MillieF

Yes, us lucky lot in NB are on holiday today! So ya boo sucks to all of you toiling away! I'm not sure if we get it off so that we can be smug about living here or in general commiseration....so we are going to pack a picnic and head to Kings Landing, just ouside Fredericton, it's one of those historical re-enactment parks with sturdy ladies in big hats...and today, wet weather gear!

Do any of you in other Provinces get a day off to celebrate your hometown?

Greenhill

I think it's a day off here too.

No idea what it's called though.

Former Lancastrian

Ours is called the August civic holiday so we also have the day off.
Being in NB shouldn't your post be bilingual? there again that would be in contravention of BE rules posts in English only.

BristolUK

I always thought everywhere gets today off, just that each province has a different name for it.

Did you include calling at The King's Head for a 'proper' pint?

ann m

Ours is called "Heritage Day" and like you we aim to visit sturdy ladies in long dresses and hats, with gun slingers, railroad builders and "little house on the prairie" style school houses by visiting Heritage Park in Calgary. Weather unpredictable but picnic thing obligatory.

Have a fun day off - if you get one

dasher3

Mais bien sur, mon ami FL

dasher3

Oh Ann I love Heritage Park, our one isn't as fun as that. I had some of the nicest visits there when sprog was smaller, that steam train was wonderful, and the fairground. Ours is much smaller but the buildings are all original and were moved from the land that was flooded to build the Mactaquac Dam.

I wonder why you've got the day off too Greenhill, maybe it's Happy Nova Scotia Day too? Have a good one!

Atlantic Xpat

Not a day off in Newfoundland, but Wednesday is, at least in St John's, weather permitting a holiday. It's the occasion of the Royal St John's Regatta (rowing) and is the only public holiday anywhere to the best of my knowledge that is weather dependent. If on the first wednesday of the month the weather is good enough for rowing, we all get a day off. It not, then we don't & they try again Thursday, Friday etc.

dasher3

Apologies...I just realized that I logged on as my husband....I am MillieF

Greenhill

So, basically, you Newfies...

• Ate all the cod
• Have an impracticle timezone (UTC -3.5 hours)
• Have a midweek drink holiday

Whatever next

Siouxie

The first Monday in August is a statutory holiday in: British Columbia (British Columbia Day); New Brunswick (New Brunswick Day); Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Day or Civic Holiday); Nunavut (Civic Holiday) and the Northwest Territories (Civic Holiday). It is a holiday of some form in Alberta (Heritage Day), Manitoba (Civic Holiday), Newfoundland and Labrador (Civic Holiday, although the date is fixed by municipal council orders), Nova Scotia (Natal Day), Ontario (Civic Holiday, Simcoe Day or Colonel By Day) and Prince Edward Island (Natal Day).

Happy whatever it is day in your Province or Territory!

BristolUK

Plus one name isn't good enough, they need two.

BristolUK

Is the day after called Post Natal Day?

caretaker

Europeans ate all the cod,
It's 8:30 in Newfoundland, always will be,
Re: Drink holiday - It's because they're mostly Scotch and Irish.
They only call it Newfoundland and Labrabor because Newfoundland, Labrador and Cape Breton doesn't fit on the license plates.
You aren't one of those monitors, are you?

bats

Civic Holiday in Ontario where folk celebrate in the traditional way. Get drunk and or stoned, eat too much, go out on, in, or behind some form of motorised toy. Crash said toy then visit emerge, not forgetting to call by Timmies on the way in

Spend the next 8 hours in Emerge wondering if you are feeling better yet.