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Anyone visit Canada before? Curious as to what tourists think of our country.
>> Anonymous
Yes. Nice country. Rather like the USA, except with "washrooms" instead of bathrooms, French in addition to English, litres of gas instead of gallons, and spelling differences. that's what you get for having most of your people by the southern border, lol.
>> Anonymous
i want to go to canada for a ski holiday but i also want to work on the slopes after, any idea how hard it is to get a work visa there? p.s. from nz
>> Anonymous
>>469

It can't be that hard because all the ski hills here have shitloads of Australian employees.
>> Anonymous
Vancouver was pleasant.

Taxes on beer and cigarettes are fucked. I would consider living there, 'cept for that.
>> Anonymous
It's a nice place. Your Niagara falls are lovely. Streets aren't paved with gold like people think and the people are generally pleasant. I'd go back.
>> Anonymous
Seattlefag here. I love going to Canada. I am a skier, and I head to whistler once or twice a year. I also have gone camping and canoeing there as a scout, including going to the Scouts Canada Pacific Jamboree.

The Jamboree was kind of pathetic, because my troop was a fairly hardcore hiking outfit at the time. the Canadian scouts seemed to run everything off of propane, and slept on cots in big tents instead of the REI half dome plus tents and foam mattresses we used everywhere we went. also, our troop out-hiked everyone in the jamboree including the guides on the one hike we went on there, because that is what we do.

Whistler is Elysium. I prefer blackcomb to whislter moutain, especially in less than optimal weather conditions, because it is slightly more sheltered so you can ski the high mountain stuff in worse weather. the whistler peak chairs shut down during bad weather, and were closed last time i went (last December).

Culturally, whistler is very strange. it isn't really canadian, it is international cosmopolitan and there are a lot of people with funny accents there. It is strange to see some half retarded flatlander with an $800 goretex racing suit and $150 skis (I my ski clothing, excludiong glves, helmet and boots totals about $100. my skis and boots total about $1800, and i like them a lot.) There are a lot of very strange people in whistler, and it is a truly international melting pot of fashion. Having turned 19 last summer, i have begun to experience the apres ski experience, and while expensive it is quite fun.
>> Anonymous
Vancouver needs a good ring road. as a seattlite i like to bitch about traffic on the freeways, there is no freeway through or around downtown Vancouver, and you are stuck on surface roads with horrenous traffic. Vancouver is a pretty cool place though. I have also been to kamloops, which is a beautiful city in central BC, and the Bowron Lakes Provincial Park, which is perfect for a canoe trip. I had a good time, and luckily i was in the canoe 500m away from shore when we passed the forest fire.

Sun Peaks is another Ski resort i have visited in Canada. it was great. it had less diverse terrain than Whistler, but it sure had a ton of it, and nobody to ski it.

The final Ski resort i have been to in Canada is Cypress. it is a rather generic ski resort, but that is okay, cause it is 10 minutes from North Vancouver.

For the Record, i have not been to Vancouver east of the continental divide.
>> Anonymous
~$9/pack of cigs at UBC. ~$12 for a 6-pack of Rickard's Red. Is this BC or all of Canada?
>> Anonymous
>>602

hahahahahaha. come to ontario. your wallet will get RAPED if you smoke and drink
>> Anonymous
>>606
With luck, I might get to goto Toronto this summer. Your words fill me with darkness. Shouldn't high cig&booze taxes induce riots?!
>> Anonymous
Toronto - The city that always sleeps...
>> Anonymous
>>613
Booze tax by itself should get you infuriated. Do you want your government telling you what you should or should not enjoy?

Also, bring back /n/ews.
>> Anonymous
>>424
Its too cold
>> Anonymous
>>629
Name a country that doesn't tax booze?
>> Anonymous
>>646
Booze tax is different then fucking exorbitant booze tax. $12 for Rickard's is a big fucking difference than $6 for Killian's in CA. I hear they're killing the bar scene in Canada with taxes.
>> Anonymous
>>646

saudi arabia
>> Anonymous
>>617
nah, people just smoke less/more inclined to quite. Also the cigarette/booze tax is what pays for the free health care.
>> Anonymous
>>772
>>Also the cigarette/booze tax is what pays for the free health care
Oh I lol'd. General revenue motherfucker, have you heard of it?
>> Anonymous
fucking beautiful country

that is all
>> Anonymous
I'm an Edmontonfag, and the praries are flat as hell. Honestly, why are they so flat?
But we've got a hell of a mall, and plenty of golf courses.

So don't just talk Vancouver.
>> Anonymous
I've basically lived in Canada during the summer since I was a kid. My family owns a camper on a lake about an hour outside of Ottawa.

Within the year, I'm marrying a Canadian and moving up there.

I love it.
>> Anonymous
I really liked British Columbia while I was there. Victoria and Vancouver were very nice, clean cities. I've never been to the east coast, but I'd like to in the future.
>> Anonymous
I found it hard to drink milk.
>> Anonymous
I went to vancouver island for a couple weeks.
I'm white, but even I thought it was weird how many white people there were. And hardly any girls wear makeup. But other than that, nice weather. Although I slept most of the trip,(when I wasn't hiking).
>> Pepepipipopo
i am in toronto right now
its fucking amazing i loved the subway system the people there are so kind its been
a really awesome month
>> Anonymous
Montreal is the only city I've enjoyed in Canada
>> Anonymous
Stayed in Nanaimo, Vancouver, and Victoria last summer. Was fucking awesome IMO. I'd love to move there one day after graduate school.
>> Anonymous
I visited Quebec City once. I don't know about modern Quebec; I just stuck to the Old City. Lots of hot French women.
>> Anonymous
Im from England and I went to Canada in like 2002/2003 for 3 weeks.

And daym I loved it.

I went to Toronto - Scarborough where my Dad's sister lived. It was just me my dad and my older brother.

At first it was like HOLY SHIT ITS TO HOT. But we slowly got used to it. We went to quite a few places. We were planning to go watch some Ice hockey/baseball but never got around to it.

I loved the Niagara falls. I also loved everyone's sexy accents. Dunkin Doughnuts were awesome too. Free doughnuts whilst waiting in line!! Hell yes.

We visited America for the weekend and daym, it was waaaay different to what we live like.

It was almost like out of a TV show a small surburan neighbourhood.

The only thing I really hated were the crossroads and tax on everything. With the crossroads, even though it showed green and you could cross cars from around the corner were still allowed to drive and it was damn confusing on deciding when to go or not on busy junctions.
>> Anonymous
French part phails... miserably.. french phail.. Though I do like Canada. It's fun =)

>>456

Metric system is metric. Win
>> Anonymous
I enjoyed it. It was very clean, and as a ten year old I was enthralled with the designs on your currency. I stayed in Vancouver for a few weeks with my family up there and it was lovely.
>> Anonymous
>I also loved everyone's sexy accents.
wat
>> Anonymous
>>1433
I don't like British accents too much.
>> Anonymous
i'm here from oz until june. pretty nice, people are laid-back like home, unbelievable scenery, the cold takes some getting used to.
>> Anonymous
I'm from Australia, I currently live in the U.S and I am moving to Canada in a few months for good. I love the place, visited a few times and it's fantastic. It's like all the best parts of the U.S made better with culture added and no retards.
>> Anonymous
I went to Canada, and my cousin took me to the Vancouver Ska festival. I'm British, and being 18 at the time, hated the 19 year old (and heavily enforced) restriction on buying alcohol. The evening ended with us all being kicked out when they tried to sneak me into the beer garden, so we got even drunker and headed to the beach to have a bonfire.
It was a damn good night.
>> Anonymous
I only visited Quebec for one day, but that was for my mom taking a religious trip to some famous church or something. I was much younger, so I thought it was boring, but they had McDonalds Pizza there still, so FUCK YEAH, CANADA!
>> Anonymous
I went to Toronto a couple of years ago and it was alright, lots of homeless people though.
>> Anonymous
>>1548
Really? In Canada?

I had this impression of Canada being kinda like paradise. You just shattered a huge illusion here...
>> Anonymous
>>1403
>hot French women

Oxymoron there. I lold