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Remembrance Day has morphed since it came into being following the end of World War I, when it was called Armistice Day and combined with Thanksgiving. In the s, a lobby pushed for Thanksgiving to be moved so a commemoration of remembrance could stand on its own. In , November 11 was named Remembrance Day. Since then, observation has ebbed and flowed. The annual ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa is attended by tens of thousands, many laying their poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier afterwards, turning the tomb red.
Watching the crowd surge forward in that moment to add their poppies, it is tempting to think all is well with remembrance in the country.
But as with everything from pipelines to carbon taxes, a patchwork of policy and regional interests exists even here. While federal employees have the day off, provinces and territories determine their own statutory holidays—currently, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba do not designate Remembrance Day as a statutory holiday, although Nova Scotia and Manitoba have enacted observance legislation that provides for some protocols.
Schools are in or out, depending on the jurisdiction. The Royal Canadian Legion is against declaring Remembrance Day a statutory holiday, arguing that children who would have participated in a ceremony at school may not have the chance. Canadians disagree. The ideas presented have varied: In , Norm Sterling Carleton proposed giving all veterans a stat holiday, but Premier David Peterson worried about complaints of discrimination if they were the only group granted a full day off.
In , Morley Kells Etobicoke—Lakeshore managed to get the Remembrance Day Observance Act through; the bill encouraged two minutes of silence but was purely voluntary. Several MPPs backed a proposal from a St. Catharines accountant to declare a half-day holiday in How does the public feel? In a series of polls conducted since , Historica Canada and Ipsos have found that up to 90 per cent of Canadians support making Remembrance Day a full national statutory holiday.
Sources: the October 10, , edition of the Durham Chronicle ; the May 7, , edition of the Financial Post ; the October 31, , March 6, , May 22, , October 19, , and December 3, , editions of the Globe and Mail ; the November 7, , edition of the Niagara Falls Review ; the November 11, , and November 12, , editions of the Ottawa Citizen ; the September 12, , October 16, , and October 26, , editions of the Toronto Star ; and the October 31, , November 13, , October 20, , June 3, , October 9, , and November 23, , editions of the Windsor Star.
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