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Easter Monday is the Monday following Easter. It is listed in the Canada Labour Code as a holiday and is celebrated as a statutory holiday in most parts of Canada. (It is not a statutory holiday in British Columbia.)
Early Christians celebrated the days immediately following Easter - the most important holy day in the Christian church -by telling jokes, playing pranks, and feasting on lamb. People would add fragrant oil or perfume to the Easter water they brought home from church, and then use this water to sprinkle and bless their food, pets, gardens, and homes.

Easter Monday is a Christian holiday celebrated the next day after Easter Sunday. Celebration events include egg rolling competitions and dousing other people with water which, at one time, was holy water used to bless the house and food. Formerly, it was celebrated as Easter Week, but was reduced to a one day celebration in the 19th century.

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On Easter Monday morning, men would wake their wives with a spritz of the perfumed Easter water as they whispered, "May you never wither." On Easter Tuesday, women would return the favor as they awakened their husbands with a bucketful of the scented water!

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