| Canada Day - Thursday July 1, 2021 Secular holiday : Anniversary of the union of the Canadian provinces under one government, which took place in 1867 under the British North America Act Not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Orangemens' Day - Monday July 12, 2021 Secular holiday : The Orange Lodge was a centre for community activity in Newfoundland. For example, in 1903 Sir William Coaker founded the Fisherman's Protective Union (F.P.U.) in an Orange Hall in Herring Neck. Furthermore, during the term of Commission of Government (1934-1949), the Orange Lodge was one of only a handful of democratic organizations that existed in the Dominion of Newfoundland. It supported Newfoundland's confederation with Canada in reaction to Catholic bishops' support for self-government.
After 1945, the Canadian Orange Order rapidly declined in membership and political influence. The development of the welfare state made its fraternal society functions less important. A more important cause of the decline was the secularization of Canadian society: with fewer Canadians attending churches of any sort, the old division between Protestant and Catholic seemed less relevant. Wikipedia
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| Labour Day - Monday September 6, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Summer holiday (end) - Tuesday September 7, 2021 School holidays :
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| Banks are closed - Thursday September 30, 2021 Banks only : National Day for Truth and Reconciliation from 2021
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| Thanksgiving - Monday October 11, 2021 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 11, 2021 School holidays :
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| St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival - Wednesday October 13, 2021 Culture : Www.womensfilmfestival.com lasts 5 days 2021 edition CONFIRMED (provided the Covid epidemics is stopped)
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