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Floralia by Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1888). Maypole dancing in the Netherlands, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (16th century).. The earliest known May celebrations appeared with the Floralia, festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, held from 27 April–3 May during the Roman Republic era, and the Maiouma or Maiuma, a festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite held every three ...
Victory in Europe Day, May 8; Mother's Day, second Sunday of May; Father's Day, third Sunday of June; Loyalist Day, June 19, celebrating Canada's Loyalist heritage, particularly in Ontario and New Brunswick (also the day Upper Canada was created, now Ontario) National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21 as part of the Celebrate Canada series
The "Foreign Miners Tax" of 1850 required all California miners who were not American citizens to pay $20 per month. The tax was not so much a revenue raising instrument as a way of allowing citizens to monopolize mining and take over sites being worked by Chinese and Mexican miners. The tax resistance by foreign miners was successful.
North Ontario broke away from the city in 1906, calling itself Upland. [29] In 1912, the streetcar line became the Upland–Ontario Line of Pacific Electric. It was closed in 1928. In 1929, the city of Ontario established the Ontario Municipal Airport. This is now the Ontario International Airport, and is the largest employer in the city.
The Parliament of Canada entered the field with the passage of the Business Profits War Tax Act, 1916 [17] (essentially a tax on larger businesses, chargeable on any accounting periods ending after 1914 and before 1918). [18] It was replaced in 1917 by the Income War Tax Act, 1917 [19] (covering personal and corporate income earned from 1917 ...
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.
1862 – The city had invested in the Great Western Railway (Ontario) but the government of Canada favoured the rival Grand Trunk Railway. Also the end of the Depression (1857–1862) and population dips downwards in Hamilton and the city could not meet the interest on its bonds, many of which were held by British investors. To save the city ...
Late May typically marks the start of the summer vacation season in the United States (Memorial Day) and Canada (Victoria Day) that ends on Labor Day, the first Monday of September. May (in Latin , Maius ) was named for the Greek goddess Maia , who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea , whose festival was held in May.