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Originally Posted by Acajack
On blind spots...
Québécois to a Franco-Ontarien named Jean-François Gagnon who just rhymed off Rock et Belles Oreilles sketches, speaks perfect French and has only a very slightly different accent:
"You speak French really well for an anglophone".
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My family is Acadian - my mom’s parents had 18 kids, potato farmers in New Brunswick before moving to BC to become loggers in the late 1960s. I told a neighbour (from Quebec) that my mom was French, when I said where she was from he said “ahh, that’s not real French!” He then went on to mock the way Acadians speak French and he really came across as an insecure racist. Somehow he decided to air all his grievances against English Canada to me, saying how Mario Lemieux is the greatest player hockey player ever, Gretzky was useless, and pretty much how everything from Quebec, from food to music to art was always much much better. Of course that was just him, a petty weird little man, definitely not reflective of the Quebec French at all.
And speaking of mountain ranges, turns out the Vancouver Island Ranges are called exactly that. Fascinating
Wikipedia article on the Ranges, and how there are actually 16 sub ranges on the island, including one in Victoria.
Perhaps a blind spot for non-BCers is that the primary mountain range you see in Victoria and have a major impact on our local weather are American mountains, the Olympic Range, just across the water.