This picture shows the location of York, England in the lower left, and Quebec, Canada in the upper right. This shows just how far north England, and for that matter Europe is compared to the United States. A lot of younger students, and even high school students think that England is right across the ocean from New York, in fact its a good distance north of New York. It really reminds me of how our vision of the world may be skewed. History classes just shorten the description of journeys from England to America by saying they just head west, but to get from England to the United States you have to go southwest. Also I think we don't associate England as being so far north because England isn't really cold, the Gulf Stream keeps it warmer and greener than most of Canada, so we are less likely to tie the two together.
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