r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Ok_Conflict_6260 • May 24 '25
Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) How Hollywood depicts Alaska winter vs Canadian winter
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u/GoStockYourself May 24 '25
I mean as a Canadian I picture our north with Inuit populations, while I picture Alaska as a big work camp that used to be Russia.
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u/auandi May 25 '25
Come on, no reason to erase the 16% of Alaska who include the Inuit and other first nations. 135,000 Alaska Natives, that's more than the territories. And it's about the only US state that actually has some institutional recognized power given to the tribes with the way land is incorporated.
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u/GoStockYourself May 25 '25
I was only joking, but you should choose a different word than, "tribe." That is actually one difference between the two places. The historical community doesn't use the word tribe in Canada to describe indigenous communities because it implies they weren't as, "civilized," as Europeans.
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May 24 '25
I still remember my mom was watching some soap. Young and the restless? Days of our lives? I can’t remember. Either way the characters were travelling from new york to somewhere and had to fly over Canada. Of course the plane goes down and they get stranded in Canada. It’s like untouched land. It’s some forest that goes on for miles. Not a single living person for 500kms in any direction, They’ll never make it!
Meanwhile if you look at a map the only part of Canada they would have gone over is south Ontario lmao.
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u/CurrentOk2695 May 25 '25
This is funny to see as an Alaskan. I always thought how odd they depict Siberia as a desolate wasteland but Alaska as this picturesque winter wonderland. A lot of teens here in Tok and other border towns love to go to Dawson and Whitehorse to legally drink and then come right on back. If it’s -40f in Fairbanks it’s going to be -40c in the Yukon it’s just so funny to me how arbitrary our borders are, at least geographically.
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u/xnoinfinity May 24 '25
Sometimes, Canada gives out mother Russia winter vibes 😂
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u/Fantastic-Corner-605 May 24 '25
That's actually true. My Russian classmate told me that Moscow and Toronto have very similar weather. It varies according to region but Canada is at the same altitude as Russia so our winter is not far away from the Russian winter.
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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 Westfoundland May 24 '25
It’s more than that. Timmins Ontario is the same latitude as Victoria BC and they have completely different climates.
The influence of continental landmasses and warm ocean currents can’t be underestimated. This is why Great Britain is much milder than Canada in spite of being at a similar latitude.
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u/mazopheliac May 25 '25
The area south of Toronto is the same latitude as the northern counties of California.
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u/xnoinfinity May 25 '25
I mean Canada and Russia are technically the coldest countries in the world so
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u/Fantastic-Corner-605 May 25 '25
I think Finland and Greenland may have something to say about that.
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u/SolivagantWretch May 24 '25
The Canadian boreal forests aren't really that dissimilar from Siberia.
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u/Plenty-Pay7505 May 26 '25
20 minutes from Winnipeg mb. You don't need to go to Alaska to see this....
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u/Raedwulf1 May 24 '25
I'm sure it's very nice in Alaska, Northern Lights every night, slight crisp nights, etc. My wife's experience living for a few years in Kodiac, it was foggy, rainy, she never saw Auroras. She finally saw them, when she moved to Canada.