Toronto is at the same latitude as Monaco; Vancouver only a little further north than Paris. Even Edmonton is to the south of Hamburg and Edinburgh. This is why the metonymy of ‘Canada = the North’ annoys me – it’s entirely U.S.-focused.
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Um, that red line is actually south of the 49th parallel, please fix.
You’re right – here’s a correction:
https://twitter.com/pricetags/status/1181637197197275136
The line represents the 50% of population line (around the 45th).
The same article listed 72% as living below the 49th.
Don’t forget that Windsor ON is actually south of Detroit.
Who lives south of the 49th Parallel?
Answer: Victorians do!
But that seems unrelated to the red line.
That’s a disconnect on between the title of the article and the content – just saying 🙂
And about 75% of us on Vancouver Island live south of the 49th.
Toronto is at the same latitude as Monaco; Vancouver only a little further north than Paris. Even Edmonton is to the south of Hamburg and Edinburgh. This is why the metonymy of ‘Canada = the North’ annoys me – it’s entirely U.S.-focused.