Why So Many Canadians Here?

[Daniel A.]

Originally Posted by Thomas G.

I love Canadians (living 30 minutes from Windsor), but I'm curious why there are so many Canadian FG trailer manufacturers and such a large (comparatively) following here? Do Canadians just live more modestly than Americans and are attracted to a more practical trailer? Government regulations or tax laws?

I think that Americans are really good at modifications to products already out so we get to pick your brains for ideas.

[ImbyRick]

It is an interesting thought that the maybe the Canadians caught the Fiberglass Trailer bug quicker than the US. Gas has always been more expensive to use in Canada. I don't think the Canadian Economy has had quite as wild swings of Boom and Bust as the US, almost always closer to a Bust with much higher taxes. The more economical Fiberglass trailers seem like a more logical choice.

Rick


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[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Jim Bennett

It is interesting that even in the US most (but not all) engineering is done in metric because of its simplicity, and ability to work with worldwide standards.

Yeah...sometimes they even use both at the same time without telling each other!
Wait a minute...were you Folks by any chance "helping" us with this project?
MARS ORBITER LOST IN NASA METRIC MIX-UP

Francesca

P.S.

Originally Posted by Steve Hammel

Two countries, one mother country, how did that happen?

Two navies full of sailors...think about it...

F.

[rgrugg]

People here complain that we shouldn't change to the metric system because it's "too hard" to learn BUT I'd bet there isn't a single 5 year old kid that couldn't make the right choice when told to go get a 2 liter bottle of Coke. Almost 40 years ago the school where I was teaching had a 20-30 minute class in metric conversion. That is hard and there's really no practical reason to switch back & forth between systems. If you're gonna buy that steak anyway, what difference does it make if the label says pounds or kgs? We should just switch whenever mfg retooling or repackaging goods. BTW, there is a stretch of interstate highway in Arizona between Nogales and Tucson where the "mile" markers are in kilometers.

[Alf S.]

Hi: rgrugg... How about the Air Canada pilot of "The Gimli Glider" who glided his new jet to a dead stick landing, on an old Canadian forces base, after running out of fuel. Only trouble was those kids playing on the tarmack couldn't hear him coming!!!
Seems Litres aren't as big as gallons.
Alf S. North shore of Lake Erie

[Frederick L. Simson]

Originally Posted by Steve Hammel

Two countries, one mother country, how did that happen?

Probably for the same reason I'm in Southern California and my Brother is in Upstate New York. We get along better that way.

[Frederick L. Simson]

Originally Posted by Thomas G.

I'm curious why there are so many Canadian FG trailer manufacturers and such a large (comparatively) following here?

When you're snowed in, cooking fiberglass helps keep you warm. They might as well mold it into Trailers to keep it from piling up.

We have the sun shining all winter, which toasts our jeans and our money keeps burning holes in our pockets... some of us can't be satisfied with just ONE trailer, which is why I have 2.

[Cyndi B.]

I was almost a Canuckan 'bout twice.

[HerseyBA]

Excuse the small hijack, but anyone out there watching the Grey Cup? Guess I'll support the Argo's this year.

[Francesca Knowles]

The Grey Cup?

Is that the Early-Bird Special Dash at the Walmart Golf Cart Crossing across from the Old Folks' home down in Florida?


The Race To Walmart

Francesca

[Pam Garlow]

Originally Posted by Thomas G.

I love Canadians (living 30 minutes from Windsor), but I'm curious why there are so many Canadian FG trailer manufacturers and such a large (comparatively) following here? Do Canadians just live more modestly than Americans and are attracted to a more practical trailer? Government regulations or tax laws?

Coming back to the original question by Thomas, I just think that our northern neighbors don't have as much of a need for the 'bigger must be better' mentality that we seem to have here in the states. I do have the experience from many of my friends, that they think my rig is adorable, but (unspoken) that they'd never want one because it's 'too small' for their needs. They prefer the 30ft behemouths....

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Pam Garlow

Coming back to the original question by Thomas, I just think that our northern neighbors don't have as much of a need for the 'bigger must be better' mentality that we seem to have here in the states. I do have the experience from many of my friends, that they think my rig is adorable, but (unspoken) that they'd never want one because it's 'too small' for their needs. They prefer the 30ft behemouths....

Hey- no fair trying to get back on topic when the O.P. already declared that the premise was perhaps..."in error" to begin with!

Thomas has already conceded the point that there are in fact more surviving active fiberglass trailer makers in the U.S.A. by a ratio of about 3 to 1...so...does that mean that Canadians are in fact the ones that prefer the behemoths...or what????

Is it because of that whole metric thing they've got going on up there, as some appear to maintain? Does it make them more hostile to Fiberglass trailers than their avoirdupoisial neighbors to the South?



Francesca

[Daniel A.]

You do have ten times our population so three to one is not bad.

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Daniel A.

You do have ten times our population

That's only because you folks are so choosy about who you let in to join the party...Do you know how many times I've been pushed back under the fence?

Francesca

[Carol H]

Originally Posted by HerseyBA

Excuse the small hijack, but anyone out there watching the Grey Cup? Guess I'll support the Argo's this year.

Yup I'm in but really only want to see the half time show & it's not Due to Mr. Bieber! LOL

[Pam Garlow]

I was figuring this was on a 'per capita' type of arithmetic. So I think that the Canadians have more. But please don't make me do the math in Metric, please (whimper). I do know that 3ft=1meter (approx) and a centimeter is smaller than an inch but thats about it. Do I get tossed out of this discussion now?

[Glenn Baglo]

Gordon Lightfoot's performance was almost as good at the Calgary Stampeders.
And nobody has explained to me why they aren't playing on a metric field.

[Thomas G.]

Originally Posted by Francesca Knowles

Thomas has already conceded the point that there are in fact more surviving active fiberglass trailer makers in the U.S.A. by a ratio of about 3 to 1...so...does that mean that Canadians are in fact the ones that prefer the behemoths...or what????Francesca

I only conceded that because it wasn't my original question.

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by Thomas G.

I only conceded that because it wasn't my original question.

What WAS the question, anyway????

Francesca

[Dudley]

When we take the old Ventura out to the RC float flys, we are smaller than some of the slides on most of the RVs there. So yes at least in Alberta, bigger still rules. I have heard that a lot of the US manufactures were dumping a lot of their stock up here for the last few years because it was one of the few locations that were selling. With me, I guess its my Irish/Scottish heritage(cheap bugger) that keeps me driving what I have got. I just cannot justify buying a new trailer, tow vehicle, storage for the 5 weekends I use it. The Subaru outback is fine for me as it hauls my RC planes , garbage, firewood and just about anything I feel like throwing at it and still isn't too bad for gas mileage (oh damn, whats metric for mileage, kilometerage)

I have lived on both sides of that dotted line that separate the 2 countries and most of the folks on both sides are fine people!

as for the original question, I guess that the guy who invented the Boler must have been Scottish or Ukrainian too because he took a septic tank and turned it into what we all love ! Then the guy who built my Ventura came in and setup shop trying make a better tank opps trailer but he used a square tank!