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Environment Canada's use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025.

It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began.

A bone-chilling April Fools’ Day in 1975 marked the first time Canadians used Celsius to measure weather temperature.

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[–] Jamablaya@lemmy.today -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For on, that isn't true, and also from manitoba west they built the grid road system, everything is a mile apart. The system essentially works by descending halves, stapling metric and 1.6 into it was an idiot move. People that really are surveyors understand that, I imagine you were a pole holder.