02-21-2023, 07:49 PM
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To me, it’s interesting that Quebec, with an even greater French heritage than the Gulf Coast, doesn’t celebrate Mardi Gras.
02-21-2023, 11:11 PM
Location: Etobicoke
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To me, it’s interesting that Quebec, with an even greater French heritage than the Gulf Coast, doesn’t celebrate Mardi Gras.
What about France?
02-22-2023, 06:03 AM
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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The huge winter festival in Québec City known as Carnaval actually started out as a mardi gras type of thing.
02-22-2023, 08:10 AM
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The huge winter festival in Québec City known as Carnaval actually started out as a mardi gras type of thing.
Is QC’s festival as raucous as New Orleans’ Mardi Gras?
02-22-2023, 08:33 AM
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Is QC’s festival as raucous as New Orleans’ Mardi Gras?
No but it's still pretty good considering how cold it is most of the time.
It's admittedly a lot more fun (more of a real party) than the Winterlude (Bal de Neige) festival in Ottawa-Gatineau.
02-23-2023, 06:20 AM
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No but it's still pretty good considering how cold it is most of the time.
Winterlude is more for visitors.
02-23-2023, 08:00 AM
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Winterlude is more for visitors.
There was definitely more of a party atmosphere in the 1980s and into the 1990s, though it was never on the level of Quebec City it's true.
02-23-2023, 08:21 AM
Location: ottawa, ontario, canada
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There was definitely more of a party atmosphere in the 1980s and into the 1990s, though it was never on the level of Quebec City it's true.
best party atmosphere for a winter carnival I ever experienced was in Happy Valley Goose Bay in 1986
02-23-2023, 09:03 AM
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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best party atmosphere for a winter carnival I ever experienced was in Happy Valley Goose Bay in 1986
Can't say I have been to the winter carnival in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, so you've got me beat on that front!
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