{"id":14628,"date":"2010-08-02T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14628"},"modified":"2010-08-02T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:26:39","slug":"civic-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/02\/civic-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"“Civic Holiday”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s how calendars and daytimers blandly render this day in Canada — “Civic Holiday” —\u00a0 because each part of the country has its own designation for it (Frye’s Canadian “anarchism”<\/a> at work, er, play<\/em>).\u00a0 In New Brunswick, Ed Lemond of Moncton’s Frye Festival advises me, it’s New Brunswick Day because New Brunswick evidently lives in a New Brunswick-centric universe.\u00a0 (Good for you, New Brunswick.)\u00a0 In Ontario, it’s Simcoe Day — as in John Graves Simcoe<\/em>, who only<\/em> abolished slavery<\/a> in Upper and Lower Canada in 1793, so I guess there’s no reason he should have a national<\/em> holiday dedicated to him.<\/p>\n

How else do we know it’s a holiday in Canada?\u00a0 Well, for one thing, for the first time ever that I’m aware of, we had way more visitors from the U.S. than from Canada.\u00a0 In fact, our traffic today was business as usual from all around the world.\u00a0 But today Canadians were chillin’ it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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