north of 60

noun

Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.

Meanings

nounnorth of 60 (uncountable)

alternative north of sixty

  1. CanadainformaluncountableNorthern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.

    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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    [...] 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

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