List of KIGO Canada

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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 .

Richard Vallance


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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. (genus, Poecile)

Christmas

Family Day February

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 HAIKU TOPICS

Enviroku .. Haiku and Senryu

Toronto


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Canadian Thanksgiving

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Canadian Thanksgiving

***** Location: Canada
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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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.
　©　More in the Wikipedia


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HAIKU

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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***** American Thanksgiving



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Canada Day

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Canada Day , July 1

***** Location: Canada
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Observance

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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.

©　www.pch.gc.ca: Canada Day





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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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warm greetings
a mari usque ad mare -
Canada Day

- Shared by Elaine Andre -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013

A Mari Usque Ad Mare - The Latin Motto on Canada's coat of arms:
(from sea to sea)
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !



Canada Day parade-
the fire truck I ride in polished
to a new gloss

Angelee Deodhar, India


Formerly known as "Dominion Day," Canada Day marks the anniversary of the Constitution Act of 1867, joining Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canada province (now Ontario and Quebec) into a single country. The Constitution Act granted Canada a substantial amount of independence from England, although complete independence was not given until 1982.


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