Winnipeg's Goldilocks Kilt Skate
/This year, the conditions were just right, and Winnipeggers showed their appreciation by coming out in numbers to the skating rink at Riley Family Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park.
Read MoreThis year, the conditions were just right, and Winnipeggers showed their appreciation by coming out in numbers to the skating rink at Riley Family Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park.
Read MoreWith temperatures on the plus side of zero, everyone could relax and enjoy the festive atmosphere — and a cup of hot chocolate..
Read MoreIn 2018, the counties of Glengarry introduced an important innovation to the kilt skate phenomenon. For the first time, a skate was held in an indoor arena, combined with a social full of music, food and beverages and lots of fellowship in the warmth of an arena hall. Glengarry kept the event indoors again in 2019, and within a few days, a video of the skating had 200,000 likes on Facebook.
Read MoreThis winter has been one of the coldest in memory — one of the snowiest as well. Nowhere is the cold more biting than on the cities of the plains. On Sunday, February 10, both Saskatoon and Calgary celebrated their fifth annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate. Not necessarily with “bare knees and ice” — not this year. But with customary Scottish fortitude and sense of fun.
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