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Originally Posted by esquire
'What are your province's Canadian blind spots' would make for an interesting off-topic Canada subforum thread...
I have to say, in Manitoba we are totally aware of Alberta, and there is a decent degree of familiarity with BC (Lower Mainland), Saskatchewan, southern (but not SW) Ontario and Montreal. But the rest of Quebec and the Atlantic provinces (other than maybe the Halifax area) are a bit of a blind spot for sure. My friends and family are fairly well travelled but hardly anyone I know has spent much time in New Brunswick, for example. It's practically terra incognita.
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That would make an interesting subform thread. Canadian's blind spots for Saskatchewan would be that most Canadians don't know Saskatchewan
isn't completely flat across the entire province, but has alpine areas at it's higher elevations particularly in the South West and has low lands in the north east drainage basin to Hudson Bay. Over 1,100 meters difference in elevation overall in the province, giving Saskatchewan greater hills and valleys than other provinces in Canada
between* the Rockies and the Quebec/Labrador Mountain range.
Another blind spot for Canadians about Saskatchewan would be the weather.
Most Canadians think Summers and Winters across the province are the exact same everywhere no matter where you go in the province even though the South West corner of the province is closer to Arizona than it is to the inverse opposite corner of the province, and the town where I come from only has intermittent snow on ground and for only part of Winter, also weather reports of blizzards in Saskatchewan's far north don't automatically mean blizzards in the South and across the entire province and all four corners as well. Americans have a very generalized idea of weather for Canada, some thinking Canadians live in igloos but some Canadians aren't much better in knowing weather in the country and particularly Saskatchewan.
As far as awareness of other provinces, I'd say Manitobans know more about the the provinces heading west, proportional to distance, than say BCers know about provinces heading east.
Saskatchewanians know more about provinces heading West than provinces heading east, and Albertans more about BC and Saskatchewan than the other provinces heading east.
Neighbouring American states and further South hold more attention of Western Canadians than to central or eastern provinces in Canada. Atlantic Canada being so remote is therefore a fairly big blind spot for most Westerners. It wasn't until my first time in Halifax did I correct a lot of misconceptions for myself that I think most Canadians that haven't been, hold for Atlantic Canada.
As far as homerism, I'm Saskatchewan Rider Pride first and bleed green. Western Canadian second and when I'm across the pond I'm a bolster of Canada as a whole.
When I'm in America and mention I'm from Saskatchewan, I'm just as likely to hear "you're from the home of Joni Mitchell, Gene Simmon's wife Shannon Tweed, Skip-The-Dishes founder" etc etc than I hear about Drake or Alanis Morrisette.
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Originally Posted by PortaPetee
You just reminded me that the first time I ever saw a clip from Mrs. Brown's Boys I legitimately thought it was in Newfoundland...
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You were mistakenly thinking of Newfoundland's Mary Brown's fried chicken I'm guessing?, which I first heard of last month on SSP for the first time...
Unless I'm mistaken there is no connection of any sort of Newfoundland to Mrs. Brown's Boys which is produced by BBC in Scotland but set in Ireland. The main actor first started voicing the character of Mrs Brown as a radio play but then had to do it in drag when it became a theatrical show and then a tv show in front of a live audience. My husband introduced the show to me among other Britcoms that we've watch on Britbox.
*edited for my exact meaning