Ontario Jokes

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Top 10 Reasons to be from Ontario

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  1. Your provincial capital calls in the army to help clean up after a snow storm.
  2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump
  3. You, and you, alone decide who will win the federal election
  4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime
  5. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar
  6. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house
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Runner ups

  • You live in the center of the universe
  • There's no such thing as an Ontario Seperatist
  • Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition
  • Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a cool city
  • Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein

You know you're from Ontario when...

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  1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
  2. "Vacation" means going to Barrie/area for the weekend.
  3. You measure distance in hours.
  4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
  5. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
  6. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
  7. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Canadian Tire store at any given time.
  8. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
  9. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
  10. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction.

Runner ups

  • You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
  • You use a down comforter in the summer.
  • You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
  • You have enough French vocabulary to get by some of the day in Ottawa without them thinking that you're a completly incapable American.