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This time of year, my wife and I take note of license plates in the parking garages as we drive through, park, then walk to destination. Today was unusual: Ontario, long way off, I believe? Most common: British Columbia and Alberta. Less commonly, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Once, Nova Scotia!

Yesterday, in line at AVI's buffet restaurant, two couples ahead of us were talking: from B.C. and Washington. They sure knew where the best food for the $$ is located! Thursdays at AVI are "2-fer-1", or half-price. We had lunch, $ 8.99 for both of us! The baked Tilapia was wonderful. Both drove motorhomes, the B.C. folks were staying the winter right there at AVI, which has an enormous area set-up for them, perhaps spaces for several hundred. Right adjacent to the golf course, which yesterday was crowded with Coots which are just returning from up north, too! imp

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Runnoft said:
Does Nanavut mean Really Cold?
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As good a guess as any, I guess. Those folks are not driving down here 2-3000 miles just to be elsewhere, IMO. imp
 

They drove down for the buffets. :) I can't imagine living where it's that cold so much of the year. For many years my husband worked for companies out of Minnipeg and I forget the city in Ontario but he never went up there. But one of his bosses owned a house on a island that he could only get into part of the year. I guess sometimes it was too icy or whatever to even get in by boat. I can't imagine ever relaxing on an island like that. :( I wonder if anyone on this forum lives in any of those super cold areas and would like to tell us about it? It was 46* here today and really raining hard and I had the heat going, this is cold to me.
 
Linda said:
They drove down for the buffets. :) I can't imagine living where it's that cold so much of the year. For many years my husband worked for companies out of Minnipeg and I forget the city in Ontario but he never went up there. But one of his bosses owned a house on a island that he could only get into part of the year. I guess sometimes it was too icy or whatever to even get in by boat. I can't imagine ever relaxing on an island like that. :( I wonder if anyone on this forum lives in any of those super cold areas and would like to tell us about it? It was 46* here today and really raining hard and I had the heat going, this is cold to me.
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Your temp. confirms a bit about your altitude, guessing: maybe 2500 to 3000 feet? Do you get occasional snow? Next two days here along the Colorado River, they are predicting 40` low and 65` high, cold for this early (nov.). imp
 
If it means anything, I live way on top of Lake Huron which is considered NORTH ....
We have already had snow to measure.. The average temperature this time of the year is about -10c to 0c during the day and at night, it could go down to -17c.. Naturally it will get MUCH colder and tons of more snow to come.. This is still very early and winter has not officially come yet..
We love the different temperatures of the year and especially winter when our village makes most of its tourist money.. Snowmobiling is a HUGE thing up here as well as snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and some downhill skiing.. We have ice fishing tournaments during the winter.. Snowmobile trails and excursions (several days) is very popular as well..
Mid December to early February, the average temperature is about -23c to -45c during the day and often a brisk wind with it giving a windchill of down to -50c.. Nights are also nippy as the temperature could drop down to -50c with a wind..
We get loads of snow and I mean loads..
Personally, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else as the warm temperatures all year long would kill me..
It is MUCH colder and worse farther up north from us.. Timmins (where Eileen Edwards comes from) is colder with more snow..
The ice on the lakes is up to 18" thick during the ice fishing season.. The snowmobile trails take you across open waters very often..

Just putting my opinion down here...
As I write this post, it is -8c, clear skies and it will be sunny today....

PS... I forgot to mention that NOBODY drives any type of vechicle without 4 real winter tires and most of us stud them.. 4X4 cars and trucks are the norm.. All wheel drive is also very good..
 
Linda said:
They drove down for the buffets. :) I can't imagine living where it's that cold so much of the year. For many years my husband worked for companies out of Minnipeg and I forget the city in Ontario but he never went up there. But one of his bosses owned a house on a island that he could only get into part of the year. I guess sometimes it was too icy or whatever to even get in by boat. I can't imagine ever relaxing on an island like that. :( I wonder if anyone on this forum lives in any of those super cold areas and would like to tell us about it? It was 46* here today and really raining hard and I had the heat going, this is cold to me.
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You might have meant Winnipeg Linda. In his youth, after leaving home, my husband was on the train that goes across Canada and when it pulled in to the station at Winnipeg, he says he got off, thinking he might stop there for a bit and a year and a half was all he could take. Temperatures there in winter can go to -30 degrees celsius which is like your -22 farenheit. I still have family in Alberta and I think a few years back they had a couple weeks of -41! But they insist that because it's a dry cold, it's easier to take than if it was on the coast and that cold. Last winter I think we had some days where it was about -21-24 celsius. Being on the ocean keeps it a little warmer than on the prairies.

And up until about fifteen or twenty years ago, Prince Edward Island was pretty much cut off during the winter because the ferry shuts down mid to late December until May because of ice in the Northumberland Strait. But when they built the Confederation Bridge between the mainland and PEI, they could get out finally.
 
Steve said:
If it means anything, I live way on top of Lake Huron which is considered NORTH ....
We have already had snow to measure.. The average temperature this time of the year is about -10c to 0c during the day and at night, it could go down to -17c.. Naturally it will get MUCH colder and tons of more snow to come.. This is still very early and winter has not officially come yet..
We love the different temperatures of the year and especially winter when our village makes most of its tourist money.. Snowmobiling is a HUGE thing up here as well as snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and some downhill skiing.. We have ice fishing tournaments during the winter.. Snowmobile trails and excursions (several days) is very popular as well..
Mid December to early February, the average temperature is about -23c to -45c during the day and often a brisk wind with it giving a windchill of down to -50c.. Nights are also nippy as the temperature could drop down to -50c with a wind..
We get loads of snow and I mean loads.. ..
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Good to know Steve. I won't be moving to your neighbourhood!
 
I lived in Montreal and Ottawa and these places get pretty darn chilly and snowy in the winter and hot hot hot in the summer. Toronto is better, milder due to 'lake effect' and somewhat protected from major storms. We still need our parkas and fleeces though. Today is a lovely 12 C.
 
Studded Tires

Steve said:
PS... I forgot to mention that NOBODY drives any type of vechicle without 4 real winter tires and most of us stud them.. 4X4 cars and trucks are the norm.. All wheel drive is also very good..
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Studs do help. I used them years ago, in Illinois. Long ago, they were banned from general use down here, in how many states, I do not know. Maybe Federal ban. imp
 
I noticed nobody asked me who is Eileen Edwards ...... HOW COME ???????

For your information, Eileen Edwards who comes from the Timmins area is better known as ...

SHANIA TWAIN ........... That was her real name...

About 15 years years ago, she walked through the streets of Massey where we live.. She was down here for our agriculture fair which is the biggest in the North..
 

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