North Central coast BC, looks and smells like fir

And it absolutely 100% does, as I've had it happen to me many times. It also gives circ saws a hell of a time.

Don't know how to prove this given that's an 18 hour drive from me and she's not currently doing renos....

Yeah it's fir, I'm next door to you in southern Alberta. You'll find it in older houses, I keep it whenever I come across it.

Yea I'm wondering if we just had more of it left more recently than the Yanks and thus most of them have absolutely zero clue about this as they literally had zero of this type of material in any of their old construction aside from historic homes with listed status...