"Jim Breckenridge" wrote in message
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Laurie & Jacques wrote:
Thought so . . .
Been there too!. But it is not the coldest place I have ever been . . .
Try La Ronge SK

Jacques

See your Winnipeg and raise your La Ronge - when I worked in the weather
office I read the thermometer in Watson Lake, Yukon
minus 69.9 F

You had an office?! Luxury! Third Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery,
had a meteorological section (all "blue jobs") that deployed with the unit for
winter indoctrination and sovereignty exercises. They may not have recorded
anything that cold, even when they deployed to Coral Harbour, Northwest
Territories, but it's different when you have to sleep in a five-man arctic
tent on an air mattress in a two-piece sleeping bag with a flannelette liner
and a hood that covers everything but your nose. The air mattress was what
made it work. If it leaked, you were f***ed.

Here's Coral Harbour: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6whr2c. The regiment also
deployed to Resolute (http://preview.tinyurl.com/8nuef6) during winter, but
that was well before my time.
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