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Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is Canada's national holiday, marking the establishment of Canada as a self-governing dominion on July 1, 1867. It is a federal holiday generally celebrated on July 1, annually by all provincial governments and most businesses across the country.
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& n, S$ F* d' u, kA day off from work, Canada Day is often a time for outdoor activities in the early Canadian summer. It is also Canada's main patriotic holiday and often referred to as "Canada's birthday", particularly in the popular press.
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! t2 o" ^3 v1 r4 E2 H5 g, U" t, BCanada Day does not commemorate a clear-cut date of "independence" or "founding", but instead commemorates the establishment of the Canadian confederation through the 1867 British North America Act, which has since been amended but continues, under a different name, to be the present constitutional document of Canada. The British Parliament still retained several political controls over Canada after 1867, and the country still lacked many of its modern provinces. Although Canada continued to be referred to as a dominion of the United Kingdom, according to some Canadian government pamphlets July 1, 1867 represented the establishment of Canada as a kingdom in its own right.[1] The date marks the beginning of a new phase of Canadian self-sovereignty, initiating a gradual march towards full independence from Britain that was completed with the proclamation of the Constitution Act by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, in 1982. |
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