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List of seasonal words from Canada

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After Russia, Canada is the second largest country in the world. Since Canada is an officially bilingual English-French nation, most of the kigo in this saijiki will be in both English & French.

Canada's geography is so diverse that we need to roughly categorise kigo by geographic regions. These are:

Newfoundland & Labrador, Atlantic Canada, northern Quebec & southern Quebec, northern Ontario, central Ontario, southern Ontario, Algonquin Park, Point Peelee National Park, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Canadian Shield, Prairies, Near North, tundra, Yukon, Nunavut, Arctic, North Pole, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia,Vancouver Island.

À l'exception de celle de la Russie, la superficie du Canada est la plus grande du monde.
Le Canada est un pays bilingue dont les langues officielles sont l'anglais et le français.
Sa géographie est si varié qu'il faut catégoriser de façon sommaire les kigo selon les diverses régions géographiques, dont les suivantes:

la Terre-Neuve et le Labrador, le Canada atlantique, le Québec méridonial et septentrional, l'Ontario méridonial, central et septentrional, le Parc Algonquin, le Parc national Point Peelee, les Grands Lacs, le Lac Supérieur, le Bouclier canadien, les Prairies, le Nord méridonial et septentrional, la toundra, le Yukon, le Nunavut, l'Arctique et le Pôle du Nord, les Montagnes Rocheuses, la Colombie Britannique; l'Île de Vancouver .

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SPRING

Crocus (Europe, worldwide)

First or early thunderstorm
First warm breeze

Geese heading north
Goose, geese (kari, gan) .

Kite flying, usually the month of March.
(Kite flying, India and Pakistan )

Maple syrup

Pussy willows, Willow tree (yanagi)

Tulip Festival, Tulip
In May, Ottawa holds a tulip festival, ten to 14 days of celebrations. Canada provided safe haven in Ottawa for members of the Dutch royal family who began a tradition of gifting thousands of tulip bulbs each year to the people of Canada to symbolize international friendship.

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SUMMER

Baseball games
Baseball Playoff USA ..... Baseball Winter Meetings, USA

Beaver (Castor canadensis) Canada, North America

Blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds

Canada Day, July 1

Fireworks

Garage sales; sidewalk sales by merchants

Hornets

Canda Day, July 1

Mosquitoes

Thunderstorms, especially severe storms
Typhoon (Japan) Hurricane Typhoon, Hurricane

Tornado or funnel cloud

Wading Pool, Spray Park

Watering the lawn or garden

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AUTUMN

Canadian Thanksgiving

Grey Cup Game
decides the Canadian Football championship. The season starts in July, finishes in late October, or early November. The game is similar to U.S. football but the field is larger by 10 yards, the end zones for touchdowns are 25 yards deep as compared to 10 yards in the States, etc.

Migrating Birds , geese heading south

Red leaves, colored leaves

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WINTER

Arctic Fox Renard Arctique

Carnaval in Quebec City Carnaval de Québec
Bonhomme Carnaval.
Carneval (Carnival)

Chickadee mésange

Christmas

Freezing rain or freezing drizzle
Freezing, frozen (itsuru, kooru)

Husky = chien de traîneau (ou « husky » )

Ice crystals
Tiny slivers of ice can fall for days on end and because they are so small, there is no accumulation. The sure sign they are occurring is a halo around the sun. During the day this is usually partial, much like a rainbow; at night, they can form a circle around the moon.

Lemmings Les Lemmings

Lesser Snow Goose Petite Oie des neiges

Polar bear = ours polaire (ou « ours blanc » )

Snowy owl = harfeng des neiges

Wolverine

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NEW YEAR

New Year's Concert

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CANADA and HAIKU

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Edmonton, Alberta and its kigo

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This is precisely the sort of publication that should be sought out by readers interested in haiku and other East-Asian verse forms, and the often international communities supporting their proliferation.

Haiku Canada Newsletter

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HAIKU CANADA
was founded in 1977 by Dr. Eric Amann, Betty Drevniok and George Swede.
First called the Haiku Society of Canada, it was renamed Haiku Canada in 1985. Since the founding, members have shared information on haiku, haiku events, organizations, markets and publications.
LeRoy Gorman, Editor
http://pages.infinit.net/haiku/haikucanada.htm
http://www.haikucanada.org/

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Canadian Zen Haiku
http://canadianzenhaikuhome.homestead.com/
Canadian Zen Haiku Halloween 2004
http://vallance22.tripod.com/canadianzenhaikuhalloween2004/index.html

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Canadian Haiku, Eh?
http://canuckhaiku.blogspot.com/

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pacifi-kana
Western branch of Haiku Canada

At present the pacifi-kana haiku group meets three times a year to read and discuss haiku.
Alice Frampton

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Haiku Deer Park
A group of Toronto haiku poets

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Those Women Writing Haiku
Canadian Haiku

The sharing of a common language with France made a decided difference in the way in which Canadians were introduced to haiku.

Read the details HERE:
© Jane Reichhold 1986

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2002

The weekend of May 17th through 19th 2002 saw between forty and fifty haiku poets gather at Glendon College in Toronto, Ontario for Haiku Canada’s annual weekend retreat and AGM. This year’s conference marked the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the inception of Haiku Canada. Enthusiasm remained at a high level throughout the weekend and it occurs to me that it must be a rare thing for such a gathering to be so democratic.

Attendees included beginners, experienced poets, and poets who have won many awards. They came from Canada, the United States, and Japan. The Canadian delegates alone covered the country coast to coast…. from British Columbia to Newfoundland, and all points in between. We were all there to learn more about understanding and appreciating haiku, to hone our skills, and to honour the tradition of writing and sharing our small poems. It was as they say, a grand event.

Haiku Canada: 25 Years Young
Dina Cox, Ontario, CA

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ABC ... Haiku Poets from Canada

Eric Amann

the names of the dead
sinking deeper and deeper
into the red leaves
Amann’s obsession with the Zen philosophy has spilled into his haiku work time and again.

Peter Brady, Quebec

Dina E. Cox
A writer and musician, Ontario, Canada.
Canadian Poets

Laryalee Fraser
British Columbia
occasional spurts of haiku and photo-haiku...
dust in the wind

Abigail Friedman
I am the author of The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
Stone Lantern BLOG

Ruby Spriggs (1929-2001)

George Swede, Toronto

Richard Vallance
Canadian Zen Haiku canadien : YAHOO FORUM
Interview

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Getting to know Canada

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Map of Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.
It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !

BIRDS - Provincial and Territorial Birds of Canada

TREES of Canada

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Polar Bear

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Polar bear = ours polaire (ou « ours blanc » )

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***** Season: winter hiver
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The polar bear is indigenous to Canada. Its habitat is the far North & the Arctic. It roams on the barren snows of the tundra, and on the ice pack of the Arctic Ocean. Polar bears are expert hunters and fishers. Due to increasing encroachment on its previously pristine environment, the polar bear may soon be a species in danger.

Richard Vallance

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ice bear
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native to the Arctic and Subarctic. The world's largest land carnivore, an adult male generally weighs 300–600 kg (660–1320 lb), while an adult female is about half that size. Its fur is hollow and translucent, but usually appears as white or cream colored, thus providing the animal with effective camouflage, though its skin is actually black. Its thick blubber and fur insulate it against the cold. The bear has a short tail and small ears that help reduce heat loss, as well as a relatively small head and long, tapered body to streamline it for swimming.

A semi-aquatic marine mammal, the polar bear is adapted for a life on land, sea, and ice, and is the apex predator within its range. It feeds mainly on seals, young walruses, and whales, although it is an opportunistic feeder and will eat almost anything if hungry.

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on ice floes
melting too early
polar bear cubs trapped

sur les banquises
glace fondée trop tôt
pour les oursons blancs

Richard Vallance 2008

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***** Bear (kuma)Japan. Bear hunters (matagi),
Iomante Festival and many more

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Husky

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Husky = chien de traîneau (ou « husky » )

***** Location: Canada
***** Season: Winter
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The husky or in French "chien de traîneau" (ou « husky » ) is vital to the very subsistence of Canada's Inuit (eskimos) in the far north, the shores of the Arctic Ocean, Baffin Island, Hudson's Bay etc. Without these beautiful, hardy dogs pulling the hunters' sleds (traîneaux in French), the Inuit would starve to death. Teams strong huskies pull the sleds (usually 6-8 dogs), and the Inuit hunters place their catch, seals, whales cut up into blubber (fatty meat), caribou and other prey.

You will also notice in the haiku below that Canadian winter haiku are not always necessarily "nice". We live in a harsh environment. Whereas the word "frontier" epitomizes America, Canada is "wilderness", no doubt about it. Even today, over 90 % of Canada is uninhabited.

In other words, the concept of "harmony" (wa) so essential to Japanese haiku, is alien to the Canadian spirit.
If anything, the word "wilderness" is the very essence of the Canadian natural landscape, regardless of season.

Richard Vallance

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Sibirian Husky Dog Facts

Being a working dog, it is very agile and nimble and some would say that when it walks it has a finesse rarely seen in other dogs. His northern heritage is suggested by a medium sized compact body, well furred body and pointy erect ears. Resembling a wolf, the dog willfully accepts a harness and pulls its master on skis or pulls the sled.

Now when it comes to sizing up a Husky there is a large variation of breed standards all agreeing that height and weight should be proportionate. Male huskies should be approximately 21 to 23 inches high and measuring between 45 to 60 lb while females though having the same height 20 to 22 inches they should weigh around 35 to 50 lb.

Another quirk Huskies tend to have is that in the cold season their noses might present the hypo-pigmentation phenomena which is a slight discoloration of the nose turning from black to a lighter shade of brown or even pink. The color should return to normal in the hot season.

Read more HERE
©　PHOTO and text: dogfactsparadise.blogspot.com

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Alaskan Husky
Alaskan Malamute
Canadian Eskimo Dog
Eurohound
Greenland Dog
Mackenzie River Husky
Norwegian Elkhound
Sakhalin Husky
Samoyed
Seppala Siberian Sleddog
Siberian Husky
Tamaskan Husky

HUSKY in the Wikipedia

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Inuit hunters
and huskies in a gale
starving to death

chasseurs Inuit
et chiens de traîneau dans l'orage
qui crèvent de faim

Richard Vallance 2008

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***** Dog (inu) Japan. Worldwide

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Canadian Thanksgiving

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Canadian Thanksgiving

***** Location: Canada
***** Season: Autumn
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Second Monday in October.

In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.

At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.

After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie.

Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.

Finally, on January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...

"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

© www.twilightbridge.com / Canadian Thanksgiving

In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend. The Monday is a statutory holiday in all jurisdictions except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
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Atlanta's skyline
reveals an orange crescent moon --
Canadian Thanksgiving!

　© Chibi . Dennis Holmes

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On Thanksgiving Day
I love her sweet pumpkin pie
and her shapely ass

©　Cisco Kid

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Yay for long weekends!
Canadian Thanksgiving
Turkey and trimmings.

　©　Shora

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***** Thanksgiving

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Canada Day

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Canada Day , July 1

***** Location: Canada
***** Season: Summer
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On June 20, 1868, a proclamation signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck, called upon all Her Majesty's loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1st.

The July 1 holiday was established by statute in 1879, under the name Dominion Day.

There is no record of organized ceremonies after this first anniversary, except for the 50th anniversary of Confederation in 1917, at which time the new Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, under construction, was dedicated as a memorial to the Fathers of Confederation and to the valour of Canadians fighting in the First World War in Europe.

The next celebration was held in 1927 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. It was highlighted by the laying of the cornerstone by the Governor General of the Confederation Building on Wellington Street and the inauguration of the Carillon in the Peace Tower.

On October 27, 1982, July 1st which was known as "Dominion Day" became "Canada Day".

Since 1985, Canada Day Committees are established in each province and territory to plan, organize and coordinate the Canada Day celebrations locally. Grants are provided by the Department to those committees.

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Independence Day worldwide

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On Canada Day
Everyone's from somewhere else,
Sings like refugees.

　©　Food Grade Silver

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*****Independence Day worldwide

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For the Contributors

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Dear Contributors to the CANADA SAIJIKI !

I will try and give you information as to the formal task of using the template and making entries. This list here will be updated as we find solutions.

Make the appropriate LABEL for each entry, as to the season, category and state given below.

Keep the photos small.
Use the thumbnails from YAHOO photo search as much as possible (many readers have limited internet access) and link the photo to the Yahoo search page for more photos.
This BLOG is part of the whole WKD project (and my Daruma Museum), but I have only a limited amount of KB for free photos of all these blogs together!!!

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English and French (English first please)

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
New Year
Topic

Categories (in the Japanese order, details see here:)
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/12/seasons-and-categories.html

Season
Heaven
Earth
Humanity
Observances
Animal
Plant

Areas and states of Canada (to be added as you need them)

Edmonton

Let us discuss all your problems off list freely.

Gabi Greve