Our playlist this week is about Labour Day done Canadian Indie style. The songs are based (sometimes loosely) on work, labour, jobs and also not having to do any of it with a splash of end of summer to finish it off.
From Wiki:
Labour Day (French: Fête du Travail) has been celebrated in Canada on the first Monday in September since the 1880s. The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union’s strike for a 58-hour work-week,[7] almost a full decade before a similar event in New York City by the American Knights of Labor, a late 19th-century U.S. labor federation, launched the movement towards the American Labor Day holiday.[8] The Toronto Trades Assembly (TTA) called its 27 unions to demonstrate in support of the Typographical Union who had been on strike since 25 March.[7] George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with “conspiracy.”[7] Although the laws criminalising union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on the books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union. Labour leaders decided to call another similar demonstration on 3 September to protest the arrests. Seven unions marched in Ottawa, prompting a promise by Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald to repeal the “barbarous” anti-union laws.[7] Parliament passed the Trade Union Act on 14 June the following year, and soon all unions were seeking a 54-hour work-week.
The Toronto Trades and Labour Council (successor to the TTA) held similar celebrations every spring. American Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was asked to speak at a labour festival in Toronto, Canada on 22 July 1882. Returning to the United States, McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on 5 September 1882 in New York City, USA. On 23 July 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday. In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers’ Day (May Day).
While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer. Non-union celebrations include picnics, fireworks displays, water activities, and public art events. Since the new school year generally starts right after Labour Day, families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer.
An old fashioned tradition in Canada and the United States frowns upon the wearing of white after Labour Day. Explanations for this tradition vary; the most common is that white is a summer colour and Labour Day unofficially marks the end of summer. The rule may have been intended as a status symbol for new members of the upper and middle classes in the late 19th and early 20th century.[7][not in citation given][9]
A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts (except in 2011 and 2013, due to scheduling conflicts), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend. Before the demise of the Ottawa Renegades after the 2005 season, that team played the nearby Montreal Alouettes on Labour Day weekend. Since the 2014 CFL season, when the Ottawa Redblacks began play, the Montreal–Ottawa Labour Day tradition has once again been observed. Likewise, Ontario University Athletics has a long-established tradition to play university football on Labour Day.
The Labour Day parade in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland started in 1921 and still continues today, over 90 years later. The celebrations go on for three days with a parade on Labour Day Monday.
That is from the Canada section of the Wikipedia page because I like to put a little history in with the music. Labour Day or Labor Day or International Worker’s Day is observed at different times and in different ways in different countries. We do like our long weekends in Canada though. I will be observing it by doing as little labour as possible. How about you? What are you doing? Whatever it is, I bet some music will go nicely with it. Enjoy!
Good morning!
Hello
Good morning! Fun read up above, especially the first two paragraphs (being deficient in historic knowledge).
Off to the family chalet again, to see about some wood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKypvDjiPM
Hello hello! Happy Friday!
Hey Garf,
Thanks for the video about fadeout, it’s interesting.
@Scott, I thought it would be a good fit here
I’ll have to read the fadeout bit later. My ‘before’ opinion is that it’s mostly a go-to device for songs with no discernable end (f.i. short ones that repeat over and over), or for when there are time constraints. There can be other reasons too. I simply like a song with structure, and an end is usually a prerequisite in matters of structure.
I just watched the fade out video, that was really interesting!
Oh, I can share boring videos as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIA7YD8m7s4
Ha, ha.. Yes that was awesomely boring? I kept waiting for the gotcha at the end but it just faded away.
And now you know why I don’t produce video content
well that along with the fact I have a face only fit for radio and a voice only fit for print
Hiya kids
Hi Mom
Anyone have great weekend plans? I’m headed to Watkins Glen, New York for an Indy car race. Unfortunately no Canadian Indie music for me.
[edit] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECD1BMzmzg
COOL!
One day, we’ll make it to Watkins Glen.
I hope you are behaving yourself!
@Janet – Going to finally see Wonderwoman is in my plans. That and deal with some plumbing issues and get some stuff done for volunteer organizations I am with. Have fun at Watkins Glen!
No plans here
It’s a really cool track, I like the road courses better than ovals because there’s more to see.
Darbar – I liked Wonder Woman, as far as super hero movies go! Good luck with the plumbing issues, those are never fun!
@Janet, Have ever heard of the BTCC?
https://www.youtube.com/user/btccdotnet/videos
Hey folks. I hope you are all doing well and had a nice summer. I guess summer isn’t technically over, but it sure felt like autumn this morning.
I’ve just started the playlist and will enjoy it as I put some kitchen cabinets into CAD.
Thanks Janet. My son wanted to take me for my birthday in July. I think I will finally have time tomorrow!
Hi Old Abe!!
Garf, I have not, but I’ll have to check it out. My sweetie follows the IMSA series, so we’ve been to a few of those races, and a few Indy car.
I’d like to take him to LeMans for the 24-hour race at some point in our lives, but I think that might require some planning.
@Janet, I have only been planning on attending Le Mans for about 30 years now
oh and Hi Abe
@Janet – That’s great you are going to be at Watkins Glen this weekend. That race is in my viewing plans for this weekend as well as the Italian GP.
R3 meet-up @LeMans…
Picnic on the first chicane?
@Russ – Now we’re talking.
I am all in for the R3 meet up at LeMans!
We should hold the blogs first AGM there
I was a bit surprised when I heard this last night (go to 18:50)
I have no interest in racing but it might be cool to be there in person.
@DBS, they have a funfair in the middle of the track that is open over the entire weekend
Oh cool!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=le+mans+fun+fair&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB692GB692&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV8ciX0ITWAhVIDcAKHTulAnEQsAQIOg&biw=1280&bih=628
I’m impressed that you can cue up a You Tube video to play at the moment you need it to, that was impressive!
My son knows all the words to that song. It is one of the songs I introduced to him that he actually liked. He enjoys the war history part of it. And yes Garf is so smart.
It’s nothing special, it’s an option when you click share
If you like country music Regina artist Blake Berglund has a new album out today. I am sure his sweetie Belle Plaine will be on there too.
http://play.spotify.com/album/5LTl8KgxBpMLqBGRgV5PXo
Late to the gig today… How is everyone?
Hi Justin, I’m not too bad thanks, how is life treating you an Duke?
Life is good! Am busy with work. And I have a date tonight, so that’s cool. How are you?
I’m the same old same old. I could do with (the money that comes with having) a job
I need money too. I am super busy with stuff that doesn’t pay. I need to find a way to get paid for that stuff.
Nice to see you Justin.
Silly money, having it gets in the way of all the fun stuff
g’night folks, have a great weekend
Night Garf. You too!