Family Day has arrived and many are celebrating the holiday which was first introduced in 2007, it's been a provincial holiday ever since.

The man who created it, Lorne Calvert, is a former Premier of Saskatchewan, and is now a retired politician, principal, and lives in the Notorious City.

Calvert explained why he introduced the new holiday.

"So the first Family Day was in 2007, I sensed we had this long gap between January 1st and Good Friday and Easter can be late. In those days our economy was really strong, things were going well and that's the time you want to introduce a new public holiday. I also wanted to recognize the role of family, in our province, and in our lives."

Saskatchewan has 10 public holidays in the year, with the biggest gap being between New Years Day and Family Day. That gap used to be a lot bigger however as the next holiday after Family Day is April 10th, Good Friday.

Calvert went into detail about what a family is to him.

"For goodness sakes, if we can celebrate queen Victoria, surely to goodness we can celebrate family. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and there are traditional family members like the parents, moms, dads, kids, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. But there is a family of people that mean a lot in our lives so we might be a part of a church family, or a team family, or a club family. A family is the group of people who are close to us and that's worth celebrating."

After Calvert retired from politics in 2008, and from 2009-2018 he was the principal at St. Andrews College in Saskatoon.

Calvert is now living in Moose Jaw as a fully retired man and told us a bit about his retired life.

"I'm getting involved a little bit with the Wakamow Rotary club again, and they were kind enough to let me come and help sell Christmas trees before Christmas. Betty is involved with the camera club again and she's singing in the choir, she's doing some stain glass courses right now in town. We're just re-discovering in some ways a new Moose Jaw for us, a changed Moose Jaw, but some things have not changed and I know now we are the 'Notorious City' but I tell you what, we are still the Friendly City."