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Family Day in Alberta was first celebrated in 1990, [5] making it the only province to have a statutory holiday in February until Saskatchewan began observing the day in 2007. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The holiday was proclaimed by Lieutenant Governor Helen Hunley , on the advice of her premier , Don Getty .
Family Day is a public holiday in the countries of Angola, Israel, Namibia, South Africa, Uruguay, Vanuatu, and Vietnam; in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan; in the American states of Arizona and Nevada; and as the second day of Songkran in Thailand.
Civic holiday (may be a paid vacation day depending on employer) in Alberta (Heritage Day), Manitoba (Terry Fox Day), Ontario (Colonel By Day, John Galt Day, Simcoe Day, and others), and Nova Scotia . Not an official statutory holiday in Ontario, but it is widely observed.
National Family Week is celebrated throughout the country with special events put on by community organizations. National Family Week also exists in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It is a distinct event from Family Day which is a statutory holiday created by the provincial governments of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Alberta Family Day; H. Heritage Day (Alberta) This page was last edited on 9 May 2021, at 04:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The senseless attack came 10 days before Father’s Day, leaving Tapia’s wife, Esther Diaz struggling to tell the couple’s sons – who were 5 and 7 at the time – what had happened to their dad.
Festivals in Northern Alberta; Festival Place Time Remarks Eaglesham July 1st. Celebration: Eaglesham Park, Eaglesham Alberta: July 1: Family event in the Peace River Region Reel Shorts Film Festival: Grande Prairie: May: International festival of short films North Country Fair: Slave Lake: June: Astral Harvest Music Festival: Slave Lake: July ...
Larissa FastHorse is the first Native American playwright whose work will be staged at Los Angeles’s Mark Taper Forum. (Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty Images) (Nina Westervelt via Getty Images)