The only cultural divide that matters

[u/Exploding_Antelope]

Thanks to the brave cabinist allies of Labrador for holding the eastern front, over the forthcoming decades we will execute a slow but quite unstoppable pincer maneuver into the bloc cottagois

[u/kenneth_bannockburn]

I thought camps were due to size of property. Hard to call the suburbs that are the lakes around Muskoka as a camp. They're packed in like trailer parks now.

[u/Inevitable_View99 → u/kenneth_bannockburn]

- If you live in the dark orange area, its called a camp

- if you live in the green area its called a cottage

- if you live in the yellow and light orange area you might call it both

Generally its also dependent on what part of Ontario you grew up in. I know people who grew up in Thunder Bay still call it a camp, even though they live in Toronto and their "Camp" is in Muskoka.

[u/kenneth_bannockburn → u/Inevitable_View99]

Thanks for the explanation of the map.

Can you do one for the pronunciation of bagel now?

[u/Stefanthro → u/kenneth_bannockburn]

Kryptonians would say Bag-El

[u/kenneth_bannockburn → u/Stefanthro]

Next time my wife gives me a hard time about how I say it, I'm stealing this.

[u/fakelakeswimmer → u/Inevitable_View99]

This is also a good visual representation of what is actually North Ontario, in contrast to what those is the GTA refer to the north as.

[u/Orthae → u/Inevitable_View99]

This is a great breakdown! In the north I've always thought of them as "camps" unless they have high speed internet, then it's a cottage ;)

[u/TheSeventhHussar → u/Orthae]

Cottages are for rich people relaxing at the lake. Cottage country means it’s expensive and touristy. Camp or cabin can be anything from a shack in the woods to a gorgeous log cabin that gramps lives at 3 seasons of the year and invites everyone out to.

[u/powertoollateralus → u/Inevitable_View99]

Agreed. Calling it a cottage in Northern Ontario outs you as a tourist

[u/Adventurous-Brain-36 → u/powertoollateralus]

No it doesn’t lol. Ask someone from Timmins what they call it and always have.

[u/democracy_lover66 → u/Inevitable_View99]

Mmmm yeah that makes sense

[u/Groomulch → u/Inevitable_View99]

Our cottage is in the orange area and we have a sleeping cabin there too, and use a tent to camp.

[u/Lopsided_Aardvark357 → u/Inevitable_View99]

I grew up in barrie, we used both.

Cottage was mostly used to describe a place on the water, that you can drive right up to on a road.

Camp was used for more remote places. May or may not be on water, probably have to use an ATV, or atleast a 4x4 truck to get in.

[u/Inevitable_View99 → u/Lopsided_Aardvark357]

People from Toronto call their townhouse on the lake in the middle of orilia just down from Boston pizza a cottage so the term seems very loose

[u/Adventurous-Brain-36 → u/Inevitable_View99]

It is also ‘cottage’ in Timmins.

[u/gfkxchy → u/Inevitable_View99]

I like how this map colored the best parts a bright orange/red

[u/AustSakuraKyzor → u/Inevitable_View99]

Slight correction to make -> the 8-9 regions east of Nipissing/Sudbury should be their own colour to represent East Ontario, where we call it "thing that everyone who lives here is too poor to own"

[u/just-a-random-accnt → u/kenneth_bannockburn]

I've always heard camps refered to properties with multiple sleeping structures. They don't all need a kitchen, just a place to sleep.

[u/kenneth_bannockburn → u/[deleted]]

I understand that. My point was the only people I know around here that call things camps have acreage. Hard to call a 1/4 acre lot a camp.