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I think it's easier for people to understand that when they can look at a visual image of how the ocean effects temperatures along the west coast. This shows all of North America, temps by color, and as you can see at the time of this posting, the whole southern portion of BC is warmer than many parts of the USA:
Now if they could just put this in a textbook so every American can learn this, my life would be so much easier!! Actually, Canadians are just as bad, everyone back home figures it would never snow here cause I am so far south
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When comparing Russia to Canada, remember that politics come into play, also. Residents of Canada are free to leave Canada - it has always been much more difficult to leave Russia.
Its land not just weather.
1.Most of Canada, that is the northern half of the 3 territories have worthless land in terms of agriculture, the land is permanently frozen or the soil is of such low quality that only hard trees can grow on it if anything at all.
2. Even more land is worthless, most the land is most provinces save for saskatchewan is muddled with stones and rock or quarry land, it is what is geenrally called waste land for farmer and cannot be of any agricultural useage. Countries with big populations tend to have a good land that can be settled with a reliable river aka the mississippi or the nile or the yangzhe or indus valley rivers and so on, canada has no such rivers.
3.Canadian land was worthless, for much of colonial time the focus was on american land as it was more productive only after american revolution did people bother to look at canada as a serious place to immigrate.
4. 1 in 4 settlers died of starvation, this number was only higher in canada because of the long cold winters which made it impossible for a new immigrant who did not quickly adapt to survive, in harder than usa where it is possible to survive provided you can find food, getting a blanket at night is not a life or death difference in texas winter or florida winter
5. Canada had a policy to wipe out any indians in any land to be settled which meant no land was settled until the brtish army killed and secured an area under indian habitation. This is why it took so long for many provinces to be settled in canada. the wars were fought then peopled settle usa other way around.
6. Canada has historically been a poor nation, I believe they said the 18th or 19th century belonged to the usa, it was in the 1800s when usa expanded rapidly and canada was still a colony until 1867. Canada was not even considered a 1st world country until the 1980s.
7. From a historical perspective as well as geogrpahy canada is not a great place to settle. all the fertile land in canada was pushed south into usa in the last ice age, thus places like iowa or wisconsin have great soil whereas place like northern ontario literally have no soil.
8. Gov't control of the land in canada is about 90%, this means only 10% of the land is even open to the general population for settlement or general activities. Thus Canada's effective land size is really 10% of what it really should be.
Its land not just weather.
1.Most of Canada, that is the northern half of the 3 territories have worthless land in terms of agriculture, the land is permanently frozen or the soil is of such low quality that only hard trees can grow on it if anything at all.
2. Even more land is worthless, most the land is most provinces save for saskatchewan is muddled with stones and rock or quarry land, it is what is geenrally called waste land for farmer and cannot be of any agricultural useage. Countries with big populations tend to have a good land that can be settled with a reliable river aka the mississippi or the nile or the yangzhe or indus valley rivers and so on, canada has no such rivers.
So there's little to no agriculture in the other 9 provinces? The St.Lawrence isn't a reliable river?
3.Canadian land was worthless, for much of colonial time the focus was on american land as it was more productive only after american revolution did people bother to look at canada as a serious place to immigrate.
4. 1 in 4 settlers died of starvation, this number was only higher in canada because of the long cold winters which made it impossible for a new immigrant who did not quickly adapt to survive, in harder than usa where it is possible to survive provided you can find food, getting a blanket at night is not a life or death difference in texas winter or florida winter
5. Canada had a policy to wipe out any indians in any land to be settled which meant no land was settled until the brtish army killed and secured an area under indian habitation. This is why it took so long for many provinces to be settled in canada. the wars were fought then peopled settle usa other way around.
Canada had a policy to wipe out indians in any land before it was settled? I'd love to see you support that with some source material
6. Canada has historically been a poor nation, I believe they said the 18th or 19th century belonged to the usa, it was in the 1800s when usa expanded rapidly and canada was still a colony until 1867. Canada was not even considered a 1st world country until the 1980s.
Not a 1st world country until the 1980's, huh? Guess it depends on your definition of 1st world, but it was considered economically significant enough to be a member of the G7 group of nations since 1976.
7. From a historical perspective as well as geogrpahy canada is not a great place to settle. all the fertile land in canada was pushed south into usa in the last ice age, thus places like iowa or wisconsin have great soil whereas place like northern ontario literally have no soil.
8. Gov't control of the land in canada is about 90%, this means only 10% of the land is even open to the general population for settlement or general activities. Thus Canada's effective land size is really 10% of what it really should be.
Its land not just weather.
1.Most of Canada, that is the northern half of the 3 territories have worthless land in terms of agriculture, the land is permanently frozen or the soil is of such low quality that only hard trees can grow on it if anything at all.
2. Even more land is worthless, most the land is most provinces save for saskatchewan is muddled with stones and rock or quarry land, it is what is geenrally called waste land for farmer and cannot be of any agricultural useage. Countries with big populations tend to have a good land that can be settled with a reliable river aka the mississippi or the nile or the yangzhe or indus valley rivers and so on, canada has no such rivers.
3.Canadian land was worthless, for much of colonial time the focus was on american land as it was more productive only after american revolution did people bother to look at canada as a serious place to immigrate.
4. 1 in 4 settlers died of starvation, this number was only higher in canada because of the long cold winters which made it impossible for a new immigrant who did not quickly adapt to survive, in harder than usa where it is possible to survive provided you can find food, getting a blanket at night is not a life or death difference in texas winter or florida winter
5. Canada had a policy to wipe out any indians in any land to be settled which meant no land was settled until the brtish army killed and secured an area under indian habitation. This is why it took so long for many provinces that settled in canada. the wars were fought then peopled settle usa other way around.
6. Canada has historically been a poor nation, I believe they said the 18th or 19th century belonged to the usa, it was in the 1800s when usa expanded rapidly and canada was still a colony until 1867. Canada was not even considered a 1st world country until the 1980s.
7. From a historical perspective as well as geogrpahy canada is not a great place to settle. all the fertile land in canada was pushed south into usa in the last ice age, thus places like iowa or wisconsin have great soil whereas place like northern ontario literally have no soil.
8. Gov't control of the land in canada is about 90%, this means only 10% of the land is even open to the general population for settlement or general activities. Thus Canada's effective land size is really 10% of what it really should be.
Canada ranks top 5 in tree cover and freshwater. you're critique is way off considering Canada has a 1.3 billion acre protected boreal forest ecosystem. even Alaska has lots of trees, why wouldn't northern Canada ? chaning wind patterns are warming parts of Canada. that land isn't desert it has rich soil.
in 1970 Canada had the same sized economy as China 7th in the world twice the size of Australia's.
in 1950 Canada per capita gdp was 6th in the world. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ec...er-capita-1950
This whole thread is turning into something that reminds me of that lovely quote,
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table"
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