If it’s August 3 in Canada then that means a Civic Holiday!
Each August 3 Canada celebrates a Civic Holiday.
What holiday you ask? That depends on where you live in the country. Most of us are never quite sure which one it is. Truth be told, it’s just an excuse to enjoy long weekend in the sun.
Because of the lack of, er, um, consistency in just what we are celebrating, it was a little difficult narrowing down an appropriate stamp. There are no generic Civil Holiday stamps. So, I settled on our native bird the Canada Goose in all it’s magnificent, impolite surliness. The Brits can have their rampant lions and unicorns. We have the angry Rampant Canada Goose.
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Issued in 2018 as part of Canada’s
Birds of Canada set
Designers: Kosta Tsetsekas and Mike Savage
This is the stamp that made me think Rampant Goose in the first place, or as we like to call them Cobra Chickens. They hiss, attack, don’t back down and carry a grudge. We’re rather proud of them here in Canada. Scared silly of them, but proud non-the-less.
Kudos to the stout soul at Wikipedia who figured out just what Canadians are celebrating.
Though the first Monday of August is celebrated in most of Canada as a public holiday, it is only officially known as “Civic Holiday” in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, where it is a territorial statutory holiday.
In other provinces and municipalities, the holiday is known by a variety of names, including British Columbia Day in British Columbia, New Brunswick Day in New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan Day in Saskatchewan; all of these places celebrate the date as a provincial statutory holiday.
The holiday is celebrated as Heritage Day in Alberta, Natal Day in Nova Scotia, in commemoration of the founding of the Halifax–Dartmouth area; Natal Day on Prince Edward Island celebrating the birth of the province; and as Terry Fox Day in Manitoba, in honour of the Manitoba-born athlete.[5]
The date is also celebrated as several municipal holidays in Ontario, such as Simcoe Day in Toronto, John Galt Day in Guelph, and Colonel By Day in Ottawa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Holiday
Like I said, the civic holiday is just an excuse to kick back and enjoy a long weekend.
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