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# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
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# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
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# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06):
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# Currently the database has:
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# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
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# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
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# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
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# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
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# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
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# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom
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# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard
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# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that:
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# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario,
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# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year.
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# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon.
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# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began
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# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date.
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# By the way, the article continues by noting that:
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# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back
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# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October.
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# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17):
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# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in
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# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
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# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17,
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# <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S">
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# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S
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# It includes the text below (starting on page 57):
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# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would
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# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by
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# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities
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# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav-
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# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite,
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# for the other provinces only approximate:
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# Province Daylight saving time used
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# Prince Edward Island Not used.
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# Nova Scotia In Halifax only.
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# New Brunswick In St. John only.
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# Quebec In the following places:
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# St. Lambert Cap de la Madeleine
1385
# Verdun Loretteville
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# Westmount Richmond
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# Outremont St. Jerome
1388
# Longueuil Greenfield Park
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# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu
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# Melbourne La Tuque
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# St. Theophile Buckingham
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# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along
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# the southerly part of the province. Not
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# used in the northwesterlhy part.
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# Manitoba Not used.
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# Saskatchewan In Regina only.
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# British Columbia Not used.
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# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited
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# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont.
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# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D
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Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S