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north of 60 en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Canada, informal, uncountable) Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.
    • [...] 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 ... 2002, Sherrill E. Grace, Canada and the Idea of North, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 263:
    • That was before the Johnsons had gone north of Sixty. But they were wandering, and steadily upward. 2012, James Oliver Curwood, The Golden Snare, The Floating Press, →ISBN, page 4:

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