Canada? What’s that?
A new study shows why tourism by Americans to Canada has gone down: Americans are ignorant about their northern neighbor.
Fewer than half of all Americans said they know the capital of Canada. Among 18 to 20 year olds, that number was just 29 percent, according to the study by survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies in Montreal.
“Naturally, we do know about Molson and Labatt. And we know about hockey (if we live in or near certain American cities). Some of us might also know there’s a red maple leaf on the Canadian flag. But that’s about it,” writes Gary Burns in Buffalo Business First.
The survey, done by U.S. opinion researchers ORC International, asked 1,048 Americans questions about their knowledge of Canada. It was commissioned to determine attitudes along the border ahead of next year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812.
PS: the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
By David Wilkening
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