There were annual parades honouring the the “9 Hour Movement” which put pressure on employers and politicians to make a change in working conditions.
These parades started in Toronto, and then spread throughout the country where worker’s unions from all types of employment would march through city streets for their rights as a group.
Eventually, in 1894, Prime Minister Sir John Thompson declared the day of these parades to be an official national holiday named Labour Day.
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