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List of KIGO Canada

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List of seasonal words from Canada

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After Russia, Canada is the second largest country in the world. Since Canada is an officially bilingual English-French nation, most of the kigo in this saijiki will be in both English & French.

Canada's geography is so diverse that we need to roughly categorise kigo by geographic regions. These are:

Newfoundland & Labrador, Atlantic Canada, northern Quebec & southern Quebec, northern Ontario, central Ontario, southern Ontario, Algonquin Park, Point Peelee National Park, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Canadian Shield, Prairies, Near North, tundra, Yukon, Nunavut, Arctic, North Pole, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia,Vancouver Island.


À l'exception de celle de la Russie, la superficie du Canada est la plus grande du monde.
Le Canada est un pays bilingue dont les langues officielles sont l'anglais et le français.
Sa géographie est si varié qu'il faut catégoriser de façon sommaire les kigo selon les diverses régions géographiques, dont les suivantes:

la Terre-Neuve et le Labrador, le Canada atlantique, le Québec méridonial et septentrional, l'Ontario méridonial, central et septentrional, le Parc Algonquin, le Parc national Point Peelee, les Grands Lacs, le Lac Supérieur, le Bouclier canadien, les Prairies, le Nord méridonial et septentrional, la toundra, le Yukon, le Nunavut, l'Arctique et le Pôle du Nord, les Montagnes Rocheuses, la Colombie Britannique; l'Île de Vancouver .

Richard Vallance


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SPRING

Crocus (Europe, worldwide)

First or early thunderstorm
First warm breeze

Geese heading north
Goose, geese (kari, gan) .

Kite flying, usually the month of March.
(Kite flying, India and Pakistan )

Maple syrup

Pussy willows, Willow tree (yanagi)

Tulip Festival, Tulip
In May, Ottawa holds a tulip festival, ten to 14 days of celebrations. Canada provided safe haven in Ottawa for members of the Dutch royal family who began a tradition of gifting thousands of tulip bulbs each year to the people of Canada to symbolize international friendship.

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SUMMER

Baseball games
Baseball Playoff USA ..... Baseball Winter Meetings, USA

Beaver (Castor canadensis) Canada, North America

Blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds

Canada Day, July 1

Fireworks

Garage sales; sidewalk sales by merchants

Hornets

Canda Day, July 1

Mosquitoes

Thunderstorms, especially severe storms
Typhoon (Japan) Hurricane Typhoon, Hurricane

Tornado or funnel cloud

Wading Pool, Spray Park

Watering the lawn or garden

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AUTUMN

Canadian Thanksgiving


Grey Cup Game
decides the Canadian Football championship. The season starts in July, finishes in late October, or early November. The game is similar to U.S. football but the field is larger by 10 yards, the end zones for touchdowns are 25 yards deep as compared to 10 yards in the States, etc.

Migrating Birds , geese heading south

Red leaves, colored leaves



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WINTER

Arctic Fox Renard Arctique

Carnaval in Quebec City Carnaval de Québec
Bonhomme Carnaval.
Carneval (Carnival)

Chickadee mésange. (genus, Poecile)

Christmas

Family Day February

Freezing rain or freezing drizzle
Freezing, frozen (itsuru, kooru)

Husky = chien de traîneau (ou « husky » )

Ice crystals
Tiny slivers of ice can fall for days on end and because they are so small, there is no accumulation. The sure sign they are occurring is a halo around the sun. During the day this is usually partial, much like a rainbow; at night, they can form a circle around the moon.


Lemmings Les Lemmings

Lesser Snow Goose Petite Oie des neiges

Polar bear = ours polaire (ou « ours blanc » )

Snowy owl = harfeng des neiges

Wolverine


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NEW YEAR

New Year's Concert

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CANADA HAIKU TOPICS

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CANADA and HAIKU

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Edmonton, Alberta and its kigo


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This is precisely the sort of publication that should be sought out by readers interested in haiku and other East-Asian verse forms, and the often international communities supporting their proliferation.

Haiku Canada Newsletter


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HAIKU CANADA
was founded in 1977 by Dr. Eric Amann, Betty Drevniok and George Swede.
First called the Haiku Society of Canada, it was renamed Haiku Canada in 1985. Since the founding, members have shared information on haiku, haiku events, organizations, markets and publications.
LeRoy Gorman, Editor
http://www.haikucanada.org/


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Canadian Zen Haiku
http://canadianzenhaikuhome.homestead.com/
Canadian Zen Haiku Halloween 2004
http://vallance22.tripod.com/canadianzenhaikuhalloween2004/index.html




a new feature of Canadian Zen Haiku

. . . . . ENVIROKU
Haiku on ecology and the environment
Environmental Haiku

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Canadian Haiku, Eh?
http://canuckhaiku.blogspot.com/

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pacifi-kana
Western branch of Haiku Canada

At present the pacifi-kana haiku group meets three times a year to read and discuss haiku.
Alice Frampton

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Haiku Deer Park
A group of Toronto haiku poets

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Those Women Writing Haiku
Canadian Haiku

The sharing of a common language with France made a decided difference in the way in which Canadians were introduced to haiku.

Read the details HERE:
© Jane Reichhold 1986

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2002

The weekend of May 17th through 19th 2002 saw between forty and fifty haiku poets gather at Glendon College in Toronto, Ontario for Haiku Canada’s annual weekend retreat and AGM. This year’s conference marked the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the inception of Haiku Canada. Enthusiasm remained at a high level throughout the weekend and it occurs to me that it must be a rare thing for such a gathering to be so democratic.

Attendees included beginners, experienced poets, and poets who have won many awards. They came from Canada, the United States, and Japan. The Canadian delegates alone covered the country coast to coast…. from British Columbia to Newfoundland, and all points in between. We were all there to learn more about understanding and appreciating haiku, to hone our skills, and to honour the tradition of writing and sharing our small poems. It was as they say, a grand event.

Haiku Canada: 25 Years Young
Dina Cox, Ontario, CA


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ABC ... Haiku Poets from Canada


Eric Amann

the names of the dead
sinking deeper and deeper
into the red leaves

Amann’s obsession with the Zen philosophy has spilled into his haiku work time and again.



Peter Brady, Quebec



Dina E. Cox
A writer and musician, Ontario, Canada.
Canadian Poets



Laryalee Fraser
British Columbia
occasional spurts of haiku and photo-haiku...
dust in the wind



Abigail Friedman
I am the author of The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
Stone Lantern BLOG



Ruby Spriggs (1929-2001)


George Swede, Toronto


Richard Vallance
Canadian Zen Haiku canadien : YAHOO FORUM
Interview



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