No, not the beer and baccie brigade..........

The other customs:

Like taking your shoes off when you enter someones house.......
(I personally like this one.........If they've got clean socks on. & there's a plus side to this.........It keeps the hardwood floors clean! )

Come on all you "old" hands, teach us "young" wippersnappers the Canadian way!!

Any more customs we should know about?

At the risk of taking the wind out of your sails, NovaBoy, there have been a couple of threads about this in the past.

One that I know about was called canadian peculiarities and another one was called You know you're becoming Canadian when you.

I feel another BE Wiki article coming on. One of these days when I have a spot of free time I may comb through those old threads and pull the information together into a Wiki. On the other hand, I've already created a few Wiki articles so, if anyone else feels like doing it, please feel free. :-)

Is that a Canadian thing or is it British?

My family have always done it that way and when visiting the UK it seems it's done that way too. At least with the people we visit.

Whoa, that was a quick edit Judy.

I respond and the post I responded to has basically disappeared.


Cheers
Steve

Also re eating- A lot of North Americans eat everything with only a fork.
Use the teaspoon to eat dessert, use the tablespoon, and one case where the person used a fork to eat a yogurt. The meal is often served on a cold,
or at least, unwarmed plate.
We have also had the salad served after the main course.
One of the hardest to get to grips with, here in N.S. the evening meal is served very early, often at 5 PM, with restaurants closing by 8PM.

Are you allowed to take your polar bear to work, or is it considered more polite to leave them in the car?

Well there is a condo block being built in Calgary with a pet nanny service, so I guess they would look after your polar bear for you. (Oh I think they have to be house trained though.)

My favourite Canadian custom:

Trying to Rrrrrrroll up the Rrrrrrrim of a full (and scaldingly hot) Timmies coffee whilst simultaneously driving away from the drive-through.

This is usually accompanied by the drift-swerve-correct-oversteer manoeuver: another Canadian custom.

The world really is out to get you, too.

And I'm sure my rear bumper (fender?) is magnetic because it is customary for the driver behind me to cling to it even on a long straight road.

Yes the fork only thing really makes me wonder how to hell people here manage to eat anything!

There's a woman who often parks out front and she has a great bumper sticker:

"If you're going to ride my a$$, at least pull my hair."

Owwwww!!! Ride 'em cowboy!

Get used to talking to strangers such as in checkout lines, on public transport, in restaurants etc.

My experience is that trying to do the same thing in the UK is like pulling chickens teeth.

Depends if you're north or south. I'm from the north where that was the norm. Down south it's very different.

Same goes in Canada - depends on where you live......they tend not to talk to strangers in this part of Ontario. I can't see it being my two heads, horns and and tail that puts 'em off.........