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Civic Holiday (French: congé civique) is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August. [1]Though the first Monday of August is celebrated in most of Canada as a public holiday, [2] it is only officially known as "Civic Holiday" in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, where it is a territorial statutory holiday.
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)
July 3 – Lieutenant General Jennie Carignan is appointed as the first female Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces. [59] She formally assumes the position on July 18, with a promotion to the rank of General. [60] July 5 – LCBO workers go on strike for the first time in the corporation's history. [61]
July 18 is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) ... 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the ...
20 July: The colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island amalgamate and then enter Confederation as the Province of British Columbia, Canada's sixth province. Except for individual treaties for small portions of the territory, the agreement annexes a large area of land into Canada without treaties with the First Nations.
Meanwhile, the July 1 holiday to commemorate Canada’s Confederation became official in 1879, and was originally called Dominion Day. It marks the day the British North America Act came into ...
July 12 - Matt Ravlich, ice hockey defenceman; July 14 - Moshe Safdie, architect and urban designer; July 18 - Helen Gardiner, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum (d.2008) July 29 Peter Jennings, journalist and television news anchor (d.2005) Jean Rochon, politician (d. 2021) August 1 - Noble Villeneuve, politician (d. 2018)
Victoria Symphony Splash. Victoria Symphony Splash was an annual event held in Victoria, British Columbia on the Sunday before British Columbia Day.The event was produced by the Victoria Symphony and consisted of the Victoria Symphony playing, live on a barge, in the middle of Victoria's Inner Harbour.