Once upon a time, there were over 250 weather stations collecting bright sunshine data in Canada each month.
Alas we are now down to 7 stations. In 3 provinces. And only 5 of the 7 are considered reliable enough or old enough to have “% of Normals” calculated.
February 2013 was pretty gloomy in BC where sunshine was around 60% of normal (the 1971-2000 average).
Goose Airport in NFLD was 3% sunnier than normal. Wiarton Airport in Ontario was gloomiest at 54% of normal.
| Province | Station | Year | Month | Bright Sunshine Hours | Bright Sunshine % of Normal |
| BC | VICTORIA INTL A | 2013 | 2 | 55 | 61 |
| BC | COMOX A | 2013 | 2 | 53 | 62 |
| BC | VANCOUVER INTL A | 2013 | 2 | 50 | 59 |
| ONT | WIARTON A | 2013 | 2 | 50 | 54 |
| ONT | TORONTO LESTER B. PEARSO | 2013 | 2 | 82 | NA |
| NFLD | CARTWRIGHT | 2013 | 2 | 102 | NA |
| NFLD | GOOSE A | 2013 | 2 | 130 | 103 |
Update: Eureka Top 15 Sunshine Months From the Past (See comment)
| Province | Station | Year | Month | Bright Sunshine Hours | Bright Sunshine % of Normal |
| NU | EUREKA | 1987 | 5 | 667 | 134 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1989 | 5 | 632 | 127 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1973 | 5 | 621 | 125 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1991 | 5 | 593 | 120 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1997 | 6 | 586 | NA |
| NU | EUREKA | 2005 | 5 | 574 | 116 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1976 | 5 | 573 | 115 |
| NU | EUREKA | 2002 | 5 | 567 | 114 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1981 | 6 | 565 | 141 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1998 | 5 | 564 | 114 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1988 | 7 | 563 | 156 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1975 | 5 | 554 | 112 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1981 | 5 | 548 | 111 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1974 | 5 | 544 | 110 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1972 | 5 | 543 | 109 |
| NU | EUREKA | 1979 | 5 | 543 | 109 |
sunshine hours 
When I worked at Eureka NWT., 1979-80, we recorded sunshine hours, and in May 1979 i think we recorded about 550+ hours of bright sunshine that month…stayed with me all these years, as it was about 23-24 days worth of straight sunshine when you added up all the hours. I seem to recall that it was very high and unusual though.
Lance, good memory. See the update to the post.
Wow. Sure looks like a place to get a great sunshine fix is May in Eureka!
Wow, it had some good years after I left!!! Must be the perfect time, spring is just starting, fjords are starting to melt, but not much open water quite yet, and the air must be pretty stable…
Thanks for the comment. I had no idea Eureka was the goto place in May for sunshine. Supposedly May in Eureka is the worlds sunniest.
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/sunniest-places-countries-world.php
Can you send me an e-mail address for you. You can use my postings e-mail address, would like to make contact with you. Lance