Tropers of Canada!

Pretty much everyone buys bags here.

Also, hello. Born and raised Ottawan (I think I'm the only one of TVT, sadly). Planning to go to Montreal for university if my grades are good enough. If not, Toronto, Kingston, or possibly further west.

edited 13th Aug '12 9:35:30 PM by czhang

Hows she goan? Maritimer here! A New Brunswicker, to be specific!

Any other Maritimer peeps around?

Zhangy: Sadist is from Ottawa, I think. :o But she doesn't really come here much anymore. >.>

Eyes: Hello! :3

Yeah, I'm from Nova Scotia.

Now all we need is someone from the Territories. :o And the Prairies, of course. :p

I'm from the prairies

edited 17th Aug '12 9:05:05 PM by eldritchseer

Alright, We`ve got all the province regions! :3

So what now? Make a superhero squad based off the provinces?

Zersk: I've never met them. Probably before I joined.

I vote we form the JLC.

Zhangy: She was cool. :3

i was born in calgary, same hospital as cory monteith (aka Finn on Glee)

though it's not exactly a huge surprise given how big the hospital is.

I'm from Toronto and living in Guelph. Also, JLC is seconded.

16 days until Canadian Thanksgiving...

wow. i actually completely forgot about that. we just celebrate american thanksgiving at my house (it's easier to remember because it's very close to my sister's birthday), though we did do canadian thanksgiving once after moving to wisconsin. my mom's friend brought a banana cream pie!

Canadian Thanksgiving is why we never have family at our house for Thanksgiving. They all have to take extra time off work to come visit.

Hello this isn't to much of a necro is it? (Probably is)

Anyways I'm from B.C.

Question for Canadians: do you perceive "hey, neighbour!" to be a stereotypically Canadian phrase? I was reading that Target Canada's first ad campaign is "Can't wait to meet you, neighbour!" and wondered if it sounded like Americans trying to sound Canadian, and if that would turn off some people.

I mean, it's no "Let's go down to Target and get a two-four, eh? Something something aboot something."

Despite my best efforts I seem to be becoming the sort of person who gets offended on other people's behalf.

I think of 'hey, neighbour' as more of a folksy American phrase from another time.

Can't say it is. That's weird.

I will start doing that now, though.

Yeah don't think it is.

Hm. Thought I'd come across a depiction of Canadians with McKenzie Brothers accents saying "hey, neighbour!" a lot.

Part of what makes it feel aggressively Canadian to me is spelling "neighbor" your way.

@Para Ah but other countries spell it that way too (granted none of them are the States), I admit I didn't notice the spelling probably because its what I'm used to.

Yeah, I usually think of it as "the British way", but just the fact that it's "foreign" shakes the whole sentiment out of a "just another ad" space.

"Quotation marks". (Do you call them "inverted commas" in Canada too? Actually, I guess that'd be 'inverted commas'.)

edited 23rd Apr '13 12:44:47 AM by TParadox

People really say inverted commas? I thought that was a joke-name for them.

Hi, I'm from Canada as well. Ontario more specifically.