[Arran]

Add to that the nice DeForest Crosleys that periodically show up. I have not seen any of that brand that I do not like. But I have not seen very many of them.

That is an interesting point about the UK Philcos having many of their components from Philco Canada. If I am not mistaken, wasn't some of Canada on 220V service in the past? And I wonder if Canada sourced the UK with the wood cabinets used by some of the UK Philcos? Wood products and woodworking would have been much cheaper in Canada.

I have not been in Canada for at least 20 years, and that was a day visit with my Georgia-native ex wife who had never been there. We made a dash across the border from our camp in North NY to Quebec, which reminded me after we were there for a couple of hours why I preferred any other Province in Canada to Quebec. No offense to Arran, but I bet he knows what I am talking about.

Canada, at least back in the 70s and before when I regularly went there on holliday, was a wonderful combination of the UK and it's own brand of North American, or should I say, "colonial" life. Yes, and France if one ventured into Quebec....

Absolutely agree that Canada has it's own, well, everything. Many here in the States imagine Canada to be somthing akin to a 51st state, and they couldn't be more wrong!
Canada is it's own country and well worth visiting. You don't even need to learn another language. Well, unless you go to (ahem) Quebec.

As far as I know there was never were any 220v or 240V AC power sytems in Canada, some of the earlier installations were DC but it was still 110 or 120 volt. There were sections of the country, particularly Southern Ontario, that had 25 cycle power at 115 volts, other areas were always 115-120 volt at 60 cycle like Quebec. Where I am they originally had 25 cycle power but switched over to 60 cycle around 1957 or so, the original power plant was installed by a mining company.
However at one time, prior to the first World War, in some provinces they drove on the right hand side of the road and others on the left hand side of the road. The cars they made at the time were all right hand drive like the British until they decided that it would be best if everyone drove on the right hand side in every province. I guess in the horse and buggy days it didn't matter but once cars came about it suddenly became feasble to drive from one province to another.
I sort of know what you mean about Quebec, from the 1970s till maybe the early 90s there was a lot of hostility directed towards the English particularly in areas outside of Montreal. I can't really say anymore without getting too political but there were a lot of kooky ideas that became mainstream at that time particularly among the younger generations in Quebec at that time. Fortunately a lot of that has fallen out of favor in recent times as people realize how kooky these ideas were and how much they have cost them economically.
Regards
Arran