That last bit is not too surprising since I seem to recall someone (Pat Naughtin?) mentioning that even in Australia one of the last Imperial measurements to disappear was a person's height.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> To: "Ezra, Steinberg" <[email protected]>, "USMA" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 6:20:21 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:54332] Re: Canada's Wonderland "Vehicle speeds" should probably be amended to all highway signs. Distances, overhead clearances, etc are all metric. But a lot of Canadians apparently use inches and pounds for personal height and weight. From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: USMA <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 8:31 PM Subject: [USMA:54332] Re: Canada's Wonderland Probably because Canada is only a "supposedly" metric country. ;-) Canada does very well with temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, longer distances and vehicle speeds. Other areas of Canadian life (as far as I can tell from down here in the USA) are all over the map when it comes to metric vs. Imperial. From: "Michael Payne" <[email protected]> To: "USMA" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:07:19 PM Subject: [USMA:54331] Canada's Wonderland Amazingly Canada’s wonderland has height restrictions in inches only, which I find amazing for a supposedly metric country https://www.canadaswonderland.com/uploads/downloads/2012%20Rider%20Height%20Guide.pdf Mike Payne
