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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. Premier Getty said that it was important for Albertans to ...
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.
Alberta Family Day – third Monday in February; Victoria Day – last Monday preceding May 25; Thanksgiving – second Monday in October; Remembrance Day – November 11; Optional. Easter Monday – optional holiday, variable date between March 23 and April 26; Heritage Day – optional holiday, first Monday of August
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 ...
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 ...
Alberta's second dynasty was the United Farmers of Alberta, a farmers' movement organization, formed in 1909 as a lobby group, ... creation of Family Day. ...
Celebration of Heritage Day at the Edmonton Heritage Festival in 2015. In 1974, the Government of Alberta, acting through Minister of Culture Horst A. Schmid, declared the first Monday in August an annual holiday to recognize and celebrate the varied cultural heritage of Albertans, known as "Heritage Day". [3]