One of our members location is “North of Canada”.
How is that possible? Are the territories not considered part of the country proper?
Surely its a fictional location, like my own. Or someone is actually posting from a nuclear submarine below the north pole!
I suspect he or she might mean north of a PART of Canada, as opposed to all of Canada. So she or he could be in Alaska.
Or, he or she could be in Detroit, Michigan. Windsor, Ontario, is tehcnically south of Detroit. Haul out a map and see for thyself.
Or, maybe he or she DOES mean north of all of it, and it is Mr. or Mrs. Claus we’re dealing with.
And that’s just the US (and Rome). There’s plenty of Europe and Asia that’s also at least partially to the north of Canada’s southernmost pont as well. There’s probably part of Russia that’s even farther north than Canada’s northernmost point, but I’m not sure.
Alaska?Greenland?
All technically correct.
However, I always took the location to mean that the person could go South and land in Canada. That’s not true for all of the places on that map.
Then again, I confess my interpretation is biased by the fact that I live so close to the place where it’s a joke that locals are, in fact, North of their Canadian neighbors.
Which Canada?
If the poster’s location refers to the small town in Kentucky, they might live in Williamson or even Charleston.
Maybe it’s just some Canadian dude named North, kinda like Anne of Green Gables.
Assuming that this particular Doper is as literal-minded as we are, the most straightforward interpretation of that location is that if you travel due south from said Doper’s abode, you will at some point enter Canada. This is possible from various points in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington (I think), and Alaska. Of these mostly small north-of-Canada corridors, the only ones to include significant population centers are the ones in Michigan and New York, so our friend probably lives in one of these states, in or near Detroit or Buffalo.
Couldn’t it just mean in the north of Canada, rather than to the north of Canada?
I’ve certainly always assumed that said Doper is in Detroit, MI, and the Location was an allusion to the bar bet… “If you head south from Detroit, which country do you come to first?”
Too bad the SDMB doesn’t have a search engine or anything. 
For those curious, I used the search and found that said poster is named Duke (unless there’s more than one), and he explains on the first page of this thread:
So, there you have it.
Thanks for the enlightening answers. I was thinking that s/he meant north of all of Canada, not just a part. So I imagined that the location was a ship north of Ellesmere Island.
Well, wink all you want, hoss. We don’t have access to any search on location. Would that be one of them-there super-secret SDSAB privileges we keep speculatin’ about and envying you for?
I suppose one of us dullards might have cottoned on to the possibility that the member in question might have offered an explanation in a post sometime. But if he did, that would be luck rather than the happy result of realizing “Hey! The SDMB actually HAS a search engine!”
Nah. I just typed in “north of canada”, and that’s what fell out. Actually, I first typed in “north of candada”, and was initially surprised by the lack of results, until I realized most people don’t spell Canada that way.
the lines are almost touching the gound now, ladies and gentlemen, and wait, oh no, the bandwith is exploding, it’s burning up, o my god, the waste,
the humanity…the humanity!
The individual in question lives in a portion of New York State where a portion of Canada is directly south of his home and workplace. There are a number of other spots where this can be true, including the City of Detroit, which is due north of Windsor, Ontario.
There are a number of other spots in the world where odd stuff like this exist-- if you don’t mind getting wet, it’s possible to go south from (a couple of spots in) Florida into (a couple of spots in) both the other states which border it, supposedly to the north.
How, how, how did I miss this thread? 
Anyway, QED and Polycarp have it…
Although we have the definitive answer in this case, consider Nunavut, which although certainly part of Canada officially is partially self-governing. I was expecting this to be covered in the thread… thought we may have had a seperatist (either truly or partially jocularly, in the manner of Texans in the States.)
No, there isn’t:
The most northerly permanent settlement is Alert, in Canada’s Nunavut territory. Only about 50 people live there all year round.
However, if you only count points on the mainlands of the two countries, Russia wins: