MYNXCAT!~! You should come to MONTREAL to meet FELLOW GREXERS naftee and POLYTARP sometime from August 20 to 25. EVERYONE IS WELCOME.66 responses total.
POLYTARP. Thank you so much for your invitation. I really appreciate it. However, till I get my extension to my visa stamped on my passport, I will not be able to leave the country, or I will not be allowed to return :( It will take me 10-12 weeks to get my visa stamped. I will take you up on your offer and come and visit with you and NAFTEE when I make my final move to Canada. I would like to see Montreal, I hear it is very pretty.
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I was in Montreal for 6 month in 1993. I loved it.
COME AGAIN
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Already did, thanks.
You're welcome!
Julie and I have visited Western Canada, but not Eastern. (We've been to B.C., she to Kelowna, and I to the Victoria/Vancouver area for Expo '86). I've heard a lot about Montreal from an older friend of mine and might visit someday-- maybe with him. Unfortunately, I don't know a lick of French, much less the Canadian French dialect. (His French is pretty good, though.)
You'll do fine with just English, but the fact remains: Montreal is CENTRAL Canada, not Eastern.
Whatever.
Jak, what was your impression of Vancouver? I'm planning to move to Canada sometime within the next year, and would like to know what it's like
The Eastern Canada Orchid Society is located in Montreal.
Right, that means Montreal is in Eastern Canada.
The fact is Montreal lies in Quebec. Canada's EASTERNMOST Provience. :P
It was a LONG time ago, Sapna. (Almost twenty years ago.) I think I remember Fairmont Hot Springs better. Very green and cool. We stayed at a place where the pools were heated by the hot springs that give the place its name. I wish I could remember Vancouver better. It was pretty crowded then for the Expo and I doubt I could really tell you very much. If I remember correctly, I think doob and prostitution is legal here, but I'm not perfectly sure.
Vancouver is a neat walkable city, with lots of nice waterfront and lots of very skinny sky scrapers.
Oh, and Vancouver has a very large quantity of Gibbards listed in the phone book, most or all of whom are probably related to me, but the only relatives I've actually met there have a different last name. (my grandpa grew up in a small town near Vancouver, and had 65 first cousins in the same small town when he was a kid)
Pay for my ticket and lodgings and buy me a beer, and I'm there. Before you mention it, I have a job now, polytarp.
Quebec = easternmost` What did you do with New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prience Edward Island, and Nova Scotia?
Maybe the maritime provinces are considered to be beneath notice?
Yes, Quebec most certainly is not in eastern Canada. It's central,.
If Canada were divided into thirds, Quebec would be in the Eastern third. It's really a matter of how you define the terms Eastern and Central.
Ontario and Quebec are central. Everything east and west of them are, respectively, eastern and western Canada.
That must be based on a combination of population distribution, and population distributiong 100 years ago?
It's based on what the fuck I say it is, scg.
What the map says and what the people who live there call it are not always the same thing. Maybe cartographically Ann Arbor is not in the Midwest and Montreal is not in central Canada. For example, like Montreal, Ann Arbor is in the "Eastern" time zone. But Ann Arbor *is* in the midwest, and Montreal *is* in central Canada. "Eastern Canada" means something completely different.
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Ohio is definitely mid-west, even though it's in the easternmost third of the country.
I think Michigan is a combination of East and Midwest, sort of like Texas is a combination of South and West. (Not that Arizona is not Southern at all.) We can't call Michigan "Mideast" so it has be something like "East Midwest". Ohio is the same, though bits of south start leaking in there. The lines are sharper in some places than in others. The border between Midwest and east covers several states. The border between East and South is pretty sharp. The border between South and West runs just a smidgeon East of Austin. The difference may be that Michiganders are Midwesterns who kind of wish they were Easterners, while folks in Quebec are absolutely sure that they don't want to be mistaken for Newfies.
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I always think of Pittsburgh as being in the midwest but Philadelphia is definitely in the east. :)
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If I remember correctly, Joel Garreau defined The Rust Belt to include parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Indiania (where else would Gary, Indiana, be?). There is some overlap with the 'traditional' Midwest, which seems to have some relationship to the Northwest Ordinance.
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Michigan - Champions of the West
<Geographically speaking, the central part of Canada has NO PEOPLE IN IT.>
Except in the submarines...
I've come to the conclusion, that, at least as it relates to sports, people have no idea where Detroit is. There are 4 major professional sports leagues, Detroit is in: - The NHL's Western Conference - The AL Central Division - The NFC Northern Division - The NBA's Eastern Conference
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re 38: Eh. I think all of those are vaguely reasonable with the exception of the NHL.
re #40 - and the NHL wouldn't have that problem if they went back to using the names "Campbell Conference" and "Prince of Wales Conference"
Just remember that from Detroit you go south to Canada...
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O, by the way, Montreal hit off just fine, thanks, but we only met up with one M-netter who wasn't anyone from this item.
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Huh? Sparkle didn't show up, Tod.
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She wasn't at the hotel, ToD.
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The hotel was right above the train station and that's where we went: We went to the hotel.
Who did you meet up with? Will you meet up with me when I come to Canada?
We met up with the M-Netter haifeng. Yes, of course.
I thought haifeng was chinese?
Nope.
haifeng is certainly not chinese. sparkle was certainly not there. it's too bad mynxcat wasn't there. re 8 I've never heard of a Canadian French Dialect. I have heard of a French Canadian accent.
I'll be there one of these days.
Montreal's a nice town. I had lunch there the day the power came back on. Things were a little confused.
Uh, I doubt things would've been confused, because Montreal's on a SEPERATE POWER GRID, but still Montreal rocks
Are you sure? I thought Montreal was affected by the outage. At least the comments made by the waitress at the first cafe I went to seemed to suggest it.
Yes, I'm sure. Quebec's got its own power grid.
They don't trust power generated by English-speaking people.
I'm not convinced...
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(A good while back, I heard that Quebec had a really nice source of hydro-electric power in its northern reaches. I heard of it when transmission lines were being built to import that electricity into New England. Personally, I'd guessed that the failure of those lines caused the blackout in August.) Still, I'd take the word of a waitress in the town over the word of dah.
Or you could do research and realise how I'm right.
If they have good hydro-power sources, they may not be tied into the grid for the same reasion northwestern states are reluctant to join the eastern part of the U.S. grid -- they're enjoying very cheap power that would get more expensive if people from other regions could also buy it.
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