8
      @thetimelapseguy8 3 года назад

      @@tenaciousjoda8605 Well this format fits wendover just as well

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 года назад +1

      Normie

  • @justingolden21
    @justingolden21 3 года назад +1444

    "scary socialist leanings like fee free entry" lmao

    • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
      @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 3 года назад +82

      *triggered bootlicker sounds* SOCIALISM????

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +9

      Putin approves!

    • @josepho3366
      @josepho3366 3 года назад +29

      And healthcare.

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +2

      @@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 hahahaha

    • @joseruiz4026
      @joseruiz4026 3 года назад +9

      Reminds of of free parking in l.a but if your ther for 15 min you get a fat 20 bucks fee everytime you dont lay the parking limit smh

  • @Zappyguy111
    @Zappyguy111 3 года назад +208

    0:50
    "How many? There's no way to know for sure."
    He's not as wrong as you think.

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +4

      Taiwan ?

    • @soobinsleftdimple5019
      @soobinsleftdimple5019 3 года назад +20

      @@TenOfZero1 there are alot more disputed countries than just Taiwan

    • @Anonymous-_-69
      @Anonymous-_-69 3 года назад +8

      @@soobinsleftdimple5019 kosovo is another

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +1

      @@soobinsleftdimple5019 oh yeah for sure, was just the first one that came to mind.

    • @Nijel146
      @Nijel146 3 года назад +16

      Kosovo
      Taiwan
      Hong Kong
      Macau
      Israel
      Palestine
      Western Sahara
      South Ossetia
      Abkhazia
      Northern Cyprus
      Novo Russia
      Transnitria
      Novorno-Karabakh
      Kurdistan
      The correct number of countries in the world would be 192 + how much of these you recognise.
      There are also smaller independence movements, I just listed the ones I knew
      While Israel is independent, and a majority of UN recognise it, many Islamic countries and North Korea don’t.
      The land between Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt is recognised as fully Israel by some, fully Palestine by some and some nations recognise both.
      China is also disputed as Taiwan claims it as their land but I don’t think that claim is recognised by a lot of countries.

  • @cliffburton13
    @cliffburton13 3 года назад +165

    My mother tongue is German. So when he questioned "Kanada", it took me few moments to realize it is written with C in English 😅

    • @paulitoivonen2131
      @paulitoivonen2131 3 года назад +10

      Also Kanada in Finnish

    • @maxw1567
      @maxw1567 3 года назад +4

      same for me (as well German)

    • @survivedandthriving
      @survivedandthriving 2 года назад +10

      I'm a Canadian with one of my first languages being German... So, that one did a bit of a head trip on me :D

    • @alexsaffamerica
      @alexsaffamerica 2 года назад +3

      Same thing in Afrikaans.

    • @KingLarbear
      @KingLarbear 2 года назад +1

      Hebrew is like that too lol

  • @DanThePropMan
    @DanThePropMan 3 года назад +58

    The moose wizard is technically our head of state, but this is purely ceremonial and wields no real power. Besides the moose magic.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +6

      Well, technically as the representative of the Queen the moose wizard has the power to declare anyone Prime Minister as long as that person holds the confidence of Parliament. But you're right, they basically never go rogue, and the moose usually gives it to whoever was voted Best Hair.

  • @joeym5243
    @joeym5243 3 года назад +789

    "Canada wasn't and still isn't the US"
    the US: we can fix that.

    • @CryptoRaiderGaming
      @CryptoRaiderGaming 3 года назад +30

      The united states and Canada are friends and they are both in nato ( north Atlantic treaty organization) so if the USA attacked Canada then all of nato would attack USA

    • @cottontheeastercottontailr265
      @cottontheeastercottontailr265 3 года назад +9

      @@CryptoRaiderGaming its theoretical:P

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +30

      US: *am i smelling oil there, here take some freedom*

    • @CerealKiIIer
      @CerealKiIIer 3 года назад +7

      Start fixing your country first maybe?

    • @Jay-qb9gi
      @Jay-qb9gi 3 года назад +6

      @@CryptoRaiderGaming and that suicidal move would lead the the destruction of all of the countries involved in attacking the USA

  • @TenOfZero1
    @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +94

    2:13 It's a little known fact but Canada is in fact in America and not Europe as is commonly believed.

    • @hiimjustin8826
      @hiimjustin8826 3 года назад +11

      Are you serious? I accidentally crossed at Niagara Falls once and told everybody I'd just gotten back from Europe T_T

    • @SnootchieBootchies27
      @SnootchieBootchies27 3 года назад

      On

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +7

      @@hiimjustin8826 as long as you did your crossing in a barrel, you're still good.

    • @scorbiot
      @scorbiot 3 года назад +1

      Which America?

    • @ramborogueraider
      @ramborogueraider 3 года назад +6

      You’re telling me it’s not in Asia?

  • @TheSlavChef
    @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +198

    There is an American National Park in Bulgaria also. It is know as the "US Airbase National Plane Reserve"

    • @coreypowers2988
      @coreypowers2988 3 года назад +4

      Link?

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt 3 года назад +1

      Link please, tried googling to no avail

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +12

      4 of them militarybases.com/overseas/bulgaria/ :D :D :D

    • @coreypowers2988
      @coreypowers2988 3 года назад +16

      @@TheSlavChef oh, twas being sarcastic lmao. Went right over my head

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 года назад +1

      @@coreypowers2988 GOTCHU, haha :D

  • @EMUBEAR1
    @EMUBEAR1 3 года назад +191

    I went to “Canada” when I was 16 for summer camp, but I’m not convinced they didn’t fly me in a circle to a secret airport in a part of Chicago Iv never seen (supposedly it was Toronto), then drive me to some random place in Wisconsin where people acted weird and sold different candy.

    • @Putseller100
      @Putseller100 3 года назад +4

      Yea that happen from time to time

    • @F0UR3V3R
      @F0UR3V3R 3 года назад +29

      I went to "America" once for Florida and I am still not convinced they just flew me to Victoria and heated it up

    • @memethat...2822
      @memethat...2822 3 года назад +7

      I went to this place called Mexico but I think they just flied me to Florida and added 3 feet of a wall

    • @nightshade442
      @nightshade442 3 года назад +14

      @@F0UR3V3R That'd imply that "Victoria man" is equal to "Florida man" a prospect that, as a resident of Victoria terrifies me.

    • @F0UR3V3R
      @F0UR3V3R 3 года назад +4

      @@nightshade442 As a resident of Belleville, Ontario I assure you that we are the true equals to Florida Man, while theres less, they are visible more.

  • @TheTeaCupKiller
    @TheTeaCupKiller 3 года назад +333

    It’s the little “haha” during your “Cold war is heating up” joke for me

    • @jaumesol3480
      @jaumesol3480 3 года назад +15

      4:14

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +6

      He's not allowed to show human emotion through his mannerisms so he has to include it in the graphics.

  • @jaredpeabody894
    @jaredpeabody894 3 года назад +76

    I’ve been a New Brunswicker for my entire life but not once have I ever heard of this park. I’ve heard of the Campobello Islands and our trifles with Maine many times but never did I know you guys built a god damn park there.

    • @autonomouscollective2599
      @autonomouscollective2599 3 года назад +9

      It was another one the USA’s covert operations.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +10

      @@autonomouscollective2599 I was thinking it was a clever budgeting operation to get the States to pay for a park.

    • @seanhartnett79
      @seanhartnett79 2 года назад +2

      Before you know it we have the campobello islands.

    • @Roughneckmechanic1033
      @Roughneckmechanic1033 2 года назад +1

      Used to visit it on school trips growing up 😂

  • @gabrielcamargo3010
    @gabrielcamargo3010 3 года назад +40

    We have a Roosevelt river in the middle of the Amazon forest! Teddy himself helped in the expedition (and with funding, of course) together with Brazilians explorers and his son, he got really sick there and almost died! (jungle fever and yellow fever if I remember correctly)

    • @Bkings7
      @Bkings7 2 года назад +1

      He was going to kill himself with a morphine overdose but Kermit wouldn't leave his side

  • @Pwn3dbyth3n00b
    @Pwn3dbyth3n00b 3 года назад +147

    Ive never heard of a "Canada." Did mean East Alaska?

    • @philtarpehdixon7441
      @philtarpehdixon7441 3 года назад +7

      Like that name.

    • @re57k27
      @re57k27 3 года назад +12

      I think that's North America
      ..
      wait

    • @ericromano8078
      @ericromano8078 3 года назад +9

      Don't forget North Ohio and West Maine.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +6

      I'm sorry, can you speak up? I can't hear you from all the way down there in Southern Alberta.

    • @stephenpowstinger733
      @stephenpowstinger733 3 года назад +6

      It is a shortened “Canada Dry”.

  • @paperkidpainting3922
    @paperkidpainting3922 3 года назад +78

    When your old home becomes a pilgrimage

    • @user-ov2fc5sd1e
      @user-ov2fc5sd1e 3 года назад

      For vagrants

    • @kim2894
      @kim2894 3 года назад

      Most Independence leaders in Asia and Africa: tell us about it

  • @josepho3366
    @josepho3366 3 года назад +289

    “This may come as a shock to some of our American viewers, but it turns out that scientists have discovered other countries besides the US...”
    I see you are self aware Mr. Not-Wendover.

    • @variance1316
      @variance1316 3 года назад +1

      No this quote is wrong the US is the only country /j

    • @brodriguez11000
      @brodriguez11000 3 года назад +6

      I'm amazed these scientists found grant money for a study to discover these "other countries".

    • @TheGrowingGardner
      @TheGrowingGardner 3 года назад +3

      This may come as a shock but America is a continent, not a Country!!!

    • @darksunite8050
      @darksunite8050 3 года назад +1

      @@TheGrowingGardnerno The country is USA the continents are north and South America

    • @maka8551
      @maka8551 2 года назад +1

      @@darksunite8050 the continent is just America, north and south are dumb

  • @fgsaldanha
    @fgsaldanha 3 года назад +28

    My city has a neighboorhood named after President Roosevelt.
    I live in Brazil.

    • @Ratchet4647
      @Ratchet4647 3 года назад +4

      If you didn't know, Teddy Roosevelt went to your country and explored the Amazon!

    • @briandesjardin9381
      @briandesjardin9381 3 года назад

      @@Ratchet4647 According to unverifiable reports, Eleanor Roosevelt's response when she saw Iguaçu was "Poor Niagra..."

    • @vbscript2
      @vbscript2 2 года назад

      Yeah, I also remember walking down the Avenue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Paris, Big, Weird Scaffolding America.

  • @nexxai
    @nexxai 3 года назад +274

    "Maple America" is the best lmao

  • @CMVBrielman
    @CMVBrielman 3 года назад +50

    So, you’re trying to persuade us that there are other countries, and your example is... Canada.

    • @Woodyhlr
      @Woodyhlr 3 года назад +7

      Kanada* however the term "Maple America" is more accurate.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +9

      He's got to ease you in to the concept. Can't start you off with big ideas like Europe or China.

    • @ryanhuntrajput474
      @ryanhuntrajput474 3 года назад

      @@johnladuke6475 they might get bewildered looking at the map of Asia.

    • @vbscript2
      @vbscript2 2 года назад

      @@johnladuke6475 Wow, this really was educational. I had no idea Europe was a country now. :P

  • @silverstone2565
    @silverstone2565 3 года назад +20

    I don't know if you would count it but there is actually also the waterton-glacier international peace park in Alberta-Montana border

    • @sakaraist
      @sakaraist 2 года назад

      That was my first assumption with the title as well. It's hilarious how many hikers get lost and end up on the wrong side of the border around waterton.

    • @bertaboy9078
      @bertaboy9078 2 года назад

      @@sakaraist the crypt lake hike does cross the border intentionally so

  • @bob808
    @bob808 3 года назад +8

    2:22 Hey, hey, hey... upside down waterfalls are our thing... and New Zealand's too. Sincerely, an Australian viewer.

    • @TG-uj5fp
      @TG-uj5fp 3 года назад +2

      Don't worry at time of creation of this Roswelt park there was USSR and Canada was important to stop invasion of mainland US and now there's China so Australia is important and Australians u just wait a bit now Biden Will come here to form another park which will have a upside down waterall or at least a McD inside it.
      🤣🤣

    • @wh0_am_152
      @wh0_am_152 2 года назад

      Deceit! There is no such thing as Australia!!! It's DESERT ISLAND AMERICA complete with too many spiders, evil bears in trees, and savage jumping brown thingies! XD

  • @craigcook9715
    @craigcook9715 3 года назад +11

    There's another park called "International Park" in the US & CA. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is in Montana and Alberta but it's actually two neighboring parks each administered by the country in which it lies. Waterton is also Unesco listed. But Waterton isn't like Roosevelt Campobello International Park in that there's not a part administered by the US outside of the US.

  • @t3hb0ss
    @t3hb0ss 3 года назад +23

    "the cold war was heating up"
    subtitle: haha
    the writer really likes to pat himself on the back huh?

  • @republicoflytrovia2159
    @republicoflytrovia2159 3 года назад +21

    1:05 Absolutely shocking. I will need to file a complaint with the atlas makers to tell me why nobody told me about Canada.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад

      Oh, it's there. Get your Rand McNally Road Atlas, the one where every page is a map of a state. And at the end after Wyoming, that next page is Canada. But remember, even though it fits on one page just like Rhode Island does, that does not mean you can drive across Canada in 45 minutes of highway time.

    • @billelkins994
      @billelkins994 3 года назад

      @@johnladuke6475 The Railrodder does it in 25 minutes. ruclips.net/video/xYmcN12M97o/видео.html

    • @diegoanimations9504
      @diegoanimations9504 2 года назад

      It's a myth, the dude is just insane and Canada doesn't exist. The world only goes from Florida to Maine north to south and California to Virginia east to west, with 2 detached parts called Alaska and Hawaii. Anything else doesn't exist don't believe him, I repeat don't believe him

  • @Crimson_Canadian
    @Crimson_Canadian 3 года назад +97

    Being Canadian myself, I can confirm that all of the stated facts as true.

  • @isaacvanvoorhis7108
    @isaacvanvoorhis7108 3 года назад +22

    0:55 you really burnt us like that

    • @SB-yc2sv
      @SB-yc2sv 3 года назад +1

      Lol i love it

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 3 года назад +24

    Do one on bricks, this time don't interrupt it halfway through. I still wanna know which one is the best of exteriors.

    • @whaddyamean99
      @whaddyamean99 3 года назад +2

      Did he make like a 40 minute video about bricks on nebula? I don't have nebula so i didn't watch it but I remember him mentioning it

  • @johncaldora7150
    @johncaldora7150 3 года назад +15

    Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: Am I nothing to you?

    • @TheJhn924
      @TheJhn924 3 года назад +4

      The reason is Waterton-Glacier is really two parks... one side is a National Park of Canada and the other a US National Park... sharing a common border. Similar to Peace Arch Park where the US side is a Washington state park and the Canadian side is a BC provincial park... even though there is no restriction crossing from one side to the other within the park, as long as you exit on the same side you entered.

  • @xsforreal
    @xsforreal 3 года назад +84

    Better Title:
    Why there is Canada in an American Park

    • @FredGlt
      @FredGlt 3 года назад

      Don't they dare start invading canada *again* .

    • @reeledmermaid8555
      @reeledmermaid8555 3 года назад +2

      We will go burn the white house down again and party likes it's 1814

    • @reeledmermaid8555
      @reeledmermaid8555 3 года назад +1

      Don't fuck with our mooses and beaver

    • @reeledmermaid8555
      @reeledmermaid8555 3 года назад +1

      Sorry for being so rude eh?

    • @FredGlt
      @FredGlt 3 года назад

      @@reeledmermaid8555 ?
      No, I was referring to the battle of the châteauguay river (October 26, 1813), when 3000 Americans, trying to invade Canada by taking Montreal, got their butt quicked hard by 300 Quebecers and 22 natives.
      Which is also the first war the Americans ever lost after beating the “mighty” British empire...

  • @MI-nv8np
    @MI-nv8np 3 года назад +5

    Imagine someone who doesn't get sarcasm watch this. They'd think your incredibly patriotic lol.

    • @taliesinriver
      @taliesinriver 3 года назад

      I think he's canadian though isn't he?

    • @nightshade442
      @nightshade442 3 года назад

      Have you not been reading the comments? Like 87% of them are precisely that, plus exasperated Canadians trying to explain how the outside world works (or just having fun watching everything go down.)

  • @dad4ever-c90
    @dad4ever-c90 3 года назад +12

    This makes me want to put on my tuque, grab my pet moose, and drive my dog sled up to the park right after the hockey game. I'll swing by Tim Hortons for some takeout (maple Timbits of course). You should come too, eh? Bring your curling stone.

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад +2

      Can you bring me back a double double ?

    • @notsosilentbob
      @notsosilentbob 3 года назад +2

      I was going to put on my blue jeans and bring some apple pie after the football game (real football, not soccer), but of course my Chevy broke down.

    • @dad4ever-c90
      @dad4ever-c90 3 года назад

      @@TenOfZero1 High test, not decaf, right?

    • @mrmoose6619
      @mrmoose6619 3 года назад

      Don't forget your lacrosse stick, eh

    • @seanrodgers1839
      @seanrodgers1839 3 года назад +1

      @@notsosilentbob
      Real football? You mean the one where the ball is moved around by foot.
      Surely you don't mean the bastardized, version of rugby.

  • @arnavpatil161
    @arnavpatil161 3 года назад +4

    1:17 Actually.....
    Kanada is a language spoken in South India
    AND I SPEAK IT!!!!!!!

  • @JonPRuff
    @JonPRuff 3 года назад +4

    "the god-like high of using 'summer' as a verb" might be my favorite line that's been said on this channel

  • @JamesOKeefe-US
    @JamesOKeefe-US 3 года назад +3

    The description of Canada is word for word what I know about Canada but I absolutely love it. :) Sending our Northern friends some love from North Carolina in the US!! 👍

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 3 года назад +109

    "scary socialist leanings like fee-free entry"
    lmaooooooooooo

  • @jonathanmitchell2040
    @jonathanmitchell2040 3 года назад +3

    As a Canadian, your description of Canada and moose wizards is pretty accurate.

  • @redjoshman
    @redjoshman 3 года назад +2

    @Half as Interesting,
    @1:30 Roosevelt Campobello International Park is not the only international Park split between the United States and Canada. There is also, more famously, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which is also a World Heritage Site:
    www.nps.gov/articles/000/waterton-glacier-international-peace-park-world-heritage-site.htm
    There is also the more obscure Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.

  • @rohinshingadia6120
    @rohinshingadia6120 3 года назад +49

    Video idea: the curse of the Tippecanoe. Look it up on Wikipedia!

    • @fatyoshi4853
      @fatyoshi4853 3 года назад +4

      the what

    • @AManOnline.
      @AManOnline. 3 года назад +2

      What's that

    • @QueenBee-gx4rp
      @QueenBee-gx4rp 3 года назад +3

      Don’t you want Tyler, too?

    • @rohinshingadia6120
      @rohinshingadia6120 3 года назад +11

      @@fatyoshi4853 A curse where every US president elected in a year which is a multiple of 20 has died during their presidency, between 1840 and 1960. Think Lincoln, Garfield and JFK. Reagan broke the curse but there was still an assassination attempt.

    • @DarkpawTheWolf
      @DarkpawTheWolf 3 года назад +3

      Fun fact: Crabbe Mountain ski hill (which is in New Brunswick, the same place as Campobello Island) has a run called "Tippy Canoe". It's only an intermediate run, though. :P Maybe it should have been a double-diamond?

  • @nathankulhanek9717
    @nathankulhanek9717 3 года назад +6

    Dank rocks. The most important feature of a national park.

  • @beharford
    @beharford 2 года назад +2

    "Ruled by a beautiful mannequin brought to life by a moose wizard"
    I have heard our dreadful Prime Minister described as many things - chief among those would be "Worst. Prime. Minister. Ever" and "Even worse than his Dad" - but the Cervidae and dummy reference is new.
    And priceless.
    Nicely done.
    Being subscribed to your channel is worth it just for that one line

  • @purushottamkute7485
    @purushottamkute7485 3 года назад +6

    Loved the video by the way the official residance of US ambassador to India is also called "Roosevelt House" and it is located next to the chancery of US embassy 😀

  • @EbuCallinav
    @EbuCallinav 3 года назад +3

    Someone from the United States sticks the US flag in a forest in Canada.
    Canadian: What's this aboot? This is part of Canada.
    American: You're mistaken this is part of the US now.
    Canadian: Oh gee, my mistake, carry on then eh.
    American: We are going to make a national park here.
    Canadian: By golly those cost a lot, let me take care of half of that for you, it's the least I can do after my transgression eh.

  • @mysteriousmarvel8413
    @mysteriousmarvel8413 3 года назад +32

    Noice videos i wish they were half as long and twice as interesting

    • @AManOnline.
      @AManOnline. 3 года назад +1

      Lol

    • @samc12345
      @samc12345 3 года назад +1

      Brilliant xD

    • @henry55
      @henry55 3 года назад +2

      watch two episodes on 4x speed

    • @mysteriousmarvel8413
      @mysteriousmarvel8413 3 года назад

      @@henry55 big brain solutions 101

    • @samc12345
      @samc12345 3 года назад

      @@henry55 so that would be the same length as one regular video and arguably twice as boring 😂

  • @sujimtangerines
    @sujimtangerines 2 года назад +2

    I've been there! Very interesting origin story. The High Tea was lovely & the presentation enlightening. Get there early for the (free but limited) tickets!
    The NPS is a valuable resource for wonderful learning opportunities - vital when you discover your kid's curriculum lacking in... Well, everything. Not sure if we'll get to the overseas properties before kid graduates, but all we have left of all managed/administered by the NPS are the ones in Alaska.

  • @MichaelSteeves
    @MichaelSteeves 3 года назад +2

    Oh wow, this is close to home! We've taken several day trips to Campobello. Fun fact: the only bridge to the island goes to the US. There is a seasonal ferry to Deer Island, New Brunswick though. Makes for fun times during a pandemic when the borders are closed...
    Also, if you ever get a chance to go there, see if you can get in to "Elanor's tea". Older local ladies tell stories about Elanor Roosevelt while serving you endless cups of tea. She was an amazing woman!

  • @rugiiman8917
    @rugiiman8917 3 года назад +5

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt actually did contract Polio at a Boy Scout Jamboree in 1928 near Campobello Island

    • @youtube-kanal2606
      @youtube-kanal2606 3 года назад

      that's debatable. Some say he actually contracted a very rare disease with similar symptoms that was not yet known at the time.

    • @rugiiman8917
      @rugiiman8917 3 года назад

      @@youtube-kanal2606 possibly, but’s that’s a pretty unpopular theory

  • @hlynnkeith9334
    @hlynnkeith9334 3 года назад +3

    1:30 "In fact, Campobello is the US's only international park." 1) Peace Arch Park and 2) Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

    • @TheJhn924
      @TheJhn924 3 года назад +1

      Peace Arch is a Washington State/BC Provincial park while Waterton-Glacier is a National Park of Canada on one side and a US National Park on the other.

    • @TheHackingIT
      @TheHackingIT Год назад

      ^what he said. They're only "international" because they immediately border a national park owned by another soverign nation, whith a mutual understanding that the parks exist on each side of the nations borders'. Where as Campobello is exclusively within the Canadian Territory, and is yet ½ owned and operated by the US Department of interior.

  • @florencebourgeois8472
    @florencebourgeois8472 3 года назад +16

    2020 ruined my plans to get polio damn it

    • @ThomasNimmesgern
      @ThomasNimmesgern 3 года назад +2

      2021 still offers lots of opportunities to get infected by other impressive diseases, so get ready.

    • @61rampy65
      @61rampy65 3 года назад +3

      With all the idiotic anti-vaxxers around, it'll probably make a comeback.

  • @JamesOKeefe-US
    @JamesOKeefe-US 3 года назад +7

    The script writing is absolutely next level :) I have been smiling the whole time.

  • @carpemkarzi
    @carpemkarzi 3 года назад +6

    Okay fellow Canadians who the hell told him about the Moose Wizard! Seriously people.

    • @liesdamnlies3372
      @liesdamnlies3372 3 года назад +1

      I don't know, but we'll find the traitor soon enough. I just saw some mounties riding by on their horses chasing-down leads.

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc 3 года назад +22

    “Why should I leave America just to visit America Junior?”

    • @Andruu22
      @Andruu22 3 года назад +1

      Good point. We can agree on that one. Thanking ya in advance :p

    • @Citylight-yq8dp
      @Citylight-yq8dp 3 года назад +1

      What do you think you're saying, eh? Sorry

  • @willd1790
    @willd1790 3 года назад +2

    I thought you were going to talk about Glacier (MT)/Waterton Lakes (AB) or Wrangel-St Elias (AK)/ Kluane (YT) National Parks, but this story is more interesting

  • @game_go_burrr
    @game_go_burrr 3 года назад +1

    There is also a Theodore Roosevelt National park in North Dakota, I've been there. It's a smaller badlands with more foliage and wildlife, it's neat.

  • @stormbob
    @stormbob 3 года назад +4

    Golf and polo? Duuude a perfect missed opportunity for "golf and polio."

  • @dr.potato4737
    @dr.potato4737 3 года назад +12

    As a Canadian I can confirm that we are basically just maple syrup, and snow.
    Moose wizards are also a thing

    • @HAA0603
      @HAA0603 2 года назад +1

      I might add to that, we’re also a place where a fun and entertaining sport is played called hockey! And there’s a hockey team in Canada that hasn’t done shit in 55 years!

    • @anorange7900
      @anorange7900 2 года назад

      @@HAA0603 yay! 😁🙃

    • @DDRWakaLaka
      @DDRWakaLaka 2 года назад +1

      can you be less cringe

  • @graysonselzer6207
    @graysonselzer6207 3 года назад

    This is the first video of yours that I am watching. You are one of the first youtubers to tell about history while also making me laugh out loud. Fuckin love it!

  • @t0maz.m
    @t0maz.m 3 года назад +1

    Love your humor. Can't wait for the next upload.

  • @joshuasalem5022
    @joshuasalem5022 3 года назад +4

    3:38 That’s Armand Hammer, who has no relation to Arm and Hammer the company, but he did later buy enough stock in the company to become a board member

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ 3 года назад +4

    Judging by his description of Canada, I think quarantine and 2020 news has gotten to him xD

  • @panjoshua6251
    @panjoshua6251 3 года назад +1

    In Poland there's a Roosevelt Street in the city of Poznan and a Franklin Delano Roosevelt Street in the city of Wroclaw!

  • @Backroad_Junkie
    @Backroad_Junkie 3 года назад

    There are a couple other shared US/Canada parks, such as the BWCA Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park, and the shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, made up of Glacier NP in the US and Waterton Lakes NP in Canada....
    Also interestingly, the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, was the only National Park designated as a memorial to a person. "Memorial" was removed from the park name in 1978.

  • @R.B.90
    @R.B.90 3 года назад +6

    Most Americans watching this got 2 mins in and stopped to process that other countries exist.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 года назад +1

      Before he jumped to Canada he should have eased them in with something like Puerto Rico or Guam.

  • @notsosilentbob
    @notsosilentbob 3 года назад +3

    My geography teacher told us the land above the 49th parallel was called North United States.

    • @cjc363636
      @cjc363636 3 года назад

      "Murican education, Hell Yeah!"

    • @liesdamnlies3372
      @liesdamnlies3372 3 года назад +1

      I honestly kinda hope this is true so I can maintain my completely warped stereotypes about the US.

  • @slightlycrookedworkshop
    @slightlycrookedworkshop 3 года назад +1

    I highly recommend everyone look up Roosevelt Campobello International Park on a map to see the names of all the coves and ponds in the surrounding area.

  • @paulodonnell2105
    @paulodonnell2105 3 года назад

    Sorry for being "that guy" but as a ranger I can't resist.
    -There's over 400 National Parks in the US. That's defined as a park administered by the National Park Service. They're all the same administratively and don't get any higher credit if they're a "National Park" vs a "National Historic Site", they're all parks to us.
    -The NPS has another "International Parks" with varying a different level of cooperation and that is "Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park".
    Love the channel btw, thanks for helping share the story of the NPS and its (many many) oddities with the world!

  • @Jamie-Z
    @Jamie-Z 3 года назад +3

    Because Canada is in America? Peru also has American National Parks. :P

  • @finallychangedmyname3614
    @finallychangedmyname3614 3 года назад +8

    Answer to the title: *Canada is in america, us isn't the only country in america*

    • @mrbrainbob5320
      @mrbrainbob5320 3 года назад

      America is a country get over it

    • @ThomasNimmesgern
      @ThomasNimmesgern 3 года назад +4

      @@mrbrainbob5320 America is a continent, the United States of America are a country. Get over it.

    • @kham_pastgom
      @kham_pastgom 3 года назад

      @@mrbrainbob5320 no it isn’t

    • @lapiswolf2780
      @lapiswolf2780 3 года назад

      @@mrbrainbob5320 same way Asia and Europe are countries.

  • @joshua30069
    @joshua30069 3 года назад

    You got me. Your script was very well segwayed into the sponsor. Half way through it, I realized I was listening to an ad. Kudos

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 3 года назад +1

    I swear Not-Wendovers social commentary is what makes me through the week

  • @alex77colts
    @alex77colts 3 года назад +32

    “Canada still isn’t the United States”
    Yet...

    • @whosaidthat5236
      @whosaidthat5236 3 года назад +6

      And never will be lol you don’t want us in the USA we would bring fore thought and reasoning with some common sense , nothing Americans like ... I know I married one ! An American that is . And she has none of those qualities

    • @Think_Inc
      @Think_Inc 3 года назад +1

      If Canada was the United States, the Capitol would have still been standing.

    • @Redwan777
      @Redwan777 3 года назад

      @@Think_Inc You mean if the United States was in Canada.

    • @battlebuddy4517
      @battlebuddy4517 3 года назад

      @@whosaidthat5236 That person in general dude

    • @coryburris8211
      @coryburris8211 3 года назад

      This is where a History Matters video would show someone holding a “soon” sign

  • @bagsmohess
    @bagsmohess 3 года назад +3

    In Trinidad, we have the Churchill-Roosevelt highway

  • @andretheterribe3751
    @andretheterribe3751 3 года назад

    He's done it again! Hilarious content. Love the humor in these videos.

  • @imperiumcommentingnetwork4677
    @imperiumcommentingnetwork4677 2 года назад +1

    That is the most accurate description of modern day Canada there is. Despite the fact that a tiny thing of maple syrup costs over $20

  • @TheConflictLibrary
    @TheConflictLibrary 3 года назад +18

    Ha ha, was in class, but this is just half as interesting.

  • @Standartt01
    @Standartt01 3 года назад +4

    Why There's an American National Park in Canada
    Well I guess Canada is in The Americas

  • @BetleyIsland36
    @BetleyIsland36 3 года назад +1

    As someone who lives in Hyde Park, NY I love hearing it mentioned by one of my favorite RUclips Channels

  • @zerodos_02
    @zerodos_02 3 года назад +1

    Half as Interesting has leveled up in sarcasm today. Congrats.

  • @minisaiju7699
    @minisaiju7699 3 года назад +5

    Why his sound is same as the wendover productions guy

  • @akramgimmini8165
    @akramgimmini8165 3 года назад +3

    ,,Canada isn't part of the US"
    *Laughs in Fallout Timeline*

  • @coachbrandon01
    @coachbrandon01 3 года назад

    I traveled to the Boundary waters north of Ely Minnesota, also known as Quetico. ( in the 1980's ) My understanding was that this National Park was shared by Canada, and USA. WE paddled to a house off the lakes to clear customs requirements. We paddled from Minnesota 60 miles into Canada.

  • @michaellyden2580
    @michaellyden2580 3 года назад +2

    0:58 There are!!??

  • @ameyd3728
    @ameyd3728 3 года назад +18

    Alternate title
    Why there's Canada in american park

  • @wwv
    @wwv 3 года назад +12

    5:49 his stupid selfie stick is on his phone backwards.

  • @Leifdoe
    @Leifdoe 3 года назад

    When you started talking about the Roosevelts I instantly knew what National Park you were talking about
    I've been there, Campabellow Island New, New Brunswick is nice

  • @32bob69
    @32bob69 3 года назад

    Wow this video displayed how good u are at being unbiased, keep it up! I'm sure it was hard work Sam!

  • @jbdallara
    @jbdallara 3 года назад +3

    5:49 The claw of the selfie stick is on the screen side of the smartphone. WTF

  • @lustfulscholar1199
    @lustfulscholar1199 3 года назад +4

    Can someone like, count the amount of jokes he makes in each video!

    • @TenOfZero1
      @TenOfZero1 3 года назад

      I did! He made #ERROR Buffer Overflow# jokes !

    • @bluebox2000
      @bluebox2000 3 года назад +2

      You're gonna need some Adderall...

    • @slavsquatsuperstar
      @slavsquatsuperstar 3 года назад +1

      It's more like a comedy routine with bits of video sprinkled in it :P

  • @va3ngc
    @va3ngc 3 года назад

    You should do one on the Roosevelt International Highway which was supposed to run through the US and Canada, but didn't quite make it to be.

  • @User31129
    @User31129 3 года назад +2

    I went to "Canada" when I was 6 to an old amusement park that closed when I was 8 or 9 that was on an island in the Detroit River technically over the border. But they let Americans visit the island and the island only without customs processing. It's not a national park, but it's a park that isn't in America but Americans can go there as if it were in America. It's called Bois Blanc and much of the structures are still there rotting away.

  • @fredrikkirderf2907
    @fredrikkirderf2907 3 года назад +9

    come on they're 5th cousins thats hardly incest in some countries even 1st cousins are incest

    • @nicholasbrassard3512
      @nicholasbrassard3512 3 года назад +1

      I think 2nd or 3rd cousins aren't considered incest but i may be mistaken, never had to actually double check that fact xD

    • @irishjet2687
      @irishjet2687 3 года назад +3

      Not even fifth cousins! Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were fifth cousins, and Eleanor Roosevelt was Theodore's niece, making FDR and Eleanor fifth cousins once removed.

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 3 года назад

      @@nicholasbrassard3512 In most of the world, marriage of first cousins is legal, and in many parts of the world it remains common. Historically, it was common everywhere. But in a a few large countries (including China) and in 24 U.S. states, it is illegal. If Charles Darwin lived in modern-day Texas, he would be a felon and legally be required to register as a sex offender.
      It's not clear who benefits from that kind of stigma and discrimination, but I guess it means fewer people have to say "eww."

  • @ScottRothsroth0616
    @ScottRothsroth0616 3 года назад +3

    “...some politician’s overworked interns...” - timestamp 4:45.

  • @mitchspurlock3626
    @mitchspurlock3626 3 года назад

    I live in Springfield , Il and we have one of the smallest properties under the National Parks right in the middle of downtown, it's Lincoln's home!

  • @weslabrash8593
    @weslabrash8593 3 года назад

    Roosevelt Campobello is not the only international park shared by Canada and USA. Check out International peace arch park in BC and Washington, Waterton Glacier International Park in Alberta and Montana, International Peace Gardens in Manitoba and North Dakota, and Sarnia’s international Canatara Park on the border with Michigan. Lots of history of cross-border friendship through shared parks and gardens.