By 1983, Canada had driven well down the road toward metric conversion, but one Maritime province tried to give its motorists the option of taking a slight detour.
Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan announced that November that his province would put up a small number of road signs near provincial border crossings that listed distances in both miles and kilometres.
“What I’m doing is giving people the right that they should have in this country, the right that I believe they have under the law to have that option of either miles or kilometres,” Buchanan said, explaining the rationale for slapping Imperial distances alongside metric measurements.
Read full story here: When Nova Scotia Decided To Go With Both Metric And Imperial | CBC News
