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WINTER SOLSTICE [4 records]

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Record 1 2022-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Architecture
  • Funeral Services
CONT

In nineteenth-century Ontario, winter created a challenge to the undertaker. What to do with the dead? The ground, frozen deep in snow from the solstice to spring, made burial impossible. Winter also provided the solution :winter vaults, or "dead houses" as they came to be commonly known.

Key term(s)
  • deadhouse

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Architecture
  • Pompes funèbres
CONT

Au Québec, malgré le climat [...], plusieurs cimetières font des inhumations tout au long de l'année, sans relâche. Pour les autres, les mises en terre sont généralement suspendues entre le 1er novembre et le 30 avril. On procède alors à la mise en charnier des cercueils. Un charnier est une bâtisse située sur le cimetière. Ce bâtiment est érigé sur du béton et n'est pas isolé, afin de conserver les corps embaumés au froid.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
OBS

The Pagan holiday called Yule takes place on the day of the winter solstice, around December 21 in the northern hemisphere(below the equator, the winter solstice falls around June 21). On that day, [the] earth's axis tilts away from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sun reaches its greatest distance from the equatorial plane.... As a festival of the Sun, the most important part of any Yule celebration is light — candles, bonfires, and more.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
OBS

[Fête païenne célébrée] lors du solstice d'hiver entre le 20 et le 23 décembre dans l'hémisphère nord et entre le 20 et le 23 juin dans l'hémisphère sud. C'est le jour qui comporte la nuit la plus longue de l'année. Il marque le début de la saison de l'hiver mais également le moment où les jours vont rallonger. Cette date proche de Noël est souvent associée à cette fête. On se rassemble, on mange, on boit et on festoie en l'honneur de la renaissance du Dieu soleil. Peu avant on retrouve aussi le festival des lumières porteur de la même symbolique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Arts and Culture
  • Heritage
OBS

Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. Its official date is the 31 December. However this is normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of the 1 January or, in many cases, 2 January. The roots of Hogmanay reach back to the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. In Europe, this evolved into the ancient celebration of Saturnalia, a great Roman winter festival, where people celebrated completely free of restraint and inhibition. The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later became the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the "Daft Days" as they were sometimes called in Scotland. The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Arts et Culture
  • Patrimoine

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Climatology
DEF

The season of the year that is the transition period from summer to winter, occurring as the sun approaches the winter solstice.

OBS

Autumn [is]... characterized by decreasing temperatures in the mid-latitudes. Customarily, this refers to the months of September, October, and November in the North Hemisphere and the months of March, April, and May in the Southern Hemisphere. Astronomically, this is the period between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Climatologie
DEF

Troisième saison de l'année qui succède à l'été et précède l'hiver.

OBS

D'un point de vue astronomique, l'automne commence à l'équinoxe d'automne (23 septembre) et finit au solstice d'hiver (22 décembre). Sous les latitudes moyennes, australes et boréales, l'automne présente des caractères climatologiques nets, intermédiaires entre ceux de l'été et de l'hiver, tandis que les régions tropicales, équatoriales et arctiques sont dépourvues de saison automnale. Dans les statistiques climatologiques saisonnières, on regroupe pour caractériser l'automne, les mois de septembre, octobre et novembre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Climatología
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