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It is Daylight Saving Time again, and many Canadians will be spring forwarded on Sunday.
Did you know that the first place in the world to implement DST was a city in Canada?

So let's learn about the history!
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Craig Baird
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While the idea of Daylight Saving Time had been around for decades, Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), was the first place in the world to enact it.

The city enacted it on July 1, 1908. This was followed by Orillia, Ontario in 1911.
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When the First World War was raging, the Canadian government introduced Daylight Saving Time nationwide to increase production.

After the First World War, the regulation of Daylight Saving Time lapsed and various places in Canada used it, while others did not. This caused several problems.
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In some places, the trains used Daylight Saving Time, as well as schools, but the rest of the community did not.
This created situations where various buildings in a community were on a different time than other buildings, sometimes on the same street.
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Municipalities began to regulate Daylight Saving Time to end this confusion.
As more communities did this, various provinces eventually took over to implement Daylight Saving Time across the province.
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When the Second World War began, Daylight Saving Time was implemented nationwide again to increase production.

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Jason Carton
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Shhh!

Don’t air all our dirty secrets!
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