Yep, our winters can be cold. Two winters ago, I was living in my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We broke our record snowfall that was set in the late 1800s! We had to hire back hoes to remove some snow because none of it was melting and we would have had to hire catapults to keep shovelling.

Just a note - I was living in a border town for a year and I went to a bar across the border in Minnesota. The differences I found of course were the money - I like our colourful currency - how do Americans tell their twenties from their ones in a dim bar?, their washrooms are bigger, their beer is weaker and their cigarettes are different!