Canadian Maps and Graphics
 

Canadian provincial election results in the past 60 years

http://38.media.tumblr.com/a400a619d...1p2o1_1280.gif

What each province in Canada googled the most in 2015

http://40.media.tumblr.com/0651b564e...nq9o1_1280.jpg

Naughty PEI! :D

some cool maps. Who the fuck would google beer?

Stay classy PEI

Gotta be related to the Beer Store and Brewers Retail.

Who the fuck would google facebook? :shrug:

The original source: Mtl Blog: What Each Province In Canada Googled The Most In 2015 (SignalHillHiker had posted it earlier in the entertainment/media/catch-all thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7824)

The blog post title is very misleading. The author apparently analyzed a bunch of specifically chosen words ("So I spend hours plugging a ton of words into Google Trends and here is what each province googled more than any other.") to see how they ranked across provinces and territories... so they likely don't actually represent the "most Googled", just the most among the words he picked.

It was too hard to believe PEI residents would have looked that one up more than any other; though I haven't spent more than an afternoon there 14 years ago and don't know anyone from the province, so perhaps my incredulity could be misplaced. :D

What is BAE ?

Happy Valley-Goose Bae?

Bae is an internetism that basically is an even shorter way to say babe.

Yes bae!

I's the bae who row's da boat~!

no, bae is an abbreviation for "beyond anyone else," a term of love akin to babe or sweetie, that originated in the black community.

Yes...it's both.

Pronounced "bay" or "buy"?

It's "babe" without the second voiced bilablial plosive.

No... it's just a shortened form of "babe", and the term have been around for over a decade in R&B music. It's only recently become really popular. "Beyond Anyone Else" is a backronym.

Maybe the Newfies thought it was a new way to spell B'y.

That's why I asked.

Hey, if you're not from St. John's, then I guess that means you're a bae-man ;)

Canadian population from 1851 to 1921

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXguvu8UoAUO5oe.jpg:large

I see that the abreviation of BAE needed a couple of explanation...

Toronto rent map by subway stop

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2016/04...ent-map-ls.jpg

Wow, I wouldn't want to be renting a 2BR at Bay/St. George, although come to think of it I am.

Ever wondered what the distances in your provinces represent compared to another prov. ?

Small map exercise.
Warning, 2048 px. wide.

Capital on capital.
Québec City on Toronto.
Same projection / Same scale.
What would Quebec be like in Ontario.



https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4299/...80b741ae_k.jpg

:previous:

I wanna see PEI superimposed on Ontario!! :yes: :haha:

Canada-based linguistic regionalism survey

http://i.imgur.com/7hwo53F.png

http://i.imgur.com/HtlCXam.png

http://i.imgur.com/Zv07OIO.png

http://i.imgur.com/akbMqas.png

http://i.imgur.com/XElENao.png

http://i.imgur.com/yjLi6AO.png

http://i.imgur.com/xbgdYon.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZStlHyo.png

http://i.imgur.com/om3bQID.png

http://i.imgur.com/8bbzvKD.png

http://i.imgur.com/RtLLBku.png

http://i.imgur.com/EzdZWU8.png

http://i.imgur.com/zRBZ9Jk.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZTz2uTM.png

http://i.imgur.com/nkWDfha.png

http://i.imgur.com/TDaQP3k.png

http://i.imgur.com/GUalUBw.png

http://i.imgur.com/Piwqp5M.png

http://i.imgur.com/Ftr3CCU.png

http://i.imgur.com/hSGZCob.png

http://i.imgur.com/uVEYVKa.png

http://i.imgur.com/xkowcF4.png

http://i.imgur.com/f3JqouK.png

I see that they only polled Quebec Anglophones for making those maps.

The result would have been interesting if they'd used a generic sample of Quebec residents instead. In many cases I'm guessing Québécois and Westerners would be the ones having common ground, with American rather than British words as you would normally see in "older" Anglo Eastern Canada. (Due to having a noticeably higher % of their cultural content that's American-sourced rather than GTA-sourced.)

I know electricity can kill you but is hydro dangerous? Do those houses have hydro outlets?

For here, it's

"Power outlets"
"Light switches"
"Electric meters" (or just "meters", as we don't have water meters)
"Hydro bills"
"is Hydro included with this apartment?"


(all translated into English to their most direct equivalent to the best of my knowledge for this post.)

Those are really cool.

My family actually perfectly fit into each one.

In BC we also tend to call major power lines "hydro-lines"

BTW, "light bill" is a dead giveaway people are burning stuff in their houses to heat themselves in winter. We'd never, ever call it like that. Anyone who would say that would get weird looks.

I never knew how regional garburator was (though now i see that my spell check doesn't recognize it, haha)

Another BC area word is "Parkade" for a multi level or underground parking area.

This one is a little weird to me. Generally, I trust statistical sampling over anecdotal evidence, but in all my life it's probably only been a handful of times I've heard someone say "electric(ity) bill", and I'm saying a handful because I can't actually think of any time I've heard it, but I don't want to dismiss it outright. People always complain about their "power bill", which makes sense since it's shortened from SaskPower. :shrug:

That one goes all the way through the prairies too. ;)

When I moved to Ontario I thought people were talking about their water bill when they said 'hydro'.

I have to question "Kraft Dinner/KD" as the generic term for "macaroni and cheese/mac and cheese". I have never heard it used that way and would find it odd if I did.

Parkade is definitely Canada-wide. For some weird reason they use the term in South Africa as well, but as far as I can tell nowhere else in the anglosphere does.

It's KD and parkade in the Maritimes. Garburator works here too.

It's still parking garage here, but parkade is making inroads (it's the official name of one newly-built one, etc.).

"Garburator" was a brand of garbage disposal, was it not? Sort of like "Kleenex" as the generic name for paper tissues?

In my experience it's definitely what people use for the cheap stuff with powder cheese and straight tubular pasta. Whether the brand is Kraft or not. (I've noticed that Americans have the same product made by Kraft but people down there don't call it Kraft Dinner or KD. I think they say Kraft Mac and Cheese or something...)

Back in Canada, a nicer macaroni and cheese (like your mom used to make) with curved macaroni pasta, real tomato sauce and spices, and real cheese, you'd obviously never refer to as KD or Kraft Dinner. It's not even the same colour.

"Kraft Dinner" is a uniquely Canadian thing, afaik. I've often wondered if it doesn't reflect the fact that macaroni and cheese is often a meal in Canada, while it is more of a side dish in the USA?

But I agree, I would have received a "look" from my mother, had I ever referred to her macaroni and cheese as "KD"! :)