101 Interesting Facts About Canada ~ Land of the Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun

Article by John Robert Colombo

Published Online February 7, 2006

Last Edited March 4, 2015

Midnight Sun In the Arctic in the summer, the sun shines all night long. Robert W. SERVICE had this in mind when he used the phrase in his ballad "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (1907). 

In the Arctic in the summer, the sun shines all night long. Robert W. Service had this in mind when he used the phrase in his ballad "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (1907). The expression "land of the midnight sun" has often been used to refer to Canada's arctic region and, more loosely, to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. 

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