Groundhog Day in Canada
Bill Murray forever immortalized the excitement around this weather predicting event in Punxatawney, Pennsylvania with the movie Groundhog Day. Here in Canada we have a few famous groundhogs and tomorrow, they are up for their big moment! Shudenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a website or any information on this […]
Carnaval de Quebec
Every winter, Quebec City comes alive with a winter festival known as Carnaval de Quebec. It features crazy winter activities such as snow sculptures, dog sledding, tubing, tobogganing, ice buildings, ice canoe races, and more. Jolly Bonhomme Carnaval is the ambassador and host of the event, which lasts for several days. About Carnaval Quebec Winter Carnival […]
Winter Learning eBooks from On the Mark Press
Winter can be a hard time to homeschool – when the cold and snowy weather hits, it’s tempting to just hibernate instead of doing anything else. Thankfully, there’s an option to embrace that wintery goodness and use it as a learning experience. On the Mark Press has a great collection of downloadable eBooks on a […]
National Flag of Canada Day
In 1996, February 15th was declared National Flag of Canada Day – where we celebrate the now iconic symbol of our nation. This marks the date of the first official raising of the flag over Parliament back in 1965, after a long debate over which flag best represented the country. The National Flag of […]
Earth Hour
Every year in spring, it’s time to turn off the lights for Earth Hour. In 2007, Sydney, Austalia started a movement to help change with a simple task of having people participate in a challenge to turn their lights off for an hour. The following year, Toronto joined in – and before long, the rest […]
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