New Year in Canada is a festive fiesta with midnight parties, drinking bashes, brilliant fireworks and of course sizzling foods. Many Canadians like to spend the New Year watching football and the marvelous ball drop in Times Square.
Various New Year celebrations evoke from the long practiced traditions observed by the early Canadians. Majority New Year Traditions in Canada are meant to bring good luck and fortune to the family on the ensuing year.
With New Year on the threshold and people getting ready to celebrate the season let us have a look at some interesting New Year Traditions in Canada. There is a tradition in Canada to have polar bear swim on the New Year's Day. People of all ages put on their bathing suits plunge into the icy cold water to welcome the New Year.
Loud claps and cheers at the stroke of midnight are believed to ward off evil spirits. Kissing the date on New Year Eve midnight ensures that friendly ties will grace both the partner on each day of the New Year.
Gift giving and wishing Happy New Year on this special day is a popular tradition. New Year gifts can be anything from theme based to something inspiring. New Year gifts are ideal to express love, concern to the gift receiver as well as it acts as lucky charm for the coming future.
The custom of First Footing and consuming a bowl of black-eyed pea soup along with a drink are some other cherished New Year traditions of Canada. European immigrants brought first Footing traditions to the U.S. In the old days people would gather coals from their hearth just before midnight and set out to visit friends in the first minutes of the New Year.
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