Hi Lydart,
I hope you will find this weather site( below) helpful. If you bookmark it and check different regions over the coming months you will see what vast differences there are.
Canada is a huge country, I believe nearly 4 million square miles, like Europe, with many different climates.
http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html In BC (British Columbia) the Southwest part where Vancouver City and the largest Island on the West Coast, Vancouver Island, called " the Island " the climate is mild.
Some parts such as the sheltered central East coast of Vancouver Island have mini climates and there is even a Mediterranean climate there. Palm trees can grow there. Snow is rare and fleeting. Spring comes early, Winter is short.
Of course on the mountains there is plenty of snow making it a great place to ski .
On the exposed West coasts of the mainland and the islands there is the 'rain forest' climate where it is it is rainy and mild. ( home of the 'spirit bear'
) There is also 'the Haida Guai', the Queen Charlotte Islands, and many different first nations people.
There is a range of mountains called the Coast range that runs North/south roughly. In the sheltered interior of BC between the Rockies and the Coast mountains , the weather is less rainy, and gets cold and snowy in the winter and gets hot in the summer.
There are many climates in BC alone. In the interior of BC is where the Cariboo Gold rush took place. put 'Barkerville' in a search engine.
Many of the gold prospectors came up from the previous gold rush in California, and later headed for the Yukon Gold rush. They faced great hardships from the weather. Cariboo area has deep snow in the winter, along with very cold temps. They would get snowed in, and the ground would freeze making mining for gold difficult. Gettting supplies in and out was also very difficult especially in the early days.
There is the cattle country of the interior, dry grassland, and the wine and fruit growing areas of the Okanagan Valley. towns of Kelowna Summerland Peachland Vernon andPenticton and Osoyoos.
The Southern Okanagan Valley( near Osoyoos) has Canada's only true desert.
The Rockies dividing Alberta and BC have the famous magnificant scenery. Look up 'Jasper' and 'Banff' on a search engine.
I have experienced a summer temp of 48 celsius( in the shade) in the Okanagan where it gets very hot, high 30's is commonplace.
I have experienced a -46 celsius one cold night in the North of BC where - 30 to -40 degrees on winter nights is not uncommon, and where you can see the Northern lights and the air sparkles with frost particles, and the powdery snow snow creaks under your boots as you walk.
It's all wonderful.
