1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small:

[…] a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community far from the superhighway rat race.

We heard the sound of the chickaree

Because of the high latitude, and being located in the east of the mainland, this is the coldest region in the country. To the extreme north is the Hei-ho area that has an average yearly temperature under zero degree centigrade.