Incredible Storm Photos: Snow Edition

Eastern Canadian Blizzard Of 1971

This storm caused something to happen that hadn’t happened in over five decades. Yes, it caused deaths and several feet of snow piled up but something that Canadians love dearly was taken from them.

“This storm was a real monster. Not because of the nearly two feet of snow it blanketed Eastern Canada in,” Jennifer Corter for Phactual wrote. “Not because of the 20 people that had died. It wasn’t even due to any resulting economic problems from the storm. In fact, people were encouraged to work. No, what makes this storm truly horrible was that it caused the cancellation of a Montreal Forum hockey game, the first since the 1918 flu epidemic.”

Continue on to see what happened in 1996.