Hey everybody, so as you know, I am working on the next few country episodes
Which means this is gonna have to be a filler week
Now we've done administrative division videos before like Russia
India Brazil and by popular demand this episode is gonna be on the provinces and territories of Canada
Before we jump into it though
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but in the meantime now like many other videos I've done I feel like the best way to go about doing this video will probably
Be to have a native of Canada with me. And so without further ado say hello to my former roommate and friend
Aaron
All right, Aaron explain. Ah, where are you from? I'm from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada a little disclaimer
So even though I am from Canada it is a very diverse and big nation
So these things may be a little inaccurate, but we'll do our best
We did quite a bit of research though. So I think most of it is accurate. But yeah, just uh Aaron approves. Yeah
Before we jump into it
The little few side facts Canada is the second largest country in the world right after Russia in terms of land area
the vast majority at somewhere around eighty seven percent of the population of Canadians live within a hundred miles or
160 kilometers for us Canadians of the u.s. Border cities are very far apart too - aren't they?
Yeah, the country overall is very spaced out. So Canada is made up of ten provinces and 3 territories Aaron explain
What exactly is a territory a territory is different from a province because provinces actually have their own
Government - the provincial government territories do not have that. So all their laws and policies are done directly through the federal government
Plus they have like very little population, right?
well
absolutely at the lowest populations and it's a well-known fact all
Canadians have a secret stash of maple syrup on them and all times for maple syrup emergencies anyway without further ado
Let's jump into it alberta
Capital Edmonton largest city Calgary. It's the rustic cowboy province of Canada. They even have the Calgary Stampede that takes place every year
They're also kind of like the energy province
They have a lot of oil, you know
There's a lot of big oil industry out there places like the Athabasca sands Drumheller
Has that strange-looking rock formation place. It's also known as like the dinosaur capital of the world
They also have lots of ranches and farms
They also have the largest national park Wood Buffalo as well as Banff National Park
Which is arguably one of the most beautiful parks. Aaron, when you think of people from Alberta,
what kind of comes to mind? More conservative outdoorsy kind of cowboy ish people almost like a, Texas of Canada, Texas of Canada?
There we go
And fun fact Alberta is officially rat-free. British Columbia also known as BC
The capital is Victoria and the largest city is Vancouver
this is uh
Kind of like the adventure province of Canada great mountains a lot of biking and hiking and cool stuff you could do
Yeah, it's also kind of back up Hollywood or Hollywood of the north so many movies and TV shows are filmed over here
It's just like you could use their
backdrops, it's also the only province that touches the Pacific Ocean and also gets lots of rain
It's also home to the only true desert in Canada the Okanagan
What do you think when it comes to like British Columbia people? Generally like a sort of hippy West Coast vibe
Very trendy, kind of hipstery. Oh, yeah, they got a lot of retirees too something like that, right? Yeah
I mean even my grandparents live out there
So there you go confirmed. Manitoba capital and largest city Winnipeg that's sort of the intro to the prairies
There's also a joke here that said in Canada that the people there always say we were born here. What's your Excuse?
There's a lot of lakes here
It's kind of like the lake province and a lot of people from the first nations or the Native Americans
they have a lot of influence over this area further up north you find Churchill one of the only
Few settlements on the Hudson's Bay locally known as polar bear capital of the world
Oh and Winnipeg is kind of known as the murder capital of Canada. I think in one year they had six murders. Oh
Six, what you gonna do? Oh, that's a war zone out there. No, but seriously, they got a lot of cool stuff
There's like a really nice-looking Human Rights Museum. There's that bridge
I mean, I hate to say it
But I don't really meet a lot of you minute Oba so I don't really have much of an opinion
But I'm guessing you're probably outdoorsy rugged types
If you're gonna be out Matt over where it's cold, and there's polar bears so New Brunswick the capital
capital of Fredericton and largest city, Moncton
this is kind of known as the
loyalist province because a lot of the people that were loyal to the British Empire during the American Revolution fled to this place and some
People also might call it petit Quebec as the second most populous french-speaking province
And is the also the only officially bilingual province I think how you guys do that bilingual. Yeah bilingual we enunciate well
Historically, they were part of Acadia the french-speaking area of Canada and fun fact, this is actually basically where the cajun people came from
They actually migrated from Canada into Louisiana. So that's where we get Cajuns from. And again, it's a maritime province
So you get lots of lighthouses?
Fishing repelling off of cliffs has a Bay of Fundy with the biggest tidal change in the world at over
16 meters or a 53 feet for you Americans out there new Phaneuf inland you
How do you guys pronounce a new Newfoundland?
Newfoundland Francis on the new not the the fin which is like an F n not even an I cuz I pronounce that new Finland
Before but no that's not you say because it's not anyway the largest city and capital is st
John's it is the easternmost province and split of two parts one being Newfoundland where about ninety percent of the population lives and Labrador
Which mostly cuts off Quebec from the Atlantic take that Quebec and fun fact, they have their own time zone. Yeah
It's a half hour difference. Fun fact, this is actually the newest province established in 1949
Basically, it was like the UK's last colonial stronghold in America until they had a referendum and then they receded back to Canada
So yeah, the people here are known for being super nice and friendly, but they have a very strange accent Erin
How would you describe it? Almost Canadian Irish?
Because there were a lot of Irish settlers there Erin. Can you do the accent?
Absolutely, not then here's a clip do jump over like jump cigarette. Yeah. Well actually
Don't worry I don't mind boy big it's too much just roll down the window you so we made it
Put that up boy froze dead, Nova Scotia
Capital and largest city Halifax. This is the seaboard coast or Canada's ocean playground as placed on their license plates
Basically, this is the place where Scotland trying to start a colony. Hello
Didn't quite work out the residents still kept true to their
traditions even to this day and bust the name Nova Scotia meaning New Scotland
They even have a small but kind of diminishing Scottish Gaelic speaking community. You can find them every so often here in there
Yeah, and there's a place called Peggy's Cove
It has a somewhat famous lighthouse that every goes crazy after for some reason Peggy's Cove
And it's also where these show Trailer Park Boys is set. Well, I was also like this huge explosion in 1917
it was like the largest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear bombs two ships collide into each other and
I'm happening to be an ammunition ship the whole city was destroyed many people died. Not a pleasant time. Think about it in Canada, Ontario
The capital Ottawa largest city Toronto. This is your province indeed
It is the most populous province with about 40% of the country's entire population entire country
This is basically the nucleus that power as much of Canada politically and economically
It's got the southernmost part of Canada in it
And there's so many things going on like mining tourism the service sector manufacturing agriculture
Honestly, the problems can really be divided into two separate parts
There's northern and southern Ontario and Northern Ontario is what people were I'm from would call cottage country spread out
There's a less of an urban vibe. Whereas southern Ontario is lot more urban a lot more developed
Well in speaking of politics to remember most politicians in Canada have to be bilingual
Mostly because Quebec that one province Prince Edward Island also known as PEI to its friends capital and largest city is Charlotte
It's almost the word Charlotte a yeah, not sure if I'm actually pronouncing that right
That's how I grew up pronouncing it. This place has many nicknames spud Island the garden of the Gulf the million acre farm
It's the smallest and least populated province of Canada. But keep in mind the territory said even fewer people than that
Now this place is known mostly for Anne of Green Gables
the book and
They also grow a lot of potatoes and there's those really cool beaches with sand that squeaks when you step on it
But I think of Pei I think of people running through grassy fields wearing 18-hundreds clothes clearly. Thanks Anne of Green Gables
Yeah, that's that's all you people are
You wear a hundred fifty year old clothing Quebec the capital city. Bean Quebec City largest city, of course being Montreal or mafia
Originally known as LaBelle province meaning the beautiful province, but now in the license plates it says jamia souviens
Which means I remember which is kind of like throwing shade at the English for treating the Acadians and French Canadians back history
They are the largest province in size
Obviously they are the french-speaking province. It's actually their only official language
However, most people in most major cities are bilingual with English
Yeah, everything from TV radio newspapers schools aren't French Quebec is actually the only province in Canada
I have been to and I noticed when I was there they speak French a little differently to me
it sounds a little more twangy and kind of guttural like
It's hard to explain and also I noticed they used a lot of different words
That's kind of like they condense it like instead of saying Kiska
They say kiss a fun fact traffic lights are also sideways also the food they're known for inventing poutine or puts in now
They're also the largest supplier of maple syrup and they even have the world's largest. Maple syrup reserve Saskatchewan capital city, Regina
He's a 12 year old largest city Saskatoon. This is the prairie province the breadbasket of Canada
This is the flattest part of Canada kind of like, Iowa or Nebraska
They've got lots of wheat fields and they grow the most crops. They're also kind of known as the tornado alley of Canada
Oh, I feel like Saskatchewan is kind of like the place where you would go to like run from the law cornfields
Nobody's nobody's gonna want to go all the way to Saskatchewan to catch you. I'm come on. What do you think about Saskatchewan people?
They're probably nice. I've never actually met anyone from Saskatchewan
I assume there's some nice country folk running from the law and now we've reached the territories together
they only have a combined population of less than
200,000 all three of them. Yeah. It's like really hard to live here
It's like super cold like most of the year and it lies on the barren Canadian Shield
Yeah, most of the people who are out. There are either there for the mining industry or they're the native people who live there
So here they are the Northwest Territories
Capital Yellowknife is Canada's less frontier and polar bear land for in fact
They have 11 official languages 9 in addition to English and French
most of them are from
Various native tribes like the Cree the slavey the Chippewa or the cui Qing and like a ton others and it has the largest
Non-shared link also known as Great Slave Lake and named after the slave II people not slaves slave II
It's a tribe also known as the den a people which are actually the ancestors of the Navajo which live in Arizona
See how we get like a lot of there's so much connection between these two land masses
You know, it's just like we take your people
We take your people from your land, yeah we kidnap Canadians none of its capital E Calumet. That's how you pronounce it
None of it, right? I mean, that's how I pronounce it land of the Midnight Sun
Probably the most isolated and obscure territory as there are no rows that connect to it directly from the rest of Canada
So you can only fly or sail this is actually the newest addition to the Confederation of Canada
Actually split off from the Northwest Territories back in 1999
this territory is predominantly inhabited by the
Native in Nuuk t2 and in doing not tune peoples who they actually have their own writing system. It's pretty cool
You could see it on like street signs. And yeah, they just got their own like traditions and customs and stuff like that
Yeah, really interesting and it also holds Paul's favorite island that he's affectionately named pancake island
It's the island inside the lake inside the island side the lake inside of Victoria Island. That's yeah
And finally the last one Yukon sometimes referred to as the Yukon capital Whitehorse
It is the least populated of all the territories
There's also known as the Gold Rush territory known for the Klondike Gold Rush and also the westernmost
Territory bordering Alaska, it also has Mount Logan Canada's tallest mountain. It's kind of like Alaska's girlfriend's so many people cross the border
Yeah, yeah, they're just like you you gotta have Alaska and Yukon working together
They're just right next to each other. And that is it all the 13 provinces and territories of Canada. Have I've got
I don't think we've ended too many people in this one. I
hope not I apologize if I offended anyone that's
Okay, maybe a few. I mean, we're we're known for being nice cool question
How would if you want Canada actually say sorry a lot even my daddy says sorry
Are you serious that you have anything?
I mean if you look at the word it's spelled with an O
So it should be pronounced or II know a joke, but that's actually a thing people say, sorry
I mean, there are laws in Canada that state that saying sorry is not an admission of guilt
Well guys that is all of it. So I'm gonna ask Aaron to conclude everything before you just quickly
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how would you just conclude this whole video Canada is a vast and diverse nation of awesome scenery and awesome people and
People encouraged to go check it out and visit Canada
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