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Bite your tongue, sir! “Tim Horton’s is mostly an Ontario institution”? The Great Tim of Horton is at home on the East Coast! Indeed, I see that your P/TH numbers are conspicuously lacking in anything representing the Maritime provinces. So using the same store locator, I humbly submit for the edification of your loyal readers, proof that we are not only fishermen and EI collectors, but caffeine addicts too:

Newfoundland: 8393 P/TH
PEI: 8109 P/TH
New Brunswick: 6147 P/TH
Nova Scotia: 5239 P/TH

In my home town of Halifax, I don’t think you’re ever more than a five minute drive from a Tim Horton’s, and I’ve heard the same thing said of Truro and Sydney. But regardless of where you live, the odds of winning anything more than a Boston Cream still seem to remain vanishingly small..

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Llama: I stand corrected. I was thrown by the strikingly high P/TH numbers for Quebec, and went no further east.

You know: Was it really called ‘Nuffys’? That rings a vague bell, but what a stupid name.

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I think it’s only in the lower mainland that Tim Horton’s are in short supply. I went to high school in Terrace (up north), and there were 3 Tim Hortons in our town of ~18000.

There was a recent news article that stated that 22% of Nova Scotia’s litter comes from Tim Horton’s. Thought that was kinda neat.

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You’re all going to get sued by the folks at Tim Hortons* if you keep calling it Tim Horton’s! ;)

* that’s right, no apostrophe (scroll down to “A Canadian mystery”)

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Holy crap was I weirded out when I moved to Ontario. There’s a Timmy’s on every street corner. And if you think I’m exaggering, I’m not: I live within walking distance of two Timmy’s, and I work within walking distance of two more. It’s weird.

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I’ve won a donut and a coffee with about 8 cups. (I usually drink Tim’s, but I also usually have a refillable mug on me and don’t bug them to get my roll-up chance.) I live in Waterloo, ON, for reference.

@Peruvian Llama: I lived in Truro for about 15 years - 5 minutes for a Tim’s sounds about right. But I think there’s less coverage in Bible Hill. I think that figure would be almost accurate for Subway stores too.

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We had a lot of them in Saskatoon as well, but there aren’t as many in the Lower Mainland and Quebec.

Tim’s is really noticeable in Ottawa.

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The only donut chain I can think of that used to be in the Lower Mainland was Robin’s Donuts… I think there might still be a couple of them around, but when Timmy-Ho’s came rolling into the area, a lot of them went under.

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First it was Taco Don’s (remember the mexi fries?), and then Nuffy’s Donuts.

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In Sudbury Ontario population almost 300k for the whole area there are at least 20 Tim Hortons, if you drive past one, there is another one a few minutes away. There were a number of Robin’s Donuts and Country Styles in town too, but they closed in the last 2 or 3 years and we are dominated by Timmys.
I like my Timmy’s but I think the cream is making me fat. I dont eat donuts, cookies or anything else they make and this year I maybe won 9 times out of 100 coffees, so thier odds are about right. Still I get excited every year when I see the red and yellow cups instead of the brown!

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Tim hortons gave me a heart attack one morning, damn coffees

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I just visited Montreal and Quebec City and I must say they were lacking in the number of Timmies in both the cities (Quebec City was the worst).

This is coming from a guy who lived in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Those two cities literally have 2-3 TH locations in walking distance of each other.

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I love my Timmies. I am a triple-triple girl. I start getting excited in early February that Roll-Up is almost here. It is my favourite time of year and for me it is the first sign of spring and always accompanies the Brier. I love the commercial with Shorty Jenkins. They had a series of the best commercials one year that played during Brier coverage on TSN. I am from Saint John NB and loved the one with the dog. I actually knew that dog and the owner who ran the corner store near where I worked. You never see that one anymore. I wonder if it caused them problems because of health regulations.

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The contest is a crock. Back when they first did it in Michigan, my boyfriend got a cup that was a “winner” for a grill. They gave us the runaround on it for about four months before he gave up and threw the cup out. It’s just a gimmick to get you to buy more coffee!

I’m so sick of the commercials. We were very loyal customers for a long time - and I still love their tea - I just wish they could get some integrity.

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