Voltaire, it seems, thought very little of Canada and is famous for having called the French colony nothing more than "a few acres of snow", quelques arpents de neige. I beg to disagree. There are many more than a few.

We spent a wonderful holiday week in Beloeil, QC with my family and were blessed with a white Christmas, my first in so many years I can’t even remember the last time I saw a Christmas tree on a snowy background.

Follow a few pictures of cats and people playing in the snow. Oh, and funny shots of my nephew Yann at the Granby Zoo, staring in the eyes of three different beasts who stare right back…