[Nefer]

Urg, stupid windows update, my computer is going berserk right now... I'll try to answer before it logs me off again ^^;

Personally I live in Quebec, Canada. It's pretty much a billingual province, aka french and english. Of course the more 'out of the city' you are, the more chance you have to be in a french city... I personally live in Eastern Township, meaning far more trees, mountains and the such than in the big city of Montreal. We actually have 2-3 big mountain stations near here ^^

Though, if you don't speak a world of french, then perhaps Gatineau/Hull/Ottawa is the best place to go since it's even more billingual than here.

The weather, in the East anyway (meaning Quebec/Ontario, mostly South) is average, meaning you have winters with some -30°C but also some random -5°C depending on the month (and also how mother nature feels like, we had days with snow and -30 and the next day it was around -10...). It's pretty much between November and March, but mostly in between December and February for the big 'Winter time' with snow and the such. Summer pretty much start in May weather wise (or end of may), and finish around September. We can have some 'canicule', but it usually stays around 20°C-30°C, and humidity is a key word I guess. Of course, if you go to the North of Quebec and Ontario, then the weather will go down obviously, and you'll have bigger winter.

City-wise, if you like big cities then Montreal (Quebec) and Toronto (Ontario) are the best place to go, but apartments can be around 800$ for a 4 1/2, sometimes more. The best thing I can suggest is to actually go just a bit outside the city, that way you pay less for car insurance and the such and also far less for an apartment, but yet you have the bus and the such to go to the big city quite quickly ^^ (Meaning, for Mtl you can go to Longueil, Laval and the such). Montreal is terrible for trafic though, so taking the subway or buses are the best thing to do. Though something that can help in choosing is that Quebec have more taxes than Ontario, and if you have a car/liscence that's also far more expensive than Ontario...

Fun sites of Quebec province is probably the Imax 3D theaters in Mtl, the planetarium, biodome (lots of animals, great for children!), the Granby Zoo (in, well, Granby, about an hour away from Mtl), Parc Safari (more 'free' type of zoo), or Parc St-Félicien in the North (REALLY wild type of zoo, the kind where you use a car and the such while the animals are free around you). There's also St-Sauveur aquatic parc and Valcartier (farter than Quebec City) that are great for water activities (ValCartier also have activities in Winter with snow slides and the such).

Fun sites of Ontario are probably the Toronto Zoo (very BIG zoo, lot of walking too), Wonderland (kinda like a miniature Disney Land), the CN tower (was for a while the tallest tower in the World), and Niagara Falls. Speaking of Niagara Falls (which is next to New York, as in the state of NY, and about 2-3 hours away from Toronto), there's also MarineLand with their aquatic shows and the such, very great place to go with kids ^^ As for Toronto, there's also a LOT of museum in the city than can be great to discover, like Dracula and Frankestein museum ;p

The cost of travel, uh... Bus and subway are around 3$, offenly free for children under 12... The train can be around 120$ to go from Mtl to Toronto and back, around 150$ for plane I think...