Winterlude in Québec
On a cold, cold day, I crossed the bridge and went to check out Winterlude’s celebrations in Québec. Jacques Cartier Park had been turned into a winter amusement park, complete with the ubiquitous beavertails’ snack booths and giant snow slides.
Ottawa has ice sculptures, Québec has giant snow ones. The theme of the national Snow Sculpture Competition for this year was “winter fun”. Each team was given a huge 3.7 m x 4.9 m block of snow and beautiful winter themed art pieces were created.
You can see the full set of the pictures taken during Winterlude 2010 here.
 Skier Sculpture |
 Snowman |
 Fishing |
 Skate |
 Kids Playing |
 Beaver |
 Man Fishing |
 Looking At The Horizon |
 Snowman |
 Ice Fishing |
 Ready To Slide |
 Back To The Top |
 Watching The Show |
 Snow Racket |
Related articles:
- Winterlude 2012 in Gatineau
- Winterlude (Or Having Fun In The Cold)
- Winterlude 2012 in Ottawa
- Winterlude 2011
- Rapides-des-Joachims, Québec
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Ooh, this looks beautiful. I love the new thing you added to the top banner (quite recently I believe) that looks like a paper cut
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terrific sculptures! i love it!
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The sculptures are great!
Is the flag in ‘ice fishing’ pic that of the Province of Ontario?
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@Agnes — Winter, the Canadian way
@London Caller — I must admit I have never tried them but I’m sure you do get good muscle from walking a mile or two with them!
@Sidney — Snow artists
@shionge — I know, we are lucky!
@Tulsa Gentleman — Huge blocks of snow are delivered to the artists, it’s the sticky-almost-frozen kind of snow. Only in Canada, of course.
@Beth — I can imagine! You guys had like no snow when I was there a couple of months ago.
@micki — Yes, they can stay quite long, longer than the ice sculptures it seems. They are much bigger too… snow doesn’t melt that easily.
@Linguist-in-Waiting — Do they have it in Japan too? I had no idea!
@Soleil — I should blog about the Olympics but I think because we are so far from Vancouver, I don’t have much to say. We watch them on T.V, like every body else. Not much happening other than that here in Ontario!
@Seraphine — I can’t make nice snowmen, I always get frozen hands before they are finished. Too bad!
@Nigel — It is exactly that… paper cuts I scanned
@Charles Dastodd — Thank you!
@khengsiong — Yes, it’s the Ontario flag. The other one you can see is Nunavut’s.
That is such an inventive idea!
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