# Happy Saskatchewan Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817 "2008-08-04T16:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/1 "2008-08-04T16:41:50Z")
in which **Piper** engages in the traditional heritage activity of browsing the Dope, just like Great-Grandad Piper did in the sod hut on the home quarter. Sadly, Mrs Piper is hinting that **Piper** should engage in less traditional activities, such as the laundry. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/2 "2008-08-04T16:44:02Z")
Apparently here in Burlington, it’s Joseph Brant Day. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/3 "2008-08-04T17:13:46Z")
…and it’s BC Day here! Sun is shining, birds are singing, sky is blue, and here am I, bathed in the soft glow of the LCD screen… however, I will hie myself out to the garden shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/4 "2008-08-04T17:16:03Z")
My Saskatchewan Day activity is attempting to calculate how many more serious injuries the Riders can sustain before they have to start Gainer. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/5 "2008-08-04T17:25:47Z")
And in Toronto, we say Happy Simcoe Day!!! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/6 "2008-08-04T17:35:11Z")
Happy [Heritage Day](http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/prov_e.cfm)! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/7 "2008-08-04T17:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] My Saskatchewan Day activity is attempting to calculate how many more serious injuries the Riders can sustain before they have to start Gainer. [/QUOTE] Indeed. I’ve started a thread on it: [It ain’t easy being Green - even when the Roughriders are 6-0…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10066426#post10066426) ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/8 "2008-08-04T18:57:08Z")
New Brunswick Day here - unfortunately it falls on a scheduled off day for me, so it doesn’t feel like a ‘holiday’ except that I can’t go buy beer. Oh well, a day off is a day off, I’ll take it. Happy \ to everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/9 "2008-08-04T21:06:40Z")
Happy my mum’s birthday? ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/10 "2008-08-04T21:22:26Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] Indeed. I’ve started a thread on it: [It ain’t easy being Green - even when the Roughriders are 6-0…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10066426#post10066426) [/QUOTE] I’d actually been wondering where your 'Rider threads were. Now I find out they are hiding in The Game Room! I’m spending my Saskatchewan Day as the last of my five day weekend, alas, because then it’s back to work tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/11 "2008-08-04T22:32:36Z")
What’s the traditional drink to celebrate Saskatchewan Day? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/12 "2008-08-05T00:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] Happy [Heritage Day](http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/prov_e.cfm)! [/QUOTE] Don’t get too excited–it’s not really a holiday in Alberta. From the Alberta _Employment Standards Code_, R.S.A. 2000, c. E-9, s. 25: > [@](#): > > 25 The following days are general holidays in Alberta: > (a) New Year’s Day, > (b) Alberta Family Day, > (c) Good Friday, > (d) Victoria Day, > (e) Canada Day, > (f) Labour Day, > (g) Thanksgiving Day, > (h) Remembrance Day, > (i) Christmas Day, > (j) any other day designated, by regulation, as a general holiday by the Lieutenant Governor in Council [Alberta Heritage Day has not been so designated under the _Regulations_], and > (k) any other day designated as a general holiday under an agreement between an employer and employees, or otherwise designated as a general holiday by an employer. Yep, Alberta remains one of the few provinces that _doesn’t_ designate the first Monday in August as an official holiday. Not that most Albertans and Alberta employers call it a holiday anyway, which is allowed. From [Alberta Employment and Immigration](http://employment.alberta.ca/cps/rde/xchg/hre/hs.xsl/1472.html): > [@](#): > > Employers may choose to recognize additional days as general holidays for their employees. For example, many employers have, by agreement, designated … Alberta Heritage Day as [an] additional general holiday for their employees. The factory I worked is one that decided not to choose to recognize Alberta Heritage Day–it is operating today, because it’s not an official holiday. I hate to be the bearer of depressing news, fellow Albertans, but in the name of fighting ignorance, this had to be cleared up. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/13 "2008-08-05T01:34:12Z")
Questions from an American: –The calendars say today (Aug. 4) is called Civic Holiday in Canada. Is that what it’s actually called in everyday life? Is there a generic name for it over the whole country? –What actually does Civic Holiday celebrate? ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/14 "2008-08-05T01:37:49Z")
Civic Holiday is the generic term, but see also “August Long”. Mostly it commemorates that last trip to the cabin (or cottage if you’re Ontarian) for the season. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/15 "2008-08-05T02:03:00Z")
[QUOTE=Raygun99] Civic Holiday is the generic term, but see also “August Long”. Mostly it commemorates that last trip to the cabin (or cottage if you’re Ontarian) for the season. [/QUOTE] Um usually the last trip to the cottage is the thanksgiving weekend, at least from what I have seen on the 400 when I go home on LW’s Declan ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/16 "2008-08-05T02:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=KRM] What’s the traditional drink to celebrate Saskatchewan Day? [/QUOTE] Regina juice? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/17 "2008-08-05T03:22:48Z")
Civic holiday, or usually “the August long weekend” is pretty much what we call it. We’re an imaginative bunch here. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/18 "2008-08-05T03:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Regina juice? [/QUOTE] Perhaps a Saskatoon Berry Smootie: [http://www.saskatoonberry.com/recipes/smoothie.html](http://www.saskatoonberry.com/recipes/smoothie.html) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/19 "2008-08-05T04:06:06Z")
“Civic holiday” seems to be an appropriate name. I spent this morning cutting the grass with a riding mower. While I was at it, I cut a swath out of my neighbour’s as well, so that my other neighbour and I can park our trailers while our freshly paved driveway cures. At lunch time, the neighbour whose grass I cut rolled up on his riding mower, somewhat under the influence, looking for my other neighbour. I called out to him, but he had trouble spotting me because I was up on a deck behind a tree. After a few rounds of “where are you?”, I told him that I was in the top of the tree, so he spent a few minutes staring up into the treetop looking for me before he clued in. Then he joined me on my deck, where he played with my cat for a while before he rolled off home on his riding mower. I think “Civic holiday” pretty much fits that sort of a day. At least I can’t come up with any better name for it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817/20 "2008-08-05T05:03:10Z")
The August Long Weekend is pretty much what we call it. Looking at my calendar, it’s official name is “Civic Holiday.” At least they haven’t called it Trudeau Day yet. 😃 We spent it in Creston, BC, and have a fridge full of fruit that was on a tree earlier this weekend. Yeah, baby. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saskatchewan-day/458817.md?page=2)