The Civic Holiday is observed in most Canadian provinces and territories on the first Monday of August. And it goes by a number of names - Civic Holiday (in Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and parts of Ontario and Nova Scotia), Heritage Day (in Alberta), Natal Day (in parts of Nova Scotia), New Brunswick Day, Saskatchewan Day, British Columbia Day. There are even individual municipal holidays in Ontario. It gets complicated.  

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