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Canadian Facts and Trivia - THE PEOPLE AND THE HISTORY
Though Canada Day is the much anticipated holiday of the summer, the anniversary of Confederation on July 1st, 1867, wasn’t actually a public holiday at first.

It took a couple of tries, but July 1st was finally formally proclaimed a public holiday in 1879 -- as "Dominion Day."

The name stuck for more than a hundred years before it was formally changed to Canada Day in 1982.