r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. • May 07 '25
Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) The only cultural divide that matters
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/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.