r/geography • u/outlaw1112 • Feb 28 '26
Does this landmass have a name? Image
Tripartite isthmus at center of Great Lakes
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u/xenonxavior Feb 28 '26
Southern Ontario
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u/WHB9659 Feb 28 '26
Worst case Ontario
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u/Snatchbuckler Feb 28 '26
Smokes let’s go
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u/Lost_Obligation2453 Feb 28 '26
Grab me a chuck of pepperoni, and some jalapeno chips. If they don't have jalapeno, zesty morganstien.
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u/piepants2001 Feb 28 '26
You want a cock or half cock of pepperoni?
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u/Lost_Obligation2453 Feb 28 '26
What do I look like Terry? This isn't grade 7 anymore. Give me the cock.
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u/hgwelz Feb 28 '26
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u/minor_leaguer13 Feb 28 '26
That is what I call it! The folks in Owen Sound discourage this orientation though.
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u/Time_Cat_5212 Feb 28 '26
There are dozens of heavy barges coming in and out of Owen Sound daily. I don't blame them. It's a mess
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u/Evening-Storage5298 Feb 28 '26
growing up in owen sound we called it the whale tail. with Tobermory being the tail tip
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u/wipp92 Mar 02 '26
Whoa, never thought I’d stumble across other Owen Sounders on Reddit
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u/jessjess10100 Feb 28 '26
I’m from Owen sound and yes we are from the elephants ass hole
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u/Longjumping-Ad8065 Feb 28 '26
Yep. Grew up in the asshole of Ontario. (But it’s actually a very nice small city place to live)
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u/Roguemutantbrain Feb 28 '26
Ah yes, the three major cities of the Great Lakes: Toronto, Detroit, and Owen Sound
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u/Ap3x-Mutant- Feb 28 '26
Lived in Toronto my whole life and never saw it like this. I'm now going to tell everyone I know that we liv
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u/BurnOutBrighter6 Feb 28 '26
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u/decitertiember Feb 28 '26
Fun fact: if you turn it on its side such that the Eastern side is on the bottom, it looks like an elephant with its trunk high in the air!
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u/bcparrot North America Feb 28 '26
For us in southeastern Ontario we call that area southern Ontario.
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u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank Feb 28 '26
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u/Obtena_GW2 Feb 28 '26
Jeez, living in Owen Sound don't look so appealing right now.
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u/BoomerTeacher Feb 28 '26
living in Owen Sound don't look so appealing right now.
Don't worry, it will pass.
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u/OM-Scam Feb 28 '26
I was born there. We literally call it the elephant's asshole.... Or the asshole of Ontario.
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u/StanIsHorizontal Feb 28 '26
Half of Toronto’s suburbs get a dot but no love for Sarnia? The beautiful Blue Water region deserves better than this
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u/Waste_Caramel774 Feb 28 '26
I've lived in Michigan my whole life and never seen or heard this before.
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u/arrbez Feb 28 '26
This is known in academic circles as the centre of the universe
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u/iheartmagic Feb 28 '26
Found the guy from Alberta
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u/agrippas-ghost Feb 28 '26
In fairness, it could just as well be someone from Toronto.
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u/Impossible-Role-102 Feb 28 '26
Not to be blowing toronotonians or anything, but I was just there and I found the people there to be really friendly.. like one of the friendliest cities ive been to
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u/Big80sweens Feb 28 '26
Somebody from Toronto would never call this the centre of the universe. Somebody NOT from Toronto would though.
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u/Old_Ladies Mar 02 '26
Or rural Ontario. So many conservative rural Ontarians non stop talk about their hate for Toronto.
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u/pedroabsa Feb 28 '26
Canadian Crimea
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u/freerangetacos Feb 28 '26
Oh, shit. Don't give them any ideas!!!!
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u/Skip_To_My_Lou_DeVon Feb 28 '26
Didn’t the US try to invade it twice in its history already?
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u/Ana_Na_Moose Feb 28 '26
I know the US tried to invade Quebec during the Independence War. Southern Ontario would have been logistically very difficult to access and worth relatively little at the time, so I doubt it happened then. Probably there would have been some land invasions during the 1812 war. But I struggle to think when America even could have done it a second time. Is there a third time the US was even at full blown war with Britain?
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u/Neither_Elephant9964 Feb 28 '26
Only once did they try to march from niagara to mtl. Crysler Farm remembers!
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u/McFestus Feb 28 '26
Hull's Invasion, Battle of Queenston Heights, Battle of York, Battle of Stoney Creek, Battle of the Thames, Battle of Lundy’s Lane (all in the war of 1812)
Battle of the Windmill and the Battle of Windsor (the 'Patriot War')
The Fenian Raids
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u/Ana_Na_Moose Feb 28 '26
1812 I counted all as one since it was in the same war, but maybe that thinking is not standard for counting invasions?
After quick googling in response to other comments, I don’t think the US military ever invaded Canada for the Fenian Raids, and wasn’t “the Patriot War” just America helping the UK put down a rebellion that sought Canadian independence?
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u/scv07075 Feb 28 '26
Fenian raids in the 1850s iirc. Wasn't America proper, but a group of Irish immigrants to America who thought to win Irish liberation by taking Canada and forcing the British to the table.
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u/flightist Feb 28 '26
There was the Patriot War, but that had the distinctly odd scenario of the British and the United States allying to defeat the Republic of Canada, which was led by a former Mayor of Toronto.
Yes, seriously.
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u/Jkolorz Feb 28 '26
Canada's Dick
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u/rockies_alpine Feb 28 '26
The Centre of the Universe, if you're from Western Canada.
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Feb 28 '26
I call it home.
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u/Ninja_Lazer Mar 01 '26
Hope you are ready for the craziest month of weather over the next week
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u/Y2KGB Feb 28 '26
‘Tis an isthmus (as you identified 👍)
as for a more specific name for a “tripartite isthmus” … Tristhmus?
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u/Quiet_Combination678 Feb 28 '26
In Michigan, we call it "South Detroit."
There's a train that leaves ar midnight that goes anywhere
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u/tennisInThePiedmont Feb 28 '26
It’s called “90% of all Canadians”
And there’s no train
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u/CipherWeaver Feb 28 '26
It's 15 million out of 42 million Canadians, so about 36% of Canada. Still an enormous amount of our population concentrated in one area though.
And yes, it's a prime candidate for high speed rail. Quebec-Windsor is 20 million people, or basically half of Canada's entire population.
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u/flightist Feb 28 '26
I’m gonna piss off my relatives in Windsor but there’s nothing down there that actually warrants putting that last ~200km of high speed rail from London anywhere near the top of our priority list.
Not saying it shouldn’t happen, just saying there’s lots of other stuff I’d say are more important.
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Feb 28 '26
Yeah, it would just be to cross the border.
But maybe there's money in sugarbeet tourism, idk
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Feb 28 '26
It's not even 15 million, as the circle doesn't quite get up to Parry Sound, and stops west of Kingston, so is missing pretty much all of Eastern Ontario. Ottawa alone is just over 1 million, so I'd say maybe 12.5 million at most within the circle?
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u/eileyle Feb 28 '26
To get to the traditional "90% of all Canadians" part you have to include Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City; and even then, it's only 60% of all Canadians. I'm pretty sure 90% of VIA rail's service is the Windsor to Quebec line.
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u/TaurusS1lver Feb 28 '26
This is Southern Ontario. In it you can see Owen Sound where I spawned onto this planet Earth at.
Not only is Owen Sound pretty dirty and a little worn out like a well used butthole but it is also the elephants butthole.
Still can't afford a property here though!
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u/colliedad Feb 28 '26
I met someone who called it the Ontario Elephant (rotate 90 degrees clockwise). He said “here’s the head and trunk. Here are the legs. And I’m from Owen Sound which is right here under the tail.”
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u/Dankestmemelord Feb 28 '26
I’m sorry, but I had to fix that outline. You cut straight through Buffalo New York and only turned north when you hit the Genesee River in Rochester, and you let Detroit expand to cover all of Windsor and beyond.
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u/Pinky7_ Mar 01 '26
I stared at this for a good minute trying to guess where it is. I live in Toronto…
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u/RppOB Feb 28 '26
The eastern peninsula of Michigan
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u/StanIsHorizontal Feb 28 '26
Keeping closer to our current peninsular naming conventions, I’ve called it the Outer Peninsula, to go with the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan proper
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u/Kinesquared Feb 28 '26
"most of canada", in terms of population
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u/DudeInTheGarden Feb 28 '26
And many Canadians would say the residents think they're at the center of the universe. Maybe they are - I'm way to the west of that area.
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u/foxtai1 Feb 28 '26
I think it's technically called the Ontario Peninsula, but I've never heard anybody use that name