north of 60

English

Alternative forms

• north of sixty

Noun

north of 60 (uncountable)

1. (Canada, informal) Northern Canada, usually including the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, approximately above the 60th parallel north.
   • 2002, Sherrill E. Grace, Canada and the Idea of North, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (→ISBN), page 263:

     [...] 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 ...

   • 2012, James Oliver Curwood, The Golden Snare, The Floating Press (→ISBN), page 4:

     That was before the Johnsons had gone north of Sixty. But they were wandering, and steadily upward.