New Year in Canada is an official holiday which is celebrated on January 1st. If New Year falls on a Sunday the next working day is a holiday. Celebration of New Year in Canada starts from New Years Eve which is the day before. The celebrations and events for New Year's are organized after Christmas.
New Year is one of the oldest universal holiday and the Romans celebrated it on January 1st in 153 B.C. Later Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 instituted the Gregorian calendar which is still in use today and set January 1st as New Year's Day.
On New Year's Eve people gather at midnight to wish each other a prosperous new year. You will see people enjoying, dancing, singing and drinking a toast to the year ahead. At midnight New Year in Canada is heralded by the peal of church bells, horns are blown, fireworks lit up the sky. People hug and kiss to begin a love and happiness filled New Year.
Another tradition for New Year in Canada is singing the popular 'Auld Lang Syne' just before midnight. The song means 'the good old days' or 'old long since' was written in 1788 by Robert Burns. Another Canadian New Year tradition is representing the old year by an elderly man called 'Father Time'. The New Year is represented with an infant. Another common thing to do is to make New Year resolutions to change for the better in the New Year.
Numerous New Year Events in Canada are held in different cities and regions. In Banff, Alberta the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel features a gala event. At Niagara Falls in Ontario there is a live concert and fireworks display. In Toronto there is an open air concert at Nathan Phillips Square in front of the Toronto City Hall.
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