On 10-Mar-07, at 12:09 , Daniel Jackson wrote:
When I was in Canada some years ago, I encountered pound pricing
only on goods that were prepackaged, like apples and potatoes. You
couldn't ask for specific pound amounts and even though the "per
pound" price was displayed on an advertisement, the products were
not sold that way.
However, where you had to ask for a weighed amount, it was in grams
and kilograms and the advertising was per 100 grams.
They'll definitely be weighed in g or kg. But in many stores, the
language across the counter is still imperial. Before I moved to
Toronto I would buy my meat in a butcher shop. They had no problem
if you asked for a metric amount of something, but I'd have to say
that 90% of the requests for things were in pounds. The same being
true at vegetable stands.
Where you do tend to see items requested in metric seems to be at the
deli counters. People request their sliced ham, roast beef, and
cheese in grams, most of the time.
I believe property deeds in Canada are all metric unless they are
really old, as surveying is 100 % metric. If you have your
property surveyed it will be done in metres and officially recorded
that way.
If your home was built after metrication, then the deed and survey
will be metric. When I bought my house, it was advertised as being
on 40' x 100' lot, but the deed itself showed it as being 12.10 m x
30.50 m
