Canada: Tell me about you're great country!

[GrymmWolf]

Even tho the people in each Province (like each State in the U.S) have a form of rivalry, as a whole Canada is a very diverse and unspoilt land.

After travelling around many parts of the world and listening to different cultures refer to us Canadians as "polite" and "non-violent" I am always amazing when I return home to see it is true.

There are so many wonderful places full of history here in Canada, mind you we're no Athens or Egypt but what we have is IMO a richness of natural resources (so much parkland even in our biggest cities.) unrivalled(sp?) by anyone.

[dsteele_7]

Canada is a great place IMHO and personally it's amazing, the cities are great, the land is great and in most cases so are the people.

In a decent part of ontario (eastern ontario, anyways) basic french is common knowledge but it's not neccesary, anyways half the time if you're an anglophone and u respond to someone in french they'll just kind of droop and start speaking in english... It's actually happened to me... lol... not so much anymore I've tried to work on my quebecois accent. The only thing is that if ur a european french speaker then the language sounds REALLY REALLY weird! Also if u know french and u travel to any of the small towns in quebec or even parts of eastern ontario and the maritimes then u'll hear a heavily ******ized version of french (and english too I guess) that's better called "Frenglish". Also, depending on where u go in quebec u won't see a single canadian flag and TONS of quebec flags. (just go to La Ronde on Isle St. H?llen in Montr?al)

Anyways, Toronto is a GREAT and diverse place tons of stuff to do no matter what ur into and a community for u no matter ur culture.

And of course I can't forget my native Ottawa, the capital of the country, with the distinctive green (cuz of the oxidization on the copper) roofed parliament buildings (actually they're being cleaned so right now part of the roofs are brown, and they might even get back to their original shiney copper colour). Theres alot to do festival wise, tulip-festival, blues-fest, winterlude to name a few. Plus Ottawa has the worlds longest outdoor skating rink when the rideau canal freezes in the winter. the Byward market has tons of great shopping and plenty of bars. Oh also one thing that you HAVE to try if you ever come to eastern ontario or quebec is poutine (pronounced poo-tin), it's french fries with curds and gravy (sounds gross but it's sooo good, and be sure to get it from a chip truck and not NY fries or KFC or McDonalds or anything). Also try a beaver tail (no it's not a real beaver's tail) it's a pastry that's depp fried and traditionally topped with cinnamon and sugar, there are variations with everything from bananas to reese's pieces on them but good old cinnamon and sugar is best.

Anyways Kinda long and rambling I know but w/e. Also I attached a picture of a beautiful sunset from a cottage that my family rents on Grand calumet island (really called Isle du grand calumet) in quebec along the ottawa river. I can send the full sized picture upon request... (actually I may post it as a WP... but w/e) email me at : dsteele_7 [ a t ] hotmail [ d o t ] com

[rollinup]

I live in the nations Capital (Ottawa) its alright..but Toronto KILLS it. Its were I was born and whenever I go there I feel so happy! Its possibly the best place in eastern Canada. Common fact: Toronto's CN tower is the worlds tallest building. I've been on the top and its pretty freeky. They have a plexiglass floor were you can look down and its FREEKY!! ;)

[dsteele_7]

Sorry to double post but I couldn't resist posting another great picture of the sunset from the cottage on Grand calumet island that my family rents.

Also another thing I wanted to mention is that Yes, canadians are very polite and for the most part non-violent, and yes we do have a small military and the ships in our navy are second hand, HOWEVER, Canada, in every major conflict that it has been in has been amazing. In WWI Canadians fought in some of the hardest and most gruesome battles ever and never gave up. In WWII canada was given the responsibility of taking the left side of the front when the ally forces were making their push into europe, and that left side included belgium and holland when had some of THE hardest terrain to move quickly across in europe (especially considering the fact that many of the dams and dykes were deliberately destroyed and/or open to try and keep the german backs and later to try and keep the allies back. Also Canada's military albeit small has some of the best equipment (naval vessels and seakings not withstanding) and training no matter what people would have you beleive.

Anyways here's another great pic.

[forum]

Common fact: Toronto's CN tower is the worlds tallest building. I've been on the top and its pretty freeky. They have a plexiglass floor were you can look down and its FREEKY!! ;)

Yeah thats one of the scariest things walking across that glass floor. :unsure:

[rollinup]

Forgot to add some pictures!

Great pic

Another great pic

Picture of Ottawa. In the middle is the parlament buildings. Pretty much were the government does their thing.

Canada day celebration in front of the parlament buildings.

Here are a lot more pictures.

Oh I almost forgot!

The plexiglass floor I mentioned in my last post. FREEKY!!!

[forum]

Oh I almost forgot!

The plexiglass floor I mentioned in my last post. FREEKY!!!

The guy who took that picture must have had a heart attack. :o

Your stomache rumbles like crazy when you're standing there.

[rollinup]

The guy who took that picture must have had a heart attack. :o

Your stomache rumbles like crazy when you're standing there.

I know. Its so scary!

[hyperactive]

I live in the nations Capital (Ottawa) its alright..but Toronto KILLS it. Its were I was born and whenever I go there I feel so happy! Its possibly the best place in eastern Canada. Common fact: Toronto's CN tower is the worlds tallest building. I've been on the top and its pretty freeky. They have a plexiglass floor were you can look down and its FREEKY!! ;)

Funny story about the CN tower: A friend and his gf went out to TO (she was originally from ON, he from BC). She took him up the tower and his first comments were "where are the mountians?". He really thought he would be high enough in the tower to see mountians somewhere!

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Even tho the people in each Province (like each State in the U.S) have a form of rivalry, as a whole Canada is a very diverse and unspoilt land.

Yea, he could move to Canada, settle in Alberta and learn to hate (envy) Toronto. :D

The major cities in Canada are very multicultural. You can ride a bus in Toronto and hear dozens on languages spoken. You can dine out and eat food from just about any culture (there are 6,600 restauraunts listed on toronto.com).

But even a small city in Ontario like Barrie (under 150,000) seems more multicultural than, say, Buffalo, NY (over 1 million). A medium-sized city like Hamilton (~600,000) is far more multicultural...

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Funny story about the CN tower: A friend and his gf went out to TO (she was originally from ON, he from BC). She took him up the tower and his first comments were "where are the mountians?". He really thought he would be high enough in the tower to see mountians somewhere!

She could also have driven him to the foot of an Ontario ski resort and he'd still say "where are the mountains?".

[neowin_hipster]

Not meaning to flame or anything but toronto is one of the stinkiest, ugliest, cities around.

I really suggest whistler. Best ski result in the world and host with vancouver in the 2010 olympics. Montreal and quebec city is a beautiful city. I've never been to calgary or edmonton but i hear they're nice as well. Victoria is another beautiful city on vancouver island. Quite scenic and "quaint".

[Finsta]

Montreal,

where you can get all the steamies you want and see how true pedrestrians sturggle.

[tripp]

well, lets be honest, us canadians have the best weed.... its fabulous!!!!!!

[maarch]

I know it's already been posted, but I'm from the province of Quebec and yeah if you came in the Eastearn Canada you NEED to try the Poutine

it's just so good, it dont look good, but it his, trust me

In Montreal, we have the old Montreal, a really great place, good restaurant, and the ambiance when it's night his really great there

Here the Tourist Site talking about Montreal

http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/B2C/00/de...?TitleBarItem=1

and here the one for all the province of Quebec

http://www.bonjourquebec.com/anglais/index.html

Some good place to visit in Montreal

- Olympic Stadium ( where you will see the talles inclined tower in the world )

- Biosphere

- La ronde

- Montreal Botanic Garden

- Insectarium

We have the Hockey Club the Montreal Candian

The basebal club, Montreal Expos

The best team of footbal in Canada, The Montreal Allouette

The best team of soccer in North America, The Montreal Impact

We have some great Festival ( jazz festival, Just for laugh,... )

You can see the show, Cirque du Soleil

In Quebec city they have

It would be long to name all the Museum, but they have a lot

the old Quebec, a really great place to go

The Ice Hotel, if you came in Winter ( you need to try it once if you like winter )

Some Festival

Good restaurants

[Erich]

I loved toronto! I didn't get to see much of it since I was there for only a summer and spent most of my time in borden, but from what I saw, I'd love to live there. I live in edmonton and love the place. Jasper and Banff have some awesome ski resorts... You have to go to marmot bason and Lake Louis atleast once. I dunno how Whistler stacks up against them though.

In edmonton, the two main languages spoken on the buses are English and Jive with the occasional oriental languages like mandarine...

EDIT: No one can argue that Montreal Canadiens have byfar the most history out of any nhl team, but enlight of the fact both canadian baseball teams suck, I'd go with the Blue Jays since they got two World Series' under their belt. And the football team with the most history is the Edmonton Eskimos - even though the allouettes have been around sligthly longer. The east fans just can't compare to the west fans...

Put it this way, the smaller the population of a province, the better the fans, with the exception of manitoba who think they are from ontario.

[maarch]

I have to argue whit the post Erich

Maybe for the Footbal you have better fans, but montreal have also great one

But if we compare hockey, Montreal his where you will find the best fans, Just look at the Playoff, everyone agree about it was the best place to play because of the fans

So the best fan are :

Footbal : Edmonton

Hockey : Montreal

Baseball : Toronto

ANd yeah I totaly agree whit you, our bsabel club s****, because of 1994 ( I think ) where we sell our top player because of money ( that's what they said ) but before that our baseball club was a very good one, if not the best

[Erich]

Montreal fans are hot and cold, IMO, they are the BEST fans when they win, but the worst fans when they lose. Just my opinion. And as far as football goes, sadly saskatchewan has better fans, but Edmonton fans are more recognized cuz we occasionally win a game or two.

[maarch]

Well for Baseball we didnt go to the game cause after 1995 it really didnt motivated us to see them play and now they alway loose :s

For the Hockey, even when the Canadian didnt make the playoff the Bell Center was full, and now it,s still full when we do the playoff, If I remeber we have the higers sell of tickets in the NHL

For The Allouetter well I couldnt see if we are cold whit them when they loose because they only loose 1 or 2 games per years, so..

[Xenos]

Alberta boy here........thats the strange looking place on the map between B.C. and Saskatoba. :p

Anyways.......yeah, if you ever come out to Alberta, get ready for some fun....all jokes aside, I'd never leave this province and have always been here since I was born. Love Edmonton with all my heart, the hockey history here rocks, the malls are some what over-rated in my opinion and even tho we are small in size we have many different venues through out our summer here. After all, we are known as Festival city and as soon as the summer kicks in you have everything from K-days to The Fringe to the Jazz festival and many more venues to check.

Not only that but further south is Calgary, a city very diverse and modern in its own right. Nestled pretty much a stones throw from the Rocky Mountains it seriously has alot to offer to tourists, although I'd complain about their roads and how spread out it is, but thats just me.

If you're into skiing and such, check out Banff and Jasper....very respectable places to kick up some fresh powder, sides the mountains views are breath taking no matter which way ya look at it.....

Don't listen to the rest of the blokes when it comes to Alberta.......take it from someone who was born and raised here....they might all say its dull and full of cowboys...but personally, I'd rather have them think that and keep their big city attitudes just there...in the big cities.... :happy: There is always something going on in Alberta, and if their isn't....just go to the West Edmonton Mall and down to Bourbon Street, they'll take care of ya there....heh heh.... :devil:

[Erich]

Well I'm not gonna argue, it's just my opinion, but I do remember montreal is pretty much the only team to be booed off the ice and then have a big ass party for their team in the same week during playoffs.

[kairon]

The Falls are nice when they are all lit up at night with multicolored lights, and maid of the mist is fun. Was there a few weeks ago and hope to live in Canada some day. (Y)

[maarch]

in playoff, booed our team.

I remeber we boeed the American Club ( Boston Bruins ) cause we dont like them. But I dont think we have booed our own club

That was for the playoff but yeah some stupid guys who dont know anything about hockey booed the Canadian, but what you want you will alway find some stupid fan out there

Anyway that's not the point of this topic.

[maarch]

If you want to came in canada, I think the best seaon his falls. That's simply beautifull

and if you want something you can only find in Quebec ( at least mostly in Quebec ), came in Autumn. You will find Mapple Sirup.

[rajputwarrior]

go habs go!

by far, the best part of canada in terms of beauty is british columbia, its hard to argue that point