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Article: Cold Comfort.(ice hotel in Sainte-Catherine-de-le-Jacques-Cartier, Quebec)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- February 25, 2002
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North American travelers who can't get enough wintry weather can now spend nights shivering in the continent's only ice hotel. Constructed from more than 11,000 tons of snow and ice, the frigid resort in the small town of Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier in Quebec province is modeled after the original Swedish one, first built more than a decade ago. Like its European cousin, the Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada, now in its first full season of operation, consists of ...