CANADA- Provinces + Territories explained (Geography Now!) 

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. Toronto is actually the capital city of Ontario.

For Newfoundland... on 9/11 all the plane were force to land the nearest airport. Gander is a small town but they had to host 33,000 people and there weren't enough hotels to cover all the "tourist". So the residence of the town allowed the "tourists" to stay at their homes until the planes got word they can fly again. 16 years later that story became a Broadway musical... "Come From Away" and that show got robbed of a Tony award. WELCOME TO THE ROCK!

The Canadian guy needs to brush up on his geographical knowledge of his own country.

one small correction! The capital and largest city of Ontario is Toronto, not Ottawa. However Ottawa is the capital of Canada .

Alberta: 1:45 British Columbia: 2:28 Manitoba: 3:07 New Brunswick: 3:58 Newfoundland and Labrador: 4:47 Nova Scotia: 5:54 Ontario: 6:38 Prince Edward Island: 7:24 Québec: 8:03 Saskatchewan: 9:03 Northwest Territory: 9:56 Nunavut: 10:39 Yukon: 11:27

I am an Acadian and I don't like how he said that we migrated to Louisiana. That makes it sound like we decided to move there on our own volition. We were mass deported by the British. The event was called le grand dérangement.

It seems to me that the word "sorry" is used to indicate respect and humility for the other when you have inconvenienced someone. It's not an admission of wrong doing, it's just an ingrained social grace to smooth things over after an awkward encounter. I'm from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Fun fact: Many people learn Standard French instead of Canadian French in school, and thus have major difficulties understanding Québec French speakers.

Guy from Ontario doesn’t even know his own province.

Hehe.... Regina. Hope you enjoy this filler week episode! Thanks to all you Canadians that helped with it and especially guest star- Aaron! Update WHOA Sorry got the whole "Tornto/ Ottawa thing wrong! Haha, Ottawa is for all of Canada and Toronto is the capital of Ontario"

The capital of Ontario is … oh, wait 500 other people already commented on this.

Alberta: I'm the coldest! Newfoundland and Labrador: Hold my mispronounced name.

Québécois French is different from France French because Quebec was colonized before the French Revolution. After the Revolution, France made a concerted effort to use the French of the commoners rather than the nobility. Quebec was part of the British Empire at the time and did not follow suit, leading to a bisection of the language.

@9:06 DAMMIT BARB, I HAD MY VOLUME ALL THE WAY UP AND MY FAMILY HEARD.

The Acadians did not migrate to Louisiana, they were deported by the English from 1755.

As a person from Saskatchewan, the bottom half is flat lands but the north is all trees. As for some things about us: we like camping and fishing, farming is a big industry here, we have the highest crime rates, like Manitoba we have a high Native American population, strip clubs are illegal because of archaic rules, drinking age is 19, we were the province that started free healthcare. Manitoba's quote "I was born here what's your excuse" fits us very well. Edit: How the hell did I forget Corner Gas, thank you Logi

Do the buildings of the Vatican! Hahahahh

GN: "Winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada" Thunder Bay, Ontario: *"hold my beer!"*

When I was younger I wanted to go to Pancake Island, but my parents were having Nunavut

Acadians migrated to Louisiana? Yeah, at the point of a gun.

Question: How much of the northern part of Canada is habitable? Answer: Nunavut

Stop it, I'm having Nunavut.

4:23 My great great grandfather immigrated to Louisiana from New Brunswick! He first immigrated there as a teenager from France and then decided he's rather love somewhere warm than cold so he immigrated again to Louisiana in his 20's. Thanks for talking about my family history!

People in Quebec actually speak a dialect of French that is older than what is commonly spoken in France now. One French king (I believe it was Louis XIV or XVI) changed the way people in France spoke by decree. This was after Quebec was mostly settled, so the people from there speak French a little differently than you would hear in France.

A correction on your initial comment RE: Canada's territories: They do have their own governments, but they are not independently sovereign, like the provinces are (ie: the provinces get their authority from the Canadian [originally British] Crown [which is why the provinces each have their own Lieutenant Governor], while the territories get their sovereignty from the Federal Government). Or put another way, the territories are creatures of the Federal Government like how municipalities are creatures of the provincial governments.

The Territories (Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon) do have their own governments. They just have less autonomy than the provincial governments, but they do create their own policies and legislation, have their own education systems, and have a consensus government called a Legislative Assembly (at least in the NWT). Guys, I don't want to be mean here, but a simple google search would have cleared this up for you. I know you have a disclaimer, but just because someone is from Canada, doesn't guarantee they understand how the country works.

Nobody: Museums in Nove-Scotia: *hey kids wanna learn about the halifax explosion?*

As someone from PEI your info about us in 1800's clothes running through fields is 100% correct

1:21 Canadian territories *do* have their own governments and are not directly administered by the federal government as Aaron erroneously claims. The biggest differences between provinces and territories is that provinces receive their legislative authority from the Constitution whereas territories receive legislative authority from the federal government through devolution, similar to Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

"I like how you pronounce 'Bilingual'" "We enunciate better" -> Immediately get an ad for Grammarly.

You don't really show where the provinces are when you present them. Just a suggestion to fix that next time

Don't feel any forcing that you have to do a germany states video because I see many peole asking. Just do what you're intersted in, and if you've the sources to do it. I'm from Germany and I can wait.

Ontario: New York British Columbia: California Alberta: Texas Nova Scotia: Maine Quebec: Basically our Mexico

Territories have their own governments. They just leave more responsibility to the federal government than the provinces.

Barb you should do china provinces!!!

Territories in Canada do have their own governments and they are called territorial governments ...as in Yukon Territorial Government....provinces have powers over resources and taxation that are not afforded territories....however, there are many things ( such as drivers licences) are issued by the territorial gov.....

The Balkan Peninsula next pls

6:40 A guy from Hamilton doesn’t even know the capital of Ontario when it’s a 30 minute drive away

7:17 I personally find that quite amazing. 9:24 If Saskatchewan was part of US then the US map would look like a fist showing the middle finger.

Could you do the autonomous regions of Spain? Might be a tricky one (Catalonia and Basque Country) but definitely interesting!

Can you do France's regions?

Being from Regina Saskatchewan I knew he was gonna do that when Saskatchewan came up 😂😂😂😂

There is some things that may have been left out that I want to put out. 1. Canada first got its roots for the Confederacy in Charlottetown, PEI. All Starting with Sir. John A. MacDonald and Sir George Etienne Cartier. 2. The very first province that was settled by Europeans was Newfoundland by the Nordic People. They only stayed temporarily cause they were fought out of the area by the Native People. 3. Nova Scotia is the first actual landing site of French, British, Irish, and Scottish people, and is also one of the provinces with the most descendants of the Loyalists. During the American Revolution. 4. Annapolis Royal or during its time, Port Royal was once the Capital of Canada when it was still a colony. That is why when you pass by on the Highway 101, it says "Cradle of our Nation." 5. Canada also shares military personnel between provinces during the summer for the Cadet Organization. Sending Cadets aged 12-18 to different training centres for their experiences and new ways of approaching problems and solving them, as well as receiving their specific training for Air, land and sea. 6. Canada still has people of L'Acadie descent in the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. They speak with a slightly different accent, and some words mean different than Québécois french and France. 7. Tim Hortons is one of our most popular places to get coffee (STILL IS) but it was beaten by the McCafe brand of coffee by McDonalds. McDonalds kept the original blend, making it taste slightly better than the current 100% Arabica Coffee. That's pretty much all I got. Hope this helps out in the end. Hello from Annapolis, Nova Scotia!

I think Manitoba is so unknown by people from other provinces because hardly anyone lives there. There also isn't really any noteworthy attractions to bring people, aside from Churchill, or hunting and fishing if you're an American. If you remove the Winnipeg greater area from the population, the rest of the province only has about 560,000 people. Realistically, Saskatchewan is more densely populated, and has many more larger centers (smaller cities) than Manitoba. Having traveled extensively throughout MB and SK, MB is BY FAR the flatter province! The Red River Valley is actually one of the flattest areas in North America. Even up north, Manitoba is insanely flat. You can drive from Emerson to Thompson (860km) with only driving over a few rolling hills near Grand Rapids and closer to Thompson. Saskatchewan as a whole is quite hilly, just not mountainous. MB is essentially a toilet bowl, with water from Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and a bit of Ontario and Minnesota drain through Manitoba and into the Hudson Bay. Manitoba does have a lot of amazing places, but they are very spread out. You have to drive for hours to visit most of them. Some of the most amazing places in the province are fairly unknown and fairly undeveloped for public access. As someone who grew up in rural MB, the thing about MB that annoys me the most is how EVERYTHING is centered around Winnipeg. So much so, that it is helping kill off the rural areas, as services are being removed and people are expected to travel to the city for everything. Without those services, it becomes undesirable to live there, so business and people leave. Also, the people who have lived in Winnipeg all their lives often suffer from Perimeteritis, and can't imagine the province outside of the Perimeter Highway around the city. This gets very dangerous when politicians have this... Rural and Northern MB suffer badly. As a whole, I would say Manitobans are usually pretty humble people. I'm proud to be from Manitoba, but I really would like to move to Yukon, NWT, NW Ontario, BC, or yes, even SK! Too bad all of my family lives here....

Pronunciation: Charlottetown = Charlotte-Town

I am a Manitoban, born and bred (although I spent a few years in Montreal in my 20s), and they're sorta right, we are generally outdoors-y types. Lots of people own or rent cottages on one of the roughly 100,000 lakes we have here, and hiking, camping, snowmobiling, hunting and fishing are all really popular activities (I know a few people who hunt, but I don't think it's as common as the others on that list). It gets really cold here in the winter, and fairly hot in the summer - we are actually one of the places that has the greatest temperature extremes in the world. There are 90 degrees Celsius between our coldest extreme temperature (-47.8 C) and our hottest (42.2 C) - only a couple places in Siberia can top that. Normally in a winter we'll hit -38 C at least once, but we rarely get colder than that these days (climate change!)...the coldest temperature I have personally witnessed here was -42 C (wind chill was -57 or something crazy). In the summer, we've been hitting 37-38 C at least once as well, sometimes a bit hotter. As for Winnipeg being the "murder capital" of Canada, we have held that title 20 times out of the 37 years I've been alive. It's calculated on a per capita basis, so where you said 6 murders, I believe the stat is actually 6 murders *PER 100,000 PEOPLE.* Incidentally, that number is basically an all-time high (and was set several years ago) - currently, we sit at just 3.5 homicides per 100,000 people. If Winnipeg was an American city, we would currently sit 66th in per capita murders for cities over 250,000 people (between Santa Ana, California and Mesa, Arizona)*. *Those stats are from the last US Census, so things have almost certainly changed in the interim; if you want to compare apples to apples and judge Winnipeg's rate at the time of the last US census, there would be about 50 US cities with higher murder rates.

States of Germany next!

The Calgary flag has to be the best flag for a city I’ve ever seen in my life

Please make limberwisk's provinces now. Im very confused!

You could visually tell this guy was from Ontario lol. This guy loves his pumpkin spiced lattes

Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but worth noting that Nova Scotia also has a sizeable French-speaking population, especially in Cape Breton!

Provinces of Iran could be awesome. Very diverse and very cool.

Do Australia please!

Wow, as a Quebecois, I didn't expected such an effective description of my Province by 2 english speakers xD

Do Germany!

Here's some ideas for the administration division vids Mexico Germany Sweden Poland Egypt Indonesia Spain France Greece Italy Jordan Reply with more ideas if you want

PS they speak French a little bit differently there because they speak what is called 'archaic French'. Meaning they speak a cleaner truer dialect of historical French than modern-day France French which is full of slang. That being said Quebec French also has a lot of influence from the different First Nations languages from back in the day ( Metis/Quebecois = tomato/tomató ).

Do a Italian regions explained video please!!

Nova Scotia was not a colonization attempt by Scotland, that was Belize. The large Scottish population was largely the result of fleeing persecution by the English after the Jacobite rebellion

As an Albertan, whose parents are farmers, I will admit, we love our rodeos out here. Saying that we’re the “Texas of Canada” is definitely not wrong.

Also, as a Manitoban, I pronounce Charlottetown as Charlotte-town... no 'ton'. So that's interesting!

I was waiting till you’d do canada, next you should do the UK, Germany or the Netherlands

There’s very little corn grown in Saskatchewan, mostly canola, wheat, barley etc.

The territories do have their own governments. The main difference is that territorial governments get their powers from the federal government, whereas the provinces get their powers from the Constitution.

Most politicians are not bilingual. Only party leaders "need" to be bilingual.

The mounties (Canadian police) are headquartered currently and historically in Regina Saskatchewan

Italy next please

The territories do have their own governments and can make their own laws. The difference is how their powers were delegated to them by the British North America Act, and later the Constitution Act. Also, The capital of Ontario is Toronto, while the Capital of Canada is Ottawa.

The cajuns “migrated” to Louisiana is a way to explain it, definitely not gonna mention that they were brutally forced by the British to go there (and other places) and that a giant percentage of the population died on the way there due to infection/starvation ect. 🙃

Acadians « migrated »😳? Let’s more agree on the term « deported » 😉

Thanks for giving us some valuable screen time! Also just to clarify, Canada’s native people are collectively referred to as the First Peoples, which include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. There’s hundreds of sub-groups and languages within these.

Dude, for an American your faux-Quebecois pronunciation of "poutine" is actually pretty spot-on! Also, I had no idea that "sorry" was a Canadian-American shibboleth (as is the name of my beloved hometown, "Montreal," incidentally). Cool!

aaron: "I'm from hamilton" every ontarian ever: "disgusting"

“We enunciate better” -> pronounces New Foundland as Noo-fuhnd-luhnd. Lol

I'm Canadian I just pronounce it "Charlotte town" as in a literal Town {7:30}

"The country over all is spaced out" Yeah and even more spaced out now since Marijuana has been made totally legal in Canada.

Could you please do the Swiss Cantons

For Newfoundland pronunciation: need more emphasis on "land." He says it like an Ontarian, not like an actual Newfoundlander.

Could you do the regions of Italy? Beacause the are so diverse

So happy you did Canada! Us Canadians (and half-Canadians in my own case) thank you! Suggestions for future regions: China, Mexico, the United Kingdom (like the Hebrides, Orkney Islands, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, etc), Italy, and Japan. Keep up the great work!

Your Québécois accent is kind of great, curious how much time you spent in Montreal ? (I'm assuming..)

Please do mexico next. I want to know whats up with sinaloa after watching narcos

The way Paul pronounced poutine gave me goosebumps

Okay some Acadians may have migrated to Louisiana, but lots and lots were deported there by the British who were uncomfortable with such a big French population that was not loyal to Britain in their territory. Lots died on the trip, and families were split up. It's a grim history that shouldn't be overlooked (although lots of Western and Central Canadians do not know about this event. My Social Studies teacher from ON thought that *all* the Acadians in the east coast were deported or died during the Deportation. He was shocked to learn that I am half Acadian.) (As a person originally from NB, the "town" part of Charlottetown is pronounced normally as the word "town" not "ton." As a person who moved to northern BC ten years ago, up here we are not so much hippies like the lower mainland stereotype. Here it's basically like Alberta with a different flag; Conservatives, Cowboys, and oil workers. And no, contrary to popular belief, it doesn't rain all the time up here (people I know back East always ask if it's rainy here because it is in southern BC, but nope.))

Should have mentioned that Regina is home to the famous Mounties (RCMP) training depot!

Love you canada❤️❤️❤️ from France 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

"I thought it would be a good Idea to have a Canadian" brings out someone from Ontario, every video, made by Americans trying to explain Canada, ever

Is it true that Quebec once tried to become an independent country in 1995?

Next is Montenegro, can't wait.

I enjoy your videos, you are among the few that are able to explain a nation's history and culture accurately and with proper context in a short amount of time. Keep working hard and doing great work!!

Please do the regions of Italy

Regions of italy?

Saskatchewan is a nice place. My cousin and her wife live there.

*MAPLE SYRUP INTENSIFIES*

Italian Regions please!!!

Just to be clear the territories do have premiers and their own legislatures.

I've been to Ontario and Québec. Even if those are the most urbanised regions of Canada, there are wide open spaces you'll never get in western and central Europe.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the bar in the Yukon where you can drink a human toe from the captain (something I am proud/ashamed to say I have done) in Dawson City.

The territories do, in fact, have their own governments. The difference is the federal parliament can change the powers of territorial governments, their boundaries, etc. through legislation. To change provincial powers requires constitutional ammendment. Provinces also have extra powers, such as control over their natural resources.

Quebec French is actually different from the French spoken in France.