Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

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.