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   RM>> Re: the 'Accent'.. When most Americans think of a Canadian accent they   
     >> think of what is mostly a Northern or Eastern accent actually used by   
     >> very few of us. You expect us to say 'aboot' instead of about. For the   
     >> most part the bulk of us have no true accent, we just say words exactly   
     >> as they are spelled but, like in the USA, there are areas that do have   
     >> a distinctly different accent and often use different words for things.   
      
   MP>When I was in Canada, I noticed that most of the Canadians I ran into had   
     >no accent.  They were sometimes difficult to understand, though, because by   
     >no accent I mean they also didn't accent any of their syllables.  If they   
     >spoke fast, it was difficult to catch some words.   
      
   I was about to say you must have hit an area that speaks a little differently   
   but then I thought, one thing I notice about a lot of American accents is   
   that they draw out vowels so maybe you were hearing our usual 'accent' and   
   to us (like for most people) we feel WE Don't have an accent..   B)   
      
   MP>This would have been in Ontario, mostly north of Lakes Superior and Huron.   
      
   That covers a lot of area. I grew up in Southern Ontario never more than   
   a few miles from the Great Lakes. The last 39 years I've been on the   
   shores of Georgian Bay, which is on Lake Huron. We are considered Central   
   Ontario although treated like Northern Ontario by most government plans   
   that change with where you live since anyone much more than 150 miles   
   North of Toronto have the same basic living problems, a long distance   
   between places and much colder temperatures in Winter, so we tend to   
   get small rebates on energy used to heat the house and such.   
      
   MP>The few people I ran into that had accents either sounded like a Red Green   
     >character, sounded slighly British, or sounded slightly French.  That was   
     >very few people.   
      
   Yes, a lot of Northern areas are like that, and probably similar things   
   in Alberta, which is sort of the 'Texas' of Canada.. (Not the French part)   
      
   This year for the first time in many years I am staying through the   
   winter in my cabin on the bay. For many years because they needed my   
   help in winter I stayed with my parents in Parry Sound over the winter   
   but they have both passed now and I had to decide what to do. I spent   
   winters here for 13 years quite a while back so I had a rough idea of   
   what to expect but it's a bit more of a challenge now that I'm older.   
      
   This place has poor insulation and, for now, I can't use anything but   
   the inadequate electric heat (60 AMP service) after the insurance company   
   banned my use of the old wood stove I put in 40 years ago. Last night the   
   temperature dropped down to at least -25c (-13f) and pails of water I had   
   on the floor in the kitchen froze quite a bit. It was down near 40f when   
   I woke up. I turn off the bigger heater and use just a single 2000 watt   
   baseboard heater at night. It's actually left set to about 68f but it   
   can't manage on its own when it drops much below freezing. On several   
   cold nights I've woken up to it being near 40f in here, and most mornings   
   it starts off closer to 50f than 60f.   
      
   There's no practical way to keep running water going so I have a 'box'   
   about 200 feet out on the ice covering a hole I break through each day   
   to get pails of water and I have an out house (privy?) for a toilet so   
   I am 'roughing' it a little bit here..   
      
   BTW, this is not a money thing. I could easily afford to rent a house   
   or apartment for winter or even year round but I would go stir crazy I   
   think living in town all the time. Here, I spend so much time and energy   
   just staying alive that I don't have much time to get bored..    B)   
      
   Oh, and I sort of read with amusement what some people there say when   
   you get a little snow. 3 or 4 times this year withing a day or two I   
   have gotten 20 to 30 inches of snow at a time, which can make trudging   
   out to get water even more fun.. 6 to 8 inches of snow is nothing..  B)   
      
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