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From: eugene@statvax.UUCP (Eugene miya)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Canadians and Americans (Not a flame)
Message-ID: <130@statvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 03:13:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 03:13:35 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:10:44 EST
Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA
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While I was attending Grad School several years ago, I attended a
Geography seminar given by a Canadian geographer (unusual as most
of these seminar were on image processing and remote sensing) from Quebec
(He was in his words `French Canadian.').  He pointed out a
phemomena which was common throughout Canada when referring to
direction:

When referring to the directions North, West, or East, the typical
Canadian has an implication of a distance of several blocks
(Other distances were explicitly stated).  But SOUTH meant
Florida, Louisiana, and California.  This was determined by
survey and mobility studies.  The maps were really astounding!

Although this geographer favored a separate Free French Quebec, it was
his opinion that the US and Canada will have merged into a single
nation (with FQ) before the year 2000.  I am wondering to this day whether he
will be right or not.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center
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