Canadian Holidays

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Here are some only Canadian holidays
Terry fox day - Cancer
Orange Shirt day - residential schools
Victoria Day - queen victoria
Canada day - like 4th July
Family day - self explanatory

If you want info on any of these just ask
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Terry fox ran across Canada with a bionic / wood leg and he died of cancer in his 20s too this day Canada has raised over 100 million
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He ran all the way across?
How long did it take him?
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Orange shirt day
They named it orange shirt day cause a aboriginal girl got her orange shirt taken away at a residential school and September is the mourning month this is also truth and reconciliation day
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143 days 5000k
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Victoria Day is the day of queen Victoria not much about it
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Canada Day is also the day the battle of Gettysburg began
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#5

Thats it?
He ain’t even running a full marathon per day
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Family day is a day for your family we get off
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Still he had cancer and ran for 12+ hours a day
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Actual it was called marathon of hope so he tan 1 marathon a day
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34km a day doesn’t seem like it would take 12+ hours for someone experienced (I’m assuming he was)
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He had 1 leg and cancer
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34km is about 8 or so km short of a traditional marathon (at least, traditional marathons in the us)
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We have diff things in Canada
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Search up marathon of hope and terry fox it is very interesting
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My fellow online Canadians if I have missed any please say
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Today is orange shirt day
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Around the time that they found hundreds of dead indigenous people
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Nice happy orange day