Holidays and Festivals

Holidays and Festivals
THIS PAGE COMPILED February 10 2008

• New Year's Day, January 1st.
• Burns Night or Burns Supper, January 25
• Beginning of Spring, (according to the Celtic calendar) February 1
• Groundhog Day, February 2.
• Valentine's Day, February 14.
• Family Day, Canada, February 18
• National Flag of Canada Day, February 15 was declared in 1996.
• Shrove Tuesday February 5, Pancake Wednesday February 6
• Commonwealth Day, Canada, the second Monday in March
• St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
• Spring Equinox, March 20
• Daylight Saving time begins, (currently) first Sunday in or March 9
• Good Friday, March 21 Good Friday, March 21 (Changes each year. < http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/index_e.cfm>)
• Easter Sunday, March 23
• Easter Monday, March 24
• April Fool’s Day, April 1.
• Tartan Day, April 6
• Earth Day, April 22 (since 1970)
• Administrative Assistants' Day, (Secretaries' Day) is the Wednesday of the last full week of April (that is, the Wednesday before the last Saturday in April) since 1955.
• Arbour Day, is often the last Friday in April (since 1872), but since planting conditions vary, it may occur from September to May;
• May Day, International, May 1
• Victoria Day, The Monday on or preceding 24 May.
• Mothers' Day, second Sunday in May
• Flag Day, June 14/15
• Fathers' Day, third Sunday in June
• Summer begins, June 21
• Canada Day (1 July) celebrates the creation of the Canadian federal government by the British North America Act in 1867.
• Parents' Day, fourth Sunday in July
• Civic or Provincial Holidays, 1st Monday in August
• Grandparents' Day, Sunday after Labour Day (September 7/8)
• Fall begins, September 22
• Thanksgiving Day Canada, 2nd Monday in October
• United Nations Day, October 24.
• Daylight Saving Time ends, last Sunday in October
• Halloween, October 31.
• All Saints day, November 1
• Back to standard time, November 2
• Remembrance Day Canada, 11 November
• Veterans Day USA, 11 November
• Thanksgiving Day USA, November 27
• Winter begins, December 21

**Holidays and Festivals**
Holiday	Moon Phase	Date	Closest Moon Phase	Closest Full Moon	Closest Weekend
Winter Solstice	New	Dec 21,'02	New: Dec 3	Dec 19	Dec 20/21
Imbolc	Crescent	Feb 1 & 2	Crescent: Feb 4	Feb 16	Feb 1 & 2
Spring Equinox	First Quarter	Mar 20	First Qtr: Mar 10	Mar 18	Mar 15 & 16; Mar 22 & 23
Beltane	Gibbous	Apr 30 /May 1	Gibbous: Apr 13	Apr 16	Apr 26 & 27; May 3 & 4
Midsummer	Full	Jun 21	Full: Jun 14	June 14	June 21 & 22
Lammas	Disseminating	Aug 1 & 2	Disseminating: Aug 16	Aug 11	Aug 2 & 3
Fall Equinox	Last Quarter	Sep 23	Last Quarter: Sep 18	Sep 10	Sep 20 & 21; Sep 27 & 28
Halloween	Balsamic	Oct 31 /Nov 1	Balsamic: Oct 21	Nov 8	Nov 1 & 2
Midwinter	New	Dec 21, '03	New: Dec 23	Jan 6 '04	Dec 20 & 21

The Poem: A WEEK OF BIRTHDAYS:

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
But the child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

The Month Poem:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap year, that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.

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