Lynn usually avoided words her American editors would insist on misspelling for her. For example, Labour Day was a holiday she rarely, if ever, used in her strip.
There IS a small town named Colchester in Ontario 45 kilometres or a 40-minute drive SOUTH of Detroit. No idea if the town has a creek but if does the whale would have to find its way through the Great Lakes and then swim 1,200 kilometres down the St. Lawrence River before it got a taste of salt water.
As they live in Detroit, it might be a shot at the miserable season the Red Wings are having (12 wins in 50 games, a goal-difference of -88, and dead last in the 31-team National Hockey League). So even though the Detroit newspapers are no doubt still covering the Dead Things (who are currently on a five-game losing streak), casual sports fans like this kid have stopped reading about them.
As of 11 p.m. Yukon Time Tuesday night (2 a.m. Detroit time Wednesday morning), it’s 15 degrees Celsius in Dawson City, 12 degrees in Detroit. The overnight low in Dawson will be 8, while it will go down to 10 in Detroit. Wednesday’s forecast high in Dawson is 22 while Detroit should get up to 27. I have no idea what that works out to on the Obsolete Scale.
They should have waited two days and run this strip on Wedunsday