Summer Traditions

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Bonfire:

A bonfire is a controlled outdoor fire used for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration. Celebratory bonfires are typically designed to burn quickly and may be very large. The name 'bonfire' is from 'bone fire'.

• See Celebritory bonfires at wikipedia

Brantford International Villages Festival (July)

The Villages Festival is one of the City of Brantford’s main events that draws visitors from outside the municipality while encouraging citizens of Brantford and Area to participate in this unique cultural offering that instills excitement, awareness, education and civic pride. Based on community partnerships the Villages Festival helps to promote and preserve the cultural heritage of national and ethnic groups.

• Official website

Brantford Kinsmen Annual Ribfest: (August) - Canada - Participants 22,000

Brantford Kinsmen Annual Ribfest(Brantford Ribfest) is an annual ribfest food festival held at Cockshutt Park in Brantford, Ontario. The Kinsmen Club of Brantford organizes the three-day long Ribfest to raise money for charity during a funfilled weekend. Brantford Kinsmen Annual Ribfest was so well attended that it was thought to be The biggest event in Brantford, since Canada Day.

• Official website • Kinsmen Club of Brantford

Castleton Garland Day or Garland King Day

is held on 29 May (unless that date falls on a Sunday, when the custom is transferred to the Saturday) in the town of Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District. The Garland King, on horseback, and covered to the waist in a heavy, bell-shaped floral Garland, leads a procession through the town.

• Derbyshire and the Peak District Photographs (Garland Day 2007)

The Twelfth (also called Orangemen's Day or, in Belfast, Orangefest)

is a yearly Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It originated in Ireland during the 18th century. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690). It is sometimes called the Glorious Twelfth, but that term is more commonly used to refer to 12 August. Members of the Orange Order and Protestant marching bands stage parades throughout Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in other parts of the world. The Toronto Twelfth, for example, is North America's oldest consecutive yearly parade. While it is a Protestant celebration, not all Irish Protestants celebrate it, whether due to political or cultural reasons or indifference. More recently, attempts have been made to play down the explicitly unionist political aspects of the parades (as well as any violent history) and present the Twelfth as a "cultural" event, at which tourists are welcome. It has been argued by some that before the Troubles, members of both communities participated in the event; however it was dominated by Protestants and many Catholics opposed the celebrations.

• The Twelfth in pictures BBC News, 12 July 2006 • Gallery Orange Chronicle

• North Belfast parade passes peacefully

See Also:

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► Summer Holidays

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