It's hard to be a warm, meaningful, sincere, relevant human being when, for nine months of the year, you may step out the door on green grass in the morning and come back to supper with the snow halfway up to the windowledges. Ray Guy, humorist, Ray Guy's Best, 1987. Edmonton is also, it must be said, about the coldest city in Christendom. No one knows the meaning of the word cold who has not waited for a bus on a street corner near the University of Alberta campus on a windy and overcast evening in February. Mechtild Hoppenrath and Charles Oberdorf, writers, First Class Canada , 1987.
All nights are cold in Montreal.
In Ontario, there are nine months of winter and three months of road repair. Peter Hanson, physician and author of Joy of Stress, attributed. Traditional Newfoundland saying.