[Metro-One]

Monkey puzzle trees should actually do well in climates that experience only moderate cold in the winter, such as the warmer parts of the east coast of Canada, because they are from southern Chile where they often experience temps in the range of 0 to -10 in the winter. They do not like temps below -20 though.

You see lots of monkey puzzle (or monkey tail as many call them around here) trees along the coast of BC. Some of the older ones planted 50 years ago or more are getting pretty huge now, as one would suspect.

Anyways, the Yarmouth weather station is no more than 1.5 km from the Ocean in Nova Scotia. Also, the only 2 weather stations I posted from the BC weather stats that could be considered "urban" are the Vancouver Harbour one, and the Richmond one (although this station is located in a large Nature Park reserve which itself is largely surrounded by Agricultural farm land, hardly "urban." This station is also around 7 km from the Ocean)

The Victoria Phyllis Street station is not really urban as well, as it is no where near downtown, it is surrounded by several parks and the properties that are there are all large estates with big lots, full of trees.

So I think the BC stations I have posted and the Nova Scotia stations I and someone 123 have posted are a fare comparison. I still feel that the warmest location in Eastern Canada in the winter will be Sable Island, since it is so far away from any continental land mass and much closer to the mild Gulf Stream than the rest of Atlantic Canada.