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As I prepare to leave Yukon soon, I'm realising that I'll miss little quirks about life in Canada's frozen north. One example is a term used in this headline from today's Whitehorse Star that makes it sound like an unfortunate woman was ordered out into the back yard:
Injured woman sent Outside
Outside (with a capital ”O”) refers to any location south of 60° north latitude—the border between the northern territories and the Western provinces. The woman was medevaced to Edmonton after being hit by a car on the Alaska Highway.
Residents of Far-Eastern Canada probably have an idiosyncratic term to refer to places outside the Maritimes, which I’m sure I’ll learn in due course.
The injured women is a very nice lady that works about 75 feet away from my shop. I truly hope she makes the trip back from outside.
chris, I hope so, too.
I ran the ambulance in Frobisher Bay, about 10% of our transports were medivacs in or going ‘South’. We almost bought our own Citation, it cost NH&W $30 to charter a 737 to go to Montreal. Now I hear the hospital there lost its accreditation.
that should read $30,000 (in 1978)
The term is “CFA”, or “come from away”.