Reason #10: The local beers and specialties are REALLY GOOD! I love the Belle Guelle Pilsner beer in Montreal and the Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale from Nova Scotia. I like the Saskatoon berries in the prairies and the Poutine. And the Newfoundland wines you would not find in the states, and the Yukon Golds in Whitehorse. You never know what you might find and where it might be. Canada is great that way.
Reason #9: The provincial and state parks create some of the most untouched scenes I've found yet. You can take for example Prince Albert National Park and if it were filled with litter, it would be a VERY different scene than what it is as fragile medows and spruce and boreal untouched and the clear color of the lakes.
Reason #8: There are games we get very little of in the states that are fun to play like curling and 5-pin bowling, and probably easier to get people together for a game of street hockey.
Reason #7: Very friendly polite people who you can meet at the most unexpected places, like at this one gas station near Dauphin, Manitoba...I just hung out with them for an hour...people are more intimate with visitors in places that are more laid back and out in the open....Canada has less population density.
Reason #6: The feeling you don't have to watch your back so much in Canadian cities when you walk outside because crime is a lot lower.
Reason #5: I can go to farmers barns and say "hey, I want to help you grow some carrots, what can I do to help?" It is more likely than in the states I can get that close to a farmer because I wouldn't have to fear I'd be shot down as mistaken for a trespasser...I'd get a talking chance
Reason #4: I get to see some of the aboriginal culture we do not have much of anymore in the states, the tribal groups in Canada's northern communities. Canada has more cree, sioux, chipawa, in the north you get a really amazing experience with the Inukitut and Gwich'in and Inuit. Many of these groups were featured by Canada I remember in the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.
Reason #3: Some of the coolest rock bands are usually the most underground. In the U.S., of course we have this, but it is usually a special treat in any city in Canada to hang out in the bars on Friday nights and listen to the local heavy metal bands and gather up some ear plugs at Zellers.
Reason #2: It is a great contest for any American to challenge themselves to a Canadian winter day with an arctic blast and temperatures well below -10 and be able to handle it like the locals do, without putting your arms under your chest, but just face it.....because the locals do not have any special genes for this, in fact....they are also good at taking the summer heat.....which can be above 30 degrees celsius in the same places that in winter fall below -20.....like Winnipeg for example?
Reason #1: Visiting Canada is a win-win for any American. If we want to make the U.S. better than it is in our own minds, we want to broaden what our options might be to make it better south of the border... Canada has a whole new experience curve and its own history and its own ways of doing some things that Americans who visit would be able to say "aha!!! this looks awesome.... we should try this in the states!"......
It is a win-win because if we like what we see, we can adopt it south of the border.... if we don't, we don't have to either.....
source. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101024124915AAXsJhq
Reason #9: The provincial and state parks create some of the most untouched scenes I've found yet. You can take for example Prince Albert National Park and if it were filled with litter, it would be a VERY different scene than what it is as fragile medows and spruce and boreal untouched and the clear color of the lakes.
Reason #8: There are games we get very little of in the states that are fun to play like curling and 5-pin bowling, and probably easier to get people together for a game of street hockey.
Reason #7: Very friendly polite people who you can meet at the most unexpected places, like at this one gas station near Dauphin, Manitoba...I just hung out with them for an hour...people are more intimate with visitors in places that are more laid back and out in the open....Canada has less population density.
Reason #6: The feeling you don't have to watch your back so much in Canadian cities when you walk outside because crime is a lot lower.
Reason #5: I can go to farmers barns and say "hey, I want to help you grow some carrots, what can I do to help?" It is more likely than in the states I can get that close to a farmer because I wouldn't have to fear I'd be shot down as mistaken for a trespasser...I'd get a talking chance
Reason #4: I get to see some of the aboriginal culture we do not have much of anymore in the states, the tribal groups in Canada's northern communities. Canada has more cree, sioux, chipawa, in the north you get a really amazing experience with the Inukitut and Gwich'in and Inuit. Many of these groups were featured by Canada I remember in the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.
Reason #3: Some of the coolest rock bands are usually the most underground. In the U.S., of course we have this, but it is usually a special treat in any city in Canada to hang out in the bars on Friday nights and listen to the local heavy metal bands and gather up some ear plugs at Zellers.
Reason #2: It is a great contest for any American to challenge themselves to a Canadian winter day with an arctic blast and temperatures well below -10 and be able to handle it like the locals do, without putting your arms under your chest, but just face it.....because the locals do not have any special genes for this, in fact....they are also good at taking the summer heat.....which can be above 30 degrees celsius in the same places that in winter fall below -20.....like Winnipeg for example?
Reason #1: Visiting Canada is a win-win for any American. If we want to make the U.S. better than it is in our own minds, we want to broaden what our options might be to make it better south of the border... Canada has a whole new experience curve and its own history and its own ways of doing some things that Americans who visit would be able to say "aha!!! this looks awesome.... we should try this in the states!"......
It is a win-win because if we like what we see, we can adopt it south of the border.... if we don't, we don't have to either.....
source. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101024124915AAXsJhq
