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I very much enjoyed reading Storer Rowley`s delightful article ”Canada stakes its claim to Santa Claus` home” on Dec. 23. May I point out, however, that contrary to Mr. Rowley`s statement, Boxing Day is also celebrated in Quebec.
My memories of Boxing Day in Canada are of a day spent in incredibly crowded stores filled with exhausted people returning and exchanging boxes filled with Christmas presents.
The real meaning of this holiday is accurately defined in the Webster`s New World Dictionary as follows: In England, Canada, etc., the first weekday after Christmas, a legal holiday marked (in England) by the giving of Christmas boxes to employees, postmen, etc.
