Holiday pays tribute to Canadian soldiers

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In 1931, after insistent representation from the Canadian Legion, Parliament amended the Armistice Day Act to ensure that Nov. 11 would be set aside as a day distinct and apart from any other observance upon which the nation could pay special tribute to those "who gave their lives that freedom might prevail."

In 1970, an Act known as "The Holidays Act" was passed by Parliament which included, among other holidays, Remembrance Day. An extract of that act reads as follows:

"Throughout Canada in each and every year, the 11th day of November, being the day in the year 1918 on which the Great War was triumphantly concluded by an armistice, is a holiday and shall be kept and observed as such under the name of Remembrance Day."

(From "Interesting Facts", a publication of the Royal Canadian Legion.)