Canadian Fall Traditions
Farmers display animals, vegetables, baking and crafts at this traditional community event.
What is a fall fair?
This large orange squash is traditionally carved into a jack-o’-lantern.
What is a pumpkin?
In Canada, Labour Day is celebrated during this month.
What is September?
Canada geese often fly in a formation shaped like?
What is the letter V?
This type of squash has a sweet, nutty flavour.
What is butternut squash?
This Ontario city hosts Canada’s largest Oktoberfest celebration.
What is Kitchener?
This sweet, red sauce is traditionally served alongside Thanksgiving turkey.
What is cranberry sauce?
Labor Day is to commemorate the legal recognition of what type of organization?
What is workers unions?
This winter survival strategy greatly reduces an animal’s activity and metabolism.
What is hibernation?
This warm spice comes from the bark of a tree.
What is cinnamon?
This is a term given to the flocks of tourists that take buses north to catch photos of the changing colors each fall
What are "leaf peepers"
Corn, beans and squash are traditionally known by this family-style name by the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) and Wendat (Huron) people
What are the Three Sisters?
Today marks the fall equinox, what does it mean? DD
The sun is directly over the equator (also accepted, the suns rays
This butterfly migrates south to Mexico each fall.
What is the monarch butterfly?
These edible nuts grow inside a prickly outer casing.
What are chestnuts?
This outdoor activity involves finding your way through winding paths cut into a field ?
What is a corn maze?
This Canadian province is especially famous for growing potatoes and it's red sand, given it's color because of the high levels of iron in the soil
What is Prince Edward Island?
What is the Canadian National Exhibition?
This nocturnal bird is often heard more frequently during autumn as it establishes its territory.
What is an owl?
This traditional Canadian meat pie, strongly associated with Quebec, is often served during the fall and Christmas season.
What is tourtière?
What causes the leaves to change color in the fall?
What is a reduction in sunlight resulting in less chlorophyll (anything to do with a decrease in sunlight NOT temperature is acceptable)
This pale root vegetable resembles a carrot and becomes sweeter after frost.
What is a parsnip?
Canada officially made Labour Day a federal holiday this year.
What are the 1890s?
It became a federal holiday in 1894.
Pine, spruce and fir belong to this group of cone-bearing trees.
What are conifers?
On which day do Canadian enjoy their Thanksgiving feast each year?
What is the second Monday of October?