Happy Civic Holiday!
Hi all. In the summer, every day feels like a holiday, so the Civic Holiday (the first Monday in August every year) often goes by without notice. But not anymore!
In celebration of the Civic Holiday, I give you this larger-than-life, totally unrelated YouTube video:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1OfTk9Bys8]
Pretty cool! As it said in the video, all those exhibitions are at this year’s World Expo in Shanghai, China.
Also, just in case you’re curious, the Civic Holiday isn’t known as the Civic Holiday all across Canada. Here’s an incomplete list of the different names it goes by:
- British Columbia Day (British Columbia)
- Heritage Day (Alberta)
- Saskatchewan Day (Saskatchewan)
- New Brunswick Day (New Brunswick)
- Natal Day (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
- Colonel By Day, George Hamilton Day, Joseph Brant Day, Founders’ Day, McLaughlin Day, Mountie Day, Alexander Mackenzie Day, James Cockburn Day, Peter Robinson Day, Simcoe Day, John Galt Day* (Ontario)
Excellent! So, happy [insert your name for the Civic Holiday here], everyone! Let me know how you’re celebrating in the comments below, even if you didn’t know you were celebrating until just now.
Craig, owlblog@owlkids.com
* Among others.
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I didn’t celebrate.
That giant baby is creepy. The indoor skydiving is SO COOL!
Happy Saskatchewan Day! I’m not really doing anything to celebrate because my sister is sick and I have to help take care of her but oh well!
Same here Katie (the author). The baby is just weird! and the divers rock!
Happy Heritage Day to all the awesome Albertan’s or whatever your province’s celebration is!
Happy BC day! And heritage day!!! Have a good day everyone!
Marissa 😛
Yeah, the baby is a little creepy but that is amazing technology, don’t you think?
where are the dino contest resuilts
thankx
Hey my uncles lives in Shanghai and he’s over here right now!! Staying for vacation!!
sunil:
I think if you won they’ll just e-mail you.
Umm….if you live in Ontario, how do you decide what to celebrate? 😀 lots of choices!
I kept asking everybody why it was a long weekend…:P couldn’t remember why…
M.
Hey Marwyn. It depends on which city you live in. For example, in Toronto, it was Simcoe Day. Kind of fun, huh?
in stoughton its stoughton days
happy lots of names day!