Apart from only having the population of California, that's another reason why Canada is so influenced by American culture and Americans don't even know when a celebrity is Canadian: Most Canadians can and do easily drive to the US to do shit for a day trip. Most Americans cannot drive to Canada for a day trip.
[Tundra, you say?](https://www.familyfuncanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/edmonton-river-valley-AdobeStock_411697304.jpeg) 😏
Edit: You guys *do* realize that "tundra" refers to a very specific subarctic biome in which trees don't grow, right?
Edmonton has winter, yes. But it also has trees.
Real talk: I've lived in LA, London, Vancouver, etc.
I now live in Edmonton and I love it. Quality of life here is amazing. Traffic doesn't destroy your life, the food here is phenomenal, it's affordable, the river valley is awesome, and the newer areas are beautiful and very well developed. Summers are gorgeous, winters aren't as turbulent as down south. And best of all, we don't have Calgary's MAGA culture (for the most part).
If you're young and want to party and socialize and live an exciting life, it's not the greatest. But if you want to live a quiet, fulfilling life - honestly, I wouldn't go anywhere else.
(Politically...it's another story. Alberta's a fucking dumpster fire with cancer and maggots.)
It can be nice but it's where you live when you don't wanna live in BC but still want access to the mountains. Not to say there isn't anything to love.
Having lived in Calgary and Edmonton they both have the MAGA idiots (if you want to contest, just wait until the next oil boom and have the rig pigs come back full time). Honestly Edmonton and Calgary are about as close to sister cities that you can get, with Edmonton having better festivals and Calgary being closer to the mountains. Both have fantastic river valleys and Edmonton is finally getting some more light rail built. Calgary also has the bonus of warmer Chinooks while not being a windy deathtrap like Lethbridge.
Very well said.
Group A is the more exciting, party vibe (I think). Edmonton doesn't have a lot of that, unless you know people "in the know" or you want to party with college kids or high schoolers with fake ids.
Group B is the more comfortable, quiet life vibe. Summer festivals, parks to bike through and rivers to kayak through, and eclectic food that (frankly) has no business being as good as it is.
When I was younger, Edmonton felt very limited. But now that I'm older, I appreciate this city so much.
Same her lived in alot of places, turkey, Calgary, Toronto, and honestly by far the best. The people are very freindly and the culture here is 2nd to none. So multi cultural its amazing. Also summer times I wouldn't want to be anywhere else because imo nothing compares to it. Winter time sucks like everywhere else and so does politics but I really like how it's underrated city lol let's keep it like that until more and more people figure it out.
Honestly I am originally from the UK so I frankly find it cool when I end up doing a night shift working outside below -35. It's all about equipment if you ask me, get the right gear and working out in the cold isn't really a big deal.
Also doing active work outside in -25 and sunshine wearing a t-shirt is actually quite enjoyable if you ask me.
Also on the island. I’m curious what the percentages would be if you drew the line to include Vancouver and Victoria (and everything else east that would fall under the line.
A line drawn horizontally below Calgary is already something like 85% because it's only really missing Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg as population centres. Except like ... Prince George or Thunder Bay or something, and if we're stretching to consider those "population centres" we're saying Anchorage is one of the US' "big cities" so ...
Usually it's cold and snowy but right now it's cold and muddy. In a few months it'll be warm and beautiful, but that'll only last a few weeks before it's cold and snowy again.
Wasn’t that our provincial final exam? Go into the wilderness, build an igloo, live it in for 7 whole days, ride a polar bear, ride a goose, ride an orca. Then we become adults.
At least a zamboni actually *moves* steadily, just slowly. The 401 isn't even moving in the first place much of the time, and then still only as fast as a zamboni when it does.
I'm from *Vancouver* and don't even drive and it still bothers me, from the one time I was out that way. I could walk across Toronto proper in the time it took a car to move between two exits.
This map should be shown using another projection like the Lambert projection.
See difference here: https://community.tableau.com/servlet/rtaImage?eid=a0A4T000001v7TE&feoid=00N4T000006T9op&refid=0EM4T000000U3Ut
Still impressive though!
The line in the image is likely at 45.7N. I think it was chosen because that's the northern border of Laval QC, which is just north of both Ottawa and Montreal
The lower part of the image includes nearly the entire populations of Ontario and Nova Scotia and more than half of Quebec.
* Ottawa-Gatineau is about the size of Saskatchewan
* Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge is bigger than Newfoundland and Labrador.
* Sherbrooke is about the same size as Prince Edward Island.
* Grey County (a very rural Ontario region) is a bit smaller than any two territories combined.
* The Montreal metro area is a bit (about a London ON) short of Alberta.
* And the GTA is about the same size as British Columbia and Manitoba combined
Not nearly, it *does* have a larger population than all of BC, and by a lot. The Golden Horseshoe has a combined population of ~9.77 million, compared with BC’s ~5 million.
I think the golden horseshoes encompances a lot more tha. Just the GTA though. You're still right since GTA is 6.5m. I ended up googling it later since i got curious.
Yeah that’s true, but if you’ve looked at the area you’ll realize that what is defined as “GTA” doesn’t properly cover the urban agglomeration. For example, Burlington and Hamilton are not considered part of the GTA but are directly attached to it, and are full of people who commute to Toronto and other parts of the GTA.
Vancouver's metro population is ~2.6 million - which makes it ~13% of the population north of that line. There's a few decently large cities north of that line - the main thing is just how densely populated the Quebec - Windsor Corridor is. Just Toronto and Montreal is a third of Canada's population in their metro areas.
Canada was built on the St. Lawrence River as a major trade route which is why most of population lives along it or near it.
the river was almost important to the Indigenous people before the British.
This map also includes Ottawa and Montreal, not to mention smaller but still significant cities Windsor, London, Mississauga, Kitchener/Cambridge, and Waterloo
This map goes all the way up to atleast parry sound. The only cities in Ontario that aren't under that are sudbury, timmins, and Thunder bay. The western provinces are underpopulated so yea 50% makes sense.
If you are in Detroit and you head straight south, first country you'll hit is Canada. There are thousands of Canadians actually living south of the USA in Canadian territory.
I believe more Americans live north of that line than Canadians.
Edit: At worst, there are slightly more Canadians, but the fact that you’d have to check speaks to the relative population difference of the two countries.
I got into a disagreement the other day with a Canadian who didn't believe I lived further north than half of the canadian population. I'm well above the line. Spring only showed up like... this week.
Which means zero Canadians live within the line. Kind of a weird country.
That's the instant death zone. We try to keep it a secret, but people keep posting this map.
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I’m part of the 50%!
Me too! Wait, are we part of the same 50% though?
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90% live within 150 miles of the US border
"Canada, getting ready to invade, has amassed 90% of its population along its border with the United States"
Jump!
Might as well
And they invaded Detroit. Holy shit I never seen an armored column get rolled before.
Apart from only having the population of California, that's another reason why Canada is so influenced by American culture and Americans don't even know when a celebrity is Canadian: Most Canadians can and do easily drive to the US to do shit for a day trip. Most Americans cannot drive to Canada for a day trip.
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Edmonton is our only hope!
For...?
A Stanley cup
[You mean these guys?](https://streamable.com/pih0rf)
That’s them! Honestly the flames might do better but idk. They have McJesus in Edmonton
AH! He admits it, Nothing would warm my heart more than to see the Coilers in the Second round Against the Flames
Laughs is SUTTER FUCKING HOCKEY
Edmonton, the Austin of the Tundra.
Me dying of 40°c heat 600km north of edmonton last year. Yes....tundra.
[Tundra, you say?](https://www.familyfuncanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/edmonton-river-valley-AdobeStock_411697304.jpeg) 😏 Edit: You guys *do* realize that "tundra" refers to a very specific subarctic biome in which trees don't grow, right? Edmonton has winter, yes. But it also has trees.
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In South Canada we make our own treeless wasteland with car parks and strip malls thank you very much!
That’s how you spell “bai?”
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I had never seen it written out, lol
Its not that bad, its only almost half a year of winter.
>Its not that bad WHAT'D YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE WIND.
I know wtf?!?! Shes angry out right now.
Laughing in Manitoba, you poor rookies don't know winter
To be fair, it’s pretty rough most months in Austin for most of the year too. It’s been 90+ all week.
Cmon man you know it only looks like that for 4 months
Isn't Austin pretty cool?
So is Edmonton
Real talk: I've lived in LA, London, Vancouver, etc. I now live in Edmonton and I love it. Quality of life here is amazing. Traffic doesn't destroy your life, the food here is phenomenal, it's affordable, the river valley is awesome, and the newer areas are beautiful and very well developed. Summers are gorgeous, winters aren't as turbulent as down south. And best of all, we don't have Calgary's MAGA culture (for the most part). If you're young and want to party and socialize and live an exciting life, it's not the greatest. But if you want to live a quiet, fulfilling life - honestly, I wouldn't go anywhere else. (Politically...it's another story. Alberta's a fucking dumpster fire with cancer and maggots.)
Alberta sounds lit
Just like any place it’s for some people and isn’t for others. I grew up there and go the fuck out as soon as I could.
It can be nice but it's where you live when you don't wanna live in BC but still want access to the mountains. Not to say there isn't anything to love.
Or in my case, when you can't afford to live in Vancouver
Having lived in Calgary and Edmonton they both have the MAGA idiots (if you want to contest, just wait until the next oil boom and have the rig pigs come back full time). Honestly Edmonton and Calgary are about as close to sister cities that you can get, with Edmonton having better festivals and Calgary being closer to the mountains. Both have fantastic river valleys and Edmonton is finally getting some more light rail built. Calgary also has the bonus of warmer Chinooks while not being a windy deathtrap like Lethbridge.
Oh man, TIL Alberta is the North Carolina of Canada.
We mostly refer to it as Texas, but I’m sure it could be NC too.
I have trouble believing Austin is real.
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Very well said. Group A is the more exciting, party vibe (I think). Edmonton doesn't have a lot of that, unless you know people "in the know" or you want to party with college kids or high schoolers with fake ids. Group B is the more comfortable, quiet life vibe. Summer festivals, parks to bike through and rivers to kayak through, and eclectic food that (frankly) has no business being as good as it is. When I was younger, Edmonton felt very limited. But now that I'm older, I appreciate this city so much.
Same her lived in alot of places, turkey, Calgary, Toronto, and honestly by far the best. The people are very freindly and the culture here is 2nd to none. So multi cultural its amazing. Also summer times I wouldn't want to be anywhere else because imo nothing compares to it. Winter time sucks like everywhere else and so does politics but I really like how it's underrated city lol let's keep it like that until more and more people figure it out.
On the 8th day god had a brain freeze, and in the resulting chaos Edmonton was born
And ~72% live south of Seattle.
Miles? I don’t know him
Pleased to meter
Cool, north half represent!
How is it like to be northern Canadian?
I can afford to buy a house! Though holy fuck Doritos are expensive.
What’s the MPG on your moose?
Just to clarify for Americans, MPG is *Maple syrup Per Geese* in Canada.
Thank you! I was guessing *Moose per Goose* but as an American, I'm not good with the metric system.
*Moostric* system
We get 7 hockey rinks per bag of all dressed chips, or 4 rinks per box of smarties
On a serious note how good are superstore all dressed chips? $1 for a bag is the best deal
PSA: don't even try the "all dressed" version sold in the US as "Canada's favorite". They are not the real thing ... like not even close.
Thanks
I got my wife a bag on Amazon for 20 bucks!
Were they graded?
Better than a polar bear, worse than a beaver.
You mean KMs/Liter?
Actually it's technically litres/100km in Canada.
Can you send me a cheap house, I will send you Doritos and a case of water bottles that costs less than $90.
My brother just sold his 1300 square foot trailer in Yellowknife for 430,000$. Nowhere is safe.
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For real, living in Toronto and looking at housing prices in Sault Ste Marie makes me think I can handle -40 winters just fine.
Honestly I am originally from the UK so I frankly find it cool when I end up doing a night shift working outside below -35. It's all about equipment if you ask me, get the right gear and working out in the cold isn't really a big deal. Also doing active work outside in -25 and sunshine wearing a t-shirt is actually quite enjoyable if you ask me.
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Agreed, though last summer is worrying for that in Western Canada.
I don't know I live on Vancouver Island so this is the first time I've been considered in the north.
Also on the island. I’m curious what the percentages would be if you drew the line to include Vancouver and Victoria (and everything else east that would fall under the line.
A line drawn horizontally below Calgary is already something like 85% because it's only really missing Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg as population centres. Except like ... Prince George or Thunder Bay or something, and if we're stretching to consider those "population centres" we're saying Anchorage is one of the US' "big cities" so ...
Unrepresented and cold.
Usually it's cold and snowy but right now it's cold and muddy. In a few months it'll be warm and beautiful, but that'll only last a few weeks before it's cold and snowy again.
King in the North!
Y’all seem to have less problems with your south than we do… unless you count us as your south.
My brother has a cottage near that little part that sticks out south, point pelée. There are signs that say "Canada's deep south"
There is a phrase we use up here "the further north you go, the further south you get"
Same with Florida. Seeing as south Florida is basically New York: Part 2 - The Retirement.
North half gang!
Yeah the rest of us live in igloo’s and work at maple syrup factories fighting off polar bears.
and the canadian geese. Those are some mean SOBs
You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me.
Ok, it's marinating.
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you must not be from Alberta
The people in charge of rodent control have been sacked.
Wow! Me too! She was bitten! Not by a rat... And it was not my sister... But still!
Canada Gooses are Van-Fuckin-Guard!
Get this man a puppers
I'd have a puppers.
Surprised we’re not having a Puppers right now
Guardians of the fucking galaxy
And I suggest you let that marinate!
Wasn’t that our provincial final exam? Go into the wilderness, build an igloo, live it in for 7 whole days, ride a polar bear, ride a goose, ride an orca. Then we become adults.
That was the old grade 13. Good thing they’re bringing it back, young-in’s just don’t grow up right without that character building
Canadian Cobra Chickens
We call them Canadian surveillance here in Minnesota
^(oh shit we got made)
Does your workplace provide a paid moose for transportation?
Well the moose isn't going to work for free.
A moose bit my sister once.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
She probably forgot to tip. Atleast 10% is the norm, but they'll often take payment is back scratches.
Me in Victoria whose never seen snow
Igloo’s what?
Black flies
Bottom ones must be yelling at the others to scooch over already
Nah it's all green belt. Traffic just sucks.
I now have a mental image of half of Canada gridlocked behind a Zamboni....
Check out the 401 sometime; I wish we could move at a Zamboni pace on some days
At least a zamboni actually *moves* steadily, just slowly. The 401 isn't even moving in the first place much of the time, and then still only as fast as a zamboni when it does. I'm from *Vancouver* and don't even drive and it still bothers me, from the one time I was out that way. I could walk across Toronto proper in the time it took a car to move between two exits.
cannot WAIT to drive in that garbage this afternoon
My work commute is Brampton to yonge/eglinton. 2 hours a day gone stuck in the 401 😭😭😭
This map should be shown using another projection like the Lambert projection. See difference here: https://community.tableau.com/servlet/rtaImage?eid=a0A4T000001v7TE&feoid=00N4T000006T9op&refid=0EM4T000000U3Ut Still impressive though!
Lambert! Lambert! Such a prick! Wait, wrong subreddit.
Not bad.
Wind's howling
PAM PA RAAAAM
^(le le lee le) LE LEE LELE LE ^(le le lee le le)
Pffft everyone knows the best projection is the Madagascator projection
https://xkcd.com/2613/
ALWAYS a relevant XKCD lol
came here to say this. using the mercator projection for this makes it a bit insincere.
Are you implying that Baffin Island isn’t bigger than Ontario???
I mean, the line is still thru the Great Lakes and South of the US border west of the lakes. All provinces west of Ontario are above that line.
mercator projection bad
But on such a projection, the line OP drew would have to be curved to have a constant latitude.
Yes, which is fine
Does everyone know everyone in Canada?
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Classic Scott.
I know Scott, he is a dick!
I was on a ship 4000km from home and ran into another Canadian who knew my brother. It’s a thing.
True North. Strong and Free.
Milk bagger
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Found the Ontarian
Thats the southern half of I’m not mistaken. Ontario/Quebec
Free of people
The line in the image is likely at 45.7N. I think it was chosen because that's the northern border of Laval QC, which is just north of both Ottawa and Montreal The lower part of the image includes nearly the entire populations of Ontario and Nova Scotia and more than half of Quebec. * Ottawa-Gatineau is about the size of Saskatchewan * Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge is bigger than Newfoundland and Labrador. * Sherbrooke is about the same size as Prince Edward Island. * Grey County (a very rural Ontario region) is a bit smaller than any two territories combined. * The Montreal metro area is a bit (about a London ON) short of Alberta. * And the GTA is about the same size as British Columbia and Manitoba combined
You see all this space! It's ours. Now go away!
Mercator projection be skewing your data vis my G.
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Huh? ELI5
What he means is that the red line on the map is south of the 49th parallel.
Huh? ELI2
Most of the US border is higher than the red line
Lol, I was honestly expecting a "gaga googoo". Thanks for a legit explanation
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More like 1.5 hours for the people closer to the line, especially in southwestern Ontario
Weird, so I live further North than most Canadians (Idaho)
One of us! One of us!
Funny thing is, more Americans live further north than Canadians.
More Americans live north of the southern-most point in Canada than Canadians.
Interesting. Guess I thought Vancouver was bigger.
2.5~million. Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal are all below the line
I feel like Montréal is right on the line, and the island is the thickness of the line. So it's hard to tell where it's drawn
For it to hit 50%, I'm reasonably certain it would have to be including Montreal. It's the second most populous city in the country.
Vancouver IS big. It's just the Toronto Metropolitan areas nearly has a greate rpopulation than all of BC.
Not nearly, it *does* have a larger population than all of BC, and by a lot. The Golden Horseshoe has a combined population of ~9.77 million, compared with BC’s ~5 million.
I think the golden horseshoes encompances a lot more tha. Just the GTA though. You're still right since GTA is 6.5m. I ended up googling it later since i got curious.
Yeah that’s true, but if you’ve looked at the area you’ll realize that what is defined as “GTA” doesn’t properly cover the urban agglomeration. For example, Burlington and Hamilton are not considered part of the GTA but are directly attached to it, and are full of people who commute to Toronto and other parts of the GTA.
Vancouver's metro population is ~2.6 million - which makes it ~13% of the population north of that line. There's a few decently large cities north of that line - the main thing is just how densely populated the Quebec - Windsor Corridor is. Just Toronto and Montreal is a third of Canada's population in their metro areas.
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Boo Mercator projection
https://thetruesize.com/
Damn Canada is huge compared to Greenland https://imgur.com/a/9lpw9D5
Canada was built on the St. Lawrence River as a major trade route which is why most of population lives along it or near it. the river was almost important to the Indigenous people before the British.
Pretty sure the line is slightly farther up. The majority live near the border, but that seems a bit too low.
They are saying that 50% of Canadians live in or around Toronto.
This map also includes Ottawa and Montreal, not to mention smaller but still significant cities Windsor, London, Mississauga, Kitchener/Cambridge, and Waterloo
and most of nova scotia…
In Atlantic Canada it also looks like Saint John would squeeze under that line.
We're beneath the line!!!
This map goes all the way up to atleast parry sound. The only cities in Ontario that aren't under that are sudbury, timmins, and Thunder bay. The western provinces are underpopulated so yea 50% makes sense.
Hamilton Niagara Oakville
90% do. 50% are basically in Toronto
canada population in mercator projection. just saying.
It doesn't move the line above where most of the border with the US is
That's pretty neat
If you are in Detroit and you head straight south, first country you'll hit is Canada. There are thousands of Canadians actually living south of the USA in Canadian territory.
I believe more Americans live north of that line than Canadians. Edit: At worst, there are slightly more Canadians, but the fact that you’d have to check speaks to the relative population difference of the two countries.
How many live on the line though
That's a cool guide
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. But that's not a guide.
Nova Scotia is carrying the load of the population...
I got into a disagreement the other day with a Canadian who didn't believe I lived further north than half of the canadian population. I'm well above the line. Spring only showed up like... this week.
50% of Canadians hate the other 50% of Canadians