Environment Canada’s use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025.
It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began.
A bone-chilling April Fools’ Day in 1975 marked the first time Canadians used Celsius to measure weather temperature.
My most profound memory of that time was the Gimli Glider making the world news cycle.
Got a piece of the Glider’s fuselage strapped to my carryon when I fly for good luck.
Wow!