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The 18-day event consists of a mix of live entertainment, agricultural displays, exhibits, a large carnival midway with many rides, games and food, casino, sports events and shopping areas. The Canadian International Air Show on Labour Day weekend has been a major feature of the fair since 1949, held over Lake Ontario just south of the CNE grounds.
A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders & Edmonton Elks, Hamilton Tiger-Cats & Toronto Argonauts (except in the 2011 and 2013 seasons, due to scheduling conflicts), and ...
The Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) is an annual air show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The show is an aeronautical display of military, government and civilian aircraft, primarily from Canada and the United States. The show takes place along Toronto's waterfront for three days during the Canadian Labour Day weekend.
First central union body in Canada; 1872- Nine Hour Movement - labour activists call for nine-hour day and 54-hour workweek.Origins of Labour Day; 1872 - March 25, The Toronto Typographical Union goes on strike against their employer, the editor of The Globe, Liberal Party leader George Brown, demanding a nine-hour workday. Union activity then ...
Steam Era (September Labour Day Weekend - Milton) Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Stratford) Strawberry Fields Festival (Aug. 1970 - Bowmanville) Sunfest (July - London) Supercrawl (September - Hamilton) Taste of the Kingsway (September - Toronto) Taste of the Danforth (August - Toronto) The Great India Festival (August - Ottawa) [4]
The Labour Day Classic (French: Classique de la fête du travail, branded as OK Tire Labour Day Weekend for sponsorship reasons) is a week of the Canadian Football League (CFL) schedule played over the Labour Day weekend (which includes the first Monday in September). Labour Day weekend, roughly 12 or 13 weeks into the CFL season, is known for ...
An ironworkers union at the 2008 Toronto Labour Day Parade.. The Toronto Labour Day Parade is an annual event held in the city of Toronto. [1] The parade is organized by the Toronto and York District Labour Council following a route down University Avenue, then west along Queen Street West then proceeding down Dufferin Street entering the Canadian National Exhibition via the Dufferin Gate.
Canada's Wonderland, formerly known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland, is a 330-acre (130 ha) amusement park located in Vaughan, Ontario, a municipality within the Greater Toronto Area. Opened in 1981 by the Taft Broadcasting Company and the Great-West Life Assurance Company , it was the first major theme park in Canada and remains the country's ...