Don't spend your US Dollars in Canada !!!!!!

In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Bill Pittman wrote:
In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Nevada ?? California ??? Nope....1% of a state's land area does not
count ! Tell me, how many of these states are COMPLETEly above the
southern most point ? Alaska ??

Changing the rules, eh? I won't go along.


What rules ??

These states are NOT north of the 41st parallel...there is some SMALL
portion above that latitude by MOST of the land area is well south !

The criterion, as clearly stated when this came up, is that if ANY part
of a state is north of the southernmost extent of Canada, that state is
within the designated class. And the 41st parallel is irrelevant. It's
the 42nd that is significant and even it is only an approximation of the
southernmost extent, not an exact location.

Look at a map some time. It may educate you, if that's possible.

wrote:

Funny, I was taught it in a US school along with the many times
movements in Canada wanted Canada to join the US. Forgot those did
you?

There were a few small groups who were interested in joining the US, but then
we have also have the Rhinoceros Party running in our elections. But think
about it for a moment. At the time of the revolution, Canada was primarily
French speaking under British control after many years of battling with
American colonists. They were not crazy about being under British rule, and
had no love of Americans. Then there were the Loyalists, people who had fled
political persecution in the US. An attempted invasion of Canada was
repelled, primarily by French Canadians. Then along came the War of 1812
when US forces attempted to seize Canada, another attempted invasion that was
repelled. That invasion was followed about 20 years later by the Fenian
invasion. So you have three attempted invasions repelled, compared to a
fringe political movement so minor as to be a non issue.

Bill Pittman wrote:
In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Bill Pittman wrote:
In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Nevada ?? California ??? Nope....1% of a state's land area does not
count ! Tell me, how many of these states are COMPLETEly above the
southern most point ? Alaska ??

Changing the rules, eh? I won't go along.


What rules ??

These states are NOT north of the 41st parallel...there is some SMALL
portion above that latitude by MOST of the land area is well south !

The criterion, as clearly stated when this came up, is that if ANY
part of a state is north of the southernmost extent of Canada, that
state is within the designated class. And the 41st parallel is
irrelevant. It's the 42nd that is significant and even it is only an
approximation of the southernmost extent, not an exact location.

Look at a map some time. It may educate you, if that's possible.

Much of this thread seems to be about the differences in the weather and how
geography effects this. We seem to be focused on a line that circles the
earth parallel to the equator, but if anyone cares to look at a weather map
(colourized by temperatures) for North America one would see the wall of
cold drops sharply just beyond the coast and dips deep south into the
central states? Frigid temperatures are something both Canada and the US Red
States share alike... except maybe for Winterpeg... it seems to be in cold
central about this time of the year!

Bill Pittman wrote:
In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Bill Pittman wrote:
In article ,
(gman99) wrote:

Nevada ?? California ??? Nope....1% of a state's land area does not
count ! Tell me, how many of these states are COMPLETEly above the
southern most point ? Alaska ??

Changing the rules, eh? I won't go along.


What rules ??

These states are NOT north of the 41st parallel...there is some SMALL
portion above that latitude by MOST of the land area is well south !

The criterion, as clearly stated when this came up, is that if ANY
part of a state is north of the southernmost extent of Canada, that
state is within the designated class. And the 41st parallel is
irrelevant. It's the 42nd that is significant and even it is only an
approximation of the southernmost extent, not an exact location.

Look at a map some time. It may educate you, if that's possible.

Much of this thread seems to be about the differences in the weather and how
geography effects this. We seem to be focused on a line that circles the
earth parallel to the equator, but if anyone cares to look at a weather map
(colourized by temperatures) for North America one would see the wall of
cold drops sharply just beyond the coast and dips deep south into the
central states? Frigid temperatures are something both Canada and the US Red
States share alike... except maybe for Winterpeg... it seems to be in cold
central about this time of the year!

The criterion, as clearly stated when this came up, is that if ANY part
of a state is north of the southernmost extent of Canada, that state is
within the designated class.

There was NO CRITERIA mentioned...do you sniff glue too ??

And the 41st parallel is irrelevant. It's
the 42nd that is significant and even it is only an approximation of the
southernmost extent, not an exact location.

Look at a map some time. It may educate you, if that's possible.

The southern most point lays at FORTY-ONE degrees, 41 minutes NORTH EXACTLY
!!

Until I joined this group, I never imagined that the canadians were so jealous
of the US. For a group of people that have no history, they sure want to
invent some.

Until I joined this group, I never imagined that the canadians were so jealous
of the US. For a group of people that have no history, they sure want to
invent some.

wrote:
And many more that have been broken. Just ask the Cree
people. Just ask the Mohawk people.
Canadians have a holier-than-thou attitude. What
you really are is ass-holier-than-thou.


Chill, dewd.

This is just one of those very, very active threads by Canadians for Canadians
that you see here from time to time, always with the excuse that the trigger
post was anti-Canadian.

It's just masturbation, with the usual anti-US, pro Canadian rants; nothing
anyone says to counter any of the emotional 'points' will be the least bit
listened-to, except as a basis for more mud slinging.

Just accept it for what it is. A revealing over-reaction. Nex

On 24 Dec 2004 14:15:15 GMT, (GCRYAR) wrote:

What about the other 4?

Count them, the list totals 27. However, the whole discussion is
rather silly. The original poster started the discussion by making
some reference to Canada as being a fridgid wasteland. Well, the
reality is that in winter much of Canada is cold, although certainly
not a wasteland and certainbly the US has more area that is warmer.

Hoever, the majority of the population of both Canada and the US live
in the Southern Ontario region around the Great Lakes and the St
Lawrence and the majority of the US population live just south of the
Great Lakes and in the northern seaboard. Both those areas have very
similar winter weather conditions. The area around Buffalo /
Syracuse/Watertown probably gets more and earlier/later snow than any
city in Canada.

The only people in both countries that live in relatively warm /
moderate temperatures year round are those on the west coast of both
countries and those in the extreme southern states --- except there
are many days in the winter when Dallas is colder than Vancouver BC (
today being one of them )

On 24 Dec 2004 15:22:53 GMT, (gman99) wrote:

Funny, I was taught it in a US school along with the many times
movements in Canada wanted Canada to join the US. Forgot those did
you?

Really....do you care to elaborate ?? When did we ever want to join the US
(more than a group of 3 standing on a corner that is). Which provinces /
territories wanted to join the US ?

Who said you? I said there were movements in Canada for annexation to
the US. One, for example, around the Civil War time was:

"Charles Tupper was a warm advocate of Confederation, and did more
than any other public man to induce his native province, Nova Scotia
(Acadia), to enter the union in 1867. Joseph Howe, a much greater
statesman than Tupper, and a man of vast influence, was amongst the
opponents of the measure in question, and was suspected of a
preference for Annexation to the United States. In the cartoon the
Province is represented as halting between the two opinions, and the
loyal artist takes pains to point out that the advantages are all in
the way that leads 'to Ottawa.'

I studied this over 40 years ago and remembered the professor
commenting on these movements at various times in Canadian history.
The only reason I remembered it is that it seemed so bizarre.