Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Geography By Geoff" channel.

  1.  @jmchez  Thank you.
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  2. "Vast majority" is an exaggeration. It's more like a slim majority. Ontario and Quebec together have about 24.1 million people out of the Canadian total of 39.5 million (Statistics Canada current estimate). That's 61%. But the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence area is only home to ~20 million of those, since southwestern Ontario, northern Ontario and northern Quebec are home to at least a few million. So it's probably somewhere around 50-52%.
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  3.  @vicckiss5655  He does in fact pronounce it the way native-born educated Torontonians do (doctors, lawyers, professors, bankers, etc.): ter-ON-to, with the second 't' enunciated as softly as possible.
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  4. Maybe you'd like it if only every second one of them were granted the right to vote, then?
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  5.  @julianb1474  He did mention the Mississauga indigenous tribe, and nailed the pronunciation.
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  6. True. The tensions ramped up in the late 1960s, peaking in the 1970-76 period. So by the 1976 census Toronto had caught up: both Toronto and Montreal had 2.8 million people (including suburbs). Now it's 6.7 million and 4.4 million respectively.
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  7.  @KevinWendigo63  I didn't want to go into pinpoint detail, but there is also a zone between northern Ontario (traditionally defined as the area north of Lake Nipissing) and the Golden Horseshoe. Likewise in Quebec, there are zones not properly regarded as either the St. Lawrence valley or northern Quebec. The point is that there are not far from about 2 million people combined in the two provinces who live away from the southern regions, even if not all of them are typically regarded as part of "the north." In any case, it doesn't matter whether food is grown in a given area. If there is an economic reason for people to live somewhere, then food can and will be shipped in. If you need examples in order to understand this, consider places like Norway, Las Vegas and the Persian Gulf States, which simply import a lot of food from elsewhere. Local self-sufficiency in food was more an issue a lifetime or more ago.
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  8.  @josecarvajal6654  Thanks. So Mr. Geography didn't really get it right in the video?
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  9. Yeah, just like Australia and the US west of the prairies. No one anywhere in the world wants to move to any of the three.🙄
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  10. Several tens of millions of Americans live right beside or close to the Great Lakes, so I guess they're huddling along the border trying to stay cool.
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  11. 😂Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra?
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  12.  @millevenon5853  No, as close to the equator as possible. It's about the climate and agriculture.
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  13.  @kungszigfrids1482  I like the way you sound. Come on and give it a try.🇨🇦🇱🇻
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  14. The 'golden' part concerns wealth. When the name was devised in the mid-1950s Hamilton was definitely prospering.
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  15. Yeah, but they arrived in the 1780s and 90s, getting close to 250 years ago. And they were the most British of the British-Americans. They thought the Founding Fathers were a bunch of terrorists and radicals, which by the standards of the era they most certainly were (gentlemanly though many of them in fact were).
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  16. Quibble: American newsprint came from Canada for a long, long time.
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  17.  @vicckiss5655  Wrong lake.
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  18. Namely what pack?
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  19. Sort of. "For the third straight year, the nine-county Bay Area lost population from July 2021 to July 2022, bringing the total population down to 7.56 million, a loss of over 200,000 people since the pandemic began." —"Bay Watch—2022 Population Trends", Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Jan. 27, 2023 So the GH is 1/3 more populous. Also, while Toronto winters are far colder than SF, Toronto summers are far hotter.
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  20. But they did, for over a century. Check out the splendid old public buildings, hotels, office towers and private mansions in Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland. It was only after the mid-1960s that things in those places went, uh, south.
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  21. Your idea shows a lack of understanding of the world. Nothing really depends on observations like that. Having said that, however, I think Canada and the US are destined to become a single country. Unification will increase the chances of our mutual survival and prosperity in an increasingly hostile and totalitarian world. It's likely our two countries/unified country will also become much tighter with the UK and Australia as well, despite how far away they are. I think there must be at least a couple of billion people in the world (probably closer to 4 or 5 billion) who'd dearly love to see the downfall of the entire Anglosphere, and that's a problem.
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