Simcoe Day (a.k.a. "Civic Holiday")
In case you were going to try and reach the Tucows’ head office (where I work), in Accordion City, please note that this Monday, August 7th, is a holiday in Canada. Across Canada, it’s known as “Civic Holiday”, but its name varies from province to province. Here in Ontario, it’s called “Simcoe Day” after Lord John Graves Simcoe, and the holiday’s sole purpose is to provide a long weekend in August. Gotta love it!
Here’s the official Tucows statement on what departments will be up and running:
On the upcoming Statutory Holiday in Ontario, which occurs on 07 August 2006, Tucows will be offering the following support hours:
07 August 2006:
Customer Support and Sales hours 1300 UTC to 2100 UTC.
(That’s 9:00 a.m. EDT to 5:00 p.m. EDT.)
Payments hours 1300 to 2100 UTC.
(Once again, 9:00 a.m. EDT to 5:00 p.m. EDT.)
Compliance department is CLOSED.
08 August 2006:
All departments OPEN as usual.
Please note that the Operations Department will continue to
monitor OpenSRS systems 24 hours per day, seven days per
week and Customer Support will be available via pager for
system-wide emergencies.
I myself will be enjoying the long weekend, but I just might sneak in a post in this blog.
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"Across Canada, it's known as "Civic Holiday", but its name varies from province to province. Here in Ontario, it's called 'Simcoe Day'"
The Wikipedia page you link to has it differently: "in Ontario it is generally referred to as Civic Holiday but is named differently in some cities. In Toronto it is Simcoe Day while in Ottawa it is Colonel By Day, for instance"
Here in British Columbia, we are boring, and call it BC Day.
Apparently, Burlington needed to be different, and calls it Joseph Brant day.
This is the ONLY remotely interesting thing about Burlington (other than the fact that there's a semiconductor company and small fab there)