What Do We Call This Day?!

Happy Monday - It's a holiday for most of us.  This is one holiday that has multiply names so depending on where you live in Canada, heck where you are in the province, the holiday name changes.  So confusing. 

In the Western provinces: British Columbia, it's known as British Columbia Day;  Alberta calls their holiday, Heritage Day; Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Day,  In Manitoba it's known as Terry Fox Day, which honours an amazing young man, a renowned athlete who loss his life too early in a battle with cancer. 

In the Maritime provinces:  New Brunswick= New Brunswick Day. Nova Scotia varied a little, Natal Day, which commemorates the founding of Halifax (capital of NS);  & Prince Edward Island,  Newfoundland & Labrador don't recognize the day as a holiday at all, to say nothing of Quebec recognizing the day (they celebrate a holiday in June that the rest of Canada doesn't).  The 3 territories don't recognize the day but like Newfoundland they also have other days of holiday & celebration in August.

Ontario's Provincial Flag (Source:Internet)

 But we in province of Ontario cannot agree on a single name for the holiday. In Toronto (captial of Ontario)= Simcoe Day; Ottawa (capital of Canada) = Colonel By Day; Hamilton = George Hamilton Day; Burlington = Joseph Brant Day; Brantford = Founder's Day;  Oshawa = McLaughlin Day; Sarnia = Alexander Mackenzie Day; Cobourg = James Cockburn Day; Peterborough = Peter Robinson Day and finally in Guelph = John Galt Day.

What a confused nation we are!  No matter, it's a holiday, a paid day off work in my part of Ontario & I call that good!