The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Fixed and Moveable Festivals, Anniversaries, &c
Fixed and Moveable Festivals, Anniversaries, &c.
New Year's Day | Jan. | 1 |
Epiphany (*) | Jan. | 6 |
Septuagesima | Feb. | 9 |
Sexagesima | Feb. | 16 |
Quinquagesima | Feb. | 23 |
Ash Wednesday | Feb. | 23 |
St. David | March | 1 |
St. Patrick | March | 17 |
Annunciation (*) | March | 25 |
Palm Sunday | April | 6 |
Good Friday | April | 11 |
Easter Monday | April | 13 |
Low Sunday | April | 20 |
Rogation Sunday | May | 13 |
St. George | May | 21 |
Ascension Sunday (*) | May | 21 |
Queen Victoria—Birthday, 1819 May | May | 21 |
Whit Sunday | June | 1 |
Trinity Sunday | June | 8 |
Corpus Christi | June | 12 |
Queen Victoria—Accession | June | 20 |
Queen Victoria proclaimed | June | 21 |
St. John Baptist | June | 21 |
St. Peter and St. Paul (*) | June | 29 |
Dominion Day | July | 1 |
St. Michael | Sept. | 29 |
All Saints' Day (*) | Nov. | 1 |
Prince of Wales Birthday | Nov. | 9 |
St. Andrews | Nov. | 30 |
First Sunday in Advent | Nov. | 30 |
Conception of St. Mary | Dec. | 8 |
St Thomas | Dec. | 21 |
Christmas Day | Dec. | 25 |
St. John the Evangelist | Dec. | 27 |
The only legal holidays in the Province of Ontario are New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Queen's Birthday, and any day set apart by proclamation.
In the Province of Quebec feasts and anniversaries marked with an asterisk (*) are also legal holidays; also days proclaimed for Thanksgiving.
The year 5610 of the Jewish Era commences on September 19, 1879.
The year 1236 of the Mohammedan Era commences on January 28, 1879.
The 43rd year of Queen Victoria's reign commences on June 20th, 1879.
The 13th year of the Dominion of Canada commences July 1, 1879.
The 104th year of the Independence of the United States commences July 4, 1879.
On pp. 6, 7, 8 of the Calendar are given the local civil times at which the upper limb of the sun appears to rise and set at a central station in lat. 45° N., and long, 4h. 46m. W, allowance for refraction having been applied to the true times of rising and setting.
The times of sunset in any latitude from lat. 42° to lat 50°, may be found with sufficient accuracy, by applying with their proper signs, the correction given in the following table.
The same corrections, with their signs changed, are applicable for finding the times of sunrise