Some of British Columbia's mountains get far more snow than anywhere else in Canada. The highest average annual snowfall recorded at a weather station is 1471 centimetres (48 feet) on Mount Fidelity. The station sits above the Trans Canada Highway at 1875 metres (6150 feet) elevation on the west side of Glacier National Park. This is also where snow falls most often in the country, averaging 144 days a year.

The country's snowiest town is Stewart, a coastal community in northwest BC. It gets 572 cm (18.75 feet) of snow over a typical winter.

Places in Canada with the highest average annual snowfall:

Location	cm
Mt Fidelity, Glacier National Park, BC	1471
Tahtsa Lake West, BC	978
Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park, BC	933
Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, BC	827
Pleasant Camp, BC	740
Stewart, BC	572
Nain, Newfoundland & Labrador	492
Wapta Lake, Yoho National Park, BC	479
Cap Seize, Quebec	475
Churchill Falls, Newfoundland & Labrador	465
Goose, Newfoundland & Labrador	459
Revelstoke, BC	425
Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador	422
St Cassien Des Caps, Quebec	416
Sept-Iles, Quebec	412
Whistler, BC	411

Biggest Blizzards

At only a handful of places in Canada has over a metre of snow dumped in a single day. The deepest one-day snowfall ever measured is 145 centimetres (4.75 feet) at Tahtsa Lake, in BC's Coast Mountains north of Tweedsmuir Park. Another particularly snowy spot, Pleasant Camp, is a remote border crossing between BC and Alaska on Haines Highway with a one-day snow record of 127 centimetres (4.2 feet).

Largest one-day snowfalls:

Location	cm	Date
Tahtsa Lake West, BC	145	Feb 11, 1999
Pleasant Camp, BC	127	Dec 4, 1985
Cap Madeleine, Quebec	122	Mar 20, 1885
Lakelse Lake, BC	118	Jan 17, 1974
Stewart, BC	106	Jan 16, 1976
Kemano, BC	104	Jan 11, 1968
Nain, Newfoundland & Labrador	103	Jan 6, 1988

Record-setting Snowpacks

The deepest amount of snow ever measured at Canadian weather stations:

Location	cm	Date
Grouse Mountain, BC	968	Apr 8 1999
Mt Fidelity, BC	465	Apr 6 1991
Tahtsa Lake West, BC	390	Feb 12, 1999
Atlin, BC	380	Feb 6, 1984
Nain, Newfoundland & Labrador	298	Jan 2, 1990
Pleasant Camp, BC	273	Dec 1, 1999
Churchill Falls, Newfoundland & Labrador	262	Feb 15, 1969
Rogers Pass, BC	245	Mar 4, 1991
Stewart, BC	240	Jan 25, 1989
Cap Des Rosiers, Quebec	230	Mar 26 1995
Sept-Iles, Quebec	224	Jan 28, 1981
Bathurst, New Brunswick	213	Dec 28, 1978

Longest Winters

Even though many southern spots get more snow, it lingers longest in Canada's northern regions. The northernmost settlement, a military base at Alert, Nunavut on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, is snow covered the longest, typically for 306 days a year. Here are some sites with long-lasting snow:

Average number of days a year with over 1 cm of snow on the ground.

Location	Days
Alert, Nunavut	306
Pond Inlet, Nunavut	263
Iqaluit, Nunavut	247
Inuvik, NWT	233
Inukjuak, Quebec	224
Churchill Falls, Newfoundland & Labrador	223
Rogers Pass, BC	215
Churchill, Manitoba	212
Yellowknife, NWT	191
Watson Lake, Yukon	190
Fort Nelson, BC	179
Whitehorse, Yukon	174
High Level, Alberta	173
Sept-Iles, Quebec	170