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Likewise, Ontario University Athletics has a long-established tradition to play university football on Labour Day. There is an annual Labour Day parade in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. The centennial anniversary in 2020 was replaced with an online ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. [5] [6] In Ontario, Labour Day is a public ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 September: Labour Day: Fête du travail: Celebrates economic and social achievements of workers December 25: Christmas Day: Noël: Celebrates the ...
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.