The bravest participants can grab their swimming suits and join Bonhomme, the festival's snowman, for a crazy snow bath. Quebec Winter Carnival is also called Bonhomme Carnaval in honor of its ...

Jan. 22—In November 2019, Shamrock Sports and Entertainment CEO Brian Corcoran was bullish on the prospects for a new winter festival in Portland, modeled after Quebec City's famed Carnaval ...

This time five years ago, Portland was gearing up for a new winter ... Quebec’s festival was held only intermittently. It wasn’t until 1955 — the same year it introduced the Bonhomme ...

(Todd Korol/The Canadian Press) Ahead of the city's famed winter carnival, a person works on Bonhomme’s Ice Palace in Quebec City on Tuesday. (Quentin Brunner/Radio-Canada) ...

Wiarton Willie has predicted an early spring. But Willie's prediction goes against his fellow weather-prognosticating animals like Shubenacadie Sam, Fred la marmotte, Punxsutawney Phil and Lucy the ...

Bonhomme’s Ice Palace only days away from welcoming visitors Cassandra Kerwin, Local Journalism Initiative reporter From Feb. 7 to 16, visitors with Quebec Winter Carnival effigies can walk among the… ...