"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among pines."
The Yellow Birch is Quebec's provincial tree. In French-Canadian it is merisier, much to the confusion of visitors from France where merisier means wild cherry. If that isn't enough to sow confusion, bothersome botanists and troublesome taxonomists have been at it again. What was simply and sensibly until a few years ago was Betula lutea--in other words, Birch yellow--has been reclassified as Betula alleghaniensis--Birch Allegheny.
In fact, Yellow Birch is centred on the Great Lakes regions eastwards through la belle province to the Maritimes with a southward spur along the cooler, moister parts of the Appalachian Mountains.