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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:38 PM
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Are there any Canadian Communities in the US?
You know one area they all seem to live. And people say things like "I'm going to Canada town."

Or "Stay outta the east side man...the Canadians will kick your ass."
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:40 PM
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1. Are there any American communities in Canada?
Is there an Americatown in Toronto?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:41 PM
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2. Calgary has one
They call it yankburg. It's on the North End.








YEs I made that up.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:45 PM
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5. Is it a predominantly gay city?
O8)
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:46 PM
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8. Thought so
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 12:02 AM
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18. I wish.
When the national team was kicking ass in the 2002 World Cup, it would have been nice if there was a place to celebrate.
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:44 PM
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3. yes, believe it or not
Maine has at least one neighborhood known to all as "Little Canada". The Little Canada I'm thinking of is in Lewiston.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:44 PM
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4. Oohhh what's it like?
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:58 PM
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11. cold, boring...
Quite a few Francophones. A lot like the rest of Maine, I guess.

Mainers think Lewiston in general is a tough city, but only because they've never really seen a genuinely tough city, and consequently have no idea what one is like.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:46 PM
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6. Minnesota has one too. Grew up close to its border...
But unlike the real Canada of repute, MN's lil' Canada is just as typical as any other US city.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:46 PM
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7. Holy shit Check it out!
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:48 PM
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9. Yes, Florida in January - February. the're called 'snowbirds"
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 06:04 PM
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14. So right about that
Tons of Canadian license plates. Had a good friend from Canada about 20 years ago. He ran a local watering hole and served the best chili on the planet. His daughter went back to Quebec to attend medical school at McGill.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 07:09 PM
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17. Yep!
Any community that caters to snowbirds in Arizona, Florida, and a few other places; Sierra Vista and Mesa in Arizona are huge snowbird communities. Yuma, too..
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Longgrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 05:48 PM
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10. I live in a small town in MA
And there is a large French-Canadian population here...including a Church that still says mass, in French, once a week...

I'm part French-Canadian myself but can barley speak a word of the native tongue.
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KerryReallyWon Donating Member (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 06:01 PM
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12. they go to florida in November, thru Mar or May...
We call them snowbirds, and we have many here now in Pinellas County Florida.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 06:02 PM
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13. Cape May, NJ
:D
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 06:16 PM
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15. Hollywood does
and conversely there are a lot of Americans in Calgary.
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ragin_acadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 06:25 PM
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16. there are a half dozen New Brunswick
exiles in the florida panhandle.

does that count?
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