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tvordljBoy it's HOT outside! The summer so far has really been crap, cloudy, cool, muggy. The first really hot day, not a cloud in the sky and everyone will be bitching now! LOL! We're not used to it! It's lovely though, really. I sat out in the Parade Square at lunch and Sis and i are going to go to the waterfront after work to look at the ships. They are only letting people on board up to 5 o'clock though so i guess i'll definitely be coming back over the weekend as my boarding pass is good all weekend. Monday is a holiday too. Elsewhere in Canada it's generally just called the Summer civic holiday. Here it's "Natal Day" celebrating Halifax's founding in 1749 and Dartmouth in 1750.
I remember when Halifax and Dartmouth had two separate holidays, each a weekend apart. They merged them into one weekend before Amalgamation merged the cities but when i was a kid, if you worked in Halifax you got the whole day off and a half day for Dartmouth Natal Day and if you worked in Dartmouth you got the whole day off for Dartmouth natal day and half a day for Halifax. Dartmouth's fireworks were over Lake Banook and were always way better than Halifax. Now though they are combined they are usually nothing spectacular though each year is billed as bigger and better than ever. Pah, a few sparks and that's it. The only good ones i saw in recent years were the ones for the Milennium and again on January 1 the next night.
They still have separate parades, one on Sunday and one on Monday, and they still have some of the traditional events like the road race and bridge walk though because of the Tall Ships, they didn't want to close one bridge to traffic all afternoon so they held the bridge walk on Canada Day.
There's so much going on this weekend mainly on the Halifax waterfront. The Acadian festival, a blues tent, a celtic tent, the ships... they'r still holding things like the amateur talent show in Dartmouth but i can't see it being very popular this year other than a few people that just don't want to brave the crowds in Halifax. Not me. I'll be in the thick of it at least for awhile. :)
I remember when Halifax and Dartmouth had two separate holidays, each a weekend apart. They merged them into one weekend before Amalgamation merged the cities but when i was a kid, if you worked in Halifax you got the whole day off and a half day for Dartmouth Natal Day and if you worked in Dartmouth you got the whole day off for Dartmouth natal day and half a day for Halifax. Dartmouth's fireworks were over Lake Banook and were always way better than Halifax. Now though they are combined they are usually nothing spectacular though each year is billed as bigger and better than ever. Pah, a few sparks and that's it. The only good ones i saw in recent years were the ones for the Milennium and again on January 1 the next night.
They still have separate parades, one on Sunday and one on Monday, and they still have some of the traditional events like the road race and bridge walk though because of the Tall Ships, they didn't want to close one bridge to traffic all afternoon so they held the bridge walk on Canada Day.
There's so much going on this weekend mainly on the Halifax waterfront. The Acadian festival, a blues tent, a celtic tent, the ships... they'r still holding things like the amateur talent show in Dartmouth but i can't see it being very popular this year other than a few people that just don't want to brave the crowds in Halifax. Not me. I'll be in the thick of it at least for awhile. :)
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It figures...
Date: 2004-07-30 09:16 am (UTC)Re: It figures...
Date: 2004-07-30 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-30 12:37 pm (UTC)Have fun drinking beer on the waterfront hun, and yes say hi back to sis. And stay away from those big strong sailors. :p
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Date: 2004-07-30 03:58 pm (UTC)