Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025.
It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began.
A bone-chilling April Fools’ Day in 1975 marked the first time Canadians used Celsius to measure weather temperature.
Everything everywhere was surveyed in imperial measurements. As a surveyor in a previous career, metric was the best thing that could have happened. Maps in imperial scales are miserable.
For on, that isn’t true, and also from manitoba west they built the grid road system, everything is a mile apart. The system essentially works by descending halves, stapling metric and 1.6 into it was an idiot move. People that really are surveyors understand that, I imagine you were a pole holder.