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Cana­di­ans like pets, and in res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hoods it’s com­mon to see peo­ple walk­ing their dogs after an early diner, no mat­ter the weather.
How­ever, unlike French, Cana­di­ans are well-behaved and they pick up after their dogs—streets here are not dot­ted with dog poop.

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Through The Storm

Submitted by on November 25, 2007 – 10:00 am30 Comments

On Mon­day night, while I was out­side get­ting some fresh air smok­ing a last cig­a­rette, I noticed a few flur­ries in the sky. But when I woke up the next day, there was just a bit of frost on the grass. So, when Tues­day night I saw flur­ries again, I thought it would be gone the next morning.

I was wrong.

Driving...

Dri­ving…

Slippery Roads

Slip­pery Roads

The first snow of the sea­son. Another Cana­dian trick: going from mild weather to bliz­zard, from plus tem­per­a­tures to minuses, from fall cold to win­ter freez­ing your ass cold. This is dras­tic. Clear sky to 25 cm of snow. Ouch.

Falling Ice!

Falling Ice!

Downtown

Down­town

Snow is beau­ti­ful though. Espe­cially fresh snow like that. It’s like see­ing the whole city coated with a fresh layer of paint. We are all used to it, or so you would think, but the first snow is always a shock. “What? Already?”. Cars don’t start or get stuck in the dri­ve­way, streets and roads are extremely slip­pery, buses are late…

Cold News

Cold News

At Night

At Night

Dri­ving in the snow is always a chal­lenge but Cana­dian cars are pretty good at that. Gen­er­ally speak­ing, peo­ple drive much slower and are quite care­ful, so it all works out pretty well. Phew. It would be in France…

Snow Mountain

Snow Moun­tain

Covered With Snow

Cov­ered With Snow

Down­town is usu­ally a bit bet­ter because the streets are salted early in the morn­ing. But still, peo­ple walk around con­fused and cold and there’s slush everywhere.

Since I grew up on the Atlantic coast in France, I had never seen snow before I came to Canada. This is my 4th win­ter, and I’m still excited. That said, win­ters are long here, and after 6 months of strug­gling in the cold and with ice and snow, we get tired of it.

Yep, we get tired of it. Cause you know what? This snow isn’t gonna melt before next April or May.

Related posts:

  1. Snow Fall !
  2. Not Win­ter Already…
  3. Bliz­zard? Checked!
  4. Win­ter In Canada
  5. Snow Sculp­tures And Win­ter Fun

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