St. Urho´s Day, Thunder Bay

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St. Urho´s Day on amerikan- ja kanadansuomalaisten perinne, jota on juhlittu jo 1950-luvulta saakka.

Keksityn tarinan mukaan St. Urho karkotti haravallaan heinäsirkat Suomen viinitarhojen kimpusta.

Juhla sai alkunsa mukaelmana irlantilaisten St. Patrick´s Daystä, ja sitä juhlitaan vuosittain samoihin aikoihin kuin irlantilaisten juhlaa.

Näin pyhää Urhoa juhlittiin Kanadan Thunder Bayssä 20.3.2010.

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St. Urho´s Day is a annual tradition celebrated among Finnish-Americans and Finnish-Canadians. It started out in the 1950´s.

The invented story of St. Urho says that he saved Finnish grape crops by driving away all the grasshoppers.

The tradition is a kind of Finnish version of the Irish´s St. Patrick´s Day and is celebrated approximately same time every year.

This is how St. Urho was celebrated in Thunder Bay, Canada, on March 20th 2010.

Video is shot and edited by Vesa Marttinen/Canadan Sanomat.

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  • Tämä vaan vahvistaa sitä tunnetta, että pohjois-amerikkaan muutto on edessä. \o/

  • Huh huh.

  • Jumanklaude, jäbä tekee monimediaa!

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