'The little guy from Shawnigan' - uh, we sincerely hope you mean Shawinigan, the place with two [2] Is, and stuck somewhere upstream from Trois-Rivieres, not Shawnigan, the one with one [1] I, stuck somewhere up behind Victoria watershed ..... big difference, several thousands kilometres between, rest assured le p'tit gars would notice, as would most certainly the Amblesnide & Tiddlycove Croquet and Empire Revival Club -
' Most Annoying Easternism Used In BC
"Cottage" and "cottage country" used in reference to the Cariboo, "cottage" alone used also to refer to getaways in the Okanagan, Shuswap, and Kootenays. Historically, "cottage" in the BC dialect has referred to a small, gardened house of the English type or a miniature house, such as a gardener's or gatekeeper's house. Think "cottage" and you think Victoria and its adjoining lake-parkland districts of Shawnigan Lake and the Saanich Peninsula. Shutters, planking, roses, and maybe getaways near oh-so-English Victoria - but not log cabins on wilderness lakes in the midst of famous ranch and mountain country. The old BC term would be either "place" or "spread" (depending on the size of the property in question; a "place" can be on a "spread"), as in "I have a place at Green Lake". The immediate implication is a rustic log structure, A-frame, or even trailer in a rural setting; the only alternative could be "cabin". The usage of "cottage" in reference to the very butch flavour of backcountry life in BC is highly inappropriate, but a favourite vice of the in-migrant Torontonians, especially those in the media. '
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