#ImperialtoMetric

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Learn how to easily convert imperial dimensions to metric dimensions with our step-by-step guide. Make measurements simple!

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Fifty years later I'm still not converted to metric

Fifty years later I’m still not converted to metric

Canada axed the old Imperial measurement system and adopted the more global metric system fifty years ago. Back then, I was living with Joan, a friend from my Willard Hall days in downtown Toronto. I clearly remember her confidently declaring that she would not be ‘converting’. She was determined to abandon any previous knowledge of Imperial and declare herself wholely and utterly now in the…