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.

We heard the sound of the chickaree

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

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