your country's special holidays
By cher913
@cher913 (25781)
Canada
December 28, 2009 12:27pm CST
i was just answering a discussion and i had mentioned that i had done something over the may 24th weekend. most people who are not Canadian would have no clue as to what we celebrate that day. we actually celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday - the biggest thing we do is light fire works (i also go to a town wide garage sale that weekend too!)
of course, we celebrate some of the days the US celebrates like Christmas, but our Thanksgiving is in October and we get a long weekend in August (its a civic holiday) as well as Canada day which is July 1.
THere are lots of people from a variety of countries on mylot so i was wondering if you all could mention some of your country's holidays.
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5 responses
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Dec 09
Martin Luther King day, President's day (a combo of Washington's and Lincoln's birthday), Memorial Day, July 4th - Independence day, Labor day, Veteran's day, Thanksgiving...
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
28 Dec 09
I think my country has the most public holidays in the world. Since we are a multiracial country public holidays are accorded to the four major world religious celebration in additional to cultural celebration like harvest festival besides the king's birthdays and our head of state birthdays. There are also easter, muslim prophet birthdays etc...I really can't remember how many public holidays we have in a year but we do have many. So I can say we are a country pampered with public holidays which I think is a waste and make the country unproductive economically.
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
28 Dec 09
In the USA we celebrate Easter in April, Independence Day on July 4th, Thanksgiving in November, Christmas in December and New Years Day on January 1st.
