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Labour Day History (Canucktion)

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For those interested in a little history lesson, Labour Day got it’s start in Canada back in 1872 (or so says Wikipedia) when a parade was assembled in support of the Toronto Typographical Union’s strike. Some workers were arrested for parading as a result of some archaic anti-union laws, and then Prime Minister John A. McDonald vowed to change it’s government’s stance, signing the Trade Union Act into law the following year.

Celebrations followed every spring to commemorate the strike parade, until in 1894 Prime Minister John Thompson declared the first Monday in September Labour Day. In the US, Grover Cleveland did the same.

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