Heritage Day

21 July 2019

Monday August 5 is Heritage Day

Heritage Day is celebrated in Alberta on the first Monday of August each year. Although it is not a statutory
holiday, many Canadians in Alberta use this day as an optional holiday to celebrate the province’s heritage.
Enjoy the day and stay Safe.  The Wabasca Public Library will be onpe on Tuesday August 6.

Open for Business

12 June 2019

Welcome Home

The library will be open  Tuesday June 18, 2019.

Closed due to Evacuations

06 June 2019

The Wabasca Public Library is currently closed.  The Forest Fire threat in the area has caused an evacuation of the hamlet and surounding Reserves.

Please stay safe and hope that this emergency will be over soon.   Thank you to all the brave men and women who are fighting this fire.

New Featured Author

06 April 2019

Joseph Boyden

 

  Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1996) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Boyden is best known for writing about First Nations culture. He is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and public speaker. His bestselling novels have won numerous national and international awards (including the Giller Prize in 2008) and have been published in over 20 languages in more than fifty countries.

  Boyden studied humanities at York University and received his MFA in Fiction from the university of New Orleans in 1995. He was a professor in the Aboriginal Student Program at Northern College from 1995-1997. He taught at the University of New Orleans from 1998-2010, where he served as writer-in-residence. He was also a lecturer with the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program from 2013 to 2015.

  To date, Boyden has received five honorary doctorates and degrees.

  On December 30, 2015, Boyden was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions as an author and engaging public speaker who tells stories of our common heritage, as well as for his social engagement, notably in support of First Nations. He divides his time between Louisiana and Northern Ontario. He is married to author Amanda Boyden.

St Patrick's Day March 17

10 March 2019

Saint Patrick’s Dayfeast day (March 17) of St. Patrickpatron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britainin the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 to convert the Irish to Christianity. By the time of his death on March 17, 461, he had established monasteries, churches, and schools. Many legends grew up around him—for example, that he drove the snakes out of Ireland and used the shamrock to explain the Trinity. Ireland came to celebrate his day with religious services and feasts.

It was emigrants, particularly to the United States, who transformed St. Patrick’s Day into a largely secular holiday of revelry and celebration of things Irish. Cities with large numbers of Irish immigrants, who often wielded political power, staged the most extensive celebrations, which included elaborate parades. Boston held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1737, followed by New York City in 1762. Since 1962 Chicago has coloured its river green to mark the holiday. (Although blue was the colour traditionally associated with St. Patrick, green is now commonly connected with the day.) Irish and non-Irish alike commonly participate in the “wearing of the green”—sporting an item of green clothing or a shamrock, the Irish national plant, in the lapel. Corned beef and cabbage are associated with the holiday, and even beer is sometimes dyed green to celebrate the day. Although some of these practices eventually were adopted by the Irish themselves, they did so largely for the benefit of tourists.

Children in Irish costumes play recorders while marching in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade.Rudi von Briel/PhotoEdit
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