They showed men skating on frozen canals, wome working at the river, views of old buildings and sometimes simpl the implements of Dutch farm life.

Winter landscapes with frozen canals and creeks also abounded.

Oxford City Council also warned of the dangers of playing on the frozen canal and/or frozen lakes.

We had a great time skating together on the frozen canals around Ottawa in 1995.

Joining locals as they skate along the frozen canals.

Adam runs alongside the frozen canal, new year's day - his fiftieth year.

A row of pale yellow three- and four-story buildings lined the southern bank of the frozen canal.

As a boy he had learned his skating on the frozen canals of The Hague.

His Dutch winter scenes and frozen canals with skaters were already famous during his lifetime.

The frozen canal was an unbroken layer of whiteness.