History UsefulNotes / CanadianProvincesAndTerritories

->'''Notable media set in Ontario:''' ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', ''Series/TheListener'', ''Series/RookieBlue'', ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'', ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'', ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', ''Series/SchittsCreek'', ''Film/StrangeBrew'', ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'', ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', ''WesternAnimation/JustinTime2011'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDatingGuy'', ''Series/KimsConvenience''

->'''Best way to insult an Albertan:''' Serve a vegetarian meal[[note]]The Canadian country music scene, based in Alberta, famously turned its back on homegrown country singer k. d. lang not when she came out as a lesbian, but when she came out as a ''vegetarian'' (Thanks to Alberta's dominance over the Canadian cattle industry).[[/note]], vote [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal or NDP]] (this one may not work as well anymore, considering Alberta voted in its first NDP majority government in 2015[[labelnote:*]]due to a split in the provincial Progressive Conservatives, with many bolting to support the upstart Wildrose Party; the two merged soon thereafter and formed the United Conservative Party, which won a majority mandate in 2019[[/labelnote]]). Tell an Edmontonian that Calgary is better (or vice versa). Insult Calgary's mayor (Calgarians only).

->'''[[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Major League Baseball team]]:''' The Toronto Blue Jays are the country's only MLB team.[[note]]Montreal had an MLB team, the Expos, in 1969, eight years before the Jays were created. They usually sucked, but in 1994, they were the best team in baseball. However, 1994 was also the year the MLB Players went on strike, so the season ended before the Expos could claim the National League pennant and World Series everybody thought (and hoped) they were on track for. After the strike ended, the Expos proceeded to suck again for another ten years before they moved to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC in 2005, became the Nationals, and stopped sucking a few years later.[[/note]]

->'''Geographic shape:''' Rectangular but shifted on one end. Borders the UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}n panhandle, the exact dimensions of which were hotly debated between Canada and the USA until the Yukon Gold Rush forced a settlement. This makes it the only province to border both Alaska and the Lower 48 states in the US.

->'''Geographic shape:''' Rectangular but shifted on one end. Borders the UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}n panhandle, the exact dimensions of which were hotly debated between Canada and the USA until the Yukon Gold Rush forced a settlement.

->'''Notable media set in Newfoundland and Labrador:''' ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle'', ''Theatre/ComeFromAway'', ''WesternAnimation/WeirdYears'', ''WesternAnimation/WhatItsLikeBeingAlone''

->'''Best way to insult an Albertan:''' Serve a vegetarian meal[[note]]The Canadian country music scene, based in Alberta, famously turned its back on homegrown country singer k. d. lang not when she came out as a lesbian but when she came out as a ''vegetarian''[[/note]], vote [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal or NDP]] (this one may not work as well anymore, considering Alberta voted in its first NDP majority government in 2015[[labelnote:*]]due to a split in the provincial Progressive Conservatives, with many bolting to support the upstart Wildrose Party; the two merged soon thereafter and formed the United Conservative Party, which won a majority mandate in 2019[[/labelnote]]). Tell an Edmontonian that Calgary is better (or vice versa). Insult Calgary's mayor (Calgarians only).

->'''Famous people from New Brunswick:''' Creator/DonaldSutherland, Louis B. Mayer (one of the founders of Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer)[[note]] Born in Minsk, then in the Russian Empire and now in Belarus, but raised in Saint John.[[/note]], Northrop Frye, Music/StompinTomConnors

UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} is made up of [[TheFederation a federation of ten provinces and three territories]]. The theory of this is that each of the provinces is a separate, independent jurisdiction that has joined with the other separate, independent jurisdictions to form the united federation of Canada. As such, each has its own Lieutenant-Governor[[note]]If you're wondering why they're ''Lieutenant'' Governors and not Governors, it's because they were originally subordinate to the federal Governor General (who technically still appoints them and could theoretically overrule them). However, several court rulings made them into direct representatives of the Queen instead of the Governor General, effectively reducing the GG's powers and further increasing the autonomy of the provinces.[[/note]] and parliament of its own right. The territories, meanwhile, are under the direct control of the united Crown of Canada, represented in the territory by a commissioner (or to be more poetic: in a province, the Queen is the Queen because she the the Queen of the province. In a territory, she is the Queen because she is the Queen of Canada as a whole).

->'''Other useful info:''' Northwest Territories is one of two jurisdictions in Canada where Indigenous people are the majority (the other is Nunavut). Unlike other northern city, Whitehorse has a noticeably higher percentage of women than men. The Territory itself was created to get a handle on the Klondike Gold Rush which saw tens of thousands of people head north on the promise of getting rich quick (a lot of them turned back). The stories of Sam Steele, the poem "The Cremation of Sam [=McGee=]", and the original reputation of the RCMP are from this era. The key economic activities are mining, oil and gas extraction and tourism (people come to see the Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) and visit national parks and nature reserves).

->'''Other useful info:''' It's the rump of the vast North-Western Territories, which at one point encompassed an area comparable in size to India--basically everything northwest of Ontario, with the exception of BC. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, Manitoba, Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nunavut were all carved out of it (in approximately that order). The Yellowknife Tim Hortons coffeeshop is the busiest Tim Hortons in the country, in part due to it being the only coffee shop within a day's drive on the only trucking route that services all the mining operations in the North that are reachable by road. Similarly, the Hay River Ford dealership was the most profitable in North America for years until the mining companies started diversifying their fleet. Contains the (fictional) [[SantaClaus H-Zero-H-Zero-H-Zero]] postal code for Santa via the [[LifeImitatesArt real life location it's considered attached to]][[note]][[SantasExistenceClause if your kids ask]], thanks to modern pop culture you can tell them Santa [[{{UsefulNotes/Alaska}} has]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Finland}} multiple]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Spain}} forwarding]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Turkey}} addresses]] and [[{{UsefulNotes/Sinterklaas}} aliases]], and watch the questions disappear regardless of location[[/note]].

->'''Famous Yukon-ers:''' Pierre Berton, Victor Jory[[note]]long-time Hollywood character actor, possibly best remembered for playing villainous Wilkerson in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''[[/note]]

->'''Best way to insult an Albertan:''' Serve a vegetarian meal[[note]]The Canadian country music scene, based in Alberta, famously turned its back on Calgarian country singer k. d. lang not when she came out as a lesbian but when she came out as a ''vegetarian''[[/note]], vote [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal or NDP]] (this one may not work as well anymore, considering Alberta voted in its first NDP majority government in 2015[[labelnote:*]]due to a split in the provincial Progressive Conservatives, with many bolting to support the upstart Wildrose Party; the two merged soon thereafter and formed the United Conservative Party, which won a majority mandate in 2019[[/labelnote]]). Tell an Edmontonian that Calgary is better (or vice versa). Insult Calgary's mayor (Calgarians only).

->'''Other useful info:''' Northwest Territories is one of two jurisdictions in Canada where Indigenous people are the majority (the other is Nunavut). Every other northern city, Whitehorse has a noticeably higher percentage of women than men. The Territory itself was created to get a handle on the Klondike Gold Rush which saw tens of thousands of people head north on the promise of getting rich quick (a lot of them turned back). The stories of Sam Steele, the poem "The Cremation of Sam [=McGee=]", and the original reputation of the RCMP are from this era. The key economic activities are mining, oil and gas extraction and tourism (people come to see the Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) and visit national parks and nature reserves).

The Constitution assigns some policy areas to the federal government and some to the provinces, and made some policy areas shared. The federal government deals with issues like national defense, shipping, fisheries, and currency. The provinces lead on issues such as health care and education. Issues like agriculture, immigration and old age pensions are shared between the federal and provincial governments.

->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL teams:]]''' None, but some petitions exist to bring a NHL franchise to Halifax. Interestingly, Nova Scotia is the province where hockey was first invented; the first game on record was held in Windsor in 1789. The name is Latin for "New Scotland."

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Thick accents, fishermen, shift workers in Alberta, the lovable idiot (Newfie jokes)

->'''Other useful info:''' Unlike every other northern city, Whitehorse has a noticeably higher percentage of women than men. The Territory itself was created to get a handle on the Klondike Gold Rush which saw literally tens of thousands of people head north on the promise of getting rich quick (a lot of them turned back). The stories of Sam Steele, the poem "The Cremation of Sam [=McGee=]", and the original reputation of the RCMP are from this era.

->'''Most common stereotype:''' The chain-smoking, wine-drinking, foul-mouthed, Canada-hating, heavily-accented protester who will sleep with your girlfriend, the chain-smoking, beer-drinking, dip-using, foul-mouthed, Canada-hating, heavily-accented redneck who will roll coal on you in his lifted truck with a Quebec flag airbrushed on the tailgate, or the dreadlocked, weed-smoking, beer-drinking hitchhiker who speaks next to no English trying to hitch their way out to British Columbia to work as a fruit picker for the summer.

->'''Other cities of note:''' Nanaimo (yes, where Nanaimo bars come from), Whistler (yes, you do want to ski here), Surrey, Fort Nelson (last stop on the Alaska Highway before the Yukon), Prince George, Abbotsford, and more cities beginning with K than any other province (including Kamloops, Kitimat, and Kelowna)

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Hippies, tree huggers, pot growers, surfers, high Asian population and lumberjacks. If from within 25 kilometers of the border with the United States, [[{{UsefulNotes/Mormonism}} varying]] [[StrawConservative degrees]] [[DyingTown of]] tradition-focused [[{{Elders}} old people]] and the [[SmallTownBoredom recent high-school graduate who came to your university from]] towns essentially run by said old people.

->'''Other useful info:''' Home to the highest diversity of First Nations peoples, as was partially showcased during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Also home to Butchart Gardens, one of the most famous garden attractions in the world, and probably the most famous in North America. The otherwise non-notable ''small'' city of Castlegar [[VancouverDoubling is apparently]] [[GratuitousSpecialEffects a major centre of over 100k]] [[SpeakOfTheDevil where a certain creepypasta took place]]. The otherwise ''completely non-existent'' [[DyingTown "city"]] of Greenwood is apparently located on [[CaliforniaDoubling Vancouver Island]]. Everything else in proximity of the latter, near but to the west of the former, and southeast of Kelowna [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere may as well be a kilometres-long stretch of winding road through pristine forest in the eyes of the media]], and anything located anywhere near to the north [[TruthInTelevision actually is]]. Kokanee beer is made in the province at a brewery [[BlatantLies nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains]] and certainly not in the flattest part of the province east of the [[{{UsefulNotes/Vancouver}} Fraser Valley]].

->'''Best known for:''' Wheat, lakes, record coldest intersection, the "Gimli Glider"[[note]]An Air Canada plane that ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing in the town of Gimli in 1983 owing to a misunderstanding of Imperial vs metric units[[/note]].

There is a clear sense of [[FriendlyRivalry boisterous competition]] between all thirteen divisions (and sometimes within an individual region as well); for Ontario, this is mostly centered on [[EnemyMine Toronto]]. The Constitution assigns some policy areas to the federal government and some to the provinces, and made some policy areas shared. The federal government deals with issues like national defense and currency. The provinces lead on issues such as health care and education.

There is a clear sense of [[FriendlyRivalry boisterous competition]] between all thirteen divisions (and sometimes within an individual region as well); this is mostly centered on [[EnemyMine Toronto]].

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Southern Ontarians forget the rest of the country even exists, northern Ontarians are miners, loggers, or hunters and speak a strange hybrid language of French, English, and Cree. Ottawa, a city of public servants is considered sleepy by the rest ogf Ontario, who joke that its night life starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm. John Oliver jokingly called Ottawa "The city that fun forgot."

->'''Best known for:''' Being French, separatism, French, poutine, language laws, French, history, protesting students, rednecks, shitty roads and did we mention they speak French?

UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} is made up of [[TheFederation ten provinces and three territories]]. The theory of this is that each of the provinces is a separate, independent monarchy that has joined with the other separate, independent monarchies to form the united monarchy of Canada. As such, each has its own Lieutenant-Governor[[note]]If you're wondering why they're ''Lieutenant'' Governors and not Governors, it's because they were originally subordinate to the federal Governor General (who technically still appoints them and could theoretically overrule them). However, several court rulings made them into direct representatives of the Queen instead of the Governor General, effectively reducing the GG's powers and further increasing the autonomy of the provinces.[[/note]] and parliament of its own right. The territories, meanwhile, are under the direct control of the united Crown of Canada, represented in the territory by a commissioner (or to be more poetic: in a province, the Queen is the Queen because she the the Queen of the province. In a territory, she is the Queen because she is the Queen of Canada as a whole).

->'''Provincial capital and largest city:''' UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} (aka Hogtown)
->'''Other cities of note:''' UsefulNotes/NiagaraFalls, Hamilton (aka Steeltown), Guelph (aka Cowtown), Windsor (aka Car-town) (not really, borders UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, but isn't as depressed), London (like its namesake, is also on a Thames River), Kingston (home of the first Prime Minister), Sudbury (the world class Neutrino Observatory makes this city a good setting for sci-fi novels), Thunder Bay (best city for climbing up a frozen waterfall if you can overlook its WretchedHive status), Barrie (cottage country), and Kitchener-Waterloo (birthplace of [=BlackBerry=])

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Southern Ontarians forget the rest of the country even exists, northern Ontarians are miners, loggers, or hunters and speak a strange hybrid language of French, English, and Cree. Ottawa's night life starts at 6 and ends at 8pm.

->'''Other useful info:''' Ontario's last call is at 2 am, its neigbhour province is 3 am. Due to this neigbhouring cities such as Gatineau changed their closing hours to reduce drunk and driving.

->'''Best way to insult an Albertan:''' Serve a vegetarian meal[[note]]The Canadian country music scene, based in Alberta, famously turned its back on Calgarian singer k. d. lang not when she came out as a lesbian but when she came out as a ''vegetarian''[[/note]], vote [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics Liberal or NDP]] (this one may not work as well anymore, considering Alberta voted in its first NDP majority government in 2015[[labelnote:*]]due to a split in the provincial Progressive Conservatives, with many bolting to support the upstart Wildrose Party; the two merged soon thereafter and formed the United Conservative Party, which won a majority mandate in 2019[[/labelnote]]). Tell an Edmontonian that Calgary is better (or vice versa). Insult Calgary's mayor (Calgarians only).

->'''Other useful info:''' Actually one of the more successful provinces coming out of the recession, in part due to uranium mines and recently re-opened rare earth mines (metals used in high tech devices). Because it straddles two time zones, Saskatchewan doesn't follow Daylight Saving Time, thus matching Alberta on Mountain Time in the summer and Manitoba on Central Time in the winter.[[note]]Astute readers will note that this puts the province on DST year-round.[[/note]] The area immediately surrounding the Saskatchewan side of the biprovincial city of Lloydminster is an exception to this rule—that area uses Mountain Time with DST, keeping its clocks synchronized with Alberta year-round. Many residents of Alberta and B.C. were born and raised in Saskatchewan.

->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL teams:]]''' None, but some petitions exist to bring a NHL franchise to Halifax. Interestingly, Nova Scotia is the province where hockey was first invented; the first game on record was held in Windsor in 1789.
->'''[[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague CFL teams]]:''' None, but there was a plan to bring a team to Halifax once in the 1980s (the Atlantic Schooners). The effort to bring the CFL to Nova Scotia was revived in the 2010s, and as of mid-2021 the only thing keeping the Schooners from joining the league is apparently the lack of a definite stadium plan in Halifax.

->'''Most common stereotype:''' A little bit ridiculous, will drink you and your father under the table.

->'''Other useful info:''' Newfoundland was the last province to join Confederation - it was actually an independent British colony until 1949 (and still used the Union Flag as its provincial standard until 1980). In part due to historical isolation, some regions of Newfoundland have accents distinct enough that people familiar enough can tell what town, or even what part of that town, an accent is from. Recent expansion of offshore oil drilling has reversed the flow of immigration, leading to people finally moving ''to'' Newfoundland for jobs. On 9/11, the small city of Gander took in over 7,000 passengers from transatlantic airliners grounded due to the closure of North American airspace, an event chronicled in the musical ''Theatre/ComeFromAway''.

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Friendly lobster fishermen and potato farmers, and that you can drive across the province in less than a day...which is actually possible, but you gotta go fast.

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Big burly mountain men.

->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL teams:]]''' None, but Dawson City was once home to a team, the Dawson City Nuggets, which played a Stanley Cup final against the Ottawa Senators back when the Stanley Cup was still played by teams challenging the reigning champion. Unsurprisingly, they lost.

->'''Other useful info:''' It's the rump of the vast North-Western Territories, which at one point encompassed an area comparable in size to India--basically everything northwest of Ontario, with the exception of BC. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, Manitoba, Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nunavut were all carved out of it (in approximately that order). The Yellowknife Tim Hortons is the busiest Tim Hortons in the country, in part due to it being the only coffee shop within a day's drive on the only trucking route that services all the mining operations in the North that are reachable by road. Similarly, the Hay River Ford dealership was the most profitable in North America for years until the mining companies started diversifying their fleet. Contains the (fictional) [[SantaClaus H-Zero-H-Zero-H-Zero]] postal code via the [[LifeImitatesArt real life location it's considered attached to]][[note]][[SantasExistenceClause if your kids ask]], thanks to modern pop culture you can tell them Santa [[{{UsefulNotes/Alaska}} has]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Finland}} multiple]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Spain}} forwarding]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Turkey}} addresses]] and [[{{UsefulNotes/Sinterklaas}} aliases]], and watch the questions disappear regardless of location[[/note]].

->'''Other useful info:''' Also had the polar bear shaped license plates (as it was formerly part of the Northwest Territories until 1999), although vehicles are only used within towns as no town in Nunavut can be reached by an all-season road. (These were changed in 2012. There's still a polar bear on it, though.)

UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} is made up of ten provinces and three territories. The theory of this is that each of the provinces is a separate, independent monarchy that has joined with the other separate, independent monarchies to form the united monarchy of Canada. As such, each has its own Lieutenant-Governor[[note]]If you're wondering why they're ''Lieutenant'' Governors and not Governors, it's because they were originally subordinate to the federal Governor General (who technically still appoints them and could theoretically overrule them). However, several court rulings made them into direct representatives of the Queen instead of the Governor General, effectively reducing the GG's powers and further increasing the autonomy of the provinces.[[/note]] and parliament of its own right. The territories, meanwhile, are under the direct control of the united Crown of Canada, represented in the territory by a commissioner (or to be more poetic: in a province, the Queen is the Queen because she the the Queen of the province. In a territory, she is the Queen because she is the Queen of Canada as a whole).

->'''Famous Saskatchewaners (Saskatchewinners!):''' Brent Butt of ''Series/CornerGas'', Creator/KieferSutherland, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas Kiefer Sutherland's grandpa]][[note]]who was premier of Saskatchewan for 20 years and more or less invented Canada's single-payer healthcare system; he was voted "Greatest Canadian" in a 2004 survey)[[/note]], Gordie Howe, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/TatianaMaslany, Creator/KimCoates, [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper]], Wrestling/BrockLesnar (though he was born in South Dakota), ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, [[VideoGame/PunchOut Bear Hugger]][[note]]before the Wii remake of the first game retconned him to be from Salmon Arm, British Columbia[[/note]], and Tommy Douglas[[note]]the architect of Canada's health care system.[[/note]]

->'''Other useful info:''' Actually one of the more successful provinces coming out of the recession, in part due to uranium mines and recently re-opened rare earth mines (metals used in high tech devices). Because it straddles two time zones, Saskatchewan doesn't follow Daylight Saving Time, thus matching Alberta on Mountain Time in the summer and Manitoba on Central Time in the winter.[[note]]Astute readers will note that this puts the province on DST year-round.[[/note]] The area immediately surrounding the Saskatchewan side of the biprovincial city of Lloydminster is an exception to this rule—that area uses Mountain Time with DST, keeping its clocks synchronized with Alberta year-round.

->'''Notable media set in Alberta:''' Any oil documentary ever, FUBAR, Heartland (probably), ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'', ''WesternAnimation/CrashCanyon''

->'''[[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague CFL teams]]:''' The Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Elks[[note]]Formerly the Edmonton Eskimos, and briefly as the Edmonton Football Team. The new name allows them to keep their old EE logo, though it's now used only as an alternate logo.[[/note]]

->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL teams:]]''' The Montreal Canadiens (or "Habs") whose fans are known for rioting regardless of the actual outcome of the game. It is still a point of contention with the NHL commission that the Nordiques have not returned to Quebec City.[[note]]Nate Silver, the analyst mentioned in the note on Ontario teams, also agrees that the Nordiques should be revived as part of the same proposal that adds a team in Toronto and one in Hamilton. He also thinks reviving the Maroons of yore (or otherwise putting a second team in Montreal) would make economic and competitive sense. [[/note]] Also known for their lengthy and heated rivalry with the Boston Bruins.

->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA team]]:''' The Toronto Raptors, like the Blue Jays in MLB, are Canada's only NBA team.[[note]] Vancouver had an NBA team, the Grizzlies, established in 1995, but they usually sucked, and moved to Memphis in 2001. A few years later they stopped sucking.[[/note]]

->'''Most common stereotype:''' Southern Ontarians forget the rest of the country even exists, northern Ontarians are miners, loggers, or hunters and speak a strange hybrid language of French, English, and Cree. Ottawa's night live start at 6 and ends at 8pm.

->'''Famous Ontarians:''' Music/JustinBieber, Creator/PhilHartman, UsefulNotes/WayneGretzky, [[Series/HockeyNightInCanada Don Cherry]], Music/AlanisMorissette, Music/{{Rush}}, probably most of the other Canadians you've heard of (the anglophone ones anyway)

!!'''{{UsefulNotes/Quebec}}'''

->'''Capital:''' Quebec City
->'''Largest city:''' UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}
->'''Other cities of note:''' Sherbrooke (home to one of the biggest universities), Chicoutimi, Trois-Rivières (where all of your tax forms go), Gatineau (borders Ottawa), Laval, Longueuil (technically just a very large suburb of Montreal), Saguenay.

->'''Notable media set in Nova Scotia:''' ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'', ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' ([[CanadaDoesNotExist probably]]), ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'', ''Film/SelfDefense'', ''WesternAnimation/TheodoreTugboat'', mentioned in "You're So Vain" by Music/CarlySimon.

In keeping with Canada as the second largest country by land mass (only beaten by UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} in sheer size, and the majority of the country is cold empty forest just like them), most of these divisions are quite large; Nunavut in particular is almost as large as Europe. However, some provinces are much smaller, reflecting the divisions of the original settlers.

->'''Famous Manitobans:''' The Weakerthans, Music/NeilYoung, Music/TheGuessWho (and thus, by extension, Music/BachmanTurnerOverdrive), Tom Cochrane, [[Series/LetsMakeADeal Monty Hall]], Wrestling/ChrisJericho[[note]](born on Long Island while his dad was playing in the NHL, but grew up in Winnipeg)[[/note]], Wrestling/KennyOmega

!!'''Manitoba'''
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->'''Capital and largest city:''' Winnipeg
->'''Other cities of note:''' Brandon (aka, the other city in Manitoba), Churchill (not really a city, but they've got polar bears!)
->'''Best known for:''' Wheat, lakes, record coldest intersection, the "Gimli Glider"[[note]]An Air Canada plane that ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing in the town of Gimli in 1983 owing to a misunderstanding of Imperial vs metric units[[/note]].
->'''Provincial motto:''' ''Gloriosus et Liber''[[labelnote:*]]"Glorious and Free"[[/labelnote]]
->'''Provincial touristic motto:''' Friendly Manitoba
->'''Population:''' 1,342,153. Small.
->'''Notable media set in Manitoba:''' ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital'', ''Film/MyWinnipeg'', ''Film/CrimeWave'', ''Less Than Kind''
->'''[[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL teams:]]''' The Jets are back!
->'''[[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague CFL teams]]:''' The Winnipeg Blue Bombers
->'''Famous Manitobans:''' The Weakerthans, Music/NeilYoung, Music/TheGuessWho (and thus, by extension, Music/BachmanTurnerOverdrive), Tom Cochrane, [[Series/LetsMakeADeal Monty Hall]], Wrestling/ChrisJericho[[note]](born on Long Island while his dad was playing in the NHL, but grew up in Winnipeg)[[/note]], Wrestling/KennyOmega
->'''Most common stereotype:''' Really cold and really boring, but the people there are nice. Basically {{Minnesota|Nice}} (which [[UsefulNotes/{{Minnesota}} borders]] the province to the south) with polar bears.
->'''Best way to insult a Winnipegger:''' You mean there are other places in Manitoba? You mean there is a place called Manitoba?
->'''Other useful info:''' Hundreds of the lakes, streams, rivers, etc. are unnamed; a naming convention has been set up by the Manitoba government to acknowledge service people (such as firefighters, police officers, or soldiers) who are killed in the line of duty by naming a water body after them. Also, in Churchill there's a law actually banning you from locking your car during certain parts of the year, just in case a polar bear is wandering around, and a pedestrian needs a quick refuge.
->'''Geographic shape:''' Rectangular with an extra bit reaching out to grab Hudson's Bay