Reaction To What Not to do in Canada
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Reaction To What Not to do in Canada
This is my reaction to What Not to do in Canada
In this video I react to things you should not do in Canada if you travel there
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Original Video - • Canada: What NOT to Do...
I am a Canadian living in Ontario. Lines are something that is etched into our DNA! I remember being at the Empire state building and waiting for 2 hrs. in the line. About 2 hrs. in 2 guys stepped in front of me and in a very UnCanadian manner I told them to get to the back of the line. My friend was horrified but I didn't care, you respect the line!
Always respect the line @😮
I can't imagine not respecting the line lol
One of the good British remnants.
Other people don't drink that?
When I lived in Vancouver I was returning some empties. An Asian put all his in front of the line and stood there waiting for the store opening. Three of us in line politely tried to explain to go to the back of the line. The bastard didn't move or acknowledge. When the window opened he suddenly knew English and went to the cashier. Four of us picked him up and carried him to the back of the line to much cheering and laughing.
Hubby went to Asia when he was in the reserves. Says line jumping is SOP
Would have loved to seen that.
Takes time for some I guess :)
Good for you!
Yup. We respect the line... and we expect YOU to respect the line. If you don't, you might have the option taken away from you.
Tim Hortons hasn't been Canadian for more than 5 years now. It's owned by a huge Brazilian corporation and the quality has dropped and continues to.
The donuts suck (to be blunt.)
@@lamontcranston3177 I'd many times over rather eat Tim's donuts than Krispy Kreme, personally.
Agreed. The donuts used to be made fresh onsite, now I think they are pre-cooked or frozen. Coffee is too acidic for my taste.
Where do you get Brazilian? Quick search shows that is a Canadian company (owned by RBI) headquartered in Toronto.
Good lord. Senior citizen here: 5 years?!! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s changed hands for a lot more years than that, friends. Today I saw Tim Horton’s Financial being promoted in downtown Toronto. What the AF?!
When I lived in Paignton in England and the Brits said Canadians are the same as Americans, I agreed - "Oh yes, Canadians are the same as Americans in exactly the same way that the English are the same as the Irish, Scots and the Welsh!" Hahahahahaha! They got it!
Sorry, dude. Canadians and Americans are nothing alike.
We should be so lucky to be like America!😂
@@HopeLaFleur1975 - Then move. I'm glad not to be like America.
I don’t mean any disrespect. I would rather live in an igloo and eat whale blubber, than be American.
Ewwww@@HopeLaFleur1975
I was once called American by an Englishman. I asked him if it was okay if I called him an Irishman. He was shocked. I told him that's how I felt. I think he got it.
Mention how "Continental European" he is ... which is technically correct but that's not the way they see themselves.
I lived in Ireland where they are sensitive about their identity but carless with yours. Never make a mistake about them but expect to be called a "Yank" no matter what.
But,........you are American,even if you're from Canada or even Mexico.
you are North American then Canadian then provincial ie. Nova Scotian then City Haligoian (Halifax)
Most people in Canada do not consider themselves Canadian 1st they will usually use the province 1st Quebecer, Islander (PEI), Newfoundlander etc...
@@T.N.S.A.F. North American and American are not synonymous. Also I disagree that most Canadians consider themselves by their province first (excepting possibly Quebec) but within Canada when speaking with each other Canadian is assumed so then the secondary descriptor is the one you mention if asked.
@@T.N.S.A.F. No, sorry. The Yanks hijacked the term "American" a very long time ago.
I'm a 10th generation Canadian and I sure as shyte consider myself to be a Canadian (as most of us do). If you don't feel that way, perhaps you should consider migrating to somewhere that you feel you belong in.
Yes, definitely, do not jump the line ,especially on transit. Canadians grow up with hockey ,so don't rush up on someone, I've seen some foreign students get some serious elbows.😊
I stopped eating/drinking at Tim's years ago due to the decline in quality - most don't even make their own food - they may cook par-baked factory food in the shop, and it shows.
In Halifax we greet the bus driver when we board, and thank them when we get off. And we stand back to let the mobility impaired, mom’s with strollers and elders on first. I can’t imagine not!
Very similiar in Kamloops, BC.
It's when the moms with gigantic shopping cart-size "strollers" take up the room meant for the disabled riders that I get annoyed. They're not even putting the kid in the stroller - it's full of their purses and shopping bags. I'm mobility impaired and was told to move to accommodate one of those inconsiderate moms.
Strollers don't have to be that big. They weren't when I was of the age to need one.
Yes, that is true. We’re from Ontario and visited Nova Scotia t,his summer and the ppl are extremely respectful towards the driver, moms with strollers and elderly. RESPECT
I appreciated his advice to not cut in line and get food/gas when you have a chance. There are vast amounts of space between cities.
Note: this is also true in the south where most of the population is concentrate. Because outside of urban areas, even our most populated regions are scarcely populated.
A few points:
I think this was aimed at American tourists, who want to visit Canada, and was made by an American guy.
When there are long distances between places - as he spoke about gas - there are usually signs saying ‘Next fuel 280km’ , so you have a warning. Those places are usually in the west, and in the north. If you are travelling in the Atlantic provinces, there is not the space between communities.
I have driven from Halifax to Vancouver 11 times. It is a beautiful way to see this great country. For a vacation, I suggest taking 2 weeks to drive across the country. Better still, plan a few trips, and explore the different areas one at a time.
This is not exactly correct. In NB I travelled on a 'highway' that had no stops for over 100km with the signs to warn, Ontario has those open streches as do Quebec. The vast spaces aren't only segregated to the Pariries, they exist all over our country. It takes 5 days to drive from west coast ( Vancouver) just to Ontario, driving holidays you should plan for more than 2 weeks to see from coast to coast, if you truly want to see and not just pass through. The number of times I have spoken to tourists who believe they will be able to start off from St Johns Nfld and end up in Toronto in the same day without flying, is very amusing. Not possible my friend!! My relatives in England didn't recognize the size difference until I sent a map, then all was clear and no mistakend thoughts of staying in Toronto and driving to VAncouver within a day.
I concur with many fellow Canadians here, it is insulting to not be considered as a country of our own and the '51st' state. It's just insulting as our cultures are so very different! The equivalencies to Scotland and England being the same are 100% correct.
Many Quebecoise truly don't know about english culture and may very well not have any idea of modern singers, actors , artists etc are if they don't originate in QC. It's entirely possible for a Quebecer to not speak any english and have knowledge of english culture, in a lifetime.
We have very strict Rules regarding Chemicals and Hormones in Our Food. We have problems eating American Food..lol
In my mind, Canadians say sorry to avoid needless confrontation, how better to avoid situations than to nip it in the bud.
I've said sorry, so how could someone escalate from that?
As a Canadian I would rather a de-escalation and move on and go about my Day, no time for inconsequential butt hurts.
Very true. Also sorry is frequently used as a replacement for things like 'excuse me', or 'come again.' So if you say sorry when someone else bumps into you, or you need someone to repete something, you aren't really apologising.
Thats a refreshing outlook to this USA lady who navigates egos all day most every day. 😂
Until someone doesn't thank you or holding a door etc. Then it's go time!
Saying sorry can be very versatile.
I have a crazy downstairs neighbour. The last time she knocked on my door to complain about something stupid, after a few minutes of her going on and on I'd just had enough, so I said very loudly "I'M SORRY, OKAY??? I'M VERY VERY VERY SORRY!" and closed the door.
(That's Canadian for "fuck off.")
So true haha. I don't know how many times someone has walked into me while their head was down looking at their phone and both of us in sync will say "Oh sorry about that" and just keep walking. No fuss, no anger. Just a simple mistake that wasn't intended. What does getting angry and blaming them achieve? You really think screaming at them is going to prevent them from doing it in the future?
A&W that he mentioned is great. The hamburger is hormone and anti-biotic free and they use real cheese. Plus, they chill beer mugs for the root beer.
Please don’t forget the onion rings. Other food selections may vary from A&W visits but root beer and onion rings are a must
Damn, now I’m craving A&W.
@@loonylovesgood So am I lol
As an A&W Canada shareholder I would like to point out that other than the name, the American and Canadian companies are not all related in any way. Another case of a foreign company that fell on hard times with the Canadian operation breaking 100% away and being completely independent. So if the food seems different on either side of the border, this is why.
Yes, I think A& W is the best burger joint. Harveys used to be good becuase of the flame broil, and the fresh additions, but they weren't very popular here on the prairies, so hard to find now.
It's understandable when I'm abroad and someone mistakes me for an American because USA is a much more politically powerful and influential country, but when someone says we're basically another American state, that is triggering lol. We have lots of similarities but most of it just has to do with entertainment. We have very different laws, infrastructure, norms, healthcare, culture etc. If anything, Canadian's are more similar to people in the UK (all those countries are run very similarly).
When it comes to entertainment, here's something to consider. I belong to a gaming forum and one of the Canadians there is from Quebec. We once compared a list of singers we liked or had seen on TV, and she rattled off a list of people I'd mostly never heard of or disliked (can't stand Celine Dion). She'd grown up never hearing Gordon Lightfoot or Stompin' Tom Connors. The only name on both our lists was Rene Simard - who had a TV show in the 1970s when he was a teenager. It was on CTV, so that's how I heard of him.
@@Shan_Dalamani ya even that’s a little iffy. Like I don’t think American’s really consume much Canadian media, if at all. I kinda more meant Canadian’s consume a lot of American entertainment (along with British and Canadian) and we share a lot of the same interests in sports.
I think you misunderstood Shan_Dalamani's point. He was saying English Canadians and French Canadians consume different entertainment. Being Québécoise I can attest--in our case it's mainly Québécois, franco-European, and to a lesser extent franco-African and Latin American. The language barrier protects us from U.S. culture.
But nothing protects us from Celine Dion.
@@MrMoose-mf1oy Actually, if you put Canadian shows on PBS, the American viewers tend to like it. Red Green was tremendously popular on PBS, to the point where Steve Smith co-hosted one of the pledge drives at the Detroit PBS station.
There's a guy on my Star Trek forum who the Canadian members there have basically adopted as an honorary Canadian. He loves Corner Gas - it's his favorite show. He makes as many trips to Canada as he can, for the baseball. We've been explaining Red Green to him, and he's interested.
Sometimes all they need is a chance to see it. Admittedly there are some Canadian shows that Americans don't get because you have to know some of our political history and current events to get the humor. For that matter, there's a lot of the old Wayne & Shuster shows that only make sense to people who were around when Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister (there's a sly reference to Trudeau's sons in their Star Trek spoof).
@@MicaOShea-oe7ir Yes, exactly. I had no idea who most of the people on my friend's list were. I'd never heard of them. It took me by surprise that Gordon Lightfoot wasn't popular in Quebec.
But Celine Dion... nope. The Americans can keep her, since the only time I ever hear of her is about her Las Vegas performances.
Even the Ecuadorian musicians I listen to on their weekend livestreams have done a cover of her Titanic song (if you're into pan flute music, I recommend Wuauquikuna).
Oh, btw... I'm a woman, so I'm she/her. Thanks.
One nice thing about Tim's is that they do have the only decent cup of tea you can get in a fast food joint. Everywhere else you'll just get a cup of hot water with a tea bag sadly floating in it (or even worse, on the side!! D: ), but Tim's actually has properly made steeped tea.
As the kid of a British ex-pat, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it!!
(Plus the ad from when they first introduced it is pretty hilarious; you should check it out!)
Mert Can - ON resident, we drove through New Brunswick not worried about the gas tank level when we passed a gas station because we still had a 1/2 tank. An hour later we were below a 1/4 tank and still in the middle of nowhere and we were getting worried. Some kms later we found a gas station and were so thankful. The proprietors told us that they had had customers who were red-lining on their gas tank. Now that’s scary. Cities and towns have plenty of stations but there is still an immense rural area where there is nothing but 1 road and lots of trees, so yes, fill up when you can
I'm also from ON, and that is true. People forget how big the country is. There are cities and towns, but a lot of rural area as well.
Where on earth were you driving in NB where there were no gas stations? There are stops and towns everywhere and unless you were on the Road to Resources, gas stations are plentiful.
@@fnanette1 No idea but we weren’t the only ones if other customers were red lining with their gas tanks
We were on our way from Sauble Beach to Lion's Head and assumed we had enough gas to get there. We didn't take into consideration that we would take a few side trips along the way. When we decided we had better get more gas, there was no station to be found. Then we say a sign for a gas station ahead; but, that's all it was, a sign. We eventually found a station just in time - relief.
There are areas that have a sign that says 200km to the next service station. When leaving Fort McMurray, AB it's 200km before the next gas station. Getting a tow can easily get you an extra 1-2 hrs and a 500+ Bill.
My one bit of advice for anyone driving from Vancouver to Calgary is "get gas in Revelstoke." It's a long way to the next gas station!
At the beginning, the 'monument' you asked about is the Olympic cauldron in Vancouver from the 2010 Winter Games.
quite often on major highways there will be signs too, warning folks if the next gas station isn't for a while...good to keep an eye on those....
From Edmonton I fill in Hinton and then Kamloops. Before hitting Vancouver, stop in Abbotsford as the gas is $0.10 cheaper than in the Vancouver area.
I once took the Greyhound from Vernon, BC to Calgary (overnight trip in April). The bus stopped in Revelstoke for refueling and to change drivers. It was a 20-minute stop so I took the opportunity to use the washroom inside the depot and buy a few snacks and something to drink (this was long before Greyhound started offering what very few amenities they did have, before canceling all service in Western Canada).
That was a very long trip, about 10 or 11 hours, plus another 2 hours from Calgary to where I actually live (had to change buses in Calgary). April is cold in the mountains, and by the time we got to Banff, it was the middle of the night and though I was wearing a winter coat, I was freezing. I contemplated snatching the afghan from the little old lady sitting behind me; she'd spent the trip crocheting this thing, and it would have made a wonderful lap warmer.
They are antibiotics and other crap in American meats and dairy. Canadian A & W is grass fed beef. My favourite burger is the Teenburger. Fresh veggies and bacon, etc.
Ditto.
Canada has more in common with Scotland than the US.
The gas station thing is huge for me. I a lot of people, especially Europeans, do not understand how big Canada is. I'm from Northern Ontario and we just drove 5 hours south to go to Niagara falls. I didn't even leave my own province. If I went north, there is next to nothing for hours. Plan your trips carefully.
One time I told my fresh-to-Canada Lithuanian ex-girlfriend I learned her national anthem(I'm a musician). On purpose I sang the Russian national anthem as a joke. She responded by saying she learned ours- and sang the USA national song! Reverse burn! :)
I had to laugh at that one, Thanks for posting this, I needed a good laugh today.P
In BC there are highway signs that let you know when the next gas/service station is if the distance to travel is over a certain amount of kilometres and a reminder to fill up, they are probably across the country but most of my long travels have been in BC. Thanks for another great video
I was just in Scotland and I found a lot similarities between Canada and Scotland. I hate the ‘bum rushing’ and line/queue jumping
1:30 Being compared to the US can be downright insulting at times. We most definitely have a very different sets of values. For all of the bluster that the US does about rights and freedom, I feel like we have more respect for those things than they do in the US with that habits that they have to try and legislate everything and force their ideology onto others. We don't do that and we have no tolerance for politicians who would try to legislate our rights away.
6:25 Its not that service stations aren't common. Its the distance. There are stretches of several hundreds kilometers where the only thing you'll find is raw wilderness and a few scattered vacations homes.
7:30 Starbucks is pricier. Tim Horton is more of the place where a lot of workers stop every morning for their coffee, hence, its not a case of being better, but a case of appealing to a different crowd.
8:30 Don't buy poutine from any of the big chains, or even from a Canadian restaurant chain. The best ones are always from that one store in town that is a one off restaurant.
11:00 Many of our national parks are larger than entire countries.
True about distance between gas stations. I've driven a four-hour stretch before without seeing a station. One thing he left out that I would mention is, if you are invited into a home, don't forget to remove your shoes. Even if the host says "No, no, don't worry about it," still take them off. They're showing you respect by saying you can leave them on, but you show respect by taking them off.
Right on about the shoes. It's all about respect. We don't wear shoes in the house in Canada. I have noticed this is a very normal thing to do with our neighbours to the south however. They love wearing shoes in the house.
If I go into someone else’s house and they remove shoes so will I. Most do. If someone comes to my place I want them to leave their shoes on. I really do. I have an animal and don’t want hair all on their socks. But some still insist on removing their shoes. I say if there is no mud or poop on their shoes, keep them on. This especially is easier for seniors who often have trouble taking shoes off and putting them on or balance problems without their footwear with its spongy insoles.
@Dustandfuzz I totally get that. I too have always had a pet, so when people come over, I will offer them to leave their shoes on and tell them they may get hair on Their socks. Most don't care and take off their shoes (I do vacuum every day too). My mom years ago bought an indoor pair of shoes to keep in our coat closet, when she comes over, because she has a hard time being bare foot or with just socks.
Yeah, I keep a selection of slippers for guests because of the dog hair, and also because our tile floors can be cold.
@@Nikki7B
True about the seniors. I keep a selection of slippers for guests to avoid the dog hair problem.@@Dustandfuzz
If you're gonna eat shitty fast food here, Wendy's is without a doubt your best bet in my personal opinion. Tim Hortons is okay but the quality has really dropped a lot over the passed 20 years, I'd say it's a little overrated but fairly affordable if you're just wanting some coffee and some breakfast or a sandwich for the road. You can never go wrong with any Mom N Pop style cafe's or restaurants though. You're likely getting far better ingredients that are locally sourced and you're supporting the local economy so that's always a bonus.
Fun fact: Tim Hortons was bought out out by Burger King about 10 years ago.
@@taramcbride6847 That's true, and most likely the reason the quality has dropped so significantly over the years! It's a dang shame
Glad someone else said all this! 💯
@@taramcbride6847 Not quite... Burger King is owned by RBI (Restaurant Brands International) RBI also bought Tim Hortons. And for the fun fact, RBI is a Brazilian-based conglomerate. Most Canadians don't even realize that... they still think it is a Canadian hockey icon.
Triple O’s dude, hands down.
I think the reason we respect lines like our UK cousins is we have not forgotten our roots. We didn't build our country on the basis of removing all that was ours prior to being Canadian, we don't assimilate we accept our differences.
A & W have awesome burgers, far better than McD's. Another option if you are looking for fried chicken, instead of Kentucky Friend chicken try Mary Brown's. It is WAY better, better tasting, not as greasy and the options they have are better too.
His tips are pretty spot on, I've watched his videos before, he is the kind of American we like to have visit us, respectful, polite and open minded.
So many people don't do it but if you are going on a long-distance road trip it is worth carrying a jerrycan of fuel as a backup.
I agree about comparing Canada to America,I once commented that Canada is America with manners and got torn apart online.
Canadians travel with Canadian passports. Americans never travel without a maple leaf on their luggage.
Canadians primarily speak English and French. Americans just talk a lot without actually saying anything understandable.
Canada's national animal represents hard work and industriousness. America's national animal is a predatory scavenger.
Very few Canadians play dodge ball. Too many Americans play dodge bullet.
I disagree. Travel anywhere in Canada, you’re going to hear English or the mother tongue of foreigners. Quebec is the only province you can claim this.
@@soulpowerful You know that 24% of Canada's population is in Quebec, right? You know that French is spoken in Eastern Ontario and the Maritimes, right? You know that New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province, right? 56% of Canadians speak English, 20% speak French. The next highest is Chinese (both dialects) at 3.5%. But please, feel free to disagree.
@@styphstro4925 Even better? In a separate comment, she has the audacity to call someone else an idiot. I guess it takes one to know one, lol!
@@soulpowerful ... and New Brunswick and parts of Nova Scotia and parts of Manitoba .... a couple of smaller areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta ..
Other than that, yes. New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual Province but you knew that, didn't you? 1-1/2 million Ontarians speak French, btw.
@@styphstro4925 I respectfully disagree. We live in Eastern Ontario and the only language you’ll hear is english until the summer cottagers arrive and you’ll hear some french then. French doesn’t become widely spoken until you get closer to Ottawa and of course, the Maritimes. To be clear, Toronto is considered Eastern Ontario (and no, that’s not where we live)
Harvey's is a Canadian burger franchise, one I've worked in as a teenager. Compared to MacDonalds, the biggest differences are the significantly larger burger patties, grilled on an actual grill, not speed-fried in their own grease between two metal plates or however MacDonald's manages to put out a burger patty that inspectors have identified as being 1/3 fat.
2:25 this is the olympic torch from the 2010 vancouver winter olympics. its on the north side of downtown vancouver near gas town, waterfront, and canada place.
I can't believe he said our weather in Winter is cold and crappy, my family loves Winter, I wouldnt be able to live somewhere the same climate all year round, u get sick of the same thing after awhile and its always exciting when the season changes, the kids are so excited to see snow when Winter comes around. If you like to be outside theres a TON of things to do here in the Winter
He's from Vancouver. What's to say?
Winter is critical here. We've had such a dry autumn here in Central Alberta, to go along with all the wildfires we had in spring and summer and were still burning in September. Now it's just a month before Christmas and we haven't had anywhere close to as much snow as we should have this time of year. There's drought in the southern part of the province, and people are worried about next year. The ground is too dry, some lakes and reservoirs are drying up, summers get hotter, and the fire seasons have been getting longer and worse over the past 10 years.
So I'm glad for the snow, every snowflake of it. We need it, to replenish the moisture in the ground, to heal the forests (literally; the only way to kill pine beetles is to have a prolonged bout of -40C for at least 2 weeks), and to replenish the glaciers (meltwater in the spring gives us a lot of our fresh water).
I'm living where climate change is solidly felt, but not CATASTROPHICALLY felt (YET). I truly miss our winters with snow. This year is freaky warm, and I'm worried how life that goes dormant to whatever extent in winter will handle it.
Temps often in 40 and above during the day but dropping to 20's still at night, and the occasional "Oh yeah! It's WINTER" day when it actually IS cold, and snows. That's just so difficult to wrap my own self around ‐ I shudder trying to think of plants and animals dealing with it all. The extended forecast predicts more of the same.
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You’re not from Vancouver then.
I spent a year living in NZ. The summer weather was gorgeous -- sunny and warm but not too warm and hardly humid at all. But the winter weather was HELLISH -- just cold and wet and on-and-off rain for MONTHS. Give me minus-zero temps and snow all day instead of that damp misery. At least in the cold and snow you can go out and do activities, plus it looks pretty.
I do not patronize either Starbucks or Tim Hortons. I would prioritize an independant store or at least a small chain as an ethical position, but also because I hate the coffee at both SB and TH.
Yes, yes, yes on all counts!
With just a 1/4 tank of gas, we missed the (poorly marked signage ) for the gas station at Merritt, when driving back to Vancouver from Penticton last year. Next gas station showing on google maps was in Hope 95km or 60 miles away, with basically only forested mountainous wilderness in between. Thank God a lot of the ride was a down hill grade... we basically coasted into Hope and made it to the gas station on 'fumes'. Always gas up in Merritt when heading west from the Interior!
Lived here all my life. When I was moving to a new city for a summer job fighting forest fires, I knew my car could make it to the half way point on a tank of gas, having driven it a few times before... But I forgot that I would burn more gas carrying all my stuff with me, so I ran out of gas one block before the gas station, and coasted in, having to get out and push the last 10 meters.
Don't ignore time zones. Unlike the UK and most countries in Europe, and some in southeast Asia, Canada has multiple time zones. It is all too easy to forget that the time will change when going from A to B. For instance, drive or fly from Quebec City to Halifax or Fredericton, and the clocks will be an hour further along than Quebec. Having things be an hour, or even two, later or earlier than you were thinking can throw off your plans.
Don't restrict your travel to areas close to the US/Canada border. I realize the biggest cities are along the southern regions of the country, but some of the prettiest and most enjoyable areas are further north than that.
Don't treat the prairies as uninteresting or plain. They are gorgeous.
I love the prairies. They are an undervalued area to travel to. Been on the prairies a lot and even lived in Saskatchewan for a year.
First off, I enjoy the Wolters World videos. He gets a few things wrong or misunderstood at times, but most of the time he's got it right. At least for Canada; obviously I don't know enough about the other countries he visits to gauge the accuracy. The videos are full of good, sensible advice for any traveler, though.
It's so annoying when Americans call us the "51st state" or "America's hat." When they do the latter, I tell them that "Alaska makes a nice little pompom on top of it." (reference to pompoms on the top of the toques we wear in winter, or at least some of us; not all toques have pompoms)
We are NORTH Americans, given that we share this continent with other countries. That does NOT mean we're "Americans." Americans are people who are citizens of the United States.
As for French, you don't need it in Ontario, unless you happen to visit a francophone community there, or you're in Ottawa and happen to speak to a francophone politician or someone who works for one. The "ARRET" stop signs are found in Quebec and are part of the stop signs along the Trans-Canada highway. You won't find one anywhere else.
Jumping the queue is definitely something you don't do here, unless you want to be shoved right back out and told to go to the end of the line. It's okay to ASK if you can go ahead of someone. This happens in grocery stores if someone with one or two items gets stuck behind someone with a lot of items, or if they're in a hurry to catch a bus. I've been asked if people can go ahead of me, and I've also asked if someone would let me go ahead of them. The answer is usually "yes" - because going ahead of someone was requested politely, not demanded or pushed. And if a clerk doesn't take the first person in line, others in line will often speak up on that first person's behalf, saying "That person is ahead of me."
I once heard "we are the apartment over the garage meth lab"..that one made me laugh..
Yes, I have (been accused of being American)! Almost always by Englishmen… usually in London. And the guy’s right, it is seriously irritating!
When I was living in NZ, people would hear my accent and say, "Oh, you're American?" When I'd correct them and say I'm Canadian they were always so relieved! ha ha ha.
I’m 🇨🇦 and would not like to be referred to as American. They are way more aggressive and blunt. I generalize but we do seem a tad more civil when interacting. They also think they have the only country on the planet. But there are exceptions to this so not trying to offend anyone. It’s just the way I see it. Just one persons opinion.
@@zammmerjammer I have a cousin who spent 6 months travelling around Australia and New Zealand. He always made sure he had a Canadian Flag on his backpack. He said he was treated better than a lot of the Americans he met were.
Canada does have stronger Food production laws and inspections, which leads to slightly better quality fast food.
Many small town gas stations are not open late, and many are closed on Sundays and holidays, so while there are many gas stations, you may not be able to fill up during the time you are traveling. We have had some stressful moments over Christmas or New Years when traveling
I was driving to Vancouver from Toronto in mid November one year and had the misfortune to catch the first big winter storm. I was driving on the Trans Canada highway which was officially closed at the time due to the storm. The wind was so strong it was blowing the car sideways. New tires and a fully loaded to the roof vehicle saved us. Then there was the gas, watching it slowly go down and we were somewhere north of THunder Bay, basically in the middle of nowhere. Finally I came across a place to stop, after several hours of scary white knuckle driving.
Yes, Q jumping is not tolerated ever 👍🏻🇨🇦🐉👩🏼⚖️
Swiss Chalet is excellent if you like Rotisserie Chicken or Ribs. Dipping sauce for the chicken is delicious. So many sides to choose from that's included with your dinner if you don't want fries - garden salad, steamed vegetables, rice, etc. Harvey's is good for burgers (beef or chicken) as they put on the toppings right in front of you (like Subway) so you can customize your burger (e.g. extra onions, three different types of their many sauces, etc.).
Sorry to say that Swiss Chalet portions have dropped drastically in recent years but the flavour is still awesome
Cannot stress enough, do not mess with the wildlife. Like he said, feeding them can cause them to come back and it becomes an issue, especially because even feeding the smaller animals, can lead predators to that area to hunt. And for some reason people always want to approach moose or bears for pictures, but that is such a bad idea, you never know when those larger animals can flip the switch and become aggressive.
Australians hear warnings like this and chuckle into their beards. (And that's fair.)
Like the idiots who put peanut butter on their kids hand and told him to let the bears lick it off. What were they expecting to happen?
Those larger animals will most often give plenty of warning they are stressed and about to become defensive (NOT aggressive). The problem is that people are ignorant and don't know how to read those signals.
I've actually been caught out a couple of times on the "fill your gas tank" thing because I didn't pay proper attention and had to roll into the service centre on fumes. Keep an eye even within cities or towns but especially if you're on the road. Excellent advise!!
Some Canadian sit down chains: Boston Pizza, Cora’s Breakfast and Lunch, Baton Rouge (steaks), East Side Mario’s (Italian), Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill, Kelsey’s Bar and Grill, The Keg Steakhouse, Jimmy The Greek,
I've never seen someone excited to see a squirrel before.
We have squirrels in the cities. I live in an apartment now, but when I lived with my family in a house, we had a big back yard with fruit trees. A family of squirrels moved into the crab apple tree. One of my cats even played with them when he was a tiny kitten (shocked the squirrels the following spring when they saw how big their feline playmate had gotten over the winter).
@@Shan_Dalamani The squirrels drive our dogs crazy.
I'm born and raised in Ontario. When I first started using transit daily, I was living in Toronto (my early 20s). Transit etiquette is very important in Toronto!!! Wait for people to get off, put your backpack at your feet etc. Toronto has a massive transit culture. Probably every large city does. I live 45 min outside of the city now and take the bus to work. People here have no transit etiquette! It makes me so mad! No one moves back to make space, no one takes their backpack off so you get his in the face if you're sitting. I've had my stroller and people won't move to let me off. It makes no sense to me.
As a Canadian, I don’t like being called American or a Yankee. I will correct people. 🇨🇦
Taking the opportunity to refill the gas tank is critical. There are stretches of road along the Trans-Canada highway and other mountain highways here in Alberta and BC where there are signs saying "Services next ____ km". That's a warning that it will be x number of kilometres before the next service station. They don't put those signs up unless it's a significant stretch of distance/time, so if you're at half or less, go back to the nearest gas station and fill it up. Better safe than stranded, and keep in mind that there are stretches of highway where there's no cellphone service. If you run out of gas, you're at the mercy of passing motorists, especially in bad weather. Someone may stop to help, but others are wary of stopping to help or picking up hitchhikers who want to get gas and come back, due to incidents of good Samaritans being robbed of money or having their own vehicle stolen.
What the guy in the video DIDN'T say about the consequences of feeding the wildlife is this: The animal will become used to humans (bad), and will prefer to mooch from humans instead of hunting or foraging for itself (very bad), and may become aggressive when food is not immediately given (extremely bad). The animal may start going up to cars, demanding to be fed and could attack humans who are stupid enough to get out of the car (more than extremely bad). Some people have been killed, either when refusing to feed a bear, or if they're dumb enough to get out of the car to take a picture and the bear happens to be a mother with a couple of cubs nearby.
Mother bears are nobody to argue with when they're protecting their cubs. They will attack and sometimes have killed for this. And the consequences are tragic: The parks services people will relocate a bear that's just become a nuisance moocher. But if they attack or kill a human, the bear will be tracked and killed, as a danger to humans. If that bear has cubs, the cubs will also be killed - and for something they didn't even do, other than learning from their mother. It's a tragedy for everyone. SO DON'T FEED THE BEARS, MOOSE, OR EVEN A SQUIRREL. DON'T GET OUT OF YOUR CAR TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE WILDLIFE. It's actually illegal to do this in some areas.
Obviously it's okay to take pictures while you're in your car or if you're in a tourist spot with a lookout and you happen to spot a bear a long way off. But stopping on the highway to take a picture from close up... no. It's dangerous for both you and the bear, and definitely not legal.
Distances- where I live we measure mainly in hours of driving (at roughly 100 kph). It’s 4 hours either E or W to a city- and airport. You need to start your journey with at least 350 km of fuel in the tank - assuming no delays.
I drove from Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan and back to Nova Scotia, and he's absolutely right about the fueling up alot, do it.
I used to support Tim Horton's when it was owned by Canadians, but rarely go to it now since the American bought it.
I have called out old lady line hoppers, one of my pet peeves.
Actually it was a Brazilian company.
He talked about gas stops. That also goes for pee stops. I live in North Bay. On our way east to Ottawa there is a two and a quarter hour stretch of highway (this is the TransCanada Highway) without restaurants or gas stations. When you leave Mattawa there is no place to stop (except in the bush) until you reach Deep River.
So plan the needs of nature.
Yeah calling Canada the 51st state will immediately get you labeled as an ignorant American. I have seen the same holier than attitude by Americans in Europe as well.
As for Tim Hortons, it’s pretty plentiful in Canada but the quality is not there. The coffee and food used to be good, now it’s barely edible. The head office was actually sued by a group of their own franchisees because they had lost significant revenue due to the change in food, coffee and procedures. So eat there at your peril.
The timbits are edible. I get a 10-pack of honey glazed ones every now and then.
They are trying to recover from their mistakes by bringing back some of the original pastries, like the dutchie, getting visible lettuce, tomato, and bacon back on their bagel breakfasts . . . and brewing coffee closer to the original. The various "innovative" alternatives to a decent bagel did not go down as well as hoped.
The dutchie, apple fritter, and cruller, however, are now about half the size, certainly half the weight, the dough wet and lacking substance, with a paucity of raisons or bits of apple where needed. They are tasteless . . . except for being far too sweet, thanks to endemic over icing. Original apple fritters were drizzled with icing, and the once substantial dutchies very thinly coated. All the doughnuts, pastries and bagels have shrunk in size and substance, and all too often the hot food is less than hot because it is prepped ahead of time. And the coffee still tastes thin. They do brew a generic tea . . . In many areas the franchise has pushed local breakfast/lunch diners out of business, and is now the only place left for a coffee and pastry, quick breakfast, or lunch. So they are successful by default.
Canadians don t get annoyed easilly but if you do annoy one , say you re sorry or get ready for a rough attitude adjustment
I love this video Mert, such great tips and I think they are all really relevant to travelling in Canada.
Tim Hortons is the largest and most popular coffee chain in Canada but I'm not a fan of their coffee at all. If you're into donuts they are pretty good, also they have timbits, which are tiny doughnut balls. Harveys could deliver a decent burger, better than many of the American fast food chains. Vancouver and BC in general is absolutely beautiful, Montreal is a lot of fun and feels very European-like. Agree with don't come in the winter. It gets really cold and windy, not ideal for exploring. Toronto has really good food and a lot to see and do (but is pretty expensive, almost New York levels)
Errr. If you cut the line.
“Excuse me, I’m here. You can join the line down there.”
Lol I hate if someone tries to cut the line!
Canada no longer uses pennies (a 1 cent coin), so if you are paying in cash your bill will always be rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cent denomination. (if you are paying with a credit or debit card you will be charged the actual cost and there will be no rounding up or rounding down.)
2:27 -- Those are the pillars that rose from the stadium floor to light up the Olympic torch during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Actually, one of the fourpillars failed to rise so they had to settle with lighting 3 of them, which took the flame up the cauldron on top.
Had visitors come from Belgium to Winnipeg Manitoba. They said trip they took from Winnipeg to our town of Dauphin took as long as it took drive across their country. And man can the Dutch put us Canadians to shame for their beer intake but a low threshold for Canadian whiskey. Loved those guys. If you have time cover the Ukrainian Festival and Countryfest in Dauphin Manitoba. Luv your channel!
i had a Belgian guest here in Yukon. I took her to the nearest city: 530km. Belgium is 425km across the longest bit!
BTW, in this part of Canada, “skip out on” means “abandon” - for example, a deadbeat dad “skips out on” his family. We just “skip” or “miss” things we don’t pay attention to.
Some Canadian coffee shops: Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Country Style, Coffee Time, Great Canadian Bagel.
Harvey's flame-broiled burgers, good milkshakes. Tim Hortons is fairly cheap & everywhere, but the quality and customer service has declined. I like that A&W gives you a chilled beer mug for your pop when you dine in. Never cut in a queue. Unless the streetcar/bus has dedicated entrance & exit doors, always let passengers off before boarding.
Love hearing this Scottish accent. My Dad was from Glasgow, and I miss hearing it
No turning right on a red light in Montreal!
Typographically and by flora & fauna You know the minute you cross the border from England to Scotland ❤ you don’t need a sign to tell you! Scotland’s beauty is more rugged & stunningly impressive. England is pretty but Scotland is awe-inspiringly beautiful.
He should point out that debit, credit and other forms of electronic payments are very widespread here. You can even tap now for your coffee at Timmie’s. I used to always have a pocket full of coins and now I rarely have any and will have the same $20 bill in my pocket for weeks or months.
You asked about fast food here and about Harveys. Harveys is good but were better back in the 1980's. They grill their burgers not fry them and you get to choose what toppings you want as they make the burger. They are more expensive than most other places but I like them a lot.
The monument you wondered about, is the original Winter Olympic Flame “torch,” from the 2010 Winter games in Vancouver. It was meant to look like wood stacked for a campfire, depicting our love for the outdoors (particularly in Vancouver, where we say you can go skiing and play a round of golf in the same day.) I love your videos that take an interest in our beloved country and culture. My family background is part Scottish and I absolutely loved visiting there many years ago. You Scots are definitely not like the English. We experienced that almost immediately when travelling from England to Scotland. One of the key things we noticed is how much more friendly and gregarious you all were. Cheers.!
50 seconds in and....at the risk of landing someone a punch or kick in the nutsack....
It's as insulting to a Kiwi as calling them an Australian who couldn't swim his way to the mainland.
Oh, and the other thing is distance is Not measured in 'Distance', It's measurer in TIME.
Like, the distance from Ottawa to the border of Manitoba, ...is TWO DAYS driving with overnight sleeps.
Some places actually have warnings..no gas for 250 kilometers (or some such number). Not unusual in rural canada for all gas stations in small towns to close by 9 or 10
Mert, that monument was the cauldron from 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. It has since been permanently installed in the Waterfront area of downtown Vancouver.
Timmy's is a very polarizing topic. Half the population gets their coffee there daily. The other half (at least in the Toronto area) are all too fancy for Tims and talk down on it all the time. To be fair, it was definitely better ten, twenty years ago. And as they expand their selection of customizable sandwiches, wraps, and fancy drinks, the wait time in the drive-through gets worse and worse. You often have ten guys waiting in line for one pinhead who's just ordered nineteen totally different custom wraps for their meeting or their crew or whatever.
Born and raised here 🇨🇦. Learned French in grade school, as it was mandatory. Almost failed it. Now, I don’t know any French at all and I’m 45.
Yet we learn English all the way to 12th grade.
Took it in school. Cannot speak it or understand it when hearing it. Can read a bit of it. Some people learn languages easier than others.
Yeah. Butting in line is one thing that makes dormant Canadian anger swell to the surface.
Also...we wait for the elevator to empty before we get on
Alberta does not have the tacked on sales tax - it is included in the whole sale but there is GST which is eveywhere .
@2:30 that monument is the Olympic cauldron from the 2010 Winter Olympics
Yes, the original Beavertail has cinnamon sugar on it but these days there are a wide variety of topping options.
Fast food wise, what we have is a quality over quantity. Places like Mcdonalds will advertise that they use real canadian beef which makes it better than the states. But i have been to spain before and their FF chains had many more (And even better) options, even the tim hortons.
Also, British Columbia is mad expensive - Signed, the rest of Canada
I'm from Montreal and it's pretty much a very safe city. The murders here are mostly associated with Mafia and gang settling of accounts. Gun use used to be very rare but our proximity to the U.S. is unfortunately influencing some people.
Wasn’t the same Jewish school shot at TWICE in Montreal this past week?
Yes. Thankfully no one was hurt as it happened overnight. This is obviously not a daily occurrence and is not going to affect tourists. Unfortunately, the war against terrorism has sparked some criminal activity and protests in many cities across the world. @@user-kq5ke5yb6k
The US will always be worse. This past week alone saw 13 incidents there, with 16 killed and 48 injured. In Canada it's a rare tragedy. In the US it's a common statistic.
Ummm when the sound of gunfire wakes me up on a weekend morning … it’s duck hunters. Thank you New Brunswick 😀
Very good advice re fill up. I still love Tim’s. It’s very much a community gathering spot too.
I believe the population ratio similarities between Scotland and England mirror Canada and the USA as well, both being roughly 10 times smaller than our neighbours. I never really knew how sparse the figure was for Scotland, at about 5.3 million, versus England at 56 million.
There's also a large hatred for Tim Hortons. Their labour practices and declining coffee and food quality over the years has become widely known.
I drink it out of desperation. I’m never proud of myself. Their farmers wraps are pretty dope though but I’m glad I don’t look at myself in a mirror right afterward
Agree totally. Timmie’s had become a status symbol and some are finding it hard to break the trend. Probably due to the number of commercials they now have to have
The fact that they practically throw your coffee at you while asking for your money. I always have to tell them I only have two hands. And why, for the love of everything holy, do I have to ask for a sleeve in the drive thru every damn time?
Here’s the thing about driving long distances here in Canada. When you’re driving through a national park, you won’t have random gas stations because what’s the point? The park is for the wildlife and moose don’t need gas. There’s also a whole lot of nothing between large cities the further west from Toronto you go. Same thing if you’re heading northwards.
I am from Alberta and there can be some long distances between gas stations. Usually, if there is going to be a prolonged distance between gas stations, there will be a road sign warning drivers that there will be a prolonged distance before a service station. Those are for stations that even if you were to turn off the main road there will still be no service station for X number of kilometres.
when we travel long distances we usually have it planned out ahead of time where we are going to be stopping for gas. if its a trip you do often (for instance we have driven from vancouver to saskatchewan many times.) then you tend to know the towns youll be stopping at and even the specific gas stations. for a tourist id recommend looking at your route and plotting the fuel stops along the way. however this is ONLY an issue if youre travelling away from city centers and out into the middle of nowhere.
Most people like Tim Hortons, but they'd probably have to admit that it's not great coffee. My Glaswegian husband refuses to do Timmies, but he can tend to be a bit obstinate 😅. He took me on a trip to Scotland in 2019...he's been in Canada for many years now. I think what surprised him the most was how it seems to be a regular thing for macaroni and cheese to be a mainstay in fish and chips shops. A highlight for me was visiting the town, Helensburgh, where my granny emigrated from in 1920 ❤
This advice for Americans is so much the same as the advice we might get when travelling in the US.
The ‘monument’ at 2:27 is the Vancouver Olympic cauldron.
My friend in New York was driving us to the different buros. She cut across a long traffic line. We were both very upset that she did that. From a Canadian.
If you frequent fast food restaurants, you will probably find Tim Horton's to be adequate. One "don't" he forgot... don't jump the merging traffic lanes in BC! This is the most civilized form of queuing I've ever seen (being from Quebec, where vehicles try to nudge out everyone else in order to go first). In BC, the drivers know to "merge alternately," where the first vehicle from one lane goes first, then the first vehicle from the second lane merges in behind him, then the next vehicle from the first lane follows him, the next vehicle from the second lane follows that guy, and you end up with two steadily moving lanes of traffic merging into one. It works brilliantly on bridges at rush hour, and the only time anyone gets frustrated is when some out-of-province yokel doesn't understand the system and forces their way in before their turn.
Where I live, it is over 400km to the next gas place going north. Only 200 going south, but that is a cardlock - no-one actually there. So, he is right about that!
If you want to hear more classic Canadian accents, go to the small towns. Ottawa Valley for example, or pretty much anywhere in Newfoundland.
For the gas stations, in Manitoba if you take the #6 hiway north from Winnipeg, after you pass through Grand Rapids there is NOWHERE to stop for anything, let alone gas for almost 2 hours. Then it's another (up to) 1.5 hours to another place for gas.
Canadian cities have lots of gas stations, and cities also tend to have a number of small towns all around them in fairly close proximity that also have gas stations. But cities and towns in Canada can sometimes be very few and far between, so when you are traveling between cities or through the mountains or across the prairies or further north where there's not a lot of people, it can sometimes be very long distances (as in hours) between gas stations.
And if you are traveling during winter (although it can snow pretty much any time of year in many parts of Canada!) you never know when you might get stuck in a blizzard and have to pull over and wait it out, or when you might encounter some unexpected ice on the road and slide into a ditch (which might be filled with snow a couple feet deep or more), or when there might be a snow avalanche over the roadway when traveling through the mountain passes, and so on, and then you might be stuck waiting hours for a blizzard to stop, a snowplow to clear the road, and/or a tow truck to pull your car out of the ditch, so you also need to make sure you always have enough gas to keep the car running at least occasionally so that you can keep warm should you ever find yourself stuck somewhere in the cold. The general rule of thumb for winter in Canada is to not let your gas tank go below half full.
I live in Toronto and I work with new people coming in the country. A lot of what the video is saying in pretty good general advice. Except for the Tim Hortons part, I think Tim's is passable food and coffee. But it would not be on my list of places to eat unless I had no other choice. I would also add one for Toronto specifically, Toronto and the area is huge and it will take a fair amount of time to get anywhere. Especially with traffic and a lot of special events in the summer time
I'm from Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. Don't honk your horn to rush the person in front of you. You honk, you're rude and from away.
We also pull over or stop when a funeral is going by this happens even if we're walking.. When driving we don't break into the line or pass.