of houses businesses and buildings that lie directly on the border haskell free library
even marks the border in its reading rooms and has an entrance for people on the u.s side and
the canada side people of each country must enter on their side and if they exit on the
opposite country they must stay on the sidewalk and report to the customs office failure to do
so and stepping on the road can result in a rest and this delightfully accidental slam
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hey geograpeeps i'm your host barby a lot of people sometimes have trouble distinguishing
between americans from the us and canadians here's a little analogy americans are kind of
like teenage boys they're opinionated energetic and confident whereas canadians are kind of like
teenage girls they'll be polite to you to your face but then they'll talk crap behind your back
that being said i love canada but i still have not forgiven like i've forgiven but i remember
that nba finals man it was the raptors against my team golden state warriors and kb was injured and
y'all laughed yo i laughed you're all cheering y'all were happy oh my gosh i cannot forget that
that was that was very horrible to watch man seeing golden state go down like that
first kevin then clay hand that that broke that breaks my heart dang but y'all did well acquiring
kawaii and actually within the chip that was really cool see if we can dissect the flag
the flag consists of a red field with a white square in the middle in the middle of the entire
flag lies a single 11-pointed red maple leaf red symbolizes the sacrifice during both world wars
and the white symbolizes the peace tranquility and neutrality of the country the maple leaf has
historically been a symbol of canada for centuries even during british rule some canadians will
tell you the 11 points symbolize the provinces and the last one being for the territories but
eh that's not really true that's just kind of how the leaf looks also keep in mind quebec
would much rather fly this flag instead of the maple leaf but we'll discuss more about that in
all right so canada is huge it's the second largest country in the world
so it's pretty safe to say that you can bet that there's going to be a lot of interesting things
when it comes to administrative divisions first of all canada is located on the north
american continent right above the united states bordered by three oceans the atlantic the arctic
and the pacific on all three sides the country stretches over six time zones and is divided
into ten provinces yes people new finland and labrador are together one province and
three territories in the north the capital of ottawa being in the province of ontario
now let's have some fun now the thing is canada's domain is lavished with sovereignty enigma and
semi-autonomous wonder first of all let's talk about the border at over 8 800 kilometers or 5
500 miles with thousands of markers along the way canada and the us have the world's longest
border between any two countries things are a little tame on the east coast except for that
one island they have a dispute with denmark over and that one other island within kayaking distance
that france refuses to let go of until you get to the quebec vermont border and things get a
little messed up when you reach derby line and stansted since the town was built before modern
day borders were properly established town has a variety of houses businesses and buildings
that lie directly on the border haskell free library even marks the border in its reading
rooms and has an entrance for people on the u.s side and the canada side people of each country
must enter on their side and if they exit on the opposite country they must stay on the sidewalk
and report to the customs office failure to do so and stepping on the road can result in a rest
and this delightfully accidental slap i'm so happy i'm not bro we always gonna rip the salt
what bro what nah i had no idea about none of this bro like what like doll bro no no no no no and no
just imagine you enter into a library and you got a mark like literally that's your side
that's your side don't come over here or else you got to report to this person what nah that's kind
of cool but that's kind of crazy confusion known as the northwest angle that belongs to minnesota
mostly owned by the ojibwe tribe situated on the lake of the woods where you can find the
reassuringly perfect getaway spots massacre island and little massacre island the rest of the border
tries as best as it can to cut straight on the 49th parallel even though it zigzags a little
bit and four airports have runways that either straddle or are exactly parallel to the border
somewhere around 80 of canadians live within 100 miles or 160 kilometers to the border of the us
and the further north you go things just get a little kind of fuzzy and neglected they still have
a little bit of trouble integrating the rest of the land the further up you go there are only two
main highways that lead to the yukon and northwest territories from the south whereas there are
virtually no roads leading to any of the provinces or territories into none of it the only way to get
into none of it is to either fly or take a vote i mean technically you could walk across the
border but that would suck speaking of none of it canada has the most northerly inhabited place in
the world alert canada a perpetually icy frozen desolate settlement typically operated by as few
as five people year-round functioning as both as a militaristic station and a seasonal research
facility now the one thing you have to know about canada's administrative divisions is that it all
kind of constitutionally fits together until you get to quebec although quebec is still considered
a province of canada they've made it very clear in the past that they have a strong sense of
quebecois nationalism that many even take to the separatist extreme nonetheless many of canada's
divisions and functions are heavily influenced by the landscape such we will discuss in
this is really common so once again this is really complicated like i don't know much about
canada obviously but um canada seems really complicated like it's really big it's really
big and he's saying that most of the population comes towards the us so it's it's on the the more
north you go to canada less less people that's kind of cool but that's kind of scary canada
is huge and often referred to as the great white north however not all of canada is a chilly arctic
tundra first of all canada's physical features are built with a strange yet complementary mix of
geological and meteorological yes that's a word score meteorological facets looking at canada one
of the most notable features that sticks out would have to probably be the hudson bay the
second largest bay in the world after the bay of bengal and the largest bay that freezes over in
winter this bay provides a drainage basin that hydrates about half of the entire country and a
little bit of the northwest of the us the strange thing is that the hudson bay actually sits on a
gravitational anomaly in which gravity here is actually a little bit lower than the rest of the
planet's average it has to do with some kind of sciency reason about ground convection and ice
melt rebound yadda yadda hey guys want to lose some weight try the new workout and diet trend
hudson90x our diet and workout plan includes going to the hudson bay no but seriously almost nobody
lives along the odds in bay it's almost impossible to build roads with the rugged splotchy rock
landscape with too many ponds and lakes getting in the way for any straight highway to be built
speaking of which at around two to three million it's actually speculated that around 60 of all
the world's lakes and about 30 of all the world's fresh water can be found in canada tap water can
actually have better quality than bottled water in canada this has to do largely with the domineering
freckly crevice zone that takes up about half of the entire country the canadian shield the
canadian shield is a wide plateau of exposed pre-cambrian igneous rock that harbors little soil
and vegetation but offers a glory field of mining canada has some of the world's richest deposits
of metal ores like nickel gold silver and copper two-thirds of all the cesium in the world comes
from one mine in manitoba bernick lake fun little side note canada has the world's largest third
order lake island that's an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island located on victoria
island this little squiggly four acre rock was discovered by map nerds who scrolled google maps
just a couple of years ago the island has no name and has most likely never had anyone step foot on
it i mean i'll do it if nobody else will but i might need a corporate sponsorship i'm looking
at you on jemima canada also has two of the top 10 largest impact craters on earth sudbury crater in
ontario and manikugen in quebec with its almost perfectly circular imprint flooded and now a
reservoir that you can see from space okay there's a lot more in this section so i'm just going to
kind of rapid fire throughout all the rest of the facts about 40 of the country is covered in force
and about one-tenth of the world's forest are in canada over 60 of the world's polar bears live in
canada the bay of fundy has the world's highest tidal range with the highest point being over 16
meters niagara falls looks cool mount thor has the world's highest vertical drop quebec alone
supplies about 70 of the world's maple syrup and they actually have a maple syrup reserve with
over 222 000 barrels of maple syrup prince edward island has a weird natural phenomena in which the
sands on the beach make this weird squeaking noise when you step on it here's some footage
the largest inland lakes besides the ones shared with the us and the great lakes are the great
i'll book it out no
no no no no i don't even know what to say right now like bro
the more the more i'm watching these videos the more like lost i'm getting like in terms
of i never knew that even existed i never knew that was a thing like literally canada like what
wow had no idea bro i had no idea i had no idea canada is kind of cool they got a lot
of weird stuff going on over there when i say a word i don't mean in a bad way i mean good
way bear and great slave lakes named after the slaving people no i'm not talking about
slaves i'm talking about the slave people there's a difference one we'll discuss
canada is one of those places where everybody kind of fits in but there's always a little bit
of gossip going around every corner first of all canada has about 35 million people making it one
of the least densely populated places on earth about three quarters of whom identify as white
asians make up about 14 natives and aboriginal peoples make up a surprising five percent blacks
at three latinos at two and the rest are just kind of everything else now again canada's
population takes another turn because in addition to ethnicity canada also has linguistic groups but
one out of every three canadians either speaks french fluently or understands enough to get by
the whole quebec thing kind of plays a paramount role in canada's societal operations they kind of
have to work really hard to make sure that this one province cooperates also keep in
mind quebec isn't the only place in canada where french is spoken communities in ontario manitoba
and especially the maritime province like new finland new brunswick and nova scotia have huge
communities of french speakers the difference though is that these french speakers have an
even deeper level of segregated culture many people in the maritime provinces have a unique
acadian french culture that differs from quebec fun side note the cajun people of the us
in louisiana are generally descended from the akkadian people that were expelled and deported
from these provinces by the british in the 1700s back then the louisiana purchase didn't happen yet
so all of this area was still french yada yada they came over and invented gumbo so that's why
cajuns speak french america because canada nonetheless about one out of every five canadians
was born outside of canada making canada pretty diverse especially by us entertainment quota
standards all right toss in a black guy an asian girl hey why not throw in one of those indian guys
those people are trending these days but make sure the lead is a handsome attractive rocket white
guy and this is where i want to make a geography now spotlight nah bro no you bug it out he's not
canada is not what i thought it was bro like i do know that canada is a little bit you know a little
bit of mix of everything but this video man i i like he has not said anything about canada that i
actually knew like bc british columbia i know that because i do watch one of the most famous probably
canadians um on youtube which would have been daily driven exotics right and i know a lot about
canada because of what i've learned from them when i say a lot i don't mean a lot i mean a lot
in terms of the amount of information that i know compared to what they have given me i
so that's what i mean by a lot i've learned a lot from them right so bc all of those places
i've seen because of them right and it's kind of crazy that nothing has been said
about any of those things that i've learned like about canada is like just to show you how
wild and crazy canada is and i'm i'm literally just here with my little brain trying to wrap
my hands around how many different things this guy has actually said about canada that i had no idea
existed canada has a somewhat shrouded community of under highlighted individuals that typically go
unnoticed even by canadians sure we can talk about toronto vancouver heck even calgary has some chips
on the table but nobody really gives these guys a chance so uconn northwest none of it i'm putting
you guys on display altogether the population of all three of these territories is only about 110
000 people making it the most sparsely populated area of all of canada first of all indigenous
peoples of canada number about 850 000 and all together have about 630 reservations speckled
throughout the entire country the largest reserves are located in these territories indigenous people
in canada are generally categorized into three separate groups the first nations the metis and
the inuit the metis are mixed race indigenous the first nations are generally southern tribes that
typically live in forested areas and the inuit are straight up arctic folk here's how you can
kind of distinguish the three territories yukon is predominantly white the northwestern territories
has a lot of first nation tribes like the slavey people who can be found close to the great slave
lake although many of them prefer to be called the dene cool side note the navajo tribe in the u.s
to some extent trace their heritage to these people see how everything is connected people
finally we've reached none of it which is almost exclusively inuit the northwest territories and
none of it actually used to be part of the same territory but then in 1999 none of it was like
i ain't having none of it and became its own thing no but seriously inuit culture is one of
the most underrated and culturally fascinating things you'll ever encounter they speak enough
a cousin of the green landing language they can pretty much understand each other and they have
their own written script that you can find on street signs and traffic posts they have
a long history of vibrant traditions rituals games music and even cuisine if you ever come
here make sure you try some whale blubber and watch a throat game song which looks like this
who what a great way to make friends which takes us to
canada is not what i expected bro this is not what i need to watch maybe i need i'm gonna check out
geography now and see if he got something for the great big big white not big white
but the great america i don't even know why i said big white that sounds weird but uh like
imagine this guy tells me about american and he's just telling me all kinds of french spanish and
i'm like what bro i would have thought canada was would have been more dominantly like yes
i expect the caucasians right i expect that but when i start to hear about all of these
indigenous and all that bro i don't know my brain kind of messed up right
now broken i'm seeing canada in a different way right now rather than what i know like um
i'm telling you bro this is wild this is really well done this is wild bro it's friends with
everyone the end nah okay let's elaborate just a little bit more okay so canada does
kind of typically maintain a foreign policy that does encourage diplomacy outreach to
pretty much every country that they can grab at heck they even had good times with cuba after
the us put an embargo on them nonetheless canada's relations kind of typically shadow those of the us
allies with the same allies and opponents with the same opponents i mean have you seen the movie argo
first of all canada is not only part of the commonwealth but the commonwealth realm
yes there's a difference so in general they pretty much get along with everything that was once part
of the british empire then you get the francophone countries that also gel wealth canada as well the
funny thing is although the u.s complains about the immigration procedures of mexicans into the us
canada is actually trying to coerce and entice mexicans to come in with its low birth rate and
a need for a bigger workforce to assist the aging population canada has relaxed its immigration and
visa policies in order to gain skilled workers and specifically from the central american regions
flyers and advertisements are spread all over mexico encouraging them to move in of course when
it comes to those closest to them canada does have their top pick the united states some say canada
is like the little brother of the us some say it's like the best friend bro that's the exact reason
why i was thinking that i was going to watch this video i'm going to see like a lot of relations
like that's not what i saw i saw a lot of history and a lot of things that i never thought would
have even been other video like what this was kind of different man this was really different
it was not what i expected honestly but in all honesty canada and the us are kind of like
teenage high school sweethearts canadians and americans have been there for each other since
day one the us is the largest export and business partner of canada and shares the
closest diplomatic ties both nationalistically and militaristically the difference between canadians
and americans though is that americans gain their independence by force whereas canadians
buy diplomacy american immigration policy is like a melting pot where people are kind of expected
to assimilate whereas canadian foreign policy is kind of like a mosaic people are encouraged
to be distinct culturally in all honesty though they are kind of like a cute little
teenage boyfriend girlfriend couple sometimes they like to poke fun at each other but at the
end of the day they're totally dating and they're totally making out with each other in the back
of the movie theaters in conclusion canada you little sweet cheat you i'll pick you up at seven
we're going out for some pancakes on that island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
stay tuned to cape verde he's coming up next like exactly what he just said a lake on an island
i never even knew things like that even existed in canada bro like y'all don't even understand
how much i'm in this state of what like bro what i thought canada was it's not and it's really
triggering me right now like i'm losing my mind no way
no way no way it's good to learn though i'm sorry for doing all that weird stuff guys
either ways man we out of here man like and subscribe i'm out of here peace