Polar Bears

[Muses_nightmare]

[Backstory: I'm from Northern BC, my boss knows this, hence the conversation below.]

Boss: So have you ever seen a Polar Bear?
Me: Uh, maybe in a zoo once...
Boss: So they don't have them where you're from?
Me: (laughing) Uh no, we're not THAT far north.

[Bright_Star]

Boss oughta check out a map...lol.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I don't know how far north you are--but if you're anywhere near Hazleton, there are polar bears on that latitude in Quebec. I mean, for us in the US, if you're anywhere near Alaska we're gonna think you live in an igloo.

[Frantic Freddie]

I don't know how far north you are--but if you're anywhere near Hazleton, there are polar bears on that latitude in Quebec. I mean, for us in the US, if you're anywhere near Alaska we're gonna think you live in an igloo.

Don't they?

we went to EPCOT last year & I was disappointed that the Canadian restaurant didn't have poutine!

[Muses_nightmare]

Haha well the town I'm from isn't too far from Hazelton actually (a few hours I think). It's also only a few hours drive from Alaska. :P But it's not like it's some snowy barren wilderness, really there is real summer there! The Pacific Northwest =/= Polar bear territory.

My boss also complained that it snowed 5 times in Vancouver last winter. To be fair he is from India, but he's been here for a few years!

[Andara Bledin]

Polar bears like water. And, aside from the southern half having Pacific coastline, there's not a lot of water to be had in BC.

However, they do range along the entirety of the coasts of northern Canada, as well as the Hudson Bay. So Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Yukon all have polar bears on their shores, and it appears the Nunavut has very little land that isn't polar bear territory.

So, while much of BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan are certainly far enough north for them, they aren't nearly wet enough.

Also included in polar bear territory are the northern shores of Alaska, Russia, the entirety of Greenland, and a little spot in northern Iceland.

^-.-^

[kpzra]

/I mean, for us in the US, if you're anywhere near Alaska we're gonna think you live in an igloo.

If I had a nickle for every time some asked me this when they heard I lived in Alaska.