Holidays in Canada

The catholic holiday, Day of the Dead and the holiday Halloween may seem very alike with their traditions and themes, but, they are very different and have very different origins. Halloween and Day of the Dead happen at the same time, end of October and beginning of November. The background of these two holidays are very spiritual and they have an interesting story of how the Halloween and day of the dead was created. In this essay, I will be talking about the how Halloween and Day of the Dead

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. By tradition, Halloween begins after sunset.Halloween is one of the world’s oldest holidays, celebrated in several countries around the world including the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Mexico, Latin America, and Spain. Halloween is very important because it consist by customs,history,synbols.I will introduce why this so important in the next paragraph. First of all,Halloween have centuries-old history.Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated

On June 21st, First Nations all around Canada celebrated in happiness. With parades involving cultural dances, festivals, and food. This was to celebrate National Aboriginal Day. To honor the heritage and achievements of the First Nations culture. As Canada 150th neared, many wondered what was worth celebrating. Judith Sayers, a former chief of the Hupacasath First Nation shares her opinion: “Many people in my community are choosing to ignore this holiday. We don’t want to celebrate a country that

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many gifts if you were a nice kid this year. In fact, parents buy more gifts than previously because with the years "the Ultramontane dogma […] and commercialism would, little by little, help to impose December 25th as the main holiday, gradually shifting the focus of the holiday towards children ." If parents don’t shift around their behaviour, in the next generations the real signification of Christmas will be forgotten and traditions lost by lack of pursuing our religious traditions defining our

Cinco de Mayo is a popular holiday recognized by many. Cinco de Mayo, translates to the fifth of May, and is a holiday celebrated by people mainly in Mexico and the United States. The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate Mexico’s victory over France during the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Throughout this essay I will be researching and discussing the history of the famous holiday that many people like to celebrate. In 1861 Mexico was in financial trouble and was in debt with many other European countries

immigrated to Canada when I was seven years old. Because my parents’ degrees from China were not recognized, we constantly struggled financially. Growing up, while other kids around me enjoyed presents and holidays, I cooked and cleaned, mended clothing, and helped out at the small gift business that my father ran without pay five days a week. We could not afford to hire additional workers, so the two of us handled everything from administrative work to hard labour. I spent many holidays and weekends

feast between two very different types of people. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in between the The England Colonists called the Pilgrims and a Wampanoag Indian tribe. The Pilgrims celebrated thanksgiving as a day of prayer not a feast. The holiday is connected from the feast held in Autumn 1621 which was the Pilgrims first successful harvest. The Pilgrims came from England to expand territory. When they got here Winter was coming soon and they did not put first things first. By not doing

Buy nothing day, an annual holiday organized in Canada in 1992, was created to raise awareness of consumerism, by urging citizens to save their money for a full twenty four hours. By implementing this holiday into the United States, society, companies, and the environment would see many beneficial factors. Employees work, on average, 34.4 hours a week, calculating down to 6.9, almost seven hours a day. These seven hours a day could be used spending time with family, friends, or even just alone

It is known that Canada will be faced with a labour shortage by 2030 and there are quite a few reasons behind this issue. The aging of the baby-boom generation is limiting the labour force growth and to make things worse, there are low fertility rates. Lower birth rates and the aging population indicate that there will be an issue filling these labour gaps. The baby boomers are retiring and there are not enough youth to take over their positions in the labour force. Due to the retiring of these