On 5/23/2013 1:47 PM, Barry Bruyea wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:05 -0600, opel <
ad...@novalid.org.> wrote:
>
>> On 5/23/2013 7:44 AM, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>>> Slavery was abolished in Upper Canada quite before that
>>
>> True, but in the long run meaningless, as all canucks are enslaved by
>> glacial winters and thus miserable their entire lives.
>
> 90% of Canadians live in a climate that is heaven compared to the
> freezing N. Dakota, Montana, Utah & Wisconsin.
You don't know much about climate do you?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/country_guides/newsid_9383000/9383899.stm
A large part of Canada lies within the Arctic Circle, and only a narrow
strip close to the southern border with the United States has a
temperate climate. Much of this more favoured area has a severe winter
with prolonged frost and snow. With the exception of Hudson Bay, which
is frozen over for about nine months of the year, the northern coast of
Canada on the Arctic Ocean is permanently ice-bound or severely
obstructed for most of the year by ice floes. Only the Pacific coast of
British Columbia and the Atlantic coasts of Newfoundland and the
maritime provinces south of the Gulf of St Lawrence have harbours that
do not regularly freeze in winter.
The reasons for the very cold winters over most of Canada are the high
latitude of much of the country and the generally flat and low-lying
land east of the Rocky Mountains. Cold air from the Canadian Arctic has
virtually no obstruction as it sweeps south and east in winter and
spring, thus importing very cold conditions to most of the country.
Southern Canada also lies in one of the most frequented tracts of
cyclonic depressions in North America; many of these cross the region of
the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence valley before moving out into the
Atlantic. The cold air involved in the circulation of these depressions
frequently has its origin far to the north.