American Reacts to 7 Myths About Canadian Culture

As an American it is safe to say that we have a lot of assumptions about Canada and how things work there. That is why I am very exited today to learn about these 7 myths about Canadian culture, and why they are not true. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

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Tyler E.
PO Box 2973
Evansville, IN 47728

[hogweed]

Growing up in the country we never locked our door. Still to this day I can go to my parents house and just walk in. I live in a city now and it would be stupid of me to not lock my door. It really depends on where you are. Since the majority of Canadians live in cities, the majority would lock their doors.

[cheryla]

Actually in small town Canada a lot of people don’t lock their doors still. In Churchill Manitoba it is actually illegal to lock your car doors. Also most leave their homes unlocked as well. The reason is to provide escape from polar bears. Also if someone stole your car, they wouldn’t get very far as the only way in or out of Churchill is by plane or train!

[VideoGameVillians]

As for the door locking in Canada, at least for my friends and family whom I can confirm with, we don't tend to lock doors when we're home, but we do absolutely lock them when we go out or go to bed.

And the Michael Moore documentary where he made that claim does show him entering people's homes in Canada unhindered, but the people are home so that seems to follow with my experience.

[Crunchbite_Daimyo]

We left our doors unlocked growing up and we lived in a mid-sized city. That has slowly changed over the years, but I wouldn't feel completely unsafe if I forgot to lock it while I was out or sleeping.

[snow]

I never thought American beer was weaker in alcohol but rather weaker in flavour. Which is true. Budweiser is like beer-inspired pond water.

[dwaynecharles]

In my province there is a town in the north where it is illegal to lock your car doors because the residents may need access it to escape polar bears. That's true. Like others here when I was growing up my parents never locked their door since we lived in a rural area and it was generally agreed that if someone needed to access your house during the winter they could find warmth and shelter from the weather especially if they had car trouble or had gotten stuck in the snow..

[wendieking]

One thing about Canada’s winters and Canadians is, that we help each other. We just had a small storm and got a couple of inches of snow. My husband went out to shovel the driveway and a neighbour from two doors away had done it already. He’s in his mid fifties helping the mid 60s out. Before snowploughing was don’t by contract people helped each other do their driveways or you paid a kid. UPDATE, Last evening while my husband was at work our neighbour did the rest of the driveway and widened it! We have to give him a Timmy’s card, as a thank you gift. Timmy’s hearing “ Thank-you, has never tasted so good!”

[ArtisticWeeb]

Igloos are really just an inuit thing that we (I'm inuit myself) do in the winter for fun, it takes around an hour or two to make them and the snow has to be hard and not really soft otherwise it'll just crumble

[susanblouin]

While camping in BC, in 35 degree weather in August, I met two Americans from Oregon. They heard what the temperature would be and brought parkas & boots with them!
Okay, they didn’t know about Celsius (scary) but I give them credit anyway for still wanting to come up here thinking the temperature was 35 Fahrenheit. 🤷‍♀️

[darcymartin]

I grew up in a small farm town on the Prairies. We never locked the doors to our house, either on the farm or in town.

[MarcSherwood]

When we moved to Saint John from Toronto, we walked into our new house and found that someone had been in there before we had arrived. Oh no! The "intruders" had left a new coffee maker and a note welcoming us to the area. I was just a small child at the time, but that set the bar for living in a a friendly place.

[CalixYukon]

Getting a gun license in Canada requires taking a course and passing a test, having references that will vouch for you, passing a federal criminal background check, and a waiting period. Probably why our gun crime is so much lower...

[rfmx]

Rural Ontario town here, we don't lock our door unless we are going away for a night even then we will forget to lock a side door or leave a sliding door unlocked. For my vehicle it depends where I am parking and time of day. In town I wont lock my car doors, and rarely lock my doors when parked at night in the drive way. I don't' have any valuables in the car ever, but do have a bad habit of throwing my keys in the cup holder so I don't need to carry them around with me when grocery shopping.

[pjperdue]

About the weather... I once went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (slightly north of the latitude of Anchorage, Alaska) one summer for their Midnight Sun festival. On June 21 it was 25°C (77°F) and gorgeous. No, there isn't snow year-round anywhere.
I used to live in the Okanagan Valley of BC (just over the border from central Washington state). I had to move away because the long summers routinely get to 40°C (104°F). WAY too hot.
I now live in Victoria, BC where we get maybe a week of snow each winter. We literally have palm trees here. It's never too hot or too cold. 🙂

[cybercat]

I grew up on the family farm located near Beulah, Manitoba, Canada and I was taught gun safety from a young age. I was 14 years old when my Dad taught me how to shoot the 22 rifle. There is a fence post on the farm with two bullets in it from that 22 rifle almost an inch apart and in an almost vertical line.

[josephmenton]

I live in small town Ontario (pop.350), never lock our doors, I don't even have keys for the locks, many times I even leave the keys in the truck . If I lived in a larger community I would lock the doors of the house but only when I wasn't home . I would make sure my vehicle was locked up over night for sure . I'm really enjoying your video's Tyler !!

[lacteur]

1. "The Great White North" nickname doesn't help dispel the year-round snow myth, fer sure!
2. I believe it's Quebec City that thinks it's the capital of Canada. The welcome sign says "Bienvenue dans la capitale no, you're not.
3. There are more privately-owned guns in the US than there are people. Seriously.
4. Not a beer fan myself,
5. Very grateful when Miss Canada stopped wearing the red serge in the Miss Universe pageant. Wrong ceremony.
6. Canada may not be ruled by Britain but we definitely have our share of queens.
7. People don't lock their doors in SOME PARTS of Canada. Those parts are usually only accessible by boat or plane.

[pascalblais]

Coldest temperature in my town … the Windchill : -71 Fahrenheit (-51) and warmest: humidex: 112 Fahrenheit (44)

[heatherdooks]

It really depends on where you live in Canada when it comes to locking doors. Growing up in Cape Breton NS no one locked their doors that I remember. In fact as a kid it was known that if you were in some kind of trouble or had to pee & couldn’t make it home, it was ok to run to another home and to just announce yourself & why you are there. I remember doing so and yelling …”Mrs. Chiasson it’s Heather I have to peeee…” when I was 5 years old. Her house was the first one I’d come to on my way from school and being caught short after “dawdling “ she would just yell back “Ok” & check that I made it alright. Another thing that wasn’t unusual was to be sent to a house to get something when our moms were together at another house. “Doors open just grab ….. off the cupboard or “. I don’t lock my doors accept at night & never have. I do have a couple of dogs however it’s just not something I worry about. My sentiment is if the burglar can find anything in my mess he/she can have it 😂

[Kerwonderful]

Hi Tyler, I grew up in Toronto in the 60’s and 70’s. We never locked our doors during the day, only at night, and we would sometimes forget to do that. However, that changed over the years, people now lock there doors. It is true that in the Michael Moore documentary he goes up to doors randomly in a nice part of downtown Toronto and finds several that are unlocked. He then shouts out hello and someone comes to greet him. These myths start somewhere.