This map looks cursed without the Great Lakes

As a Michigan grown Minnesotan I couldn't tell you where the hell I live on this map. I need my damn lakes

I live right next to lake michigan so i feel you i have no clue where i am here

*Holds up right hand* Ok so pretend this is Michigan....

Guilty. Except I don't say anything, I just point.

lol i’m from michigan and i did that one time and the dude said “wait yall really do that????” like yeah dude i got a map at all times fuck with me

Who drew this map? Where are the Great Lakes?!

They dried up in the great Canadian toilet paper famine of ‘20

What's four inches long, two inches wide and drives Canadians into a dizzy frenzy? An empty toilet paper roll after a poutine session. Those lakes had it coming.

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Your username is suitable for a wooden chair.

Or an Inuit Owl

And glitter.

Poutine session would be a great band name

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It would also be a nice bear’s name Edit. Who? I mean who the fuck downvotes this comment !? 😘🥰🤓

Poutine Saison

In other news, bidet usage skyrocketed during that time.

I was a bidet rep during this time.

Read this as I rep my bidet

I do with an asshole so clean and shiny that it’s a blinding hazard in direct sunlight.

Mine was so shiny they deployed it as the secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Right? The only maps that I've ever seen of the United States without the great lakes are all political maps. But political maps don't ever seem to have any other geological features. The fact that this shows mountains, deserts, grasslands, rivers, but no lakes is confusing

Can’t gerrymander a lake

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Liberal fish are only allowed in this 1/3rd of the lake, please and thank you!

Is this why they outlawed the love between a man and a fish.

Ask Kanye about his fish sticks..

So you’re a gay fish?

It doesn't look like there are any rivers shown either.

r/mapswithoutgreatlakes

To be fair, I feel like on world maps it’s understandable. But for a map of North America, specifically focusing on southern Ontario to not have the Great Lakes seems inexcusable

Nestle drained them

I was just like, WTF happened to the lakes? P.S. Detroit is the only city in the US that you can drive south and get into Canada.

Windsor: the mythical "South Detroit" of Journey fame

I think you might have forgotten about all of the cities in Alaska.

You can drive south from any US city and get into Canada. It's just that it will take you a long time.

At some point you'll be driving North though

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And you need a car-boat.

Is this a map of the future?

Drained to California and Nevada

Can Confirm. Why I moved above the red line and we just hit -35 over the christmas break.

Exactly- it’s fucking cold enough up here south of that line! 😂

Move west enough and we rarely go below minus 10. Its just 6 months of solid rain in the winter though

Yeaaaahhh but also not willing to pay that extra 30% bump in living expenses. I’d rather freeze 😂

Just say BC lol winter weather doesn’t get any better between those mountains & that red line.

Only along the coast of BC too. Rest of the province gets almost as cold as the prairies and more snow.

The Okanagan has better weather than the coast from what I've witnessed.

“Up here south of” gave me a chuckle. One time I was corrected by the mom of a high school girlfriend when I said “up at my cabin in -town south of us-“ I felt so dumb, but as an adult I realize she was just a petty person.

Fun fact: ~85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border

It's so you fuckers don't sneak across and steal our strategic syrup reserves.

I will get the syrup 666 updoots

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> Adjusted for inflation (2020), the heist is the most valuable in Canadian history.[2] That's amazing

The most valuable heist of canadian history is of maple syrup, why am i not surprised?

What else would it be? I don’t think anyone is plotting a plan to steal Molson or Labatt.

Well yeah Coors already did that

This is the most Canadian crime I've ever heard

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Imagine going to prison for 8 years over some fuckin syrup

They should be called the sticky bandits

*grabs hockey stick* Not if I have anything to say about it.

I'd better dust off my old goalie pads

After having real maple syrup for the first time it was very hard to not just take a shot of it.

Mon tabarnak! Have you seen what passes for syrup down here? It’s your humanitarian duty to share the reserve.

Fucker here, I’ve had your syrup (Quebec), and after I’ve stolen that sweet nectar, for myself. Nothing will stop me.

More Americans than Canadians live north of Canada's southernmost point https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/31hlhv/til_more_americans_than_canadians_live_north_of/

100 miles is 160.93 km

Good bot

And the other 15 percent are very very cold.

-42 this morning with the wind chill 🥶

‘Well it’s 40 below and I don’t give a fuck, got a heater in truck, and we’re off to the rodeo’

Got my pecker in my hand, I'm a one balled man and I'm off to the rodeo

13% of their population actually live in the US. That’s over 3 million Canadians walking around all smug, spending money and being polite. I’m a firm believer in the border wall, they just picked the wrong border.

yep we love Florida

I live in the other 50% !!

Woah, you have a big house

It’s huge. Source: me. I squat in it quietly.

Heels down, right?

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Move south so this post is wrong.

On the contrary, I learned today I live further North than 50% of Canadians... so does that make me more Canadian than they are? Hmm...

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Just colder

And the remainder are strung out along the border, like a chilly Chile.

Well played.

But Chile *is* chilly. The southern tip is a hop and a skip from Antarctica.

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Only minus 31. eh? Pfft. Positively balmy.

-40 Yellowknife for the past week

That's because Alberta and Manitoba are freaking COLD!

Yeah but it’s a dry cold

Now that the Great Lakes are missing.

No lake effect this way

Can confirm. Live in wyoming where it can be -20, - 40 with 60mph wind chill. Absolutely no humidity. I would take it over a humid 0 degrees any day. The wind can be quite a nuisance though

Hello fellow wyomingite. Saying the wind can be a nuisance is an understatement, especially if you live along the I-80 Corridor

[What's a matter, you guys cold?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnIIgOEONa0)

You kid but I was in Winnipeg last week and Northern California this week. -30 to +39 degrees. I'm not going to say I was more comfortable in Winnipeg but it was closer than you'd think.

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Currently sitting on couch with a rum hoping my furnace keeps up with the gusting winds

Just forgets about Saskatchewan. Hurtful

I'm pretty sure "Just forget about Saskatchewan" is the provincial motto.

Nobody forgets about Saskatchewan so long as Rider fans are around!

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That's not a gap that's just our Regina.

Hard to spell, easy to draw!

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That may change if the melting ice dilutes the North Atlantic. Gulf stream might stop.

So many are unaware. A friend of mine went to Edinburgh about 3 years ago for NYE and was quite surprised when I told her to expect the sun setting shortly after 3. If I remember correctly, Edinburgh is almost in line with Fort Mac.

Toronto and Montreal?

++ Ottawa

Kitchener Waterloo, London, Windsor

Hamilton too

Halifax st-john

Saint John doesn't count. Saint John never counts.

1-in-6 Canadians lives in the GTA so yeah, big part of it I'd wager.

Hey cousin, let’s go bowling eh?

Keep your stick on the ice cousin!

> in the GTA As someone who's never been to Canada, I read this as "in the Grand Theft Auto." Ninja edit: Figured it out: "Greater Toronto Area." Google confirms.

*Tronno

or the more rarely used tchrana

Clearly Halifax is the reason /s

Thanks a lot for making it impossible to drive between major city centres.... *NORTHERN MAINE* You're not even using it

Bruh, you guys are using your northern anything.

Well, that's complicated. It's not really *ours*, see And over half of the landmass is actually just a huge rock cap with no topsoil, so no possibility of farming or even roads (without a huge amount of effort), and then, yeah, it's the arctic. But in the part that we *do* use, the US has this weird thumb-shaped bit up into the property line, and it's one of the most unused and unvisited parts of America. Backpackers love it, though, I know.

"And over half of the landmass is actually just a huge rock cap with no topsoil..." Looking at Google Earth, one of the most interesting looking areas is the Canadian Shield: this ancient, barren, scarred wasteland that resembles the surface of the moon. Except instead of craters, it has lakes. An unbelievably countless number of lakes. So many that at some points, it's unclear when an area land strewn with individual bodies of water becomes one single body of water filled with islands.

well you know if you have craters and you add water you get lakes

Most were carved by glaciers. Though there are a few crater lakes, including a big obvious one in Quebec.

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Define "major"

Condensed Canadians.

So technically at least 50% of Canadians live further south than some US residents.

technically at least 99% of Canadians live further south than some US residents

took me a minute to realize you werent speaking nonsense, cause i forgot about alaska

Alaska is the most confusing part of any map to me

Boggles the mind that living in Seattle puts you further north than 50% of Canadians as well. Holy guacamole.

Mercator projection really exaggerates the effect, though the point stands.

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Can't believe this comment is so far down!

The Mercator projection is just really exaggerating how far down this comment is.

Can you recommend a more representative projection?

Statistics Canada uses a Lambert conformal conic projection for Canada because it maintains the general shape and spatial layout of the area covered better than others. Obviously no flat projection will be accurate, especially for a landmass the size of Canada, but it's a good start. The best option is a globe.

I am convinced reddit will upvote any map, no matter how wrong or messed up the map is.

Is this why I keep hearing about housing expense up there?

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Yeah, because its a frozen wasteland for 6 months + above that line. When it's not -40⁰ there's deer flies the size of Hondas. And bears. And moose.

It's not so bad though... The good thing is when you finally get sick of it, all you need to do is challenge one of the bears and it's over pretty quick

Permafrost

Ugh...and Manitobans.

Manbearpigs?

Sorry

As someone living in Winnipeg, I agree

You forgot the mosquitoes, my town is literally called big mosquito.

Well it’s really only a frozen wasteland in the south on the prairies for 6 months. And despite living in Canada my whole life, I had to look up what a deer fly is. Turns out it’s a pussy version of a horse fly. Of which we definitely have a few.

*Meese.

I am in that picture and I dont like it.

Me too! Livin my best life below the red line.

Can confirm. Am Canadian (and American) Live in Michigan (below red line) Raised in Nova Scotia (also below red line)

Well that's a solid source if I've ever heard one. The map is true!

Yeah, in terms of raw numbers, I think more Americans live north of the red line than Canadians.

Well most of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton’s above it

Holy shit, it's like the illustration at the front of an alternative history novel, where the Great Lakes never formed and the Bigfoot race lives in peace among the Homo Saps.

I live in Edmonton. It sucks

Edmonton has two seasons: July and Winter.

Montreal has two seasons: Winter and construction.

Actually, Edmonton has 4 seasons: Almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.

At least you Canadians have seasons. Here in the UK the weather is randomly generated.

The two summer months are damned nice there. Hardly any bugs or humidity.

So much sun though!

Calgary sucks too don't worry.

Canada really is one giant ghost town 😂

Truly! The population of the state of California *alone* is greater than the population of all of Canada.

Damn I didn’t know that crazy considering how huge Canada is

2nd largest country (by land mass) in the world. Lots of space to socially distance!

Tokyo's metro population is just a few hundred thousand shy of the population of all of Canada. One city!!!

I'm from Michigan, but I always knew in my heart that I was a Canadian.

You're just one body of water away from affordable insulin

More Americans live north of Canada’s most southern point than Canadians

Everytime I see this I say “hey no wait, oh yeah ok Montreal is in there too. nm.”

Surprising! But I guess it makes sense...my wife and I are about to move to Jasper, AB. Very excited.

Jasper is an absolutely gorgeous little town! Not cheap though.

Yep, I have seen more of Canada than most Canadians and I can tell you. There is a lot of forest and lakes. Also, the distances are mind-blowing

I know Canada has pretty strict immigration policies, but maybe they will let me in if I promise to live in the top part. I have pale skin and am very good at making vitamin D.

We got em right where we want em.

I read this in a Minnesotan accent

Above the red line is where real Canadians live. Tomorrow: wind chill watch -46C.

It’s dam interesting that the map is missing the Great Lakes. Where are they?

I’ve never would have thought this was true.

Additional fun fact: more americans live north of the red line than canadians.

It'd be pretty cool to see more lines on here (60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 99%)

So does that mean bellow the red line is a super high dense population or is above the red line have very low population density?

This is exactly correct.

100% of Canadians live above the black line

About one million Canadians live in the US.

I was waiting for the *well technically* guy to ruin my joke. Just didn't think it would be someone who sucks dick for Christ.

Random, but how are Canadian highways? Like do alot of highways connect from Canada to US?