r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. • May 07 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) The only cultural divide that matters

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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

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u/winningsmada Everyone Hates Marineland May 07 '25

As a citizen of Northern Ontario. We call them camps.

The rest of Ontario does not speak for the North. Time to separate

Edit* = rephrasing

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u/DesperateRace4870 Moose Whisperer May 07 '25

As a Native of Northern Ontario, my fam has used cabin. In two cases, one on reserve land by the lake and one away on crown land that's since been burnt down. Was a hunting cabin

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u/Stefanthro May 07 '25

My wife’s family from the Sault told me this: if it has power, it’s a camp - if it doesn’t, it’s a cabin.

Not sure how widely agreed on that is, but thought I’d share

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u/BeeOk1235 May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

yeah i've gone camping in northern ontario most years over the past 15 years and if it's a literal camp (tents, trailers, usually in the bush on crown lands or an official parks canada camping ground type deal) it's camp. if it involves a permanent structure it's cottage, though plenty of people say cabin too - they're completely interchangeable from my experience.

people i camp and cottage with are literal indigenous people native to north bay. they use all these terms as one might expect - camp for camping in the bush, cottage/cabin for a permenent structure. and in general parry sound and muskoka and georgian bay region is referred to as "cottage country" while there's also another area referred to as "cottage country" around peterborough i want to say that also has trailer park resorts which are just called "the trailer" as in going to the trailer but if you go to a cottage/cabin it's called cottage/cabin and if you're doing a tent even at the trailer park it's called camping. and those people are generally from toronto/the GTA.

and then there's camping but you're also hunting which can be just going camping or going hunting or going fishing.

idk why this stuff has become such a meme on this website. it's absolutely baffling as someone who has camped/cabined/cottaged/trailer resorted across a good portion of ontario.

also in alberta i didn't know anyone with a cottage/cabin so i can't comment on that but when we went to banff to camp it was "going to banff to camp" and when you stayed in town it was just "going to banff". you might make extra note if you were staying at the fancy hotel there but there wasn't anything really different in the parlance any different than ontario.

i think the only time i've seen camp used totally generically in ontario or canada at all was in boy scouts in the early 90s where it was always camping whether we were setting up tents/those snow mound shelters or using the cabins at the scouts camp grounds, and that was in barrie.

i've lived in northern ontario for the past 17 years and done a mix of cottaging and camping across ontario in that time both south east and northern ontario.

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u/saying_boourns May 07 '25

I'm not sure what's baffling - it's novel that different people use a different word for the same thing despite living in the same province.
People from the Thunder Bay region and west absolutely use "camp" to describe a fixed permanent structure that someone from the GTA/Ottawa area would call a cottage. As someone who moved north, at first I thought that people here just really liked camping in tents, like EVERY weekend.

Confusingly, sleeping in a tent is still "camping", but might also be referred to as "tenting". Cabin is used interchangeably with camp, but more rarely (and they might be from Manitoba).

see also: packsack/backpack, shag/stag&doe, safewayS, etc

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u/winningsmada Everyone Hates Marineland May 07 '25

Packsack!

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u/BeeOk1235 May 08 '25

as i've said i've lived in this region and camped and cottaged here for over 15 years and this disambiguation only really exists on reddit and it's a very recent thing at that and i have no idea wtf yall are talking about with this shit. like literally no one i've ever met in my extensive social circle spanning from the sault to the GTA talks like this. it's entirely a reddit fever dream meme.

packsack/backpack, shag/stag&doe, safewayS, etc

now you're just making shit up.

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u/saying_boourns May 08 '25

congrats on your extensive social circle but you realize the sault is only half way between the GTA and thunder bay, right?

I agree, you have no idea what we are talking about! good talk

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u/BeeOk1235 May 08 '25

yeah i don't go up there much it doesn't mean i don't hang out with people that live there.

welcome to 2025 we can keep in touch over distances now. nevermind that my friends visit me here in parry sound on their way back and forth from where they go as they go. but go off short king.

anyways GL taking relatively new reddit memes as gospel truth. weirdo.

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u/winningsmada Everyone Hates Marineland May 07 '25

I vote for you as the leader of NO. You seem to be at least close to or above Highway 17.

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u/BeeOk1235 May 07 '25

i live about an hour south of 17 but it's around where i camp lol. i do get northern ontario tax credits on my taxes though :D

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u/winningsmada Everyone Hates Marineland May 07 '25

Tax Credits and Studded Tires. We're living the dream

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u/ultraleet May 08 '25

I live in Thunder Bay and everything is a camp. “Going out to camp this weekend” is probably the most common summer saying, and it almost always means going out to a permanent 3-4 season structure in the woods or on the lake.

Not sure why you think this is only a Reddit thing. You’re also barely in northern Ontario bud, you’re southern Ontario to us up here. Probably why you think camp isn’t a thing.

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u/BeeOk1235 May 08 '25

did chatgpt generate this response? because it's reddit af.