Daylight savings will start at

2:00am Sunday, March 10, 2024

Daylight saving time first came into practice in Canada in 1908, after it was first proposed in 1885 by New Zealand entomologist George Hudson.  He proposed the change because it would allow him more daylight hours to find and inspect insects.

The first documented cases of daylight saving adopted in the world happened right here in Canada.  The small towns of Port Arthur and Fort William—which would eventually merge to become Thunder Bay, Ontario—adopted daylight saving on May 1, 1908.