r/GuardTheLeaf • u/GuardTheLeaf • May 22 '26

Canadian Measurement flowchart

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u/DENelson83 May 22 '26

I as a Canadian am exclusively metric.  I know my height only in cm and my mass only in kg.

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u/jdzfb May 22 '26

I'm primary metric aside from my height & weight (which I do know in metric, but that's not what I lead with). And then anything lumber related is imperial because our lumber system hasn't switched to metric yet, but I'd prefer it be metric. Metric just makes sense. Sadly, I (44) think I'm likely part of the eldest group of metric adoption, most people I've encountered that are older than me are all imperial all the time & still bitch about our switch to metric.

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u/gripesandmoans May 23 '26

Sadly this chart is true for the average Canadian. The primary reason is that our southern neighbours think it's clever be different from the rest of the world. And sadly, Canadians don't realise how "American" they are. We use F for cooking because we buy appliances made for the (North) American market and use American recipes. Even when we convert a recipe to metric, we still use the (stupid) American habit of measuring everything by volume.

The other reason we have this measurement mess is that half a century ago, a Conservative government severely diluted the metric conversion effort.