I was looking at your web site and noticed an interesting word in one of your equipment lists. It uses the word "toque". I had to look it up to find that it is some kind of hat. Do Canadians actually use this word? I have not had to look up a word in a long while, but that one got me.
Yes, toque is a very common Canadian word. When it's really cold out you don't wear a hat, you wear a toque.
For example, go over to
mec.ca and punch "toque" into the search engine and you'll get a lot of results back ... something like this:
