Journey across the lands of Canadia, Advice, tips, and questions

[Archbob]

Yellowknife is at like -30 all the time in the depths of winter.

 

[Cutlass]

I learned recently that Canada has national parks in the Arctic that few people visit. This one is at 82north. You aren't going to get there by car though.

 

[Lillefix]

I live in Bergen in Norway which lies at 60 degrees north. For reference the northernmost parts of Scotland, not including Shetland and the Orkneys is at 58.5 degrees.

It's really fascinating how much milder the climate is by the coast(or at last certain coasts). I saw a BBC-program about someone in either Canada or Alaska. I thought it was almost at the north pole, but it turns out to be barely north of where I live. It's insane how important the gulf stream is. You don't have to go many hundred kilometers from the coast before the temperature drops.

Gotta love the Canadian city names: Yellowknife, Whitehorse and probably others. Sounds exotic and it makes me think of the Klondike gold rush which I read about in the Donald Duck comics as a child.

But enough egocentricity from me.

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[Cutlass]

I live in Bergen in Norway which lies at 60 degrees north. For reference the northernmost parts of Scotland, not including Shetland and the Orkneys is at 58.5 degrees.

It's really fascinating how much milder the climate is by the coast(or at last certain coasts). I saw a BBC-program about someone in either Canada or Alaska. I thought it was almost at the north pole, but it turns out to be barely north of where I live. It's insane how important the gulf stream is. You don't have to go many hundred kilometers from the coast before the temperature drops.

Gotta love the Canadian city names: Yellowknife, Whitehorse and probably others. Sounds exotic and it makes me think of the Klondike gold rush which I read about in the Donald Duck comics as a child.

But enough egocentricity from me.

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The Pacific Ocean does some of the same for the west coast of North America that the Atlantic does for the west coast of Europe. But the effect doesn't travel as far inland because the west coast of North America has a hell of a lot more of a barrier in terms of mountain ranges blocking the warmer air from the interior.

 

[Archbob]

Also places like Yellowknife aren't near the coast. The winds from great slave lake make it even colder.

 

[Cutlass]

Got any other pics to share?

 

[Archbob]

Haven't had time to process many photos and upload them to my site, although, my site in my signature has mostly my roadtrip photos right now. I've only uploaded to to winnipeg, gonna get Saskatoon in tonight and uploading the ones from Lesser Slave lake and the Yellowknife highway in a few days.

By the ways, my new favorite sign:

 

[Archbob]

On the Yellowknife highway, the Mckenzie river(iphone photo):

 

[FriendlyFire]

Where are the food pics ?
Is Canada like a nicer America ?

I would be fishing, crabbing and umm shellfish hunting due to the abundance of seafoods



EDIT: If its is a heavy fish farming area, I would actually not drink the water due to pollution
Generally like 2-3 meters of fish poo, uneaten fish pellets and waste as its intensive farming means the water is polluted enough not to risk drinking.

 

[Archbob]

Had some of the best whitefish in Yellowknife at Bullock's Bistro.