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- Tourism Information
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- Places to visit
- Events
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CANADIAN TIME ZONES
- GMT-8 Pacific Time (Yukon, British Columbia)
- GMT-7 Mountain Time (Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
- GMT-6 Central Time (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario)
- GMT-5 Eastern Time (Ontario, Quebec)
- GMT-4 Atlantic Time (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island)
- GMT-3.5 Newfoundland Time (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Weather Averages by Province
Temperature, sunshine, precipitation and snowfall averages for cities and towns across a province:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
Weather in Northern Canada
Holidays
Canada recognizes and celebrates the following national holidays (some provinces may have minor differences):
- New years day — 1 January
- Family Day — 3rd Monday in February (not observed in all provinces, known as Louis Riel Day in Manitoba, Islander Day in PEI)
- Good Friday — typically sometime in late March or early April
- Easter Sunday — the Sunday after Good Friday
- Victoria Day—Last Monday in May before 24 May (always one week before the U.S. holiday of Memorial Day)
- Canada Day—1 July
- Civic Day — first Monday in August (only applies in some provinces, under different names ie. in Ontario its referred to as Simcoe Day after an early Lieutenant Governor)
- Labour Day — first Monday in September
- Thanksgiving—Second Monday in October (the same day as the U.S. holiday of Columbus Day)
- Halloween —31 October
- Remembrance Day —11 November (this day is observed in the U.S. as Veterans Day)
- Christmas — 25 December
- Boxing day—26 December
Note also that Canada’s Labour Day is not celebrated on 1 May, as in much of the world, but on the first Monday in September (the same day as the U.S. celebrates its Labor Day).