The 2008 Old Farmer's Almanac: Canadian Edition
A Look Inside

Table of Contents

Calendar

February 29: A Short History of a Peculiar Day

by Alice Cary

Got Time?
Little-known Leaplings
Leaping Through History
Vote to Leap!
Complicated Leaps
Look Before You Leap

Amusement

Do You Hear What I Hear?

by Tamara Bernstein

The carillon dates from early 16th-century Belgium and the Netherlands. (To this day, the greatest concentration of carillons in the world can be found in the Netherlands). In those days, clock towers dominated the main squares of most cities. The clocks displayed the time; carillons grew out of a need to announce it far and wide.

• Listen to carillons
• Locations of carillons
• Wartime connections
• Where to learn to play

Our Worst Poet. Ever.

by Peter Unwin

James McIntyre of Ingersoll, Ontario, has been called “our best bad poet” and “the Chaucer of Cheese.”