north of 60

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Noun

north of 60 (uncountable)

  1. (Canada, informal) Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.
    • 2002, Sherrill E. Grace, Canada and the Idea of North, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (→ISBN), page 263:
      [...] Most importantly, Magnetic North suggests a politics of locations — mine, yours, voices from the past, from north of sixty, from newly arrived Canadians — because it ...
    • 2012, James Oliver Curwood, The Golden Snare, The Floating Press (→ISBN), page 4:
      That was before the Johnsons had gone north of Sixty. But they were wandering, and steadily upward.
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