I'm a lot further north than you. Snow and cold we are prepared for, snow removal is a major component of municipal budgets. Quebec now makes winter tires mandatory from mid-December on, and really Ontario should do the same. Proper tires make a huge difference. When you don't have the infrastructure, what would seem ordinary to us can be very difficult to cope with.
What really gets us is freezing rain, because once it is here it is usually here until spring. Even when we get a short thaw in February (we seem to be skipping that this year, we got to -3C the other day and that was warm), the ice is usually buried under more snow. The big weather event for most people around here was The Great Ice Storm (think all caps), in January 1998. The area affected high density areas (including Ottawa and Montreal) plus a large portion of Canada's dairy farms - those cows needed milking and there was no power to run the milkers. People were 2-5 weeks without power, pylons went down like dominoes, and it got really cold (daytime highs in the -20'sC, not fun). People died. Huge economic costs. So when I hear you have freezing rain, I think I worry more about that than the snow. Good luck!