Pint (Ontario), about 1 litre versus 0.5 litres. After four of the British provinces united in the Canadian Confederation in 1867, Canada legally adopted the British imperial system of measure in 1873, making Canadian liquid units incompatible with American ones from that year forward. In 1873, the French Canadian "pinte" was defined as being one imperial quart or two imperial pints, while the imperial pint was legally called a "chopine" in French Canada. Canadian imperial units of liquid measure remain incompatible with American traditional units to this day, and although the Canadian pint, quart, and gallon are still legal units of
Pint Latin "pincta" meaning "painted", for marks painted on the side of a container to show capacity. In the United States, the liquid pint is legally defined as one-eighth of a liquid gallon of precisely 231 cubic inches. In the United States, the dry pint is one-eighth of a dry gallon. The United States dry pint is equal to one-eighth of a United States dry gallon. It is used in the United States, but is not as common as the liquid pint. A now-obsolete unit of measurement in Scotland known as the "Scottish pint" or "joug" equals three imperial pints. It