Copyright: Copyright 1997 Cosmi


Contents

Canadian Holiday Web Site

Wiarton Willy

Canadian Thanksgiving

Boxing Day

Canada Day

Christmas in Canada

National, provincial and statutory holidays

General Information


Wiarton Willy

Willy wasn't able to pose for us, so we used a standin groundhog.

On February the second, Wiarton Willy, an albino groundhog, predicts the weather- whether it will be a cold winter, or an early spring. Wiarton Willy is waiting to hear from you at:

sos.on.ca/~theBruce/bruce_peninsula/buisness/wairton-willy/wiarton_willy_motel/willyhme.html


Canadian Thanksgiving

A good explanation of Canadian Thanksgiving is available from sympatico:

nf.sympatico.ca/Features/Thanksgiving


Boxing Day

Yahoo Canada provides information on the history, and changes in the traditions for Boxing Day:

yahoo.ca/text/society_and_cultural/Holidays/Boxing_Day


Canada Day

For information on the celebration of Canada Day, visit marlo.com/holiday.htm


Christmas in Canada

Visit www.blul/igs.net/~fair/chms.htm to learn about Christmas in Canada.


National, provincial and statutory holidays

iquest.net/guide/canada/arts/holidays.html has a complete list of Canadian national and provincial holidays.


General Information

All web sites were verified on August 28, 1997. Web sites sometimes close or change their service providers. As a result it is possible for sites we have described to be unavailable when you try to reach them.

If you receive a message indicating that the "page cannot be found" then it is possible that the information, or updated information, is available on the site, but the html page has a different name. Try going to the homepage of the web site and looking for an index. For example, if you link to:

example.com/apples

and get a message indicating that the page is not found, try example.com and looking for an index.

To find other sites use one of the excellent web search sites including:

•	yahoo.com

•	webcrawler.com

•	lycos.com

•	yahoo.ca  (Canadian Yahoo)

almost every site mentioned in this program has links to similar sites.