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March 2019 - Volume XVII, Issue 3
St Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Blue, not green, was the color long-associated
with St. Patrick. Green, the color most widely associated with
Ireland, with Irish people, and with St. Patrick’s Day in modern
times, may have gained its prominence through the phrase “the
wearing of the green” meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s
clothing. At many times in Irish history, to do so was seen as a
sign of Irish nationalism or loyalty to the Roman Catholic faith.
St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain
the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish.
The wearing of and display of shamrocks and shamrock-
inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the
saint’s holiday. The change to Ireland’s association with green
rather than blue probably began around 1750s.
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Bars across Canada are packed on St. Patrick’s Day with
revelers.
The longest-running Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Canada
occurs each year in Montreal, Quebec. The parades have been
held in continuity since 1824; however, St. Patrick’s Day itself
has been celebrated in Montreal as far back as 1759 by Irish
soldiers in the Montreal Garrison following the British conquest
of New France.
In Canada, Saint Patrick’s Day is an official holiday only in
the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Some groups,
notably Guinness, have lobbied to make Saint Patrick’s Day a
federal (national) holiday.
In the Province of Manitoba, the Irish Association of
Manitoba runs an annual three day festival of music and culture
based around St. Patrick’s Day.
In the City of Toronto from 1919 to 1927, the Toronto Maple
Leafs were known as the Toronto St. Patrick’s, and wore green
jerseys. In 1999 when the Leafs played on Hockey Nights in
Canada (national broadcast of the NHL) on St. Patrick’s Day,
the Leafs wore green St. Pat’s retro jerseys. There is a larger
parade in the city’s downtown core that attracts over 100,000
spectators.
Although the baseball season is still in the spring training
phase when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, the Toronto Blue
Jays wear green uniforms for the occasion.
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