I go to Toronto a few times a year, and I haven't seen kilograms in proper use. Deli meat is priced per 100 g, but everything else is per pound, with kg in parenthesis or in smaller type. The scales at registers do, however, work in kg only. Land is advertised only in acres, house areas only in square feet. Clearances in parking garages are in feet-in first, with meters in parenthesis. I think only a couple of government parking garages had meters only on their clearance displays.
The use of Celsius is almost exclusive, with some odd bank displays here and there flipping between C and F. Remek On 3/5/07, lps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I unusually travel into British Columbia every now and then to get my filling of metric. Too bad the west is less metric than the east. I do remember everything was metric that I saw in Toronto. In short. I saw several things that were non-metric in BC. Acres, pounds in grocery stores, and occasionally people using non metric measurements when they find out that I am from the US. I usually respond in metric... "I will have the 500 ml beer." I did find a choice Celsius only thermometer at Canadian Tire in BC. LPS Mike Millet wrote: > I stand corrected and bow to the master :). Thanks for that. I knew if > I asked I'd get a reaply. > > Mike > > > On 3/4/07, *Bill Hooper* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > On 2007 Mar 3 , at 11:33 AM, Mike Millet wrote: > >> It's (metrication) much more common in eastern Canada than >> Western Canada. Probably because Western Canada had some of the >> worst resistence to going metric. ---------snip----------- >
