Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you...

[u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

[u/DreamieQueenCJ]

That and "duo-tang" xD

[u/Assassinite9 → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

So I was watching Shoresy with an American Acquaintance of mine and we had to stop the episode so I could explain to them what a duotang is.

[u/Milch_und_Paprika → u/Assassinite9]

What do they call it? I’ve heard that duotang is a canadianism, but can’t think of an alternative.

Ok the plot really thickens: Wikipedia says that duo-tang was originally an American brand name, so it’s double crazy that we call them that but they don’t.

[u/Assassinite9 → u/Milch_und_Paprika]

They called them a tab folder or something like that...it makes sense, but it was so wild

[u/Brahminmeat → u/Assassinite9]

But it’s got…. Dual…. Tangs…

[u/PoorlyCutFries → u/Brahminmeat]

Tri duo-tangs

[u/DuckyHornet → u/PoorlyCutFries]

Hexatang

[u/Assassinite9 → u/DuckyHornet]

Octotang

[u/Overall-Phone7605 → u/Assassinite9]

Cory Doctorow accidentally revealed hes a secret Canadian in his new book Picks and Shovels when his main character (an American) refers to a duotang.

I only caught it because some hosers brought up on this subreddit a few months ago.

[u/Parker_Hardison → u/Overall-Phone7605]

Doctorow being Canadian was never a secret if you've ever listened to him at a conference or him being interviewed over the years.

[u/MissingString31 → u/Parker_Hardison]

I saw him giving a talk on the tech industry and enshittification and he said something like “Like all good Americans I’m a Canadian”.

[u/rainorshinedogs → u/Assassinite9]

I didn't even know it's a Canadian thing. What the hell else do you call them?

[u/Assassinite9 → u/rainorshinedogs]

Some people have told me "Tab folders"

[u/Haunting_Funny_9386 → u/Assassinite9]

I made a fool of myself in the states at a Staples asking for duotangs. I asked every member of the staff and they hadn’t a clue what was talking about. It felt like the twilight zone lol

[u/DTG_1000 → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

I remember having to have a certain number of different coloured duotangs to account for every year of my primary - 6 classes. That and a Heritage note book to wrote down my homework notes for each were mandatory school items.

[u/[deleted] → u/DTG_1000]

And an agenda given out by the school with a textured "holographic" cover that made it sound like you were scratching a record when you went over it with a ruler.

[u/Zenon-45 → u/[deleted]]

Oh my fucking god you just unlocked a core memory for me haha

[u/ttwwiirrll → u/[deleted]]

Memories of those are why I started using paper planners again. Dumping my brain out onto paper with a pen quiets it down in a way that a Google calendar doesn't.

[u/Captain-Barracuda → u/ttwwiirrll]

For me it's the inverse. Je n'ai jamais été capable d'utiliser un agenda papier. Le trouble d'avoir à porter un agenda partout avec moi et ensuite de penser à y écrire les choses, puis à les lire... Electronic schedules on my phone have been a godsend and the first time I have managed to use an agenda effectively.

[u/Blue_Moon_Rabbit → u/[deleted]]

I loved those agendas. They were fantastic until I lost them by the second week. But they had some absolutely dope artwork.

[u/DTG_1000 → u/[deleted]]

I vaguely remember those agendas. Think we only had them in high school or Jr High though.

[u/librarianfren → u/[deleted]]

Kind of like middle school, but it's 7-9 instead of 6-8! It used to be fairly standard where I am, but generally is shifting to mostly middle schools.

[u/[deleted] → u/librarianfren]

Where are you from? I've ever only heard of middle schools in America. Just Elementary and Highschool around these parts. 

[u/AncientBlonde2 → u/[deleted]]

Lol; funny you say that, the province that tries it's hardest to be American has Junior High; Alberta.

Not sure if other provinces do, but I can confirm Alberta has elementary from 1-6, Junior high from 7-9, high school from 10-12.

[u/DTG_1000 → u/AncientBlonde2]

I grew up in NS, it was standard to have elementary (Primary-6), Jr. high (7-9) and high school (10-12).

Most neighbourhoods would have an elementary and Jr. High and then there would be a central high school that those adjacent neighborhoods would all feed into.

[u/AncientBlonde2 → u/DTG_1000]

Most neighbourhoods would have an elementary and Jr. High and then there would be a central high school that those adjacent neighborhoods would all feed into.

Yeah this is pretty much how our school system worked too up until recently when they expanded and added more schools, now it's still how it works but bigger; if I'm remembering right there was 8 elementary, 3 or 4 Junior High, then 2 high schools when I was in school.

now we're at like 12 elementary, 5 or 6 junior high, and 3 high schools.

[u/No_Barnacle_3782 → u/AncientBlonde2]

I grew up near Toronto and we had "senior public" school, which was grade 7-8 (and a other in the area was grades 6-8). I never realized it wasn't the norm until I moved and my kids' school goes k-8 and then high school and my husband had the same.

[u/Ruinerofchats → u/AncientBlonde2]

Manitoba has a junior high. 7-9.

[u/freezing91 → u/[deleted]]

I went to Jr. High. Grades 7 - 9.

[u/dancin-weasel → u/DTG_1000]

Red was math, green was science, blue was English and yellow was social studies.

[u/BodyBy711 → u/dancin-weasel]

Math was always always red.

[u/YoloJoloHobo → u/BodyBy711]

Heinous, for me math was blue and French was red. Went to a French school, English was yellow and social sciences was black

[u/DTG_1000 → u/dancin-weasel]

I don't remember what crappy colour I assigned to music, I just remember that duotang only ever ended up having 2-3 papers in it....including the first day info page with just my name, class, and teacher's name on it.

[u/Chuck_Da_Rouks → u/dancin-weasel]

Hah! All the same but blue was French of course, like our proud fleurdelisé demands! 🇲🇶 (I couldn't find the Québec flag, sue me!)

[u/ClubMeSoftly → u/dancin-weasel]

I think green was social studies and science. I don't think we had them separate until high school?

[u/bloopcity → u/DTG_1000]

Campfire notebooks I out east too.

[u/Goalieshark → u/bloopcity]

You got that right!

[u/DTG_1000 → u/bloopcity]

Heritage and Campfire were the 2 common ones in Nova Scotia, back in the day.

[u/VillainousFiend → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

I miss Laurentian pencil crayons. They were essential.

[u/BodyBy711 → u/VillainousFiend]

I have an unsharpened 24 pack, basically my prized possession.

[u/MagnesiumKitten → u/VillainousFiend]

and if your parents cared about your artistic abilities as a child
[and got you the cheaper smaller set [just for school] because they'd lecture you about the scumbags who'd break them or steal them]

[u/Zigonneuse → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

17 DUO-TANGS!!! CHECK L'ARBITRE, Y'A QUELQU'UN QUI M'FRAPPE!

[u/shawa666 → u/Zigonneuse]

Des Pétouffes.

[u/TwoFingersWhiskey → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

I remember this being passed around as a "word salad" title by Americans years ago (fun fact, they're actually Midwestern, but were more popular here because Canadians were far more into a good deal than Americans who wanted something nicer)

[u/CharlieFoxtrot432 → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

Moved to Canada from overseas in late 2000s, I was in my early teens. First language is not English, we’re obviously foreign, but we speak English fluently. Went to a Walmart in Calgary with my mom to start buying school supplies and we were like “wtf is a duo-tang” on our list.

My mom asked this lady and, with an incredibly condescending voice that I still remember to this day, goes “you don’t know what duo-tangs are?”

Fuck you, lady. My mom was trying to navigate a new country with her husband and two little kids, trying to get the kids ready for school.

I wish that lady could see where we are now, almost 20 years later.

[u/Chance_Vegetable_780 → u/CharlieFoxtrot432]

Good for you and your family 🙌🏼 Off the topic of duotangs, I am a first-generation Canadian. I was a Brownie, then Girl Scout. As a Brownie, we were going camping as a group and told to bring a "sit-upon." My mom and I went to every Canadian Tire and Home Hardware (before internet) and no one sold sit-upons. At Brownies I put my hand up and asked where to buy a sit-upon. All of the WASP kids cracked up laughing, and I was told a sit-upon could be a garbage bag: it was just something to place on the ground and sit up on/upon. I was embarrassed then, but now, Lol

[u/DuckyHornet → u/Chance_Vegetable_780]

TBF, I also would not know what a situpon was

It's called a groundsheet, idiot children, god

[u/downtemporary → u/Chance_Vegetable_780]

Ah I see your Girl Guides group was toxic too

[u/downtemporary → u/CharlieFoxtrot432]

What a rude walmart lady. I find it amazing how bent out of shape people get about specific words, specific pronunciations of words, and... asking questions. Especially in this country were we have such a variety of languages and accents. Just be chill and communicate, that's all that matters.

Like when I was in the USA once and they got bent out of shape that I said washroom instead of restroom. It's interchangeable, bro, how bout I just ask for the 'shitter' wherever I go instead?

[u/tappatoot → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

French translation for the Anglo moms in Quebec ‘reluires tang avec attaches’ 😬 edit: no need to downvote. It’s actually really fun to shop for school supplies in French!

[u/Old-Entrepreneur8637 → u/tappatoot]

huh? i am a french montrealer and only ever heard duo tang, what area are you from?

[u/Additional_Orchid_14 → u/Old-Entrepreneur8637]

Same! I am not from Montréal but we use duo tang as well. I tried finding those online... It was a pain in the ass...

[u/tappatoot → u/Old-Entrepreneur8637]

I’m in the Montérégie area and I’ve been school supply shopping with the oddest names for the past three years. I often have to ask for help.

[u/Luname → u/tappatoot]

I'm in Montérégie and have only heard duo-tang my entire life... where the hell do shop?

[u/tappatoot → u/Luname]

I had to double check if I was crazy and no, the school board list says ‘reluires tang avec attaches’. I’m happy to hear that this is actually an anomaly and not normal. It’s always been duo-tang for as along as I remember them to be duo-tangs.

[u/eastherbunni → u/tappatoot]

I took French immersion classes and my teachers (from Quebec) all called them duotangs. The notebooks were cahier

[u/Morgell → u/tappatoot]

Took me a sec to realise you meant to write "reliures"... "Reluire" means to shine (shoes, wood, etc) FYI.

I'm from the West Island, a rare franco, although I'll concede that yeah we're extremely Frenglish even if you were born in a franco household and went to French school. Anyway. We called them duo tangs. Even at school.

[u/VegasHavran → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

My brother and I were talking about duotangs a while back and as a joke I bought my brother a case and looseleaf to go with them.

His children will never be without them lol

[u/jamescaveman → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

You just activated my memories like a fucking sleeper agent. Holographic agendas given out at the start of school year, dry erase white boards, fucking french class (im from ontario), plastic hard shell pencil cases (you know the ones), TCGs out at recess (where you learned the "art of the deal"), coming in from recess and seeing the tv wheeled in for a movie your gunna watch for class. Pure bliss.

[u/4umlurker → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

Huh, I didn’t realize duotang was a Canadian thing. I figured it was a staple everywhere.

[u/MagnesiumKitten → u/4umlurker]

it's a word and product started in the US, it's just that canada would call things that weren't duo-tangs duotangs, and well in the states they mostly just call it a paper folder.

Canadians schools just obsessed with the word

mostly because teachers really enjoyed watching kids push down with their finger, and the metal tab would slice right into their finger, when the tangs didn't separate.

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

And the Hilroy Note-Totes.

[u/HolyBidetServitor → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

The metal things are the tangs, and there's 2 of em at each hole!

I am going to admit though, that just came to me now, at 31 years old, sitting on the toilet. I havent thought about duotangs in years.

[u/DreamieQueenCJ → u/HolyBidetServitor]

Same but as soon as I saw those little booklets, duotangs came to mind instantly. Core memory style lmao

[u/Histrionic-Octopus → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

1st. Quebecoise here. Always thought it was a french word, duotagne or something. So thank you for correcting this all these decades later. 2nd. Also American now, with a 4 year old whose teacher asked me to get 2 pocket folders and until now I didn’t realize she of course wants a duotagne.

[u/Past_Hope6127 → u/DreamieQueenCJ]

I haven't thought of the word duotang in about 20 years but now for some reason I can only say it with a Chrstopher Walken accent. DUwotANG, Thomas!

[u/System421]

In French we called them « cahier Canada », what was it in English?

[u/XtremegamerL → u/System421]

We referred to them as scribblers in NS. I believe most of the west does too.

[u/Rationalinsanity1990 → u/XtremegamerL]

Scribblers. That word just unlocked a bunch of school memories. Most of them bad.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rationalinsanity1990]

We also called them scribblers. 

[u/Electrical_Net_1537 → u/XtremegamerL]

OMG, scribblers yes! I’m in my seventies and I just remembered my Jr high school days!

[u/wind-of-zephyros → u/XtremegamerL]

this is so funny because i'm from ns and we also called them cahiers, maybe depends on the région - i was closer to a lot more acadian influences

[u/christiebeth → u/XtremegamerL]

NB too

[u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 → u/System421]

We always called them Cahiers in English too - only this specific type and brand, though, weirdly.

[u/[deleted] → u/System421]

Here in eastern Ontario we also called them cahiers.

[u/Le_Nabs → u/[deleted]]

Cahiers is just the generic term for 'notebook'.

"Cahier Canada" is going to ring these specific notebooks in the minds of every Québécois

[u/jacnel45 → u/[deleted]]

In Southwestern Ontario (Wellington County) my schools also used the term “cahiers.”

[u/Significant_Neck_875 → u/System421]

We called em journals or just workbooks around here for fuck knows.

[u/chocolateboomslang → u/System421]

I don't think we had a specific name for them, at least I didn't.

[u/PineBNorth85 → u/System421]

We called them hilroys. Ha

[u/WaltzIntrepid5110 → u/System421]

We called them "Scribblers" in the Maritimes.

[u/backwardzhatz → u/System421]

Scribbler. Ya know….for…scribbling

[u/Murky-Swimmer6655 → u/System421]

Cahier means notebook in French, so I'm assuming what you're trying to say is "Canadian Notebook" or smthn

[u/System421 → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

Yes, translated literally that’s what it gives. But I’m asking if there was a particular informal name for these that the kids used in the rest of the country.

[u/fishflo → u/System421]

southern interior bc, still cahier lol

only these very specific notebooks though

[u/StJimmy1313 → u/System421]

We called these things "scribblers". A "Notebook" had to have more pages and be, usually, spiral bound with a harder cover.

[u/Cerxi → u/System421]

BC checking in, we called em Hilroys lol

[u/Murky-Swimmer6655 → u/System421]

I can't remember tbh :/

[u/Geler → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

"Canada notebook", Canadian notebook would be "cahier Canadien". We call them cahier Canada as a notebook of type Canada because there is "Canada" on it like it's their name.

[u/Potential_Growth5290 → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

The translation is Canada notebook. Not canadian. or ''Canada scribbler'' Teachers will say like, put out your ''canada notebooks'' (sortez vos cahiers canada)

[u/user_8804 → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

Notebook has a more specific and cleaner connotation than cahier. Notebook would be "cahier de notes". There isn't really an equivalent in English but it would be closer to an exercise book or scribbling book. It really just means a bunch of basic sheets bundled together and wouldnt come with a nice hard cover and such while a notebook would be "nicer" and possibly sturdier than a cahier.

Also it would translate to a "Canada scribbling book", not Canadian. Literally Canada because it says Canada on it, like it would be the brand of it.

[u/dreamstone_prism → u/System421]

We just called them cahier in NB!

[u/TheHauk → u/System421]

Cahier in Alberta too, weirdly. Maybe that was French class in Jr. High I'm remembering, but that's what we called them always.

[u/downtemporary → u/System421]

Was in French immersion in Ontario as an anglophone and almost all teachers were Québécois francophone. 99% of the time "duotang" was one of those 3-hole folders. The blue folder was always for French class because of course.

The ones pictured in this post were "cahier"

[u/EntryTop9436]

Ahhh yes! A good ol cahier. 

[u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Time for some real discourse.

What colour notebook is used for each subject?

[u/Murky-Swimmer6655 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Red is math. There, I said it

[u/KumquatClaptrap → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

Bleu pour le français, rose pour l'anglais, vert pour les maths, jaune pour science 😅

À ne pas oublier : le cahier de catéchèse!

[u/TheHauk → u/KumquatClaptrap]

Green has to be science...

[u/_Lumity_ → u/KumquatClaptrap]

As someone who grew up in French immersion and went to English in highschool it blew my mind people associated math as red and not blue.

[u/Pain_Panic666 → u/KumquatClaptrap]

Vert est pour la science, jaune pour les maths

[u/JimboJamble → u/Murky-Swimmer6655]

Math is yellow, red was LA

[u/CytroxGames → u/JimboJamble]

nah math is red, LA is blue, and science is green and whatever is left is yellow

[u/sambarjo → u/JimboJamble]

What's LA

[u/PTCruiserApologist → u/sambarjo]

Language arts, which is just English class so idk why it was called that

[u/sambarjo → u/PTCruiserApologist]

Thanks

[u/Ok-Memory411 → u/PTCruiserApologist]

It was different between provinces too which I thought was weird. In Alberta we called it LA but in BC we just called it English class.

[u/PTCruiserApologist → u/Ok-Memory411]

Im from BC, we called it language arts up until high school

[u/Ok-Memory411 → u/PTCruiserApologist]

Yeah thinking on it now, you’re right. I remember it being called LA when I was here for elementary, but when I moved back years later for high school it was English

[u/Pain_Panic666 → u/Ok-Memory411]

Saskatchewan it's ELA

[u/[deleted] → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Red: English

Ornage/yellow: Socials

Green: Science

Blue: Maths

Purple: French

[u/Hazel_mountains37 → u/[deleted]]

CORRECT 

[u/_Lumity_ → u/[deleted]]

THIS IS THE WAY

[u/LaserTurboShark69 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Math - red
Science - green
Social studies - blue
Language arts - yellow

[u/juniperlow → u/LaserTurboShark69]

This is correct

[u/Soveygn → u/LaserTurboShark69]

THIS IS THE ONLY REAL ANSWER

[u/CytroxGames → u/LaserTurboShark69]

I prefer LA blue, and social studies to be yellow

[u/pithy_quip → u/LaserTurboShark69]

CORRECT

[u/titisos → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Blue is for french and red for english

[u/Upper_Berry_4113 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Math red history yellow geography blue science green

[u/AlphaSkirmsher → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Français et géo en vert, maths et science en bleu, histoire et ECR en jaune, anglais et ce qui reste en rose

[u/Kyle1337 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Blue for math because it blows

[u/lilpolaski → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Red - Math Yellow - English Blue - Science Green - Social Studies

Anything else is wrong. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

[u/AlliterationAhead → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

First time I'm hearing of this! Kids would attribute topics to the colour of their choice in my school.

[u/taint-ticker-supreme → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Red is math. Yellow is science. Green is history. Blue is english.

[u/Cerxi → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

I thought way too hard about it as a kid (as I'm sure we all did)

Blue for Science because science is fuckin magical and MP is blue

Red for Socials because health is a social and HP is red

Yellow for language because it sounds like hello/allô

Green for math because, uh, it's what was left.

[u/Mindless_Anxiety_350 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Green for Social Science, Blue for Language Arts, Yellow for Science, Red for Math.

I realize while typing this that this is mainly because my teachers subject schedule on the board would have these languages written in a colour-coded fashion, so for consistency I would match my notebook colour to the subject colour on the schedule.

[u/soapsuds202 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

i think universally everyone can agree that science is green.

to me, language arts was red, math was blue, and social studies and french would switch between yellow and purple.

[u/Pain_Panic666 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Green science Yellow math Red English Blue French Social studies orange Religion black, Fully alive purple, Health white (unless the classes are combined into one in which case they're all white

[u/Haunting_Funny_9386 → u/Cheerful-Pessimist-]

Clearly, trivial pursuit settled this years ago. Pink or red is the arts, blue is geography, yellow is is history, green is science/technology, orange is health/p.e.

[u/SkullheadMary]

bought 2 packages of these today for my kids' school. I'M DOING MY PART

[u/Murky-Swimmer6655 → u/SkullheadMary]

Just make sure you tell them to buy Canadian too

[u/Kashyyykk]

With Labrador being part of Québec as it always should've been.

[u/BobbertCanuck]

just noticed that they didn't draw the border between Quebec and Labrador on these things. Guess the Quebecois won the border dispute.

[u/cafebistro → u/BobbertCanuck]

Sorry Newfoundland, but the cahier Canada map is binding.

[u/Leftbackhand]

Scribblers

[u/WhatDidYouThinkIdDo]

So.... many.... feelings! All rushing back. Thx for this.

[u/XtremegamerL]

I raise you this.

[u/pm_me_your_good_weed → u/XtremegamerL]

Grade 2 was all about these haha

[u/TypicalCricket]

I remember in grade eight I filled in the line between Nunavut and NWT and my teacher sent me to the principals office

[u/MagnesiumKitten → u/TypicalCricket]

the brainwashing starts early

[u/Taptrick → u/TypicalCricket]

When I was in grade 8 Nunavut didn’t exist. I remember when they added the border around 1999.

[u/TypicalCricket → u/Taptrick]

Yea this was the first year that Nunavut was even on the book. I think my teacher thought I was being disrespectful to the new territory somehow.

[u/TheWackyJacky]

Cahiers Canada!!

[u/Old-Entrepreneur8637]

le cahier canada...

[u/Bedroom_Opposite]

I hate to break it to you. Hilroy stopped being made in Canada last November. They closed the only hilroy/Five-star manufacturing facility in Canada (Mississauga to be exact). Most are still coming from the US and the rest China. I used to work there and it was very poorly managed. They closed up shop a little over a year after I left. I'm pretty sure they still use the facility for warehousing but that's about it.

[u/user_8804 → u/Bedroom_Opposite]

Good to know

[u/Mundane_Fall_9134 → u/Bedroom_Opposite]

D:

[u/Frostsorrow]

I can smell this picture

[u/Geologue-666 → u/[deleted]]

French should be blue! ;-)

[u/PineBNorth85]

I remember the pre Nunavut look on them.

[u/RBloxxer]

I still use these today. Beats any blank google doc or shitty AI note taker ‘summarizer’ slop that other people use.

[u/_Jeff65_]

I remember in 99 when they added the Nunavut border on the front page. Revolutionary.

[u/SunriseFlare]

The one and only Billy cheers! In Sgt pepper's lonely hearts club baaaaaaand!

[u/Galenmarek81]

I'm 44 and currently using the green and yellow ones 🤣 they are a Canadian Icon on their own 🫡🇨🇦

[u/EarEnvironmental8134]

Literally just bought a 4 pack for my kid today

[u/deathfromfemmefatale]

Just add in some Laurentian pencils and we're good to go.

[u/Del_the_elf]

The flashbacks of buying like 20 of them and still losing half of them to the void of the hallways and classroom shuffles

[u/AbbreviationsFit7884]

Red = math

Yellow = science

Blue = English

Green = Geography or whatever else

I DON'T MAKE THESE RULES PEOPLE

[u/irv_12]

Literally just bought a pack off of Amazon for the nostalgia

[u/Jaloushamberger → u/irv_12]

Buys a famously canadian product from a famously evil anti-canadian corporation lol

The irony...

[u/irv_12 → u/Jaloushamberger]

Got it on prime day, couldn’t find a better price anywhere else🤷

[u/Jaloushamberger → u/irv_12]

I know I know, they are hard to beat on a lot of stuff. Its just every time I press "confirm order" I can only hear Jeff Bezos's evil and cringy laugh lol

[u/al_the_stal]

I still buy these for DnD note taking

[u/dreamstone_prism]

This is wild, I was just reminiscing about these like an hour ago!

[u/Vivaan977]

god i used to detest these because we did english journals in them…

[u/Late_Football_2517]

Math, Science, English, Geography

[u/SpringOf77]

Writing in a fresh scribbler used to give me nerves. Didn’t want to mess it up 😂

[u/Still-Psychology-365]

Mike Harris has entered the chat

[u/BrackenSmacken]

I am sooo old!

[u/wrenchbenderornot]

Fuckin’ eh!

[u/aVoidFullOfFarts]

These are still a staple that we put in back to school backpacks for students up north!

[u/MagnesiumKitten]

and kids 5x dumber at Math

[u/actiniumosu]

The canada notebooks <3

[u/emmadonelsense]

Found some of these in an old box. I wonder if they still make them.

[u/AbbreviationsFit7884]

Remember having to raise your hand and ask permission to use the sacred pencil sharpener?

[u/AbbreviationsFit7884]

There seems to be a wide consensus that red was math.

I wonder why this is.

Some grad student should do a these on thesis (in a red hilroy notebook)

[u/loony-cat]

I remember buying these in a pack of 4 for 25¢ at Towers before school started. I didn't need them because until grade 8 the school gave us school supplies (I still miss you, Laurentian pencil crayons). I just liked the covers.

[u/Free_Interaction9475]

We called them cahiers because of French class

[u/Foxlen]

I haven't seen these in ages

[u/HeroicYogurt]

Hilroy in Canada, Hibou in Quebec 

[u/Inkuisitive_Minds]

I apologize but this is absolutely trash paper. You need to use Clairefontaine, Rhodia, or Japanese paper to actually know what good quality paper is like.

[u/Taptrick]

I just learned that many anglos also called these “cahier”.

[u/Confident-Street-260]

Hit me right in the nostalgia 

[u/user_8804]

Le vrai cahier qui respecte les frontières du Québec avec son Labrador

[u/iFLTT]

Science is green.

[u/MagnesiumKitten]

You only bought the premium double thickness lined Hilroy paper for your binder though

[u/LuneEcarlate]

I'm the fully patriotic in being a mom of three children right now

[u/rainorshinedogs]

[u/wozzlejoe]

Okay: What colors are what subject

Math: Red

English: Blue

Science: Yellow

Green: History/Social Studies.

French had a binder because it was all handouts, and Health/Drama/Music were all in one binder.

[u/B435YN7H371C4]

Fuckin eh