{"id":2053,"date":"2009-01-25T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/01\/25\/la-guerre-des-tuques-on-mount-royal\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:30:01","slug":"la-guerre-des-tuques-on-mount-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/25\/la-guerre-des-tuques-on-mount-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;La Guerre des Tuques&#8221; on Mount Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/01\/guerre.jpg\" title=\"guerre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/01\/guerre.jpg\" alt=\"guerre.jpg\" \/><\/a>When I saw &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Guerre_des_tuques\">La Guerre des Tuques<\/a>&#8221; (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dog_Who_Stopped_the_War\">The Dog Who Stopped the War<\/a>&#8220;) as a kid, I always dreamt of building a huge snow fort and engaging in a massive snowball battle.\u00a0 In classic Montreal fashion, someone had the brilliant idea this weekend of recreating such a battle on Mount Royal, a kind of winter version of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=77\">Tam Tam&#8217;s medieval-fighting<\/a>.\u00a0 This two day event consisted of building two separate forts facing each other, on Saturday, and wave after wave of battles, on Sunday.\u00a0 The turn-out was great, and, happily, was dominated by children.\u00a0 Everyone seemed to be having an amazing time, doing only as Montrealers can do by turning one of the coldest weekends of the year into outdoor fun.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igloofest.ca\/\">Igloofest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealenlumiere.com\/volets\/nuit_blanche\/en_bref_fr.aspx\">Nuit Blanches<\/a> are two other events that take advantage of winter in the city.\u00a0 Post your suggestions for other winter events in Montreal in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw &#8220;La Guerre des Tuques&#8221; 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