Today is Family Day in Ontario. I understand it is President's Day in the United States.
Family Day is not a national statutory holiday, it is only observed in New Brunswick, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and in British Columbia. Other provinces have holidays in February on the same day but these holidays aren't called Family Day. In PEI Islander Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday in February and in Manitoba the 3rd Monday in February is the Louis Riel Day holiday. In Nova Scotia this day is called Heritage Day.
Right now the sun is shining (approx. 12:30 p.m.) I hear that we might get more rain tonight. After the rain we got last week, many fields and other places were flooded. Fortunately, we are okay.
This morning we had breakfast at a diner that is usually closed on Mondays. I think they are trying to make up for some of the business they have lost over the past few months. Since many of the places close on Mondays and because they have many faithful customers, they were busy. They have all their tables back and ready. (During the shutdowns, they had some tables shut off so that they were separated and to help keep their numbers down to the permitted level.) It is a husband and wife team who run the place. Today their 3 teens were helping. I expect they will have to re-learn their routines after working with reduced numbers for so long. They said they are open because it is Family Day and they consider many of us family.
The sun is shining the the sidewalks are mostly bare, I think I will sign off and go for a walk. Tomorrow it might be too wet if the predictions are correct.
The picture is from one of my recent walks.
Love the photo from your walk. It looks quite appropriate for mid-February! I love that Canada has what is it, "at least one holiday in each month". That was the way some locals explained it to my mom, sisters and I when we were camping our way home from Boston, by way of Niagara Falls, and through Canada to Windsor and Detroit.
ReplyDeleteI was 22 or 23 at the time, and very interested in the differences between Canada and the US. Imperial Gallons, buying gasoline by the Liter, the different money, and a charming little rural eatery where the waitstaff spoke Quebequois were highlights to me.
I don't think I've been in Canada since then! Wow... I hadn't thought of that until now. I spent an extended work trip in Italy, but never back to Canada! Except for an episode involving my husband, young son and our dog... whose papers we didn't have left with us. Canada wasn't going to let us in, due to said dog, so we turned around, then the US wasn't going to let us BACK in, because of the same reason. I was afraid we'd be stuck in the middle of that bridge for a long time!
That of course was in the days before we all needed passports to go back and forth, and we had not intended to go into Canada, it was a whim of my husband's on one of his "exploration" spur of the moment drives.
Eventually, they let us go, and I was a lot more aware of looking up the rules and planning! Guess that made us "ugly Americans" for that day, anyhow!
Enjoy your winter sunshine up there, and Happy Family Day!
It's good to hear from you. When we first moved to Ontario back in the 60s, my husband was eager to take me to Detroit. At that time a birth certificate was enough to get in. I was unaccustomed to carrying my birth certificate. I was prepared to turn around and go back to Windsor. Something must have been enough because I was allowed to continue. Now we don't even consider trying to enter the US without a passport.
ReplyDeleteBrrrrrrr. As long as the sun was shining, I'd join you!
ReplyDeleteThings are opening up here too except many of our local places have chosen Tuesday to be closed as they have trouble getting workers.