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Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1 1867 enactment of the British North America Act 1867 (today called the Constitution Act 1867) which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire. Originally called Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération) the holiday was renamed in 1982 the year the Canada Act was passed.
