Materials Assignment #1 Jenny Legroulx

Winterlude
Excerpt taken from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterlude Winterlude is an annual festival in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec that celebrates winter. Winterlude is run by Canadas National Capital Commission and was started in 1979. The event is one of Ottawa's most important tourist draws, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. In 2007, it set a new attendance record of an estimated 1.6 million visits to one of the four Winterlude sites. Winterlude is a very large festival of outdoor activities including public skating and skating displays, ice sculpture competitions, 60 miles (100K) of Rideau Canal skating through the gothic city, musical concerts, children's play areas, largest ice playground, an 'ice lounge', and numerous off-site events. Winterlude is most famous for the Rideau Canal, which is cleared for ice skating displays and musical concerts. Other primary sites include the Snowflake Kingdom, which is located in Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau. This site is turned into a massive snow park with slides and structures, and many events and activities for children. It is the home away from home of the friendly IceHog family, the Winterlude Mascots. The event lasts for three weekends, usually the first three weekends in February. Very few events take place from Monday to Thursday in between weekends 1 and 2, and weekends 2 and 3. This means that the skating rink is much less crowded and that the ice stays in a near pristine condition for much of the day, with only a thousand or so skaters sharing it instead of the greater numbers during the weekend. The skate changing shacks and food catering kiosks scattered along the length of the skateway, at the same level as the ice, are open day long during the week.

Please answer the following questions related to the reading on Winterlude.

1) When was Winterlude started?

1999

1988

1979

What is the name of the Winterlude Mascots?

The Muppets The Snow flakes IceHog Family

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2) Where is Jacques-Cartier Park? Choose an item. 3) When does Winterlude take place?
Choose an item.

4) Name one of the outdoor activities at Winterlude.