Canadian Maps and Graphics - Page 55

Denscity · #**1081** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 5:39 PM**

Wish I had a topo map to show of my region. We've got not 1 but 4 mountain ranges including half the Rockies.
And the valley Castlegar sits in compared to our highest mountain top is a huge difference.

shreddog · #**1082** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 6:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

Wish I had a topo map to show of my region. We've got not 1 but 4 mountain ranges including half the Rockies.
And the valley Castlegar sits in compared to our highest mountain top is a huge difference.

Sorry but no. First, the Rockies only exist east of the Columbia trench, Roosvile to Valemont. Secondly, Castlegar completely exists within the Columbia mountains; to the north and east is the Selkirk range and to the south and west is the Monshee range.

Impressive mountains definitely, but only 2 ranges and no Rockies. Unless you have excellent vision like Michelle Jean!

lio45 · #**1083** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

We do (I do at least)

Here's a topographical map of Moncton:

I realize the relief is exaggerated, but it is meaningful nonetheless. It allows you to see the breadth of the Petitcodiac River Valley, and explains why the river takes that 90 degree bend at Moncton, heading WSW rather than NNW.

It would explain that 90 degree turn perfectly if it flowed the other way, but the way I see it, this topographical map doesn't really (at that level of detail) show why the river doesn't just continue on its way to an outlet that would be north of Shediac (where that "Y" shaped river is).

Denscity · #**1084** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

Sorry but no. First, the Rockies only exist east of the Columbia trench, Roosvile to Valemont. Secondly, Castlegar completely exists within the Columbia mountains; to the north and east is the Selkirk range and to the south and west is the Monshee range.

Impressive mountains definitely, but only 2 ranges and no Rockies. Unless you have excellent vision like Michelle Jean!

I didn't mean the Castlegar region i meant the entire Kootenay region.
Big White to Field.
Some of those maps included entire provinces.

MonctonRad · #**1085** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

Impressive mountains definitely, but only 2 ranges and no Rockies. Unless you have excellent vision like Michelle Jean!

Or Sarah Palin - "I can see Russia from my house!"

MonctonRad · #**1086** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 7:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

It would explain that 90 degree turn perfectly if it flowed the other way, but the way I see it, this topographical map doesn't really (at that level of detail) show why the river doesn't just continue on its way to an outlet that would be north of Shediac (where that "Y" shaped river is).

It's the Petitcodiac. It's tidal. It flow both ways.

davidivivid · #**1087** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 10:52 PM**

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Djeffery · #**1088** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 11:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

It's the Petitcodiac. It's tidal. It flow both ways.

As is the Shediac River (my parents live beside it), although the tidal flow only goes maybe 3 or 4 miles inland and doesn't create a bore like the Petitcodiac does or did anyway.

MolsonExport · #**1089** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 11:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

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Awesome

MonctonRad · #**1090** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 12:21 AM**

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As is the Shediac River (my parents live beside it), although the tidal flow only goes maybe 3 or 4 miles inland and doesn't create a bore like the Petitcodiac does or did anyway.

Still does. They opened the floodgate under the causeway permanently about a decade back, and this instantly doubled the size of the bore.

Next year they are replacing the causeway with a bridge, which should double the width of the river channel. The hope is the tidal bore will be fully restored at that point.

Architype · #**1091** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 12:56 AM**

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NS and PEI
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I'd forgotten that Nova Scotia has mountains, you don't hear many references to mountains in NS.

Acajack · #**1092** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 1:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

I'd forgotten that Nova Scotia has mountains, you don't hear many references to mountains in NS.

Cabot Trail?

Architype · #**1093** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 1:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Cabot Trail?

That's highlands, not named as mountain ranges I think. The mountain ranges are the Cobequid and the South Mts., as seen on the map.

Djeffery · #**1094** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 1:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Still does. They opened the floodgate under the causeway permanently about a decade back, and this instantly doubled the size of the bore.

Next year they are replacing the causeway with a bridge, which should double the width of the river channel. The hope is the tidal bore will be fully restored at that point.

That's good to hear. It was never anything special when I was younger, my mom used to tell me about it when she was a teenager.

MonctonRad · #**1095** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 5:22 AM**

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That's good to hear. It was never anything special when I was younger, my mom used to tell me about it when she was a teenager.

They surf on the tidal bore now...........

Acajack · #**1096** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 12:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

That's highlands, not named as mountain ranges I think. The mountain ranges are the Cobequid and the South Mts., as seen on the map.

The highest point in Nova Scotia is in the Cape Breton Highlands, which are part of the Appalachian Mountain chain I am pretty sure.

Architype · #**1097** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 2:00 PM**

You're correct, my meaning was actually just in reference to features actually labeled as "mountains" on the map. I am pretty familiar with NS, having spent some years there. So are the highlands technically mountains? I guess so but they are not named as such, perhaps a technicality. NL's Long Range Mountains are also an extension of the Appalachians.

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The Cape Breton Highlands (French: Plateau du Cap-Breton), commonly called the Highlands, refer to a highland or mountainous plateau across the northern part of Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Considered an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain, the Highlands comprise the northern portions of Inverness and Victoria counties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Breton_Highlands

someone123 · #**1098** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 4:50 PM**

There are lots of named mountains on Cape Breton, e.g. Franey Mountain. It is not all plateau, though some of it is.

Around mainland NS there are the South and North Mountains, etc. Most of them look more like rounded hills.

shreddog · #**1099** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

I didn't mean the Castlegar region i meant the entire Kootenay region.
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included entire provinces.

So if your saying your region is the Kootenays, we don't you just post a map of Columbia mtns which pretty much aligns with it?

FrAnKs · #**1100** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

I'd forgotten that Nova Scotia has mountains, you don't hear many references to mountains in NS.

Really? If there is something I know from Nova Scotia, is it's not flat.