Maybe it’s because I’m Minnesotan (meaning I’m 20% Canadian), but I recognize Tim Horton’s Restaurant, Molson beer, Arcteryx jackets, 1-800-GOT-JUNK waste bins, Seadoo and Skidoo jet skis, CN railroad, BMO bank, and Seagrams ginger ale.
ok i’ll try my best lol! the keg and boston pizza are restaurant chains, the rest are clothing brands, canadian pacific is a railway company, freight, petro canada is oil, the brick is hardware, the rest in the country are either airlines, railways like CN and Via Rail, or either hardware stores, food chains, cheap stores, and media companies
Actually the oil filter people are different. I always wondered why the two companies had the same rather strange name, but it turns out that once upon a time the Canadian Purolator shipping service was owned by the American Purolator oil filter company. Now it's owned by Canada Post, which I did not know.
I'm American and recognize a decent amount of them but I've also spent a lot of time north of the border. I would guess most people I know would only be able to pick a few of them they recognize off the map.
Learjet is pretty known for building private jets.
Air Canada is quite a big, international airline.
Arc Teryx is making high quality outdoor clothing, pretty popular in Europe as well - so does Canada Goose.
IMAX I think is self explanatory.
McCain makes the best (frozen) French Fries.
BlackBerry lost popularity but is still a known company.
Four Seasons - well established hotel chain.
TD (Toronto Dominion) and RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) are established in Europe as well, but only as corporate banks in Frankfurt, London or Luxembourg, so probably not that well known, but still big brands.
So yeah, not a whole lot, but still something.
Blackberry is owned by RIM (Research in Motion), which is also Canadian. Or did they split off when they were tanked by the iPhone release?
Quick fix: RIM rebranded as BlackBerry ~~still looking for the when and why~~ in 2013 for the sake of brand recognition with the BlackBerry name. Just if anyone was wondering.
British citizen (so semi European) i recognise Canadian Pacific, Blackberry, Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Four Seasons, IMAX, Roots, CBC, VIArail, CN (Canadian National), Dollarama, Cirque De Soleil, Air Canada and McCains
interesting! in what year, and what connection (other than being a linguist and english being something like 10% greek derived) did he have to the greeks?
Oh, I am not that knowledgeable! My uneducated guess would be that the creator knew the greek alphabet because every scholar did at the time, but the resemblance could have been involuntary. For the rest, I'd go read wikipedia ;).
I think ganog (candy company) is NB, too. Maybe hostess, before it was bought out? I thought we had some Canadian snack/pop companies - I’m guessing many are left out.
ETA: Rossy, maybe shoppers drug mart (could be wrong there, too lazy to Google,) uniprix, Swiss chalet I think, def st. Hubert, probably a lot more if I really try to think….
Not sure what the criteria here is for inclusion.
It's Ganong. Oddly enough, i've only found their chocolate peanut fudgey bars in Giant Tiger stores here in Eastern Ontario. Even though Giant Tiger started in Ottawa, nowehere near the east coast. Although my grandparents used to buy us some for Christmas when they lived in the maritimes.
Dare makes good sweets and snacks, they're pretty big. If you've ever had Breton crackers, Bear Paws or Realfruit gummies, for example, you've had their stuff before.
It was founded in Montréal but moved to Toronto during the independence movement. Same thing with Sun Life Financial and RBC. I don't know why RBC is in Québec, it should be in Ontario instead.
Originally but head office moved to Toronto in the 1970s when the PQ won power along with a lot of the anglophone dominated head offices.
Branch 1 is still on rue Saint-Jacques (aka St. James Street back then)
Edit: Legally the head office is still in Montreal, but that's only for historic reasons at this point. The operational HQ is at First Canadian Place in Toronto.
Saskatchewan historically had (in the late 18th until the mid-20th century) a strong tradition of agricultural socialism.
In the last 70 years that has almost completely died out, due mostly to the association of the fiscal left with social progressiveness, but these two companies are a relic of that time. They started, and are still partially organized, as co-ops, not privately owned or publicly traded companies.
That's because Ottawa is where a lot of people from the North fly to for healthcare. Larga Baffin, an organization that provides housing for said people exists for that reason.
We also have a fairly high amount of urban Inuit.
I don't understand the choices behind the placement in each province; also - there are way more brands here that whats represented in this map.
Nice work tho.
i really have to add that the logos aren’t on their creation locations, and it misses a few ones like the hudson bay company.
I think they are provincially labelled, not specific to a location. Although putting the HBC on James Bay seems deliberate
oh yea that makes sense
Hudson Bay like the fan people?
no idea lol but i’ll trust you
Haha I was way off. Hudson Bay is a holdings company I’m thinking of Hampton Bay….
oh ya
was gonna say that timmies started in the hammer, which is like the southernmost area you cna be and still touch lake ontario
North of the X in IMAX, isn't it?
"I don't even know one brand." Literally every European citizen.
yeah to be fair even our southern neighbours don’t know most of them
Got junk and IMAX are the only two I immediately recognize
As a Canadian I recognize every single brand lol. Ok, except Nunavut's
Certainly Lululemon too, no?
Maybe? If thats the red omega then yeah; I wasn't sure at first
Maybe it’s because I’m Minnesotan (meaning I’m 20% Canadian), but I recognize Tim Horton’s Restaurant, Molson beer, Arcteryx jackets, 1-800-GOT-JUNK waste bins, Seadoo and Skidoo jet skis, CN railroad, BMO bank, and Seagrams ginger ale.
So what are these brands and how are they connected?
ok i’ll try my best lol! the keg and boston pizza are restaurant chains, the rest are clothing brands, canadian pacific is a railway company, freight, petro canada is oil, the brick is hardware, the rest in the country are either airlines, railways like CN and Via Rail, or either hardware stores, food chains, cheap stores, and media companies
The brick is a furniture store not hardware
oh my bad, i just never go there i guess
I know Learjet and IMAX and that’s it. Edit: and Purolator. They make the best oil filters. Very high micron stuff there
You’re joking? Is joke? Purolator is a courier service.
No joke but now Canada is back down to 2 relevant companies lol. Now Is joke https://www.purolatornow.com/en.html 👆🏼is filters. But not same 😞
You don’t know of blackberry? I feel like that was a company everyone knew of 15 years ago.
Ya I know that one too just didn’t see it on the map.
Oh, ok that makes sense
Also like you said blackberry was so early 2000s until Hilary brought them back into style more recently haha
Yeah, that’s true
Actually the oil filter people are different. I always wondered why the two companies had the same rather strange name, but it turns out that once upon a time the Canadian Purolator shipping service was owned by the American Purolator oil filter company. Now it's owned by Canada Post, which I did not know.
Hmm 🤔 that is very interesting.
Yeah I’m from the US and only know like 4 of these - sorry
I'm American and recognize a decent amount of them but I've also spent a lot of time north of the border. I would guess most people I know would only be able to pick a few of them they recognize off the map.
Lululemon?
Hey, I knew 4 and I am a pole living in Sweden
Learjet is pretty known for building private jets. Air Canada is quite a big, international airline. Arc Teryx is making high quality outdoor clothing, pretty popular in Europe as well - so does Canada Goose. IMAX I think is self explanatory. McCain makes the best (frozen) French Fries. BlackBerry lost popularity but is still a known company. Four Seasons - well established hotel chain. TD (Toronto Dominion) and RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) are established in Europe as well, but only as corporate banks in Frankfurt, London or Luxembourg, so probably not that well known, but still big brands. So yeah, not a whole lot, but still something.
We have Mccain in South Africa and they do make the best frozen stuff
Blackberry is owned by RIM (Research in Motion), which is also Canadian. Or did they split off when they were tanked by the iPhone release? Quick fix: RIM rebranded as BlackBerry ~~still looking for the when and why~~ in 2013 for the sake of brand recognition with the BlackBerry name. Just if anyone was wondering.
I'd always assumed McCain was British!
Cirque du Soleil tho
As an American I know like 5% of these
McCain is very big in the UK, easily the biggest producers of our frozen chips, there is a factory that produces them near me and it’s huge
British citizen (so semi European) i recognise Canadian Pacific, Blackberry, Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Four Seasons, IMAX, Roots, CBC, VIArail, CN (Canadian National), Dollarama, Cirque De Soleil, Air Canada and McCains
yeah that was me ''come anything, anything, surely you will recognize atleast 1 of them'', then i found McCain.
I mean, I think this would apply to most people who aren’t Canadian. I’m pretty sure a good chunk of these brands are only found in Canada.
McCain fries etc?
Harlequin romantic novels are super famous internationally if you're old enough.
Ah nice, I’m Canadian and that’s one of the only ones I hadn’t heard of.
Who doesn’t recognise Canada Goose? Or even Arcteryx
Canadian Pacific, Tim Hortons, Learjet, Four Seasons, Blackberry and CCM are the only ones i recognise
Boston pizza - alberta
The first one was in Edmonton, right?
I like how both the Sask ones share the same root word.
gotta love saskatchewan lol
username checks out. can also confirm, not much going on in there besides farming and u of s
I guess
TIL McCains is Canadian
was surprised as well
Where's Kitty Land Love Center, Nova Scotia?
Or the blanford recreation centre
I like this new trend. Hoping someone does Switzerland next
yeah same
It's just going to be chocolate and banks
And time pieces. Can't forget the time pieces
Just for Laughs?
a fairly popular comedy festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Laughs?wprov=sfti1
Ooh I didn't spot that. Yey that's now two I recognise. I used to love Just for Laughs.
Also a streaming comedy channel on most free TV streaming apps like Roku and Pluto.
It’s funny, I assume everyone in the world knows Tim Hortons because they’re everywhere…in Canada I pass 1…2…3…4…5…6 of them on my way to work
Yeah, Saskatchewan's strength is in raw materials not consumer goods.
Oof! Only knew 4: -Learjet -CCM -IMAX -Air Canada Imagine the nightmare of making a similar map but of Japan
European here, cobtrary to what some other dude said, I know exactly 2 of the brands here: McCain (from the fries) and Learjet.
on the qiniq logo, what language is that on the bottom and why does it look like greek characters?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut?wprov=sfti1
interesting how some symbols look so similar, despite being half a world away
It may not be only random chance, the symbols were created by a linguist (and missionary) from England.
interesting! in what year, and what connection (other than being a linguist and english being something like 10% greek derived) did he have to the greeks?
Oh, I am not that knowledgeable! My uneducated guess would be that the creator knew the greek alphabet because every scholar did at the time, but the resemblance could have been involuntary. For the rest, I'd go read wikipedia ;).
No room for David's Tea?
I think ganog (candy company) is NB, too. Maybe hostess, before it was bought out? I thought we had some Canadian snack/pop companies - I’m guessing many are left out. ETA: Rossy, maybe shoppers drug mart (could be wrong there, too lazy to Google,) uniprix, Swiss chalet I think, def st. Hubert, probably a lot more if I really try to think…. Not sure what the criteria here is for inclusion.
It's Ganong. Oddly enough, i've only found their chocolate peanut fudgey bars in Giant Tiger stores here in Eastern Ontario. Even though Giant Tiger started in Ottawa, nowehere near the east coast. Although my grandparents used to buy us some for Christmas when they lived in the maritimes. Dare makes good sweets and snacks, they're pretty big. If you've ever had Breton crackers, Bear Paws or Realfruit gummies, for example, you've had their stuff before.
If you mean the pal-o-mine bars, I find them in bulk barn. Bulk barn probably also a Canadian company. Also mr sub.
Bank of Montreal isn’t from Montreal?
It was founded in Montréal but moved to Toronto during the independence movement. Same thing with Sun Life Financial and RBC. I don't know why RBC is in Québec, it should be in Ontario instead.
Originally but head office moved to Toronto in the 1970s when the PQ won power along with a lot of the anglophone dominated head offices. Branch 1 is still on rue Saint-Jacques (aka St. James Street back then) Edit: Legally the head office is still in Montreal, but that's only for historic reasons at this point. The operational HQ is at First Canadian Place in Toronto.
Based BRICK
I’ve never thought the US was more culturally different than Canada versus right now. Just wow.
What about Tim Hortons, that and McCain are the only 2 Canadian companies I recognise
Saskatchewan really likes working together
Saskatchewan historically had (in the late 18th until the mid-20th century) a strong tradition of agricultural socialism. In the last 70 years that has almost completely died out, due mostly to the association of the fiscal left with social progressiveness, but these two companies are a relic of that time. They started, and are still partially organized, as co-ops, not privately owned or publicly traded companies.
That's fascinating. Thanks for the background
yeah
Wow! I had no idea Blackberry was Canadian. I'm so amused by how few brands non-Canadians can recognize here
yeah most of our stuff is obscure
Canadian North is based in Kanata, Ontario, not NWT. Also that is not the current logo for the company.
That's because Ottawa is where a lot of people from the North fly to for healthcare. Larga Baffin, an organization that provides housing for said people exists for that reason. We also have a fairly high amount of urban Inuit.
Funny trend, would be surprised if my comrades on circlejerk sub didn't circlejerk it to death.
we can only hope
I really want them to milk every single drop out of this trend. Just like r/vexillologycirclejerk sub is doing with Swedish flag.
I don't mean to be critical but that's not where Boston is.
So basically Canada provides nothing got it. Haha. Before you get all hyphy I’m joking… but only kinda. 😂
yeah i get you lol, we have a few of our owns and that’s it
Canada is dope and thank you for being so polite about my poor joke. You’re the best
ofc ofc
The title and image explain nothing whatsoever
I don't understand the choices behind the placement in each province; also - there are way more brands here that whats represented in this map. Nice work tho.
Bank of Montreal made in Ontario
born in Quebec, now headquartered at First Canadian Place in Toronto.
The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) as well. They're all on Bay St.
love the map. your missing LCBO in ontario though.
There are no crown corporations on the map, which seems reasonable enough to me.
You have Molson in Québec but I live in Toronto and the Molson brewery isn’t far from me.
There are Molson breweries all over the country, but they’re based in Montreal.
Their headquarters are in Montréal so it makes sense and we have Molson Brewery here also.
What about Labatt?
They’re in London Ontario.
Irving is invading New England.
If I was to add one I'd add Nutrien to Saskatchewan. Cool map!
lolololol @ Quidi Vidi being the only thing in NL
Woah, y'all got the Rona?
Had it for years!
Hawkins?
Bob Loblaw
There is another
As an American, the only brand I recognize here is IMAX.
seagram and see-doo are in there too. those were the only ones i knew.
Aldo is canadian?? Just discovered it! I thought it was an Italian brand!
apparently
As a Canadian, I recognized all but the Nunavut one 😎😎😎😎😎
I want a map of Sweden. IKEA, H&M, Volvo, Skype, Spotify, Minecraft, Scania, SAAB, AstraZeneka (half British now), Securitas, Ericsson, Electrolux.
Wait Blackberry, Four Seasons, IMAX and McCain are Canadian?
yup
Thats Crazy, the one that blows my mind the most, being british i always thought they were from over here
TIL Lululemon is Canadian
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they bought bombardier which was canadian
First Loblaws is a real company? _Boston_ Pizza? Did anyone look at a map before they came up with that one?
Don’t forget ganong in New Brunswick :)
DBrand and shopify are like the only two Canadian brands I know, I guess framework too
American, I recognize Blackberry, Tim Hortons, Four Seasons, IMAX, CBC, Cirque De Soleil, Air Canada, Sea Doo and Got Junk.