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White River, Ontario, Canada: Coldest Place in Canada

Eat your picnic lunch next to a big thermometer that perpetually reads 72 degrees below zero.

Address:
Trans-Canada Hwy., White River, ON, Canada
Directions:
On the south side of the Trans-Canada Hwy, next to the town museum and A&W Root Beer stand. It must be easy to keep those mugs frosty in a place like White River....
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Welcome sign.

Coldest Place in Canada

Not too impressive, but got the pic!

[Tanya Staddon And GnMe, 10/14/2018]

The town welcome sign features a thermometer replica forever stuck at the record-setting temperature of 72 degrees below zero.


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