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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Iceman Cometh | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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