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In Quebec, non-federally regulated employers must give either Good Friday or Easter Monday as a statutory holiday, though some give both days. July 1: 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 ...
This is a collection of articles about holidays celebrated only, or primarily, in Canada. For more widely celebrated holidays, see Category:Holidays . The main article for this category is Public holidays in Canada .
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.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
ALS Awareness Month (Canada) Caribbean-American Heritage Month [30] LGBT Pride Month; National PTSD Awareness Day [31] National Safety Month [32] National Smile Month (United Kingdom, May and June) Devotion to the Sacred Heart; Men's Mental Health Awareness
In Canada July 28 has been designated as the "Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval" since 2005. This commemorative day marks the date in 1755 when the decision was made to deport the Acadians. December 13, Acadian Remembrance Day , commemorates the memory of the 2,000 Acadians who perished in the North Atlantic from hunger, disease, and ...
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Lower Canada and Upper Canada observed Thanksgiving on different dates; for example, in 1816, both celebrated Thanksgiving for the termination of the War of 1812 between France, the U.S. and Great Britain, with Lower Canada marking the day on May 21 and Upper Canada on June 18 (Waterloo Day). [24] In 1838, Lower Canada used Thanksgiving to ...