In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.
In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.
The romans divided the mile into 5,000 feet. But the British perfered using ‘furlong’, thus the mile became 8 furlongs, and a furlong is 660 feet.
Time for a historical metrology search!