Manners - you gottem

Last week, I ranted about the lack of logical order at the traffic circle in St. Stephen.
Now, lest folks come to an unfavourable opinion of yours truly, I wanted to note a driving behaviour that I find most abnormal.
Let me describe, if I may.
The other day, I decided that I didn't want to go home for lunch, and hence, engaged in a Courier staff ritual: I went out the door, turned left and set my bearings for Pizza Delight.
The journey necessitates crossing Milltown Boulevard.
Here's where things get odd.
I stepped out onto the pedestrian crosswalk and - shockingly - drivers in both lanes of traffic came to a polite, orderly halt.
What?
Vehicles STOPPING at a pedestrian crosswalk, like the law suggests?
Egad, you'd never see this in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton or Saskatoon.
One would only expect vehicles to stop in a crosswalk in Toronto or Montreal if one were on some form of mind-altering drug.
Yet it happens here, repeatedly. It's almost like people are aware that when they strap themselves into their cars, that there are still other people around them.
And I hope it never changes.