Along with many other Nova Scotian households, we lost power. Apparently, it was the first ice storm in over 17 years. We’ve had prolonged cold temperatures which has helped keep lakes and backyard ice rinks frozen for longer and we had our first ice storm experience a few weeks back. And we don’t tend to suffer too much with ice storms that hit other parts of Canada during winter.Įach winter is different here on the East Coast and some easier than others. We do not experience cold like this here in Halifax. Last week for example, it was a bone chilling minus 40 Celcius (actual temperature) feeling like minus 45-48c in parts of the Prairies. Unlike other parts of Canada that have extreme winters, we don’t fare too badly here. Skiing at Ski Martock, 45 minutes from door to door One thing we know for sure is that to get through winter in Canada, you ABSOLUTELY have to embrace it and get outside and enjoy it, otherwise it can really make you miserable. There is so much to do from skiing (we have two ski hills, Ski Martock and Ski Wentworth) skating, sledding, snow shoeing and winter hiking, but we know many people who detest it and I can understand the contempt, especially as we are now into our 17 th winter in Canada and getting that much older (and wiser, perhaps). We genuinely love winter in Halifax, Nova Scotia So what have we learned from this experience? We were typically unprepared “tourists” and eternally grateful to our lovely neighbour who dug us out while (I imagine) was rolling his eyes at our spectacular unpreparedness for a new life in Canada. We were caught without proper clothing (our container hadn’t yet arrived with all our winter clothing) and we didn’t even have snow shovels. We were thinking “this is winter in Canada, really? This will be a breeze”Ĭertain that an early Halifax Spring was on the way, a few weeks later, on Easter weekend the biggest dump of snow of winter 2007 arrived. There wasn’t a single flake of snow anywhere to be found and the sun was shining. We had freshly arrived with our PR cards in hand in March 2007 and moved into our home a few days later. We came from the UK where everything shuts down at the sight of a snowflake so our first experience of snow in Halifax was amusing. Depending on where you are coming from really determines how you will find winter in Halifax.
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