There is also a semi-arid desert where I live in British Columbia. It is in the Southern Okanagan region and parts of the Thompson-Nicola are also semi-arid desert. We have lots of cactus where I live :)
Greetings from Burlington, Ontario. I enjoy your channel. Keep the videos coming. I especially enjoy geography, and our beautiful country has such a diverse geographic landscape.
Ya that’s what I was thinking, the area around Osoyoos is a desert, so much so that the town has a Mexican motif, I’m an American and just happened to drive into Osoyoos one night and when I woke up next morning and drove around it was a real eye opener, It looks like Arizona rather than BC. I’ve been in the Lethbridge and Medicine Hat areas, there semi arid but I wasn’t surprised, the Northern Plaines look identical in the US and Canada and you kind expect that, but Osoyoos when driving right out of the lakes area of BC was a shocker
@@harrytpk The whole area around Kelowna is very desert-like, though it does have an abundance of fruit orchards and vineyards, and lots of sunshine, which is a welcome relief to the clouds and drizzle of the coast. Victoria, on Vancouver Island, is also Canada's sunniest city, and has 50% of the rainfall of Vancouver on the mainland. It is in a rain shadow, one of the things that makes it so pleasing.
I live in Kamloops, the other near-desert area in B.C. Some nearby places (e.g. Ashcroft) have dryer microclimates and look and feel like bona fide deserts.
Did you not know about the South Okanagan? An actual desert? I grew up in Oliver: cactus, sagebrush, scorpions, rattlesnakes.... and, 8" of rain a year (under 10" is desert). They even film Western movies there! Osoyoos is nearby, and Okanagan Falls on the other side. Everything south of Penticton is desert.
I know! I was shocked that he never mentioned Osoyoos, (Lytton, Kamloops etc). These places even look like Arizona, plus 40C+ days are really common every year. Including 49.6C for almost a week, in 2021. That broke a heat record, that even Las Vegas has ever seen. Only Phoenix and Death Valley has been hotter in N America than Lytton, BC.
So, Canada’s real desert is called the Columbia-Okanagan Plateau Desert. It is bone dry, full of prickly pear cactus, tumbleweed (sagebrush), rattlers, black widows and mule deer. Osoyoos is the premier desert tourist town, and Lake Osoyoos is Canada’s warmest lake. It’s so warm, that it isn’t as refreshing as you would hope, when it’s really scorching hot outside. The temps hit mid 40’sC every summer, multiple times. The world’s smallest actual desert is the Carcross Desert in the Yukon, at one square kilometre. The Athabaska Sand dunes are the northernmost dune system in the world. That sand is there because of grinding of glaciers there during the last ice age. It’s still dry there, but it’s more like prairie dry. They’re like the sand dunes on Lake Michigan and Huron, deceivingly desert like.
The Palliser Triangle (what the area used to be known as out West) is still one of the most sparsely populated and fastest declining regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan despite a large boom in irrigated land recently that helped Wild Rose country become the largest potato growing region of Canada and is projected to still double in size in the next few years. Also booming there? Solar and wind production, at least until Premier Smith axed new renewable permits in a feud with the feds over carbon-free power grids...
Yukon - Carcross Desert - World's Smallest "Desert" It's an odd place, pine trees sticking out of the sand dunes. Snowy mountain ranges every direction. Soft sand between your toes lol Just some sand dunes but still holds the title for some reason
FYI, this region is also infamous for doubling as the American west in many many television and movies including Superman, The Last of Us, Ghostbusters (the latest one), Rat Race, Texas Rangers, Brokeback Mountain, amongst others...
I moved from Nova Scotia to Manitoba. The first summer a tumbleweed rolled by my house...I was floored lol
There is also a semi-arid desert where I live in British Columbia. It is in the Southern Okanagan region and parts of the Thompson-Nicola are also semi-arid desert. We have lots of cactus where I live :)
Okanagan Valley is literally a desert not a semi desert
@@LowTempDabr It depends where, only the part near Osoyoos is a true desert, Kelowna is in grasslands
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Greetings from Burlington, Ontario. I enjoy your channel. Keep the videos coming. I especially enjoy geography, and our beautiful country has such a diverse geographic landscape.
Osoyoos B.C.: Hold my beer
Ashcroft BC Hold my beer
"Did you know you can find a cactus in Canada?" As someone who grew up in Brooks Alberta, oh yes I did.
Great video! I grew up in this area and it feels great to watch a video about home.
I live in Lethbridge, it’s really nice in the summer because it get insanely hot some days, and you can even catch scorpions in the summer too.
Also a lot of cactus in the southern Okanagan and Similkamine valleys of BC.
The tundra of the far north can be seen as cold desert...
There are places up north that have not received precipitation since records have begun being kept
We also have 11 square kilometers of true desert near Osoyos British Columbia.
Ya that’s what I was thinking, the area around Osoyoos is a desert, so much so that the town has a Mexican motif, I’m an American and just happened to drive into Osoyoos one night and when I woke up next morning and drove around it was a real eye opener, It looks like Arizona rather than BC. I’ve been in the Lethbridge and Medicine Hat areas, there semi arid but I wasn’t surprised, the Northern Plaines look identical in the US and Canada and you kind expect that, but Osoyoos when driving right out of the lakes area of BC was a shocker
@@harrytpk The whole area around Kelowna is very desert-like, though it does have an abundance of fruit orchards and vineyards, and lots of sunshine, which is a welcome relief to the clouds and drizzle of the coast. Victoria, on Vancouver Island, is also Canada's sunniest city, and has 50% of the rainfall of Vancouver on the mainland. It is in a rain shadow, one of the things that makes it so pleasing.
I live in Kamloops, the other near-desert area in B.C. Some nearby places (e.g. Ashcroft) have dryer microclimates and look and feel like bona fide deserts.
@@marsgal42 I have been to Kamloops 3 or 4 times, and it is pretty dry
@@jdhjimbo Actually, Canada's sunniest city is Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Did you not know about the South Okanagan? An actual desert? I grew up in Oliver: cactus, sagebrush, scorpions, rattlesnakes.... and, 8" of rain a year (under 10" is desert). They even film Western movies there! Osoyoos is nearby, and Okanagan Falls on the other side. Everything south of Penticton is desert.
I know! I was shocked that he never mentioned Osoyoos, (Lytton, Kamloops etc). These places even look like Arizona, plus 40C+ days are really common every year. Including 49.6C for almost a week, in 2021. That broke a heat record, that even Las Vegas has ever seen. Only Phoenix and Death Valley has been hotter in N America than Lytton, BC.
Fell on a cactus playing disc golf there lol
Arizona is leading the innovation of living in this environment. Australia has great ideas on rehydration of the land.
So, Canada’s real desert is called the Columbia-Okanagan Plateau Desert. It is bone dry, full of prickly pear cactus, tumbleweed (sagebrush), rattlers, black widows and mule deer. Osoyoos is the premier desert tourist town, and Lake Osoyoos is Canada’s warmest lake. It’s so warm, that it isn’t as refreshing as you would hope, when it’s really scorching hot outside. The temps hit mid 40’sC every summer, multiple times. The world’s smallest actual desert is the Carcross Desert in the Yukon, at one square kilometre. The Athabaska Sand dunes are the northernmost dune system in the world. That sand is there because of grinding of glaciers there during the last ice age. It’s still dry there, but it’s more like prairie dry. They’re like the sand dunes on Lake Michigan and Huron, deceivingly desert like.
You forgot the wind blowin sand dunes on the south shore of Lake Athabasca.
Quite interesting!
You can find lots of hardwood groves around vernal pools that form in low spots! They're considered oasis's in some spots!
I was expecting it to be about the desert in the South-Okanagan in British Columbia
Keep posting videos!!
Very good
Thanks for teaching people the knowledge about Canada!
I live in the great lakes and there's a small sand dune desert on great duck island.
Now find a desert in Canada, and there is one place that is very close to being a desert
Fort macmurray
Ashcroft BC
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The Palliser Triangle (what the area used to be known as out West) is still one of the most sparsely populated and fastest declining regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan despite a large boom in irrigated land recently that helped Wild Rose country become the largest potato growing region of Canada and is projected to still double in size in the next few years. Also booming there? Solar and wind production, at least until Premier Smith axed new renewable permits in a feud with the feds over carbon-free power grids...
Excellent video thanks
Yukon - Carcross Desert - World's Smallest "Desert" It's an odd place, pine trees sticking out of the sand dunes. Snowy mountain ranges every direction. Soft sand between your toes lol Just some sand dunes but still holds the title for some reason
Amazing content, thanks!
What about Canada's actual desert, in the North?
The south okanagan in British Columbia (osoyoos) is Canadas only considered desert.
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You actually seem to know about Canada's geography Unlike other you tubers
The okanagan in bc is a desert also
Is it??
FYI, this region is also infamous for doubling as the American west in many many television and movies including Superman, The Last of Us, Ghostbusters (the latest one), Rat Race, Texas Rangers, Brokeback Mountain, amongst others...
Are there cowboys in this semi-desert?
Why didn't you talk about the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia? That's literally classified as a desert, not a "semi-desert"
For the algorithm
My guy has never been to south central bc 😂😂
Check out osoyoos.
Is kinda desert-like. Gots rattlesnake s, bro!