What is Canada like?

[Singularitie]

Hello all,

I didn't really know where to put this so move it if its in the wrong place.

I recently decided to make a giant earth map by saving Gedemon's and deleting everything. I must say I am really pleased with everything! I finished the outline of everything but Australia, and have finished Africa.
Now, I am deciding to fill in the Americas first. The boring part is that I already made the Americas on another computer (except Canada) so now I just took a picture and have to spend a really long time copying everything into my world map.

So for a change and some fun, I'd like to do Canada since I haven't filled it in yet.
I am using my fine World Reference Atlas (Covent Garden Books or DK World Atlas third edition?) to do the trick for everything. But for a lot of Canada, it shows forest. I don't know what kind of tile to put under the forest. It seems like a lot of the north would be tundra but at the southern parts I'm not so sure. Plains or grassland?

tldr: What type of terrain in a civ 5 map goes under a lot of Canada's forests? Especially the southern parts, plains or grassland?



I have no clue how to cite that book.

 

[strijder20]

The central (south) region plains, coastal regions grassland.

 

[Perfection]

Canada is really huge, but very lightly populated. So think of it like a big dumb guy, he's nice though,

 

[Cutlass]

The forested parts of Canada are probably more like plains than grasslands for Civ equivalent. More shields or hammers, less food.

 

[Phrossack]

Just remember that if you die in Canada, you die in REAL LIFE!

 

[Antilogic]

Canada should be represented by a massive tundra forest filled with beavers. No seriously, every tile.

 

[Cutlass]

Need deer tiles too.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

And donut tiles. Can't forget that.

 

[Phrossack]

It's also completely in the hands of the Aztecs, except for Newfoundland, which is American. Sometimes.

 

[Evie]

http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/ecostrat/zones.gif

I'd go with the following region:

The temperate wet regions (use GRASSLAND as their base terrain)
1)Pacific Maritime Ecozone: Mostly mountains and hills, the valleys are grassland+forest
2)Atlantic Maritime Ecozone: Mostly hills, but the valleys and coastal plains are grassland+forest
3)Mixedwood plains: Pure Grassland+forest

The drier and more remote regions, using PLAIN as their base terrain type.
4)Prairies. Pure plains, little to no tree.
5)Boreal Plain: Plain with forests.
6)Boreal Shield: Very hilly, and very forested, using plains as the background for the forests.

The far northern cold regions (use tundra as their base terrain)
7)Northern Artic (no forest)
8)Southern Arctic (no forest)
9)Taiga plains (Tundra with forest)
10)Taiga shield (Tundra with hills and forest)
11)Hudson Plains (Thundra with forest)
12)Arctic Cordillera (Mostly mountains, but any plain would be pure tundra, no forest)
13)Taiga Cordillera (Same as Arctic)

The "not sure" regions, mostly mountains anyway:
14: Boreal Cordillera
15: Montane Cordillera
They're again mostly mountains, for the rest should probably use a mix of the terrain to their west and east.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Canada is much like Siberia only there are supposedly no gulags.

 

[Zack]

It's like the US, except colder and with less #1.

 

[History_Buff]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Koppen_World_Map_(retouched_version).png

 

[ls612]

From my experience visiting Canada I'd say that it would be mostly tundra underneath the forests. Above the 55th parallel their summers can last less than 90 days (between frosts), which more or less precludes agriculture with modern crops. That sounds very much like Tundra to me.

 

[Evie]

The 55th parallel is also very, very, very far north even by Canadian Standards. The Canada-USA border, at its northernmost point (Western Canada) is no higher than the 49th parallel, and in the more populated regions to the east, it ranges from a little north of the 41st (Southern Ontario), through the 45th (Quebec-New York and Quebec-Vermont), to slightly north of the 47th (Maine/Quebec).

In other words, there are between 6 and 14 degrees of Canada betwen the American border and the 55th parallel. Considering that 9 degree is one-tenth the distance between the equator and the pole, that's a huge fricking lot of Canada.

For comparison, 14 degrees (55th to southern Ontario) is the difference between Toronto (43rd) and New Orleans (29th). 10 degrees (55th to southern Quebec) is the difference between Montreal and Albuquerque. Even in the west, where it' only 6 degrees, 6 degrees is the difference between Plymouth, England, and Genoa, Italy.

 

[_random_]

People buy milk in bags and everyone's afraid of the dark.

 

[Farm Boy]

It's like the US, except colder and with less #1.

It's the best hat a country could hope for.

 

[_random_]

 

[Evie]

Of course. As socialists, we firmly believe in punishing success.

And let,s face it. Is there a worse punishment out there than inflicting the IRS on people?

 

[BenitoChavez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ic3xNfEP_o


Link to video.