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Ice Palaces in Montreal, 1883-89
With the exception of remote luxury ice-hotels and a few contemporary winter festivals, large-scale, humanly constructed ice architecture has become increasingly rare. This is either a shame or simply...
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ice tale: Clap for the Zamboni
. Clap for the Zamboni (an ice-tale memory for The Ice Cubicle’s latticework of files, from Vancouver writer Luella Iwasiuk) Each year, as Christmas would grow closer, my parents would deposit my...
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whales, chainsaws + ice, Alaska ’88
When a trio of California gray whales was trapped by ice formations near Barrow, Alaska, in late 1988, the Anchorage Daily News tracked their wellbeing from at least Oct. 13 – 29. With temperatures...
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Dawson, 1900: lack of summer ice
In 1900, Dawson City’s summer berry bounty – and the lack of ice to prolong its freshness – prompted a brief discussion about the merits of an ice plant all the way across the continent in the pages of...
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Shackleton’s 100-yr-old whisky
What kind of whisky would would you offer this man? While we wait for meetings in the Copenhagen Climate Conference to draw some conclusions about the future of ice, The Ice Cubicle takes a moment to...
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