// This is the Database of Upcoming Events // Please Edit with Care. // // 8 Fields (surrounded by brackets[]) are used for EACH event: // ["Recurring", "Month", "Day", "Year", "StartTime", "EndTime", "Name", "Description"] // Each event field must be be surrounded by quotation marks followed by a comma ("",) EXCEPT the "Description" field. // The "Description" field is surrounded by quotation marks only (""). // // Each event has a comma after the closing bracket IF another event is below it on the next line down. // Note: The last event in this file should NOT have a comma after the closing bracket // // The Recurring field uses: // "D" = Daily; "W" = Weekly; "M" = Monthly; "Y" = Yearly; "F" = Floating Holiday // // One Time only events should leave the Recurring field blank // (ex. "") // // Daily events do NOT require that anything be in the Month Day and Year fields // Everything in the Month Day and Year fields will be ignored // // Weekly events should have the day of the week field set to 1 - 7 // 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, 3=Tuesday, 4=Wednesday, 5=Thurday, 6=Friday, 7=Saturday // // "F"loating events uses: // the Month field for the Month. // the Day field as the Cardinal Occurrence // 1=1st, 2=2nd, 3=3rd, 4=4th, 5=5th, 6=6th occurrence of the day listed next // the Year field as the Day of the week the event/holiday falls on // 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, 3=Tuesday, 4=Wednesday, 5=Thurday, 6=Friday, 7=Saturday // example: "F", "1", "3", "2", = Floating holiday in January on the 3rd Monday of that month. // // Note: Easter has it's own special formula so Please don't change anything related to Easter below // // "Y"early events are specific dates that never change - the Year field is ignored // example - Christmas is: "12","25","", events = new Array( ["Y", "1", "1", "2006", "1:00 AM", "12:00 PM", "New Year's Day", "New Year's Day will be ushered in with great joy and celebration. Come as you are."], ["F", "1", "3", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Martin Luther King Day", "Honors civil rights leader Rev Martin Luther King."], ["Y", "2", "2", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Groundhog Day", "If Ontario's 'Gary the Groundhog' sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather. If he does not see his shadow, there will be an early spring."], ["Y", "2", "14", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Valentine's Day", "Traditional celebration of love and romance, including the exchange of cards, candy, flowers, and other gifts."], ["Y", "2", "15", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Flag Day", "February 15 was declared National Flag of Canada Day in 1996. It marks the day in 1965 when our red and white maple leaf flag was first raised over Parliament Hill in Ottawa."], ["F", "2", "3", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Family Day (ON, AB, SK)", "There is nothing more valuable to families than time together."], ["F", "3", "0", "0", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Easter", "Traditional celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ."], ["F", "3", "2", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Commonwealth Day", "Until 1977 it was the practice in Canada to observe Commonwealth Day on an ad hoc basis in conjunction with Victoria Day (a statutory holiday), also by proclamation the Queen's Birthday."], ["Y", "3", "17", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "St. Patrick's Day", "A celebration of Irish heritage and culture, based on the Catholic feast of St. Patrick. Primary activity is simply the wearing of green clothing ('wearing of the green')."], ["Y", "3", "22", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "World Water Day", "A day to promote appreciation of the world's most valuable commodity - water."], ["Y", "4", "1", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "April Fool's Day", "A day to play tricks on or 'fool' family, friends, and coworkers, if so inclined. As Ecclesiastes says: 'There is a time for everything'; in this case, a time to be silly."], ["F", "5", "2", "1", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Mother's Day", "Honors mothers and motherhood (made a Federal Holiday by Presidential order)."], ["Y", "5", "14", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Web Masters Birthday", "A yearly celebration...usually includes a day off."], ["F", "5", "3", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Victoria Day", "It is the official celebration in Canada of the birthdays of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II."], ["F", "6", "3", "1", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Father's Day", "Honors all Fathers and fatherhood."], ["Y", "7", "1", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Canada Day", "Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day, is Canada's national holiday, marking the establishment of Canada as new federation with its own constitution on July 1, 1867."], ["F", "8", "1", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Civic/Provincial Day", "No Decription"], ["F", "9", "1", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Labor Day", "Celebrates the achievements of workers, giving them a day of rest - marks traditional end of summer."], ["F", "10", "2", "2", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Thanksgiving Day", "Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season."], ["Y", "10", "31", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Halloween", "Celebrates All Hallow's Eve, decorations include jack o'lanterns, costume wearing parties, and candy - considered a pagan holiday by many Christians."], ["Y", "11", "11", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Remembrance Day", "Remembrance Day is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on November 11th to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918."], ["Y", "12", "25", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Christmas", "Celebration of the traditional day of Jesus' birth."], ["Y", "12", "26", "2005", "1:00 AM", "12:59 PM", "Boxing Day", "Boxing Day is a traditional celebration dating back to the Middle Ages, of which the primary practice is the giving of gifts to employees or to people in a lower social class."] // Please omit the final comma after the ] from the last line above unless you are going to add another event at this time. );