Northern Canada in March?
We are considering a trip into northern Canada in March to try to see the northern lights. Auroral activity is high around the equinox and there is a new moon at about the same time in March. We made ...
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Just a side issue that has me a bit confused, not hard to do. Canadians all seem to live in either "Canada" or in "Northern Canada", no where else that I see or read mentioned. I am aware that 90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the border with the US. Is that the division line between Canada and Northern Canada? I am setting here at my computer, too hot to be outside working, looking at a map of Canada. One trip, we were camped in/around the Prince George area of British Columbia, talked to some locals that were telling about living in "northern Canada." Now folks, PG is barely in central BC, no where close to northern Canada on my map. Does no one claim to be from central BC or central Alberta, etc.?
To be living in northern Canada, based on my map, you would need to be living in Yukon, NWT, Nunavut or some of the northern islands of Canada. Most Canadians I have known or talked to have never been to northern Canada, or so it seems.
No one ever says they live in southern Canada either, it seems. Since Canada has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, what gives? Could the entire northern part of Canada drop off the globe and no one in "Canada" would even notice it was gone? It is almost as if the "real" northern Canada doesn't exist in the minds of most Canadians, except for those few that live there in places like mentioned, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, etc.
Be somewhat like talking to someone that lives in Phoenix, Arizona and have them claim they live in the northern US, because they are about 100 miles north of our border with Mexico. So someone planning on RVing in northern Canada, may want to get historical weather data for places actually in northern Canada. I can understand one of my countrymen thinking of Canada as being "up North" as it is from us.
To be living in northern Canada, based on my map, you would need to be living in Yukon, NWT, Nunavut or some of the northern islands of Canada. Most Canadians I have known or talked to have never been to northern Canada, or so it seems.
No one ever says they live in southern Canada either, it seems. Since Canada has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, what gives? Could the entire northern part of Canada drop off the globe and no one in "Canada" would even notice it was gone? It is almost as if the "real" northern Canada doesn't exist in the minds of most Canadians, except for those few that live there in places like mentioned, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, etc.
Be somewhat like talking to someone that lives in Phoenix, Arizona and have them claim they live in the northern US, because they are about 100 miles north of our border with Mexico. So someone planning on RVing in northern Canada, may want to get historical weather data for places actually in northern Canada. I can understand one of my countrymen thinking of Canada as being "up North" as it is from us.
