Canada celebrates Canada Day on 1 July, marking the 1867 confederation of its provinces.
The holiday commemorates the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867, formerly called the British North America Act. It united the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada on 1 July 1867.
The date was first known as Dominion Day. Parliament renamed it Canada Day in 1982, the same year Canada patriated its Constitution and adopted the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Celebrations commonly include ceremonies, concerts, fireworks, and Canadian flags.
Canada Day is sometimes loosely called Canadian Independence Day, but that description is historically imprecise. Canada’s constitutional independence developed gradually through measures such as the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and the Constitution Act, 1982, rather than arriving in one declaration.