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south of 60
DCHP-2 (Jul 2016)
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n. — Geography
the area south of the sixtieth parallel north, which separates the Canadian territories from the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Type: 4. Culturally Significant — The sixtieth parallel serves as the border between the Canadian provinces and Canada's territories. In the light of Canada's status as an Arctic nation, this boundary has acquired important cultural salience (see also Chart 1). See, for instance, the 19 compound nouns beginning with Arctic in DCHP-1, of which Arctic prairies is linked below, or Sherrill Grace's (2007) account of the importance of the North, and, by inversion, the South, in the Canadian imagination. South of 60 was formed in analogy to the culturally more significant and older expression north of 60, which designates the more remote areas that have come to be associated with the nation.
Other locations use the term in reference to Antarctica, which is south of the sixtieth parallel south.
See also COD-2, s.v. "south of 60", which is marked "Cdn".
Other locations use the term in reference to Antarctica, which is south of the sixtieth parallel south.
See also COD-2, s.v. "south of 60", which is marked "Cdn".
South of 60 is a comparatively recent creation, with the oldest attestations being roughly 150 years younger than those of north of 60.
Quotations
1977
Dawson city YT -- In the article (Trail Still Enjoys Lowest Price for Electricity - Nov. 23) by Edward Clifford on power rates, Charlottetown is claimed to have the highest cost per 1,000 kilowatt hours residential use.
This is typical of the view of Canada as perceived south of 60. When the development of the North is contemplated, we become part of Canada, and Canadians from east to west, along the southern border seem to know what we want, what is best for us. However, when it comes down to everyday facts of life, like paying a power bill, Canada seems to vanish north of 60.
1983
Finally people from coast to coast, north and south, have something in common. Life north of 60 now is surprisingly like life south of 60.
1993
"The show has a different look. And it deals with an area not seen on TV before. It`s a world not well understood south of 60," she says, of the show which deals with a city cop posted to a remote native community in the Northwest Territories, north of the 60th parallel.
2003
MacNicol had to make the point that to offer similar levels of health care to Yukoners as are available to Canadians south of 60, more money is needed.
2012
How much extra are Yukon electrical ratepayers paying for you and all these utility aficionados to file multitudes of paper, for flights from Vancouver Island or wherever they live "south of 60," for accommodations and meals -- to ensure that we are governed appropriately?
References
- COD-2
- DCHP-1 • Link to DCHP-1 Online
- Grace (2007)
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