It's Christmas Eve and Santa is on his way to deliver presents to the children of New Brunswick. A young reindeer has joined the team and on this first trip helps guide them to Saint John during a sudden blizzard. From there, Santa continues visiting homes around the province, leaving gifts for each girl and boy, and having a nibble along the way.
It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over: •Sambro Island Lighthouse, Nova Scotia •Cabot Tower, Newfoundland •Esplanade Riel Bridge •St. Joseph's, Oratory, Montreal •The Rockies •The Big Nickel, Sudbury •Fairmont Chateau, Lake Louise, Alberta •Legislative Building, Regina •Stanley Park Totem Pole, Vancouver •Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Canada!"
It's Christmas Eve. Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over many landmarks in Newfoundland! "Ho, ho, ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Newfoundland!"
An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the world’s most influential fictional character. He is the embodiment of charity and generosity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful. Santa Claus was born in early-nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Intervening generations were shaggy and strange — whip-wielding menaces to naughty boys and girls. Yet as the raucous, outdoor, alcohol-fuelled holiday gave way to a more domestic, sentimental model, a new kind of gift-bringer was called for — a loveable elf, still judgmental but far less threatening. In this engaging social and cultural history, Gerry Bowler examines the place of Santa Claus in history, literature, advertising, and art. He traces his metamorphosis from a beardless youth into a red-suited peddler. He reveals the lesser-known aspects of the gift-bringer’s life — Santa’s involvement with social and political causes of all stripes (he enlisted on the Union side in the American Civil War), his starring role in the movies and as adman for gun-makers and insurance companies. And he demolishes the myths surrounding Santa Claus and Coca-Cola. Santa Claus: A Biography will stand as the classic work on the long-lived and multifarious Mr. Claus.
It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over: Bourbon Street Louis Armstrong Park Botanical Tree French Market Café Du Monde Street Cars Superdrome Loyola University Jackson Square Statue Botanical Gardens "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, New Orleans!"
Combining historical and ethnographic research methods, along with a thorough review of existing literature on the study of Latin American Christianity, New Faces of God in Latin America addresses the important question of how global religion and local culture interact, situating the experience of Latin American Christianity in the broader conversations in the field of world Christianity, particularly with respect to the growing understanding of Christianity as a non-Western religion. Through case studies of different Pentecostal experiences in Latin America, Virginia Garrard explores cross-pollination and interaction with indigenous religions and cultures, finding widely varied responses to the material and spiritual needs of Latin Americans. The author locates Latin American religious experience within a field known as the "history of non-Western Christianity." This focuses on the experience, perceptions, and adaptations of those who adopt Christianity outside the context of Western missionary or other colonizing projects. The book engages with the intersection of culture and spirit-filled religion, with an eye to how those interactions help frame an alternative religious modernity. Throughout the book, the author uses culture as both a heuristic lens and as a variable within the equation. She argues that culture helps us understand how people engage with and reconfigure global religious flows within their own imaginations and for their own parochial uses.
It's Christmas Eve. Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over many landmarks in New Jersey! "Ho, ho, ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, New Jersey!"
"This book features Christmas related events and activities that have occurred as the season was celebrated in New Brunswick from 1800- 2020. It follows a day by day format, with about 150 words for four or five historical happenings that were carried out in the preparation or celebration of Christmas in all parts of the province. The items have been culled from newspapers, diaries, letters, that recorded the events, like when Santa first appeared, when and where the Messiah was first sung, when lights first graced city streets, what merchants had to sell, how people enjoyed outdoor and indoor activities, in general, if it had a Christmas connection, it was considered among the just over 100 events covered. The book is illustrate with cuts and drawings culled from newspapers from about 1850- 1945, so all are in the public domain and free of copyright. December 25 is a listing of world events that occurred on Christmas Day, Dec 26- 31 is a series of personal stories, quizzes, or longer accounts of Christmas events in the province that needed more copy to tell than the limited information in the Day by Day section."--