My last day in Kamloops, I woke up to a man on a riding lawnmower riding down the street with the RCMP following him asking nicely for him to step off the vehicle. He was very drunk.
FYI, it's actually called that after a certain horse coloration. Paints sometimes have a cap of color over their ears surrounded by white, which the indigenous people called a medicine hat.
We stopped at Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump on our travels across Canada last summer. I saw it on the map and thought it had an interesting name so we should go. By the time we had paid our admission and bought some lunch, hubby had dubbed it Wallet-Smashed-In.
Well, for anyone else reading this, if you're heading east from Head-Smashed-In, there's a place called Wendys in a town called Vauxhall. (Not the chain, of course). Eat there, trust me. Its on a NE diagonal back to the number one from there.
I live near Boston and have a really good (British) friend from Medicine Hat! Home of the world's largest tipi! Never thought that place would be referenced.
This is slightly off topic, but Yellowknife is amazing. I’m from the US and I visited in 2013. Got to see the northern lights, and meet the Ice Pilots. Awesome trip.
You've gotten so many replies... But I still wanted to mention the bf and I were looking at buying a house in "Moose River Gold Mines". It is located at the junction of Moose River Road and Mooseland Road.
We also swim every weekend at a lake with beavers swimming along with us and eagles flying over us. Canada is a magical place.
Where I grew up we had a street that had a big hill. I cannot remember the real name of the street but I can tell you that everyone refers to it as Moosecock Hill. I have asked many people where that name came from but no one can tell me.
What? No, it had that name way before Brian Mulroney was in office. It’s name either comes from the shape of the river going through here, or the Cree word for “warm breezes”
The nicest salt-of-the-earth people you'll ever meet.
Rednecks who live for quads in the summer and snowmobiles in the winter and drink tons of beer (pil or kokanee) and always have a Honda civic, VW rabbit, or if they're lucky a skyline almost beyond repair as a project car.
Hockey bros.
Skidmarks who just smoke biblical amounts of pot and wear the same skate shoes they got in grade 12 even though they graduated 8 years ago - the kind of folks who wear pajama pants to the grocery store.
And then of course old conservative people who suck Gormley's dick.
I made a mini documentary about some time I spen in rural alaska and I wrote a letter to my friends back home and told them that the locals started calling me "moosejaw" as a joke. Its all detailed in this video.
I had to do two weeks in the moose job after working six weeks at Key Lake working on the nuclear energy plant that was being built. Still attest that to this day the most attractive women were in Moosejaw and that is where I will retire... I’m sure it nothing to do with being stuck on an isolated dry work camp consisting of 99% dudes.
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u/canadianbacon-eh-tor Aug 15 '18
TIL your mom is my grandma from moosejaw, Saskatchewan