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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 Saint Paul Winter Carnival, which hosts snow and ice carving competitions, is the oldest winter carnival in the world; the first one was held in 1886. [1] The Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition is held during Winter Carnival every year during the last weekend in January at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds , and is a qualifier for the ...
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 .
A winter wonderland ... As part of the opening festivities, 408 attendees helped secure the win by whooshing down the festival’s 16.4-meter-long ice slide (about 53 feet) one after the other. ...
Ice sculpture in Quebec city downtown An ice castle during the Quebec Winter Carnival of 2009. Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material.Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decorative.
People ice skating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, January 2005. Winterlude is an annual winter festival held in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec (collectively known as the National Capital Region). Winterlude is run by the Department of Canadian Heritage and was started in 1979. The event is one of Ottawa's most important tourist draws ...
Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar working on an entry for an ice sculpture competition. Ice Festival, Ice and Snow Festival, or Snow and Ice Festival may refer to one of the following events. Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China; Blue Pearl Ice Festival, Mongolia; Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan; World Ice Art ...
Special events related to the 400th anniversary were also incorporated into major events held in Quebec City in 2008, including the Quebec Winter Carnival, the Quebec International Air Show, Red Bull Crashed Ice, the Quebec City Summer Festival, the Men's World Hockey Championships, the Eucharist Congress, the Winter Triathlon, and the ...