{"id":1302,"date":"2015-06-30T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2016-02-07T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:26:58","slug":"happy-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/happy-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Canada Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is 148 years old in 2015! Celebrate it with friends, neighbors, family at the parks, in the streets and with a good spirit!<br \/>\nBesides Parliament Hill, Major&#8217;s Hill Park, Jacques Cartier Park, check out what your favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadaday.gc.ca\/activites-activities\/eng\/1432234994627\/1432235644360?\" target=\"_blank\">museum<\/a> have planned for this special day! And here is what is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/canada-day-2015-what-s-open-and-closed-in-ottawa-gatineau-1.3128880\" target=\"_blank\">open and close<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Creation of Canada Day<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"font-bold\">July 1, 1867<\/span>: The <cite><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/cmc\/exhibitions\/hist\/medicare\/medic-1c01e.shtml\">British North America Act<\/a><\/em><\/cite> (today known as the <cite><em><a href=\"http:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/Const\/page-1.html\">Constitution Act, 1867<\/a><\/em><\/cite>) created Canada.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-bold\">June 20, 1868<\/span>: Governor General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/document.aspx?id=15403&amp;lan=eng\">Lord Monck<\/a> signs a proclamation that requests all Her Majesty\u2019s subjects across Canada to celebrate July 1.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-bold\">1879<\/span>: A federal law makes July 1 a statutory holiday as the \u201canniversary of Confederation,\u201d which is later called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pch.gc.ca\/eng\/1359126121678\/1359126177433\">Dominion Day<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-bold\">October 27, 1982<\/span>: July 1, \u201cDominion Day\u201d officially becomes Canada Day.<br \/>\nEnjoy the day and being Canadian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is 148 years old in 2015! Celebrate it with friends, neighbors, family at the parks, in the streets and with a good spirit! Besides Parliament Hill, Major&#8217;s Hill Park, Jacques Cartier Park, check out what your favourite museum have planned for this special day! And here is what is open and close The Creation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[126,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nilay.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}