Show JW new years kissing day long ago in west canada EW YEARS day was kissing kissin m NEW day in the old days of the canadian dian west of all the white mans holidays this was the one that appealed most to the aborigines of the tha country says the edmonton alta aita journal perhaps this was because new years day was given over to feasting and dancing this was the day when the chief factors and their staffs of the hud dud sons bay forts were at home to all the people in the country tile the indians and their families painted and beaded began their calling at tile the tort fort at daybreak but the tha big party was scheduled for the evening it was an accustomed preliminary that the chief factor and his staff invariably men for in the earliest days no white woman braved the distances and hardships of tile the bests wilderness lined up to receive and one by one the squaws squads advanced and kissed them on the lips |