| New Year's Day - Friday January 1, 2021 Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. In Québec, employees have a choice between Good Friday and Easter Monday
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| Christmas holiday (end) - Monday January 4, 2021 School holidays : Www.edu.gov.on.ca
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| Ottawa Fall Colours Marathon - Sunday October 11, 2020 Sports events : Www.runguides.com 2020 edition confirmed
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| Thanksgiving - Monday October 12, 2020 Secular holiday : The first formal celebration was held by an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who attempted to establish a settlement on Baffin Island, after failing to discover a northern passage to the Orient in 1576. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock held their Thanksgiving in 1621 as a three-day thank you celebration to the leaders of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their families for teaching them the survival skills they needed to make it in the New World. Canada established the second Monday in October as a national holiday, a day of general thanksgiving, in 1957.
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| Thanksgiving - Monday October 12, 2020 School holidays :
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| Niagara Falls Marathon - Sunday October 25, 2020 Sports events : Http://niagarafallsmarathon.com/ 2020 edition confirmed
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| Remembrance Day - Wednesday November 11, 2020 Catholic or protestant :
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| Parliament recess (beginning) - Thursday December 10, 2020 Special Events :
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| Christmas holiday (beginning) - Friday December 18, 2020 School holidays :
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| Christmas Day - Friday December 25, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Year’s Day on Christmas Day.
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| Boxing Day - Saturday December 26, 2020 Secular holiday : The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients.
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| Banks are closed - Monday December 28, 2020 Banks only :
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