09/04/2026
Did you know that the United States copycatted Labour Day after Canada?
True fact:
Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s government passed the Trade Unions Act in 1872, which legalized trade unions by removing important criminal restrictions on union activity. Labour parades and celebrations subsequently spread across Canada. In 1894, Canada formally made Labour Day a statutory holiday, observed on the first Monday in September. Canadian labour celebrations also influenced the emerging American Labour Day tradition. The United States established its federal Labor Day holiday that same year.
Not true fact:
Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday to change all history books to say the United States federal Labour Day holiday began in 1871.
True fact:
Detail folks is taking our last storm day Friday with the long weekend to give our hard working detailers a 4 day holiday! Rest up guys…next week is almost all booked up!