We shouldn’t be so shocked. All the signs have been there. The days are slowly getting cooler. Night is falling earlier and earlier. The slow slide into autumn, then winter, has been inching its way along.

This weekend, though, things change with a bang. That’s right. It’s time to switch over from Daylight Saving Time. Hello Darkness, our old friend.

But who needs signs to know what lies ahead? We’re all too aware that this happens at the same time very year. Daylight Saving Time in Canada always begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. That means the time change happens this weekend.

If you need help remembering which way to turn the time on your clocks, you just “spring forward, fall back.”

This year, Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 6  at 2 a.m. When you set your clocks back one hour you will gain an hour though we’ll pay for it with an earlier nightfall.

Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) turned their clocks forward by 1 hour in 1908. Gradually other cities like Regina, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba’s Winnipeg and Brandon made the change as well. Eventually much of the country was onboard.

Most of Canada now observes the time change except for Yukon, Southampton Island, and parts of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Québec. With the exception of the year 1913, Canada has stayed the DST course in most locations for 110 years.

Get ready to do it again.

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