Dear Dr. Pickler,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled "Climate trends in northern Ontario and Quebec from borehole temperature profiles” [Paper #cp-2016-55] to Climate of the Past. I have now received an assessment of the two reviewers who found a few minor issues that will need to be addressed before we can finally accept the paper.

The feedback to your manuscript provided by the reviewer assessments is important and should be taken into account as you complete your revision. Please include a point-by-point reply to the reviewer comments, consider the reviewers’ concerns in the revision, and submit a marked-up manuscript version showing the changes made in your revision. I encourage you to submit a suitably revised version of your manuscript by November, 25, 2016.

Minor comments:
I noticed that the temperature change (“1-2 K”) and the time period (“for the last 150 years”) in the abstract and discussion and conclusion iare vague. Please replace the temperature range with mean and standard deviation and specify the time period (e.g “for the period 1850 to 2000”).

Sincerely,
Arne Winguth
Editor

Dear Dr. Pickler,

Thank you for addressing the comments raised by the referees in this revision; I am pleased to accept your manuscript, "Climate trends in northern Ontario and Quebec from borehole temperature profiles" [Paper #cp-2016-55], for publication in Climate of the Past. Please consider SI units in the final version (e.g. change Myears to 10^6 years).

Sincerely,
Arne Winguth
Editor