Healthy Home Newsletter May 2018 - Volume XVl, Issue 5

May 2018 - Volume XVI, Issue 5
Mother’s Day, May 13
Cool Blogs, Sites
& Online
Resources to
Check Out!
Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the
year because the day has a number of different origins.
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of
mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a
great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal
Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the
Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
In most countries, Mother’s Day is a new concept copied from
western civilization. In many African countries, the idea of one
Mother’s Day has its origins in copying the British concept, but many
festivals and events celebrating mothers on the African continent have
been there centuries before the colonials arrived. In most of East Asia,
Mother’s Day is a heavily marketed and commercialized concept
copied straight from Mother’s Day in the USA.
Victoria Day, May 21
Cool websites to
visit this month:
Mothers’ Day
Cartoons website
Celebrate mom with a collection
of funny and witty cartoons
compiled by Daryl Cagle. This is
a website with some great
Mothers’ Day Cartoons. The
following is a long URL, but it’s
worth it.
www.today.com/
slideshow/mother-s-day-
cartoons-30324381
Victoria Day is a Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the
last Monday before or on May 24 in honour of both Queen Victoria’s
birthday and the current reigning Canadian sovereign’s birthday.
While Victoria Day is often thought of as a purely Canadian event, it
is also celebrated in some parts of Scotland, particularly in Edinburgh
and Dundee, as well as in the Cayman Islands, where it is also a
public holiday.
The birthday of the monarch was a day for celebration in
Canada long before confederation. On May 24, 1845, 5,000 residents
of Upper Canada gathered in front of Government House (near
present day King and Simcoe Streets, in Toronto) to “give cheers to
their queen.”
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