On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 11:12:25 -0700 (PDT), GM
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>I have to say that my only Canadian experience was visiting Expo '67 when I was a kid, SO many of the frogs were RUDE and HOSTILE when we'd stop in a small Quebec town and ask directions, etc....they simply oozed contempt for English speakers...
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>Must have been a bit akin to how blacks might have been treated traveling throughout the pre - Civil Rights era US...
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>The only "ruder" travel experience I've had besides that Canadian trip was when an officious East German in an adjacent seat on a 1978 Prague - East Berlin plane trip asked me, "OH, are you Canadian?", to which I replied, "No, I'm American"...he visibly recoiled and prolly would have moved seat had the plane not been full, lol...
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>Best
>Greg

Correct - we arrived by Cunard during Expo 67, we disembarked in
Montreal but landed for a few hours first in Quebec City. My kids
were little and we told them in a tourist shop they could spend $3
each on a souvenir. My son wanted a little desk flag and asked the
owner how much it was and the man pretended not to understand English.
He was just 5 at the time and it annoyed me, so I took his hand and
said 'come on all of you, the man here doesn't speak English so we'll
go to one of the many other stores' could see by his face he knew damn
well what I said and I turned back from the door and told him
something he could do that was very rude, in French Kids didn't
know what I was saying.

They were no better even a few years later but I think they have
learned now that it doesn't pay to aggravate tourists, OTOH I hear the
Floridians don't like snow birds from Quebec. So who knows.