Where does the north begin and end? Is the Canadian North rooted in land or is it anchored at sea, crashing against the slushy liminality of water and ice? And what role—or sway—do east and west play in pinning down and defining “the North”?

Embracing how many different Norths both collide and coalesce in cultural imaginations of the vast lands and waters that are now called Canada, I’m looking forward to the Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries in Berlin next week, where I will ask: Where is Newfoundland—both the first part of the country to be colonized by Europeans and Canada’s youngest province—located in imaginations of the Canadian North?