I live in a place that is cold and snowy. But that does not slow us down. In the dead of winter we have a festival here that celebrates Winter. It is called 'Le Festival du Voyageur'. It is held in our French area, celebrating 'Le Voyageur', or the fur trader. All around the site are these snow carvings. The canoe sculpture is about 40 ft long and 15+ ft high. The other sculpture is of Cindy Klassen ( 5 metals in the last winter Olympics, who is from here), with some heads of the Plains Bison. The temperature here today was -20c or -4f.

Now that I have celebrated Winter, let it be over so that I can get back to camping!

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You have some talented people there!Always have enjoyed ice and snow sculptures.
The Winter festival in Anchorage should be going on about now also ,lots of ice sculptures, and ice houses. Thanks for the pics

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We have sand sculptures here. How cool!

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We'e got empty cornfields and really cold cows here right now.

Those are great pics!!!

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I thought you had them all corralled in 'Keybek' (the OTHER country in Canada)




Super pics CB

That looks like a lot of fun and much safer that when "it’s hovering around 90-95F and is still and humid while you are between monsoonal trough visits, and it’s just Mango Madness time."

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Wow very cool campingboy!!!!!!! Where did you take the pic of the real fur trader canoe?

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Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

The fur trader canoe reminded me of an annual "Rendezvous Days" held at Ft. Creve Coeur near Peoria. Ft. Creve Coeur is a reproduction of an early French fort founded by LaSalle in the late 1600's along the Illinois river. Each year a re-enactment of that time frame is held there featuring hundreds of folks dressed in period costumes and camping out in teepees clustered around open fires. Bison burgers, home made root beer, "Anna Dama" bread baked in outdoor ovens (good stuff). Period music, black powder demonstrations, traditional crafts. It's a lot of fun.

Anyway, on Sunday, a service is held at the main gate of the fort with the altar being an overturned fur trader canoe with a deerskin cloth covering it. The homily is often on the history of the early French settlers in the Peoria area and the growth of Christianity in the area.

Why PF, what could you possibly mean?

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wow, great sculpture

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Those are really cool CB. How long does it take them to make them?

Very cool!

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campingboy,

Wow! That IS a bit brisk. Nice pics. Thank you!

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