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Canada Goes Metric

Monograph No. 3: June 1975

METRIFICATION – ACTIVITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, and HUMOR

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

5 – 17

Canada Goes Metric

Harold Don Allen

Ladies and gentlemen; to borrow from a distinguished Canadian, “my fellow metricators”:

One million metres is not a measure we often use in casual conversation (strictly speaking, one could call it a megametre), but I have found that it is the distance which one has to travel in Canada (in education) to be considered an “expert.”