The question many parents are asking themselves over their morning coffee is Halloween cancelled? The city of Montreal and other municipalities have issued a statement asking parents to postpone Halloween until tomorrow night due to a forecast of torrential rain and strong winds.
Here is a list of municipalities that have postponed trick or treating:
Asbestos
Beloeil
Brossard
Chambly
Drummondville
Longueuil
Magog
McMasterville
Mont St-Hilaire
Montreal
Varennes
St-Amable
St-Bruno
St-Colomban
Ste-Julie
St-Lamburt
Shawinigan
Sroel-Tracy
Trois-Rivières
If your municipal does not appear on the list please contact your city hall to see if Halloween is cancelled.
It has been a question and debate for many years, should Halloween be postponed until the closest weekend.
Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of Hallows’ Even or Hallows’ Evening),[5]also known as Allhalloween,[6]All Hallows’ Eve,[7] or All Saints’ Eve,[8] is a celebration observed in several countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide,[9] the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films.[21] In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows’ Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular,[22][23][24]although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration.[25][26][27] Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows’ Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.
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