<p>My dad and I visited McGill University in Montreal over Thanksgiving weekend in November (not a holiday in Canada). We toured the campus in the morning with sunshine and an incredibly blue sky. By 3 PM it was snowing heavily and by the next morning there were 18 inches on the ground. The city and the university were fully operational under a beautiful coating of white. In Boston, the city would have been shut down for two days. I was sold on Montreal!</p>
<p>Later as a tour guide, I would give students full disclosure of what a Montreal winter is like, even if the tour was in the summer. To their credit, the viewbook does show the campus under snow and students bundled up and trudging to class. McGill is not a school for the feint of heart.</p>