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The Quebec Winter Carnival (French: Carnaval de Québec), commonly known in both English and French as Carnaval, is a pre-Lenten festival held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. After being held intermittently since 1894, the Carnaval de Québec has been celebrated annually since 1955. [ 1 ]
The Montreal Winter Carnivals were week-long social and recreational festivals held during the 1880s in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Organized largely by the city's sporting clubs, the Winter Carnivals were centered on winter sports and other activities such as tobogganing and snowshoeing.
The Montreal Winter Carnival Ice Hockey Tournaments were a series of annual ice hockey tournaments held in the 1880s in conjunction with the Montreal Winter Carnival, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. First held in 1883, these tournaments are considered to be the first championship ice hockey tournaments and the predecessor to the first championship ...
A winter festival, winter carnival, snow festival, or frost fair is an outdoor cold weather celebration that occurs in wintertime. Winter festivals are popular in D climates (see Köppen climate classification ) where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Siberia , Scandinavia , Canada and the northern United States .
The 1900 Rossland Winter Carnival added women's hockey as an event. [31] After 1900, the Rossland Winter Carnival was recognized as hosting the Provincial women's hockey championships. In 1911, the Rossland Carnival final between Rossland and a team from Grand Forks, BC was hailed as the women's championship of the world. [31]
The Victoria Skating Rink was an indoor ice skating rink located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Opened in 1862, it was described at the start of the twentieth century to be "one of the finest covered rinks in the world". [1] The building was used during winter seasons for pleasure skating, ice hockey and skating sports on a natural ice rink.
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Italy for the third time, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as the official hosts of the event. How to watch the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics?
This is an incomplete list of festivals in Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals , fairs , food festivals , arts festivals , and recurring festivals on holidays .