Wintry Canada is now home for hyphenated Guyanese

Andrew Eastman and his wife

Winter swamps Toronto in February with a solid blanket of icy chill. With snow everywhere, “cold alerts” have become the norm in the sub-zero temperatures.

To ease this winter weight in the middle of a time of snow storms, short days and poor sunlight, Canada hosts a national holiday for families, Family Day, on February 21. And to celebrate Family Day 2011, Andrew Eastman, who grew up in sunny Georgetown, took his wife and two sons snowmobile riding through a snow-covered park in Ontario aback their lavish suburban home, riding shiny snowmobiles and