Canadian culture;traditions,customs and public holidays.

Canada is known worldwide as a multicultural country with a vast range of cultural influences that create its distinct range of customs and traditions. Proud for their unique identity, Canadians stick out like a thumb in any country they visit, as they take pride in being citizens of the world's 2nd largest country in terms of total area. Canadians are predominantly tolerant, polite, and extremely conservative. They're very community-oriented and though most social gatherings take place in private spaces such as homes and restaurants, they instill the sense of giving back to the community.Public humility is highly valued and visible signs of excess consumption and massive residences are not common.Their constitution is also progressive, making same-sex marriage legal, eliminating capital punishment, their publicly funded health care, strict gun controls, and their strong efforts to vanish poverty. Canadian culture is heavily influenced by its conquerors - the French and the British. Add these influences with the country's indigenous cultures, and you've got the distinct Canadian identity. Common traditions and etiquette include:

Handshaking as the most common form of greeting - with a strong grip and eye contact;

Leaving footwear inside the entrance when you enter someone's home;

Giving flowers, the best quality wine, and chocolates when invited to someone's dinner party;

Giving someone his/her personal space in a conversation, avoiding touching as much as possible;

Using appropriate titles or last names when addressing a person - use the first name only when invited, as first names tend to be used by family and close friends.

Canada has every kind of festival for everyone. Public holidays in Canada, known as "statutory holidays", "stat holidays", or simply "stats", are legislated at the federal, provincial and territorial levels. Many of these holidays are observed nationwide, but each province and territory in Canada has its own holidays as well.While major Christian holidays such as Christmas and Good Friday are officially observed,^[1] leave is permitted for other religious holidays as well. For example, some school children and employees take days off for Jewish holidays, Muslim holidays, or Eastern Orthodox observances according to the Julian calendar. While not normally taken off work, Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Halloween, Mother's Day, and Father's Day are traditionally observed by Canadians. The Celebrate Canada series is a collection of important cultural days beginning with National Aboriginal Day on June 21, and followed by S^t-Jean Baptiste Day on June 24, Canadian Multiculturalism Day on June 27, and concluding with Canada Day on July 1.Currently, the provinces of Alberta and Prince Edward Island have the most days off of any other provinces and territories, with 12 days off. Visited by millions of people each year, the top 4 festivals are:Winterlude in Ottawa - A celebration of everything winter, this winter festival boasts of the largest skating rink in the world and accommodates over 1.6 million visitors a year with its vast range of entertainment and educational offerings for the entire family.Celebration of Light in Vancouver - A musical fireworks competition with some of the world's best international competitors with an annual visitor number of over 1 million.Just for Laughs in Montreal - The biggest international comedy festival in the world that attracts almost 2 million tourists a year.Pride Toronto - One of the biggest gay pride parades in the world, this is a festival that celebrates the LGBT world community.

4.Semantic principle of Classificatin of Noun. The noun is the central lexical unit of language. It is the main nominative unit of speech. As any other part of speech, the noun can be characterised by three criteria: semantic (the meaning),morphological (the form and grammatical catrgories) and syntactical (functions, distribution).Semantic features of the noun. The noun possesses the grammatical meaning of thingness, substantiality. According to different principles of classification nouns fall into several subclasses:

According to the type of nomination they may be proper and common;

According to the form of existence they may be animate and inanimate. Animate nouns in their turn fall into human and non-human.

According to their quantitative structure nouns can be countable and uncountable.

This set of subclasses cannot be put together into one table because of the different principles of classification. Morphological features of the noun. In accordance with the morphological structure of the stems all nouns can be classified into: simple,derived (stem + affix, affix + stem – thingness); compound (stem+ stem – armchair) and composite (the Hague). The noun has morphological categories of number and case. Some scholars admit the existence of the category of gender. Syntactic features of the noun. The noun can be used un the sentence in all syntacticfunctions but predicate. Speaking about noun combinability, we can say that it can go into right-hand and left-hand connections with practically all parts of speech. That is why practically all parts of speech but the verb can act as noun determiners. However, the most common noun determiners are considered to be articles, pronouns, numerals, adjectives and nouns themselves in the common and genitive case.