One page for the whole Canadian calendar: today's moment in our history, the dates we love, and every holiday and observance worth circling. Federal and widely observed dates; provincial days vary, because of course they do.
1861: James Naismith is born in Almonte, Ontario
Thirty years later, stuck indoors with restless students and a long winter, he would nail two peach baskets to a gym wall and invent basketball. A Canadian looked at winter and said: fine, new sport.
Lest we forget. Poppies on, two minutes of silence at 11am.
Turkey, tourtière, and the annual debate about whether the tree comes down before New Year's.
Leftovers, hockey, and sales that used to mean something.
Home of the polar bear dip: in the water, regret everything, do it again next year.
A February long weekend invented because February needed one. Skating, skiing, or strategic couch time.
The quiet start to the Easter weekend.
The May Two-Four: cottages open, gardens go in, blackflies RSVP yes.
The big one. Flags, fireworks, and at least one neighbour's legendary barbecue.
It has a different name almost everywhere and nobody can fully explain it. A day off is a day off.
The unofficial end of summer. One last swim.
Orange Shirt Day. A day to listen, learn, and remember.
The correct Thanksgiving, a month early and with better pie timing. (We said what we said.)
Lest we forget.
And the wheel turns again.
The Thursday before Victoria Day weekend, honouring Canada's cocktail (Calgary, 1969). A drink with a snack on top is peak Canadian engineering.
Communities across the country run, walk, and wheel for cancer research, continuing Terry's Marathon of Hope.
Every Canadian workplace runs this pool. Moose Mail's official position: it snows earlier than you think, every single year.
Spotted a date we missed? Tell the Moose.