LOL, maybe the location makes the difference.
I was living in Ottawa, maybe we were corrupted sooner because AFAIR, my grade 5 or 6 project in '73 or '74 was on the Metric system.
I wonder if that was the intro phase (soft launch) before they dropped the Metric bomb.
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However, imperial measures still have legal definitions in Canada and can be used alongside metric units.
Canadians typically discuss the weather in degrees Celsius, purchase gasoline in litres, observe speed limits set in kilometres per hour (km/h), and read road signs and maps displaying distances in kilometres. Cars have metric
speedometers and
odometers, although most speedometers include smaller figures in miles per hour (mph).
Fuel efficiency for new vehicles is published by
Natural Resources Canada in
litres per 100 kilometres, (
not kilometres per litre as an analog of
miles per gallon) and miles per (imperial) gallon.
[13][14] Window stickers in dealer showrooms often include "miles per gallon" conversions. The
railways of Canada such as the
Canadian National and
Canadian Pacific as well as
commuter rail services, continue to measure their trackage in miles and speed limits in miles per hour (although urban railways including
subways and
light rail have adopted metres and kilometres for distances and kilometres per hour for speed limits).
[15] Canadian railcars show weight figures in both imperial and metric. Canadian railways also maintain exclusive use of imperial measurements to describe train length and height in feet and train masses in
short tons.
Canadians typically use a mix of metric and imperial measurements in their daily lives. One area where imperial measures continue to be used, despite official practice, is with respect to human height and weight. Newborns are measured in kilograms at hospitals, but the birth weight and length is also announced to family and friends in pounds, ounces, feet and inches. Although
Canadian driver's licences give height in centimetres,
[16][17]. Use of the imperial system also persist where influenced by US trade and manufacture. Most kitchen appliances in Canada are labelled with both degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit, and metric cooking measures are widely available; but Fahrenheit is often used for cooking due to the import of kitchen appliances from the
United States. When it comes to measures for cooking, Canadians typically use a mix of both depending on the recipe and cook book - use a mix of grams, millilitres, cups, ounces and tablespoons, for example. Canadians also occasionally use Fahrenheit outside of the kitchen, such as when measuring the water temperature in a pool. Stationery and photographic prints are also sold in sizes based on inches and the most popular
paper sizes,
letter and
legal, are sized in imperial units, though many agendas and notebooks are sold in
ISO 216 sizes.
Canadian football games continue to be played on fields measured in
yards (with a gridiron layout with a length of 100.6 metres, or 110 yards, from one goal line to the other); golfers also expect courses to be measured in yards.
