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Isn't the idea of nordicity in Canada interesting? For example, northern Ontario feels about as sub-arctic as Fairbanks, Alaska (well almost anyway). Somewhere like Thunder Bay seems at least as arctic as northern Alberta.
How would you classify "temperate", "sub-arctic" and "arctic" in Canada? this is my map:
Oh Poor Canada...
Even the "temperate" is only by Canadian standards and will be considered pretty frigid anywhere outside Canada and Russia.
I think only lower BC is real temperate. All the rest is subarctic or simply inhabitable.
MimsyMusic...I hope you are seriously kidding... so Kelowna and Winnipeg are both temperate?!! You've given a whole new meaning to the words temperate, sub-arctic, and arctic. The Atlantic provinces are temperate, while most of Ontario is sub-arctic?!!
I was extremely amused by your map, please let us know how how you arrived at your hypothesis.
I would consider the Great Lakes/St.Lawrence eco-system "temperate"
and the remaining areas in Ontario a transitional-zone, where you tend to see "mixed-forest" and sharper winter cold snaps.
Transitional-zone would include Kitchener, Orangeville, Barrie, Ottawa and maybe Peterborough/Brockville.
In southern Quebec and the Maritimes, places that aren't close to large bodies of water would also be transitional.
The sub-Arctic boundary is right where it should be in Ontario though.
I find it laughable that Grande Prairie AB and Fort St.John BC are put into the temperate zone though.
Everywhere in Canada should be considered subarctic or arctic except:
BC coast, Okanagan, Southern Ontario, Nova Scotia, PEI as well as coastal areas of New Brunswick and Newfoundland. These areas are considered temperate in my opinion.
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