What’s Canada day

@DonkeyShrekSecond

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It s on July 1st first I live in Canada. It’s like the Fourth of July.

@DonkeyShrekSecond

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To fully understand and compare the two, you need to go back. Way back. US Congress established Independence Day as a holiday in 1870 to mark the passage of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. (In response, the British scolded the “misguided Americans” and “their extravagant and inadmissible Claim of Independency”.) 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 effect in 1867, effectively creating the Dominion of Canada out of three British colonies: the United Province of Canada (now the provinces of Ontario and Quebec), plus New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. “Confederation was an administrative change, not a revolution,” says Forrest Pass, curator of Canada’s Library and Archives, via email. “The editor of the Toronto Globe - precursor to the present-day Globe and Mail - put it best in an editorial on (appropriately) July 4, 1875, when he noted that the British North America Act has ‘none of the traditional associations of the Declaration of Independence, and is, to most people, only a piece of very dry, practical legislation.’” Even the choice of the date for Confederation was purely administrative, he says, noting the British parliament tended to sit in the early spring and the legislation it passed usually came into effect on July 1 for accounting reasons.

@Official_BitzNBobz64

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@@DonkeyShrekSecondthx for the info!