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Originally Posted by rousseau
I'm sure there's lots of hunting in northern Ontario, just like in rural Quebec, but the point is that hunting is widespread throughout the U.S.
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I wouldn't go as far as to say that. I lived in the central valley of CA for six straight months and now that you mention it, hunting was inexistent over there. I do not recall having the slightest contact with the world of hunting while over there.
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Do you see this in Ontario? No. Are you saying that when hunting season starts in Quebec you see thousands and thousands of pickup trucks driven by hunters jamming the highways going north? Really?
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I suspect you don't see that anywhere else, because MI is a rare case of an entity delivering hunting permits to its residents (state level) that has a populated part with few forested areas and an unpopulated part full of pristine woods and game, so of course on the one main road (I-75) connecting the two there will be a considerable stream of residents moving from the populated part to the "hunting paradise" part at the beginning of hunting season.
But yes during hunting season in rural Quebec you'll certainly see hunters and pickup trucks carrying dead deers. I am sure it's the same in (the right parts of) Ontario (namely, Northern Ontario).
The main difference though is the trucks gun racks. You won't see that here.
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I'm not talking one or two, or an anecdote about your grandfather, I'm talking about something that is unmistakably a major part of the culture that is impossible to avoid. If this is really what it's like in Quebec, then wow, I had no idea. But somehow I suspect we're talking about vastly different degrees of scale.
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Rural forested Quebec? I would definitely say it's a major part of the culture.
You won't see it as a tourist in walled Old Quebec or in downtown Montreal, obviously.
But again, I am pretty sure it's also a major part of the culture in Northern Ontario. (Can anyone confirm or infirm that?)
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