Winter in Canada offers up a festive season of outdoor sports like skiing, outdoor events, winter carnivals and light festivals. Santa Claus Parades & fun Christmas shopping with a little chat on Santa's knee or letter to Santa. Real winter usually starts before the Christmas Season and really starts when the lakes are frozen.
Canadians embrace the winter months of December, January, February & March. Celebrations and events offer Canadian winter fun.
Ontario Getaways Family Winter Fun North of Toronto |
  Toronto Getaway destinations north in Ontario include a variety of resort destinations
offering up an endless selection of winter sports and outdoor activities with more than hundreds of Winter Getaway Packages, inlcluding skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, kite boarding, skating, pond hockey. Winter Getaways start
as soon as the snow flies in areas like the Barrie Snowbelt, Collingwood & The Blue Mountains, the Algonquin Area, Muskoka, Georgian Bay, and areas north to Nipissing, North Bay and Sudbury, Timmins, east to Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley |
SkiPass for Grades 4 & 5-Skiing and Snowboarding |
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  Canadian school kids in Grade 4 & 5 can get involved in the Canadian Outdoors
with the SkiPass from the National programs by Canadian Ski Council. If you are interested in getting the kids off the video games and computers consider a Give the gift of skiing/snowboarding this holiday season. Get a SnowPass for your 4th or 5th grader and give them the gift of skiing/snowboarding this winter Christmas is just around the corner and soon everyone will be scrambling to pick up the perfect gifts for their kids. This year, why not give your 4th or 5th grader the opportunity to learn a new and exciting winter sport? Ski pass informatio is available in French and English www.snowpass.ca or www.passeportdesneiges.ca
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 Recreational Snowmobiling is a Canadian phenomenon created by Bombardier...needless to say this sport is extremely popular in snow and resort destinations north of major cities across the Canadian north. |
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|  Wherever there is a hill in Canada, snow tubing can be an outdoor Canadian adventure along with downhill sledding, and tobogganing. Many ski destinations have added snow tubing and snow tube parks to their winter sports activities and have a more organized systems of tubing runs and shoots.
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Winter Carnivals Across Canada
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Photo Credit: NCC National capital Commission |
Canadian winter festivals take on many names associated with the period after the winter Solstice in December. They continue through January to March. Perhaps the most famous is in Quebec City the Quebec Winter Carnival featuring Bonhomme. See Quebec City Hotels
One of the oldest winter festivals in Ontario is Winterfest-Festival of Ice is held in Barrie Ontario on Kempenfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe along the Lakeshore. This is an Ontario Top 100 Festival. See Photo Gallery Barrie Winter Carnival. More on Barrie Ontario
Canadians have learned to embrace their climatic winter challenges with many seemingly strange activities including beard growing contests, axe throwing, polar bear dips, snowmobile races, cross country ski loppets, skating festivals including Winterlude in Ottawa. See Ottawa Hotels, More on Ottawa and Ottawa Valley. Discover more Winter Carnival celebrations of snow across Canada in one of the many Provinces where the traditions of winter are part of the Canadian culture. |
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