Quebec Winter Carnival

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Quebec Winter Carnival
Bonhomme Carnaval in 2011
Genre	Winter festival
Begins	February 3, 2023
Ends	February 12, 2023
Frequency	Annually
Location(s)	Quebec City
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	1955 (1955) (annual event)
Website	Carnaval de Québec

The Quebec Winter Carnival (French: Carnaval de Québec), commonly known in both English and French as Carnaval, is a pre-Lenten festival held in Quebec City. After being held intermittently since 1894, the Carnaval de Québec has been celebrated annually since 1955.^[1] That year, Bonhomme Carnaval, the mascot of the festival, made his first appearance.^[2] Up to one million people attended the Carnaval de Québec in 2006 making it, at the time, the largest winter festival in the world (since overtaken by the Harbin Festival).^[3][4] It is, however, the largest winter festival in the Western Hemisphere.^[5]