So, anybody here from Canada?

I knew that there would be.

Just curious: How far north do you have to go before the trees disappear?

Keith can tell us.....

~Quite~ a ways up north. ~69°Lat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line#Arctic_tree_lines) About where Taloyoak is, laterally.

No, they don't all live in Igloo's either....and apparently "Eh?" is a hick thing.

All according to my very Canadienne wife (Victoria B.C.)

Around Watertown they cut em for Hockey sticks

Yeah, I've never been north of the treeline here. But drove from Whitehorse all the way up to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Saw them dwindle down to Charlie Brown Christmas trees about a half day out of Fairbanks... then disappear altogether somewhere past Coldfoot. It was eerie.

Actually, I used to work in the far north. So not only do I know where Taloyoak is, I can pronounce it and I've stayed there many times!

The treeline varies, and I seem to recall that it was further south as you went east. Iqaluit, for example, is treeless.

The tree line is so far north that it doesn't matter

"eh" isn't a hick thing, I hear it every day and I live near Vancouver. Must be something to do with being stuck on that island.

I'm a big sissy, I live in south-western B.C. The California of Canada.

I much perfer the warm, wet winter to all that white crap the other provinces have to put up with.

Shawn

Trans_Maro wrote: I much perfer the warm, wet winter to all that white crap the other provinces have to put up with.

You Vancouver people need to get out more :) . We ~do~ get snow elsewhere in BC. I spent some of my growing up years in Stewart BC - average annual snow fall was 19 feet. One year we left the car in the carport until spring due to not shoveling the snow fast enough. Another year the Grader hit our house because it didn't see it. All house entries were covered, but the snow could build up enough to slide INTO the covered entrance. Trailers in trailer parks had snow roofs over them so they didn't get crushed under the weight of the snow. I lived in Terrace as well, but not as much snow there. Still more than Raincouver though.

When I previously lived in the Okanagan, I didn't even OWN an umbrella until I moved to Vancouver. And then I discovered that umbrellas actually wear out! And I had never seen mildew grow on a car ~in~use~. I couldn't hang laundry outside - even on a sunny day, the clothes never dried. When I quit my job just to get the hell out of Vancouver (which, incidentally, isn't a good enough excuse to avoid a speeding ticket), I contemplated taking my umbrella with me back to the Okanagan. And then I laughed and laughed and laughed....

Out where I am now, I see maybe a half foot of snow over the winter - usually less.

Used to live in the Shuswap Lake area - usually foot and a half or more of snow.

I did love it when it snowed in Vancouver - the entire freaking town shut down. I could find parking, I could get my grocery shopping done, get my laundry done, visit friends... awesome.

Vancouver does not equal BC. It is only a part of a very diverse province.

I'm ranting, sorry.... Have I mentioned how much I hated Vancouver?

The tree line of the Boreal Forest doesn't follow one particular line of latitude:

I'm Canadian and the treeline never was of interest to me.....you run out of roads before the treeline in most of the country.

DeadSkunk wrote: you run out of roads before the treeline in most of the country.

This ^

Been to Flin Flon Manitoba for work. They had trees.

I was prompted to ask this question after I posted in the "half brother" thread.

My friend's mother was adopted and grew up in Quebec. As an adult, she was contacted by her birth mother. She went to visit her in Northern Canada and mentioned that there were no trees up there. I seem to recall her saying that it was something like six hours north of Quebec.

Woody wrote: I was prompted to ask this question after I posted in the "half brother" thread. My friend's mother was adopted and grew up in Quebec. As an adult, she was contacted by her birth mother. She went to visit her in Northern Canada and mentioned that there were no trees up there. I seem to recall her saying that it was something like six hours north of Quebec.

Likely more than 6 hours and there are not many highways up that way.

Six hours by plane maybe. Never been that far north, but visiting home for Christmas makes me want to move north, damnit!

NGTD wrote: Likely more than 6 hours and there are not many highways up that way.

The top of Quebec is a fair bit north of the southern tip of Greenland. It's up there.

All this talk about Canada, I'm singing "Boat Drinks", and I mean it.

I'll swap my house and job in Winnipeg, Canada for equivalent in Vegas if anybody is interested

^^ I'm with this guy, stupid snow wrecking my Lexus in the driveway as I type this.

And I don't even bother look at my 944 for 6 mos.

I love my country, but damn I hate this weather!

It was sunny today in the Okanagan (BC), +10°C, and almost all the (2") snow has melted off my yard. Thought of washing the truck, even. Supposed to snow Sunday though....

Ontario road maps are funny. One side looks normal, with lots of roads and population centers. The flip side covers the northern part of the province: one little highway running along the bottom edge of the map, and nothing else. Then you look at the scale and realize the northern bit is far, far bigger than the map with roads on it.

I've been to Greenland too. It's a totally different experience than Iqaluit and the rest of Baffin Island. One's a frontier town, the other feels like a piece of Europe.