NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

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By 1977, all Canadian weather reports used metric measurements. “The strategy of going to the weather service first and getting them involved really paid off,” said Phillips. One month into ...