What cities/towns can the average Canadian name in each province? - Page 2

le calmar · #21 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 11:18 AM**

^ That was my feeling too, why did a spend 10 min preparing and typing on my phone what was largely an off-topic post? But yeah you did go all out with that one

MolsonExport · #22 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 12:34 PM**

Okotoks
Airdrie
Okotoks
Airdrie
Okotoks
Airdrie
Saskatoon
St John's
Okotoks
Airdrie

kwoldtimer · #23 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I think you mean the girls are loose.

That too.

megadude · #24 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:04 PM**

Being a sports fan I could name all OHL teams, vast majority of WHL teams and half from the Q. Placing them on the map, other than from the O, would be a challenge for many of the places. But having been on SSP for three years, and learning a lot, my geography has greatly improved.

I have also worked in mortgage admin and underwriting since 2003. The first half was residential, but was assigned to regions, being SWO, cottage country from Simcoe through to Haliburton, and Atlantic. But it's not like I had any interest in these towns or had to look at a map.

Second half I've been in commercial. First 7 years though our portfolio was 95% Ontario, in the populated areas, with the odd place in BC, AB and QC. However, last 1.5 years at this newest job, it's everywhere, including the territories. And many times I have to look at a map to do a streetview of the place or it's in reports. So I've picked up a lot along the way. I know a lot more places now and way more suburbs of places than I would have imagined.

Anyway, prior to this experience, I could only name places like:

BC - Vic, Van, Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon, Whistler, Nanaimo
AB - Cal, Edm, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Fort Mac, Banff, Lake Louise, Drumheller
SK - Reg, Sask, Swift Current, PA, Moose Jaw, Yorkton (Wendel Clark)
MB - Wpg, Brandon, Churchill, Flin Flon, Selkirk
QC - Mtl, QC, Sherbrook, Hull (at the time), Gaspe, TR, Rimouski, Asbestos, Chicoutimi, Shawinigan
ATL - Hali, Sydney, Yarmouth, Cape Breton, Dartmouth, Peggy's Cove, Monc, SJ, Freddy, Bathurst, Mirimachi, SJ, Cornerbrook, Lab. City, Charlottetown, Summerside

Laceoflight · #25 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:05 PM**

Just for fun, I asked my in-laws (average middle-aged québécois, who do not work in anything related to geography and did not have to look often at maps in their lives) to name the cities/towns they knew in every other province. Here it is, in the order they gave me the names:

NL: St. John's, L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Wabush
NS: Halifax, Chéticamp
PE: Charlottetown, Avonlea (!)
NB: Caraquet, Edmundston, Moncton, Tracadie, Miramichi, Shédiac, Campbellton
ON: Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Kingston, Windsor
MB: Winnipeg, (St-Boniface)
SK: Saskatoon
AB: Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, Banff
BC: Vancouver, Victoria
Yukon: Whitehorse
Northwest Territories: Yellowknife
Nunavut: Iqaluit

MonctonRad · #26 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:15 PM**

Best post in the thread so far!

There is no Avonlea in PEI, but I suspect you knew that from the (!) you included in your post.

Acajack · #27 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Just for fun, I asked my in-laws (average middle-aged québécois, who do not work in anything related to geography and did not have to look often at maps in their lives) to name the cities/towns they knew in every other province. Here it is, in the order they gave me the names:

NL: St. John's, L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Wabush
NS: Halifax, Chéticamp
PE: Charlottetown, Avonlea (!)
NB: Caraquet, Edmundston, Moncton, Tracadie, Miramichi, Shédiac, Campbellton
ON: Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Kingston, Windsor
MB: Winnipeg, (St-Boniface)
SK: Saskatoon
AB: Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, Banff
BC: Vancouver, Victoria
Yukon: Whitehorse
Northwest Territories: Yellowknife
Nunavut: Iqaluit

About what I'd expect. Maybe slightly above average for your average Québécois.

SignalHillHiker · #28 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:21 PM**

I called my mother to do the same, Lace

NS: Halifax, North Sydney, Lunenburg, Wolfville
NB: Moncton, Sackville
PEI: Charlottetown, “Sunnyside”
QC: Quebec City, Montreal, Blanc Sablon
ON: Ottawa, Toronto, Ajax, Mississauga, Kenora (I lived there), Niagara Falls
MB: Winnipeg, Oxford House (she taught here), Thompson, Churchill
SK: Regina
AB: Fort McMurray, Calgary, Edmonton, Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff
BC: Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler
NWT: Whitehorse or Yellowknife
YK: Whitehorse or Yellowknife
NU: Iqaluit

lio45 · #29 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:23 PM**

About exactly average Québécois IMO except for the clearly higher-than-average familiarity with Acadian NB.

lio45 · #30 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:24 PM**

Quebec City, Montreal, Blanc Sablon: the Big Three!

MolsonExport · #31 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 1:31 PM**

I asked around the house (2 kids and wife are here). None of them had heard of Okotoks.

kwoldtimer · #32 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 2:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

For me, probably most/all of city status in Every province and territory. Obviously the numerous suburbs of each core city are implicit knowledge... at least for a nerdy fuck like me... but here's the rest.

...

ON (southern):
Toronto
Ottawa
Hamilton
Niagara Falls
St. Catharines
London
Goderich
Windsor
Paris
Brantford
Kitchener
Waterloo
Cambridge
New Hanover
Woodstock
Ingersoll
Tilsonburg
St. Thomas
Turkey Point
Simcoe
Kingston
Leamington
Chatham
Barrie
Peterborough
Lindsay
Kawartha
Orillia
Parry Sound
Owen Sound

...

Hanover? New Hamburg? If there is a "New Hanover" in Ontario, it's news to me.

SignalHillHiker · #33 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 2:17 PM**

Dad was harder to reach, and less interested

But done:

NS: Halifax, North Sydney, Lower Sackville, Bedford, Peggy’s Cove
NB: Saint John, Moncton
PEI: Charlottetown
QC: Quebec, Montreal, Hull, Blanc Sablon, Gaspe,
ON: Ottawa, Toronto, Markham, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Ajax, Oakville, Windsor, “Lake Superior”
MB: Winnipeg, Oxford House, Thompson
SK:

He didn’t get one on his own, but he of course knew Regina and Saskatoon when I said them.
AB: Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Banff
BC: Vancouver, “Vancouver Island”

Acajack · #34 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Dad was harder to reach, and less interested

But done:

NS: Halifax, North Sydney, Lower Sackville, Bedford, Peggy’s Cove
NB: Saint John, Moncton
PEI: Charlottetown
QC: Quebec, Montreal, Hull, Blanc Sablon, Gaspe,
ON: Ottawa, Toronto, Markham, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Ajax, Oakville, Windsor, “Lake Superior”
MB: Winnipeg, Oxford House, Thompson
SK:

He didn’t get one on his own, but he of course knew Regina and Saskatoon when I said them.
AB: Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Banff
BC: Vancouver, “Vancouver Island”

Lake Superior is obviously Thunder Bay.

lio45 · #35 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Lake Superior is obviously Thunder Bay.

Sure, but it shouldn't count, any more than "that city in the middle of the prairie that's the capital of the province of Saskatchewan" should count as being able to name "Regina".

If you're aware of Thunder Bay then you'll know it as Thunder Bay. The only pass I'd consider would be for an old timer naming the city as either Fort Arthur or Port McWilliam.

Laceoflight · #36 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Dad was harder to reach, and less interested

But done:

NS: Halifax, North Sydney, Lower Sackville, Bedford, Peggy’s Cove
AB: Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Banff

I LOVE that he coud name *north* Sydney (and not Sydney) and *lower* Sackville

It also seems like your dad and my in-laws think of Alberta the same way.

MonctonRad · #37 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Laceoflight

I LOVE that he coud name *north* Sydney (and not Sydney)

North Sydney is where the ferry to Newfoundland runs from. The other Sydney is of no consequence.

urbandreamer · #38 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:27 PM**

I was referring to the girls at UQAM (although UdeM was even better.)

Acajack · #39 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:40 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by lio45

Sure, but it shouldn't count, any more than "that city in the middle of the prairie that's the capital of the province of Saskatchewan" should count as being able to name "Regina".

If you're aware of Thunder Bay then you'll know it as Thunder Bay. The only pass I'd consider would be for an old timer naming the city as either Fort Arthur or Port McWilliam.

Agreed.

Also "Vancouver Island" is obviously Victoria. But no points on the scoreboard for that either.

megadude · #40 Posted **Oct 22, 2020, 3:42 PM**

I'm glad you brought up Lake Superior. Back in June I was on the beach at the cottage on Georgian Bay. A group of maybe 14 were there. You could tell they rented a cottage for the week. There were about 7 adults and I could overhear everything they were saying. They were from Waterloo. One of them asked the other, what lake is this? The guy said Lake Superior. I always heard the water was clear up here (it was amazingly crystal clear this year at the beach from May to mid July). None of the other adults corrected him.

In reality they were on Tiny Beaches, 40 minutes north of Barrie.

I know lack of geographic awareness has come up many times on other threads, but this was recent and not a story I've mentioned before.