By the early 1980s the Canadian government sensibly put their deeply unpopular metrication programme on hold. Sadly not before most road signs had been converted.

The following summarises the position in various sectors in Canada:

Clothing: Sold in imperial measurements

Packaged Food: Mostly labelled in metric or in dual markings. However many items are metricated versions of imperial or American units eg 454g for margarine or 568ml (one pint) for mushrooms, 355ml (12 fl oz) for cans of drink.

Loose Food: Priced in pounds, but weighed and sold in metric.

DIY: Almost exclusively imperial

Drinks: Often sold by the ounce (ie fluid ounce) in catering establishments.

Ice cream: Often sold 'loose' by the ounce

Menus: Steaks in ounces

Agriculture: Almost exclusively in imperial

Land: Almost exclusively in imperial

Homes / Real Estate: Exclusively in square feet & acres

Commercial Property: Exclusively in square feet

Road Transport: Most roadsigns in metric, except dual markings near the US border or mileposts on 'historic routes' such as the Alaska Highway. Nearly all car speedos are marked in km/h and mph. Bridge heights are generally in both metric and imperial. Summits of mountains often in feet.

Fuel: Sold by the litre, but fuel consumption expressed in mpg (imperial mpg rather than American mpg)

Rail Transport: Imperial

Air Transport: Distances, altitudes & frequent flyer schemes in imperial.

Shipping: Imperial

Cookery Books: Largely American measures

Temperature: Weather forecasts largely Celsius (sometimes include Fahrenheit) though many Canadians watch US TV stations which of course are in Fahrenheit; room thermostats in Fahrenheit; large public thermometers in F and C; room thermometers in F and C; medical thermometers in Fahrenheit, stoves/cookers in Fahrenheit.

Elevators: Weight limits in pounds

Personal weighing scales: Pounds

Pots and pans: American units

Weight training: Pounds

Cartography: Mixed units for distance and elevation

Industrial hardware: Imperial

Gardening: Imperial

Air extraction: Cubic feet per minute

Everyday speech: Predominantly imperial (always pounds for personal weight, feet and inches for height, inches for chest / waist measurements etc)

Jonathan, it is really intesting to get these items of news
especially since many are about the units-situation in Canada

I live on west coast of US.

L

How about Australia?

Australia is an entirely different story.

I'm often over there and I'll post something on that soon.

What about sports? Are Hockey and Canadian-rules football done in imperial or metric?

Rotclar:

The man must stay 9 metres away at all times.... the pitch is 21.11metres... lol!

In football, you have the fundamental areas of the 6 yard box, the 12 yards from which to take a penalty, the ten yards you must stand from the ball off of a free kick et cetera. In fact, here's a piece of useless semi-knowledge for you- the maximum allowed size for a football (association) pitch is almost a hectare, and the smallest is an acre(ish). It's 100-125ydsx50-100. There always has to be one long side, however, so you could actually have a 100x101yd pitch!