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....and if they have the financial means many eventually become snowbirds.....I never heard of beachbirds flocking north in summertime....
Then you aren't old enough or spent enough to have ever lived on a lake in Canada.
Just a sampling of some who do. Very big thing back in the day as virtually every lake in Ontario had American owned summer homes on them. Lodges in the areas of North Bay and Temagami area were owned by American companies with their executives clamouring to bring their families north out of the sweltering heat of a stinky city summer south of the 49th.
Here are 10 big-time celebs who cottage right here in Canada.
Martin Short: Lake Rosseau.
Jim Carrey: Baptiste Lake.
Steven Spielberg: Muskoka.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: Lake Rosseau.
Kate Hudson: Muskoka.
Donald Sutherland: Georgeville.
Tom Hanks: Muskoka.
Halle Berry: Saint-Hippolyte.
An article that describes a bit of it in earlier times.
Takes some serious cash for folks like Ted Rogers, but the millionaires and billionaires seem to be willing to spend it to get away from the U.S. and come to Canada for whatever reasons that have been mentioned on here any number of times but ignored or discounted by some..
That's not because of the climate, it's entirely because of the economy, geography and the water-ways. But I think you already know that and are pretending that you don't. Or maybe you really don't know that. If not, why not? What's the matter with you? Were you born and raised in a hot country?
I'm not talking about the historical reason why the country started in that area.....it stayed that way until now....and for a reason...90%+ of the Canadian population live within 100 miles from the US border...and weather has a lot to do with it, not all but a lot....the more northern regions are simply hard to develop.
Then you aren't old enough or spent enough to have ever lived on a lake in Canada.
Just a sampling of some who do. Very big thing back in the day as virtually every lake in Ontario had American owned summer homes on them. Lodges in the areas of North Bay and Temagami area were owned by American companies with their executives clamouring to bring their families north out of the sweltering heat of a stinky city summer south of the 49th.
Here are 10 big-time celebs who cottage right here in Canada.
Martin Short: Lake Rosseau.
Jim Carrey: Baptiste Lake.
Steven Spielberg: Muskoka.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: Lake Rosseau.
Kate Hudson: Muskoka.
Donald Sutherland: Georgeville.
Tom Hanks: Muskoka.
Halle Berry: Saint-Hippolyte.
An article that describes a bit of it in earlier times.
Takes some serious cash for folks like Ted Rogers, but the millionaires and billionaires seem to be willing to spend it to get away from the U.S. and come to Canada for whatever reasons that have been mentioned on here any number of times but ignored or discounted by some..
Oh, please......you really want to want compare the two?? Bunch of celebrities and millionaires owns property in Canada?? Really??....yes I'm pretty sure that there is a wave of people comparable to the snowbirds that move to Canada in summer, I heard they are building a city like Phoenix in northern Alberta ......furthermore, there is no shortage of cooler areas by lakes in summer where you can have a nice cottage in the US.
The most ironic part is that this comes from you, a snowbird yourself......when arguing for the sake of arguing beats reasoning....
Then you aren't old enough or spent enough to have ever lived on a lake in Canada.
Just a sampling of some who do. Very big thing back in the day as virtually every lake in Ontario had American owned summer homes on them. Lodges in the areas of North Bay and Temagami area were owned by American companies with their executives clamouring to bring their families north out of the sweltering heat of a stinky city summer south of the 49th.
Here are 10 big-time celebs who cottage right here in Canada.
Martin Short: Lake Rosseau.
Jim Carrey: Baptiste Lake.
Steven Spielberg: Muskoka.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: Lake Rosseau.
Kate Hudson: Muskoka.
Donald Sutherland: Georgeville.
Tom Hanks: Muskoka.
Halle Berry: Saint-Hippolyte.
An article that describes a bit of it in earlier times.
Takes some serious cash for folks like Ted Rogers, but the millionaires and billionaires seem to be willing to spend it to get away from the U.S. and come to Canada for whatever reasons that have been mentioned on here any number of times but ignored or discounted by some..
Very true and not to mention all the regular folk hunters and fishermen who come up here. I worked one summer at a camp on the lake. One of my nieces worked two months at a fly-in fishing camp last summer. I think it was all Americans. She netted $13,000 with all the tips. I told her it helps to be blonde and beautiful.
I'm not talking about the historical reason why the country started in that area.....it stayed that way until now....and for a reason...90%+ of the Canadian population live within 100 miles from the US border...and weather has a lot to do with it, not all but a lot....the more northern regions are simply hard to develop.
No. You are both not putting your thinking caps on. Now pay attention boys. Pretend for a moment that the Canada/USA border had ended up being another 500 or more miles further south than it is, and pretend that the climate of all of Canada is as balmy as the climate of southern British Columbia, or all as frigid as Baffin Island. The higher percentage of Canadian population would still be exactly where it is today because of the geography.
Not because of climate, not because of proximity to USA. The REASON is because of the water ways and the lay of the land right across the continent from coast to coast. It is the way it was with the people who were here long before Europe discovered North America. The settlers who came here continued in the same locations as those original inhabitants because it was the most practical and economical thing to do and as the population continues to grow and expand out more across the nation it will still remain that way with the greater majority of populace being where it is now because it's the most practical and economical thing to do.
"Comprised of the St. Lawrence River, St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes, Hwy H2O is a 3,700-kilometer (2,300 mile) marine highway that runs between Canada and the United States. Hwy H2O flows directly into our commercial, industrial and agricultural heartland, home to some 100 million people, roughly one quarter of the Canada/U.S. combined population."
It's the same reason why Vancouver is where it is, because of the Fraser River and its tributaries and the geography of the Fraser Basin.
After Highway H20 was more established the railway across Canada came next and it was built in the only place where it was geographically feasible, and then all the other infrastructure and people and towns who come with infrastructure followed after the railroad.
None of it had anything to do with proximity to USA and the border, none of it had anything to do with the climate. They are coincidental.
No. You are both not putting your thinking caps on. Now pay attention boys.
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Nonsense...Canada with "balmy weather" would mean Northwest passage easily open to navigation and much easier resource extraction in the north.......yes it would change things...a lot....
You are the one that need to put your thinking hat on...
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......furthermore, there is no shortage of cooler areas by lakes in summer where you can have a nice cottage in the US.
