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In Quebec, non-federally regulated employers must give either Good Friday or Easter Monday as a statutory holiday, though some give both days. July 1: Canada Day: Fête du Canada: Celebrates Canada's 1867 Confederation and establishment of dominion status. In Newfoundland and Labrador, observed concurrently with Memorial Day. First Monday in ...
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
Canada Day, [a] formerly known as Dominion Day, [b] is the national day of Canada.A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single dominion within the British ...
The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds perform a flyby during Canada Day ceremonies at Parliament Hill, home to the country's federal government, on July 1, 2019 in Ottawa.
While Americans celebrate their independence on the Fourth of July, Canadians celebrate their national day a few days earlier. Canada Day, on July 1, is the national holiday when Canucks from ...
National Indigenous Peoples Day (French: Journée Nationale des Peuples Autochtones; formerly National Aboriginal Day) [1] is a day recognizing and celebrating the cultures and contributions of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Indigenous peoples of Canada. [2] The day was first celebrated in 1996, after it was proclaimed that year by then ...
Canada: Canada Day: 1 July: 1867 United Kingdom: Canada Day on 1 July commemorates the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. [28] Cape Verde: Independence Day: 5 July: 1975 Portugal: Effective date of the Agreement Between Portugal and Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde signed on 18 December 1974. [29]
National Flag of Canada Day was instituted in 1996 by an Order in Council from Governor General Roméo LeBlanc, on the initiative of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. [7] At the first Flag Day ceremony in Hull, Quebec, Chrétien was confronted by demonstrators against proposed cuts to the unemployment insurance system, and while walking through the crowd he was grabbed by the neck and pushed ...