Canada Day

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a statutory holiday celebrated annually on July 1 in commemoration of the creation of the Dominion of Canada, July 1, 1867.

Quotations

1956

For the event we celebrate on July 1, Dominion Day, or Canada Day as some prefer to call it, is the birth of the Canadian constitution.

1963

The bill he was referring to was a private member's bill to change Dominion Day to Canada Day. It was passed by the Commons in 1946.