Sudbury should give Civic Holiday a name

Sudbury City Council could give the August long weekend a name. Toronto has Simcoe Day. Other cities has named the holiday after their founders.

The holiday was renamed Simcoe Day in Toronto effective 1969 in honour of the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and the promulgator of the Act Against Slavery, but a motion at the Ontario Municipal Association to extend the name change across Ontario failed. According to a 2005 proclamation this name continues to apply in the present amalgamated City of Toronto. Civic Holiday is now known by one of a number of local appellations such as:

• Colonel By Day in Ottawa,
• George Hamilton Day in Hamilton,
• Joseph Brant Day in Burlington,
• Founders’ Day in Brantford,
• McLaughlin Day in Oshawa,
• Alexander Mackenzie Day in Sarnia,
• James Cockburn Day in Cobourg,
• Peter Robinson Day in Peterborough,
• and John Galt Day in Guelph