Canada Day
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jour de la Confederation, Fête du Canada, Dominion Day, Jour de la Confédération, Fete du Canada
Canadian national holiday on July 1
Key facts
- Also called
- Fête du Canada , Dominion Day (1879–1982)
- Observed by
- Canada
- Type
- Historical, cultural, national
- Significance
- Anniversary of Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867
- Celebrations
- Fireworks, parades, barbecues, concerts, carnivals, fairs, picnics
- Date
- July 1
- Frequency
- Annual
- First time
- July 1, 1867 (159 years ago)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public holiday
- Country
- Canada
- Main subject
- Canada
- Image
- MoWestCanadaDay.JPG
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- day in year for periodic occurrence
- July 1
- native label
- Canada Day
- Commons category
- Canada Day
- commemorates
- Canadian Confederation
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Encyclopedic overview
Canada Day is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas (Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single dominion within the British Empire called Canada.
Originally called Dominion Day, the holiday was renamed in 1982, the same year that the Canadian constitution was patriated by the Canada Act, 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada Day celebrations take place throughout the country, as well as in various locations around the world attended by Canadians living abroad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canada Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.