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Default Civic Holiday dinner

On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:53:55 +1000, Bruce >
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>On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>
>>On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 8:06:07 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> I wasn't very hungry and had little interest in dinner. We had been out
>>> to Canal Days in Port Colborne and we had shwarma for lunch. It was
>>> piled high with chicken and miscellaneous extras. I was ready to take a
>>> pass on dinner, but my wife suggested that we could use up a bag of
>>> shrimp that was in the freezer as a nice,light dinner. We put the
>>> shrimp in a bowl of water to thaw while I made a marinade of lemon
>>> juice, olive oil, lots of garlic, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, some
>>> ketchup, salt, pepper, hot sauce and parsley. I put the shrimp in to
>>> marinade for about and hour, then stuck them on skewers. I had a roll
>>> and some salad with it. It was fantastic.

>>
>>"Civic Holiday" is such a bland descriptor. Did it used to be called
>>something else?

>
>Christmas is called "Non-denominational Holiday" in Canada.


Strange that, I have lived in Canada 52 years and have never heard it
called that.