A portrait of Canada's provinces (20/2/22)

Hi. So I was asked to do a presentation about Canada. So here it goes,

it's going to be about the stereotypes that

Canadians have about the provinces of the country.

I would also try to describe them and give you some information or facts about them.

There are 10 provinces and three territories in Canada.

So like the territories or the upper

is the upper part and those are the provinces.

So here we go with the first one, which is

british Columbia,

british Columbia

where there is a lot of mountains and big forests that meets the ocean as you can see.

It's a great place where people go well watching hiking and fishing.

The people there have a reputation to be kind of hippies who, who does yoga and

that kind of stuff.

There are also seen as laid back and relaxed people.

Secondly, there is Alberta in orange

where where you can also find the mountains, but also desserts and farmlands.

Alberta is perceived as the bad guy who

pollutes a lot because of their oil production.

That's why it can be referred to as the 30th province of Canada.

Alberta is also known for its national park named bam

B A N F F.

It is very touristic.

Is, yeah, it's the picture right there,

strangely the people in Alberta share like

cowboy culture. So they kind of looks like Texans wannabes.

So yeah, that's kind of special in my opinion.

And then now for another province, there is Saskatchewan,

This province reputation is a little bit boring

and yeah, it's a flat land. So it's mostly farmlands,

The capital of the province is Saskia isn't Saskatoon, but it's original

and those are like two big cities and yeah, they're always

mixed up. So everybody confuses the two of them all the time.

Like to know

which one is the capital, it is. Regina.

Okay.

Yes.

Um, and then if we go, if we go a little bit more to the right, we will find Manitoba

in short, Manitoba is a place where

there's a lot of

indians people

but they also live everywhere in the country

the summers there.

Um,

well in the summer there is a lot of mosquitoes

there.

That's what I meant to say.

Another fun fact um,

is

it's that there's a lot of bears in Canada

but in Churchill which is a city in the north part of Manitoba, the people

leaves their car door doors

unlocked in case somebody would need a shelter to protect themselves

from a bear.

I thought that was pretty unusual. So here you go.

And next we have the province where we can find Canada's largest city,

Toronto as well as our capital, Ottawa

and this province is Ontario,

it is the most populous and the richest province of the country,

yep.

And many known celebrities are from there

just like Justin Bieber the weekend shaman dies and

I'm sure you know many more.

It is also the home of popular american sports teams.

A famous thing to see in Ontario is

Niagara falls.

Yeah, pretty impressive

And stereotypically the ones who lives in Ontario are cold hearted bankers

that's like, yeah, the typical men's you would see in this city like

that's the first thing that comes up to your mind. Um Again a fun fact

apparently as Canadians use the word, Sorry, a lot.

So in Ontario an apology act exists, which means that if you say sorry at the time

of a crime or an incident,

it won't count as an admission of guilt,

only an expression of sympathy.

Yeah.

So if it wasn't for that act, there would be a lot of apologetic

apple logic.

Mhm. People in persons in prison. Yeah. You see what I mean?

Um

Yeah, let's move on now. The next one is that the big

blue province, which name is Quebec?

It is where I'm from.

It's a place known to have many folk musicians and the population

is french speaking,

it's a professional hockey team.

The Canadians of Montreal has won the most Stanley

cup in the history of the national hockey League,

which we are very proud of our team, which yeah, this

is low the logo. Yeah.

The stereotypes of somebody from Quebec

is that it's a full french speaking person with separatist idea because yes,

it's pretty much out of the blue,

but Quebec did consider becoming a country by itself in the last century.

So yeah,

kind of special.

Um the population in Quebec are very proud of their maple syrup that they produce.

I guess

maybe we live up to the stereotype there.

Um yeah, the population also really loved the national dish of the country,

which is the Putin that you can

see there.

Yeah, and the Putin was created in Quebec actually, so yeah,

we're pretty proud of it and the meal consists of fries,

gravy sauce and bits of cheese

and I know it must sound weird to you, but

I assure you,

it's pretty good. So you have to try it to like,

yeah,

I guess you have to try it to know what you're missing

and yes,

let's move on. If we move it,

we move a little bit geographically

to the right up. Yeah,

well,

we'll find new founding in labrador.

Um This province is perceived as the friendliest province

and it is also known for its icebergs.

The people there have funny accents

accent

and the stereotypes is that they're all comedians,

but you will see that their humor is probably not what you would

like qualify has

very funny.

Yeah,

we call like they're kind of joke, the

new feed jokes.

So yeah, I'll show you one of them.

Um it goes like this. A new fee rolls into his factory job at 10.30.

The floor manager comes up to him and says

You should have been there at 9:00

to which the new fee responds why, what happened?

So, yeah, how funny is that? Very funny, right?

Um, but

yeah, they're kind of popular for that

kind of joke

and, and then we move up to like the little provinces that we call them mary teens.

Yeah.

And their reputation revolves around commercial fishing,

hard drinking and unemployment

said like that. It sounds like captain a dog's paradise. Kind of.

But fortunately it is only a reputation.

Yeah.

So one of the provinces of the mary teams is called new Brunswick.

Yeah,

it is a bilingual province. It's popular to go there

to see whales. And the stereotype is that the population is made of Lumberjacks and

eco hippies.

Yeah.

Nice.

Yeah. That's what I was talking about

the reputation.

Um, another one

is Prince Edward Island,

which is very tiny compared to the other Canadian provinces.

It is where the famous story anne of green Gables takes place.

The province is characterized by lighthouses, seafood and red sand beaches.

Yeah. And it's pretty much as simple and pretty as that.

Next there is

nova Scotia

which is also bilingual and again, mainly populated

populated

by fisherman's.

It is where Canada's largest novel base is situated

and it is also the most populous atlantic province.

Yeah,

that's it.

And now we're moving to the upper part

of Canada where there is the three territories.

The difference between provinces and territories

is that they have slightly different constitutional constitutional powers,

yep, A little bit of information.

Um, the first one to the left is the Yukon Territory.

It is known for its mountains, its glaciers here. Field lakes

and it's gold mining history.

Fun fact.

It's where the coldest temperature in North America was recorded,

it was -63°C outside.

So yeah, that is pretty cold.

And the territory in the middle is called the Northwest Territories.

And let me reassure you,

it isn't kim Kardashian's daughter's private property.

Ha ha. Um Yeah,

even though the ground contains contains diamonds,

I don't think that it would be enough to convince her to live in an igloo.

And yeah, the igloos are purely stereotypical. Yeah, people

don't live in those anymore. It's

yeah, I think of the past and like

very old path.

It's also a great place for hiking, fishing and whale watching, but also to see

Northern

Lights.

Yeah, that's pretty amazing.

And then the last one is Nunavut.

Yeah, it actually really is the last one since it only became a territory in 1999.

The rest of Canada was well established at that time.

Yes,

that mainly,

well that's mainly why nunavut doesn't really have any stereotypes yet.

However, it is a territory with largely

largely

Virgin Line

lands.

Yes.

And the inhabitants in nunavut are mostly indians.

Yeah.

Um So that was a little summary of what the country looks like.

The country is very big and diversified. So Canada is a lot more than that.

It was just like

a little

taste of like

yeah,

like how we perceive on the surface,

every provinces

And I think you should really try to go and see it for yourself one day

and then yeah, you can tell me

for yourself, if you think

we live up to those stereotypes and

yeah, what you think

about the country yourself?

Yeah.

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