On July 1 Canada celebrates its main national holiday – Canada Day.
Canada Day was proclaimed to honour union of all British North American colonies into a single dominion under the name of Canada pursuant to the British North America Act. That day the first colonies of British North America – Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united into a confederation called the Dominion of Canada, thus having founded a new country.
After six other provinces one after another joined the country, by the end of the 19th century Canada acquired its modern shape. The process of final formation of the Confederation ended in 1949, when the former British dominion of Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province. Today in addition to ten provinces Canada possesses three northern territories.
Transfer of constitutional power from the United Kingdom to Canada occurred on Parliament Hill in Ottawa where Queen Elizabeth II announced a new document.
As an occasion of national significance, Canada Day is celebrated with great delight and national pride. Many thousands of people take part in festivities organized on Parliament Hill. Traffic is usually blocked in Canadian cities. Canada Day festivities include parades, public ceremonies, concerts and open air performances of choirs and orchestras. Many cities hold magnificent firework displays in the evening. Province of Newfoundland and Labrador celebrates Canada Day as Memorial Day. Residents of the province honour memory of their compatriots perished on the battlefields of Europe during World War II.
On the 15-th of April the Day of Love in Georgiais celebrated.This holiday, dedicated to lovers, as an alternative to the famous Western holiday called Valentine's Day,was organized by Georgian parliament that accepted proposal of Besik Chubinidze - a famouspersonality in local show business.
The experts of NASA published video record and several shots which show how the planet Earth looks during New Year holidays if one looks at it from the Universe.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
International Day of chocolate is non-official holiday dedicated to the favorite delicacy of many people on the planet. It is always celebrated on the 13-th September annually. This holiday is the wonderful reason to take a piece of chocolate, even if you try cutting down on sweets.
On the 14-th of August Independence Day is celebrated in Pakistan. Firstly this national holiday happened in 1947, it was established in honour of anniversary of independence announcement in Pakistan.
The most important holiday in Peru is its Independence Day, it is celebrated on 28th July to commemorate the anniversary of Peru's independence from Spanish rule in the year 1821.
Every year on the fourth Sunday of July Peru celebrates the Day of Pisco Sour cocktail - a holiday of the country's most popular cocktail, prepared on the basis of grape vodka pisco enjoyed by the Peruvians since the 16th century.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
On June 9 the International Friendship Day is observed. This is not an official holiday and it was introduced quite recently. However, it has a very noble goal to remind people how much their beloved ones mean for them, and to give a chance to spend an evening with them.
