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Canada Day is not a statutory holiday as July 1 is Memorial Day. Provincial statutory. Memorial Day (July 1) Armistice Day (Remembrance Day) (November 11) Optional. The following is a list of designated paid holidays for government employees. [55] Saint Patrick's Day (March 17) Saint George's Day (April 23) Victoria Day (Monday preceding May 25)
The memorial was designed by Siggy Puchta and unveiled in 2005. It honours firefighters who died while serving the public. The memorial depicts a firefighter rescuing a child. It has a red plinth shaped like a Maltese Cross, the international symbol for firefighting, and a list of firefighters who died on duty. [1]
Canadian Firefighters Memorial, Ottawa, dedicated in 2012 [5]; The Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917 involved a blast and fires which killed more than 2,000 persons. One memorial work was the Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture which was located at the Halifax North Memorial Library, itself another memorial to the event.
Canadian firefighters are foregoing spending the holidays with their families, and instead helping Australia battle the ongoing deadly bushfires. Canadian firefighters will spend the holidays ...
Last Alarm is a memorial sculpture outside Toronto Fire and Marine Station 334, in Ontario, Canada. [1] It honours firefighters who died in the line of duty in Toronto. It features the Memorial Honour Roll, [ 2 ] where a ceremony is held annually.
The IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial is a permanent remembrance of IAFF members and emergency medical services personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty. An annual Fallen Firefighters memorial ceremony is held each year in September in Colorado Springs, Colorado (with the exception of 2020 and 2021 due to the Coronavirus (Covid ...
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed or destroyed as a result of protests and riots between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system (Alexander Wood, Egerton Ryerson and Joseph Hugonard), two of Canadian monarchs (Queen ...
The IAFF, which represents more than 340,000 U.S. and Canadian firefighters, decided in 2021 to no longer accept sponsorships or advertising from the chemical industry and to oppose PFAS in ...