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Originally Posted by grolsch
Baraka,
I'm loathe to correct you, but I believe she was referring to sheer size.
Of the country, I mean.
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Yes, of the country
Recently I watched a telemark ski video that showed a group of men telemarking on Baffin Island. It was beautiful! Living in the PacNW and having seen my fair share of amazing sights, I'm not often awed by the sheer scale of things, but where they were skiing was jaw-dropping. But Baffin Island, just by itself, is enormous!
I presume that it's much the same in Canada as in the United States--most of the populace has no real idea just how large the country is. I've crossed the United States, from Seattle to New York City, by train. There is a whole lot of nothin' between the Rockies and Chicago. I've seen it; I tried to sleep through most of it. In addition to that sense of east-west space present in the United States, Canada also has that sprawl of land to the north. But I would guess, given that three quarters of Canada's population lives within 90 miles of the U.S.-Canada border, that few people have a sense of what that space is like.