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I think this article makes it sound like Imperial is used more on a day to day basis than it really is. I was born in the 70s and only learned metric. I understand imperial for human height and weight, and for cooking but that's about it. I know how far a mile is, but not 100 miles, or how fast 50 miles and hour is. I think the main point of confusion is food - groceries that need to be weighed are often signed in imperial, but rung in in metric, and cooking is a mix of all manner of methods - cups, grams, tablespoons, etc. etc. with cookbooks coming from various locations and some ovens imperial and other metric.
I think this article makes it sound like there's a veneer of metric (like in the UK, where road signs still have distances in imperial), but it's more than that in Canada. We do actually mostly live in metric - with some odd exceptions and eccentricities, and some generation gap issues. I buy milk in litres, run in km, know speed in km/h, know that it's 1c today and like to splurge on 100g of bulk foods. -- unsigned
Yes, we use metric. Yes, we drive in kms per hour, measure road distances in kms and buy gasoline in litres. Yes, we use Celsius for the temperature. We measure snow depth in centimetres (until there is a lot and then maybe in feet). We buy meat in kgs. At least that is what it says on the package but the sign by the meat in the store has the price per pound in much larger size than the price per kilogram (because the older generation cannot see as well?). But we order our steaks in restaurants in ounces. We order our beer in pints or quarts (but not the same as Imperial pint or quart) and the shot glass for measuring liquor in mixed drinks is in ounces. We usually cook with cups, ounces, tablespoons and teaspoons and set the oven temperature in Fahrenheit. Our height is in centimetres on our driver licences but we probably give our height in feet and inches. We probably give our weight in pounds. We measure our houses or apartments, its rooms and the land around it in feet and square feet. We buy lightbulbs for it measured in watts. We buy two-by-fours (roughly 2 inches by 4 inches), plywood in 4 by 8 foot sheets, etc., for construction. (We do buy paint for it by the litre but the paint store calls that 4 litre can a gallon.) The specifications on our cars will be mostly be metric but, for example, the wheel size will be in inches. If you mess around in boats, you give boat lengths, beam and drawing depth in feet and speed in knots. The engines on our outboards are measured by horsepower. The reality is we use both systems. For some things us older folks a little more than our kids. I could go on. But for all of us it is much more than just height, weight and cooking. Hebbgd ( talk) 18:17, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
I completely agree with the above (re we're more metric than this presents us as). The article makes it sound like we use imperial much more than we do. I'm 45, my education was entirely in metric. I only use imperial for the height and weight of people, and Fahrenheit for cooking because we have (I guess) an American oven. But re cooking, it depends on the recipe or cookbook whether we use cups and oz, or grams or ml - we do all of these! Even my most elderly relatives use celsius for temperature. I live in metric with a few residual imperial quirks. I don't really understand the imperial system beyond those quirks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.132.8.224 ( talk) 14:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
The article is somewhat confusing for the uninitiated. On the one hand it says "there is still significant use of non-metric units and standards in some sectors of the Canadian economy, mainly due to the close proximity to the United States". But on the other hand, Canada previously used Imperial units rather than U.S. customary units, as the examples dealing with fluid measures make abundantly clear. In some passages, the term "Imperial units" is more or less mistakenly used to reference the U.S. system. Could somebody clean this up and clarify Canadians' actual understanding of these issues? — Naddy 11:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
We refer to the "other" system as "Imperial" with no real distinction made between the original UK version and the modified US version (though we do know the measurements are different we don't ever use the term "US customary units." Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if most Cdns don't know there are two imperial systems.
As an engineer who works in Canada I deal with this mess every day. We are taught metric in school, almost like it is a religion, the "pure" and "perfect" system. However, it is rarely used in industry. Right now I am working on a mechanical system design for a large meat processing plant. I can tell you 100% of the design has been done in IMPERIAL, not US or metric. Flow rates are in igpm, air handlers are being built based on flow rates of cubic feet per minute. I have done a fair amount of work in Alberta and they tend to use USgals a lot due to their attachment to the USA and the oil industry.
I would say that the scheme of everyone using metric has not been overly sucessful, seeing as how professionals and tradesmen still overwhelmingly use imperial.
Prior to becoming an engineer I worked in the automotive trade, same thing... the only metric used was on import cars.
Also of note, I am six foot three inches tall, one hundred ninety pounds. There are 32.2 pounds in a slug, 12 inches in a foot, 16 tablespoons in a cup, &c...
One final note of failure: I was born in 1978, and graduated university in 2004.
I would imagine that a scientist or government regulator might argue that Canada is fully metricated, but spend 5 minutes on a construction site, a garage, or grocery store, and you will have your answer. -- Mf135gas 03:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
This article does a good job of explaining how metric is used by Canadians but doesn't quite explain why.
It's clear that the federal government of the 1970s used its power over labeling laws and the like to push metric. But education and road signage would be provincial and local responsibilities, not federal. Was there some kind of federal-provincial agreement on a metric timetable? And what about the media? I can understand if the government's weather service decided to switch to metric in 1975, but I would have figured that the media would have kept using the old system its readers and listeners were then used to? Was there an agreement between the government and big media companies? Oddly enough, Environment Canada allows users of its website to get temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. -- Mwalcoff 06:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
"To confuse matters, supermarkets will often advertise foods such as meats and produce "per pound", since such prices may appear lower to consumers than prices advertised by kilogram. However, virtually all supermarket scales are metric, and the products advertised by the pound in a supermarket flyer are inevitably weighed and sold to the customer in the store based on a price "per 100 grams" or "per kilogram"."
Why do supermarkets advertise per pound if items are sold by the kilo? Aren't most consumers confused by this?
IMO this sentence is hyperbole. I just deleted an earlier sentence that was even worse but will just post a comment for this one. Does anyone have any actual facts to back up the reasoning that supermarkets do this "since such prices may appear lower to consumers than prices advertised by kilogram"? If that is the case then why don't they advertise the price of seafood per gram instead of per ounce? It would seem super cheap!
The reason has more to do with consumer friendliness. I know how much meat costs per pound. I know that $2.00 / pound is a decent price for lean ground beef. If a store started advertising their price per kg, I would have no idea what was good vs. what was not, and probably would not shop there. Thus, in order for metrification for this kind of thing to happen, all stores would have to agree to do it at the same time. Of course this will never happen.
This I believe is the REAL reason behind this situation. If anyone has actual evidence pointing to the sentence in the article I will stand corrected. Jasonkeirstead ( talk) 14:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
The metrication in germany started more than a century ago but people still use pounds for food measures in everyday speech although it now means exactly half a kilogram. I assume the reason is that a whole kilogram is beyond the amount of food you normally buy at once so it's harder to imagine than a pound and to say "pound" is much faster than to say "half kilogram" or "five hundred grams".-- 77.187.191.139 ( talk) 01:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
when did all the transport agencies in Canada metricate?
Since there are a multitude of different types of " engineers", perhaps this section should more specifically mention mechanical engineers or one of the other fields of engineering? j-beda 15:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
So there is no section in this article discussing height. That's odd since it is one piece of Canada that is, no matter how hard they try, very imperial. I have never once seen anyone in Canada use centimeters, if they measure height they do it in feet and inches. I can't say that in the article because that would be OR but it'ts damn true. No one else in the world seems to realize this which is why I hate it when someone converts height into metric for my benefit. TostitosAreGross 17:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
This is true. When getting a driver's license for example they ask for your information, it's given in imperial and they convert it, it's listed on the license in metric. We weigh and measure people in imperial, but pretty much nothing else. Hence, if people list distance in feet, I picture people lying down in a row! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.199.227 ( talk) 20:24, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
The line about using volts and amps just confuses me - is there a different imperial and metric unit for electricity - I was under the impression that both used volts and amps?
99.251.114.120 ( talk) 04:51, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I had taken the liberty of trying to improve this article, and most of my verified additions were removed -- such as the continued opposition to full and final metrification in Canada. I am going to revise this article again because it is factually inaccurate and grossly irresponsible to discount the heavy public opposition witnessed during the 1980s to full metrication. This kind of opposition was precisely why the Mulroney government came up with their 'compromise.' The fact is public opposition to full metrication, which led to Mulroney's compromise, is responsible for Canadians' continued use of pounds, inches, Fahrenheit for body temperature, etc. If people can not accept what the facts state, then I suggest seeking professional help -- I do not make things up. But please do not erase something I have taken the liberty to research.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.193.74 ( talk • contribs)
Is there a reason there are sections both for Commerce and for Retail? Much of the content is duplicated between both of them. It would probably be more encyclopaedic to consolidate the two sections into one. Jon VS ( talk) 09:33, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
The article says: "However unlike in the rest of Canada, metrication in the Francophone province of Quebec has been fully implemented and metric measures are more consistently used in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada." This is inaccurate as measurement systems and their definitions are defined at the federal level of government -- not provincial. Canada (as a country) has not completed the metrication process, and therefore neither has Quebec (as a Canadian province). The fact that metric units may or may not be used more frequently by the people of Quebec is irrelevant to the system's full legal status in the province and indeed country. 173.180.196.28 ( talk) 21:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Do New Brunswick and Nova Scotia really still use imperial measures on their drivers licenses? Peter Horn User talk 02:44, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
John Deere [3] has used metric fasteners since time immemorial. Peter Horn User talk 22:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I may be corrected on this, but I'm sure the term "metrification" was far more widely used during the debate in the 1970s and 1980s, than was "metrication." Perhaps this should be mentioned -- it might be a Canadianism. CaperBill ( talk) 23:21, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
This article has clearly been written by someone over 70 yrs of age. All of Canada uses the metric system quite inclusively including mainstream society and the sciences. This is the problem with Wikipedia... no citations, completely inaccurate. Sad. --75.164.248.53
This time I didn't actually revert the edit. I have been seeing quite a bit of commentary in articles lately. I wish the editors would address their concerns somewhere more appropriate but you do what you can. Can anyone comment on this latest one? The comment seems legitimate, if badly placed and unsourced. Cathfolant ( talk) 02:48, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: article moved as proposed Armbrust The Homunculus 11:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Metrication in Canada → Metric conversion in Canada – "metrication" is WP:JARGON, and "metrification" is found in Canada, so a better non-jargon-y title is better. 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 01:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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I recently added some material to another article using this rail accident report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, and I noticed that, despite being written in 2003, it used entirely English units save for the ambient temperature, given in Celsius. So I wondered, is it official Canadian government policy to allow railroads to use English units? I can see several reasons why:
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Canadian building and engineering standards still frequently imperial measure, due to being within close proximity of the United States, which accounts for 20% of imports, and as a result the Canadians still use equipment manufactured to the North American standards. One topic that hasn't been explained is how Canada deals with standards which use US Customary volume, which differs from imperial volume. For instance, let's say a North American standard pipe with a 1" inner diameter is rated at 39 US gallons per minute. In Canada, would the standard for that pipe be modified to be 32 imperial gallons per minute?
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I think this article makes it sound like Imperial is used more on a day to day basis than it really is. I was born in the 70s and only learned metric. I understand imperial for human height and weight, and for cooking but that's about it. I know how far a mile is, but not 100 miles, or how fast 50 miles and hour is. I think the main point of confusion is food - groceries that need to be weighed are often signed in imperial, but rung in in metric, and cooking is a mix of all manner of methods - cups, grams, tablespoons, etc. etc. with cookbooks coming from various locations and some ovens imperial and other metric.
I think this article makes it sound like there's a veneer of metric (like in the UK, where road signs still have distances in imperial), but it's more than that in Canada. We do actually mostly live in metric - with some odd exceptions and eccentricities, and some generation gap issues. I buy milk in litres, run in km, know speed in km/h, know that it's 1c today and like to splurge on 100g of bulk foods. -- unsigned
Yes, we use metric. Yes, we drive in kms per hour, measure road distances in kms and buy gasoline in litres. Yes, we use Celsius for the temperature. We measure snow depth in centimetres (until there is a lot and then maybe in feet). We buy meat in kgs. At least that is what it says on the package but the sign by the meat in the store has the price per pound in much larger size than the price per kilogram (because the older generation cannot see as well?). But we order our steaks in restaurants in ounces. We order our beer in pints or quarts (but not the same as Imperial pint or quart) and the shot glass for measuring liquor in mixed drinks is in ounces. We usually cook with cups, ounces, tablespoons and teaspoons and set the oven temperature in Fahrenheit. Our height is in centimetres on our driver licences but we probably give our height in feet and inches. We probably give our weight in pounds. We measure our houses or apartments, its rooms and the land around it in feet and square feet. We buy lightbulbs for it measured in watts. We buy two-by-fours (roughly 2 inches by 4 inches), plywood in 4 by 8 foot sheets, etc., for construction. (We do buy paint for it by the litre but the paint store calls that 4 litre can a gallon.) The specifications on our cars will be mostly be metric but, for example, the wheel size will be in inches. If you mess around in boats, you give boat lengths, beam and drawing depth in feet and speed in knots. The engines on our outboards are measured by horsepower. The reality is we use both systems. For some things us older folks a little more than our kids. I could go on. But for all of us it is much more than just height, weight and cooking. Hebbgd ( talk) 18:17, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
I completely agree with the above (re we're more metric than this presents us as). The article makes it sound like we use imperial much more than we do. I'm 45, my education was entirely in metric. I only use imperial for the height and weight of people, and Fahrenheit for cooking because we have (I guess) an American oven. But re cooking, it depends on the recipe or cookbook whether we use cups and oz, or grams or ml - we do all of these! Even my most elderly relatives use celsius for temperature. I live in metric with a few residual imperial quirks. I don't really understand the imperial system beyond those quirks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.132.8.224 ( talk) 14:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
The article is somewhat confusing for the uninitiated. On the one hand it says "there is still significant use of non-metric units and standards in some sectors of the Canadian economy, mainly due to the close proximity to the United States". But on the other hand, Canada previously used Imperial units rather than U.S. customary units, as the examples dealing with fluid measures make abundantly clear. In some passages, the term "Imperial units" is more or less mistakenly used to reference the U.S. system. Could somebody clean this up and clarify Canadians' actual understanding of these issues? — Naddy 11:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
We refer to the "other" system as "Imperial" with no real distinction made between the original UK version and the modified US version (though we do know the measurements are different we don't ever use the term "US customary units." Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if most Cdns don't know there are two imperial systems.
As an engineer who works in Canada I deal with this mess every day. We are taught metric in school, almost like it is a religion, the "pure" and "perfect" system. However, it is rarely used in industry. Right now I am working on a mechanical system design for a large meat processing plant. I can tell you 100% of the design has been done in IMPERIAL, not US or metric. Flow rates are in igpm, air handlers are being built based on flow rates of cubic feet per minute. I have done a fair amount of work in Alberta and they tend to use USgals a lot due to their attachment to the USA and the oil industry.
I would say that the scheme of everyone using metric has not been overly sucessful, seeing as how professionals and tradesmen still overwhelmingly use imperial.
Prior to becoming an engineer I worked in the automotive trade, same thing... the only metric used was on import cars.
Also of note, I am six foot three inches tall, one hundred ninety pounds. There are 32.2 pounds in a slug, 12 inches in a foot, 16 tablespoons in a cup, &c...
One final note of failure: I was born in 1978, and graduated university in 2004.
I would imagine that a scientist or government regulator might argue that Canada is fully metricated, but spend 5 minutes on a construction site, a garage, or grocery store, and you will have your answer. -- Mf135gas 03:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
This article does a good job of explaining how metric is used by Canadians but doesn't quite explain why.
It's clear that the federal government of the 1970s used its power over labeling laws and the like to push metric. But education and road signage would be provincial and local responsibilities, not federal. Was there some kind of federal-provincial agreement on a metric timetable? And what about the media? I can understand if the government's weather service decided to switch to metric in 1975, but I would have figured that the media would have kept using the old system its readers and listeners were then used to? Was there an agreement between the government and big media companies? Oddly enough, Environment Canada allows users of its website to get temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. -- Mwalcoff 06:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
"To confuse matters, supermarkets will often advertise foods such as meats and produce "per pound", since such prices may appear lower to consumers than prices advertised by kilogram. However, virtually all supermarket scales are metric, and the products advertised by the pound in a supermarket flyer are inevitably weighed and sold to the customer in the store based on a price "per 100 grams" or "per kilogram"."
Why do supermarkets advertise per pound if items are sold by the kilo? Aren't most consumers confused by this?
IMO this sentence is hyperbole. I just deleted an earlier sentence that was even worse but will just post a comment for this one. Does anyone have any actual facts to back up the reasoning that supermarkets do this "since such prices may appear lower to consumers than prices advertised by kilogram"? If that is the case then why don't they advertise the price of seafood per gram instead of per ounce? It would seem super cheap!
The reason has more to do with consumer friendliness. I know how much meat costs per pound. I know that $2.00 / pound is a decent price for lean ground beef. If a store started advertising their price per kg, I would have no idea what was good vs. what was not, and probably would not shop there. Thus, in order for metrification for this kind of thing to happen, all stores would have to agree to do it at the same time. Of course this will never happen.
This I believe is the REAL reason behind this situation. If anyone has actual evidence pointing to the sentence in the article I will stand corrected. Jasonkeirstead ( talk) 14:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
The metrication in germany started more than a century ago but people still use pounds for food measures in everyday speech although it now means exactly half a kilogram. I assume the reason is that a whole kilogram is beyond the amount of food you normally buy at once so it's harder to imagine than a pound and to say "pound" is much faster than to say "half kilogram" or "five hundred grams".-- 77.187.191.139 ( talk) 01:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
when did all the transport agencies in Canada metricate?
Since there are a multitude of different types of " engineers", perhaps this section should more specifically mention mechanical engineers or one of the other fields of engineering? j-beda 15:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
So there is no section in this article discussing height. That's odd since it is one piece of Canada that is, no matter how hard they try, very imperial. I have never once seen anyone in Canada use centimeters, if they measure height they do it in feet and inches. I can't say that in the article because that would be OR but it'ts damn true. No one else in the world seems to realize this which is why I hate it when someone converts height into metric for my benefit. TostitosAreGross 17:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
This is true. When getting a driver's license for example they ask for your information, it's given in imperial and they convert it, it's listed on the license in metric. We weigh and measure people in imperial, but pretty much nothing else. Hence, if people list distance in feet, I picture people lying down in a row! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.199.227 ( talk) 20:24, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
The line about using volts and amps just confuses me - is there a different imperial and metric unit for electricity - I was under the impression that both used volts and amps?
99.251.114.120 ( talk) 04:51, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I had taken the liberty of trying to improve this article, and most of my verified additions were removed -- such as the continued opposition to full and final metrification in Canada. I am going to revise this article again because it is factually inaccurate and grossly irresponsible to discount the heavy public opposition witnessed during the 1980s to full metrication. This kind of opposition was precisely why the Mulroney government came up with their 'compromise.' The fact is public opposition to full metrication, which led to Mulroney's compromise, is responsible for Canadians' continued use of pounds, inches, Fahrenheit for body temperature, etc. If people can not accept what the facts state, then I suggest seeking professional help -- I do not make things up. But please do not erase something I have taken the liberty to research.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.193.74 ( talk • contribs)
Is there a reason there are sections both for Commerce and for Retail? Much of the content is duplicated between both of them. It would probably be more encyclopaedic to consolidate the two sections into one. Jon VS ( talk) 09:33, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
The article says: "However unlike in the rest of Canada, metrication in the Francophone province of Quebec has been fully implemented and metric measures are more consistently used in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada." This is inaccurate as measurement systems and their definitions are defined at the federal level of government -- not provincial. Canada (as a country) has not completed the metrication process, and therefore neither has Quebec (as a Canadian province). The fact that metric units may or may not be used more frequently by the people of Quebec is irrelevant to the system's full legal status in the province and indeed country. 173.180.196.28 ( talk) 21:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Do New Brunswick and Nova Scotia really still use imperial measures on their drivers licenses? Peter Horn User talk 02:44, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
John Deere [3] has used metric fasteners since time immemorial. Peter Horn User talk 22:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I may be corrected on this, but I'm sure the term "metrification" was far more widely used during the debate in the 1970s and 1980s, than was "metrication." Perhaps this should be mentioned -- it might be a Canadianism. CaperBill ( talk) 23:21, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
This article has clearly been written by someone over 70 yrs of age. All of Canada uses the metric system quite inclusively including mainstream society and the sciences. This is the problem with Wikipedia... no citations, completely inaccurate. Sad. --75.164.248.53
This time I didn't actually revert the edit. I have been seeing quite a bit of commentary in articles lately. I wish the editors would address their concerns somewhere more appropriate but you do what you can. Can anyone comment on this latest one? The comment seems legitimate, if badly placed and unsourced. Cathfolant ( talk) 02:48, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: article moved as proposed Armbrust The Homunculus 11:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Metrication in Canada → Metric conversion in Canada – "metrication" is WP:JARGON, and "metrification" is found in Canada, so a better non-jargon-y title is better. 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 01:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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Metrication" is the correct term for "the conversion to the metric system of weights and measures", and it is no more "
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I recently added some material to another article using this rail accident report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, and I noticed that, despite being written in 2003, it used entirely English units save for the ambient temperature, given in Celsius. So I wondered, is it official Canadian government policy to allow railroads to use English units? I can see several reasons why:
Is there anything official on this we could add as a source? Daniel Case ( talk) 06:17, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
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Canadian building and engineering standards still frequently imperial measure, due to being within close proximity of the United States, which accounts for 20% of imports, and as a result the Canadians still use equipment manufactured to the North American standards. One topic that hasn't been explained is how Canada deals with standards which use US Customary volume, which differs from imperial volume. For instance, let's say a North American standard pipe with a 1" inner diameter is rated at 39 US gallons per minute. In Canada, would the standard for that pipe be modified to be 32 imperial gallons per minute?
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