If you are traveling across Canada on a single-day train, be aware that you can now no longer be capable of taking difficult suitcases into the cabin with you (take a look with the educated operator). Ensure you have a soft canvas holdall or rucksack to preserve your clothes and essentials for the journey, and p.c. this earlier than you arrive at the station – in any other case you'll be asked to transfer your clothes into plastic bags.

The people of Montreal steel themselves for snow from October to May. They cannot beat their lengthy Canadian winter so they do the best practical thing: They adapt to it – outdoors and in.

Outdoors, Montrealers ski, skate, toboggan and take horse-drawn sleighs on Mount Royal.

While indoors, a weatherproof underground town thrives. Smart shops, continental-fashion cafes, and cinemas with films in French and English line indoor promenades under workplace buildings.

And really the entirety is linked through the Metro, with its efficient, bright blue cars. Sporting activities and the theater are each famous here, so you will want a combination of simply practical clothes and some glitzier bits.