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[james_davis_nicoll]

Laurentian elites, that small permanent governing class made up of professional politicians, bureaucrats, academics and journalists from the same central Canadian cities near or by the St. Lawrence River,

Anyone care to guess where the majority of Canada's population is located?

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[maruad.livejournal.com]

So Montreal then?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

As natural transportation units for ships, Lake Ontario is part of the River; Erie, Huron, the irrelevant-to-Canada-in-this-timeline Michigan, and Superior are the Lakes. So that oddly weaseled phrasing can get Montreal and Toronto in together.

There was a plan, just before the railroads really got going, to run a ship canal to Georgian Bay from the Ottawa River. It would have been very interesting.

[akawil]

Would that just be from the Mattawa River to Lake Nipissing, or were those not sufficiently navigable that they'd to cut it somewhere bigger?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

There were a bunch of route details that varied, but the basic idea was the French River, Lake Nippising, and the Mattawa.

http://www.northernontario.travel/northeastern-ontario/french-river-georgian-bay-ship-canal

As the "we want a bigger boat" requirements progressed with time, the route altered a bit. Some infrastructure (like the Chaudiere dam on the French River) was built in the expectation of actually building this thing.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Anyone care to guess where the majority of Canada's population is located?

Norman Chuzzlewitz house, 418 North Simmons Road, Toronto. Living with his six sons, four daughters, wife and father-in-law, his home accounts for 56% of the population of Canada.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Norman Chuzzlewitz is an outlier who shouldn't have been counted.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Alberta?

(those others aren't "true Canadians" )

[loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com]

Considering where I live, that actually got my hopes up for a second or two, until I read the rest of the sentence.

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

Earth?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Along the U.S. - Canadian border.

Not me being smart; I heard the factoid early this AM on National Public Radio, when I was not yet awake.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Ummm.... how about "The majority of Canadians live within somewhere between ten and one hundred miles of the U.S. border"? A bit more in the far/Pacific west as long as warm currents move up the coast. The crucial factor here is Warmer is Better. (At least for Canadians; as a Southern Califonian barely recupuerating from a record number of 100+degrees F. days, I'm contemplating emigrating to costal B.C.)

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I think James is implying that they mostly live near the border consisting of the St. Lawrence river, a good deal south of the straight east-west line to the west. Not many Canadians in southern Manitoba or Alberta.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The Windsor-Ville de Québec corridor specifically?

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The United States Senate?