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    • Columbus Day in Canada - Monday, October 14, 2024 - WinCalendar
      • Columbus's voyages have been credited with paving the way for the French and British explorers who later settled in Canadian territory, thus shaping the country's identity as it is known today. In Canada, Columbus Day is not a national public holiday like in the United States, but it is acknowledged and observed in various ways across the nation.
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  2. Oct 14, 2019 · Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! Today's holiday dates to 1578 with biscuits, salt beef, and mushy peas—no cranberry sauce. Here's how it began. Settling decades of strife: That's a reason given...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Columbus_DayColumbus Day - Wikipedia

    Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

  4. Oct 11, 2024 · It commemorates Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Over the years Italian Americans took up the cause of honouring the achievements of Columbus, who was a native of Genoa. In 1937 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day an annual national holiday

  5. Oct 14, 2024 · Curious about Christopher Columbus and the origins of the national holiday also known as Indigenous Peoples Day?

  6. Not a statutory holiday in the eastern provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador. Statutory holiday in British Columbia (British Columbia Day), New Brunswick (New Brunswick Day), Northwest Territories (Civic Holiday), Nunavut (Civic Holiday), and Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Day).

  7. Oct 10, 2024 · Columbus Day: You’re getting together with others, to celebrate the beginning of the end of one culture in your homeland. Canadian Thanksgiving: You’re north of the US border.

  8. Oct 19, 2024 · Columbus Day is a national holiday in the United States that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October.

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