Talk:Public holidays in Canada

Early comments

Okay. I lived in Ottawa for six years, and never once heard the term "Colonel By Day" for the August long weekend; I always heard it referred to as either "Simcoe Day" or "Civic Holiday". Is there a reference to confirm Colonel By Day? Bearcat 06:44, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's official. City Council declared the Civic Holiday Colonel By Day in 1996

council minutes

Actually, I think this is a later resolution confirming an earlier one. Still, you get the idea. --Dhodges 20:32, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

What is a Holiday in Canada

This page has a major problem in that it talks about Canadian Holidays and in reality there is no such thing as the Canadian Constitution says that labour is governed by the provinces and therefore it is up to the provinces to designate the holidays. I have fixed up Canadian Statutory Holiday to more properly reflect that. This should probably be fixed up to, or simply be an overview and then point to both the Canadian Statutory Holiday page and the civic holiday page and perhaps other pages as well. -- Webgeer 07:35, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

St. Patricks Day

I should also say I have never heard of a serious proposal to make St Patricks Day a national holiday. I have heard of proposals for Chinese New Year, Flag Day, First Monday in August, A June Holiday, A Prime Ministers Day and others. However, the only references I have heard to St Patricks Day as a National Holiday were clearly jokes. -- Webgeer 07:35, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Labour Day

Thanks to whomever fixed the statement that "...although not official holidays, ... Labour Day ... are traditionally celebrated by Canadians." To satisfy my own curiosity, I checked the official government web sites for the federal government, each of the ten provinces, and each of the three territories. Except for Nunavut, Labour Day is a "general holiday" or "statutory holiday" in all jurisdictions. All I could confirm for Nunavut is that it's a "government holiday" - presumably it's a holiday for those employed by the government of Nunavut, if not for everybody. -- BCRCornet 00:00, 2005 August 4 (UTC)

Merges with Statutory holiday and Civic holiday pages

I support merging all of these pages into Holidays in Canada, as long as the merged article clearly -- yet succinctly -- recites and lists the differences between this and that. E Pluribus Anthony 03:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. HistoryBA 15:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I did a merge with basic edits. We should consider improving the overall format. Shawnc 06:32, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Victoria Day

Victoria Day always confuses me. The page says it falls on the Monday before May 25 (May 24 being a good day to fall on seeing as it's the actual birthday of Victoria. Hence the popular expression "May 2-4"), but in 2004 May 24th was a Monday and yet Victoria Day was the week before on May 17. At least, that's how it went in Ontario. Does someone just arbitrarily decide ahead of time if it will be the 3rd or 4th Monday of the month?

Pay for stat holiday

This sentence "usually 1½ (known as "time and a half") or 2 times the regular pay" looks wrong. If you read the far right hand column here it indicates that most places pay 1½ plus the regular days wages. That would be 2½ times the regular pay. That's what we get and it's usually called double time and a half. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:32, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

St Jean Baptiste

Shouldn't St-Jean Baptiste be renamed to Fête nationale du Québec as it is now officially (I think) called?

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Newfoundland DOES observe the Federal Civic Holiday on the first Monday in August. We have Federal Government departments here so we have to. Federal Government workers in St. John's were asked whether they wanted to have the holiday on the first Monday in August or on Regatta Day (which by the way is a St. John's holiday only--not a Newfoundland one), and they chose the first Monday in August in order to get the long holiday weekend. You guys should check out your facts before you post information that is not correct. Just because Newfoundland does not have a specific name assigned to the holiday that doesn't mean that Federal Government workers don't get it.