New Year

New Year EveNew Year is a holiday that the Russian people is perhaps the most beloved, and all the festivities with firecrackers and fireworks, performances and carnivals, mornings for children with dances and gifts, with grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden, as well as the most abundant feasts in the year are dedicated to him, in Canada is not celebrated as lavishly. On New Year’s Eve, the house is strikingly calm, in Canada, this holiday is not celebrated by many, and if anyone celebrates, it is quiet and not until the morning.

In Canada, the favorite holiday is Christmas, preparations for which are already underway since the end of October, when shop windows begin to lure gift buyers with Christmas decorations, the branches of street trees are decorated with cheerful lights, snow and ice figures, castles and palaces grow on the squares, and traditional Christmas wreaths are hung on the doors of houses. No one is left unattended at Christmas: even those who live far away receive gifts or greetings in the mail. It is for Christmas that they are prepared in advance, and when the holiday is finally coming, it is really welcome.

New Year Eve, unlike the troublesome Christmas that gradually flows into it, is met calmly and peacefully. Many people spend this holiday as the most ordinary day of rest: all the scope, all the courage goes to Christmas.

Traditionally, Canadians celebrate this holiday not at the table, but on the street, with friends and acquaintances, or at cheerful friendly parties. But for many, meeting the first minutes of the coming year is still a family holiday, regardless of where it is held - at home or outside it.

On the main square of Toronto, the city that is the center of culture and business of Canada, on the evening of December 31, a concert dedicated to the New Year’s Eve is traditionally held. This is a colorful entertainment show, in which famous presenters, singers, performers take part, every time it is fascinating and fun. The event is free and does not involve the use of alcoholic beverages. It ends when the clock strikes exactly midnight.

After the festive concert, the New Year's fun focuses on the skating rink in the city center, where music is still playing for a long time, and the skating that Canadians love so much continues.

Every year, such performances, regardless of the weather, gather tens of thousands of citizens and guests of the city. For those who do not manage to get to the mass festivities, television arranges the broadcast of New Year's Eve in Toronto to the whole country.

And yet, the New Year in Canada is a holiday like a “calendar”: the long-awaited magical gifts received at Christmas. School holidays usually last until January 4, and after this period, people return to normal, non-holiday life and share their impressions of past holidays and holidays. (Based on novareinna.com, newca.com, onlife.ru, zavtra.ru)