Comments on: Labor Day History & Trivia – Know how labor finally got it’s day

By: Elly Parker

Elly Parker — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:55:03 +0000

Labour Day originated in Toronto,Canada,The Toronto Trades Assembly, organized the first North American “workingman’s demonstration” of any significance april 15, 1872. On Sept 3, 1872 members of seve3n union in Ottawa organized a parade more than a mile long, and drew Sir John A. MacDonald by carriage to Ottawa City Hall by torchlight, in 1882 Toronto Trades and Labour Council, organized an annual demonstration and picnic for July 22 and invited Peter J. McGuire of New York as a speaker for the occasion, that same year McGuire borrowed that idea and proposed a festive day be set aside for a demonstration and picnic in New York on Sept 5 1882.

By: Katherine Collins

Katherine Collins — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:30:58 +0000

Labor Day History is quite intriguing. This is a good article of trivia and facts.

By: Jessica Adams

Jessica Adams — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:15:33 +0000

Very good information about labor Day history. I hardly knew anything about it earlier on.

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history of labor day — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:29:46 +0000

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