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Public holidays in Canada (French: Jours fériés au Canada), known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (French: jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels. While many of these holidays are honoured ...
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The Eastern Church first celebrated a Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God on 9 December, perhaps as early as the 5th century in Syria.The original title of the feast focused more specifically on Saint Anne, being termed Sylepsis tes hagias kai theoprometoros Annas ("conception of Saint Anne, the ancestress of God"). [5]
December 4 – Gerald Comeau, politician (b. 1946) December 5 – John Rumble, equestrian (b. 1933) December 6 – Noël Kinsella, politician and Speaker of the Senate of Canada (b. 1939) December 7 – Alan Longhurst, British-born oceanographer (b. 1925) December 8 – David Gell, radio DJ and television presenter (b. 1929) December 9
Canada News Headlines The Latest: The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more troops to the southern border The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday
December 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Romania) Constitution Day (Uzbekistan) Day of Finnish Music ; Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while December 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in December.
This is a collection of articles about holidays celebrated only, or primarily, in Canada. For more widely celebrated holidays, see Category:Holidays . The main article for this category is Public holidays in Canada .
Christmas Eve is not a designated federal holiday. Still, U.S. presidents, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have used the holiday to grant a day off to the country's more than 2 million ...